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Are you interested in jobs at Microsoft?
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I receive 2-3 LinkedIn messages a week from individuals interested in career opportunities at Microsoft. I love my…
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2024 Oxford GenAI Summit
2024 Oxford GenAI Summit
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending Oxford Generative AI Summit in the UK. World leaders in AI discussed various…
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Ayca Deniz Ergin shared thisI've been back in my hometown, Istanbul. If you've visited the city before, you know how brutal our traffic is. I've been all over the world and still haven't seen anything quite like it. One thing that makes any journey across town more enjoyable is the radio, especially if you're driving an old car with no Bluetooth. But something about the radio felt particularly strange this time... I wrote about it in my new article: “AI Killed the Turkish Radio Star.”
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Ayca Deniz Ergin shared this"I can build that over a weekend, just give me a Claude Pro subscription." I've heard versions of that maybe a hundred times over the past few months from early-stage founders, and it intrigued me so much that I ended up writing a whole thesis on it. The founder toolkit is expanding faster than most of us have stopped to think about, and it has quietly changed what starting a company even requires. You can ship a functioning SaaS platform without writing a line of Python these days. So how do you build a unicorn when anyone can build anything? The honest problem is that most of us are answering that question the same way. AI is generic by design, it hands you the median answer because that is the answer that already worked for someone else. When thousands of us are asking it the same questions and taking the same answers back, we are being made similar, which is the one thing entrepreneurship has never rewarded. === I spent the last few months interviewing early-stage founders who build with AI, trying to work out where this technology actually enters their work, why they reach for it in the first place, and whether that is a skill gap or no time or no money or just needing the confidence to start. What is clear is that we can't keep thinking about founder capability the way we used to, because these ventures look effortless from the outside and from the inside the work has just moved somewhere else. The findings point to where founders still need to be strong, what can safely be handed off, and what it might actually take to build a unicorn as an AI-enabled founder. It does change what founders need, and I think the startup ecosystem has not fully caught up with that yet. Excited to share a series of my findings over the coming weeks. P.s. Cat is borrowed. He refuses to hand over anything, which was arguably the best finding.
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Ayca Deniz Ergin shared thisI need your help! I'm doing my master's research at Oxford on how early-stage founders use AI tools as they build. I'm excited to share more on this soon. My sample has plenty of men and not nearly enough women (as ever). Do you know an interesting woman founder who might want to take part? It's a relaxed, fully confidential 60-minute chat. Tag someone below or drop me a DM. Thanks so much :)
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Ayca Deniz Ergin shared thisI am heads down writing my thesis as I reach the finish line for my Oxford degree. In the middle of a London heatwave, I finally made my way to the Wellcome Collection near Euston Square today and was genuinely amazed by how much intelligence and care seems to have gone into the design of the space. I’m not sure who was involved in planning it, but please let me know if you do. I want to personally thank them… Wellcome is technically a museum, but it also has a phenomenal library and community space which I had the pleasure of experiencing for a full day. As soon as you enter, you quickly notice that it is just… different. You can tell real thought has gone into making the space work for neurodivergent folks, families, those who might need accessibility support. A lot of places try to achieve this but fail in delivery. I found myself smiling every time I noticed another thoughtful detail… 🛒 When you enter the library, you are asked to leave most of your belongings in cubbies and only take your laptop/notebooks with you. These cubbies are free and actually functional. Once you leave your belongings, you are given a shopping basket and you can walk around the library carrying your things as if you are doing your groceries (genius). This is especially great for neurodivergent folks because it almost tricks your brain a little… Work suddenly feels less serious. 