Tagged: smart city

Manchester’s Energy Tech Firm UrbanChain Raises £5.25M Series A

UrbanChain announced that it has raised a £5.25m Series A round led by global investment firm Eurazeo through its venture expertise dedicated to the Climate and Smart City space. Launched in 2017, the Manchester headquartered energy technology company “runs the a peer-to-peer (P2P) energy exchange… Read More

Report: Singapore Is the Most Prepared City for Adopting Artificial Intelligence and Smart City Technologies

Singapore is the world’s most prepared city for adopting innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and it’s also considered a world leader in terms of smart city development, according to recent studies. Research performed by Oliver Wyman Forum ranked 105 cities throughout the world… Read More

Seoul Building Data-Surveilling “Smart City” Undergirded by Blockchain, AI

Seoul’s blockchain-enthused mayor, Park Won-soon, has announced at the Korean Future Forum his administration’s plans to turn Seoul into a data-accumulating “smart city” using a network of 50 ooo censors, blockchain databases and AI (artificial intelligence), Korean media outlet Queen reports. A cadre of business,… Read More

Fintech Investment in India Picks Up After Demonetization Move

Over 25 startups in the online lending space have rapidly emerged over the past two years, according to TechCircle analysis.  Despite signs that global fintech investment was slowing in 2016, VCCircle‘s analysis for 2017 suggests that such investment may pick up again. Arti Singh and… Read More

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