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Climatetech and fintech will undoubtedly continue to be intertwined in the near future, and there exists significant opportunity in capital-light fintech solutions that can help tackle the operations of existing infrastructure to create efficiencies in payments, capital formation, asset management and insurance. Co-authored by FinTech Collective.

We, as an entrepreneurial sparring partner and global early-stage investor, assist our founders hands-on in making big strategic decisions. As such this July, we took some of our most promising Chinese Enterprise Software portfolio companies to Germany for a Market Discovery Trip: to learn, connect, and pitch. The following piece summarizes observations and conclusions from our trip.

Today we want to introduce Margarita, who is part of our Student Venture Partner cohort. She is currently pursuing her Bachelor’s degree in financial engineering at Columbia University and also interned with us last summer.

The US and China have long been ahead of the pack when it comes to robotics funding. However, data from the year 2022 is showing that these innovation hubs may have some serious competition as the investment landscape in Europe is starting to outstrip robotics’ biggest players.

The transition to clean energy is the foremost challenge toward a greener, more sustainable future. In our “Energy 101” article, published as part of our series on the electricity transition, we elaborate on how the modern electricity system underlies much if not all of the welfare we have built over the last 100 years.

40% of energy-related CO2 emissions are directly attributable to the burning of fossil fuels for electricity generation. This of course highlights an urgent need to create a far more “green” energy grid, which will only be made possible by more renewable energy production and consumption.

In this first edition of The Craft series, I interview Niilo, CTO at Wolt, about how he built a team of more than 500 engineers at Wolt, what his definition of software engineering as a craft is, and which role open-source software plays in his work.

The introduction of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late November 2022 catalyzed a wave of heightened interest and accelerated productivity in the field of Large Foundation Models (LFMs), including Large Language Models (LLMs). Broadly speaking, LFMs are the backbone of most Generative AI systems.

Henri is currently pursuing his Bachelor’s in Business Administration at University of Mannheim and with co-founding Momentum and gravity he has already been working on projects of his own. He is part of our Student Venture Partner program cohort 2022/23.