🛅 As you pass through the gates, you are welcomed by an electronic locker. At first, I was not sure what it was for. After scanning my ID, I realized it was for borrowing a laptop. Again, completely free and very easy to use… I had never seen anything like this before. 🎧 My favorite part was the cubby of tools and little goodies that they make available to the community. Blankets, earmuffs, pencils, magnifiers, timers. Basically, whatever you might need to feel a little more comfortable or supported while working. I of course had to put the earmuffs on and pretend I was floating in space as I coded on NVivo. 🎨 The library itself is rich with resources, especially if you are interested in life sciences. I am not particularly in that field, so I found myself enjoying the space more than the collection itself. But you also realize very quickly that this is as much an art space as it is a science space. There are interactive pieces around the building that invite you to participate in the community. I came across a table with a form that asked, “What might be unseen about you?” and a wall full of visitors’ unseen stories. Spent about 10 minutes relating to half of these confessions. It had been a while since I experienced a physical place this wholeheartedly and I will be back very soon. I hope we can continue to support the creation of more public spaces like this and realize how much distinct value our social diversity brings into our existence. Please let me know if you know more places like this 🙃 Wellcome Trust
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Ayca Deniz Ergin shared thisI deleted LinkedIn from my phone a couple months ago. But I had to redownload it this week as I’m attending London Tech Week and need to have it on mobile so I can add people. After 24 hours, I’m ready to delete it again because the number of posts written by AI is out of control. I used to spend hours on LinkedIn’s feed, reading people’s stories and learnings. I loved the endless thread of unique voices. Now I can’t spend more than 30 seconds without the feeling of pure revulsion. Every post seems to be written by AI and it’s impossible to come across human writing. (Un)surprisingly, it seems people are also very comfortable with this as they shamelessly share posts that are clearly AI-written with one too many em dashes, and the viewers are also very comfortable giving their thumbs up and adding their AI-generated comments. This post might be counterintuitive coming from me as I’ve been in the AI space longer than most people have been. I will cheer for AI in many places but not here. Not sure if the current state of things will ultimately lead to a revolt by people like me, creating a new safe haven for the few of us left, or if this is the death of authenticity as we know it. Can there even be a community without human input?
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Ayca Deniz Ergin reposted thisAyca Deniz Ergin reposted thisGeçtiğimiz Anneler Günü’nde Bosch Türkiye’nin yayınladığı ve ardından gelen tepkiler üzerine yayından kaldırılan "Tam bi' anne hikayesi" reklamını ve etrafında dönen tartışmaları hatırlarsınız. O günlerin harareti ve sosyal medya fırtınası dindiğine göre, artık bu konuyu daha sakin, yapıcı ve sükunetle ele alabiliriz diye düşünüyorum. Bir baba olarak bu konuya hem kendi evimden hem de aklımdan ve kalbimden bakmak istedim. Eşim ile birlikte iki kız babasıyız. O yüzden evlat sevgisi bizim için çok özel, çok derin. Evimizin diğer neşeleri Oreo ve Milka'nın da... hadi anne ve babası demeyelim, sahiplenenleriyiz diyeyim. Köpekler, insanla en yakın ve en saf iletişimi kurabilen canlılar. Sizin korktuğunuzu hissettikleri an önünüze siper olup sizi korurlar; kendileri korktuğunda ise büyük bir teslimiyetle sizin onları korumanızı beklerler. Bu karşılıklı güven ve bağ, kelimelerle tarif edilemeyecek ve yaşamayanın bilemeyeceği kadar özel. Açıkçası, Anneler Günü (ve Babalar Günü) gibi ticari ve sembolik günler bana her zaman biraz mesafeli gelmiştir. Annesini kaybetmiş ve o günü kutlayamayanları, evlat hasreti çekenleri ya da çocuğunu kaybetmiş olanların yaşadığı o sessiz ızdırabı düşününce, bu günlerin kutlanma şekli beni hep durup düşünmeye iter. İşte tam da bu yüzden, bir canlının sevgisinin bu sessiz boşlukları, o sevgisizliği ya da yalnızlığı bir nebze de olsa şifalandırabileceğine inanıyorum. Hayatında bu tür eksiklikler olan insanların bir canlıyla bağ kurarak o muazzam şefkat duygusunu ve bir canlıyı sevme hakkını yaşaması neden bizi rahatsız etsin ki? Unutmamak gerekir ki, bir köpek sahibinin aynasıdır. Bugün toplumda bir köpekten dolayı bir zarar görüyorsak, aslında o canlıdan değil; sahibinin ya da çevresindeki insanların ona öğrettiklerinden (ya da öğretmediklerinden) dolayı zarar görüyoruz. Çözüm o da değil; ona o davranışı aşılayan, sorumluluk almayan insandadır. Yeryüzündeki her canlıda olduğu gibi, hayvan