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🎯 What a privilege to be selected by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as one of the 10 founders innovating in the Future of Computing! I shared how Prometheux is transforming enterprise data infrastructure and talked about how: 🤖 Models are hungry for context 💎 Data is the most valuable asset 🚀 Prometheux delivers the magnitude of structured context both humans and AI need 🙏Great to see the enthusiasm of BCG partners and corporate leaders and a huge thank you to BCG and Emmanuele Benatti for organising! Full video 🔗 https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/dAafTSDh 👀 If you want to join a fast-growing company, we are hiring founding engineers and a founder associate.

Thrilled to announce that the City of Munich has chosen Atopia Space to bring its public art programmes into the virtual world! 🌍 As winners of this year’s Munich Innovation Prize, we’ll co-create a #virtualstage for Munich’s public art inside a digital twin of one of its most iconic sites, which can then be curated limitlessly by the city using our no-code editor. 📝 Thank you to the City of #Munich for the trust — we’re excited to create a showcase for how public art can empower communities beyond time and place through immersive, digital access. ☺️

Honored to be featured in IBTimes on this journey from racing champion to AI founder. 🙏🏻 From the racetrack to making accountants go fast, at Artifact AI we are building a category-defining system of intelligence by deploying custom workflows and models for accounting firms. I am incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported me along the way, and especially to my incredible team at Artifact AI—without whose grit and passion we would not be here today. The team is gearing up to show the world what accuracy truly means in Accounting x AI. Stay tuned. 🤫

I’m now part of a club where I’m too old to apply. Just joined Sigma Squared Society as an Honorary Member. It’s invite-only community for founders under 26. Earlier this year, we co-hosted a side event in Warsaw. Last year, I went to their summit in Valencia. Every time I meet the Sigma crowd, it’s a joy. Young, bold, assertive next-gen founders. I’ve talked to just a few, but got a feeling I’m standing next to someone who can change the world. Sigma now has over 1,000 members across 35 countries who have collectively raised some $2.5B VC money. They remind me of myself at that age. I was lucky to have great mentors and a strong community around me back then. Now, I’m glad to be that support for the next generation. 📸 I'm so young in that photo

Our Sigma Fellow Luuk Veeken, CEO & Co-Founder of Dexter Energy, has just announced a €23M Series C raise — accelerating their mission to build a fully renewable, affordable, and reliable power system, powered by AI. 🎊 Led by Alantra Klima fund, with participation from Mirova and continued support from ETF Partners, Newion, and PDENH, this round will fuel Dexter’s next phase of growth: ⚡ Scaling asset-backed trade optimisation for wind & solar 🔋 Expanding battery optimisation to unlock grid flexibility 🌍 Growing into new markets across Europe and beyond Dexter’s AI-driven forecasting and optimisation tools are reshaping energy trading — and this milestone takes them one step closer to a clean energy future. Huge congratulations to Luuk and the entire Dexter Energy team! ⚡ 📖 Read more (Dutch): https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/eCjtmZH5 🌍 English version: https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/eVC3jgEh

Incredibly excited for Martin's and Raihaan's pre-seed of €1.2M. They are building 𝐙𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠. With Bench, you can: 001 - iterate designs faster by automating the CAD-Simulation loop. 002 - accelerate design cycles by automating menial CAD edits. Enable your engineers to focus on high‑leverage tasks instead. 003 - test all your design variations in parallel – compare performance instantly to uncover the best‑performing configurations at scale. Martin and Raihaan are two unstoppable forces of nature. And they are working on an inevitable shift: AI transforming the 3D world. Bench is revolutionizing hardware workflows - with software. I am 100% convinced that much of the next wave of engineering innovation will be catalysed by Bench. If you’re in hardware design, engineering leadership, or R&D and haven’t tried Bench yet, you might be missing the future arriving today. Massive shoutout to Martin and Raihaan for making this happen. I am stoked for you and grateful to be part of the journey from the very beginning. When I met you, Martin, you didn't even have an idea. Look where you are now. You are moving so fast. I can only imagine where you'll be in 10 years. The future is looking bright!

🚀 We’ve raised £1M to solve AI’s next frontier - hardware design. Hardware is how we solve our biggest challenges - from climate to energy to interplanetary life. Yet, engineers are still wasting hours on mindless CAD edits, wrangling multiple softwares to optimise parts and manually updating requirements. On the surface, this sounds harmless. But scaled over a company, industry or even country, it’s the delta between winners and losers. (and between the future we want, and the one we’ll end up with otherwise) Raihaan and I have experienced these bottlenecks firsthand, when leading 100+ engineers to build rockets at Karman Space Programme and Hyperloop pods at Hyperlink. And Bench is how we're changing that. We’ve now raised a £1M pre-seed round led by SuperSeed, with participation from Vanagon, ellipsis, Buildery.vc, Revenue Syndicate and Maximilian Wittmann, CFA. Also, a huge shout out to our earliest supporters - EWOR and ROI VENTURES. 👉 What is Bench? ⁠- Bench is an AI-powered engineering workflow automation platform. - You turn engineering tasks into workflows in seconds. ⁠- Bench runs these workflows through your existing software stack - no need to change your CAD, CAE, or PLM tools. 👉 How will it help you? ⁠- Run more design-test iterations, faster than ever. ⁠- Free up engineers for high-impact R&D (not busywork). - Accelerate your time to market - without growing headcount. Hardware is the next frontier for AI. Bench is how this frontier becomes a reality. P.S. Curious how Bench can help your team ship faster? Drop a comment or DM - always happy to share more.

