🎤 30 of the most influential people shaping Europe's Spinout ecosystem right now! 🇪🇺 From founders and investors to university leaders, tech transfer pioneers and policymakers, these are the voices pushing the frontier forward. And where are European spinouts heading next? 🧑‍🔬 On 18 November, the new European Spinouts Report 2026 launches at @SlushHQ , in collaboration with Atlantic, MITO Technology, FORWARD one and AlbionVC. It's a deep dive into which universities produce spinout value, which sectors create the biggest outcomes, and what separates the spinouts that scale. Get early access, link in the comments Plus, let us know who's missing from the list! The Top 30: - Francesco Sciortino, Co-Founder & CEO, Proxima Fusion - Lisa Ericsson, Head of KTH Innovation & CEO, KTH Ventures - Karin Beukel, Chief Innovation Officer, University of Copenhagen - Marco Hutter, Professor & Director, ETH Center for Robotics, ETH Zurich - Frank Floessel, Head of ETH Entrepreneurship, ETH Zurich - Ana Avaliani, Director of Enterprise, Royal Academy of Engineering - Anu Honkalinna, Head of Spinoff Asset Management, Aalto University - Devika Thapar, Co-Founder & COO, Wilbe - Rafael Laguna de la Vera, Director General, SPRIND - Paul-François Fournier, Executive Director of Innovation, Bpifrance - Ekaterina Zaharieva, Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation, EC - Greg De Temmerman, Director Deep Tech, Spin-Off and Ecosystems, Techleap - Margrethe Jonkman, Chair of the Executive Board, VU Amsterdam - Yann Menière, Chief Economist, European Patent Office - Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, former Co-editor Global Innovation Index; Director, Creative Economy - Lisa Smith, CEO, Midlands Mindforge - Diarmuid O’Brien, Chief Executive, Research Ireland - Tomas Coates Ulrichsen, Director, Policy Evidence Unit, University of Cambridge - Jan Goetz, Co-Founder & CEO, IQM - Daniel Metzler, Co-Founder & CEO, Isar Aerospace - Helmut Schönenberger, Co-Founder & CEO, UnternehmerTUM - Jamie Macfarlane, Founder & CEO, Creator Fund - Paul Van Dun, General Manager, KU Leuven Research & Development - Massimiliano Granieri, Board Member & Policy Lead, Netval - Stefano Buono, Founder & CEO, newcleo - Jens Nielsen, CEO, BioInnovation Institute - Simon Hepworth, Interim Chief Development Officer at UKRI & President at TenU - Paweł Bochniarz, Managing Partner, Radix Ventures - David Barber, Director, UKRI SOFAIR Lab, UCL - Malte Brettel, Prorector for Industry and Business Relations, RWTH Aachen And of course, the authors of the European Spinouts Report: Lorenzo Chiavarini, Leonardo Massa, Quentin Calleja, Boy de Jonge, Dave Grimm. 🙌 Explore the top 30 profiles and their backgrounds, and get early access to the report 👉🏼 dealroom.co/top-30-people-eu…

We placed the fruit fly brain inside Odyssey-3, a frontier world model. The lil’ guy is now flying around totally imagined, simulated worlds all by itself 🫶

6,000 years of world history on a single timeline. Zoom in. You could spend 30 minutes exploring this.

🇪🇺 Europe’s next chapter: 5 Scenarios, 10+ year horizon. As tech accelerates, institutions drift, and geopolitical pressure rises, five future scenarios are becoming visible. Crisis accelerates history. 💤 Status Quo / Decline The EU drifts. No reform, no collapse, just slower growth, more brain drain, and geopolitical irrelevance. 🇪🇺 Federation Europe Europe unites under a new digital-first constitution, with real powers over tax, defense, innovation, and capital markets. Requires: Requires a big crisis/war + bold leadership + public buy-in for voting new constitution. 🌐 Network Society Founders, citizens, and capital exit slow states and build decentralised, digital-first communities with their own governance, transparent protocols and currencies. Already happening with crypto, DAOs based governance, encrypted voting, on-chain identity. ⚠️ Balkanised Europe Europe fragments into incompatible blocs. North vs South, East vs West. Each with its own laws, alliances, and agendas. Each block make separate deals with global super powers. 🛰 Techno-colonisation U.S. and Chinese tech giants quietly take over infrastructure, platforms, and data. Europe becomes a digital dependency zone, governed by foreign platforms and protocols. Real controls are in AI, LLMs, chips and energy. And capital flows bypass Europe. - Which scenario is most likely? 🤔

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Data brokers are now buying up SaaS data sets for anywhere from $100K to $2M SaaS are struggling now and some extra money to fill the gap by declining revenues is nice That data is then re-sold to AI training companies and AI frontier labs for the exact purpose of integrating whatever that SaaS did into the AI frontier lab's app Pretty obvious to see where this is going

NEW REPORTS: Global VC reached $184B in Q3 2026, up 45% on the same quarter last year. The combined value of VC-backed companies now stands at $52.7T. Q3 quarterly reports are out. The global picture: 🇺🇸 The US raised $108B, more than the next nine countries combined 💰 $1B+ rounds made up 40% of all capital 🤖 AI companies at ever layer accounted for 80% of funding raised 🚀 Space was the third-biggest sector at $20.3B, led by Blue Origin's $10B round 🔔 Biggest exits: ChangXin Memory listed at $79.6B and SpaceX | xAI acquired Cursor for $60B Explore over 400 countries, cities and regions: dealroom.co/quarterly-report…

it’s clear we need to retire the term vibe coding because the models now produce better architecture & way more coherent code than an average software engineer. perhaps even better than top software engineers too because unlike a human, ai has a much much larger context window. this ain’t vibe coding at all. it’s precision engineering.