Founders, funding rounds, and the companies worth watching before they get obvious. Weighted toward deep tech and the transatlantic scene I work in day to day, with a lot less patience than most for a beautiful deck attached to no product.
The Nothing ear (1) launched July 27, 2021 at $99. Transparent stem, Qualcomm aptX Adaptive, 40dB ANC, 100,000 units in two months. The product…
Nothing had not shipped a single product. The ear (1) was weeks away. In June 2021, Nothing opened a community investment round on Crowdcube…
On February 25, 2021, Nothing announced Teenage Engineering as its founding design partner. The Stockholm studio behind the OP-1 synthesizer would shape Nothing's entire…
On February 15, 2021, nineteen days after announcing its existence, Nothing acquired the trademarks and brand assets of Essential Products. The price was undisclosed.…
On January 27, 2021, Carl Pei announced Nothing with three words, a logo, and zero product details. The tech press covered it with enthusiasm…
Nothing Technology Limited was incorporated in London on October 29, 2020. No product. No website. Just Carl Pei, four co-founders, $7M in seed funding,…
Carl Pei left OnePlus on October 16, 2020, after seven years building one of the most effective challenger brands in consumer tech. The 103…
An e-commerce company just switched on a national mobile network, fully virtualized Open RAN on commodity servers, in the middle of a pandemic. The…
Station F opens in 2017 as the world’s largest startup campus, concentrating talent, capital, and corporates in one Paris location and accelerating ecosystem density.
Station F opens in 2017 as the world’s largest startup campus, creating unprecedented density of talent, capital, and corporate partners in Paris.
Station F opens in 2017 as the world’s largest startup campus and quickly becomes an important concentration point for AI-focused companies in Paris.
A Stanford professor and two tier-one operators just launched a forum to turn the radio access network into open software running on ordinary servers.…
Quantum startups begin appearing in France in the mid-to-late 2010s as research translates into early commercial efforts in computing and communication.
France strengthens its AI position through sustained research output, startup activity, and corporate programs that align in the mid-2010s.
The launch of the French Tech initiative in 2013 provides national support that helps AI and tech startups gain visibility and access to resources.