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The Day I Decided To Quit Adobe To Become A Lawyer
Claude Englebert has called his career trajectory “atypical”: he got his start as a freelance journalist, writing for music magazines. It was an interest that stemmed from playing bass guitar—”that’s not really a musician,” he says jokingly, “but it’s really close.” The early 1990s, he says, was a “pioneering” time for media and, given that the organisations didn’t have proper content management systems at the time, he quickly started building and hard coding for their websites.
One Day At The Office Of Fundcraft
During a celebratory event in Girona, Spain—one of two of their office locations—CEO Julien De Mayer said, “When I started fundcraft, I thought it was mostly a business question, so you know, numbers, spreadsheets, and moving intentions and vision, etc. That would be sufficient, but you move down the line, and you realise it’s actually just a human experience.
Canopi Launches Upcycled Furniture Marketplace
Depending on the source, it’s estimated that the furniture industry is responsible for 1% to 2% of carbon emissions each year—on par with the airline industry. “The amount of waste is huge,” Canopi founder Sarah Basemera says.
Thomas Cauvin: “We Need Good Researchers And Public Practitioners”
Digital history is perhaps easier to explain—it’s history done with digital technology, which could be using digital tools research, mapping data sets, or using digital tools to communicate history with an online exhibition. It’s all the history production and research made with digital tools… Public history is more an approach of making history more public, more accessible to large audiences. It means using different media to produce history instead of merely writing articles.
Addressing The Elephants In The Room
The European Parliament greenlighted the AI Act on 13 March, aiming to enhance transparency and citizens’ rights. As Civil Liberties Committee co-rapporteur Dragos Tudorache said at the time, “much work lies ahead that goes beyond the AI Act itself.
Emmanuel Vivier: “Every White Collar Job” Will Be Impacted By AI
Just over a year ago, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said, “The iPhone moment of AI has started,” calling ChatGPT “the AI heard around the world.” As Emmanuel Vivier pointed out during his speaking engagement at Nexus2050 on Wednesday, it took ChatGPT just five days from its launch to gain 1m users. Compare this to Facebook (10 months), for example, or AOL (two years). Generative AI has indeed launched thousands of startups in a matter of months, including in Luxembourg.
Nexus2050 Debuts With High Energy
Crown Prince Guillaume was the guest of honour speaker to kick off the two-day event. “The government has ambitious strategies to position Luxembourg as a pioneer in the digital economy,” he said during his speech.
Cycle Group: Internationalising European Deeptech
Partner of the European Innovation Council, Cycle Group is comprised of a multidisciplinary team with unique STEM backgrounds, the financial experts of which have previously run 18 VC and renewable infrastructure funds. Among them is Clelia Beck, partner at Cycle Group, who spent 10 years in Hong Kong and China in the garment manufacturing and fashion space, with companies like Paganini Milano and Dyan as part of her serial entrepreneurial portfolio.
LetzTrail Launches Outdoor Activity Social Media App
LetzTrailco-founders Philippe Lassine (CEO) and Fred Giuliani (CIO)—themselves cyclists, hikers, runners and triathletes—got the initial idea to develop the platform as they were hiking in France. They had ascended Mont Ventoux and then decided to tackle the serpentine Lacets de Montvernier (Shoelaces of Montvernier), which has 17 hairpin curves. At a nearby hotel, they were given a printed trail map, but there weren’t any GPX files available.
Click4Charge Anticipates B2C Extension In Coming Year
When it was created in 2022, Click4Charge set out to address the problem the founders anticipated: there would be a rise in the number of EVs on the road but possibly not the convenience of enough charging stations to meet those needs. The service is based on over 10 years of experience in electromobility and batteries, and the team—currently eight FTEs and two PTEs—wants to take the headache out of EV recharging.
LuxUnplugged: The Podcast Is a “Life-changing Medium” - Silicon Luxembourg
Loesch, along with Thierry Schoen, started LuxUnplugged in 2018 after sitting together in a pub in London, where they’ve both for well over a decade. They realised Luxembourg was going through some changes, witnessing a rise in its English-speaking population, for instance. Not only were Loesch and Schoen visiting their Luxembourg network less frequently, but they thought it would be a good time to bring Luxembourg business developments to a wider international audience.
Student-led Grillsquare In Running For Gen-E Competition
The project got its start through the Jonk Entrepreneuren Luxembourg, which organised the March competition in partnership with the Belle Etoile shopping centre. Launched by six students in the 2e class at the Lycée des Arts et Métiers, Grillsquare was born out of their desire to create an easy-to-transport grill. The grill can be disassembled into six pieces to simplify transport.
Rebranding Ortea For Greater Local Appeal
The idea for Ortea began when Stephan Kneip began mixing iced teas at university. A food and beverage hobbyist, he wasn’t satisfied with the teas available at grocery stores, so he decided to make his own. Realising he’d always wanted to be an independent, Kneip got more serious about perfecting the recipes after his studies, having his friend (and now business partner), Daniel Freichel, taste his concoctions.
