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Satellite Eyes on Methane: NextAV’s Bold Plan to Make Emission Monitoring Affordable

By |2025-07-30T16:44:10+02:00July 30th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Tunisian startup NextAV is betting big on a tricky challenge: using low-resolution satellite imagery to detect methane and oil leaks across vast territories — then enhancing it with AI to make it accurate, scalable, and cost-effective. Selected as one of the five startups by Terna for the Innovation Zone Tunisia, NextAV is a young and lean team of seven based in Sousse.It is now closing its first funding round and aiming to scale into Europe and the GCC region.

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Open Innovation in 2025: Budgets Bounce Back, but better KPIs are needed

By |2025-05-20T11:36:57+02:00January 17th, 2025|General|

As economic turbulence shaped 2024, Open Innovation (OI) not only endured but evolved. This is the key message of Mind the Bridge’s Open Innovation Outlook 2025, a comprehensive report summarizing insights from the world’s top innovation leaders. Released following a closed-door session during the ninth Corporate Startup Stars Awards in Paris, the report offers a glimpse into how leading corporations are adapting to uncertainty and redefining Open Innovation for long-term success.

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Are We at the End of the Startup M&A Era (and Silicon Valley’s Tech Leadership)?

By |2025-05-12T11:40:06+02:00September 24th, 2024|General|

Global innovation advisory firm Mind the Bridge with the support of Crunchbase released the Report "The End of the Startup M&A Era?" in San Francisco at the opening of the Scaleup Summit Silicon Valley. The Report outlines key data showing a significant decline in startup M&A activity over recent years, raising concerns about its impact on the Venture Capital industry, in Silicon Valley and globally.

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Embracing Seamless Commerce: Navigating the Third Wave of Digital Disruption

By |2025-05-20T11:38:17+02:00July 8th, 2024|General|

Traditional retail has evolved from Multi-Channel (online and brick-and-mortar) to Omnichannel (enabled by data analytics and AI), and is now entering a third wave of digital disruption. Consumers seamlessly navigate across physical stores, online platforms, apps, and social media, demanding a unified and consistent shopping experience. This was a key focus of our recent UK Retail Innovation Council board meeting in London, co-organized with our partner UK Launchpad.

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IPEC and SES Introducing the Public Sector Special Award 2024

By |2024-07-31T18:37:20+02:00June 3rd, 2024|General|

The Innovation Procurement Empowerment Centre (IPEC), a project of the Connected Places Catapult focusing on introducing innovative solutions through procurement in the public sector, is advancing open innovation and fresh thinking. To boost this initiative, IPEC has teamed up with the “Startup Ecosystem Stars (SES)” to present a special prize at the 2024 Awards scheduled for December 6th in Paris, co-organised by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the global open innovation platform Mind the Bridge, in collaboration with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Commission, and with support from Microsoft.

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