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One more intresting presentation of Paul Tremblot de la Croix "How Generative AI Can Help Startups Succeed" at the #VDS2024. And my note on how AI can drive success: 💬 speakers emphasized that data is the foundation. Generative AI applications are only as good as the data they're built on. The ability to combine real-time data with generative capabilities is a game-changer for startups. 🕵‍♂️ shared the importance of customization. Don’t adopt generative AI just because it's trendy. Tailor it to your business needs, ensuring it’s the right tool for your use case. 👮‍♀‍ discussed data privacy and security concerns, emphasizing GDPR and other regulations. Startups must handle customer data carefully and integrate strong security protocols when deploying generative AI tools. Key points: 1. Generative AI + RAG = Personalization. By using AI with RAG, startups can retrieve relevant real-time information or past interactions, ensuring personalization not just based on predictions but also on actual preferences, history or external knowledge sources. 2. Customization & Use Case Fit. It's crucial to pick the most efficient AI model, considering cost, latency and accuracy. Generative AI isn't one-size-fits-all! 3. From MVP to Production. Building an AI-powered product is just the first step. Measuring, tracking and fine-tuning AI in production is essential for maintaining customer trust👌 I appreciate your meaningful insights shared about scaling AI strategically. Also on keep security tight and focus on solving real customer problems and think about there needs 😇 #AI #Startups #VDS2024 #DataPrivacy #Cybersecurity

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We’re officially live with VentureBlick Discovery! 🙌🏼   After months of preparation (and talking about it in concept and on paper), I’m pleased to announce that our Discovery platform – where all key players in the healthcare innovation ecosystem can connect and collaborate – is officially launched!   This journey has not been without its fair share of challenges, and we are still at the very early stages of this platform development, but I can already see the immense possibilities of everyone being able to find each other.   Discovery is designed to bring together advisors, investors, innovators, and distributors from all over the world for better visibility, connections, and collaboration. 💡🩺🌍   It will become more meaningful as more and more people from within the healthcare innovation ecosystem come on board.   I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who contributed to this effort – whether it was by giving feedback at the conceptualisation stage, being one of our early adopters, or socialising this concept within your own network – a big thank you for contributing to our journey! 🙏🏼   This is just the beginning and we’re working hard to introduce more interactive features.   In the meantime, check it out and come on board Discovery! https://lnkd.in/gVtD5y_h If you have any feedback about your experience on Discovery, do share. We will improve it step by step together. #VentureBlick #Discovery #oneplatform #healthcareinnovationplatform

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The Venture market is very weird right now and it sometimes feels like we are in the hottest and coldest fundraising market ever at the same time. Time to invest or time to wait? I’ve tried to summarize my understanding of what’s happening in a blogpost. 

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🌍 𝑴𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒊𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 2024 𝒈𝒍𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚! 🌍 If you’re a startup in the #HealthTech or #Biotech industry, here are some of the top investors around the world actively funding innovative companies: 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 • 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐆𝐫𝐮̈𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬 (Germany): €100K - €3M, Seed Stage • Kurma Partners (France): €500K - €3M, Early Stage • Idinvest Capital Partners (France): €500K - €2M, Seed and Growth Stage • 𝐁𝐎𝐌 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 (Netherlands): €100K - €5M, Pre-seed to Early Stage • Verve Ventures (Switzerland): €500K - €3M, Seed to Series B 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐚 • Shenzhen Capital Group Co., Ltd (China): $500K - $10M, Seed to Late Stage • Kalaari Capital (India): $500K - $5M, Seed and Early Stage • Chiratae Ventures (India): $100K - $10M, Pre-seed to Series A • @IDG Ventures (India): $500K - $5M, Seed to Early Stage • Antler (Singapore): $100K - $30M, Pre-seed to Series A 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 • Bessemer Venture Partners (USA): $100K - $1B, Seed to Growth Stage • General Catalyst (USA): $100K - $1B, Seed to Series C • 8VC (USA): $500K - $10M, Seed to Series C • Atlas Venture (USA): $100K - $5M, Seed and Early Stage • Lux Capital (USA): $100K - $25M, Seed and Early Stage 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 • Walden Catalyst Ventures (Israel): $1M - $25M, Seed and Early Stage • Shorooq Partners (UAE): $500K - $5M, Seed and Series A • Crescent Enterprises Ventures (UAE): $500K - $10M, Seed to Growth Stage • Wamda Capital Capital (UAE): $100K - $5M, Seed to Series A • Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) East Venture Partners (Lebanon/UAE): $100K - $3M, Seed and Early Stage Do you know people which may need this info? Share with them this post. 💼 Are you ready to secure your funding? Let Tech Add-Venture Accelerator help you scale and grow! 🏆 Early Applications are open until October 31! Link in the first comment! Fallow Andreea Marinescu for more insights about how you can secure your next round from investors! #HealthTech #Biotech #Startups #VentureCapital #TechAddventureAccelerator

