The transformation of BBVA has a very important pillar in the search for new business models that can directly impact the current way of understanding financial services. Normally these disruptive models come from digital companies and ‘startups’ that redefine part of the value chain of banking services, generating a new…
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Planstack Planstack from Augsburg is developing a web-based application that supports contractors during the implementation phase in sampling and special request processing by directly involving the owner in the process. Apartment owners can configure their apartment via an equipment catalog and also express their own wishes. The construction company receives…
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Data journalists have discovered security breaches in mobility services for the second time: now it has hit the e-scooter rental company Voi. Already in 2017, they had discovered a data leak at the bike rental Obike. The journalists were able to see data from 460,000 users of the Swedish Kickscooterverleihers:…
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The Spanish Association of Fintech and Insurtech (AEFI) announced at its General Assembly held recently in Madrid, its aspiration to grow by 35 percent throughout 2019. This was announced by Füture on March 18. Fintech, what is it? The term Fintech applies to companies that link technology with finance, while…
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The Austrian Finnest and the Finnish platform Invesdor are pooling their offerings to offer more different services in online financing. A new giant emerges among the European providers for online investments: The Austrian Finnest GmbH and the Finnish Invesdor Oy are merging their businesses and forming the new Invesdor Group.…
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Startup history was written in the Berlin baking factory. From the outside, the historic industrial building hardly reveals that there are tech companies such as the game company Wooga sitting here and each employing hundreds of employees. Among the most famous tenants of the brick building StudiVZ belonged. At the…
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Ingo Nassau does not give up. Dozens of times, the 54-year-old has already blown off the purchasing managers of supermarkets and discounters in Germany. “Such a nonsense, but no one buys,” gets the sales expert from the Ruhr regularly heard. And the advice that he should finally come up with…
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53 percent more financing rounds and 63 percent more money raised send a strong signal to the Austrian startup scene. The startup scene in Austria continues its financing boom This becomes clear from the Startup Report Austria 2018, which is published annually by GetFunding.how and analyzes the Austrian funding activities…
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Berlin as an important address for startup financiers? The capital threatens to be overtaken by investments from Paris – because France avoids the mistakes of German politicians. Paris could overtake Berlin in the coming years for investments in startups In 2018, lenders spent almost 2.5 billion euros in growth companies…
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3D printing has matured in recent years to become an industry in itself. The local businesses are concentrated in no more than 20 startups or that makes them a market that is still very small compared to other more established ones. But despite its small size wants to stop being…
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