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Kirk Donohoe, Eamon Doyle and David Brown, the three founders of WhenThen, are joining Mangopay. Photo: WhenThen

Mangopay acquires WhenThen for €45m

Being able to set up a payment process, with the big known players, without a line of code. This promise of the Irish company WhenThen will be integrated into the offer of the Luxembourg fintech Mangopay, which announced its acquisition on Thursday 23 March. It’s a transaction worth €45m.

Thierry Labro • 23.03.2023

Cyber attacks are not one-off events but occur often. With this way of looking at cyber risk, Cyberhedge has built a technology that measures the costs of cybersecurity and therefore hedges the risks. Photo: Shutterstock

Cyberhedge raises €4m, launches CyFi

Thierry Labro • 22.03.2023

“In a new environment, where things are struggling, and valuations have changed, some entrepreneurs are not so keen on taking money and creating a new valuation on their company that’s lower than the last valuation,” explains GP Bullhound partner Ben Prade. Photo: Courtesy of GP Bullhound

Tech predictions: “Be pragmatic, raise money when you can”

Tracy Heindrichs • 16.03.2023

Kamel Amroune, CEO of The Dots, and Mike Koedinger, founder and CEO of Maison Moderne, which publishes Delano. Photo credits: The Dots & Maison Moderne. Montage: Maison Moderne

TECH & INNOVATION

Delano Tech 100 and TNT Symposium to partner on event

Delano.lu • 15.03.2023

Spacety has had to vacate premises at the Technoport incubator of which the government and public lender SNCI are shareholders Photo: Matic Zorman/Maison Moderne

Government reports space firm to prosecutor

Cordula Schnuer • 14.03.2023

Thomas Bilocq, managing director of Fulll Belux, formerly LuxApps, met with Laurent Falorni, chief operating officer of Fulll, at his office in France. Photo: Fulll Belux

LuxApps joins Fulll to become Fulll Belux

Mathilde Obert • 14.03.2023

The robots of the industry of the future are developed in Alphabet’s X. Photo: Shutterstock

Luxembourg and the star of X

Thierry Labro • 10.03.2023

Customers sign and customers stay. Peter Platzer and Spire have come close to $100m in recurring revenue in the start-up's tenth year, and the company is looking forward to its break-even. Photo: Maison Moderne/Archives

Spire gets ever closer to profitability

Thierry Labro • 09.03.2023

Rushank Bardolia (behind the laptops; third from the right) has been living in Ghana for five years laying the groundwork for Food For Future, a company that wants to use blockchain (and other technologies) to change the global food production industry. Photo: Provided by Rushank Bardolia

Using blockchain to rethink systems and society

Jeff Palms • 01.03.2023

Boson Energy is growing its team but doesn’t foresee a massive headcount. “We prefer to work with partners as much as we can,” says Heike Carl Zatterstrom (pictured). Photo: Matic Zorman/Archives

Boson Energy: “Gasification has reached its Tesla moment”

Jeff Palms • 25.02.2023

Vodafone and Altice Luxembourg will be able to roll out fibre to an additional seven million German homes by 2029. Photo: Vodafone

Green light for Vodafone-Altice joint venture

Thierry Labro • 20.02.2023

Andres Petrillo will take over the position of CEO from Motion-S co-founder German Castignani as of 1 March 2023. Photo: Motion-S

Motion-S appoints Andres Petrillo as new CEO

Tracy Heindrichs • 17.02.2023

ChatGPT is transformative, says Jacques Klein of the University of Luxembourg. One of its biggest flaws, however, is that it does not fact check. Photo: Shutterstock

ChatGPT: “transformative” but “not super smart”

Cordula Schnuer • 07.02.2023

Deloitte UK partner Paul Lee and Deloitte Luxembourg partner David Osville presented the TMT Predictions 2023 on Thursday evening. Photo: Deloitte Luxembourg / photo treatment by Maison Moderne

From 5G to AI: Deloitte’s predictions on tech transformation

Natalie A. Gerhardstein • 03.02.2023

PayPal--whose Luxembourg office is located on Boulevard Royal--came to the grand duchy in 2007. Photo: Romain Gamba /Maison Moderne (archives)

PayPal announces 2,000 full-time employees to be laid off

Lydia Linna • 02.02.2023

What kind of future will be inaugurated by artificial intelligence? Predictions vary widely, the worst of them even apocalyptic in nature. Thomas Raleigh, associate professor, believes that it’s worth taking this technology seriously. Photo: Shutterstock

How can regular people understand AI?

Jeff Palms • 01.02.2023

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