Where it’s being built.
Silicon Canals covers the global innovation ecosystem city by city. Each city below has a dedicated landing page that surfaces the latest reporting on the people, companies, and institutions building there.
Amsterdam
1,801 articles
Latest: Adyen processes payments for Uber, Spotify, eBay, and Microsoft from an Amsterdam canal house where the engineering team still eats lunch at a single long table, and the company went public worth €7 billion with fewer staff than a midsize hotel
Bangalore
6 articles
Latest: On September 9, 1947, Grace Hopper's team at Harvard pulled a dead moth out of the Mark II computer's relay, taped it into the logbook with the note 'first actual case of bug being found,' and preserved the page that gave software its oldest metaphor
Barcelona
9 articles
Latest: Barcelona-based Glovo launches Q-Commerce to ‘deliver anything’ in 30 minutes or less
Berlin
61 articles
Latest: Jan Marsalek: the Wirecard COO who vanished to Moscow and was accused of running a Russian spy ring
Dublin
9 articles
Latest: Female-founded biotech company Nuritas secures €39M to scale Peptide discovery platform
Helsinki
3 articles
Lagos
4 articles
Latest: Adyen processes payments for Uber, Spotify, eBay, and Microsoft from an Amsterdam canal house where the engineering team still eats lunch at a single long table, and the company went public worth €7 billion with fewer staff than a midsize hotel
London
251 articles
Latest: The US Justice Department seized 127,271 bitcoin worth $15B — the largest forfeiture in American history traces back to a 2020 mining hack nobody reported
Munich
15 articles
Latest: Adyen processes payments for Uber, Spotify, eBay, and Microsoft from an Amsterdam canal house where the engineering team still eats lunch at a single long table, and the company went public worth €7 billion with fewer staff than a midsize hotel
New York
5 articles
Latest: The US Justice Department seized 127,271 bitcoin worth $15B — the largest forfeiture in American history traces back to a 2020 mining hack nobody reported
Oslo
3 articles
Latest: Norway's sovereign wealth fund owns roughly 1.5% of every listed company on Earth, and the team that decides how it votes on 9,000 annual shareholder resolutions is smaller than the staff of a single Oslo restaurant
Paris
34 articles
Latest: The UK's Online Safety Act gives Ofcom the power to fine platforms 10% of their global revenue, which for Meta alone would be over $16 billion, and the enforcement unit responsible for issuing those fines has fewer than 50 staff
Rotterdam
45 articles
Latest: After raising Seed funding, Rotterdam’s Blockrise becomes a Bitcoin-only platform
Singapore
19 articles
Latest: The US Justice Department seized 127,271 bitcoin worth $15B — the largest forfeiture in American history traces back to a 2020 mining hack nobody reported
Stockholm
25 articles
Latest: Stockholm-based TeraSi nabs €1M funding for cutting-edge wireless tech
Sydney
4 articles
Latest: The US Justice Department seized 127,271 bitcoin worth $15B — the largest forfeiture in American history traces back to a 2020 mining hack nobody reported
São Paulo
4 articles
Latest: On September 9, 1947, Grace Hopper's team at Harvard pulled a dead moth out of the Mark II computer's relay, taped it into the logbook with the note 'first actual case of bug being found,' and preserved the page that gave software its oldest metaphor
Tel Aviv
3 articles
Latest: Inside the Financial Times investigation that took five years and nearly destroyed the reporter who exposed Wirecard
Tokyo
3 articles
Latest: Norway's sovereign wealth fund owns roughly 1.5% of every listed company on Earth, and the team deciding how it votes at 9,000 annual shareholder meetings is smaller than the compliance department of a single mid-sized European bank
Vienna
4 articles
Latest: Jan Marsalek: the Wirecard COO who vanished to Moscow and was accused of running a Russian spy ring
Zurich
8 articles
Latest: Rolex has no owner because of a 1945 foundation a grieving widower built after his wife died — and it's now the company's sharpest competitive weapon