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🌁 In this extensive interview, Matija Marijan from #Turneo reveals what it takes to build agentic AI in a low-tech vertical and how NEO eliminates hallucinations not through guardrails but through reasoning: underline.vc/hospitality-age…
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"The prompt engineering side of things was really important before. Now our skills have to shift towards being able to orchestrate these agentic systems", thinks Margot van Laar (@AnthropicAI). Read how agentic systems actually look under the hood: underline.vc/trust-agentic-a…
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"The biggest problem that gen AI has to deal with within an enterprise to this day is that these systems are non-deterministic. They are not omniscient. They don’t know everything", thinks Dan Lupu (@EarlybirdVC). Read his take on automation & agents: underline.vc/automation-agen…
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Violeta Mihai is in Tallinn this week for 🪖Estonian Defence Week.
Some days will be packed, but you can ping her directly and meet if you’re around!
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”Agentic AI is where there's autonomy that also goes into decision-making. (…) It doesn't do one function, one output.”, thinks @EnisHulli from @e2mindset. Read why Enis thinks 👾 agentic AI isn't a moat in itself, but a necessity: underline.vc/ai-enis-hulli-e…
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📊 Thank you for letting us be a part of your journey, @veridiondata! Read the news here: eu-startups.com/2026/09/buch…
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"Hype doesn't necessarily bring retention", says @razvancostache (@Bitdefender) about the use of AI at the enterprise level. Is the race to build and deploy agentic systems accelerating faster than most organizations can responsibly absorb? Discover here: underline.vc/agentic-ai-cybe…
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[RO] În acest nou episod din seria @termene_ro “A fost odată în business”, @bogdaniordache rememorează primii săi ani de antreprenoriat și explică de ce a ales să schimbe direcția devenind investitor în startup-uri de tehnologie: piped.video/q8YXd7lQtLw?is=Tkt6…
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🛫 @bogdaniordache will be joining @Infobip Shift next week.
There will be some packed days, but you can ping him directly and meet if you’re around!
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”Out of more than eight billion people, roughly 2.5 million are using generative AI tools. Think about who’s buying those tools and whether they actually understand them”, advises Elitsa Zaimova - Miller (VP of Sales at Cloudtalk). Read more here: underline.vc/gtm-strategy-ai…
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🪖European Defense Tech Hackathon is coming to Bucharest next month!
Join 100+ builders, engineers, operators, and founders for 48 hours to address real security challenges sourced from defense operators:
No panels. Just building.
Register here: events.eurodefense.tech/even…
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“Can I spin up 500 environments in parallel?” When @ivanburazin from @daytonaio, started hearing questions like this from customers, he knew something was shifting. Read what it takes to build the infrastructure for the agents: underline.vc/infrastructure-…
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Underline Team Update: Mitoceanu Ciprian joined us as Visiting Analyst! Now, let's get back to work.
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Almetra (formerly known as Deltia) has raised a $19M Series A round led by @BlisceVC, with us participating in the round alongside NAP, @MerantixCapital, @Robincapital_ & Critical Ventures. For Almetra, the new name & funding mark a strategic inflection point. Read in thread:
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🇲🇩 This Monday in Chișinău, @bogdaniordache took part in the kick-off event for the Investment Readiness Program by @startup_moldova:
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🇲🇩 Today, @bogdaniordache is in Chișinău for the Investment Academy | IRP 2.0 Launchpad by @startup_moldova, where he’ll tell early stage founders the dos and don’ts of fundraising: luma.com/fnf1wy0h
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🏕️ @bogdaniordache joined this week the investment panel from the DELTA bootcamp by Launch Romania:
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This week, Alexandru joined the Romanian investment landscape panel as part of the #42Geeks tour in Bucharest:
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🇧🇬 This Tuesday, @bogdaniordache took the stage at the Digitalk Conference to answer the question “What gets funded when AI is everywhere?”.
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@EnisHulli is one of the most active early-stage backers of AI companies, bridging Central and Eastern Europe and the US. In this interview, Enis unpacks why high failure rates in AI projects are not only acceptable but rational: underline.vc/ai-enis-hulli-e…
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👩🏻🏫 Milana @MSlobtcova is joining the Women2Invest program by EIT Community Supernovas with a workshop on venture capital investing:
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🏕️@bogdaniordache will join this Thursday the investment panel from the DELTA bootcamp by Launch Romania:
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Two weeks ago in Istanbul, @bogdaniordache joined the 🇹🇷CVC Bosphorus Summit ‘26 to talk about investing in the Eastern European region:
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Next week in Sofia, @bogdaniordache will be speaking at the Digitalk Conference + AI, joining the VC Panel on the Learn and Share Stage - “The VC question: What gets funded when AI is everywhere”.
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The current frantic race to implement AI, no matter the consequences, led Ciprian @cborodescu (EIR at #underline) to think of "engineering AI value". He put timeless engineering principles to work to create The Framework for Engineering Agentic Value: underline.vc/engineering-age…
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[RO] “În Europa de Est putem construi orice. Suntem la același nivel cu SUA”, spune Andrei Manolache (@manolemano21) de la 👾 @designverseai pentru Termene.ro. Urmăriți podcastul video aici: piped.video/puk19gUeT9E?is=lT3d…
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🇦🇹 Last week in Vienna, @alexbadut joined the “What European founders need to stay and scale” panel at HumanxAI conference, where he talked about building products out of European for the global market and how to attract the best talent to do so.
