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Today, I am humbled to share that DeepIP has raised $15M in Series A funding! What a journey it has been! A few months ago, we were just getting started. Now? ✅ The leading product in the market with over 8,500+ patent applications drafted ✅ Seven-figure ARR—before our first birthday ✅ Trusted by the largest IP firms in the USA & in EU (Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A., JACOBACCI & PARTNERS S.p.A. … just to name a few) The timing of this funding couldn’t be better! The demand for AI-powered patent drafting is going off the charts and every major firm is equipping itself with AI right now. And I’m not surprised… if we compare the efficiency of firms that use AI vs. those that don’t—it’s becoming clear that this is no longer optional. It’s a prerequisite to compete. As Barry Schindler put it in our fireside chat with Gene Quinn: 🚀 “This is an arms race.” 🚀 If you’re not using generative AI for patent drafting, you’re leaving money—and efficiency—on the table. Period. Heartfelt thanks to our incredible partners your belief in our vision: Maxime Le Dantec and the Resonance team, Jonathan Userovici & Jacopo Luperi from Headline (Mistral AI), Bertrand Diard Serena (Dataiku), and Bernard Liautaud Balderton Capital. And of course, our incredible team as this is more than ever a collective journey—Edouard D., Paul-Emile C., Damien Mossuz, Sacha LAFAURIE, Pierre Leveau, Mounia MIR, Thomas C., Laura Dieu…—who are pushing the boundaries every day. Obviously my wife Alienor Marion who is supporting me in all my ventures. A special thanks to our power users—Andre Marais, Barry Schindler, Ed Guntin, Eric Gruson, Paolo Ernesto Crippa—for their invaluable contributions and insightful feedback, which have played a key role in making DeepIP one of the finest tools available for IP practitioners. We’re not just watching the future of patent law unfold. We’re building it. For more information, visit www.deepip.ai or follow our journey here on LinkedIn. #DeepIP #SeriesAFunding #Innovation #LegalTech #PatentLaw #AI 🔗 Check out the full announcement on https://lnkd.in/eTrphMjh

Introducing GAIA-2 🌎 Generative world modeling just stepped up a gear. GAIA-2 is the latest development of Wayve’s video-generative world model tailored for autonomous driving.  A leap forward in controllability & realism 👉With a coherent surround-camera view that’s reflective of our real-world camera array, GAIA-2 offers richer, more realistic, and highly controllable synthetic driving scenarios. Advancing safety 👉Using GAIA-2, we can simulate multiple common safety-critical scenarios, generating rare and high-risk events that can be impractical or unsafe to capture through real-world data collection alone. Learn how GAIA-2 accelerates Wayve’s path to safe driver assistance and automated driving at scale. Blog 🔗https://lnkd.in/ean-Kd6A #GAIA2 #GAIA #EmbodiedAI #Science

AI is changing how we navigate the web. Traditional key word search and mere lists of links as search results will make way for a new, more interactive and personalised form of AI-powered search forcing Google & co to rethink their model. This is Part 1 of a series where we’ll explore the dynamics of the search market, how AI is changing it and how incumbents react. In Part 2, we’ll take a closer look at some of the opportunities we’re seeing for startups in the market. If you're a founder, operator or investor who wants to chat about AI search - please do reach out!

Today is a significant step for Innovate Cambridge as we announce our Innovation Advisory Council and publish our updated Strategy.   Inspired by thriving ecosystems across the world, we have assembled world-class science, tech and innovation leaders to share international perspective and best practice in creating innovation ecosystems and accelerate the social, environmental and economic impact the ecosystem can achieve.   Science Minister and Oxford-Cambridge Growth Corridor Champion, Lord Vallance said: “Cambridge’s Advisory Council will bring together a genuinely extraordinary group of leaders and experts. Their insight and deep experience will be an important resource for us to draw upon, as we push on with work to unleash the potential of this city, and the entire Oxford-Cambridge Corridor, to improve people’s lives.”   Our Executive Director, Kathryn Chapman said: “Cambridge is the beating heart of UK R&D and we want to turn this into social and economic impact for the whole country. The Advisory Council will help to drive us forward this mission.”   For the full release and list of Council members, please see our press release here - https://bit.ly/41A1hme For the updated strategy see here - http://bit.ly/4iEAmg6 Thank you to our Founders and Partners: Cambridge Innovation Capital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Enterprise, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge City college, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, Cambridge Judge Business School

As Open AI wanted to move towards taking control and ownership of its identity stack, it needed more than what most vendors offered in the industry and found Ory Corp Working closely with Ory, they are now managing 400M weekly active users. Ory is open source software that has proven the ability to scale to thousands of logins per second in our own load testing and is now helping to manage 100% of ChatGPT’s web traffic through our enterprise license. If you’re stuck with an inflexible, outage-prone, and outdated identity provider, switch to Ory Corp Aeneas Rekkas tells the story better than I do. Link in the comments

As I first revealed on Monday, Dex's mission is to empower individuals to do meaningful work. By connecting the brightest individuals with opportunities that align with their ambitions and values, we are aiming to redefine how talent and opportunity are united. Today, I want to go a level deeper on that mission. Every career is a journey of a thousand decisions. Which path to take? When to leap? How to grow? Because landing a job to survive is not enough, it's about finding your place to thrive. It's about waking up excited for the day ahead. It's about growing into your potential. At Dex, our aim is to be the champion in your corner. Not just matching skills to roles; but aligning passions with purpose. Dex gets to know you, beyond the CV. What makes your professional heart, beat. What makes the fire in your belly, burn. A key part of this equation to a successful, meaningful and ultimately fulfilling career is inspiration. As human beings, we are naturally attracted to storytelling. So we want to bring the career inspiration to you. Today we are launching the first episode of the official DexFactor Podcast, featuring leading VC Balderton Capital’s Chief Portfolio Talent Officer Leah Sutton Each week we aim to bring you the career story of someone who has inspired us, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to launch the pod by telling Leah’s story.  In this first episode Leah discusses memorable hires that significantly impacted her leadership, the challenges of hiring for product roles, and the importance of learning from hiring mistakes. Leah emphasizes the need for candidates to be intentional in their job search and the significance of negotiation during job offers. I hope you enjoy! And don’t forget to watch the full episode and sign up to get every episode delivered straight to your inbox weekly, link in comments. #hiring #dex #talent