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We are mostly familiar with crowdfunding for consumer products, but raising money for a B2B company, and moreover regtech is rare and remarkable. This is the feat that the startup Governance.com is achieving with a crowdfunding campaign on the UK platform Crowdcube. Here’s our conversation around its success with founder Bert Boerman. Let’s take also...

Chasing Home Runs

20 Jan 2021

Yannick Oswald

A friend of mine, who works at one of Europe’s top venture LPs, joked this week: ‘Aren’t you a bit overeducated for throwing darts in...

SHULU And Infrachain Partner On Blockchain Education

19 Jan 2021

The Sacred Heart University Luxembourg and the blockchain non-profit organization will provide courses on big data, distributed ledger and crypto-currencies, starting next Spring. Photo: Fabrice...

Clemente Sardi Joins Giftable As COO & Co-Founder

Former General Manager and Managing Director of Satispay Europe is starting his new journey and jumping into the gift experience industry. Announced a few days...

nexten.io Raises 1.3 Million Euros And Unveils Its New Pricing System

nexten.io, a recruitment platform connecting tech profiles and companies, announces the closing of a round of financing of more than €1 million – €1,387,000 –...

Governance.com In Successful Crowdfunding Campaign To Boost Digital Transformation

We are mostly familiar with crowdfunding for consumer products, but raising money for a B2B company, and moreover regtech is rare and remarkable. This is...

CES Remains A Great Chance For Startups To Get Noticed

Elodie Trojanowski, CEO and co-founding partner of Luxfactory talks about the 2021 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show, which this year will be a virtual...

HQLAᵡ Raises 14.4 Million Euros From Big Banking Players

The Luxembourg-based startup secures equity-based financing with BNY Mellon, Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas Citigroup, and Deutsche Börse. Credits © Shutterstock HQLAᵡ, a startup that developed...

INFINIQ Comes To Luxembourg

The Korean specialist in artificial intelligence and machine learning data sets up its first foreign branch in Bissen, making it the European bridgehead for its...

CES To Go Virtual For Its 2021 Edition

11 Jan 2021

The Las Vegas global exhibition of new technologies and innovation will be 100% digital this year and will last from January 11 to 14. Ten...

Our Choice’s Sneakers Make A Hit For Their Kickstarter Crowdfunding Campaign

08 Jan 2021

The world’s first circular sneakers. Here is the promise of the Luxembourgish startup that starts the year with a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter that ends...

How Co-Creation Plays A Pivotal Role To Business Value Creation

Grégory Weber, Experience Center Leader at PwC Luxembourg, explains why customers play a central role in a company’s value chain today and why they should...

UFT Sells Its Assets To Cube4T8

The startup which specializes in on-demand transportation technologies sells its software source code and intellectual property to Losch’s innovation department. Photo: Nathalie Kettenhoffen leads Cube4T8,...

When Databesity Becomes A Struggle

How to find business-specific information among millions of pieces of data from different sources? And then how must one check, read, compile, and aggregate these...

2021. The Year Of The Bold And The Brave.

Yannick Oswald

As I am going through 2021 tech predictions, I have to admit that most of this year’s forecasts strike me as too obvious compared to...

The Top 10 Articles Of 2020

Let’s take the time to celebrate those who have made headlines this year. Just a year ago, enthusiasm was rife among entrepreneurs. Photo: 2020 in...

Yoba Onboards VISA

04 Jan 2021

The Luxembourg-based technology company partners with the US digital payment group for credit card services to European SMEs. Image Credit © Pexels “Yoba Smart Money...

Spacety Successfully Launched Two New Satellites

04 Jan 2021

Spacety announces a new space launch a mere 6 weeks after its previous launch. On December 22, two of Spacety’s satellites – Hisea-1 and Yuanguang...

F4A’s Humanitarian Gesture To Close 2020

31 Dec 2020

The holiday season is in full swing, and with that comes the inevitable reflection – how has 2020 treated us? March 2020 will certainly remain...

Send Experiences As Gifts With Giftable

Giftable, a Luxembourg startup created by serial entrepreneur Michel Hoffmann, is officially launching its mobile app for sending gifts “as easily as a text message”....

Back To Digital Basics For Restaurant Owners

Let’s step outside the startup framework into the purely technical side of the applications and solutions available on the market. Let’s take a look at...

Moovee Acquires Zen Car And Expands Activities In Belgium

Moovee, the Luxembourg startup specialising in shared vehicle solutions, announces “an external growth operation” in the Belgian market with the acquisition of Zen Car Belgium,...

Luxembourg Launches Free & Highly Acclaimed Elements of AI Course

This is a subject that Luxembourg has been working on for quite some time: how to democratize the use of artificial intelligence among citizens and...

Self-Disinfecting Plasma Masks By MPG At The Cutting Edge Of Research

Molecular Plasma Group (MPG), a young company based in the Technoport of Foetz, has developed a process for manufacturing self-disinfecting masks to combat Covid-19. The...

Fast & Curious Interview: RoomMate

A few weeks after announcing its seed round, let’s meet up with the team of the startup which fights for promoting apartment management for tenants...

Eight Lies About Business App Development

The tendency to lie is something that is seen as acceptable in the business world. Sugarcoating the truth is a common practice among sales agents...

