They say that the day Facebook was listed, ten thousand new millionaires appeared in Silicon Valley. They were the early employees of Facebook that held options in the company. Nevertheless, the concept of options is little understood in Europe. In many countries in Europe, the law did not keep pace with the tech market realities, and setting…
Questo – a travel quest-dedicated digital distribution service Everything is a story: the history of the world, the news on TV, the jokes we laugh at, the memories we have. Our whole life is a story of adventure and every trip we take is one just as well. The human mind needs stories to make…
Infrastructure for Events and Conferences. EGV recently announced the investment in InstantSpace, an online event booking platform for corporate events management. Here is what sparked out interest and convinced us to invest. Organizing conferences or corporate events has never been an easy task. It usually takes months of preparations to book the venue, the speakers, syncing…
In the last few years, the complexity of cybersecurity threats has been on the rise. All analyses point to it increasing even more in the future. Clients of all sizes, small and medium enterprises especially, need solutions that are both effective and simple to use, to manage, and to understand. The complexity of the problem…
Mixed feelings in Startupland Our society seems to be split at this moment, with the general sentiment swinging from one extreme to the other: from unsubstantiated optimism to irrational pessimism. A behavior that increases the confusion we all swim in. On the one hand, the media started to obsessively talk about an economic crisis. Nothing…
Due to the uncertainty that follows the Coronavirus pandemic, many startup founders worry that early-stage investments will be impossible to attract for the foreseeable future. I have a more optimistic view – investments will not freeze and investors are still willing to support startups that are not sensitive to an economic downturn. In this interview,…
About the agritech startups that we would like to meet When it comes to tech agriculture startups, they typically need a longer time to mature. It’s difficult to simulate crops in the lab and iterate in short cycles as it happens in other industries. That’s why we believe it may be a good idea to…
The future of cities EGV recently invested in Neobility, the brainchild of Mihai Rotaru, who exited Clever Taxi to Daimler not so long ago. Here is how we looked at this deal and what made us buy into Neobility’s vision. We live in crowded cities. And each week, an estimated 1.3 million people from rural areas move into cities, increasing urbanization…
