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This time, Tech.eu's founding editor Robin Wauters talked to three entrepreneurs from very different industries about their products and the ways they cope with the current crisis. Check out the conversations with Anthony Rose of SeedLegals, Gauthier Van Malderen of Perlego, and Daniel Månsson of Flow Neuroscience.

Here are the notes and links for this week’s interviews.🎙 Fred Destin, founder at Stride.VCShmuel Chafets: “Back to basics: Why VC needs to change”Thread on the role of a VC🎙 Richard Muirhead, founding managing partner at Fabric Ventures Give Startups the Runway to Save UsTech.eu Podcast #164: Should the governments bail out startups?We hope you enjoy the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at @tech_eu and @adegeler.

In this episode, we're joined in our virtual studio by Ed Newton-Rex, who sold his AI music startup to ByteDance. Ed is a jury member of the AI Song Contest — billed as the “AI Eurovision,” — where 12 teams compete with their songs created with the use of AI. Public voting in the contest is open until May 10.We're going to listen to some of the submissions together and discuss the place of AI in our culture and the music industry. Can you actually hear AI? How good is the music it can create? And, of course, will it eventually replace human composers and performers?

Here are the notes and links for this week’s interviews.🎙 Good and bad week for Amazon in EuropeAmazon to close French warehouses until next week after court orderAmazon's EU head of operations steps down amid virus crisisNo end in sight yet for Amazon shutdown in FranceCMA provisionally clears Amazon’s investment in DeliverooAmazon’s investment in Deliveroo provisionally approved by UK watchdog🎙 Natalie Novick on the future of contact tracing apps and the issues of the PEPP-PT projectQuantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracingEuropean coronavirus app platform gains traction with governmentsDecentralized Protocol Removed From EU Contact Tracing Website Without NoticeAn Investigation Into PEPP-PTEuropean coronavirus contact tracing app sparks uproar in the privacy communityCoronavirus: An EU approach for efficient contact tracing appsItaly tests contact-tracing app to speed lockdown exitEurope's PEPP-PT COVID-19 contacts tracing standard push could be squaring up for a fight with Apple and Google🎙 Interview with Giovanni Fili, founder and CEO at ExegerWe hope you enjoy the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to [email protected] or tweet at @tech_eu and @adegeler.

In this episode, Ananth Devarajan, product manager at Lark, talks about working from home, remote teams, interactive collaboration, and recommendations for people who are struggling to adapt to the “new reality” of working remotely every day rather than resorting to that occasionally.This episode of Tech.eu Podcast is sponsored by Lark. If you are managing a remote team, you want to try this next-generation office suite. It’s got everything you need — chat, video conferencing, docs, calendar. You can enjoy smooth video calls for up to 100 participants with unlimited minutes and advanced screen sharing, collaborate on docs with your teammates even during video calls, enjoy 200GB of free cloud storage, and create chat groups for up to 5,000 people with unlimited searchable messages. Get started for free at larksuite.com/techeu.

Toon Vanagt on why governmental bailouts are not the right way to go for the startup ecosystemLet’s not misuse #Covid19 to privatise the startup profits and socialise the scale-up lossesWhy Should We Save Start-ups?Robin Klein: Don’t bail out the startupsBelgian start-up scene calls for ‘life support’ amid COVID-19 crisisCOVID-hit UK startups cry out for help, as UK gov trails Europe in its responseWith this cry for help, Dutch investors are pressuring the cabinet to help startups Daniela Seixas, founder and CEO at Tonic App Matt Kurleto, ambassador of Startup Hansa

Here are some details on the panellists of this episode:Rune Theill, co-founder and CEO of RockstartStartups: postpone your next fundraising until at least Q4 2020… if you canAaron Blumenthal, director of global portfolio services at 500 StartupsAntonio Pisante, program manager at Techstars Smart Mobility AcceleratorWe hope you enjoy this special format — please let us know what you think! Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected] or tweet at @adegeler.

