Tag: startups

  • From speed to defensibility: What OpenAI sees in the next generation of AI startups

    OpenAI for Startups is OpenAI’s programme designed to help early-stage companies build and scale products using AI. Rather than just offering model access, it focuses on removing practical barriers for founders by combining technical support, resources, and credits to accelerate product development. In practice, that means pairing access to OpenAI’s models with people, infrastructure, and read more

    From speed to defensibility: What OpenAI sees in the next generation of AI startups
  • KBC unveils €100M Start it Fund, targeting Belgium’s most promising startups from idea to IPO

    KBC Group is investing €100 million through Start it @KBC to strengthen the Belgian startup ecosystem. This investment also launches a new fund (the Start it Fund) aimed at early-stage financing for top-tier startups from the accelerator program, addressing a long-standing demand from founders. Thanks to this fund, these startups can count on capital and read more

    KBC unveils €100M Start it Fund, targeting Belgium’s most promising startups from idea to IPO
  • UN Development Program and Wazoku invite startups to pioneer new tech for underwater mine detection

    The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a global innovation challenge to identify bold, practical solutions that can help crisis-affected communities recover and rebuild from scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs around the world. Partnering with UK-based innovation platform Wazoku, the UNDP will crowdsource ideas through a series of open-innovation challenges to find simple solutions that read more

    UN Development Program and Wazoku invite startups to pioneer new tech for underwater mine detection
  • Clover raises €30M to become the go-to investor for work and education startups

    French Entrepreneur Samuel Tual has today launched Clover, a €30 million early-stage evergreen fund to back startups reshaping the future of work and education. Tual is an entrepreneur, Vice-President of the MEDEF and Chairman & CEO of Actual Group, a major player in employment and labour in France and Europe. Clover aims to become the read more

    Clover raises €30M to become the go-to investor for work and education startups