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The future of mental health treatment lies in innovation and integration

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🤨 What do I look for in co-founders ? 🤨 This is the question I get asked the most often, and I (finally) have a good answer! At Hexa, I partner with entrepreneurs ~3x/year, a CEO and CTO for each project— essentially “marrying” 6x/year to build the best partnerships. I look for 4 key traits in my co-founders ⤵️ ⚡️ Energy booster Building and growing a company is about convincing people to follow you—investors, clients, team members—and the person’s natural energy is a key factor in achieving this. I call these people exothermic: they move things around them simply by the energy they exude. How do I test this? I need to feel more energized at the end of a meeting with them than I did at the start. ⏰ Sense of urgency The higher the velocity in a startup, the faster it will grow. Having a deep need to act and get things done sets the fast-paced tempo I’m looking for. 🧑‍🏫 Thirst for self-improvement Founders who are constantly looking to improve by proactively seeking feedback and showing vulnerability have an endless strength to overcome the (inevitable) challenges of entrepreneurship. 🏋️‍♀️ Commitment Being a founder means making your company part of your top priorities, it’s a journey that’s all-consuming. If you believe you embody these traits and are ready to build a transformative company, let’s connect!

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"Agentic AI" is the buzzword in VC. But can AI agents actually plan and act ? 💡 The idea is that AI systems can plan and execute workflows autonomously with goals inputs. Example: "book me a 7 day trip in France that costs no more than X to discover hidden cultural gems". Does it work with the current AI systems? 🙅‍♂️ According to DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, current AI systems are not good at planning, they can't problem solve, they can't do actions in the world for you. They are "very much passive Q&A systems". However according to Demis, this might be the next era in AI. 👀 By combining the work done with AlphaGo in games (agent players that are very good at planning) with multi-modal "real world" learning (Gemini) and applying this to language and everyday workloads, he believes that we might get there. João Duarte Darko Butina Xavier Mesnier Pepijn Rot

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Since Jonathan and Jean-Baptiste met at Entrepreneur First, they've been on a mission to transform drug discovery leveraging cutting-edge AI. Now, DeepLife is raising a $10 million Series A round and is expanding to the US, where they'll continue to develop their AI-powered models of biological systems to help pharma companies repurpose old drugs and find new treatment options faster. Excited to see what's next for this ambitious team!

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Good Morning, folks ! Great news to start the week—the VC machine is slowly waking up and fueling European HealthTech startups !👇 In the first half of 2024, investor interest in European startups surged, with €27.8bn invested, a 16% rise from H1 2023 (Sifted data). Notably, public institutions are key players, with the European Innovation Council and Bpifrance actively supporting startups. Bpifrance, in particular, was involved in nearly 17% of all French deals in H1. Here are the top 15 leading investors in European startups this year, according to Anne Sraders and Sifted 👇 1- Antler : 82 deals 2- SFC Capital : 78 deals 3- Bpifrance : 63 deals 4- European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) : 44 deals 5- Y Combinator : 36 deals 6- HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds : 35 deals 7- Kima Ventures : 23 deals 8- Octopus Ventures : 23 deals 9- EIT - European Institute of Innovation and Technology : 22 deals 10- BNP Paribas : 19 deals 11- CDP Venture Capital SGR : 18 deals 12- Speedinvest : 17 deals 13- CDTI Innovación - Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación : 17 deals 14- Scottish Enterprise : 17 deals 15- Earlybird Venture Capital : 17 deals Link to the article in the comment 👇

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Time to step up Germany 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 Corporations have pledged to invest €15bn in France at the “Choose France” summit — an annual event held since 2018 to facilitate foreign investments in the country. A large chunk of the money will be dedicated to AI. Microsoft stole the show after announcing its largest investment in France to date, a €4bn cash envelope to build more data centres — and expand existing ones — across the country by the end of 2025. The focus is on increasing the capacity of GPUs, which are needed to run large AI models. Amazon also announced that it’ll invest €1.2bn to further develop its French cloud and AI infrastructure. Quantum computing was also on the agenda. IBM pledged to invest €45m to expand the company’s research efforts in France. Up to 50 quantum researchers and engineers will be recruited in the country in the next year.

