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With the team finally recovered from anything and everything that was the Tech.eu Summit, we're back guns a-blazin'. This week we're talkin':
- Sex tech - it's not what people think it is. - Quinky is a company that's developing an app providing sex education through gamification for Gen-Z’s - "We are after all the IP branch of the oldest industry in the world – Sex’ and ‘Social permission and the confidence to ask for what they want in the bedroom because that transcends to the boardroom" - Dominique Karetsos, CEO of the Healthy Pleasure Group. - Elaine Burke in the Business Post Connected goes into detail about different areas of sex tech. - British digital bank Monzo has hit profitability for the first time. - Klarna, the Swedish buy now, pay later company, also recently unveiled that it has halved its net loss in the first quarter. - Revolut is definitely not profitable yet, but it has announced reaching over 30 million retail customers making 400 million transactions a month. - Taxfix has laid off 20% of its staff — 120 employees — as part of wider restructuring of the business aimed at cutting costs. - Vitamin has folded. - John Reynolds knows fintech. - Creative equity is the new investment. - Today global travel experiences platform and marketplace GetYourGuide, announced the closing of $194 million in equity and credit financing. - NVIDIA was and then they weren't, but either way, the keynote was hot shiz. - AI made the cover of TIME Magazine. - More letters about AI. Probably lost in the post. - OpenAI is handing out cold hard cash. - Italy bans, unbans, and now establishes a state-backed fund to support AI startups. - Japan says copyright, schmopyright when it comes to training AI. - Your honour, ChatGPT has no further questions. - Spanish startup Jeff never closed a €90 million round, hasn’t paid employees for nine months, and is now filing for bankruptcy.
All this and a whole lot more in this week's Drive at Five! If you've enjoyed this show, be sure to like, subscribe, tell your friends, tell your enemies, hell, tell your dog too. |