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Paul Veugen is co-founder and partner at NP-Hard Ventures, an Amsterdam-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed companies solving the hardest problems across robotics, defense tech, and foundational infrastructure.
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Nirmesh Patel is an investor at Amino Collective, an early-stage health and bio fund investing at the intersection of AI and the life sciences.
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Plus: New frontiers for neural data, the race to land rovers on the moon, Antares receives DOE approval for demo reactor, General Atomics pauses drone wingman flight tests, and more.
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Karen Baert is co-founder and CEO of Ammobia, a climate tech startup developing a lower-cost, lower-pressure process for clean ammonia production.
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Plus: Navy's big bet on automated submarine production, Texas' $350M nuclear fund, demoing underground wireless communication, the gig workers training humanoid robots, and more.
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Nima Ashraf is the founder and managing director of Physical Fund, a pre-seed venture fund investing in robotics and automation startups building at the intersection of hardware and software.
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Jahanzeb Khan is the founder and CEO of 4Earth, an industrial water technology company building productized, AI-driven systems that treat and reuse wastewater on site for factories, plants, and data centers.
Plus: Uber taps Rivian for robotaxis, SpaceX hits 10,000 Starlinks in orbit, China approves first brain implant, Nvidia unveils hardware for orbital data centers, drone warfare sharpens focus on laser defense, and more.
Drew D'Alelio is an investment manager at Sabanci Climate Ventures, a $200 million corporate venture capital fund investing in energy and climate technology on behalf of Sabanci Holding, a century-old energy and industrial conglomerate headquartered in Turkey.
Nhat Lieu is the CEO and co-founder of Bulwark Dynamics, a defense technology company building autonomous landing craft for contested maritime logistics.
Plus: Artemis II gets go-ahead, glass AI chips, Iran war threatens helium supply, flying cars take off, brutal times for US battery industry, AI watch towers, and more.
Alexander Fuglesang is the founder of Flocean, a Norwegian water technology company pioneering subsea desalination to deliver fresh water from the deep ocean.
Mike Zimmerman is a co-founder and partner at Main Sequence, an early-stage deep tech fund investing in companies that commercialize breakthrough research from the Australian research ecosystem.
Plus: Graphene-based artificial skin, laser-driven lightsails, offshore datacenters, hyperscalers sign power pledge, and more.
Alexandre Winter is the CEO and co-founder of Norbert Health, an AI-driven care automation company deploying autonomous robots with contactless, medical-grade monitoring in post-acute care facilities.
Plus: Anthropic rejects Pentagon demands, tactical AI evades missiles, Google's $1B battery bet, 26-gram butterfly robot, nuclear waste becomes glass, and more.
Samuel Burrell is a partner at Expeditions, a leading European venture capital firm investing in defense technology, quantum computing, space, cybersecurity, and semiconductors.
Plus: Perovskite computers, India's AI city, biotech M&A sees big exits, anti-drone weapons on TikTok, China's flying wind turbines, and more.