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  • France buoys position as Europe’s tech start-up centre

    France buoys position as Europe’s tech start-up centre

    France has been identified as the second-largest start-up “ecosystem” on the continent. The claim was made in an article on the site Maddyness, which also posited that Paris was set to become a ‘boomtown’ for investment in artificial intelligence (AI). Hugo Borensztein, co-founder and CEO of AI platform Omi, who was interviewed for the piece,…

  • European fintech faces ‘year of reckoning’

    European fintech faces ‘year of reckoning’

    A ‘year of reckoning’ has arrived for the European fintech scene, according to growth investor Finch Capital. The firm’s State of European Fintech 2023 report found funding for the sector dropped by 70% year on year, to levels last seen before 2020. At the same time, the report added, while mergers and acquisitions had remained…