Addressing Luxembourg's Scale-up Gap Through A Pilot Programme
Luxembourg opened its first incubator, the Technoport in Belval, 25 years ago. Since then, several other public and private initiatives have been implemented to bolster the startup ecosystem, like the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT), the House of Entrepreneurship, also the national innovation agency, Luxinnovation, to name just a few.
Voltcore Reveals “Last-Mile” Plans For Its Unique Green Heating Technology
Having been born to mathematician and physicist parents, Vlad Batkhin, founder and CEO of Voltcore, admits it’s unsurprising he took a similar route. With his background in petrochemical companies and managing high capex projects, he realised the potential of microplastics—and decided he wanted to focus on using them to help reduce the ecological footprint in the heating industry.
First high-level EU-GCC forum to focus on Gaza conflict
Live updates: Follow the latest on Israel-Gaza The Gaza war and increasing Iran-Israel tensions were expected to dominate the agenda in Luxembourg at the first high-level EU-GCC security forum on Monday. EU officials have highlighted the importance of diplomatic dialogue with Arab officials as they fear the situation in the Middle East may spin out of control.
European foreign ministers meet to discuss tougher sanctions against Iran
European foreign ministers on Monday said they would toughen sanctions against Iran, with the measures possibly including a "symbolic" listing of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. The move comes after Iran's unprecedented launch of hundreds of drones and missiles towards Israel on April 13 as the two countries engage in tit-for-tat attacks in what many European diplomats fear might boil over into an all-out regional war.
HE:AL Campus, The Future “Epicentre Of The National Health Strategy”
The campus is a phygital (physical + digital) campus—a regenerative campus, first of all, dedicated in the broader sense to companies working in the health sector: innovative, data-driven companies, but also research as well. We’re focusing on startups as well as other scales of companies. We’re aiming for 150,000 to 200,000 m2, so it’ll be quite a large campus when it’s finished in 15 to 20 years.
Sense Of Japan Wants To Introduce Sake To Luxembourg
The Japanese art of making saké, or traditional rice wine, goes back millennia, with Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines brewing their own by the 10th century. Ornate barrels from yesteryear still line the entrances to some temples in Japan, but it was only in 2022 that Japan submitted an application to have the sake brewing techniques recognized as part of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list, with deliberations set to take place this year.
The Challenges Of Streamlining For Commercialisation
RSS-Hydro is working on innovative solutions that address challenges posed by natural disasters like flooding or wildfires. Its team—comprised of AI and GIS experts, hydrologists and remote sensing professionals—is led by Guy Schumann, who holds a PhD in geography, remote sensing and flood hydrology. As Schumann explains, the company is run on two pillars: one is research and development, and the other is commercial products and services.
€1.3m In Royalty Payouts For Luxembourg Music Authors And Composers
Enter SACEM Luxembourg, which just fêted its 20th anniversary last year. Technically speaking, if music is being played in a public place in Luxembourg, the creators should be receiving their royalties. Part of SACEM Luxembourg’s mission, as a not-for-profit, is to have venues sign up with them and guide them to do a proper declaration of the works being played. While this is simpler for large radio stations—RTL, for instance—it can be less obvious for shops or bars.
Odysseus Space Hopeful For Space-to-Earth Laser Line By 2025
Founded in Taiwan in 2016, Odysseus Space has been focusing on its Cyclops solution, which aims to “enable seamless laser communication between all human assets in space and Earth.” Vannitsen says that satellites aren’t currently capable of downloading to the ground all the data generated, but that by using such laser solutions, the download rate could be improved from around 1 to 10 GB/second.
Luxembourg's Fintech Sector In 2024
At the heart of Luxembourg’s fintech ecosystem is the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (the LHoFT). According to CEO Nasir Zubairi, 85 firms are based on their premises, and financial institutions are continuing to demand tech solutions to drive efficiency and lower costs. “On a global scale, there are questions being asked in relation to investment into fintech, but in Luxembourg we’re still seeing strong growth.
ITTM: “We’re Getting More and More Recognised”
ITTM focuses on data management of clinical, preclinical and real-world data, and in this context, data standardisation, harmonisation and interoperability are at the very centre. A couple of years ago, an initiative in Europe started, but it’s actually a worldwide initiative. One of the projects we got associated with asked SMEs to be certified for the so-called OMOP Common Data Model, in order to facilitate the sharing of data in a federated manner.
Luxembourg Schools Join Global Net-Zero Signing Ceremony At US Embassy - Silicon Luxembourg
The Global Net-Zero initiative, launched by the US during the UN COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in 2022, invites governments to commit to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
Mission Space: Predicting Space Weather With MeluXina
The partnership between the University’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) and Mission Space, signed in December 2023, aims to develop machine learning models, which will be trained on MeluXina, in space weather. Mission Space, whose aim is to protect space assets through the collection of high-quality data on space weather, estimates that the annual economic impact of space weather is around $10bn.
