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#Startups, here are some fresh #funds that might be interesting for you: 🚀 The largest European early-stage deep tech fund to date has been closed by Munich-based VC Vsquared Ventures, securing €214 million. The fund targets six generational growth themes: AI & next-gen software, #energy transition, new #computing and #sensing, new #space, #robotics and #manufacturing and bio-tech. 🚀 Wind, an emerging European VC just closed the first €90 million. The fund will finance pioneering sustainable #deeptech startups at the #Seed / #SeriesA stage. The fund plans to invest in 30 startups, with the ticket sizes varying from €500 to €5 million. 🚀 London-based Episode 1 Ventures just closed a €88.8 million fund to back early-stage B2B startups. The team will be investing between £250k and £3 million in pre-seed and seed-stage startups, primarily based in the #UK, focusing on key areas such as #AI, #BioTech, #opensource, #software infrastructure, #ealthtech, and #marketplaces. 🚀 Madrid-based Kfund secured €70 million for sixth fund focusing on Southern Europe high #impact-startups; the ticket size ranging from €100k to €10 million. 🚀 Milan-based VC Italian Founders Fund raised €50 million for seed and #PreSeed startups. IFF plans to execute 25 transactions throughout its investment period, starting with initial investments between €500,000 and €1.5 million. Additional funding of up to €2.5 million will be available for follow-on rounds. #NewFunds #NewVCFunds #FreshFunds

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We love to share great news! Technical University of Munich is the second most efficient large university (Budget > €1 Bn) according to the Redstone University Startup Index 2023! 🤩 The European venture capital firm Redstone, supported by Munich-based think tank AlpMomentum & the Brussels-based European Startup Network (ESN), has released a comprehensive study titled "Redstone University Startup Index: Europe’s Trillion Euro Opportunity." This research delves into the entrepreneurial efficiency of universities across Europe, highlighting both current impacts and potential opportunities for economic growth through startup creation. With a number of 71 startups in 2023, TUM’s mission emphasises entrepreneurship as a third core focus alongside research and teaching. The highlights of this study include: 📍 The Entrepreneurial Curriculum that TUM has, inspiring students to innovate and convert research into practice. 📍 UnternehmerTUM as Europe's largest innovation and business creation center, that offers idea-to-market support with resources like training and mentoring. 📍 TUM Venture Labs as a Deep Tech and Life Science incubator network that fosters emerging domain innovations through expertise and a supportive ecosystem. 📍 The great entrepreneurial ecosystem that surrounds TUM, including organizations like Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM), Manage and More by UnternehmerTUM, THINK.MAKE.START. by TUM and UnternehmerTUM, TUM Entrepreneurial Masterclass and UnternehmerTUM MakerSpace GmbH. 📍 The success stories and notable startups coming from TUM, like Celonis, Lilium, Personio and Kaia Health. We are more than proud of being part of this innovative ecosystem and to keep spreading the word about entrepreneurship so every day more young minds get inspired and decide to shape the future. 🚀 #entrepreneurship #success #innovation #successstory #RedstoneUniversityStartupIndex

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While 2023 was characterized by the discovery of hashtag#genAI, 2024 will be the year in which companies will actually want to implement this technology and derive business benefits from it. There is huge potential behind the hashtag#AI hype. "Firstly, because of the immense computing power now available, which is greatly accelerating the development of AI applications. Secondly, because of the broad applicability of generative tools making them a sort of AI Swiss army knife." 💡 What characterizes companies that are already successfully integrating AI into their strategy? They focus their AI efforts on specific areas, such as optimizing customer service or the supply chain. Companies that experiment in too many areas, on the other hand, are not utilizing their resources efficiently. Rodney Zemmel, Global Leader McKinsey Digital, explains in the NZZ how the hype could develop in the coming years: https://lnkd.in/gzfpPRPn #McKinseyonAI #StateofAI #NeverJustTech

