Jan Koum was born on February 24, 1976, in Kyiv (then part of the Soviet‑era Ukrainian SSR). Growing up in Fastiv outside Kyiv, Koum experienced life under a regime where state surveillance and censorship were common.
Zürich-based Corintis, a semiconductor cooling startup tackling one of the biggest bottlenecks in AI hardware, has raised €20 million in Series A funding, bringing its total capital raised to €28.5 million.
Holy Technologies, a deeptech startup pioneering AI-driven autonomous manufacturing, has raised €4.3M to build what it calls the world’s first fully autonomous factory for lightweight components in Hamburg.
Montréal, Canada – Telegraph Ventures, a spinoff of European VC firm Telegraph Hill Capital, has raised nearly $35M in its first close to fund Québec-based enterprise AI startups.
Leiden-based healthtech startup Rapidemic has secured a €2.3M ($2.7M) grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance its molecular testing platform, RapiDetect.
Toronto-based Superpanel, a startup building AI-driven automation for law firms, has raised $5.3 million in seed funding to transform the way firms onboard clients and handle legal intake.
Leipzig-based enaDyne, a climate-tech startup pioneering non-thermal plasma catalysis, has raised €7 million in seed funding to transform the way chemicals are produced.
