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Announcing Entalpic’s 8.5m€ seed round co-lead by Breega, Cathay Innovation and Felicis A few months ago, Mathieu Galtier (CEO), Victor Schmidt (CTO) and Alexandre Duval (CSO) launched Entalpic after several years building the technology within academia. To get to the next step of actual CO2 emission removal, we have launched a for-profit company intending to build an AI powerhouse for materials discovery. We are targeting industrial processes with large CO2 emissions and believe that we can contribute to the emergence of greener and cheaper alternatives. Electrocatalysis is our first focus. Our ambition is massive: generative AI will drive a new wave of discoveries in materials science and chemistry. But bringing the output of these combined technologies to market will be hard and we intend to be the best of both worlds. We are an “ML for science” company. We believe in the transformative power of technology and science, and our ambition is to make a positive difference in the climate crisis. Many thanks to Maximilien Bacot from Breega, Jacky Abitbol from Cathay Innovation and Gabriella G. from Felicis for their trust and support. This funding will help us: - Build a world-class team of ML engineers and materials scientists. - Run physical experiments (outsourced) to generate rich datasets. - Train large ML models to generate relevant catalyst candidates. If you want to know more about us, check our website at https://entalpic.ai/ It is just the beginning, but we could not have reached this step without the invaluable help of friends, colleagues, and institutions that have made us who we are today. It is time for public and heartfelt thanks: - To our advisors who have been challenging our ideas Yoshua Bengio, Thomas Wolf, Michal Valko, Xavier Bresson, Jean-Louis Quéguiner, Arnaud Robert, Jörg Weiser, Clémence Bellanger, Henri Delahaye,Théau Peronnin, Camille Marini, and Gilles Wainrib - To the institutions that have trained and educated us: Mines Paris - PSL, CentraleSupélec, École Polytechnique, Ecole normale supérieure, University of Warwick, Inria, UCL and Universite de Montreal. - To Owkin and its co-founders Thomas Clozel and Gilles Wainrib, which our CEO helped grow from tiny startup to AI unicorn, and which gave back so much to us in the form of learnings and friends. - To Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute and 21st by CentraleSupélec who are accompanying us in the first steps of our journey With this funding, we feel emboldened that our vision is possible. Let’s get to work!

📢 Avis à la communauté des startups : Vous souhaitez accélérer l’adoption et le développement de vos solutions #GenAI ? Nous avons une bonne nouvelle pour vous ! Avec STATION F, Mistral AI, NVIDIA, GitHub et Cellenza, nous lançons le Microsoft GenAI Studio, un programme d’accélération destiné à soutenir 15 startups françaises en leur offrant des ressources spécialisées et un accompagnement de pointe pour exploiter pleinement l'IA générative. Comme le souligne notre Présidente Corine De Bilbao : "Ce programme est conçu pour aider les startups à passer de la phase de réflexion à la mise en œuvre concrète de leurs solutions d’IA Générative. Nous sommes déterminés à offrir les ressources et le soutien nécessaires pour transformer leurs idées novatrices en projets tangibles, capables d’être déployés à grande échelle." Les candidatures sont ouvertes jusqu’au 30 septembre 👉 http://msft.it/6041mDnyb Pour élargir l’accès à ces opportunités, nous déployons également le programme à travers la France dès septembre, avec des événements à Lyon, Nantes, Bordeaux, Marseille et Toulouse. Ces rencontres permettront aux startups locales de bénéficier de notre expertise en IA et de créer des synergies avec l’écosystème local.

Early Builders x Mafia Spendesk Few weeks ago I made a post about the Palantir Technologies mafia which is booming. But if you step back you have so many Tier1 companies like that training the future Unicorns Founders : Revolut, PayPal, OpenAI and some 🇫🇷 ones as well like Spendesk 😎 So we decided to invite 3 ex Spendesk now building their own ventures: 👉 Lucas Bédout, former VP Engineering Spendesk and now Founder Hyperline 👉 Jérémy Goillot former Head of Growth Spendesk and now Founder The Mobile-First Company 👉 Morgan O'hana former former Head of Partnerships & Strategic Projects Spendesk and now Founder Defacto They will explain us how being an early employees help them to be the founders they are today (among few other things). So don't miss it and take your seats : https://lu.ma/sqck9qz8 🎟️ 🗓️ Thursday, September 12th at 7:00 PM ⏱ 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM 📍STATION F - Paris ----- Thanks to STATION F for hosting the event and to our amazing partners Hexa and Frst !