Tag: Years
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Tugboat Printshop Marks 20 Years of Making Meticulously Crafted Woodblock Prints
When Valerie Lueth of Tugboat Printshop sets out to make a woodblock print, it’s rare that she only uses a single block. Instead, sometimes up to five distinctly carved pieces are incorporated, each containing different details that, when combined, create a total image. To make the prints, which are usually limited to editions of 100 read more
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Meet the 3D printing startup that spent five years not selling its technology
Most people think of additive manufacturing — better known as 3D printing — as small plastic prototypes or desktop machines producing objects you can hold in your hand. Since emerging in the 1980s, the technology has steadily evolved from a rapid prototyping tool into a serious industrial process used across aerospace, automotive, healthcare, and defence. read more
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Ten Years In, VivaTech Is Just Getting Started
When VivaTech first opened its doors in 2016, it gathered 45,000 visitors. This June, the 10th edition is expected to welcome more than 180,000 attendees from 171 countries, a 300% increase that reflects not just the event’s growth, but the pace of transformation reshaping the global tech landscape. From 17 to 20 June at Paris read more
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Lunar co-founder exits CEO role after 11 years
The co-founder of Danish digital bankLunar is stepping down as CEO after more than ten years and is being replaced by a former Danske Bank and Saxo Bank executive. Ken Villum Klausen, Lunar co-founder and CEO, who has led Lunar since its founding in 2015, said the timing “feels right” to stand down. He pointed read more
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Irina Werning Chronicles 18 Years of Photographing 'Las Pelilargas' in a New Book
For the better part of two decades, Irina Werning has traveled throughout Latin America searching for a specific trait: incredibly long hair. In her photography series Las Pelilargas—meaning “the long-haired ones” in Spanish—she chronicles a time-honored Indigenous tradition through a visual celebration of patience, joy, and cultural pride. In a statement, Werning shares that when read more
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Joe Macken Spent 21 Years Hand-Assembling a Vast Model of New York City
Over the course of two decades, Queens resident Joe Macken meticulously built an entire city from the ground up. In fact, he built New York City—the whole thing—one building, house, and bridge at a time. Now, his expansive scale construction is on view in He Built This City: Joe Macken’s Model at the Museum of read more
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“We are where ChatGPT was five years ago,” says European 3D AI foundation model startup boss
OneofEurope’stop AI researchers, who is heading upa3D AI foundation model startup, says that 3D AI models are “kind of where ChatGPT for language wasfive years ago”. Matthias Niessner,the CEO andco-founderofSpAItial,tooka leave of absence from leadingthe visualcomputingand AI lab at the Technical University of Munich to launch the Munich andLondon-basedstartupSpAItial,whichlast year landed a $13m seed round. read more
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After Five Years of Community Building, Social Practice CUNY Initiative to End in 2027
“I don’t think that anybody ever starts with a clear plan to sunset, but nor did I think that this would necessarily institutionalize in a way that would make it exist forever,” artist and Chloë Bass told ARTnews in a recent interview about Social Practice CUNY, the initiative she has co-directed for the past five read more
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Hampshire College, Whose Alumni List Includes Many Well-Known Artists, to Close After 51 Years
Hampshire College, a liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, will close after 51 years in operation, becoming the latest school of its kind to shutter amid financial difficulties. Though small in scale, the college has had an outsize effect on the art world, with its art department graduating a number of painters, sculptors, and photographers read more
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Plume raises €3.3M to cut years from renewable energy development timelines
Plume, a Franco-American startup specialising in geospatial AI for renewable energies, has raised a €3.3M funding round led by AENU, with participation from Y Combinator, Kima Ventures, Raise Phiture, Better Angle and Collab Fund. Founded by Edouard Labarthe (ex-Palantir) and Marc Watine (ex-Harvard researcher in geospatial and AI), the startup was incubated by Y Combinator- read more
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12,000 Years Ago, Native Americans Were Playing Games of Chance with Handmade Dice
Archaeologists have long known that the ancient peoples of North America—not unlike us—played a lot of games. Going back millennia, cultures around the world developed myriad ways to keep entertained, and for a long time, it was thought that the first dice ever used could be traced to the ancient Eastern European and Near East read more
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Qover raises $12M from CIBC as it celebrates 10 years of embedded insurance growth
Insurtech Qover today marks its 10th anniversary with a significant milestone: the extension of a $12 million growth capital facility from CIBC Innovation Banking, bringing total funding raised since inception to over $100 million. Founded in 2016 by Quentin Colmant and Jean-Charles Velge, Qover set out to make insurance simple, transparent, and accessible across borders read more
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OakNorth reports nudge up in profits, delays net zero target by 10 years
OakNorth, the UK challenger lending bank, has reported anudge up in year-on-yearpre-tax profits in 2025 from £215m to £223m, helped by US growth. The SoftBank-backed bank, however, delayed its net zero target by ten years. OakNorth said itnow hopes to reach its net zero target in 2045, not 2035, as it set out in 2022. read more
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After Two Years of Decline, the Art Market Edges Back to Growth, Says 2026 Art Basel UBS Report
The global art market clawed its way back to modest growth in 2025, reaching an estimated$59.6 billion in sales, according to the latestArt Basel and UBS Art Market Report, by economist Clare McAndrew of Arts Economics. The total represents a4 percent increase from the previous year, breaking a two-year slide in sales—though the market still read more
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Met Museum Appears to Be Planning the First US Cy Twombly Retrospective in More Than 30 Years
While the Metropolitan Museum of Art just announced a sizable Lee Krasner–Jackson Pollock exhibition for the fall, it now appears that that show isn’t the only grand one for a postwar painter on the docket at the New York institution. Last week, the Met posted a job posting for a researcher who would work on read more
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Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum to Close After 40 Years
The DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, founded in 1985 and part of DePaul University, will close at the end of its current fiscal year, on June 30. The school, which faces considerable financial challenges, announced the closure in an announcement to the community Thursday morning. In December, the school laid off 114 out of 1,493 read more
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€100K, 100 startups, 3 years: The Baltics double down on early talent
Get ready to feel old. According to a recent report, the average age of AI unicorn founders dropped from 40 in 2020 to 29 in 2024. And the trend continues. It’s been called a “youthquake,” shaking up the Silicon Valleys of the world. An ambitious Gen Z, coming of age in the AI-era, is not read more
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Not resilient, strategic: The reality of Ukraine’s tech ecosystem four years on
On the fourth anniversary of Russia’s unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Tech.eu remains committed to amplifying Ukrainian founders and investors — not merely as a gesture of solidarity, but as recognition of their ongoing impact in innovation, creating front-running tech for international scale. Ukraine’s tech ecosystem is not paused by war. It is evolving — read more
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Fleet opens its capital at a €100M valuation after seven years of bootstrapping
Fleet, a French scale-up specialising in IT fleet management, equipment, and security for SMEs, announces the entry of ISAI Expansion into its capital through its ISAI Expansion III fund at a €100 million valuation. After seven years of existence and having been entirely bootstrapped to date, Fleet is opening its capital to external investors for read more
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Researchers Have Found the World’s Oldest Known Rock Art in Indonesia, Dating Back 67,800 Years
Less than two years after discovering a 51,200-year-old cave painting of a pig on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, in what was then declared the oldest known figurative artwork, the same researchers have discovered an even older work. The newly dated work, located on the southeastern peninsula of Sulawesi, is a hand stencil dating to read more
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