SOMETHING SPECIAL CLICKED IN PARIS — Sigma Squared Society 🇫🇷 Paris Edition 200+ waitlisted. 90 selected. One mission. Build the ecosystem, one founder-friend at a time. 👫🏼 Just before RAISE Summit, we gathered some of Europe’s most driven founders. No fluff, just real conversations, and fresh ideas. Later all the founders continued together at RAISE, Euro-tech and other events over multiple days. 🚀 It felt like Magic. and we will do it again. 💫 Grateful to be supported by Notion, and hosted by OnePilot, thank u for making this gathering possible. 🙌🏼 Grateful to our TEAM Maxime Paradis, Louise Scarlette Maunoir, and Paul Terrasson Duvernon - It was lovely meeting you Leon J., Abdulwadoud, Andrea, Théo, Julia , Jean-Baptiste, Zeynep, Stefan, Francis, Maxime, Vassili, Emre, Benjamin and many others! 🕺🏻 🍸 Stop building alone, be informed of our next events 👉 https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/gu957YSV

BIG NEWS: €2.8M Investment für Circonomit angeführt von Vorwerk Ventures 🔥 Jeder Unternehmer kann die beste Entscheidung treffen unabhängig von Komplexität und Kontext, eine klare Mission für ein steuerungsfähiges Europa 🇪🇺 Wir liefern den Baukasten für das „Gehirn der Firma“, um externe und interne Einflussfaktoren und Wechselwirkungen, ökonomisch und ökologisch, konkret auf die Planung und Steuerung abzubilden. Und wie sieht das im Alltag aus? Stell dir vor, du kannst in 30 Sekunden für jede deiner täglichen Entscheidungen, kritischen Plan-Ist Abweichungen und operativen Geschehnisse beziffern, was die Auswirkung auf dein Ziel sind und rechtzeitig handeln. Wir denken B2B-Enterprise-Software radikal um: 10.000-fach einfacher – in der Bedienung und im Verbinden relevanter Daten zu klaren Entscheidungsketten, damit das Eintragen von Zahlen im System nicht länger dauert, als wir haben um eine Unternehmenskritische Entscheidung zu treffen. Ganz viel Wertschätzung und Danke für den weiteren Handlungsspielraum Vorwerk Ventures, Marie-Sophie Ando und Dr. Dominik Steinkuehler, sowie Sascha Guenther, Norbert Muschong und Dirk Meurer, Fund F, Lisa-Marie Fassl und Nina Wöss sowie PUSH, David Aigner und Laurenz Simbruner und jede einzelne Interaktion mit euch, die Circonomit als Unternehmen weiter bringt. Let’s continue building! P.S. Wir stellen weiter ein, insbesondere coole Tech Positionen zwischen Daten, Mathe und Modellen. Zeit zum e-skalieren und weiter sagen. ➡️ Link zu exklusiven Berichterstattung der WirtschaftsWoche von Michael Kroker in den Kommentaren.

What if the leaders of tomorrow could meet today and collaborate today? Not at a corporate summit or a pitch competition, but in the real world. 🏔 Hiking in the Alps ⛵️ Sailing across Sardinia 🔥 Around an asado in Argentina 🌱 Over coffee in Colombia’s highlands 💻 In a hacker house in London 🏖 On the beaches of Rio 🌇 On a rooftop in New York City 🌞 In the sun-drenched waters of Entebbe 🌆 Surrounded by skyscrapers in Dubai 🛌 Having a couch anywhere in the world 🌍 💡 Building, side by side, things that actually matter That’s Sigma Squared Society A global community of under-26 builders in 35+ countries. People who care more about purpose than hype. People driven by curiosity, humility, and generosity. As many others can tell, being part of Sigma changed my life. Now, we’re opening the door to a new generation of founders! If you (or someone you know) is under 26 and building something incredible, tag them in the comments! I'm looking to nominate the best ones! 🙌 🚨 Deadline for Nominations: July 11 -- Also reach out to our chapter executives in LatAm! Mexico: Armando Manuel Hernández García Colombia: Daniel Ospina Brasil: Pedro Cecilio Ecuador: Daniel Febres-Cordero Argentina: Eyal Weintraub & Victoria Costa Paz Photo: Our last global executives summit in Greece