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How Defence Needs Are Shaping Maritime Technology

The defence industry is an increasingly critical market and commercial testing ground for the next generation of maritime technologies seeking validation, real-world application, and pathways to scale.

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Designing Emissions Out Of Operations

AI is increasingly the tool that exposes those inefficiencies and removes them at scale, a practical decision-making engine embedded directly into real-world systems. 

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Investing in Nebuly – the user analytics platform for agentic AI

Nebuly is building the visibility layer for the AI era, a new class of analytics that helps enterprises truly understand how people use generative AI.

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Nila's Anthony Jacob on GTM Sequences: Scaling Consumer Learnings Into Enterprise Customers

Looking back, the single most important decision we made was starting B2C first, even though it meant slower growth.

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Lasers, geology, and sovereignty - Europe’s startup mining opportunity

Europe invented modern mining and then forgot how to do. But there's still an opportunity to take ownership of how its critical materials are accessed and processed, and to extend its innovations to the rest of the world.

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Converging on patient care - why we need a cohesive approach to life after diagnosis

If we want to meaningfully improve outcomes for neurodegenerative conditions, we need to shift our focus. Not just toward better treatments, but toward better lives after diagnosis.

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How Defence Needs Are Shaping Maritime Technology

The defence industry is an increasingly critical market and commercial testing ground for the next generation of maritime technologies seeking validation, real-world application, and pathways to scale.

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Designing the Next-Generation Mine Site

The future of mining is not about individual machines or isolated upgrades. It is about rethinking the mine site as a living, evolving system.

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Thunderstone founder Eric Wasson Burns: Designing Mining Tech for a Future We Can’t Predict

If you optimise for one metal and the world moves on, you’ve built an elegant dead-end. This is why Thunderstone exists, because we decided that betting on a single answer to an unknowable future is the wrong strategy.

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Founders Factory 2025 Wrap Up

We began the year with a clear conviction that the next generation of category-defining companies will be built in and around the physical economy: using AI, deep science and software to re-engineer the foundations of industry. Twelve months on, that conviction has only deepened.

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The Future of Work: How AI Is Diluting Management and Elevating Builders

We’ve entered a completely new era, one defined not by how many people you manage, but by how effectively you can amplify the people (and tools) you have.

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Wilson AI founder Gus Neate: Designing for Zero Cognitive Load

Turning Complex Workflows into Simple UX with Wilson AI, the intelligent legal operations platform that helps businesses streamline and scale their in-house legal work.

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Investing in Qi4M’s OrcheXtra: The Agentic Ecosystem to Manage Investment Cycles with Precision

Learn more about Qi4M, and how they’re transforming investment products through an agentic ecosystem that connects data, processes, and people across the investment value chain.

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Venture Building with AI Agents

The future isn't AGI replacing industries. It's thousands of specialized agents, each excellent at one task, orchestrated together. Hear from our Product team on their experience of building AI agents over the last 14 months.

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Understanding the US-Australia Mining Framework

This collaboration between two of the world’s most resource-rich and innovation-driven nations sets the stage for an industrial era built on shared investment, faster deployment, and technology-led sustainability.

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Finding Product–Market Fit: The Lapis Approach to Rethinking Market Focus

This is the story of Lapis, backed by Founders Factory and Mediobanca through our MBSpeedUp Accelerator, reimagining how knowledge is stored, retrieved, and applied inside financial institutions.

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