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The Blue Team
CHAPTER 4. Adieu Paris... Starting our tour last week was one of the most exciting moments at INSEAD. The prospects of meeting great entrepreneurs and founders was very thrilling. Our journey began in Paris with a visit to Station F one of the largest entrepreneurial hubs in the world which only made the journey more... Continue Reading →
The Blue Team
CHAPTER 3. Rethinking the Healthcare Supply Chain Another great start of the day! We were lucky to have a mentoring session with Antler - a global VC that invests in ideas and teams at the earliest stage. Thank you, Andreas Birnik, for all the insights on how to better tackle and focus our approach to... Continue Reading →
IKIGAI – Green Tech Explorer
You might wonder why I have decided to title this article with an unfamiliar Japanese-like naming? Here is the story behind. Start-up is not only rewarding and satisfying, but also a stressful and an uncomfortable situation where you will have to deal with many uncertainties and face many challenges. Entrepreneurship is a life learning experience... Continue Reading →
The Blue Team
CHAPTER 2. Station F We feel on top of the world with our first physical visit at Station F! Armed with facemasks, hand sanitizers and baguette under our arms we were ready to conquer the world. What better place to start our start-up tour then the world’s biggest start-up coworking space – Station F!!! Backed... 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 →
