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🚀 Fueling the Future of Engineering: Marple Raises New Funding to Drive Data-Driven Innovation 🌍 Marple, the Antwerpen-based B2B SaaS startup, just raised a round led by Network Venture Partners, with backing from Birdhouse Ventures and imec.istart, to take its engineering data analysis platform to new heights! 🌐 What Marple Brings to Engineering Teams: • Data-Driven Decisions 📊 – A web-based platform enabling engineers to analyze time series data from tests and sensors with ease. • Serving High-Impact Industries 🚗✈️ – Already making waves in automotive and aerospace, helping teams optimize complex systems. • Global Reach 🌎 – Used by 3000+ engineers worldwide at companies like Atlas Copco, Verhaert | Masters in Innovation, Yuso, DeepDrive, Eddy Grid, AURA-AERO. Founded by Innovators Matthias Baert and Nero Vanbiervliet With a focus on empowering engineers, Marple is set to redefine efficiency and insight for global engineering teams. Here’s to data-driven engineering breakthroughs! 🚀 📢 Stay tuned to Future Techly for the latest updates on this groundbreaking initiative and the latest in tech and business! 💥 Source: FinSMEs ♻️ Repost if you think this insight is worth sharing! #EngineeringExcellence #SaaS #DataDriven #Marple #FutureTechly

Innovation thrives when we work together! At Spaising Technologies, collaboration is the key to unlocking groundbreaking solutions. Let's build the future, hand in hand. 💡🤝 #InnovationThroughCollaboration #SpaisingTechnologies #TechSolutions #FutureReady #CollaborateToInnovate #TechInnovation

Enabling innovative businesses to fly high with Innovate UK support 🚀 Hertfordshire-based business, Kestrix offers a thermal imaging and AI solution to scale building retrofit. They use thermal drones and AI to map heat loss from buildings and generate energy efficient retrofit plans, not only for single homes, but for cities at a time – so housing providers, energy utilities, local governments, installers and the like can spend less time planning retrofits, and more time delivering them. Innovate UK Business Growth has been working with Kestrix in three key areas: 📈 Business strategy and value proposition 💷 Funding and grants 🤝Created a 3-year plan This supported has brought about the following impacts: 💷 Gained several grants e.g. £100k Net Zero, £160k EDF Heat Pumps grant 👷♂️ Recruited 7 software engineers and 1 operations associate. 🤝Raised £1M in equity funding including Pi Labs. Lucy said: “Sometimes entrepreneurs are 'stuck in the weeds' and do not find ample time to take a step back and look at the big picture. Especially in the early days, sessions with Jeremy provided a great space for Matt and I to voice our challenges and plans for the future. This was helpful for our own thinking, but also for our alignment as co-founders; the space Jeremy made for us really helped us ensure we continued to be on the same page, which became more important as our roles became more siloed over time. The methods for documenting strategy were also helpful and tools that we will likely use again in the future." Get in touch with Innovate UK Business Growth today, to see if we can support your innovative business: https://ow.ly/WTYR50TEknJ #NetZero #BusinessGrowth

🚀 We have some big news here at DataForm Lab!! 🚀 📣 We are delighted to share that we have completed a £1.1M Seed round led by Marathon Venture Capital, to accelerate the adoption of automation in offsite construction! 📣 Construction is a key global economic sector, but it's under pressure to meet growing building demands. Offsite manufacturing, which involves assembling buildings in factories rather than on-site, offers a solution. Adopting automation in offsite construction is essential to overcome capacity limits. However, many facilities still rely on manual work and face challenges in translating designs to production efficiently. DataForm Lab's software platform is unique in its ability to seamlessly link design and manufacturing for offsite construction. The platform enables manufacturers to automatically configure projects, instantly translate designs into production drawings and machine code, and simulate and optimise factory operations through dynamic scheduling. At DataForm Lab we are on a mission to unlock capacity and investment in offsite construction, and this Seed round will continue to support the growth of our amazing team and accelerate our ambitious product roadmap! ✨ We are delighted to have the support and commitment of our lead investor Marathon Venture Capital and angel investor Johanna Konrad. ✨ Also, shout out to our awesome team: Harsh Shah Nikhil Raj Bingze Li Alpeche Pancha Adelina Koleva, AIA Get in touch to explore how our platform can optimise productivity and unlock new capacities in your offsite factory! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ejPx8yBQ #automation #innovation #dataformlab #designautomation #manufacturingautomation #mmc #offsiteconstruction #investment

Mark Lyons and I started Molg with a mission to tackle e-waste head-on, and today, I’m thrilled to announce a major milestone in that journey: we’ve raised $5.5 million in seed funding! 🎉 A huge thank you to our incredible team, whose hard work and dedication continue to drive our vision forward every day. We’re also grateful to our new mission-aligned investors, including Closed Loop Partners’ Ventures Group, Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, ABB Robotics & Automation Ventures, Overture , Elemental Impact, and Techstars, for believing in our potential to revolutionize circular manufacturing. This funding will allow us to scale our robotic microfactories and increase our capacity to meet the growing demand for sustainable electronics solutions. At Molg, we believe that achieving true circularity requires rethinking design and leveraging dynamic automation to keep valuable components and materials in circulation. This investment marks an exciting step towards making that vision a reality. Check out the full press release for more details: https://lnkd.in/gwCcBNk3 Here’s to a circular future! 🌍♻️ #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #CircularManufacturing #Robotics #ElectronicsRecycling #ClimateAction #ManufacturingInnovation #Funding #Molg #Demanufacturing

