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Just Lunch: The Compensation Conversation
How do startups and scaleups decide how they want to compensate their team members?

Leveraging AI to Boost Decision Intelligence and Business Success: Why We Invested in Silico.ai
We’re excited to announce that we’ve backed London-based Silico in a £3.4 million Seed round alongside existing investors Forward Partners and high profile business angels from the B2B enterprise field.

Autodesk Acquires Prodsmart to Transform Manufacturing Across Europe
This week, we’re celebrating a huge win for European industrial manufacturing startups. Here’s why this acquisition is so important for industrial tech.

Proxyclick acquired by Thoma Bravo portfolio company Condeco
The second exit of Join’s first fund will create a groundbreaking toolkit for corporates to navigate today’s ever-changing workplace environment.

Flexciton’s Jamie Potter on surviving the early stages as an industrial enterprise startup
In an industry where commercial success cannot be rushed, here’s how Flexciton navigated its way to a Series A.

Founder Fix #4: Reorganizing Engineering to Focus on Product
Hear the story of how WIZZCAD cleared its internal information bottleneck and opened up dialogue to create a brand new Product team

AI for power electronics: Why we invested in Frenetic
In a €4.5 million round co-led with Bonsai, we’ve backed Madrid-based magnetics design company Frenetic. The company is revolutionizing magnetics through AI, replacing outdated engineering models across sectors.

AI for Patent Search: Why we invested in IPRally
As we forge ahead in 2021, we’re excited to announce our co-leading of the €2.0m Seed financing round for Helsinki-based IPRally, alongside Spintop Ventures and existing investor Icebreaker.vc. Sakari, Juho, Juuso and the IPRally team have built a remarkable product and quadrupled revenues in 2020 despite a global pandemic.

RheoCube’s simulation software empowers the new era of R&D. Here’s why we invested.
Together with Holland Capital, we proudly announce our backing of RheoCube, an Amsterdam-based simulation and software company offering breakthrough technology for chemical research and development. RheoCube provides virtual prototyping, replacing up to 90% of synthesis and laboratory experiments with detailed bottom-up scientific simulations.