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Ted Persson, Partner at EQT Ventures, and Carl Ljunggren, Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, recently took the stage at EQT Ventures and EQT Growth's flagship portfolio event Scale Summit to present The Climate Brick. In front of an audience of early-stage tech founders and CEOs, they discussed the hurdles and opportunities involved in scaling climate tech companies.
🇬🇧 Last night, we teamed up with Sifted and Product Land to host a pre-party that brought together some of London’s top tech leaders and investors, setting the stage for Sifted Summit. A big thank you to everyone who attended! Hope to see you at Sifted Summit today, and don't miss: Bernt Øivind Børnich, Founder & CEO at 1X Hélène Huby, Founder & CEO at The Exploration Company Corinne Aaron, CMO at Einride
As we hosted founders and CEOs at Scale Summit in Stockholm, we made sure attendees got a true taste of the Swedish archipelago and a traditional Swedish crayfish party—with a modern AI twist (Princess Momo Arnesson). We set sail, and the team at Candela put on a breathtaking sunset show with their 100% electric hydrofoil boats. The Candela C-8 is a long-range, all-electric craft that glides silently above the water, while the Candela P-12 showcases the future of fast electric commuting. It was a perfect blend of tradition and innovation! Thank you Candela, Gustav Hasselskog, Mikael Mahlberg 🌅
New investment alert! Vsim ’s revolutionary architecture and set of algorithms enable companies in robotics, AI, Visual FX, research, and the industrial metaverse to fast track a wide range of cross-disciplinary, high quality physics simulations. The seed funding round led by EQT Ventures will support the growth of Vsim’s exceptional team as the company seeks to build a full-stack solution tailored to robotics. Co-founded in 2022 and led by Michelle Lu, CEO, and Kier Storey, CTO, Vsim benefits from its founders’ 20 years of experience in physics simulation that include over a decade each in Nvidia's simulation technology team, developing open-source physics engines. Sandra Malmberg 👋, the partner at EQT Ventures who led the round, said in an interview with TechCrunch: “The reason we’re excited about simulation is that it’s fundamental to a lot of different sectors, ranging from research to entertainment to manufacturing, pharma and robotics. Simulation tools today are built for a world with a limited degree of freedom and for fixed environments, but as ambitions for applications grow, robots (and other autonomous machines) will need to make decisions in real time and in the real world, which is dynamic and unpredictable. “There is no simulation platform for that today,” Malmberg continued. “This calls for a high performance simulation where you can act with speed, in real time, with accuracy, taking the room and the world into consideration. And this is what Vsim is building. They can enable robots initially and later, they will do more.” Excited to be part of this alongside Factorial Funds, Samsung Next, Tru Arrow Partners, Xora Innovation (a fully owned subsidiary of Temasek), IQ Capital, Koro Capital, Concept Ventures, Lakestar Scout Fund, and Carles Reina. This follows a pre-seed fundraise led by Concept Ventures in 2023.
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