Draper Esprit invests in and partners with German VC Earlybird | ISAI closes new $175 million fund | "Everyone is talking to everyone" -- rideshare investor bypasses Uber-Careem rumor | The Winners of The Europas Awards 2018 show Europe's startup power | Review: The V-Moda Crossfade II Wireless headphones look and sound beautiful | Starling CEO Anne Boden is coming to Disrupt Berlin | Uber relaunches a licensed service in Finland after taxi law deregulation |
WEDNESDAY, JULY 4 2018
TODAY'S TOP STORIES: | |  | | | | TOP HEADLINE | Steve O'Hear  | Draper Esprit, the publicly-listed VC firm based in London, is putting down further roots across Europe in cooperation with German VC Earlybird. The "strategic partnership" sees Draper invest an initial... Read More… | | | | | Romain Dillet  | French venture capital firm ISAI just raised a new $175 million fund (€150 million) called ISAI Expansion II. This fund is designed for later stage investments. The firm says that... Read More… | | | | | Natasha Lomas  | Ride-hailing giant Uber is in talks over a possible merger with Middle East rival Careem, according to Bloomberg -- citing three people familiar with the matter. The report suggests various deal structures... Read More… | | | | | Mike Butcher  | Yesterday The Europas, the European Tech Startup Awards and Unconference once again held its annual jamboree in London, throwing together an afternoon of deep-dive panel discussions on the hottest topics... Read More… | | | | | Matt Burns  | Damn. These are good looking headphones. The V-Moda Crossfade II Wireless could be the best looking headphones available. Better yet, they sound good, too. As the name suggests, this is the... Read More… | | | | | Romain Dillet  | The European fintech wave can't stop and won't stop. That's why I'm excited to announce that the founder and CEO of Starling Bank Anne Boden is joining us at Disrupt... Read More… | | | | | Natasha Lomas  | Ride-hailing giant Uber is officially relaunching in Finland today, a year after suspending its primary service in the market -- when it said it would wait for taxi laws to... Read More… | | | | | Natasha Lomas  | Wikipedia's Italian and Spanish language versions have temporarily shut off access to their respective versions of the free online encyclopedia in Europe to protest against controversial components of a copyright... Read More… | | | | | Samantha Stein  | This is the moment that early-stage startup founders across Europe have been waiting. We've flung open the application window for Startup Battlefield, which takes place at Disrupt Berlin 2018 on... Read More… | | | | | Kirsten Korosec  | Chinese search engine giant Baidu have partnered with Softbank subsidiary SB Drive and manufacturer King Long to deploy a self-driving mini bus service to Japan early next year. The agreement... Read More… | | | | | Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: | | | | | View this email online in your browser
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