Small Successes Add Up For B Corp Certified Ramborn
The award-winning craft cider house Ramborn was recently re-certified as a B Corp company, this time gaining an additional 10 points, placing it among the top 5% B Corp beverage companies worldwide. B Corp certification uses an auditing process to assess sustainable standards along multiple parts of a business, from supply chain to employee benefits, charity giving, etc.
Theone: Tech-Driven Marketing For Small Businesses - Silicon Luxembourg
Thackray’s journey began at the age of 10 when he found himself assisting his mother, who was navigating the challenges of running multiple small businesses. He became fascinated with marketing and technology, delving into Google Ads at a young age. At 16, he started his first small business, venturing into e-commerce and successfully funding his gap year travels. After facing setbacks in subsequent ventures, Piers found himself at university studying physics.
Vanillana Pastry Studio: Dishing Up Entertainment, Not Just Desserts
Originally from Ukraine, Svitlana Kostiuk has been based in Luxembourg for eight years but first took pastry lessons in her home country through one of the students of Cédric Grolet, whose dessert creations at Le Meurice in Paris fetch around €18 per piece. Grolet focuses on pastries that, in appearance, look like the fruit they represent, celebrating each one’s essence in taste. Yet a thin chocolate layer is used to craft the piece, each carefully painted to appear like the fruit it represents.
Record Year For UFODRIVE, Another Major Partnership On The Way
Since its launch in 2018, UFODRIVE has launched in dozens of locations across Europe, mainly city centres and airports, from London to Brussels, Paris to Dublin. The first trial location was in Luxembourg, with the help of then-CEO of Lux-Airport, René Steinhaus.
Are We Friends: The Beer That’s Also An Icebreaker
Beer brewing in Luxembourg has a long tradition: it’s believed the first brewery was founded by monks at Neumünster Abbey around 1300. While the largest brewery today remains Brasserie Nationale, producing Battin and Bofferding, craft beer has resurged in recent years. Adding to the ranks of craft brewers is Are We Friends. Its founders, Antoine Lesch, 24, and Ted Ury, 26, first met in Boy Scouts and enjoyed a good drink together from time to time.
Taiwan-Inspired Bubble Tea Shop Launches In Luxembourg
As part of its launch, co-founder Oleksandr Petrykov says the first 20 visitors over Guo Cha Club’s first five days of opening will receive a tea carrying case. “Guo Cha” means “fruit tea” in Mandarin, and the shop uses high-quality, fresh fruits like apple, mango, pineapple, foregoing additives or powdered creamers. Inspired by café culture in Asia, Taiwan in particular, the team of three is also challenging itself to come up with unique, seasonal drinks and to follow trends seen abroad.
GAMMA AR Sets Sights on US Market
GAMMA AR technology allows users to superimpose images from a device onto a construction site, allowing for more intuitive site supervision and helping to detect potential issues in advance of significant costs adding up. Since its launch in 2019, there have been plenty of updates, including partnerships with major companies, like Autodesk, Revizto, and Procore, plus a €1m raising of funds by Swedish company Husqvarna in 2021.
Luxembourg Gets Taste Of The Temple Kitchen With Master Monk
Master monk of Ryokusen-ji temple at Asukusa in Tokyo, Aoe is the author of several books, including Zen – 99 recettes pour nourrir le corps et l’esprit. He earned his MBA at Craig School of Business at California State University—which he says was “kind of an escape. I was born and raised in a temple, so people were kind of expecting me to become a monk.” Since then, the tech-savvy monk helped create a virtual temple and enjoys sharing the culinary art of shojin ryori.
DataThings Explores Partnership And Niche Markets
As announced last July, Luxembourg’s HPC provider, LuxProvide, and DataThings, a University of Luxembourg SnT spinoff company launched in 2017, aimed to leverage resources and know-how on both sides, ultimately to help businesses with their operational scaling up, with DataThings gaining access to MeluXina’s processing power.
Arspectra: Still On Schedule For Novel Medical Device
The commercial timeline, however, is strongly dependent on the company’s “regulatory workloads,” Spaas explains. “I wouldn’t want to be operated by my own devices if they weren’t seriously validated on their clinical use.” Arspectra’s core focus is developing AR glasses, as well as other solutions, for medical applications.
Quantum Computing: Promise Of The “Third-Gen Semiconductor Material”
Florian Kaiser heads the quantum materials group at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), and his project, AQuaTSiC (short for “Advanced Quantum Technologies with Silicon Carbide”), aims to enhance quantum computing through silicon carbide, or what Kaiser calls a “third-generation semiconductor material”.
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But who are you, Swift Hesperange, the last undefeated European club?
Luxembourg is not particularly reputed to be fanciful, and no recent study has attempted to assess the degree of imagination of children in the Grand Duchy. But if we asked a sample of Luxembourg children to draw, at random, a castle, it could well be that the most football fanatics on the panel put the Alphonse-Theis stadium on their blank sheet.
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