Banking-as-a-Service will provide plumbing for half of future banking activity, says NatWest boss

Speaking on the Tech.eu podcast, George Toumbev, chief commercial officer, NatWest Boxed,  talks about NatWest’s BaaS offering and some of the challenges and opportunities in the market.

A podcast interview with David Cohen, the co-founder and CEO of Techstars, the startup accelerator, which has backed thousands of startups. In the episode, Cohen addresses recent criticism about its corporate culture and discusses startup trends in Europe and beyond in 2024.

Zoe Peden, partner, Ananda Impact Ventures, an impact VC fund and Eleanor Kaye, managing director, Newton Venture Progam, an education scheme for overlooked and under-represented VCs, discussed the VC diversity issue in this week's Tech.eu podcast.

Doctor Peter Garraghan, co-founder and CEO, Mindgard and  Kevin Berghoff,  co-founder of Quantum Diamonds, discuss the virtues and challenges of university spinouts.

An interview with Agate Freimane, general partner, Norrsken VC and Pablo Pederjon, partner at Madrid-based impact VC fund Seaya about impact investing.

An interview with two experts on the CrowdStrike fallout and how businesses can limit impact of outage or cyber attack.

A podcast interview with the president of Robinhood UK. In the podcast, we discuss how the UK app is performing, the growth of the UK team, and future plans.

Interview with Maria Rotilu, founder and general partner, Openseed, a fund which is raising $10m to invest in startups at the earliest stages in Europe and Africa.Rotilu discusses-The the birth of Openseed, The benefits of being a solo general partner, What type of investments Openseed is interested in, Why startups should partner up with Openseed, and The investment landscape in Europe and Africa.

Enline is the winner of the EIT Venture Award for their vegetation and landslide predictive forecast programme. The company develops tech such as  dynamic line rating and digital twins to help utilities get more out of their existing infrastructure.