Startups participating in the Startup Battlefield have all been hand-picked to participate in our highly competitive startup competition. They all presented in front of multiple groups of VCs and tech leaders serving as judges for a chance to win €42,000 and the coveted Disrupt Cup. After hours of deliberations, TechCrunch editors pored over the judges’ notes and narrowed the list down… Read More
Category: Disrupt Berlin 2017
And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2017 is… Lia Diagnostics
Startups participating in the Startup Battlefield have all been hand-picked to participate in our highly competitive startup competition. They all presented in front of multiple groups of VCs and tech leaders serving as judges for a chance to win €42,000 and the coveted Disrupt Cup. After hours of deliberations, TechCrunch editors pored over the judges’ notes and narrowed the list down… Read More
Volocopter: Expect our flying taxis running for real in “two to three years”
So how far out are flying cars that you can actually hail via an app, get inside and be whisked off to your destination? Germany based Volocopter reckons a commercial service powered by its electric vertical-take-off-and-landing aircraft could be up and running before 2020. Read More
ResearchGate CEO denies scraping accounts from rival site to generate sign-ups
Ijad Madisch, co-founder and CEO of ResearchGate – the so-called Facebook for scientists – shot down an accusation about a questionable way it may have acquired users in the past. The question was raised by a panel moderator, TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher, at the Disrupt Berlin 2017 conference this morning. According to Butcher’s multiple sources, ResearchGate had… Read More
CEO of automation company ABB says we shouldn’t fear automation
Here’s a surprise: at our Disrupt Berlin event, Ulrich Spiesshofer, the CEO of 125-year old automation giant ABB, argued that automation is nothing to fear. “I think we need to take this fear extremely seriously and get people out of this fear,” he said. In his view, automation and robotics has allowed millions of people to move beyond the extreme poverty line and… Read More
The menopause is on our roadmap, says Clue’s Ida Tin
Femtech startup Clue is looking at expanding the feature-set of its period tracking app to attract women outside its current younger demographic. Read More
View More The menopause is on our roadmap, says Clue’s Ida TinN26 launches a premium debit card for ‘the digital customer,’ partners with WeWork
N26, the European mobile banking service, today announced the launch of N26 Metal, the company’s premium Mastercard-affiliated debit card “tailored to the needs of digital customers” at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin. N26 Black customers in Germany, France, Italy and Austria will be able to sign up for the new NFC-enabled card, which obviously features a metal core made from… Read More
Parity CEO is confident that $150M in frozen Ethereum isn’t lost forever
Earlier this year, Parity Technologies seemingly lost about $150 million worth of Ethereum (513,774.16 Ether) when a user of its wallet accidentally deleted a code library that made Parity’s wallets work. At least 1 million in ETH became frozen — and about $90 million of those were actually from Parity co-founder and Ethereum core developer Gavin Wood’s token sale for its… Read More
Watch Disrupt Berlin Day 2 LIVE right here!
Disrupt Berlin 2017 pushes onward, and today we have a jam-packed lineup of tech super stars.
We’ll be joined on stage by Parrot’s Henri Seydoux, Atomico’s Yann de Vries, ABB’s Ulrich Spiesshofer and Clue’s Ida Tin.
Plus, we’ll head into the Startup Battlefield Finals, judged by some of the world’s finest investors: Suranga Chandratillake (Balderton… Read More
Watch Disrupt Berlin Day 2 LIVE right here!
Disrupt Berlin 2017 pushes onward, and today we have a jam-packed lineup of tech super stars.
We’ll be joined on stage by Parrot’s Henri Seydoux, Atomico’s Yann de Vries, ABB’s Ulrich Spiesshofer and Clue’s Ida Tin.
Plus, we’ll head into the Startup Battlefield Finals, judged by some of the world’s finest investors: Suranga Chandratillake (Balderton… Read More
Watch Disrupt Berlin Day 2 LIVE right here!
Disrupt Berlin 2017 pushes onward, and today we have a jam-packed lineup of tech super stars.
We’ll be joined on stage by Parrot’s Henri Seydoux, Atomico’s Yann de Vries, ABB’s Ulrich Spiesshofer and Clue’s Ida Tin.
Plus, we’ll head into the Startup Battlefield Finals, judged by some of the world’s finest investors: Suranga Chandratillake (Balderton… Read More
Meet the five finalists at the Disrupt Berlin Startup Battlefield
Disrupt is back in Berlin, where 15 teams have just taken the stage as part of the Startup Battlefield. Each startup demonstrated their product and answered questions from our expert judges. Afterwards, we narrowed it down to five companies, who …
View More Meet the five finalists at the Disrupt Berlin Startup Battlefield