An oft-cited prediction from John Maynard Keynes back in 1930 was that, by now, we’d be working something like 15-hour work weeks — owing to incredible advances in productivity and a general shift towards more leisurely lifestyles as our material needs are sated. A still more often mentioned lament is that this 15-hour week, in…
In December, we’ll be holding our annual demo day to show off what our startups have been getting up to. So we thought we’d write up a post in the spirit of demo days, and note down 5 of the biggest issues to avoid for the right pitch. 1. Speed The first, and most…
This week. The AtomLeap High-Tech Accelerator headed over to France for Autonomy Paris, the yearly conference on all things mobility. We joined thousands of professionals hailing from the public and private sides of the road to get an insider’s view on what’s happening in transport in now, and what is coming our way in the…
With the US-Sino trade war ricocheting across global economies and injecting a distinctly acrid tone to international relations, it’s worth having a look at how and whether this dynamic might play out and amplify in the years to come. The trade war itself, while undoubtedly significant in its impacts, are nonetheless a symptom of a…
We are delighted to announce that the AtomLeap High-Tech Accelerator has received funding for the next two years! Over the last two years of running the program, we have managed to accelerate some amazing founders and ventures across mobility, AI, and IoT. We have learned a lot over this time, and our firm belief in…
We have written previously about the growing scrutiny over technology companies, and how the industry has been long overdue for a review over the power it holds in our everyday lives. Indeed, big tech has proven on multiple occasions its inability to rein in its own worst impulses and its capacity to abuse the trust…
Next week, Berlin and myriad cities around the world will engage in a mass climate strike: students and employees will abandon their posts in classrooms and offices to march in demand for action on an issue of increasing urgent — climate change. To say that climate change is an urgent issue is really an understatement.…
The ‘404 Not Found’ error, the silent announcer of broken links, is a frequent encounter found along the online road. Today, though, we will be visiting Its lesser known cousin, error 402 — ‘Payment Required’. At the inception of the commercial world wide web, its creators had envisioned a system supported by some form of…
Monday. 1 pm. Lunch rush. We’ve all been there. As you squeeze and push from one end of the street to the other, you’ll likely encounter a dozen bike-riders wielding large, square-ish backpacks on their shoulders, zigzagging past the hungry crowds. Packed inside those bags, of course, are fresh, delicious meals about to be delivered…
Artificial intelligence (AI) was founded as a discipline out of a 1950s university workshop amongst a group of professors and researchers. In the subsequent decades, the field swung from big waves of optimism, to great dips of disillusioned ambition. Over the mid to late 90s, and the 21st century, massive increases in computing power and…