Passbolt Unlocks €2 Million To Help Agile Teams Better Manage Their Passwords

16 Dec 2020

Aurélie Boob

Incubated at the Technoport, Passbolt, the privacy-first, open source password manager for teams, continues its development with new funds worth two million euros. This investment...

Tokenization Of Real Estate: Digibrixx Democratizes Investment Via Blockchain Technology In Luxembourg

15 Dec 2020

With Digibrixx, the blockchain technology is entering the Luxembourg real estate investment market. The Digibrixx solution allows all those who wish to invest in real...

CapChain Gets 600K From The Ministry Of Economy

CapChain, a collaboration project between blockchain developer Compellio and connected cap specialist Guala Closures Group, received 600K from the Ministry of Economy. Credits © Shutterstock...

UFODRIVE Aims To Raise More Than €1.6 Million In Crowdfunding

Luxembourg-based mobility company UFODRIVE announced a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, a reputable platform that makes investing easy. Photo: UFODRIVE is a world leading fully sustainable...

Employees At The Heart Of Digitalization Strategy

After a decade of client-provider collaboration, Arendt group acquired Mobilu, a Luxembourg IT company specialising in the digitalization and robotization of processes. The objective of...

Accelerating The Transition To A Digital Economy

As Europe is realizing and further enhancing its plans for a smart and green digital economy, the global pandemic is adding complexity, and as well...

FIN|SOFT And Casa4Funds Partners On Digital Transformation

Casa4Funds, a Luxembourg-based independent management company and alternative investment fund manager (AIFM) continues its process’s automation by signing a partnership with FIN|SOFT, a RegTech specialized...

How To Build The Next Airbnb?

Yannick Oswald

Last week, I had two Qoorio meetings of 45mins each in one day in Paris. For a total of 1h30mins of meetings, Qoorio has generated...

AAA Awarded For Its Risk-Management Solution

Active Asset Allocation (AAA), a France and Luxembourg-based fintech which specializes in investment strategies has won the ACA Insurance Innovation Award at the 8th edition...

The LHoFT Foundation Launches A Mobile Application Based On AI

10 Dec 2020

The “LHoFT News” application will deliver personalised, AI powered Fintech news and information to users as part of LHoFT’s broader “Digital Era” strategy. Photo: The...

The Fintech Entrepreneurship Program Completes First Sessions In Luxembourg

10 Dec 2020

The Fintech Entrepreneurship Program launched its online courses and community events in the Grand Duchy, with a pitching competition that addressed Open Banking, Blockchain, RegTech...

Spire Granted €20 Million Support From EIB

The venture loan of the European Investment Bank will help space data company to develop and launch nanosatellites, in an aim to create new jobs...

Marketing Chicks And Coding Foxes Communities Put Independents In The Spotlight

In recent months, freelancers have decided to come together as a community to be more visible, present their know-how and offer their services. More and...

Apply For Silicon Luxembourg Fellowship To Participate In The Founder Institute Program

The Founder Institute, the world’s premier idea-stage accelerator, is proud to offer the best applicants from the Silicon Luxembourg community with a fellowship to the...

Steve Wozniak Back In The Game After 45 Years Since Apple

Steve Wozniak is starting a second company, 45 years after he co-founded Apple in Steve Jobs’ parents garage in 1976. This time, Wozniak is starting...

Vauban&Fort: The Pioneer Of Co-Living In Luxembourg

They are a rare sight in the media, but Vauban&Fort is the precursor of co-living in Luxembourg, with a long experience in shared rentals. Its...

Ludwig, Com’ Conductor

Ludwig, a Luxembourg-based marketing and communication agency, has launched a partnership with four international agencies working in the fields of marketing, communication, and multimedia –...

Cybersecurity Is Not An Insurance Policy, It’s An Investment

André Meyer, the lead cybersecurity expert at Accenture Luxembourg explains why organizations should be cyber-resilient, why they should take an honest and accurate view at...

Six Startups Awarded At Mind & Market Luxembourg

During the fifth edition of the Mind & Market forum organized in Luxembourg, 22 companies had to imagine an innovative project in six different categories,...

Yoba & Nets Partner To Offer Payment And Liquidity Solutions To SMEs

Yoba Smart Money, a Luxembourg-based fintech company that specializes in cloud-based financial services to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, has announced a partnership with Nets, a...

Ibisa Insures Indian Farmers With New Prediction Tool

Ibisa, a Luxembourg insurtech company, has integrated Global Parametrics’ Water Balance Index (WBI) in its micro-mutual, risk-sharing service and will use the Water Balance Index...

Orange Luxembourg Demystifies 5G

In December, Luxembourg-based telecommunications operator, Orange Luxembourg, will launch an information campaign, with round tables and demonstrations, to explain 5G technology to its customers. With...

In Memoriam – Jérôme Grandidier

29 Nov 2020

It is with a heavy heart that we close this weekend. We have learned that Jérôme Grandidier, President of Luxfactory, Founder of the startup MySardines...

Launching GovTech Lab’s First Challenge: “Bye Bye Robots !”

26 Nov 2020

The GovTech Lab, a new innovation cluster for digital public services, is launching a call for solutions for a stable verification system in online government...

Digicash And Payconiq Users Now Able To Pay Mobile In Benelux

26 Nov 2020