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💻 Huawei: Ditching Windows with its first HarmonyOS laptops Huawei has officially cut the cord from Western OSes. With the launch of its first HarmonyOS 5 laptops, it’s betting big on a China-first computing future—starting with a foldable that rivals the MacBook. 💻 Two bold designs, no Microsoft in sight • MateBook Fold: 18” OLED foldable with no keyboard, folds to 13” • MateBook Pro: 14.2” traditional laptop with sleek HarmonyOS interface • Both powered by HarmonyOS 5—built from scratch, no Android or Linux core 🚀 Built to run on Huawei’s ecosystem • HarmonyOS now runs on 1B+ devices globally • Laptops support 150+ native apps at launch, incl. WPS Office and Meitu • Targeting seamless integration with Huawei phones, tablets, wearables 💡 A strategic play—not just a product launch • Aims to replace Windows/macOS in Huawei’s supply chain • Driven by US trade restrictions blocking Android + Intel partnerships • No Google, no Windows—full-stack national tech independence 💰 Premium pricing, premium message • MateBook Fold: ¥23,999 ($3,328), 32GB RAM, 2TB storage • MateBook Pro: ¥7,999 ($1,100) entry point • Focused on domestic market dominance before global export Huawei isn’t just launching laptops—it’s laying the groundwork for a post-Western operating system future. 📊 Powered by V3V Ventures

🎵 Audoo: The royalty tech startup backed by Adele to fix broken payouts Audoo is building a fairer music economy—starting in cafés and gyms. With $8.8M in new funding (and Adele on board), it’s rolling out tech that ensures artists get paid when their music is played in public. 🎯 Hardware-first solution to a $3B problem • Installs plug-in Audio Meters in public spaces to detect songs in real time • Uses a 120M+ track database and cloud platform to log usage accurately • Fixes the decades-old issue of untracked public performance royalties 🚀 Star-studded and scaling fast • Backed by Adele, Elton John, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, and Paul McCartney • Already live with PRS for Music and PPL across the UK and Europe • Expanding to Africa and Australasia as part of global rollout 🛸 Founded by a frustrated musician • CEO Ryan Edwards was a touring artist who never saw his royalties add up • Started Audoo in 2018 to bring transparency and accountability to music plays • Now 7.2M developers are building apps on its HarmonyOS-style platform for creators 💰 Fairness is now investable • £7M (~$8.8M) round brings total funding to £18M • New capital goes toward scaling devices + partnerships with rights orgs • Positioned as critical infrastructure for post-streaming royalties Audoo isn’t trying to replace Spotify—it’s building the layer that makes sure artists finally get paid from it. 📊 Powered by V3V Ventures

🤖 Hedra Brings Lifelike AI Characters to Enterprise Marketing San Francisco-based AI startup Hedra has raised $32 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s Infrastructure fund. The company aims to revolutionize enterprise marketing by enabling the creation of lifelike digital characters through its AI-driven video generation platform. ✅ Key Developments • The $32 million Series A round brings Hedra’s total funding to $44 million, with participation from existing investors including a16z Speedrun, Abstract, and Index Ventures. • Hedra’s Character-3 model integrates text, image, and audio inputs to produce realistic digital characters, facilitating the creation of engaging video content for marketing purposes. • The company plans to expand its team and establish a New York City office to support its growth into enterprise marketing applications. 🔺 Why It Matters • Traditional video production can be time-consuming and costly; Hedra’s AI-powered solution offers a faster and more scalable alternative for creating high-quality marketing content. • The platform’s ability to generate lifelike digital characters helps brands create more personalized and engaging customer experiences. • By overcoming the “uncanny valley” challenge in digital character creation, Hedra enables more natural and relatable virtual personas. 📉 The Strategic Shift • Hedra is transitioning from serving primarily digital creators to focusing on enterprise clients, aiming to become a key player in the AI-driven marketing space. • The company is investing in the development of its Character-3 model to enhance the realism and expressiveness of its digital characters. • With the new funding, Hedra plans to scale its operations and further develop its platform to meet the growing demand for AI-generated marketing content. Hedra’s innovative approach to AI-generated video content positions it to significantly impact the future of enterprise marketing. 📊 Powered by V3V Ventures