dostlarımızın da bu dünyada çok değişik görevleri var. Patili dostlarımıza verilen o özel görevlerden sadece bir tanesi de, biz insanoğluna körelmeye yüz tutmuş merhamet duygusunu tekrar tattırmak ve hatırlatmak. Hayvan sevgisini yaşayan bir insanın kalbi sadece patili dostuna karşı değil, tüm canlılara ve dolayısıyla insanlara karşı da çok yumuşaktır. İster bir kuş, ister bir kedi, ister bir balık ya da köpek... Allah herkese hayatında bir canlıyı böylesine karşılıksız sevebilme şansını tattırsın. Hele de özellikle sahibinden kopmuş, bir barınaktan sahiplenilip yeniden yaşama şansını yakalamış bir canlıysa bu bağ çok daha başka oluyor. Çünkü bu çok güzel, dönüştürücü bir duygu. Ve bu duyguyu bir kez tadan bir insan, bir daha asla eskisi gibi olmuyor; kalbi büyüyor, dünyası güzelleşiyor.
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Ayca Deniz Ergin shared thisWhen I graduated from University of Pennsylvania seven years ago, banking and consulting were the obvious path for almost everyone I knew. Last week I was back on campus for the The Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business's senior dinner as a member of the Alumni Council, and it's a completely different world out there. Sitting with some of the graduating seniors, I was honestly amazed at how much has shifted. Students are joining startups, thinking about starting their own companies, looking at industries with more room to grow as AI changes things. Being back also reminded me of something I genuinely believe... Penn prepares you exceptionally well for life after college. I have friends who went to other Ivies, and I'm doing my master's at Oxford right now, so I've seen a few different academic environments. But Penn, and especially Wharton, has a kind of practical ambition I haven't found anywhere else, and things just move fast there. It pushes you to build your confidence and resilience. Seven years later, I left campus feeling lucky to be part of this community, and excited to see what this next class ends up building. Thank you Kelly Cleary Osman Balkan for the organization and the The Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business for the invitation. 🔴 🔵 #goquakers
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Ayca Deniz Ergin reposted thisAyca Deniz Ergin reposted thisMissed the latest episode of The Human Interface? We discuss the often-invisible human workforce powering AI, from content moderation to data labelling, and explore why global standards in AI supply chains must be enforced to protect worker safety. Here are three key takeaways from our conversation with Ayca Deniz Ergin and Ashly Jiju: - Behind every chatbot and AI model is an army of data annotators and content moderators: often based in the Global South, working long hours, on precarious contracts, for below living wage. Their labour is often invisible to users, companies, and policymakers. - Workers in this space have little to no recourse, as raising concerns risks losing a job that may already be the only option available. Platform workers are estimated to number between 400-600 million globally, which is a massive, under-protected workforce. - Change is coming, and companies should get ahead of it. EU regulations including the CS3D and the EU AI Act will require ethical supply chain accountability from any company operating in or selling to the European market. To listen to the full episode, click here: https://lnkd.in/eMiaF3mr
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Ayca Deniz Ergin shared thisI spent the past two weeks in Berlin and got a real glimpse into the city's startup scene. 🟢 It’s tight-knit in the best way. The startup world in Berlin is smaller than other major ecosystems, and the community reflects that. I kept running into the same people across events organized by completely different groups and was able to continue my conversations. As someone building Punt.social around founder-to-founder knowledge exchange, experiencing this firsthand, although in the offline world, was validating. 🔴 It is extremely male-dominated. More so than what I’ve seen in New York or London. 70% male attendees, and out of all the speakers across three events, only one woman took the stage. One. This isn’t a pipeline problem. It’s an invitation problem. Organizers, mostly men, need to audit their lineups. The conversations get better when more perspectives are in the room. 🟢 The agility is real. People I met at an event were ready to grab coffee the next day to explore partnerships. That kind of momentum is rare. In most ecosystems I’ve moved through, the same follow-through takes weeks. 🔴 But agility has a prerequisite: legitimacy. And in Berlin, that still runs through traditional channels. The community is diverse but there’s no shared baseline of quality yet, so people fall back on credentials to gauge competency. I noticed this more here than in other cities as I had to name-drop Microsoft, Wharton and Oxford to get someone to lean in. It’s not a criticism, just a sign that trust within the ecosystem is still being established. 🟢 The potential is there and the European ambition is building. There are great founders here, interesting ideas, and capital in the room. The consistent ask across every event was for European talent to come back and build toward European goals. The shift from caution to risk-taking is underway. It just needs more people willing to bet on it. Thank you to for organizing the amazing events 12MIN.ME ⏰Needle Merantix Capital Merantix AI Campus Bis bald, Berlin 🐻
