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#helyes Hamina Wireless has raised a seed funding round led by Nordic early-stage investor #Inventure, with Superhero Capital and First Fellow Partners joining as co-investors. By ArcticStartup https://lnkd.in/d4t6e3f7 #NordicMade #wirelesstech #telecom

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I’m pleased to announce that we have acquired Doublepoint – a Finnish company with deep expertise in AI, biometrics, and human–computer interactions. This is a huge leap forward in the growth and expansion of what our devices and platforms can do. We are thoughtful yet relentless in our pursuit of building the best team possible to expand innovation in wearables.I am so excited to welcome Doublepoint’s exceptional team of AI architects and builders as part of this deal. Together, we will supercharge our ability to help people navigate their health, environment, and everyday interactions more intuitively. Excited for what’s ahead – onward! #WithOura https://lnkd.in/gRMA96U7

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Sometimes, even frontier tech companies develop faster than expected. SEEQC, in which we first invested in Nov 2024 by leading their Series A2 round, has announced going public via merger with Allegro Merger Co. SEEQC’s digital-quantum chip-to-chip interface allows linking SEEQC’s integrated QPU chips to NVIDIA GPUs, turning quantum hardware into usable computing infrastructure. This innovation has been driving SEEQC’s growth and we’re excited to see the wide array of use cases in the years to come. John Levy Marek Kiisa

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Climeworks is an early innovator in the Direct Air Capture of CO₂ industry and has been the subject of criticism due to the reported poor performance of its system in Iceland (https://lnkd.in/db9peV2B). That criticism has expanded to infer that the DAC industry is not viable. We challenge this conclusion. Consider the innovation cycle in wind turbines and solar PV required to bring these technologies from invention to the point that they are economic and widely adopted. The DAC industry is on a similar journey. Climeworks has been the pioneer that others in the DAC industry have watched closely and we have all learned from their deployment innovation cycles. The innovation experience of the NEG8 Carbon team is a case in point. We started in 2014 as a research project in an Irish University and began our commercialisation in 2021. We have invented new DAC technologies every year which have helped bring down the power consumption and cost of our DAC technology to the current level of 400 kWh/tCO2 with waste heat and 1400 kWh/tCO2 without. We can see a pathway to sub 400 kWh/tCO2 and this performance will improve in the coming years as we continue innovating. DAC is the only solution that could be deployed with some urgency to remove significant levels of accumulated as well as hard-to-abate CO₂ emissions from the atmosphere, currently standing at 431 ppm. At today's increasing rate of accumulation of greater than 3 ppm/year, this will raise global temperatures by at least another 1 degree in 30 years, reaching temperatures in excess of 2.5 degrees above the much vaunted 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. What is the solution to this? From our perspective DAC is the primary technology to achieve this. And, in this regard, DAC is most definitely not an excuse for the fossil fuel industry to continue with business-as-usual. DAC is essential to help Industry mitigate hard-to-abate emissions and reduce accumulated CO₂ in the atmosphere. It is a young industry and every year will bring innovation resulting in simpler, cheaper and more effective technologies. Another consideration is that the social cost of not addressing the CO₂ in the atmosphere will be more than the cost of reducing it. Maximilian Kotze of the Potsdam Institute led a study that found climate damage costs by 2050 will be six times larger than the cost of reducing carbon emissions. It is time now to invest in the DAC industry to enable it continue to innovate and deploy large scale solutions to the challenge of Global Warming.

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Care Shift is live. A healthtech podcast for founders, operators, and investors actually in the trenches. Our first episode features Kristian Ranta, founder and CEO of Meru Health. His story is one of the most powerful in healthtech. Kristian was a heavy metal guitarist in Finland. Then he lost his brother Peter to suicide after decades of treatment-resistant depression. None of the existing solutions worked. So he built one. He founded Meru Health in 2016. Went through Y Combinator. Created a digital mental health program now proven to prevent suicide attempts at scale. The founders who last in healthtech aren't chasing exits. They're solving problems that broke them personally. That's what Care Shift is about. No polished narratives. No high-level theory. Just tactical, unfiltered conversations with founders and investors who've built, scaled, or funded the companies changing healthcare. What we cover: - The real stories that aren't publicly told - How to actually sell to payers, providers, and employers - Capital strategies that worked (and the ones that didn't) - The mistakes, recoveries, and frameworks behind the wins Most healthtech content is too generic. Too removed from what early-stage founders actually go through. We're building the bridge between healthtech ambition and real-world execution. Meru Health is backed by Y Combinator, Foundry Group, and Industry Ventures. Episode one is live now. Link in comments. The best founders never give up. Kristian's story proves it.

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📢 Vesiro, our Norrsken Evolve 2023 portfolio comany has raised a €1.6M seed round! 💫 ... The round was co-led by Chalmers Ventures and Industrifonden, with participation from notable angels like Staffan Truvé. We're witnessing a data explosion 🎇, demanding more search, more AI compute and more and more energy. Vesiro tackles this alarming trend head-on, improving the search performance of ElasticSearch deployments by up to 2x (with more products in the works) 👀 . ♻️ This directly cuts energy consumption, lowers emissions, and reduces cost. Without requiring any changes to existing systems. It just makes sense 🫶 Congratulations to Oskar Hagman, Oscar Widén, and the rest of the Vesiro team.

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🚀 HerRise featured in #HealthtechoftheWeek – a femtech solution blending technology with empathy Meet HerRise – a Polish startup filling a gap in the femtech market by focusing on emotional support for women recovering from toxic and abusive relationships. By creating a safe space powered by community, AI, and digital tools, HerRise offers discreet, 24/7 assistance – even when traditional therapy is out of reach. Key highlights of HerRise: 1️⃣ Mental health & empowerment – the app supports women facing anxiety, guilt, gaslighting, and cultural pressures (such as the “Polish Mother” stereotype). It helps them build a new vocabulary and tools to set boundaries confidently, without guilt. 2️⃣ AI as a silent companion – algorithms analyze users’ emotional state, adjusting the pace, format, and type of support. HerRise doesn’t offer generic advice – it creates a space where women feel seen and understood. 3️⃣ Safety and anonymity – a top priority. From the very first interaction, users know they can share their stories without fear of judgment, exposure, or privacy breaches. 🎯 What’s next? HerRise plans to integrate with mental health monitoring devices and introduce VR “emotional spaces”, where women can practice boundary-setting and self-regulation. The startup is also partnering with organizations like the Women’s Rights Center and engaging with public health institutions to expand access to support. 🌟 Why does it matter? HerRise is more than an app – it’s a social impact project proving how #MedTech and #FemTech can transform lives, becoming a safe haven for women seeking understanding, empowerment, and the strength to start anew. 📖 You can read more about it on my blog. The material is available in two language versions. ⬇️ 👉 EN: https://lnkd.in/dDAHp55R 👉 PL: https://lnkd.in/d8VK7EwS #HealthTech #HealthtechoftheWeek #MedTech #FemTech #innovation #startups #AIinMedicine #healthcareinnovation #MentalHealth

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Excited to be partnering on this journey. As major technology shifts needs better handshakes between embedded devices and everything changing AI models we believe Craftif will play a major role in making this seemless. CraftifAI

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