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Portco 🏖️Turneo started as a plug-and-play experience commerce platform, helping hotels offer and manage in-destination activities directly to their guests. Four years in, @matijamarijan launched 👨🏻💻NEO, an AI agent platform built specifically for hotels: underline.vc/hospitality-age…
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✈️ Milana @MSlobtcova will be attending @SaaStanak next week. There will be some packed days, but you can ping her directly and meet if you’re around!
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🛫 Next week in Iași, @bogdaniordache will moderate the Investment Talk with founders Sebastian Gabor and Ruxandra Pui of #Digitail at the Mix to Match event by @rubikhub. More details here: luma.com/7tmwvnxx
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🏎️ Is the race to build and deploy agentic systems accelerating faster than most organizations can responsibly absorb? @razvancostache (Director of Innovation B2C at @Bitdefender) emphasizes the need for responsible deployment of agentic products: underline.vc/agentic-ai-cybe…
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@bogdaniordache will be attending @Latitude59 this week. There will be some packed days, but you can ping him directly and meet if you’re around!
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@alexbadut will be at HUMANxAI conference next week in Vienna. He’ll join the “What European founders need to stay and scale” panel starting 14:55. Details here: humanxai.events. There will be some packed days, but you can ping him directly and meet if you’re around!
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@designverseai have raised a $5.5M seed round to modernise legacy enterprise software in mission-critical industries! Read Andrei's view on why mission-critical industries like aviation, banking, cibersecurity et al. need a different kind of AI: aijourn.com/why-mission-crit…
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In this interview, Elitsa Zaimova - Miller (VP of Sales at the AI-powered ☎️cloud calling platform CloudTalk) offers a candid take on why 'agentic' may already be losing its meaning: underline.vc/gtm-strategy-ai…
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🇹🇷 @bogdaniordache will be joining the CVC Bosphorus Summit’26 this Friday, for the “Bridging Ecosystems & The Future of Investment” panel, where he’ll discuss the investment opportunities across Türkiye, Southeast Europe.
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"Can I spin up 500 environments in parallel?" 👾Daytona had built cloud development environments for human developers, but their users weren't human anymore. They were AI agents. @ivanburazin explains what agentic AI infrastructure" means in practice: underline.vc/infrastructure-…
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[RO] “Subapreciem capacitatea fondatorilor din România și din Europa de Est, în general, de a face lucruri tehnice unice”, spune @bogdaniordache în acest 🎙️interviu pentru @termene_ro. Află mai multe aici: piped.video/q7jSyvLfyN4?is=VDFT…
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[RO] Azi, la @RBL_Summit, @bogdaniordache a susținut un workshop alături de Dragos Roșca (BoldMind Capital Partners) pe tema Dincolo de pitch-deck: Arhitectura unei investiții de succes. Le mulțumim pentru atenție și întrebări participanților.
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@cborodescu will join as mentor the Founders Track at Leaders in Tech Mentoring Program. More details here: mentoring.leaders-in-tech.co…
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RPA scaled from zero to hundreds of millions in revenue. 👾 Agentic AI promises systems that think, plan, and act. But despite the technology manifesto, real adoption is still at a snail's pace. Dan Lupu (@EarlybirdVC) explains why in this interview: underline.vc/automation-agen…
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🪖Last Friday in Bucharest, we met to discuss what it’s like to build defence or dual-use products in Romania with Bogdan Ochiana (Orbotix), Marius Trusculescu (Romanian InSpace Engineering (RISE)), Razvan Costea-Barlutiu (BraveX Aero), and Botiș Horia-Razvan (NIAG, NATO DIANA):
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We’re kicking off our series of agentic AI interviews with Margot van Laar, an Applied AI engineer at @AnthropicAI based in London, to understand how agentic systems actually look like under the hood.
Read the extended interview here: underline.vc/trust-agentic-a…
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💪 Last Wednesday, Violeta Mihai presented her first scientific paper Neuromorphic Architecture for High Altitude and Space Based Systems at the 5th Symposium on Space Educational Activities at TUM by @esa:
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🚀 Next week in Munich at the Technical University of Munich, Violeta will be delivering a scientific presentation at SSEA Munich 2026, a Symposium on Space Educational Activities, on “Synapse: Neuromorphic Architecture for High Altitude and Space Based Systems” + …
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🚀 Next week in Munich at the Technical University of Munich, Anna F. Purkhauser (@Novaspace_) will join the SSEA Romanian Space Initiative (ROSPIN) & EUROAVIA Munich side event for a conversation with @AdrianaSpulber on European space tech in numbers.
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🚀 Next week at the TUM, Philipp Bauer (Starflight Dynamics), Denys Kokhtiuk (Quantum Systems), and Jord Janssen (ISPTech) will join the SSEA Romanian Space Initiative (ROSPIN) & Euroavia side event, in a conversation on European space sovereignty, moderated by @AdrianaSpulber.
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“Microgravity can fundamentally change the physical environment.” Find out more about 🧫 generating valuable biological data from space and Toby Call (CEO & co-founder of Mass Balance)’s take on removing gravity to study difficult disease targets: underline.vc/microgravity-bi…
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In January 2025, Absolut Sensing validated the performance of its hyperspectral sensors by launching the GESat GEN1 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9. Read about AI-based forecasting, @esa’s Copernicus program, and climate tech in this interview w/ @TristanLaurent: underline.vc/tristan-laurent…
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