This week, Andrii Degeler, Robin Wauters, and Sebastien Toupy (TNW) discuss the topic of hackathons and whether they are indeed able to produce solutions the world needs in times of crisis. The featured interview is a conversation with Alex Theuma, founder and CEO of SaaStock talking about the reaction of the event industry to the pandemic. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-163-hackathons-sebastien-toupy-tnw-alex-theuma-saastock For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, we've got two interviews to share with you. The first one is with Kirill Bigay from Preply, a language learning startup from Ukraine that's got pretty big news to share. The other is with Hjalmar Nordegren from Karma, a Swedish startup that fights food waste globally. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-162-kirill-bigai-preply-hjalmar-nordegren-karma For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Andrii Degeler, Natalie Novick, and Robin Wauters discuss how VCs change their way in the challenging times, and whether it's a good idea for founders to come forward and name the names of those trying to take advantage of entrepreneurs. Also, expect to hear the latest on how e-scooter companies cope with the coronavirus outbreak and enjoy a beautiful music track from Finland. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-161-european-vcs-e-scooters-coronavirus For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In this week’s episode of Tech.eu Podcast, we talk about mental health issues in technology industry with Stewart Rogers and Dmitri Sarle. You'll also hear from Pauliina Martikainen, investment director at Maki.vc, who's convinced that early-stage deep-tech startups need to pay much more attention to branding, marketing, and communications. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-160-mental-health-stewart-rogers-dmitri-sarle-pauliina-martikainen-maki-vc For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In this week’s episode of Tech.eu Podcast, Andrii Degeler and Robin Wauters discuss the importance of conferences for the European startup ecosystem and the potential consequences of a series of event cancellations due to the spread of COVID-19. You'll also hear an interview with Lubomila Jordanova of Plan A about sustainability, greenwashing, and climate activism. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-159-conferences-covid-19-lubomila-jordanova-plan-a For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In this week’s episode of Tech.eu Podcast, we'll take you on a short interview tour around Berlin. You'll learn a few new things about the e-commerce behemoth Zalando, travel platform Omio, and fintech corporate VC Santander InnoVentures. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-158-zalando-omio-santander-innoventures For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In this week’s episode of Tech.eu Podcast, you’ll get an overview of the most important tech news in Europe, as well as hear from Juhani Mykkänen, co-founder at Finland-based food delivery startup Wolt. Check out full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-157-juhani-mykkanen-wolt-techchill For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In this week’s episode of Tech.eu Podcast, you’ll get an overview of the most important tech news in Europe, as well as a deeper insight into the future of drone delivery in a conversation with Tom Plümmer, CEO at Wingcopter. In addition to that, listen to an interview with Bertrand Piccard, the creator of Solar Impulse. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In this week’s episode of Tech.eu Podcast, you'll get an overview of the most important tech news in Europe, as well as a deeper insight into the future of the Slush conference and the prospects of smart toll roads in Europe. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-155-slush-valerann For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In this week’s episode of Tech.eu Podcast, we give you an overview of the most important tech news in Europe and talk about innovation in the air travel industry with four startups from the Hangar 51 accelerator. Check out full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-153-airline-innovation For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In this week's episode of Tech.eu Podcast, we give you an overview of the most important tech news in Europe, talk about the VC sustainability clause with Robin Wauters, and discuss the future of shared micromobility with Alexandre Gauquelin. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-153-vc-sustainability-clause-micromobility-forecast For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This episode is brought to you by Talentsoft, the European leader in cloud-based talent management and learning software. Our founding editor Robin Wauters has recently come by the headquarters of Talentsoft in Paris to talk to a very interesting panel of HR tech experts. Among other topics, the conversation touched the use of artificial intelligence in the industry, the ways of how to motivate people to learn new skills, the future of work at large, and much more. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-hr-tech-alexandre-pachulski-neelie-verlinden-anna-ott For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler talk about the sale of Pointy to Google, Bolt's latest venture debt round, crowdfunding success of Sono Motors, an overview of some talks and panels at Davos, data of the Slush conference, and more. We've also featured an interview with Tommy Andersen, managing partner at byFounders. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-152-pointy-davos-byfounders-tommy-andersen For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler talk about the €140 million funding round for Sweden's KRY, Brexit and the future of R&D funding in the EU, the Friend of a Friend standard, and more. In addition to that, listen to interviews with KRY's Sabina Wizander, Luna's Andrew Fleury, and Blue Duck Scooters' Peter McGannon Gomez. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-151-kry-brexit-luna-blue-duck-scooters For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler talk about the investigation of Russia's antimonopoly watchdog into Booking.com, startups working on road safety across Europe, Google abandoning the “Double Irish” tax optimisation scheme, changes in the way we write online, wannabe kidfluencers on YouTube, and more. Check out the show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-150-russia-fas-booking-google-double-irish For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler talk about the fresh funding round for Manna, the prospects of takeaway delivery by drones, Irish regulators' shortcomings related to the GDPR, the technological failures of the decade, and more. Check out the show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-149-manna-gdpr-ireland For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In this episode, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler talk about the good and bad news for Airbnb, Google, and Uber, the EU and climate change, crypto art, Elastic vs. Amazon, and much more. The featured conversation is an interview with Jacob Bangsgard, CEO at ERTICO and president of the MaaS Alliance. Check out the show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-148-big-tech-climate-change-crypto-art-elastic-amazon-jacob-bangsgaard-maas-alliance For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

