This week Uber announced it was teaming up with NASA to develop flying taxis – and they could be servicing Los Angeles as early as 2020. Uber’s chief product officer Jeff Holden…
Raph Crouan and Ben Hayes of London’s Startupbootcamp, on Brexit’s Effect on Tech: “Uncertainty is the Biggest Killer”
Startupbootcamp is a globally-focused group hosting events over a hundred cities. It connects founders and mentors from Holland to Honduras. This year’s Startupbootcamp in London saw teams from Latvia, Canada and Britain,…
As eSports Continues to Grow Apace, its Athletes and Startups are Winning Big
The headquarters of G2 Esports’ Berlin team, on first glance, looks every bit what you’d expect from the home of seven young gamers. Beds are unmade, towels hang on bedroom doors and…
Seceon Founder Chandra Pandey on “Broken” Cybersecurity and Being a Self-Investor
Chandra Pandey is founder and CEO of Seceon, a cybersecurity company dedicated to protecting data on a global scale. Pandey talks to Red Herring about new business partnerships, dealing with VCs and…
Finally, After Years of Legislation and Mistrust, eNotary is Becoming Big Business
Pick an industry. Next, try to pick an industry that hasn’t been disrupted by technology. Can’t? Well if you’d have said ‘notaries’ a few years ago, you might have won a point.…
The Dread Pirate and The Populist: Czech Tech Pros See Few Pluses in a Tough Election
This weekend Czechs go to the polls in a hotly-contested general election that pits a billionaire populist against his former colleague, a dreadlock-sporting digital pirate and a half-Japanese, Islamophobic right-winger. But amid…
Amid a Humanitarian Tragedy, Entrepreneurship is Being Kept Alive in Yemen
When Ibrahim Saleh began working in tech, barely anybody else understood what he did. It was 2006 and his home country of Yemen, torn by decades of coups, conflicts and civil wars,…
The Top Five GCC Startups to Watch Out For
The Middle East has risen, in a short space of time, from a digital backwater to a region of immense tech promise. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) sits atop its valued metrics.…
Delivery Hero, Berlin’s Food Unicorn, Looks to Middle East for Key Growth
Just a fortnight ago Delivery Hero, the Berlin-based food ordering company, announced impressive financials to back up a June IPO which made it one of Europe’s hottest ‘unicorn’ tech firms. The company, whose…
Will Sudan’s Sanctions Drop Finally Connect Its Entrepreneurs With The World?
It is almost a quarter-century since Omar al-Bashir appointed himself President of Sudan. In that same year, 1993, America deemed al-Bashir’s government a state sponsor of terror – a label it shares…