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• Dutch hospitality scaleup Mews doubles down on growth with $75M raise

  04-03-2025 18:22
  
  Hospitality scaleup Mews, based at TNW City in Amsterdam, has secured $75mn in its third major cash injection of the last year. The round follows a raise of $100M in credit financing in September and a $110mn equity round in March 2024 — when the startup became a unicorn. In total, Mews has bagged over $500mn to date, making it one of the Netherlands’ most cash-flooded scaleups. Mews was founded in 2012 by Richard Valtr, an ex-hotelier on a mission to transform the way hotels do bus
  
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• How to make web videos way smaller in 2025

  04-03-2025 16:57 via webdesignernews.com
  Instantly improve the online viewing experience for your users by embracing the new AV1 video format, already supported by Chrome, Safari and Firefox. This short guide will also show how to replace your GIFs with videos using AV1 or H.264, and how to make your files twenty to forty times smaller.
  
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• Adobe has introduced a new version of Photoshop for smartphones

  04-03-2025 16:56 via webdesignernews.com
  Adobe has launched a free Photoshop app for smartphones with web version integration, featuring tools for design, editing, and image generation.
  
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• Cino bags seed funding for virtual card that makes bill-splitting less awkward

  04-03-2025 16:32
  
  Fintech startup Cino, a TNW community member, has secured €3.5mn for its shared payments app that lets friends and family pay together.  Cino is designed for tech-savvy Gen Z’ers, who expect to split bills instantly and effortlessly together without “financial awkwardness,” the company said. Unlike payment request apps like Tikkie — ubiquitous in the Netherlands — Cino splits bills in real-time, so you don’t have to chase down your mates to cou
  
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• Big Tech’s quantum race is a golden opportunity for Dutch startup QuantWare

  04-03-2025 15:14
  
  The obscure world of quantum computing is emerging from the lab and into the public domain — fuelled by Big Tech’s recent progress in quantum processors. In the past few months alone, Google launched a chip called Willow, Microsoft unveiled Majorana, and this week, Amazon revealed Ocelot.  While tech giants are making great strides, these companies are still working in dozens of qubits — far from the numbers needed for a practical quantum computer. QuantWare, a startup fr
  
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• €199B: The cost of overlooking European deep tech firms led by women

  04-03-2025 10:00
  
  It’s no secret that European tech has a gender equity problem. Men dominate the leadership of most companies in the sector. Women founders struggle to raise VC money, and there’s a stark pay gap between male and female workers. This gender imbalance is especially glaring in the STEM-dominated world of deep tech.  Women lead just 22% of European deep tech companies, according to a new report from the EU-funded GENDEX project, released today. Securing funding remains a challenge,
  
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