TCi100: Carlos Eduardo Espinal is a partner with London-based microseed investment fund Seedcamp. The fund, provided by a who’s who of international investors, provides early-stage finance to some of the brightest start-ups around. With both tech engineer and venture capitalist on his CV, Espinal knows both sides of his business. Interview by Julian Blake
Apps for Good faces
bright future
TECH TALK: In this podcast, we talk to the key people driving forward the Apps for Good technology education initiative – CEO Iris Lapinski, special adviser and brand expert Chris Moss, Thompson Reuters global head of mobile Bob Schukai – and Rodrigo Baggio, the founder of Apps for Good’s Brazilian parent organisation, CDI Global.
Read more...Aussies help London’s global
startup scene
Increasing numbers of Australian entrepreneurs are now calling Tech City home, with about 50 now run by Australians. It was unsurprising that Australian governor general Quentin Bryce wanted to visit this month. James Swanston, an Aussie running London green business Carbon Voyage, reports.
Read more...Meet the seven winners of the
2013 Apps for Good awards
On 11 June, at a ceremony at LSO St Luke’s in Shoreditch, technology education charity Apps for Good announced the seven winners of its 2013 awards. TechCityInsider, a partner in the awards, spoke to all of the winning teams about their ideas, their inspiration, and what they’ve learned from taking part. Watch all of the interviews here.
Read more...Sharing, caring digital world
TECH TALK: in this podcast from June’s LeWeb event, we talk to Axelle Tessandier, founder of San Francisco-based Axl Agency – content strategist, trend spotter, writer, curator and the first to use the phrase “digital hippy”; and Benita Matofska, founder and “chief sharer” of The People Who Share, a global campaign to build a sharing [...]
Read more...Lily’s mission Impossible
TECHCITYINSIDER100: Model, actor, activist and social business entrepreneur Lily Cole is the driving force behind Impossible.com, a new social giving network encouraging acts of human kindness. In this exclusive interview, Cole tells TechCityInsider about the venture, her inspiration and her role as a “digital hippy” in the new gift economy.
Read more...Facing up to crime
TECHCITYINSIDER100: A Crimestoppers for the social media age, Facewatch aims to stop crime before it happens by allowing business to share intelligence between each other online. A sensible use of tech – or a wanted poster network that trivialises crime fighting?
Read more...Black’s Bletchley mission
TECHCITYINSIDER100: Dr Sue Black, senior researcher at University College London, has been instrumental in saving the national codes centre at Bletchley Park – birthplace of the modern computer and key to defeating Nazism in World War II – from closure.
Read more...Digital hippies stage LeWeb sit in
TODAY AT LE WEB: Day two at Le Web 2013 focused on ‘digital hippies’, with an eclectic range of speakers, from Burning Man cofounder Larry Harvey to Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow. Check out our video interviews and conference summary.
Read more...Burning Man founder sets LeWeb on fire
Burning Man founder Larry Harvey talks to TCi about digital hippies, how burners and technology come together, and how Silicon Valley empties into the desert every year.
Read more...LeWeb welcomes the sharing economy
TODAY AT LE WEB: The sharing economy, based on the emergence a plethora of new online communities with fresh values, has been in sharp focus at LeWeb, the international tech conference happening in London. Check out our video interviews and conference summary.
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