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🥨Welcome to the @500ee family Balint & Roland🇭🇺 🏰DiffuseDrive - First Hungarian founders to join the 500 Accelerator! I think… not sure 🔴With anything autonomous, you cannot be 99% accurate and call it a day. Yet 99% of the data is collected uselessly, as edge cases near to constituting 90% of all data collection costs (yes I made up the figure.) ⚪Balint puts it better: "The physical realities limit you at sourcing data for the development, of course we need synthetic data. The state-of-the-art solutions for such data are inadequate and outdated. It does not cut it." 🟢One of the best applications of enterprise vertical Gen AI! Excited for what's to come 😉🌫️

🏃3 is the magic number! From the moment we crossed paths with the @HiPythagora team over a year ago, we knew they were onto something big. The chase was on for @500ee🏹 🤯During that period, they’ve: 🔓launched on Github ⭐got to 30k stars (i like rounding stuff up) 🍯built a loyal sticky user base 🤖powered the creation of full fledged apps 💥demonstrated explosive growth 🤗and welcomed us as an investor🙌 🧘‍♂️Thrilled to join forces @ZvonimirSabljic, @senkorasic, Leon🇭🇷 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐭? 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝!

We're delighted to announce 500 Emerging Europe (@500ee) as our Silver Partner for the Tech.eu Summit London 2024! #techeusummit24

Arin Ozkula (@arinozkula), General Partner at 500 Emerging Europe (@500ee), will be joining us at the Tech.eu Summit London 2024. Join us on 16-17 May in London! #techeusummit24 🚀 tech.eu/event/2024/sum…

📣We’ve been nominated as a finalist for @the_euvc 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫! We are not the largest or the most profitable fund out there but our emojis set us apart🗳️ 🎖️As a backup plan (to keep things interesting), we've also snagged a nomination for the Newcomer of the Year category! The whole rebranding has definitely worked to our advantage🏆 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐞𝐭 🇺🇦🇵🇱🇷🇴🇧🇬🇸🇮🇪🇪🇱🇹🇱🇻🇬🇷🇸🇰🇭🇺🇭🇷🇧🇦🇲🇪🇦🇱🇷🇸🇽🇰🇲🇰🇹🇷

Explore Türkiye’s thriving startup ecosystem! 🚀 @500ee General Partner @EnisHulli commends Turkish startups for their talent focus and strong global market presence, anticipating exciting future advancements. 🎯 Read more at tinyurl.com/2s98es28.

Exciting news in the world of open source! @daytonaio's platform has just been launched to transform the management of your development environments. Experience smooth IDE integration and flexibility. 🛠️💡 Discover here: github.com/daytonaio/dayt…

Today, we're excited to announce our $16M seed round. We are thankful to all of our investors, supporters and customers who believe in our vision to build a better, open source cloud for everyone. Join us on our journey! #cloud #opensource techcrunch.com/2024/03/05/ubi…

Yesterday, the weather was pristine, and the Bosphorus was especially lovely in Istanbul. Fortunately, we were able to enjoy it with our LPs at our Annual LP Event 🌞 A heartfelt thank you to everyone, whether you were able to attend or not, and we hope to see you again soon!

🎉 We are super excited to announce that we partnered up with Unicorns Lithuania! 🇱🇹 This is a further step that shows our commitment to making more investments in Lithuania & Baltics. 🦄 The search for the unicorn continues!

🥁Second largest category after DevTools 🥁 𝐀𝐈 / 𝐌𝐋 🥁 🦍Invested in 11 𝐀𝐈/𝐌𝐋 companies over the past 2 years 🦧AI/ML portfolio revenue went from 0 to $5m in the past 6 months! 🧢from #gpupoor to #gpurich @500ee 🦥AI is poised to revolutionize every industry and we are investing in both application and infrastructure layer AI startups 🐓Application layer startups are unlocking vast market opportunities in areas like healthcare, construction and software development 🐣While infrastructure layer startups are democratizing the technology making AI adoption more widespread

🦄Türkiye is poised to become a unicorn factory in the gaming world! #AGamingUnicornEveryYear 🇹🇷 🎛️With their unique experience and differentiated strategy, Yasin, Burak, and Yağız are on track to claim the top spot in the gaming world in the coming years🎻 🎮Managed to finish all 100 levels of their initial prototype in under 2 days 🎥Excited for the rise of IP-based games in the market, ideal conditions are there for IP-based games to claim their spot 🧱Always actively investing at @500ee Here is the @VentureBeat article: venturebeat.com/games/pine-gam…

👩‍🔬Evidose - Effectiveness trials for wellness products🌿#EmergingEurope 🇵🇱 🪴Supplements and wellness products should be more than promises on the label. This clicked with us ever since we met Anna and Kacper🪻 🍄The supplement market has witnessed remarkable growth but lack of regulation and quality control raises effectiveness and safety concerns. Evidose’s decentralized clinical trials approach will change that🫚 🍬Anna and Kacper's exceptional execution skills and deep technical expertise in data, together with their agility and eagerness to test, will be the recipe for success🍢 🍡WELCOME TO THE FAMILY ❤️‍🔥 500 Emerging Europe🍭 evidose.co

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💍Looking to connect with awesome folks interested in launching a startup? Join us for Founder Shuffle this Saturday (November 25th!) in Istanbul 🇹🇷 🦧I'll be hanging out in the backyard all day, turning the weekend into another productive workday—YAAAY!🕺 🥰Format is straightforward: 5-minute conversations between hand picked individuals we'd love to partner with when they kick off their entrepreneurial journey 😩To reserve your spot and spend your Saturday talking business, fill out the form in the comments 🎨@fal_ai_data - Rick and Morty IPO celebration

Join us at @SlushHQ as we delve into the phenomenal success of female entrepreneurs in Türkiye and how the country produced a remarkable percentage of female-led unicorns.🦄 Let’s explore the pioneering #unicorns that pave the way for entrepreneurs poised for global recognition!

📌In some industries, point solutions can improve a process by 10x, but others require end-to-end disruption rather than incremental improvements—healthcare is undoubtedly one of those🧸 🔺Salus is our 10th investment in health, and in ALL of them, the founders have ensured that the solution benefits all three key stakeholders to spin the adoption flywheel faster: caregiver, care recipient, and payer🎡 🧯Salus offers access to psychologists, dietitians, physiotherapists, birth coaches, family counselors, and child development counselors. However, its ambitions go beyond that; it aims to evolve into a one-stop-shop, reimagining healthcare, benefits, and insurance, with the potential to impact millions of lives🎶👂 🦍Always one deal a month at 500 Emerging Europe🐻 🦧Excited to join forces with Alperen & Dincer❤️@500ee 🧺🌷🌳Shoutout to all our good friends on the cap table—let's plan a picnic together one day!

We invested in @daytonaio ! 🚀 🇭🇷 Our first investment in Croatia as @500ee ! 😍 Daytona is an enterprise-grade, secure, scalable, and standardized Development Environment Management platform. @tunyairkad/why-we-invested-in-daytona-cd20dc344347" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@tunyairkad/wh…

🤔Here is a funny story🤨 @500ee 🫢Ivan commented on my post 7 months ago 👇 🫣and HERE WE ARE! 😊lol, that aged well🤫 🛳️Great to jump aboard @ivanburazin, Goran, Vedran 🚢First investment in Croatia!🇭🇷 @Daytonaio ❤️ 500 Emerging Europe 🤓techcrunch.com/2023/11/06/day…

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