Passionate of the Automotive industry and Green Tech, and driven by a business idea that I could potentially launch after graduation, I will encounter start-ups, Vc’s, companies and administrations involved in the future of smart cities. I will visit green tech startups that focus on AI, IoT, e-mobility and resource management. My goal is to learn from... Continue Reading →
Station F: How large corporations are working with startups
Station F, a converted 24,000 square meter railway station just outside downtown Paris, is home to one of the most innovative, ambitious and revolutionary startup ecosystems in the world. The co-working space has over 1,000 ventures working inside of it at any given time. The majority of spaces are filled by incubators and accelerators of... Continue Reading →
Tropicfeel: Building a Sustainable Fashion Brand…Starting with Crowdfunding
Sustainability is integral to the mission of Tropicfeel, a travel-wear brand founded in 2017 and located in Barcelona. A young company with limited resources, Tropicfeel strives to manufacture its products as sustainably as possible. It addresses and quantifies sustainability unlike any other apparel brand that we met during the Summer Startup Tour. First, Tropicfeel attempted... Continue Reading →
Is now the best time to be an entrepreneur? We think so.
And it is not just because we coincidentally went on a startup tour this summer. Entrepreneurship is more tempting than ever thanks to the infrastructure and system in place today. If you have a brilliant idea or not, it doesn’t matter anymore. There is support available for any and every kind of profile that was... Continue Reading →
5 things we learnt about Entrepreneurship.
It's been almost 3 weeks since we kicked off our start up tour and we've been to Berlin, Amsterdam, and now London before heading to our last stop in Paris. We were lucky enough to have met a lot of cool companies and entrepreneurs on the way. Each one of us in the team had... Continue Reading →
AI empowering Education: Squirrel AI Learning
When we started to source EdTech companies, Squirrel AI learning came first to our shortlist, this biggest adaptive learning system is the best application scenario of AI technology in Education, which is also the only AI-powered adaptive education provider being able to create and imbed their own-designed content. Gratefully, the founder of Squirrel AI learning,... Continue Reading →
Sustainability at Modefabriek
The team FTS joined Modefabriek, an inspiring fashion trade event based in Amsterdam where several fashion brands and professionals join in a setting where “P2P (People to People) is valued above B2B. We found an exciting mix of brands, from well-known labels to new designers reflecting the current fashion scene and in our pursuit of... Continue Reading →
Nordigen uses Open Banking to improve credit decisions in financial institutions and to benefit end consumers
Over the past few years, we’ve heard a lot about how Open Banking will transform the financial industry and help improve products for consumers. How can open APIs enable third-party developers to build services and apps around financial institutions that help users? The Open Banking space consists of three main parts: access to transaction data,... Continue Reading →
Are you buying sustainable fashion?
If you ask anyone whether they want to buy sustainable fashion - or sustainable products for that matter - the answer will most likely be "Yes!". However, how does this look like in practice? Personally, we find ourselves talking about sustainability a lot and then end up buying from a range of brands (that might... Continue Reading →
