Moving and Shaking for this week’s Startup Spotlight! 💃 The traditional tech outsourcing model is slow and frustrating, providing little pay and no security to the senior tech professional. It’s no longer suited for the modern needs for fast-paced, AI native experts.

Shakers’ expansion into France is the latest chapter in its growth and builds on its position as the hub of Europe’s tech community. But great communities need great talent. And right now, Shakers is looking for more people to join the journey.

Limite 1B - Violetto solves competition-level math better than systems tens of times its size. 🧮 It comes from @paradigmainc, a Rome-based company that joined our Seed portfolio this year, and is out today under an Apache 2.0 license.

1B parameters. Fewer than 300B training tokens. 74.25% on BeyondAIME, against 70% for a system thirty times the size. Six weeks from first experiment to release.

The Exploration Company, @helloxfarm, and KoRo all made the @Sifted 100 DACH & CEE ranking, which tracks the region's fastest-growing startups and scaleups by revenue growth over the last three financial years, spanning 25 countries.

🥜 KoRo - foodtech covering everything from nut butters and dried fruit to clean-label snacks and functional foods

Giving software teams control over their AI agents! @Upsundotcom has launched Upsun Dispatch™, a software factory built to bring AI agents and cross-functional teams into one governed development process.

It launched with Automated Code Review and Issue-to-Code workflows, and works alongside GitHub, GitLab, Linear, and Jira from day one.