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🛡️ Optics11 Enhances Europe’s Infrastructure Security with Advanced Fiber Optic Sensing Amsterdam-based deep-tech company Optics11 is pioneering advanced fiber optic sensing solutions to safeguard Europe’s critical infrastructure. By developing ultra-sensitive early warning systems, the company aims to protect vital assets like undersea cables, offshore wind farms, and high-voltage transformers from threats such as sabotage and aging-related failures. ✅ Key Developments • Optics11 has introduced technologies like OptiFender, which detects early signs of electrical failures in high and medium voltage systems, and OptiBarrier and OptiArray, which provide continuous monitoring of subsea infrastructure. • The company collaborates with energy and maritime operators to implement its sensing solutions, enhancing the resilience of Europe’s energy supply and maritime routes. • OptiArray is set to be integrated into the Royal Netherlands Navy’s upcoming Orka-class submarines, enhancing their navigational and defensive capabilities. ⚡️ Why It Matters • With 40% of Europe’s 90,000 high-voltage transformers exceeding their lifespan and production backlogs extending to 2030, there’s an urgent need for predictive maintenance solutions. • Recent incidents of undersea cable sabotage highlight the necessity for robust monitoring systems to protect critical communication and energy infrastructures. • Optics11’s fiber optic sensors offer advantages over traditional sensors, including immunity to electromagnetic interference and the ability to function reliably in harsh environments. 📉 The Broader Impact • By ensuring the reliability of infrastructure, Optics11’s technologies support the integration of renewable energy sources into the grid. • The company’s solutions enable a shift from reactive to predictive maintenance, reducing downtime and associated costs. • Advanced threat detection capabilities help distinguish between hostile and benign activities, contributing to national and regional security. Optics11 is not just addressing current infrastructure challenges but is also laying the groundwork for a more secure and resilient future. 📊 Powered by V3V Ventures

🌍 Xoople Emerges from Stealth to Pioneer Earth Intelligence with EarthAI Spanish startup Xoople has unveiled its EarthAI platform, positioning itself as the world’s first Earth Intelligence company. By integrating geospatial data with advanced AI, Xoople aims to provide real-time insights into Earth’s surface changes, enabling businesses and governments to make informed decisions across various sectors. 🛰️ Revolutionizing Earth Observation • Xoople’s proprietary system collects and processes continuous Earth surface data, delivering AI-ready datasets that can be seamlessly integrated into existing enterprise and GIS platforms. • The platform enables users to monitor, identify, and predict changes on Earth’s surface, facilitating proactive responses to environmental and infrastructural shifts. • From agriculture and logistics to finance and urban planning, EarthAI supports various industries in enhancing efficiency, sustainability, and risk management. 🤝 Strategic Collaborations and Support • Xoople collaborates with industry leaders like Microsoft and Esri to enhance its platform’s capabilities and reach. • Recognized as a Strategic Enterprise by Spain’s CDTI, Xoople benefits from support by entities such as AXIS and the Spanish Space Agency, underscoring its national significance in technological advancement. 🌐 A Vision for the Future Founded in 2019, Xoople is committed to unlocking the potential of Earth data intelligence. By removing the complexity of processing vast amounts of Earth data, the company aims to provide actionable intelligence that empowers organizations to make better decisions for a sustainable future. As EarthAI continues to evolve, Xoople’s innovative approach positions it at the forefront of transforming how we perceive and interact with our planet. 📊 Powered by V3V Ventures

🔥 OroraTech builds a satellite-powered digital twin to fight global wildfires Munich-based OroraTech is developing a thermal-infrared satellite network that enables real-time wildfire detection, aiming to make fire intelligence faster, global, and predictive. 🌎 A digital twin for wildfire monitoring • Operates a constellation of 10 thermal-infrared satellites monitoring Earth’s surface 24/7. • Creates a ‘wildfire digital twin’ — a real-time model that tracks, simulates, and predicts fire behavior. • Helps public agencies and private insurers detect fires early, assess risks, and act proactively. 📊 Scalable platform with global reach • Already used across Australia, Europe, and the Americas for fire management and emergency response. • Designed for scalability as wildfires intensify with climate change and extreme weather cycles. • Integrates thermal data, AI analytics, and satellite imaging for minute-level precision. 🔥 Where aerospace meets climate tech • Combines aerospace engineering, AI, and environmental science to solve a trillion-dollar climate challenge. • Expanding the platform to serve governments, insurers, forestry, and energy sectors. • Long-term vision: planet-scale monitoring of wildfire risk zones and carbon impact. OroraTech isn’t just putting satellites in orbit — it’s building a global intelligence layer for wildfire response. Will fire prediction soon be as common as weather forecasting? 📊 Powered by V3V Ventures

