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💡 What’s on #VC minds as we step into 2025? 🔍 Daphné Leprince-Ringuet dives into the biggest #deeptech predictions for the year ahead, speaking with our #deeptech investor Francesco Ricciuti and an all-star lineup: ✨ Estelle Godard (Promus Ventures) ✨ Harald Nieder (redalpine) ✨ Anne-Sophie CARRESE (Elaia) ✨ Ekaterina Almasque, (OpenOcean) ✨ Francesco Perticarari (Silicon Roundabout Ventures) From 🚀 frontier tech breakthroughs to 🔮 2025’s game-changing trends, get the full scoop below! #VCInsights #TechPredictions #2025predictions #venturecapital

The Business Insider list of 2025 tech predictions is out, and it’s got plenty to chew on with suggestions from Runa Capital, Index Ventures, Northzone, Menlo Ventures, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Insight Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and many more. 🌐 Big Tech vs. geopolitics – The team quotes Francesco Ricciuti views on the evolving regulatory landscape under a Trump Presidency as well as other power plays worldwide. 📈 AI gets personal – #DigitalAgents and personalized AI assistants are predicted to go mainstream. Goodbye clunky chatbots, hello bespoke algorithms managing your life. 🌊 Liquidity boom – The anticipated #IPO wave could reset the venture market after a long drought. Which prediction do you think will define 2025? Let’s debate. 👇 Thanks Riddhi Kanetkar, Melia Russell, Ben Bergman, Leena Rao, Samantha Stokes and Rebecca Torrence for taking the time to speak with the Runa team. #TechTrends #VCInsights #FutureOfTech #AI #Crypto #Geopolitics

Munich - it was awesome 🚀 🦄 Over 200 #startup founders, #deeptech Investors and next-gen computing pros were brought together by Future of Computing. There were pitches from our portfolio companies (Akhetonics, Enlightra, Lumai + Ubitium), an "Ask Me Anything" panel with our General Partner Dmitry Galperin and hundreds of conversations around shaping the future of quantum computing, AI chips, semiconductor materials and chip interconnects. Many thanks to Benjamin Wolba, Christopher Trummer, Tobias Wölfel and Oliver Hasse for organizing the event. See you all again soon! Hyun Shin Cho, James Spall, John Jost, Michael Kissner, Francesco Ricciuti + Christopher Spillane #VentureCapital #VC #futureofcompute #founders

Exciting to see our #VC, Francesco Ricciuti, quoted in CNBC's latest piece on Google's #quantumcomputing milestone 🔮🔮 Arjun Kharpal's article delves into Google's significant computational breakthrough with #quantum technology. However, as Francesco notes, the journey of transitioning quantum computing from theoretical triumphs to practical solutions remains a challenge. What are your thoughts on Google's announcement? Are we closer to realizing quantum computing’s full potential, or are we still navigating the early chapters of this journey? 👋 👋 👋 Quantum thought leaders: Mark Shmulevich, Tom Darras, Kenzo Bounegta, Benjamin Wolba, Future of Computing, Michael Jackson, Winfried Hensinger, Sabine Hossenfelder, Alvaro Veliz Osorio and Paolo Molignini 🔗 Article in the comments below 👇 #venturecapital #willow

Ready to catch a glimpse of the future? 🌟 Runa Capital is amped to be part of the Future of Computing Conference 2024 – where the next big thing in compute takes center stage! 🎙️ On Dec. 11 in Munich, we’re swapping ideas with the visionaries reshaping #QuantumComputing, #Photonics and #Semiconductors. Here’s what's on the agenda: 🚀 Startup Pitches from around 30 #founders, including from our portfolio companies Akhetonics, Enlightra, Lumai and Ubitium. 🎤 Keynote by Keith Witek at Tenstorrent on Open vs Close: The Beauty of #OpenSource and RISC-V as the Next CPU Solution of Choice 🛠️ Panels where you can "Ask A #VC Anything", including Runa Capital's Dmitry Galperin Full agenda in the comments 👇 Thanks to TUM Venture Labs and Benjamin Wolba at #FutureOfComputing for assembling this power-packed event. And a shout out to our co-sponsors Aloniq, Infineon Technologies, Lunar Ventures, Matterwave Ventures, Munich Quantum Valley, Tensor Ventures and UVC Partners. Our #deeptech VC Francesco Ricciuti will also be at the event. So, let’s meet in Munich! 🚀 #venturecapital #startups

Check out Benjamin Wolba's latest #futureofcomputing interview with Tom Darras, the founder of our portfolio company Welinq #VC #quantum #venturecapital

👋 We first started working with Michael Kissner and the Akhetonics team in 2022 and were delighted to support their pre-seed round 🌱. 🚀⚡️ 🚀 A vision is edging closer to a product and we're continuing our all-optical processing journey with Akhetonics by participating in their €6 million seed round. We're thrilled to join Matterwave Ventures, 468 Capital, Bayern Kapital, Interface Capital and Rheingau Founders on this adventure. Anna Heim over at TechCrunch describes it best with her headline "a contrarian bet on all-optical chips". 🔗 Article in the comments 👇. Dmitry Galperin Konstantin Gnyp Silviu Apostu Christian Reitberger Ines Kolmsee #nextgencompute #futureofcomputing #deeptech #VC #Venturecapital

⛷️ 🏂 At Slush last week, the buzz was all about the Trump presidency's global impact on #startups. Will it nudge the #IPO market to unlock exits or disrupt the delicate web of global trade with tariffs? 📈 🤝 Our #VC Francesco Ricciuti shared his take on #tech in 2025 with Reuters' journalists Supantha Mukherjee and Anne Kauranen. 🔗 Article in the comments below 👇 #VentureCapital #exits

🆒 Thank you for the opportunity to support an awesome event and an important discussion. We're already looking forward to the next {Tech: Berlin} session 🚀 🚀 #VC #VentureCapital #startups

🌅 A new day, a new portfolio company 🤘🏻 We’re delighted to welcome Ubitium and Hyun Shin Cho’s team to the Runa Capital family. We’ve partnered with Inflection.xyz and KBC Focus Fund to back a unique approach to processor micro-architecture with $3.7 million of funding. Ubitium’s goal is to solve the cost and complexity problem that almost every company is now facing with existing processors amid the #AI boom. #VC #AdvancedComputing #VentureCapital #NextGenCompute