After year of ‘frustration,’ European tech welcomes 2024 with cautious optimism

Dec21
by on December 21, 2023 at 11:00 am
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Down rounds, corrections, and adjustments. These are just a few of the gloomy terms you have likely heard a lot of in European tech in 2023. It has been a year of bleak headlines in tech — and European startups, scaleups, and giants didn’t escape the trend. Job cuts have been a common theme and valuations have been slashed. We saw Hopin, the digital events startup that was once a darling of VCs at the height of lockdowns, fall from a valuation over $7 billion to a sale worth just $15 million. These types of scenarios were on the minds…

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2024’s most important travel tech trends

Dec21
by on December 21, 2023 at 10:11 am
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Guest post by Singapore Tourism Board As the tourism industry continues its post-pandemic recovery in an increasingly uncertain travel market, a question that has dawned upon us is — what’s next? Naturally, many of us are looking towards technology for more opportunities. In 2023, we saw the generative AI boom and further growth of emerging technologies like extended reality (XR) and 5G. While these advances are already shaping the travel sector, there is much more to come as more use cases emerge while the technology further matures. Looking forward into 2024, we can expect teams to do more with less, streamline their…

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5 compensation and benefits trends to look out for in 2024

Dec21
by on December 21, 2023 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Future of Work


Virgile Raingeard is the co-founder and CEO of Europe’s leading compensation benchmarking platform Figures, founded in 2020 and based in France.  1. The end to ‘competitive salary’ on job adverts Pay transparency has been the talk of the town this year following the new EU directive adopted by the Council in April, which will force companies to tell job seekers the expected salary (or salary range) for positions they advertise. As a result, we’re predicting that 2024 will be the start of the end of ‘competitive salary’ on job postings. Not only is this the right (and soon to be…

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What Europe’s VC funding landscape will look like in 2024, according to analysts

Dec21
by on December 21, 2023 at 6:01 am
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2023 has been a tough funding year for European startups — even being characterised as the “most depressed” in VC exit value in a decade. Amid uncertainty and a staggering macroeconomic environment, VC activity and deal value also, unsurprisingly, dropped. But what will the funding ecosystem look like in 2024? And, more importantly, will it bring cause for hope for startups and investors alike? According to analysis by Pitchbook, neither the volume nor the value of VC-backed IPOs will see a meaningful recovery next year. With macroeconomic factors weighing heavily on public markets, stakeholders remain cautious as 2023 saw fewer…

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A guide to navigating the next-generation robotics wave

Dec20
by on December 20, 2023 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Insider


The generative AI movement may dominate today’s headlines, but another technological transformation is gaining momentum under the radar—the proliferation of autonomous service robots. Their surge in popularity continues to be fueled by their ability to improve efficiency and reduce the need for manual labor in repetitive, hazardous tasks, as well as more recent advancements in sensor fusion and software-defined processes that improve their price-performance. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored increasing demand for operational and supply chain resilience. Reaching a critical tipping point Many autonomous robotic solutions today have reached a critical adoption tipping point due to improved price-performance. Customer…

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