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Delighted to see the world class teams behind Granola , Tessl, Taktile, Nabla, and Lupa recognised in Sifted’s AI 100: Europe's Rising Startups 🎉 We’re lucky to have backed them from the start and watched them set the bar for what’s possible in European AI with their pace, technical ability and ambition. Watch this space for many other firstminute founders building quietly (for now) who we can’t wait for the world to hear about 👀 #AI #Founders #Startups #VentureCapital

🔍  Looking for my next Chief of Staff... After two wonderful years, Rosie is moving on to her next adventure on the other side of the world, and will soon be passing on the baton. Who is your smartest, most empathetic, and tech-curious friend? Someone who loves solving problems, thrives in fast-paced environments, and combines strategic vision with get-it-done energy… This is a demanding yet hugely rewarding role at the heart of the tech ecosystem. You’ll work closely with me across Founders Forum Group, and also with teams at firstminute capital and Founders Factory - collaborating with some of the most inspiring people in startups, venture, community-building, and innovation. You’ll help shape strategy, drive key initiatives, deliver world-class tech events, and get involved in launching new businesses and working on innovative ventures every year. We’re looking for someone: 💡 Strategic and execution-focused 🧠 Low ego, high EQ & IQ 🚀 Entrepreneurial, curious, and fast-learning 🗣️ A confident communicator who can balance reactive challenges with long-term projects If you know someone brilliant - please share or tag them below ! https://lnkd.in/eAHfNvYK

At firstminute, we back exceptional founders. But nothing prepared me for Osman and Aymeric's story. Osman Ramadan learned to code from a book. No computer. No internet. Just a coding book his brother brought to their rural Sudanese village in 2005. While sectarian violence erupted around him, he kept coding. He was shot at a protest (a bullet hit a rock that exploded and injured him). His family home was bombed while they were fundraising for their startup. He became the 3rd top student in Sudan and went to Cambridge to study computer science — then was a machine learning scientist at at Deepmind spin-out and Microsoft. Aymeric Zhuo grew up in French Guiana — where 1 in 3 people are illiterate. His parents fled persecution in China during Mao's cultural revolution. They worked 12-hour days, 7 days a week in their grocery shop. He became a top 10 student nationally. Then built Call of Duty Mobile from $0 to $400M in 4 years. Oh, and he can run a 2h48 marathon. -- Today, they're building Agemo — AI-powered workflow automation that's getting "life-changing" feedback since launch two weeks ago. I myself use it every single day and am completely obsessed. We invested alongside Fly Ventures and angels from Zapier, Wayve, Datadog, Deepmind, and Meta. When you've survived bullets, bombs, and broken education systems to get here — you're not going to let up in the race. This is the kind of founder DNA we bet on. Is this the most inspiring founder story in European tech right now? Sam Endacott Lorcan Delaney Marie Brayer Tim Rocktäschel Mehdi Ghissassi Olivier Pomel Roxanne VARZA Amar Shah François Chollet Jon Reynolds Ali Benslimane Kevin Van Gundy Koda Wang Yan Zhang Mati Staniszewski Luke Harries Jan Oberhauser Gert Lanckriet Benjamin Muller Gabriel Vasquez firstminute capital

Fun day in Zurich yesterday co-hosting dinner with redalpine and 15 founders building across AI, Quantum & Robotics. Including our very own 🇨🇭 portfolio company Scalera who are building AI tools for the construction industry. cc Leonard Reinhard Incredible ecosystem and we look forward to partnering with many more founders in the years to come. Thank you to all the great entrepreneurs who came! cc firstminute capital Florian Bieberich, PhD Margaux Foster Lorcan Delaney Michael Stothard Anaïs Benazet Alen Arslanagic Camilla Mazzoleni Chase Beisel Declan Shine Jan Schnyder Joni Rakipi Leo Grünstein Leonard Reinhard Marco Henri Marko Bjelonic Pavel Hrmo Rokas Bendikas Stephan-Daniel Gravert Timothée Peter Karim Saleh Brent Hoberman Spencer Crawley Lina Wenner Adriana Vitagliano Min Nolan

🚨 Hiring alert: your chance to join Europe's fastest growing 🦄 🚨 If you missed the buzz last week, our portfolio company n8n announced their $180 Series C, led by Accel valuing them at $2.5bn 🔥 We’re very proud to be a small part of n8n’s journey, and now it’s your chance to join their mission - they’re looking for highly talented individuals to join their team including: 💼 Senior Legal Counsel (Europe Remote) 👾 Head of Data ⚙️ Director of Engineering 🛍️ Sales Strategy & Planning manager EMEA & many more sales, customer success & engineering roles. Apply here 👉 https://n8n.io/careers/ Jan Oberhauser Claudia S. Sam Endacott

