Blockchain is the technology behind the Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency, and is often described as Internet 2.0 or the ‘next big thing’. While still in the early years of development, its applications in numerous industries, including finance, insurance, energy, government, health, telecoms and Internet of Things (IoT), is showing great potential. Blockchain is an open,…
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Happy New Year, everyone! To ease your way into 2018, we would like to start the year with a forecast of the key trends that will mark the world of tech in the coming months. So if you’re wondering what groundbreaking technological developments are coming our way this year, keep reading. 1. Artificial Intelligence and…
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AtomLeap is constantly looking for ways to promote startups, and, in our pursuit to do so, we have brokered numerous partnerships over the years. This week, we would like to talk about one of our recent such collaborations, namely that with the Berlin-based Startup Campus program. The Startup Campus connects startups from Central and Eastern Europe…
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December 14 was competition day at AtomLeap. Four startups that participated in our previous accelerator program, Smart Wearables x Textiles, gathered on that day to demonstrate their ideas and products by pitching them to an audience of tech enthusiasts. At stake was a grand prize worth €10.000, and the winning team was determined by a…
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Entrepreneurs, investors, hackers and technology fans from all over the world gathered in Berlin on December 4th and 5th to discuss the latest trends and high-tech innovations at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin, a technology-focused event series that takes place in London, San Francisco, New York, and, starting last year, in our beloved German capital. TechCrunch is known as…
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Another week, another post about high tech. On this occasion, we would like to visit the topic of Earth Observation (EO), an emerging niche in the space industry that is also represented in our accelerator program through LiveEO, the startup that we introduced to you on this very blog two weeks ago. The space industry…
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In this week’s post, we would like to introduce to you the third team in our accelerator program, Ghost. Ghost was founded by Laura Bücheler and Bella Hillmer. The two are developing a non-invasive smart glove combined with a training app solution. Their aim is to enable patients that have lost a hand to regain…
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Last week, we introduced you to the first team in our accelerator program. This week, we would like to continue the introduction series with our second team, LiveEO. Based in Berlin, LiveEO is the first private real-time Earth observation (EO) application. The company was founded by Daniel Seidel and Sven Przywarra with the aim of…
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Since the first round of our accelerator program started last week, we have been hard at work meeting with the participating teams to set goals for the program, determine or refine their growth strategy, and establish the priorities for the coming months. Over the next few weeks, we will take a closer look at…
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Today, we are launching the first round of the AtomLeap High-Tech Accelerator Program, which aims to promote high-tech startups and to strengthen Berlin and Germany as centers of technological innovation. After a careful selection process, we invited four startups to join the program, which will run from November to April 2018 and will comprise of…
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