Dynamics are seriously shifting in the venture capital market. Global venture funding fell indeed by $10 billion month over month in Feb 2022, which represents a decrease by ca 20%, according to Crunchbase data. This sudden change is supported by a compelling series of underlying factors that highlight a certain…

A new year comes with new hopes. The jarring coalescence between Web3 and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives is expected to pop up in 2022. As a gentle reminder, Web3 refers to the third generation of the internet, now based on distributed technologies, decentralized infrastructure & platforms, and token-related…

Let’s first acknowledge that this headline sounds a bit provocative. Tolling the death knell of the Euro as we know it may nonetheless become a reality sooner than expected, since the advent of Central Banks Digital Currencies (CBDCs) may seriously shake the monetary systems in place over 2022–2025. After having…

Written & pubished by Axel Tombereau, CEO Odyssey | November 2021 For the record, Neal Stephenson coined the term Metaverse in his 1992 sci-fi novel Snow Crash. In less than three decades, fiction has turned into virtual reality — or as some hatted singers would say, virtual insanity. Back in…

Written & published by Axel Tombereau | Oct 2021 The reign of metrics may be legitimate in the data-driven universe of startups. Metrics are indeed a salvatory beacon in the foggy waters that edge startups navigate, exploring uncharted territories to shape tomorrow’s world and build disruptive business models. But the…

Full release of the series. 4 out of 4. Written & published by Axel Tombereau | 2020 The last part of the series on the new era of data and the rise of data strategies explores the concrete categories of strategies that may hopefully prove relevant to your business. So…

Full release of the series. 3 out of 4. Written and published by Axel Tombereau | 2020 The first part of the series focused on how an organization can transform raw data to actionable intelligence, and vice versa, through theoretical models such as DIKW. The second part of the series…

Full release of the series. 2 out of 4. Written & published by Axel Tombereau | 2020 The first stage of the data era is the current “ignition” phase, that is to say the relentless quest for data undertaken by companies through the endeavour of digital transformation processes. IDC, the…

Full release of the series. 1 out of 4. Written and published by Axel Tombereau | 2020 Data, big data, data science are at the strategic core of most corporations that undertake a digital transformation to survive or thrive in competitive environments. …