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I’m Djoann Fal. I started my first tech startup at 22, exited when I was 29, and being French, I’m probably the only black guy who’s done that in Asia. But that was just the beginning of something much, much bigger... Since 2021, I’ve been fascinated by our planet, our changing weather, and the possibility of peaceful, green technological utopian cities becoming a reality. This year, through our several Atlas Climate Tech Coalition events, we gathered up more than 300+ family offices, VCs, and conglomerate members, representing $22 billion dollars of committed capital allocated to technologies saving our planet from ourselves. What began as a career as a technology entrepreneur led me to now be on a mission to figure out what resilient technological solutions are out there as we leave this long stable, peaceful, climate period and enter the hockey stick, climate change era. Here is my story.

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🌠 Jury Reveal for our Consumer Edge AI Hackathon! 🌠 After taking Quack AI to YC and launching The Drop with Julia Denoly I'm thrilled to have joined the Entrepreneur First talent investing team — now on a mission to find Europe’s most ambitious tech founders and bring them together in our next programme in Paris & SF. Julia & I have teamed up again to launch the Spotlight Hackathons. Our first edition is next week in Paris! The challenge: bringing Gen AI from the cloud to the edge, for new & fun consumer use-cases. For this edition, we’re joining forces with Hugging Face, Meta & PyTorch, and Scaleway, in the fabulous Paris HQ of Ekimetrics. - Teams will not only be supported by exceptional mentors (we have the pleasure of hosting Ali Khosh and Mergen Nachin from the PyTorch team coming from the US) but also to be judged by SOTA entrepreneurs & AI researchers made in France. These include: - Laurent Mazare CTO of Kyutai- representing the best of Open Source research today - Eliot Andres, CTO of Photoroom - who else for a consumer AI hackathon than our French success story - Xavier Fischer from Datakalab - tackling edge way before Gen AI was a thing Spots are limited and applications are already overflowing, so we’ve moved the deadline up a couple of days. Submit yours by Friday, Nov 15th (EOD) for your chance to secure a last minute spot. Link is in description 💥

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Each startup has a specific story. Hence the following article does not present a universal learning. However, what is certain is that the EU has done itself a disservice by enacting the new "Medical Device Regulation" (MDR). There is no word to qualify how badly the initiative has been implemented; delays and costs for EU certification have skyrocketed. At a time when the French government wants to encourage startups in healthcare, this piece of legislation has done the exact opposite. https://lnkd.in/ePfqXyUE

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🌟 Binary Stars is Back! 🌟 For those who missed the first edition with Harm de Vries, Paul Lasserre and Léo Dreyfus-Schmidt, Binary Stars is Fly Ventures's virtual conference dedicated to the latest advancements of Software Engineering and AI in Europe. For this second edition, we're super happy to partner with the awesome Antoine Moyroud (Lightspeed), Roosh Circle and AI HOUSE to deep dive into AI reasoning. 🧠 AI REASONING ? ! ? 🧠 With Zachary Gleicher (Deepmind), Rolf Pfister (Lab42, supporting the ARC Prize), and a yet-to-be-revealed third speaker, we'll ask the big questions : - What’s objectively achievable by the best AI models in terms of reasoning? - Are we stuck with LLMs making basic errors (how many Rs in Strawberry?), or are there breakthroughs on the horizon? - While benchmark performances have improved, has reasoning *genuinely* advanced, or it is all tricks still? - What did the Transformer architecture contribute to reasoning problems, and have we reached its limits? - What are the main research avenues pushing reasoning forward today? ... Join us on Nov 8th => register on binarystars.org!