At lomarlabs, we collaborate with deep tech companies to provide them access to Lomar Shipping’s diversified fleet of containerships, dry bulk and tanker vessels so that together we can responsibly test their innovative solutions in a real-time #maritime environment. This not only accelerates technical and commercial readiness but also ensures safety and feasibility at sea. We foster collaboration between startups, established players, and regulators to unlock a future-proof maritime industry. Interested in delving deeper into the discussions at the Delphi Economic Forum where our Managing Director, Stylianos Papageorgiou, recently imparted valuable insights about navigating the evolving landscape of energy regulations in the shipping industry? Watch the full video here: https://lnkd.in/dDYZ-BfP #shipping #sustainability #innovation #collaboration #deeptech

🚀 How FifthRow is Transforming Consulting Through Automation As businesses face mounting pressure to innovate faster with fewer resources, FifthRow is redefining the consulting landscape. Imagine an innovation consulting partner that doesn’t just advise — it automates essential processes, using AI to drive quicker decisions and high-impact results at a fraction of the usual cost. Here’s how FifthRow stands out: 1️⃣ From Advice to Automated Action: FifthRow deploys autonomous agents to handle key consulting tasks, transforming traditional services into scalable, SaaS-like solutions. Picture tasks like market research, competitive analysis, and regulatory tracking — streamlined, precise, and always on demand. 2️⃣ Cost-Efficiency at Scale: By automating repetitive tasks, FifthRow clients are achieving up to 80% savings on traditional consulting fees. This approach keeps advanced strategies affordable and frees bandwidth for more strategic priorities. 3️⃣ Tailored Solutions for Rapid Execution: FifthRow’s platform empowers businesses to research emerging areas, ideate and test product concepts, match top talent, and unlock new revenue streams — all through AI-driven workflows that reduce time-to-market and accelerate growth. This is more than just technology; it’s a way to help teams focus on bigger goals and drive meaningful change. Curious about the future of consulting? FifthRow is already setting the pace. 🌟 As you're planning for 2025, let’s connect and explore what FifthRow could bring to your capabilities. #Innovation #Automation #FutureOfConsulting #BusinessTransformation Jan Beránek, Ilya Filonau, Sean Sheppard, Jean Vernor, Ryan Fleming, Dina Haggenjos

Tamarack Global closes a second Opportunity II fund at $72 million #Tamarack Global, an early-stage deeptech #VC firm based in Darien, Connecticut, and Los Angeles, has successfully closed its Opportunities II fund at $72 million. This new fund is more than twice the size of their flagship fund and brings the firm's total assets under management to over $211 million. Led by Founder and Managing Partner John McCormick, Managing Partner Jamie Lee, and General Partner Austin Bishop, Tamarack Global specializes in investing in seed and Series A companies that are advancing solutions in areas like energy transition, defense technology, the space economy, robotics and automation, AI, and more. The Opportunities II fund has already started deploying capital into notable companies such as Figure.ai, Impulse Space, CHAOS Industries, Rainmaker Technology Corporation, Rilian Technologies, Terminal, Blue Energy, Fuse Energy, and EARTH AI. The article on #VCwiretech in the first comment.

More than 200 partners involved in our R&D projects at Statnett SF were gathered at our bi-annual Research and Innovation Conference to discuss challenges and solutions necessary for the green transition, and how innovation and cooperation can ensure safe and robust power supply as foundation for good lives and sustainable value creation. The most important learning point at the conference was: 👉 #Innovation is complex, require substantial resources and the time from idea to a new product, a new concept or a new process might take a long time. For an R&D driven organisation like Statnett SF as well as our partners predicable politics and risk reducing financing are central. Innovations are seldom carried out in a vacuum and will often require a close collaboration between pilot customer, suppliers, R&D institutions, start-ups, authorities, etc. We are greatful to be joined up with so many wonderful partners that supported us to make the conference a success and work with us closely to develop the technology we need to achieve #netzero.

Industrial Expertise. That's Propeller Talent LLC. People have asked, "Why are you limiting yourself to manufacturing, distribution, and industrial services?" The short answer - Because we're the best at it. Manufacturing isn't going anywhere. Continued innovation, AI, and cutting-edge processes are happening, and it's all right here in the US. Industrials are a unique animal that requires an equally unique set of skills and experience. We know the ins, outs, ups, and downs of manufacturing, distribution, and industrial services. Complex situations like family-owned companies transitioning to ESOP or ownership transitions between private equity funds are no problem. We understand the special cultural issues and dynamics needed to find the right talent to helm the ship. Industrials and manufacturing are our WHY. Let's meet! #privatequity #esops #familyownedbusiness #executiverecruiting #executivesandmanagement #executivesearchfirm Heather Forston Alberti Jay D. Rosencrantz Timothy Pappas Mary Ann Clairday Sean Moran Mark Pappas