Paul Sawers

Paul Sawers is a senior writer based in London, focused largely on the world of UK And European startups. However, he also writes about other subjects that he’s passionate about, such as the business of open source software.

Prior to TechCrunch, Paul gained more than a decade’s experience covering consumer and enterprise technologies for VentureBeat and The Next Web.

The Latest from Paul Sawers

Science lab automation and robotics startup Automata raises $40M

Automata, a company that combines software and hardware to automate science labs around the globe, has raised $40 million in an equity-based round of funding, as the U.K.-based startup looks to double

HMD Global starts manufacturing in Europe with the ‘Made in Hungary’ Nokia XR21 5G phone

HMD Global, the phone maker and marketer behind the Nokia mobile phone brand, has launched its very first smartphone manufactured in Europe. The news comes some six months after the Finnish company fi

Open source Datadog rival SigNoz lands on the cloud with $6.5M investment

Every company is now a software company, as the cliché goes, which means every company needs to understand what’s going on inside their apps and infrastructure. Even the slightest lag can be th

Sequoia backs PartyKit to power real-time multiplayer collaboration for any app

If a company wants to offer in-app messaging or voice calls, they don’t have to develop the infrastructure themselves when there’s something like Twilio at their disposal. Likewise, if the

OpenAI gives ChatGPT a voice for verbal conversations

ChatGPT is evolving into much more than a text-based search engine, with OpenAI announcing today that it’s adding new voice and image-based smarts to the mix. The wildly popular generative AI as

Google expands its subsea cable infrastructure with Nuvem, connecting the US, Bermuda and Portugal

Google has announced another subsea cable system, as the internet giant strives to bolster its internet infrastructure and get more people using its array of cloud-based services. Dubbed “Nuvem,

Salesforce to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform for building AI customer service agents

Salesforce has announced plans to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform that helps e-commerce companies build AI-powered customer service agents. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2017

GitHub launches passkey support into general availability

GitHub is formally launching its passkeys security feature into general availability, two months after first debuting it in beta. Passkeys offer cloud-synced authentication using cryptographic key pai

Encrypted email provider Proton has built its own CAPTCHA service

Proton has developed its very own CAPTCHA service to help discern between genuine login attempts and bots.

GitHub CEO: Despite AI gains, demand for software developers will still outweigh supply

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says that while AI and software development are inextricably linked, this won't be the death knell for human coders.

AppFactor drags legacy enterprise apps to the cloud through automation

Technical debt is often the unsung villain of the enterprise, crippling companies seeking to modernize as they realize just how much “legacy” lives in their stack. And as with most kinds o

Phalanx protects company data by automatically securing and tracking sensitive documents

Data loss prevention (DLP) has emerged as a foundational strategy for businesses looking to prevent workers from inadvertently (or advertently) sharing sensitive data outside the confines of the compa

European carbon accounting startup Plan A raises $27M from VC and corporate heavyweights

Plan A, a carbon accounting and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) reporting platform for corporations, has raised $27 million in a Series A round of funding led by U.S. VC giant Lightspeed V

Material wealth: Scrap metal trading marketplace Metaloop raises $17M

European Union (EU) lawmakers this month announced plans to reduce waste and increase recycling across the bloc, with proposals to collect and process 45% of 16 identified “strategic” raw

OpenAI to open its first EU office as it readies for regulatory hurdles

OpenAI is set to open its first office in the European Union (EU) and make several strategic hires, as the company prepares for regulatory headwinds. The ChatGPT-maker says that it plans to open its t

Access code: Evidence brings open source BI to technical data teams

From Tableau and Looker, to PowerBI and beyond, there is no shortage of business intelligence (BI) tools designed to help companies unlock insights from their vast swathes of data. But a newcomer has

Druid, a conversational AI platform for enterprises that integrates with ChatGPT, raises $30M

European AI startup Druid today announced it has raised $30 million in a Series B round of funding, as it looks to double down on its U.S. growth which it says now makes up the lion’s share of i

UK rejoins Europe’s Horizon R&D program after prolonged Brexit stalemate

The United Kingdom (U.K.) is set to rejoin the European Union’s (EU) preeminent science R&D funding program, after a prolonged hiatus resulting from Brexit. The joint statement, issued by th

TikTok starts shifting European data to its first local data center; full migration expected by Q4 2

It has been a long time coming, but TikTok says that its first European data center is finally operational — partially, at least — with the process of migrating users’ data to the ne

Meta to deprecate Facebook News in the UK, Germany and France

Meta today announced that it will be pulling the plug on Facebook News in the U.K., Germany and France starting in early December. The social networking giant said it was part of its “ongoing ef
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