The superpower: From pro basketball to 462 startup investments!

462 investments, 23 exits and one blunt message for every founder: stop building in the cave and go talk to customers.

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Berlin-based search engine Ecosia is replacing its AI provider Mistral with open-source alternatives to reduce costs and energy consumption.
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What if your organisation's writing could be guided as you type it? Arnhem-based Textmetrics has been building a SaaS platform since 2014 that helps large organisations write consistent,

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https://www.dutchstartup.ai/en/news/textmetrics-tekstkwaliteit-ai-gebruik-organisaties-portret

The era of the celebrity endorsement is fading. The era of the celebrity founder is here.

For decades the playbook was simple: get famous, then get paid to hold someone else's product.

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Can students turn technical creativity into products people can actually use? Galgotias University's innovation ecosystem encourages experimentation, prototype development and entrepreneurial thinking alongside technical education.
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Every startup faces one big challenge.

What’s the hardest?

- Finding the idea
- Building the product
- Getting customers

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🚀 TypeSafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B valuation for its Jev decision model—just weeks after launch! Non-text AI for calibrated decisions is heating up.

Read the full story: tech-blog-eight-blush.vercel.app/posts/2026-1...

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🔍 Today's headlines: A major 7.6 quake jolts, affecting 870m! Meanwhile, 3 AI researchers are let go, and a 1TB coffee machine brews innovation. 🌍☕ #TechNews #Earthquake #Panama #AI #OpenAI #SmartHome #Startups #AISafety

🇰🇷 A startup can earn a strong technology appraisal and still fail a VC's investment test.

The disconnect? Commercial potential isn't the same as venture-scale returns. 📊

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🇰🇷 Korea's CVCs invested ₩2.9T in 2025.

But strong technology and investor backing may not be enough. A startup must also prove the corporation can actually deploy its solution. ⚡

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The Netherlands‑based startup raised just under a million euros to expand its AI‑driven fan‑to‑consumer ticketing and promotion solution across Europe.
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Arena, the crowdsourced AI leaderboard, raised $200M at a $3.1B valuation, nearly double ten months ago, TechCrunch reports. Its new “alignment” leaderboard ranks models on trustworthiness, not just ability. #AI #Startups

Grief relief takes shape: LumenUs automates insurance, bank, and tax tasks after a death. #AI #GriefTech #EndOfLife #LifeInsurance #Startups #MentalHealth thedailytechfeed.com/lumenus-auto...

Fractional COOs take an internal seat for 2 to 4 days weekly. Outsourced models do not. Mixing them up wastes months on mismatched accountability: https://vwcg.app/blog/fractional-coo-vs-outsourced-coo-which-does-your-business-need/ #Operations #Leadership #Management #Startups