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Insights

While meeting with hundreds of brilliant entrepreneurs, we hear about thrilling business ideas, great technologies and beautiful human adventures. Here is where you can stop and read a bit about some of them.

Retail Tech Insights

Daphni has uncovered 10 key trends that shaped the retail landscape in 2024 and revealed what’s on the Dastore's horizon for 2025. This report explores best practices, features reflections from industry leaders and highlights startups paving the way in retail tech through 8 in-depth mappings.

Deux continents, deux réalités: L'inclusion et la diversité en recul ?

Alors que les élections américaines approchent à grands pas, les initiatives touchant à la DEI (diversité, équité, inclusion) subissent un rejet inédit et croissant depuis le début de l’année 2024.

AI Native Startups in Financial Services

After mapping the space and meeting teams, here are the main topics that caught our attention.

Customer Service

Discover some key GenAI-powered opportunities that are taking the online customer experience to the next level.

Energy Sobriety : Retail edition

Retailers are finding themselves juggling the challenges of energy procurement, management, and optimization.

The Future is Community-Powered

How building engaged communities will help startups to create an edge

Emballages plastiques & nouveaux matériaux

La lutte contre la pollution plastique : l'arsenal législatif et le changement des habitudes.

La deeptech est la réponse aux défis de demain

L'un des moyens de surmonter les défis environnementaux et sociétaux.

Energy, the thriving vertical of climate tech

How much and why is energy a topic that has come back on the table?

Generative AI's on the rise

In the VC world, generative AI is the new Web 3... make sure you know which projects to follow

The rise of dark kitchens

Both one of the most funded and most challenged space in 2021, where do we stand?

Usage based billing

Usage-based billing is becoming more and more common in B2B SaaS, take a peak at why and discover those who make it possible

DaBook

DaBook is a collection of testimonials, shared observations and experiences curated by the daphni team. Discover highlights featuring our community members, insights into the future of our ecosystems, ways we can use technology for good and more!

In The Jungle Of ESG Initiatives: Navigating As A VC

ESG is an inescapable topic in the VC world, enhancing market practices and its investments in societal and environmental solutions.

EU AI Act 2024

The AI ACT is a European regulation on artificial intelligence aiming at guaranteeing that all AI systems and models commercialized within the EU are used ethically, safely and in compliance with EU fundamental rights.

Détricoter le dilemme des retours en magasin grâce à l’IA

Could AI be the solution to reducing returns in the future?

Data Orchestration in Supply chain

How to optimize supply chain orchestration to improve efficiency while reducing costs & waste

Finance durable : L’engagement dans la lutte contre le changement climatique fait débat.

Une tribune Le Monde signée Isabelle Combarel et Pierre-Eric Leibovici.

Waste management & supply chain optimization

Optimisation de la supply chain et réduction du gaspillage, combo gagnant !

F*** la Fast Fashion, Vive la Sustainable Fashion !

$80Mds. C’est le volume d’affaires projeté par Shein en 2025. C'est le symbole des incohérences de la mode d’aujourd’hui.

Alimentation : pourquoi un tel gâchis ?

Quelles sont les causes et les solutions des déchets alimentaires ?

The universe of generative AIs

A snapshot of generative AI projects to date, do you know them all? (probably not)

European Insurtech reveal

Discover the second edition of our comprehensive analysis of European Insurtechs, in partnership with Milliman.

ESG: I love you, neither do I

Let’s delve into three intriguing and interconnected recent news that highlight the dynamic nature of ESG and its stakeholders.

Securing tomorrow: AI safety and AI-augmented cybersecurity

This article aims to explore the various ways GenAI, LLMs in particular, and cybersecurity interact, from novel security threats to enhanced cyber resilience.

Apple Vision Pro

Apple Vision Pro could be a game changer, as its technology, design and associated content are major assets.

Des abeilles à Dubaï

Une tribune par Pierre-Eric Lebovici et Damien Didier sur la biodiversité : un moteur essentiel de la croissance économique

Adaptation: the blind spot in the fight against climate change

Mitigation and climate resilience are key to combating global warming.

(Re)Building Europe: Enabling the workforce that will make net zero possible

Here are European startups actively working on solving the blue-collar labor shortage.

Technologies that will change our lives

Deep-tech outlook: shovel and pickaxe of our technology for good strategy.

Voluntary carbon offsets: long-term potential and short-term troubles

Where do we stand with voluntary carbon offsets today?

Save Now Pay Later

Consumer credits & BNPL can be expensive, but are consumers willing to adopt a safer approach?