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What can German companies learn from Silicon Valley? You guessed it right: A LOT! 🤯 After the first week of back-to-back site visits, workshops and meetings with Silicon Valley's brightest experts, our #InnoCampBW companies have loads of innovation insights. Here is just a small snippet of some of the takeaways: 💡Customer discovery never ends - even if you're a scaling startup, the world and your customers are ever-changing, so always understand their shifting needs. 💡Storytelling is everything - whether you want to score meetings with customers, woo investors or engage your employees, the right story will excite your stakeholders. 💡Sharing is caring - one of the key assets of Silicon Valley is the openness to share information and collaborate 💡No risk, no fun - this very German saying should be acted on more. Silicon Valley is built on constant experiments, failure and learning from it. We're excited for week 2 when the companies embark on more site visits and their 1:1 discovery meetings. ❤️ Thank you to all of our mentors and experts for inspiring our group in such a thoughtful way. We hope that some of the conversations will continue and keep creating value: Sean Randolph, T. Todd Morrill, Mostafa Akbari Hochberg, Stefan Gehder, Andre Brueck, Mani Honigstein, Philipp Jung, Christoph Leuze, Uwe Palm, Frank Densborn, Kathleen (Herzog) Murphy, Alexey Dubov, Lyn Jeffery, Joe Ernst, Dr. Yvonne Lutsch, Florian Schoebinger, Mario Herger, PhD, Alexander Zoellner, Parham Shahidi, PhD, Dennis Schmitz, Zahar Barth-Manzoori, Julia Schaletzky, Oliver Schramm, Thanks to our companies for being so open-minded and thoughtful: Alithea Bio, Lorenz Hoffmann GmbH, heat it US LLC, HPM Technologie GmbH, powerIO GmbH, ValueData GmbH/ AI Hub - The Medical Brick Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Tourismus Baden-Württemberg, Baden-Württemberg International (BW_i) & BWIHKs

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StartupBlink issued its Global Startup Ecosystem Index 2024. As expected, Germany is a strong global player, but improvements are always possible. 🇩🇪 Some takeaways: 1. Germany ranks 6th worldwide for the impact of employees, which measures the number of jobs created by the startups in the ecosystem. 2. Germany excels in exits valued above US$ 1 billion in the last decade, ranking 6th worldwide. 3. #Frankfurt now surpasses Mannheim to take the 4th position nationally and joins the global top 150. 4. The best industry in Berlin is Energy & Environment, where it ranks 7th globally. 5. Compared to other countries' top startup ecosystems, Berlin’s position is not as central in Germany, as its total score is only 2.3 times larger than the next ranked city, Munich. This implies that the German startup landscape is more decentralized than in other countries and less dependent on a single city. We are also mentioned for our effort to build a startup ecosystem, which is what we proudly do every day. 😀 👀 Read the entire report here: https://lnkd.in/eQuNedDy 🤸‍♂️ Join our community - https://lnkd.in/e8n7iqhH StartHub Hessen - Hessisches Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Energie, Verkehr und Wohnen - Wirtschaftsförderung Frankfurt GmbH - SpinLab - The HHL Accelerator - Digital Hub Initiative

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𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐀𝐧𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐚 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩 from a startup to a multi million company - made in switzerland 🇨🇭 As the result of my survey showed, I report on a startup in the latest issue of my newsletter - ANYbotics Superior Robot Mobility: Where AI Meets the Real World Dear readers,  Welcome to the latest newsletter from Anybotics, where we explore the fascinating world of robotics and how artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing it. Today, we delve into the realm of superior robot mobility and how it blurs the boundaries between AI and the real world. for more information subscribe my #Newsletter https://lnkd.in/epWF4S_2 Best Regards #cobotUli #startups #robotics #technology I‘m open to cooperate - so contact me directly if you had a interesting solution / startup about Robotics and technology

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🎉 dealcode AI is one of the most promising AI startups in sales. 🎉 We are proud to announce that dealcode AI has been highlighted as one of the most promising AI startups in the sales sector in the German AI Startup Landscape 2024! This recognition underscores the incredible potential in AI and sales automation. In Germany, the value of AI-driven solutions that boost efficiency and automate processes is becoming increasingly evident. We are proud to be part of this exciting journey, offering solutions that help companies stay competitive in the global market. A big thank you to the appliedAI Institute for Europe gGmbH and all partners for this recognition. Read more about the key players driving the AI scene in Germany and how dealcode AI is working towards establishing more AI in sales. Check out all information through the link in the comments. #AI #AIinSales #KIimVertrieb #SalesAutomation #dealcodeAI #GermanAIScene

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