🕵 Detail-obsessed? Love a challenge? We’re hiring a full-time Team Assistant (Operations) to join us at firstminute capital - based at our London HQ in 180 Strand (Soho Works). This role sits at the core of the fund, helping keep momentum high and execution sharp across everything from office ops and team coordination to data, events, and internal comms. No two days will look the same. You’ll be joining a fast-moving, collaborative team that backs world-class founders - and you’ll play a key role in making it all run smoothly behind the scenes. 🚀 Why join firstminute? We’re a pan-European VC fund investing at the earliest stages - with a portfolio of 170+ startups and a global community of 130 unicorn founders and operators. This is a chance to get inside the engine room of early-stage investing - and work alongside a team that values initiative, curiosity, and getting things done. 🎯 You might be a great fit if you: 🔷  Have 2+ years’ professional experience 🔷 Thrive in fast-paced environments with lots of moving parts 🔷 Bring order to chaos and spot problems before they appear 🔷 Want to grow within a team that’s scaling ambitious startups globally ✍ Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eZp5ayuP 📬  We read every “Additional Information” note - tell us what excites you about the role & why you think you'd be a good fit! 💭  Know someone great? Tag them or share this post - we’d love your help finding our next 🌟

📣 Big news from the healthcare x AI front - and we couldn’t be prouder to share it. Congratulations to Hermine T.. and Alexandru Andrei on the official launch of ClarityCare AI 👏 ClarityCare is building a modern infrastructure layer for healthcare administration - starting with prior authorizations and utilization management - areas that are deeply broken and in urgent need of change. They’ve already processed over 10,000 prior auth requests, reducing average patient wait times by over a week. That’s real-world impact, fast. 💡 The team has just announced their $3.5m seed round, where we invested alongside Maverick Capital, Top Harvest Capital, Entrepreneurs First, Transpose Platform - and some phenomenal angels including Thomas Clozel, Olivier Pomel, and Mathilde Collin. We're proud to be alongside them on this journey. We backed Hermine and Alex because of their rare combination of deep domain insight, clear focus, and relentless execution. They’re solving a problem that affects millions - and building a company that could transform how healthcare works in the background. If you work in medical management or know the pain of legacy admin systems, take a look at what ClarityCare is building - and reach out to the team directly. Lina Wenner Lorcan Delaney

Sometimes stars align.... Thesis on a space (AI enabled services), applied to an industry (Insurance claims), an awesome founding team that set up shop across the road from you (Pavel G. German Mikulski), a tonne of published content on the space by a colleague who spent a decade at the Financial Times and was founding editor of Sifted (Michael Stothard) and an inbound email to another rockstar colleague (Lorcan Delaney) who knows how to pick them! 3 days later and an awesome sushi dinner that went on a while firstminute capital led the pre-seed round of ClaimSorted alongside Y Combinator Tom Blomfield. Today they announce what surely must be one of the largest seed rounds in Insurtech (Crunchbase?!) with Atomico and Eurazeo. Awesome to be working with Andreas Helbig Katharine McCallum Carole du Fretay Elise Stern on this. Forbes press in comments. firstminute capital Brent Hoberman Spencer Crawley Lina Wenner Michael Stothard Lorcan Delaney Adriana Vitagliano Min Nolan

🚨 Big moment in vertical AI: ClaimSorted just raised $13.3m in their Seed led by Atomico! 🥳 At firstminute, we’re big believers in AI-native companies going deep into verticals - and ClaimSorted is exactly why. The claims space is one of the slowest, most frustrating parts of insurance, and what Pavel G. and German Mikulski are building is pure transformation. 👊 From outdated TPAs to lightning-fast, LLM-powered automation that processes claims 10x faster and cuts payout errors by 20% - this is what vertical AI should look like. 🚀 We backed Pavel and German at seed because: 👉 They lived the pain building their last startup, Fluffy 👉 They’re second-time founders with insane drive and chemistry 👉 They’d already spun out a working prototype with real insurer traction Since then? ClaimSorted has scaled fast and are now working with nearly 30 insurers 🤯. Operating across the US, UK, and Europe - they're just getting started. This is a $200b+ market finally getting the AI-native upgrade it deserves - and we’re so proud to be on the journey from day one. 💥 🥇 Alongside Eurazeo, Y Combinator, Tom Blomfield 💪 📖 Read the Forbes piece here: https://lnkd.in/e_GWDA_6 Sam Endacott Lorcan Delaney Spencer Crawley Michael Stothard Brent Hoberman