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Exciting news for AI Engineers in Poland 🇵🇱 The first Polish event of global AI Tinkerers community is coming to Warsaw! It will be entirely focused on builders — engineering, product, etc. If you're working with LLMs, RAG, fine-tuning, or advanced prompting techniques, this is your chance to connect with like-minded builders ⚙️   As Inovo.vc we are proud to be sponsor of event and support local AI ecosystem! 📅 Save the date: 21st November at our host's Snowflake office.  📝 For registration and details visit: https://lnkd.in/dDgqE_-7 #AITinkerersWarsaw

As part of the next Founder Wannabes event, we’re hosting a session titled "Cracking the Code: How to Apply and Succeed in Y Combinator" with Bart Roszkowski, who successfully got into Y Combinator with his previous company Alokai (previously Vue Storefront) and who now runs Proteine Resources. Bart will cover the key steps in the YC journey: -Standing out in the application process -Maximizing your chances of acceptance -Navigating YC from acceptance to Demo Day -Planning for what comes after the program If you're curious about the process, this is a great opportunity to hear from someone with firsthand experience. ➡ Secure your spot here: https://lnkd.in/d2Yff5X7

📢 Calling all CEE Founders!  We're pleased to announce that The Europas 100 will be recognizing the Hottest CEE Startup this year, thanks to the support of Inovo.vc, a seed-stage VC focused on startups in Central and Eastern Europe and looking for founders not afraid to dream big. A massive shout out and thank you to Inovo.vc, for helping us make this possible. Over the past 16 years, The Europas has consistently recognized Europe’s hottest startups, with no shortage of standout talent from Central and Eastern Europe. Many amazing CEE startups have made their mark at the awards, including previous winners such as: Bolt 🇪🇪, Pipedrive🇪🇪, UiPath 🇷🇴, Wise 🇪🇪, Infobip 🇭🇷, BetterMe 🇺🇦and Resistant AI 🇨🇿. To all CEE startups, this is your opportunity to get in front of Inovo.vc, our 30+ other leading VC judges, AND be recognised by this special award! 🚀 Apply today. https://lnkd.in/dSpKs3Qc

Croatia 🇭🇷 is my second home lately after our investments in Pythagora (YC W24), SplxAI and Stefan ;). Today and tmrw, I'm in Zagreb and would love to meet more exceptional founders like Zvonimir, Kristian or Ante. Any recos founders/operators to meet? I'd appreciate it! Vedran, Ivan, Hajdi, Stjepan, Nikola Inovo.vc #croatia #startups #zagreb #founders

🚀 SplxAI closes $2M Pre-Seed round of funding 🚀 We’re thrilled to announce that SplxAI has secured a $2M Pre-Seed round of funding, led by Inovo.vc, with participation from South Central Ventures and Runtime Ventures. This funding will accelerate our efforts to continue building the first end-to-end platform for offensive AI security, giving enterprises the opportunity to securely adopt GenAI technologies and stay ahead of emerging vulnerabilities. "In the AI gold rush, sell shovels - SplxAI wants to be one of the key shovels in the GenAI space. They make sure "shovels" - or in this instance - chatbots don't break or act in a way that could be damaging,” said Karol Lasota, Principal at Inovo VC. “I haven't heard such unified, strong positive feedback about a value proposition and space from so many different stakeholders - AI founders, cybersecurity operators, and data scientists - for a long time. It can be summarized by ‘the problem is clear, it will only grow, the value is obvious, the timing is now.” We deeply thank all of our investors and partners for believing in our vision and joining us on our mission to create a future of safe and trustworthy AI. Learn more in the exclusive coverage from Sky News 👇 https://lnkd.in/dMwCbARd #preseed #SecurityforAI #LLMSecurity #AISecurity #pentesting #ConversationalAI

Balkans (🇭🇷🇸🇮🇷🇸🇧🇦🇲🇰) are starting to be our second home. :) Together with Stefan we're in Ljubljana today/tmrw and we'd love to meet founders/operators who are working on something new or raising pre/seed. Any recos? We'd be grateful! :) Inovo.vc, Gregor, Tatjana, Tom #Slovenia #startups #founders

Over a year ago, we lost a deal in 🇭🇺, because we were too late to the party. That motivated us to take a bold step and speed up our deal-sourcing process by building an AI sourcing platform - to see more founders, analyse them faster and focus on building relationships with the most interesting ones. Twelve months later, we've just closed our third investment sourced directly through this tool! 🥳 Here’s a quick rundown of what we’ve achieved: • More investments: Mindly and two not announced yet 🇭🇷🇱🇹 • Deal flow increase: The tool has increased our top-of-funnel (screened, relevant startups) deal flow by ~49% allowing us to discover more founders/startups • Faster decision-making: Every lead is scored (1-5 stars) depending on many factors (ex jobs, unis, exits etc.), it helps to focus on the most promising startups. • Better coverage: We invest in founders from entire Central and Eastern Europe, yet we don't have strong network in every country. It has enabled us to tap into a wider range of geographies, including our latest investments in the Balkan and Baltic regions. For example coverage of 'quality deals' in Baltics improved by 55%. The future of VCl is here, and it’s AI-driven to let you focus on building real relationships with founders instead of being swamped in not-value-adding things. We’re not just sourcing more deals; we’re sourcing the right deals! :) Excited about what’s next for us and looking forward to continuing to push the boundaries of what's possible in venture investing! Thank you 🌊Maciej & Igor it wouldn't have happened without you! Inovo.vc #AI #venturecapital #aisourcing #investing #data  

Yesterday we had a great meeting of Young Operators in Warsaw. Many thanks to Alexander Chekan, Chief of Staff @ Palta, for sharing stories from scaling tech companies like Flo Health Inc. (unicorn since this week), Simple, WeatherWell, and other portfolio companies! If you want to know about our next event - follow Young Operators!

Welcome on board Stefan Krstevski! 🇲🇰 🇭🇷