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🌟 We are excited, delighted, elated to announce that Apheros has raised $1.85 M to develop our innovative cooling solutions. 💡 Apheros offers innovative, high-surface-area metal foams optimized for liquid and two-phase cooling. Our patented manufacturing process creates unique foam structures with completely open porosity and unparalleled surface area, surpassing traditional solutions by a factor of thousand, which translates into exceptional heat transfer and flow properties. Ideal for high performance cooling applications, our metal foams are easily integrated within our customers’ existing cooling systems. Our products address our customers urgent needs to reduce energy consumption and cooling costs. ➡ What's coming? This #funding will enable us to expand our production, increase our R&D efforts, and bring our state-of-the-art solutions to a broader market. We are also #hiring and looking for passionate, high-skilled people to grow our fantastic team. Check out open positions on our website if you would like to join us. 💫 We would like to thank our wonderful lead investors Founderful. Your support means the world to us 🙏 Lukas Weder Antonia Albert Many thanks to Venture Kick for your support throughout Apheros inception. 📰 Read more on Forbes today (by David Prosser) https://lnkd.in/dAqQEfcN #apheros #metalfoams #femalefounders #startupfundingannouncement #coolingsolutions

🚀 $2.2M USD Pre-Seed Funding Round Closed! We are overjoyed to share that NetFabric.ai has successfully closed a $2.2 million USD #PreSeed funding round. 🎉 This milestone, made possible by the incredible support from Founderful and Playfair , marks a pivotal moment in our journey to revolutionize #NetworkMonitoring. In a world where computer networks are the heartbeat of our daily lives and economies, existing monitoring solutions often fall short—sticking to incomplete data sources, bombarding users with alerts, and reacting only after problems arise. This results in manual #troubleshooting and costly #downtimes that impact us all. At NetFabric, we are passionate about changing this narrative. By merging precise #MathematicalModels with advanced #MachineLearning, we're creating a solution that provides a unified view across diverse data sources, offers meaningful context to alerts, and anticipates potential issues. Our goal is to provide operators with a crystal-clear understanding of their networks, eliminating guesswork, significantly reducing downtime, and freeing up engineering teams to focus on innovation and growth. 💡🔧 🔜 What’s next? With this funding, we're excited to accelerate the development of our next-gen platform and push the boundaries of what's possible in the $197 billion network performance industry. 🚀 We’re also eagerly looking for talented individuals to join our team (#hiring) and design partners who are ready to collaborate on groundbreaking solutions. Check out https://netfabric.ai/ for more details.🤝✨ Thank you for being part of this journey with us. Stay tuned as we continue to innovate and lead the way in transforming #NetworkObservability! 🔗 Link to funding announcement and future plans: https://lnkd.in/gS3iDsn8 Special shoutout to our amazing team and supporters who make it all possible: Benjamin Bichsel Tobias Bühler Marlene Brakhane Laurent Vanbever Martin Vechev Boris Paskalev Simon Scherrer Slobodan Jenko Lukas Weder Edouard Treccani Henrik Wetter Sanchez Chris Smith ETH Entrepreneurship ETH Zürich

We are pleased to share with you an article published in Finews AG, by Claude Baumann, which highlights our ambition to take another step forward in alternative investments with the launch of a new venture capital initiative. In this article, Louis Fauchier-Magnan, Head of Wealth Management Suisse Romandie, presents this initiative, targeting Swiss innovative startups in their earliest development stages, aiming to revolutionise the industry with distinctive advantages. Together with Founderful, a Zurich-based venture capital company, Mirabaud will be supporting the development of innovative companies, particularly in the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics and technology, and climate change, food and energy, to meet the challenges of future generations. Contributing to startups’ success stories echoes the Mirabaud Group founding principles of investing in the real economy while making a positive impact on society, as well as our strong entrepreneurial and innovative spirit. Read the article: https://lnkd.in/ddE-S3SB The article is also available in German: https://lnkd.in/df4zDKTX #Mirabaud #MirabaudGroup #AlternativeInvestments #VentureCapital #Switzerland #Startups #Innovation

Today, we’re excited to announce our CHF 15m Series A financing round led by Index Ventures. Our existing investors General Catalyst, Earlybird Venture Capital, and Founderful also participated. EthonAI was founded with the vision to redefine operational excellence in manufacturing. To pursue this ambitious goal, we have built a new category of software: The Manufacturing Analytics System (MAS). Today's financing round places us in a leading position to expand our platform offering, grow our presence globally, and drive productivity improvements across the industry. Our Co-Founder Julian spoke with Martin Coulter from Reuters about this milestone. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/dxh7NvF3 We’re just getting started. If our mission excites you, join us! #MAS #SeriesA #AI #Manufacturing #VC