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Ayca Deniz Ergin liked thisAyca Deniz Ergin liked thisWith two new CEOs, Beckham’s beauty and fashion businesses have turned a profit for the first time. So what comes next? https://ft.trib.al/V2358rY
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Ayca Deniz Ergin liked thisAyca Deniz Ergin liked thisFirst stop in New York, Antler NYC. Couldn't walk past the note at the door without stopping to read it all. '𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭.' Sharing it here thinking it would resonate with everyone I know who is building something exciting, wherever in the world they are. Here till Monday evening. If you want to say hi, talk anything ScaleX Ventures, or just grab a coffee, I am all in for conversations with builders and those supporting them along the way. One DM away. 🙌
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Ayca Deniz Ergin liked thisAyca Deniz Ergin liked thisAs my time at the University of Oxford comes to a close, I feel deeply grateful to have been part of this extraordinary place. Few places in the world combine centuries of history with such intellectual curiosity and a genuine sense that anything is possible. The question that brought me to Oxford was how AI might reshape the venture capital industry. To explore it, I worked as a researcher and wrote my master’s thesis under the supervision of Professor Thomas Hellmann. Our research culminated in an article published by Oxford University Press. I’m truly thankful to Thomas for his mentorship and partnership along the way. At Oxford Seed Fund, I moved from studying venture capital to practicing it, backing Oxford founders around the world. Much of that was made possible by Michael H. and Arif A. Wani. Their mentorship and trust have meant a great deal to me. Beyond that, the friendships, conversations, and traditions, many of them through the MCR at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, made this chapter unforgettable. I leave Oxford more certain than ever that I want to spend my career backing and building category-defining technology companies.
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Ayca Deniz Ergin liked thisAyca Deniz Ergin liked thisMy research project has been accepted into Anthropic's AI for Science program! The grant supports my molecular dynamics work at Caltech, where I'm studying how ion valency shapes adsorption at charged electrodes. I'm working to separate electrostatic and dispersion contributions, figure out whether adsorption is enthalpically or entropically driven, and test how robust those conclusions are to force field choice. The program funds researchers applying AI to high priority scientific questions, so it means a lot to have this project selected. #AIforScience #MolecularDynamics #ChemicalEngineering #Electrochemistry
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Ayca Deniz Ergin reacted on thisAyca Deniz Ergin reacted on thisI'm excited and honored to share that I've started a new role as a Global Solutions Lead for AI in the Flow of Human Ambition working closely with an amazing team led by Eduardo Parente! What energizes me most about this role is the ability to enable our customers to accelerate their business outcomes where #Copilot is changing how people work, collaborate, optimize business processes and improve decision making. It humbles me to be a part of a broader organization surrounded by incredibly brilliant people both inside and outside of Microsoft. I'm especially grateful to continue to be a part of Jordan Sheridan's organization reporting to Eduardo Parente. I learn so much every day working beside my peers Sneha Trivedi and Elise Woodrow, supporting our Americas GBB team led by Kara Mandeville, GBB Managers Marie-Elena Inacio, John Allen and Joy Dakin-Schwalm and our brilliant GBBs. As part of new role, I'm even closer to the innovation #Microsoft is driving tightly partnered to our Product Group, Marketing and GTM strategy teams to close the feedback loop with our customers and account teams to achieve the outcomes that matter most. A huge thank you to so many, I cannot possibly name. Cheers to all and looking forward to what this new opportunity can bring us all!
