Tag: Hardware

Korea Tech Today

Kakao updates Kanana-2, expands open-source push with four new AI models

Efficiency-first design targets agentic AI adoption beyond big tech firms Kakao said on Jan. 20 that it has upgraded its proprietary large language model, Kanana-2, and […]
January 21st, 2026
South Korea, Business, Design, Hardware, Open Source…
EU-Startups

From spare Coca-Cola machine parts to a €4 million funding round: the journey of Belgian startup Dripl

Brussels-based Dripl, the developer of smart water dispensers, has raised €4 million in a funding round to expand its smart dispenser beyond the 500 companies already […]
January 19th, 2026
Belgium, Design, Hardware, Investor, Platform…
EU-Startups

Ionech raises €2.3 million to move air-to-electricity technology into pilots with Coca-Cola Europacific Partners

Oxfordshire-based Ionech, a clean-energy tech company developing a process to harness thermal energy from ambient air to generate electricity, has received a €2.3 million (£2 million) […]
January 16th, 2026
United Kingdom, Design, Energy, Hardware, Investor…
Korea Tech Today

KT, Taiwan’s KBRO agree to jointly develop AI-based smart home and media services

Partnership reflects growing push by Asian telecom firms to export AI-driven media platforms KT said on Jan. 16 that it has signed a strategic memorandum of […]
January 16th, 2026
South Korea, Business, Consumer, Design, Hardware…
EU-Startups

Amsterdam-based Optics11 secures €25 million EIB loan to strengthen Europe’s subsea and energy security

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a €25 million venture debt financing agreement with Amsterdam-based Optics11, a DeepTech scale-up that builds advanced fibre optic sensing […]
January 16th, 2026
Netherlands, Energy, Events, Hardware, Technology…
EU-Startups

Amsterdam’s PureTerra Ventures launches €150 million WaterTech Fund II with €10 million backing from Invest-NL

PureTerra Ventures, an Amsterdam-based venture capital firm backing disruptive WaterTech startups, has launched its second fund with €10 million investment from Invest-NL, the Dutch national financing […]
January 16th, 2026
Netherlands, Energy, Hardware, Investor, Semiconductors…
YourStory

CyLnr: How neuroscience is reshaping industrial robotics

In most factories, a tiny change in shape, lighting, or material can bring an entire production line to a halt. Humans adapt in seconds. Machines do […]
January 15th, 2026
India, Automation, Business, Deep Tech, Hardware…
EU-Startups

Irish quantum semiconductor startup Equal1 closes €51 million round to scale silicon-based quantum computing

Dublin-based Equal1, a quantum semiconductor company, today announced it has raised €51 million ($60 million) to accelerate development of scalable, silicon-based quantum computers and deployment of […]
January 15th, 2026
Ireland, Business, Energy, Enterprise, Hardware…
EU-Startups

Lausanne-based AlphaLum raises €3.6 million to build the missing hardware layer for mass-market smart glasses

Lausanne-based AlphaLum today announced the close of its €3.6 million (CHF 3.4 million) Seed financing round to scale its optics and sensing platform for smart glasses. […]
January 15th, 2026
Switzerland, Design, Hardware, Platform, Technology…
Startup Universal

Startup Island Episode One: How A Small Hardware-as-a-Service Startup Made the Leap from Silicon Valley to Taiwan

The Accelerator team at AppWorks has produced a podcast series about early stage founders and their perspective on what its like to build a startup in the fastest-growing region for startups, Greater Southeast Asia (ASEAN + Taiwan). In this episode, we talk to Andrew Jiang of Soda Labs, a Hardware-as-a-Service venture builder, about his journey from Silicon Valley to Taiwan, and what it takes to build a software-hardware hybrid startup.
By: AppWorksApril 12th, 2020
Taiwan, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Hardware, Startups
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