For this episode, we’ve talked to Robert Falck, co-founder and CEO at Einride, and Rudi Skogman, co-founder and CEO at Blok Enterprises. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler talk about €3.2 billion in state funding for batter technology, future foods, the situation around Amazon and Deliveroo in the UK, new VC kids on the block, and much more. The featured interview this time is a conversation with Sonya Iovieno, head of venture and growth banking at Silicon Valley Bank. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-147-battery-funding-ada-ventures-sonya-iovieno-silicon-valley-bank For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

For this episode, we've talked to Jean-Eric Paquet, director-general for research and innovation at the European Commission, and Fredrik Hjelm, co-founder and CEO at Voi Technology. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-jean-eric-paquet-fredrik-hjelm-voi For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler talk about the future of stablecoins in the EU, DeepMind news, the story and promise of Sono, a new report by the European Investment Fund, and more. The featured interview is a conversation with Christophe Perron, co-founder of Stimergy. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-146-sono-eif-stimergy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In this podcast episode, we’ve talked to Vivian Chan, CEO and co-founder of Sparrho, and Ian Smith, CEO and founder of Gospel Tech. This episode is kindly sponsored by Google Cloud for Startups is part of an exclusive interview series with prominent people in tech, recorded live at Slush 2019. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler discussed Picnic’s mega-round and a fresh court ruling in its favour, why would anyone call a company October, the Apostrophe Protection Society, the world of big toothbrushes, and much more. The featured conversation of the week is a conversation with Raphaël Meyer, CEO and co-founder at Lancey. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-145-mega-round-picnic-october-apostrophe-protection-society-raphael-meyer-lancey For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In this interview special episode recorded at Slush 2019, we’ve talked to Sophie Adelman, co-founder and president of WhiteHat, and Pieter van der Does, co-founder and CEO of Adyen. This episode is kindly sponsored by Google Cloud for Startups and is part of an exclusive interview series with prominent people in tech, recorded live at Slush 2019. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In this interview special episode recorded at Slush 2019, we’ve talked to Marta Sjogren, partner at the VC firm Northzone, and Peter Reinhardt, co-founder and CEO of a unicorn startup Segment. This episode is kindly sponsored by Google Cloud for Startups and is part of an exclusive interview series with prominent people in tech recorded live at Slush 2019. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler talk about Uber’s licence — or rather lack thereof — in London, the EU trying to save startups from the “Valley of death,” the world of home delivery, Shoshana Zuboff's Axel Springer Award, and more. In addition to all that, listen to a conversation with Thomas Canguilhem, partner and head of international growth at EcoTree. Check out the full show notes and links on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-144-uber-london-valley-of-death-thomas-canguilhem-ecotree For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In this interview special episode recorded at Slush 2019, we’ve talked to Valentina Milanova, CEO and founder of Daye, and Carl Christensen, co-founder and CTO at Spacemaker. This episode is kindly sponsored by Google Cloud for Startups and is part of an exclusive interview series with prominent people in tech, recorded live at Slush 2019. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In this interview special, we talked to Sophia Bendz, partner at Atomico, and Markus Villig, CEO and co-founder at Bolt. This episode is kindly sponsored by Google Cloud for Startups and is part of an exclusive interview series with prominent people in tech, recorded live at Slush 2019. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler talk about Tesla’s gigafactory in Germany, a wave of new venture funds in Europe, privacy issues on health websites, and much more. The featured interview is a conversation with Jan Bormans, CEO at the European Startup Network. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler talk about the concerns of the European Commission regarding Apple's possibly anticompetitive practices and Google's acquisition of Fitbit, the future of Huawei in Europe, best practices of running a newsletter, and much more. The featured interview of the week is a conversation with Ken Villum Klausen, founder and CEO of the challenger bank Lunar. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-142-apple-google-huawei-lunar-ken-villum-klausen For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler discuss the job cuts at UiPath, the issues of third-party document verification at an example of IDNow and Veriff, the OECD United Approach proposal, the new podcast series from our friend Martin Bryant, and much more. The featured interview of this episode is one with Mark Durno, managing partner at Rockstart AgriFood in Copenhagen. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-141-uipath-idnow-veriff-oecd-digital-tax-rockstart-mark-durno For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler talk about Volocopter's latest funding round and its plan to launch air taxi service, Startupbootcamp and the future of the public exchange, whether there's a place for sauna parties at tech events, and much more. Today's featured interview is with Carlos Espinal, managing partner at Seedcamp. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-140-volocopter-startupbootcamp-sauna-seedcamp-carlos-espinal For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This interview special episode includes a conversation with Maxim Romain, CEO and co-founder of the e-scooter startup Dott, recorded in Amsterdam earlier this year. Among the topics we discussed in this interview are Dott's rumoured launch in the Netherlands, the profitability of e-scooter startups, the problem — or lack thereof — that Dott is solving, the actual levels of theft and vandalism in the industry, and much more. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler talked about the rejection of Sylvie Goulard as the internal market commissioner, the little-discussed IPO! of! Kahoot!, the autonomous driving scene in Europe, upcoming events, and much more. The featured interview of the week is with Lucy Cheesman, an algorave musician from the UK. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-139-kahoot-lucy-cheesman-algorave For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler discussed the funding news of the presentation collaboration startup Pitch, what's going on with funding rounds in Germany, what a digital prophet does, and much more. Also, check out an interview with Sacha Michaud, co-founder of Glovo. Full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-138-pitching-pitch-german-funding-spike-glovo-sacha-michaud For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Andrii Degeler and Natalie Novick discuss the fresh funding round of Unbabel and the gig economy in general, new tech-related documents leaked from the European Commission, cap table issues in the Nordics and beyond, the mystery of Cachette Capital, and more. The featured interview of the day is a conversation with Carly Kind, director of the Ada Lovelace Institute. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-137-unbabel-leak-european-commission-carly-kind-ada-lovelace-institute For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler recorded this episode at TechBBQ in Copenhagen last week together with our friends from Startup42 Media. It was also broadcast live around the venue into the silent disco headsets. In this episode, we talked about the governmental involvement into the tech and startup ecosystem across Europe — which is a timely question considering the latest news stories like France's €5 billion commitment to tech companies or Apple's court fight with the European Commission. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler discussed Apple's court battle against the EU to avoid paying €13 billion in back taxes, the new announcement by Emmanuel Macron at France Digitale Day, water taxis flying too fast, the Super Pumped book, and more. The featured interview this time is a conversation with Johan Plenge, CEO and founder at Tattoodo. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-136-apple-ireland-macron-tattoodo-johan-plenge For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler talked about the new European Commission, Europe's stance on the Libra cryptocurrency, Amsterdam as an IPO destination, language studies, Amazon habits, and much more. The featured interview of the week is with Harold Saar, head of fleet development at Stigo, an e-vehicle company from Estonia. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-135-new-commission-libra-europe-amsterdam-ipo For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler discuss the plans of Maria 01 to become the biggest startup campus in Europe, the latest developments in the mobility industry, a review of Fairphone 3, and the story of the custom phone ringtone. Also there for you is an interview with Ditte Rude Moncur, chief data & digital officer at the Danish Growth Fund. Check out the show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-134-maria-01-fairphone-ditte-rude-moncur-danish-growth-fund For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler discuss the recent developments in the standoff between the US and France related to the digital tax, Acast borrowing €25 million from the European Investment Bank, the ways in which VCs cover Europe, and much more. In the interview department, listen to a conversation with Daniel Korski, co-founder and CEO of Public.io. Today's episode is sponsored by the O'Reilly Velocity conference that's coming to Berlin on November 4th to 7th. The conference will focus on teaching new skills, approaches, and technologies for building and managing large-scale, cloud-native systems. It will cover everything from Kubernetes and site reliability engineering to observability and performance to give you a comprehensive understanding of applications and services. Get your tickets on velocityconf.com/tech and stay on top of the rapidly changing cloud landscape. Listeners of the Tech.eu podcast can get 20 percent off of most passes to Velocity — use the code TECHEU20 during registration. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-133-new-france-digital-tax-acast-eib-public-daniel-korski For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler discuss the latest developments in the story of DeepMind, the future of delivery robots shown by Starship Technologies and Amazon, the alleged €100 billion European startup fund, pros and cons of location sharing apps, and more. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-132-deepmind-google-starship-technologies For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler talk about the letter sent by European job boards to complain about Google, the takeaway wars and consolidation processes, the hilarious “WeWTF,” the future of gig economy that can be more interesting than you think, and much more. Natalie has also recorded an interview with Daisy Ford-Downes of Zebras Unite for you. Check out the fill show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-131-google-antitrust-takeaway-wars-wewtf-gig-economy-zebras-unite-daisy-ford-downes For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy