Digital Bank N26 Makes Huge Leap in Fintech Rankings
Berlin-based neo-bank N26 announced it had raised additional USD 900 million in fresh capital to take its total value to approximately USD 9 billion.
Location / Regions in Structural Change
Hydrogen Firm Aims to Build First Gigaplant in Germany
Dresden’s Sunfire has big plans for H2 in the eastern German city. The third-largest hydrogen technology company in the country has just raised EUR 109 million to fund a 500 megawatt production facility to be finished by 2023.
Dresden Project Uses AI to Improve Semiconductor Production
Making microchips requires completely sterile environments and lots of ultrapure water. That always meant, in turn, that the control valves for such water had to be laboriously monitored by human beings. But not any more.
German Apps Help Fight Diabetes, Obesity
Start-up Oviva from the city of Potsdam near Berlin believes that one key to combatting conditions like diabetes, obesity and physical intolerances is nutrition. So it has come up with two apps to help people manage what they eat.
Canada’s Rock Tech Lithium Plans Huge Facility in Germany
Vancouver Rock Tech Lithium has announced its intention to construct a EUR 470 million production plant for battery-grade lithium hydroxide for electric vehicles in the town of Guben in eastern German regional state of Brandenburg.
Regional Spotlight: EISENACH
The city of Eisenach in the eastern German region of Thuringia has an extensive manufacturing history. Today, it attracts German and nternational manufacturers of not only cars and automotive parts but also light aircraft and other products.
Dresden’s Surgical Robots
Modeling and implementing the use of artificial intelligence during operations.
Amazon Opens New R&D Center in Dresden
Political VIPs turned out for a tape-cutting ceremony at Amazon’s new research and development facility in the Saxon city of Dresden.
Battery Changing Could Solve EV Charging Challenge
One of the hurdles to making electric vehicles the rule rather than the exception is the time required to recharge them. Chinese-German firm Infra-Dianba, headquartered in Berlin, wants to solve the problem by simply replacing drained batteries with full ones.
Berlin Rises Up List of “Tech Cities of the Future”
German cities, and first and foremost the capital, had a lot of reason to like the 2021 edition of foreign direct investment magazine FDI Intelligence’s ranking of Europe’s top cities for technology.
