Kristo Käärmann is the co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. A fintech startup that has gone from bootstrapping to saving users over $1 billion a year when transferring money.
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Ford And Volkswagen Enter Self-Driving Car Joint Venture
Following the news that auto giants Daimler AG and the BMW Group have signed a deal to develop next-generation automated driving technology together, the Ford Motor Company and Volkswagen AG have announced that they are partnering on autonomous vehicle technology too.
Three Take-Aways From A Clean Energy Venture Capitalist
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure to speak with Amy Francetic, founder and managing director of a Chicago-based clean energy investing venture capital firm called Energize Ventures, and the co-founder of the Clean Energy Trust, a Midwestern-focused non-profit clean energy accelerator.
Toyota, Denso Form Venture To Create Advanced Chips For Self-Driving And Connected Cars
Toyota Motor Corp. and Denso Corp. announced plans on Wednesday to form a joint venture to develop the next-generation semiconductors for future connected and self-driving vehicles. Denso, one of the world's largest auto suppliers, will own 51% of the new business with Toyota to own the remaining portion.
Cigna Invests In GNS Healthcare Precision Medicine Venture
Cigna joined the parade of health insurance companies and biotech giants backing GNS Healthcare, a technology firm applying machine learning to healthcare through precision medicine.
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Investing in currencies may sound like a lucrative, exotic venture – and it can be – but it takes knowledge, skill, and experience to succeed. At one time, the forex market was largely dominated by institutional investors and banks, but now, there are online brokerages and margin trading accounts that have made this form of investing accessible to everyone.
Bitcoin prices fell to less than $10,000 today, down close to 30% from their recent high of nearly $14,000 reached on Wednesday, June 26th. The digital currency dropped to $9,986.26 at roughly 11:40 a.m. EDT, CoinDesk data shows.
Three weeks ago, Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques were celebrating alongside other graduates of Harvard Business School's class of 2019 and soaking in the advice of their commencement speaker, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who lectured on restoring "faith in the promise of America and the future of the American dream."
What do fishermen, school cafeterias and the Catholic Church have in common? It turns out they are all allies in the fight against climate change. Earlier this week, five social entrepreneurs gathered in New York at The New School's Tishman Center for Environment and Design to discuss innovations to protect the environment.
In a group of 12 nominees, Irina Borodina was selected as one of the three winners of the 2019 EU Prize for Women Innovators, funded under the EU's Horizon 2020 program.
A new study is highlighting one possible reason women aren't making more headway in Silicon Valley: men prefer to invest in companies run by other men
Monday, February 4th, London, UK - Recent breakthroughs in diagnostics and therapeutics of age-related diseases and aging itself lead to the emergence
Softbank to invest 460 million euros in Germany's Auto1 Japan’s Softbank will invest 460 million euros ($561 million) in used-car dealing platform Auto1, marking the first investment in Germany by its Vision Fund, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Iceland Investing $1 Billion on Increasing Airport Capacity A tourist boom has caused traffic at Iceland’s Keflavik airport to grow more than five-fold over the past nine years, with a predicted 10 million passengers this year.