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Ayca Deniz Ergin liked thisAyca Deniz Ergin liked thisHonored to celebrate a meaningful milestone — 15 years as FTE at Microsoft. A great surprise arrived in the mail today, reminding me how much growth, learning, and impact these years have brought. I’m deeply grateful for the leaders who have guided me, the colleagues who have inspired me, and the teams who have pushed boundaries together. Every challenge, opportunity, and collaboration has shaped my journey. Proud of what we’ve accomplished — and excited for what’s ahead. Mariana Castro Jorge Cabeza Werner Corrales Alvaro Celis Guadalupe Durán de Ponce Gabriel Andrada Dujo Kara Mandeville Hector Ignacio Monje Coccolo Gerrit Bergsma Saru Raju Joel Miller Emelies Cartagena Claudia Garcia Leylah Halima M.cia Leylah Halima M. Tiffany Choong Jose Manuel Gomez Robert Smith Eduardo Cobo Fernando Lopez Douglas Schlosser Veronica Matheus EMMANUEL CLAVE Tania Utrera Demian Gil Marino Alejandro Meza Connie Evans-Welsh Roberto A. Calleja R. Sarath Rangu Molly Jacobstein, MBA Mariloli Baragano Mary Huson Matt Zimney Melanie M.y Melanie M. David Merzel Karla Liliana R.id Merzel Karla Liliana R. Ana Carla A. Zanoni Ana Marmolejos Erlin Almonte Eduardo Alfani
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Ayca Deniz Ergin liked thisAyca Deniz Ergin liked thisThinking About Thinking is co-creating a new AI for Science hub in central London (Clerkenwell)! It's an amazing space, and we are looking for visionary Science / AI companies to move in with us! DM if interested.
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Marketing Team Lead
TEDxPenn
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The PR & Marketing team creates and executes TEDxPenn’s marketing and public relations strategy. This includes running social media outlets, press releases, and other print/digital channels. Members ensure community engagement and positive perception of the TEDxPenn brand. Furthermore, members liaise with other teams to generate marketing content throughout the year.
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Global Classroom Team Member
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Design a collaborative learning experience focused on international development and social entrepreneurship.
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- Building an online learning and exchange platform
- Assembling content modules and promote meaningful discourse around these topics
- Organizing IdeaLabs in the U.S. and worldwide with our partner initiatives
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21st Century Chinese Art Market Boom
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
See publicationThis research paper provides a detailed analysis of how China has become the fastest growing art market around the world. How did the economic development in China led the country to the top in recent years, in contrast to its Western competitors? What is China’s role in the global art market scene? What changes have been made, in a socialist system, to accommodate foreign investors and what future changes should be made to sustain its growth?
Through focusing on the correlation between…This research paper provides a detailed analysis of how China has become the fastest growing art market around the world. How did the economic development in China led the country to the top in recent years, in contrast to its Western competitors? What is China’s role in the global art market scene? What changes have been made, in a socialist system, to accommodate foreign investors and what future changes should be made to sustain its growth?
