Daphne Leprince-Ringuet
French Technology Reporter at Sifted
Paris-based French tech reporter for @Siftedeu. Previously @ZDNet and @WiredUK. Views my own Tips and stories: [email protected] // Signal +33 6 31 99 74 65
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1 week ago |
sifted.eu | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet
Hugging Face, the French-American company that provides open-source tools to develop AI applications, has acquired French robotics startup Pollen Robotics for an undisclosed sum. The move marks a first step into hardware for Hugging Face, which is now selling Pollen Robotics’ Reachy 2, a humanoid robot powered by open-source code.
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1 week ago |
sifted.eu | Kai Nicol-Schwarz |Daphne Leprince-Ringuet |Tom Nugent
European hardware startups are scrambling to navigate supply chain uncertainty and rethink expansion plans as US tariff back-and-forths continue to wreak market chaos and a trade war with China intensifies. Senior leaders have been rushing to schedule contingency plan meetings with boards and investors over the past week, as they look to protect runways and shelter themselves from the worst of the global economic fallout, founders and VCs tell Sifted.
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2 weeks ago |
sifted.eu | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet
Commercial open-source software (COSS) startups are raising record amounts of funding and delivering huge value for investors — but remain largely concentrated in the US, according to a new report from French VC Serena. COSS companies rely on open-source software, meaning the code underpinning their technology is available for anyone to download, modify and use for free.
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2 weeks ago |
sifted.eu | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet
Former Accel investor Candice du Fretay, who led the firm’s investments in buzzy agentic AI startup H Company and fantasy football unicorn Sorare, is launching a solo GP fund of $20m. Dubbed Outlier Grove, the fund will back European B2B startups at angel and seed stages with tickets ranging from $200k-500k. Half of the fund’s target ($10m) has been secured so far. Du Fretay says that her objective will be to help European entrepreneurs engage with the US market from the earliest stages.
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2 weeks ago |
sifted.eu | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet
After entering insolvency proceedings in February, French insect protein scaleup Ÿnsect has secured €10m in bridge funding from past investors allowing it to remain operational while it seeks more funding. On Monday, the embattled scaleup announced CEO Shankar Krishnamoorthy had stepped down and been replaced by Emmanuel Pinto, a partner at French turnaround advisory D&I, who specialises in supporting businesses undergoing financial distress.
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