🧠 Cohere acquires Ottogrid to enhance enterprise AI research tools AI startup Cohere has acquired Ottogrid, a Vancouver-based platform that develops enterprise tools for automating certain kinds of high-level market research. 🔍 Automating market research workflows • Ottogrid’s platform offers a native table interface with AI-powered document analysis capabilities, enabling users to extract data from websites and save it directly to spreadsheets or automatically enrich sales lead lists. • The platform was rebranded in October 2024 with a major redesign, introducing new integrations, tools, and APIs. • Ottogrid will sunset its standalone product, providing customers with ample notice and a reasonable transition period. 💼 Integration into Cohere’s North platform • Post-acquisition, Ottogrid’s technology will be integrated into Cohere’s recently launched ChatGPT-style application, North, designed to assist knowledge workers with tasks such as summarizing documents. • Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez stated that the integration aims to bring enterprises a new way to tackle research with smart tables, enhancing day-to-day productivity. 📈 Strategic move amid revenue challenges • Cohere’s acquisition of Ottogrid comes as the company experiences corporate turbulence, having missed its 2023 revenue target by 85%. • The company reported an annualized revenue of $100 million, following a strategic shift focusing on private AI deployments for sectors like healthcare, government, and finance. Cohere’s acquisition of Ottogrid underscores its commitment to enhancing enterprise AI tools, aiming to streamline market research processes and bolster productivity through advanced automation. 📊 Powered by V3V Ventures

🤖 Firecrawl is hiring AI agents and their human creators for $1M Y Combinator-backed Firecrawl is offering $1 million to hire three AI agents and their developers, aiming to integrate AI into its core operations. 🧠 Automating key roles with AI • Firecrawl has posted three job listings exclusively for AI agents: • A content creator to autonomously produce SEO-optimized blog posts and tutorials, analyze engagement metrics, and refine content strategy. • A customer support engineer to handle support tickets, respond within two minutes, and escalate issues when necessary. • A junior developer to prioritize GitHub issues, write documentation, and code in TypeScript and Go. • Each role offers a salary of $5,000 per month. • The initiative follows a previous attempt in February 2025 to hire an AI agent, which did not yield a suitable candidate. 💰 Budgeting for AI and human collaboration • The $1 million budget is allocated for both AI agents and the human developers behind them. • Firecrawl is open to hiring these developers either full-time or as contractors, depending on the scope of their contributions. • The company has received approximately 50 applications within a week of posting the new job listings. 🌐 Enhancing web crawling with ethical AI • Firecrawl offers a web crawling tool designed to scrape data from websites for large language models (LLMs), emphasizing ethical practices by honoring robots.txt settings and limiting scraping frequency. • The tool is popular among enterprises seeking to gather data for internal LLM use, aiming to balance data acquisition with respect for website policies. Firecrawl’s approach reflects a growing trend of integrating AI agents into business operations, highlighting both the potential and challenges of such innovations. 📊 Powered by V3V Ventures

📊 Julius wants to make AI-powered data science easy for everyone Rahul Sonwalkar, the Harvard engineer behind the viral “Rahul Ligma” prank, is now leading Julius, an AI startup that’s simplifying complex data analysis for non-technical users. 🛸 Simplifying data science with natural language • Julius lets users analyze, visualize, and model large datasets using plain English prompts. • Designed to make predictive modeling and data exploration accessible without coding. • Adopted by Harvard Business School for its “Data Science and AI for Leaders” course after outperforming tools like ChatGPT. 📈 Seed funding fuels rapid growth • Raised an undisclosed seed round led by Bessemer Venture Partners’ Talia Goldberg. • Team of 12 focused on product expansion and user growth. • Over 2 million users have signed up, signaling strong market demand. 🌎 Bridging the gap between data and decision-making • Targets business leaders and professionals who need fast, reliable insights without deep technical skills. • Aims to democratize data science across industries with a user-first approach. Julius isn’t just building AI tools, it’s making data science a language everyone can speak. 📊 Powered by V3V Ventures