Through focusing on the correlation between economic growth and art market expansions, this research develops the relationship through referencing various quantitative and qualitative factors. The characteristics of the art market boom in China during the last decade is closely related to social, political and economic dynamics accommodated and executed by internal and external stakeholders. With no doubt, China has become one of the top three art markets in the past decade, and it will keep its position if the standard trends of mature markets set by the West is considered, or perhaps altered, in the long term.
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Comparative Capitalist Systems
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Contemporary French Society Through Its Media (Advanced French Language)
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Corporate Finance
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Francophone Literature and Film
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Human Rights & Globalization
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Introduction To Experimental Psychology
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Introduction To Management
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Introduction To Operations and Information Management
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Introduction to Business Statistics
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Managerial Accounting
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Managerial Economics
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Marketing Strategy
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Portraits of Old Russia: Myth, Icon, Chronicle
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Principles of Accounting
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Product Design
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Dean's Award
The Koc School
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Harvard Prize Book
Harvard University
Introduce talented young people to the opportunities available at Harvard, and recognize their scholastic and personal achievements through the Harvard Prize Book program. Prize Books are presented annually in more than 2,000 high schools around the world to outstanding students in the next-to-graduating class who demonstrate excellence in scholarship and achievement in other nonacademic areas. The award is often given at the school’s graduating exercises, with appropriate remarks by a local…
Introduce talented young people to the opportunities available at Harvard, and recognize their scholastic and personal achievements through the Harvard Prize Book program. Prize Books are presented annually in more than 2,000 high schools around the world to outstanding students in the next-to-graduating class who demonstrate excellence in scholarship and achievement in other nonacademic areas. The award is often given at the school’s graduating exercises, with appropriate remarks by a local alumnus/a.
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Jeremy Bamberg
A BIG WEEK for European tech. Perplexity opens in Berlin, Stripe announces new Dublin HQ, major funding rounds, and more. With all the doom & gloom stories, it’s important to highlight the epic growth happening across Europe. I’ve been tracking this through my own workflow. This is the first edition of what I think could be an exciting recurring format. Europe is having its moment. (Week 40, Oct. 6-12) Europe’s Tech Footprint Continues To Expand: Perplexity pushes EU growth, Aravind Srinivas announces new Berlin office Stripe opens a new Dublin HQ, tripling its office space to 14,500 m² Snappr (W17) raises Series B and expands across Europe Major Investments Into EU Tech: 🇩🇪 Emblematic – $2M led by Passion Capital 🇫🇮 ICEYE – weighs new funding at $2.5bn valuation 🇩🇪 n8n – $180M Series C for AI workflow automation 🇪🇸 011h – €20M to accelerate low-carbon, tech-driven construction 🇬🇧 Simple Life Ap – $35M Series B led by Kevin Hart’s HartBeat Ventures 🇫🇷 Filigran – €49M to scale cyber defense used by the FBI & EU Commission Hiring Momentum Across the Continent: 👩💻 Mistral AI – 65+ roles in Paris 👨💻 PagerDuty – 9+ roles in Lisbon 👩💻 Databricks – 100+ openings across EMEA 👨💻 TripActions – 12 mid-senior positions in Berlin 👩💻 Modal – 11 positions in Stockholm following $87M Series B In Other (EU) News: 🏥 Roxanne VARZA announces Via Sana, a new medical center at STATION F ⚡ Techleap extended for 3 more years (via Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau) 🤖 European Commission announces 19 ‘AI Factories’ across 16 Member States This is what I've picked up. Some important signals behind Europe’s tech growth (office expansions // hiring // funding data). And I want to showcase this momentum for operators, investors, and workplace leaders across key markets. This scene (in my view) hosts the leaders redefining important market trends: in workplace, in real estate, and beyond.... What'd I miss? Happy Sunday. ✌🏼 Photo credit: random list of tech ecosystem maps :) P.S. Thinking about spinning this out into a dedicated format. Let’s see where it goes.
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