Tag: United Kingdom
Cowboy launches the Cowboy 4 e-bike, with a step-through version and built-in phone charger
E-bike startup Cowboy has launched the Cowboy 4, its newest generation of urban electric bikes. The bike will come in two different frames, a traditional frame, and a step-through.The C4 is basically an upgrade on the previous version 3, while the ‘C4 ST’ is a step-through model which the company…
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ifeel, another well-being platform that blends self-care tools with 1-2-1 therapy, scores $6.6M
If the pandemic has been good for anything it’s been good for the therapy business and for startups targeting mental health, with VCs kept very busy signing checks. To wit, here’s another one: Madrid-based ifeel has bagged €5.5 million (~$6.6M) in Series A funding, led by Nauta Capital. The startup…
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Sprout.ai raises $11m Series A led by Octopus Ventures to apply AI to insurance claims
It was way back in 2018 that Omni:us appeared to disrupt the insurance market by applying AI to this most legacy of all industries. It has now gone on to raise $44.1 million. In a similar vein, Shift Technology in France has raised $100 million. Now a UK startup aims…
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What3Words sends legal threat to a security researcher for sharing an open-source alternative
A U.K. company behind digital addressing system What3Words has sent a legal threat to a security researcher for offering to share an open-source software project with other researchers, which What3Words claims violate its copyright. Aaron Toponce, a systems administrator at XMission, received a letter on Thursday from a law firm…
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TikTok to open a ‘Transparency’ Center in Europe to take content and security questions
TikTok will open a center in Europe where outside experts will be shown information on how it approaches content moderation and recommendation, as well as platform security and user privacy, it announced today. The European Transparency and Accountability Centre (TAC) follows the opening of a U.S. center last year —…
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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm
Things have been looking up for Belfast since the end of the Troubles. The city has undergone infrastructure improvements over the past two decades, tourism has boomed thanks to attractions such as the shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built and Game of Thrones shooting locations, and employment has risen…
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