TechCrunch April 23, 2014
Last November, Robin Wauters, ex-TechCrunch writer and former European editor for The Next Web, launched new tech blog, Tech.eu, with a stated mission to fill the “gap” left for in-depth coverage of Europe’s technology industry (thanks for that, Robin!). But, as anyone in online media knows, content isn’t cheap and for that mission to be little more than hyperbole the new European tech blog on the block was always likely to require investment.
Today that’s happened in the form of a tiny seed round — which we understand is still closing — seeing Tech.eu raise approximately €150,000 from around 11 investors, including Silicon Valley-based Dave McClure’s 500 Startups, Founder Institute founder Adeo Ressi, and a number of prominent European angel investors.
(I’ve included a partial list below, as Tech.eu appears to have been caught on the hop after Belgium newspaper De Tijd published a story this morning. With the round still ongoing, not all investors have been cleared for disclosure. We’ll update this post when we know more.) In a Skype chat with Wauters (who was a direct colleague of mine while at TC and since as a competitor) I started off by asking him why Tech.eu had decided to take investment?
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