We are excited to announce that Anthropos has raised $2.7M to help companies build the workforce of the future using AI! We started Anthropos about a year ago with the strong idea that companies and employees are not aligned on their future, at a moment where skills are constantly changing and every business needs to move fast and build critical ones. How Anthropos works Anthropos has a modern approach: our platform engages employees and managers and allows them to map, verify and build critical skills with real-life scenarios and a level of customization that is really key for any business. The result is that companies can use Anthropos to truly build the engine to run knowledge, skills and development inside their organization. Today we are also launching a few more examples of our AI Job Simulations to show how powerful this approach can be. Why adopting Anthropos today Anthropos is our way of reimagining the connection between people and companies as both adapt to a new way of working. People are more ambitious than ever but they are not ok staying in roles and companies that don’t invest in their growth, with values they don’t share. Similarly for companies: skills are changing so rapidly that looking for the right people is the biggest investment in the budget while retaining the existing talent is always a trial and error process. Our thesis is that both parties could use a different solution to solve this problem. We would like to say thank you to our lead investor Founderful with Alex Stöckl and Antonia Albert - they believed in us from 1st meeting and simply taught us how impactful it is to have someone really understanding founders.  we also want to thank Eden Ventures (Leonardo Giagnoni and Giovanni Strocchi are amazing), Zanichelli Venture (working with such a name and with Enrico Poli is an honor), Exor Ventures and alessandro rivetti + several friends in the US and EU that believed in us along the way, some of them have backed Giacomo and I in multiple ventures and we couldn't be more grateful! Last but not least, our customers are the real heroes here (thank you BYTEK | the martech of Datrix group among the others, they have trusted us very early in the journey!) and so is our amazing team of people. We couldn’t be here without them. If you have a company and want to try Anthropos, we have a free trial available on our website! We would love to help you setup a modern platform to guide, upskill and transform your people with your needs in mind. Read more on Forbes today https://lnkd.in/dnugEykZ

🚀 Exciting News Alert! 🚀 We’re thrilled to announce that with 8inks we have successfully secured 3M € pre-seed financing! 💡⚡🔋 At 8inks, we're on a mission to revolutionize the energy landscape with our manufacturing platform for next-gen batteries. This funding milestone, led by Founderful, marks a significant step forward in our journey towards powering a sustainable future.  We want to extend our deepest gratitude to our investors for believing in our vision and supporting us on this exciting venture. Their confidence in our team and technology reaffirms our commitment to delivering cutting-edge solutions that drive positive change. Glad to have you onboard Founderful, Übermorgen Ventures, Angel Invest, another.vc, Venture Kick & ETH Foundation! With our production technology we’ll make low cost & high performance batteries a reality. Better 🔋Batteries for the 🌍Ter(r)a-Scale! And this is just the beginning. Together, we'll continue pushing the boundaries of what's possible and shaping a greener, more sustainable tomorrow. For more check out the news on Business Insider: https://lnkd.in/dung7s6m Join us on this thrilling journey! Together, let's power the future. ⚡ #BatteryInnovation #PreSeedFinancing #CleanEnergy #SustainableFuture #ETH Antonia Albert, Lukas Weder, Alexander Langguth, Jens Lapinski, Falk Haurenherm, Philip Hassler, Jordi Montserrat, Alex Hochuli, Ben Brandt

Today we are proud to finally announce the foundation of mimic! We just raised $2.5M in a pre-seed round to develop AI-driven collaborative robots with humanoid hands, addressing global labor shortages across industries. 🤖💼 Our technology leverages generative AI to create robots that can understand and imitate human behavior, revolutionizing the way robotics fit into our everyday lives and economy. 🧠🌍 We're thrilled to have the support of leading investors Founderful, another.vc, and Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company, as well as our amazing angel investors. For more details on our fundraising round and our vision for the future of robotics, check out today’s Sifted article featuring mimic: https://lnkd.in/dbqJh8UJ 📰👀 #mimic #AI #robotics #laborshortage #innovation #ETHZurich #fundraising #Forbes ETH Zürich, ETH AI Center, Antonia Albert, Alex Stöckl, Ophelia C., Falk Haurenherm, Alex Ilic, Viviana Gropengiesser, Robert Katzschmann, Stefan Weirich, Stephan-Daniel Gravert, Elvis Nava, Benedek Forrai