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Interested in turning Doctor/Patient medical records and transcripts into Temporal Knowledge Graph that you can ask complex questions across multiple medical histories, time periods and patients? In this WhyHow.AI case study, we show how Medical Transcripts are turned into Temporal Knowledge Graphs that you can rely on for the purposes of RAG and analytics. We show what real Question & Answers are against this system, and what type of business outcomes you can achieve with this system. As far as we are aware, the combination of steps here is a novel Knowledge Graph implementation. Here, we showcase all the inputs into the Process, including a step by step of the data transformation process, breakdown of the 25 dev hours involved to build the entire system end-to-end, schemas used, Questions & Responses, and a link to the Graph created. Chris Rec Thomas Smoker https://lnkd.in/eYq6YBEf

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New study suggests that gpt-o1 achieves "superhuman performance" on clinical benchmarks that include differential diagnosis, diagnostic reasoning, and crafting care management plans: * On Management Decisions, o1 outperformed both GPT-4 and clinicians by ~40% in generating accurate and actionable management plans. * On differential diagnosis, o1 included the correct diagnosis in 78.3% of cases, and its first suggestion was correct in 52% of cases. * On 70 diagnostic cases, o1 produced a response with an exact or very close correct response in 88.6% of cases. This was done with relatively simple zero-shot prompts. During the early 20th century, x-ray machines gradually went from "technical novelty" to "it's unethical to diagnose without them" for a range of medical conditions. It would be no surprise if the industry went through a similar transition to require use of medical generative AI over the next 2-3 decades. https://lnkd.in/gd3RhFbr #ai #generativeai #healthcare #healthcareai #healthai #datascience

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At 53 Stations, we’re inspired by the incredible ways AI is driving innovation in healthcare and life sciences—and Labviva is a standout example of that potential. Labviva's procurement platform is transforming life sciences R&D by automating procurement, providing supply chain transparency, and revolutionizing how laboratories manage purchasing, tracking, and inventory replenishment. It's been a pleasure to watch their progress and see how they're accelerating the pace of science. I'm very excited to share that 53 Stations led Labviva's $25M Series B, alongside an exceptional group of existing investors. We're looking forward to partner more closely with Siamak Baharloo, Nicholas Rioux, and the talented Labviva team as they continue to drive meaningful change in the industry. Read more about our investment here: https://lnkd.in/gbVGTSvs cc: Jason Pritzker

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🌟 Seeking Recommendations: Who is the Best Venture Capital Investor in Europe for Health Tech? 🌟 Hello LinkedIn network, In the dynamic landscape of health technology, I'm eager to connect with top-tier venture capital investors driving innovation in Europe's health tech sector. Your insights and recommendations are crucial. Who, in your opinion, is the leading venture capital firm in health tech across Europe? Who are the key general partners (GPs) propelling their success? Share your valuable experiences and thoughts on the VCs and GPs shaping the future of health tech. Thank you for your suggestions! #startups #entrepreneurship #tech #europe #venturecapital

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September 09 2024 – 5 Notable Articles To Read Article: French femtech Sonio acquired by Samsung Electronics Takeaway: The deal is set to close after the company's second round of FDA clearance in 2024, with Sonio's reporting and workflow solution being implemented at several sites across the U.S. Source: Tech.eu Link: https://lnkd.in/daM6RfF5 Article: Sozo Ventures To Raise $500M Fund Takeaway: Founded in 2012, Sozo Ventures invests in and supports IT companies as they expand globally. The firm backs industry leaders in advanced data technologies, e-commerce, enterprise cloud, fintech, IoT, healthcare IT, and other emerging sectors. Source: VCWire Link: https://lnkd.in/dpqBYNfz Article: Exclusive - Intel Corporation CEO to pitch board on plans to shed assets, cut costs, source says Takeaway: The plan will include ideas on how to shave overall costs by selling businesses, including its programmable chip unit Altera, that Intel can no longer afford to fund from the company’s once-sizeable profit. Source: Reuters Link: https://lnkd.in/dxchSssR Article: Active ETFs set to hit $1T in assets Takeaway: The gains represent a significant rise in recent years for active ETFs, which have existed since at least 2006 but didn't reach $100B in assets until 2018, according to ETFGI data. Source: Financial Times Link: https://lnkd.in/dBkHU4RK Article: The IPO Market Will End 2024 On A Low Note Takeaway: The buyer views valuation concerns as a less significant factor holding back IPOs. After the market downturn, many former unicorns had to accept lower valuations. However, that process is largely finished, even if not everyone is satisfied with the outcome. Source: Crunchbase Link: https://lnkd.in/da26NZGp #news #research #business #ai

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