Patrick Oungre

🚀 Excited to back Leo Acciarri, Francesco Paolo Defendi, and Mattia Zarrelli - three founders combining strong engineering, platform building and software development skills - who are tackling the big workforce shift of our times: the rise of skilled blue collar workers. They are building Gyver, an enterprise workforce infrastructure company to shape the careers of 1 in 5 skilled blue collars in EU. As a first step, Gyver built an AI-powered recruitment platform, rethinking how millions of technicians and electricians find jobs by recreating trusted word-of-mouth recommendations on WhatsApp. Workers apply with one click, while employers finally gain access to talent that is otherwise out of reach. Why now? 📊 40%+ of European employers face skilled trade shortages, blocking progress in the energy transition and reindustrialization. ⚡ Gyver has already built Italy’s largest community of electricians (21,000+ strong), who now use WhatsApp to discover jobs, apply instantly, and stay engaged through conversational AI. 🏗️ Top employers in the electrical sector are already hiring through the platform (the likes of Enpal, Schneider Electric, ...) Really fast-moving, hands-on founding team solving a real-economy problem that truly matters. Thrilled to welcome you to the portfolio, team!

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LegacyCo firms buy every innovation. NewCo needs just one: coherence. LegacyCo acquires hundreds of digital companies. Invests billions in AI. But the bigger they grow, the less coherent they become. The very act of becoming everything makes it impossible to be anything with excellence. Talent flows to returns, not bureaucracy. And returns increasingly flow to coherence. The Coherence Premium Each acquisition adds another translation layer. Each platform requires another governance committee. Their data exposes the truth: massive AI adoption, minimal usage. When Zhang Ruimin eliminated 12,000 managers at Haier and replaced them with 4,000 autonomous micro-enterprises, revenue doubled from $20B to $40B. Not because he added capabilities. Because he removed friction. The Accountability Arbitrage LegacyCo celebrates carrying billions in indemnity insurance. But this "absolution as a service" model amplifies their fundamental weakness. When you sell accountability arbitrage, you attract clients who want to outsource responsibility, not build capability. The very clients who need transformation most seek protection from it. NewCo doesn't need billion-dollar coverage because they're not in the absolution business. Judgment as Architecture Distributed judgment isn't about empowerment. It's about velocity. NewCo: Teams own P&Ls. Engineers deploy without approval chains. Authority follows expertise, not org charts. LegacyCo: Information flows up. Decisions flow down. By the time judgment reaches information, the moment has passed. Coherence rewards high-variance contributors; those whose impact scales with autonomy. Their talent doesn't leave for better titles. They leave for the ability to act on what they know. The Depth Advantage Markets increasingly reward depth over breadth. LegacyCo builds broader moats. NewCo builds deeper ones. LegacyCo's advantages global scale, regulatory expertise matter less when clients need answers in hours, not weeks. NewCo doesn't try to out-LegacyCo LegacyCo. They change what strategic value means. Not better video stores but streaming. Not faster consulting but continuous intelligence. Speed beats scale. Coherence beats capability. Markets move faster than managers. Always. LegacyCo will keep acquiring. Keep growing. NewCo needs only one advantage: coherence. The market has already started deciding. (Full post sent to newsletter subscribers)

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FemWealth Issue 227 highlights 💌 In the Spotlight 💸 Co-founded and led by Bianca Cefalo, Space DOTS® helps space tech manufacturers and operators to detect, interpret, and attribute natural and human-originated threats in orbit. The London-based company announced a $1.5M Seed round led by Female Founders Fund. Startup News: - Co-founded by Haya Odeh, Replit, a San Francisco-based agentic software creation platform, secured $250M at a $3B valuation - Co-founded by Sylvie Menezo, SCINTIL Photonics, a France-based company that develops light-based components to enable AI chips to connect better and faster in data centres, raised a $58M Series B - Led by Dr Daniela Marino, CUTISS AG, a Swiss clinical-stage biotech developing personalised, scalable skin tissue therapy, raised €57.9M in Series C - Led by Kate Condliffe, Diana Health (We're Hiring!), a New York City-based network of women’s health practices, closed $55M in Series C  - Founded and led by Alyx van der Vorm, Clyx, a US social platform that helps users find community events to join, closed a $14M Series A - Co-founded by Ioana Hreninciuc, Runware, a San Francisco startup providing a unified platform that delivers the latest AI models, raised a $13M Seed round  - Co-founded by Marianne Tikkanen, Puro.earth, a Helsinki-based company that brings together suppliers of carbon net-negative technologies and companies seeking to reduce or offset their carbon footprints, raised $12.8M in Series B - Co-founded and led by Avencia Sanchez-Mejias PhD, IntegraTherapeutics, a Barcelona startup that develops next-gen gene writing tools, raised $12.6M - Founded and led by Michelle Lee, Medra , a San Francisco startup developing AI-powered robotics for labs, raised $11M in Pre-Seed and Seed - Co-founded and led by Michal Lupu, Blocks, an Israeli AI-native platform that lets organizations build intelligent work tools and AI agents through simple conversation, raised $10M in Seed  - Co-founded and led by Noel Pugh, Lōvu Health, a California-based digital maternal health platform, raised $8M in Series A - Co-founded and led by Doris Messina,Tot, an Italy-based business platform for administrative and financial management, raised €7M in Pre-Series A - Co-founded by Hanah-Marie Darley, Geordie AI, a London startup building security tools for enterprises adopting AI agents, raised a $6.5M Seed   - Co-founded by Dr Jackie Matthew, Fraiya Ultrasound, a UK startup providing AI-powered pregnancy ultrasound technology, raised £3.5M in Pre-Seed - Co-founded by Tara O'Driscoll, PhD, Dr. Sioned Fôn Jones, and Lydia Mapstone, PhD, BoobyBiome, a London company developing a device universally compatible with breast milk storage bottles that absorbs oxygen to maintain microbiome viability, raised £2.5M in Seed  - Co-founded by Tanja Danner and Professor Aasa Feragen, Prenaital, a Danish startup providing AI-powered prenatal screening tech, secured $1.57M Read more and subscribe [link in comments section]

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𝐏𝐄 𝐯𝐬. 𝐕𝐂 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞: 𝐀 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 Our latest data at Gain.pro highlights how PE and VC firms invest across Europe: ▪ PE-backed businesses are widely spread across the continent ▪ VC-owned assets are clustered in cities 📊 Sector focus drives this: – VC assets = 47% TMT (vs. 17% for PE) → drawn to innovation hubs – PE = 24% Services + 22% Industrials (vs. 13% & 7% for VC) → broader geographic reach beyond capitals 🌍 Top destinations: – Both: London & Paris lead – VC: 25% of assets in 11 cities (Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam next) – PE: 25% spread across 22 cities (Stockholm, Milan, Madrid stand out) ➡️ Same continent. Very different maps.

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Can this partnership give startups the ultimate boost? I am sharing with StartupValley Magazine how InnoSource Ventures AG and W Ventures David Warschawski and Sam Tomlinson decided to formalize their partnership after years of successful collaboration, creating a true bridge between the #US and #Europe. By combining networks, expertise, and resources, this alliance opens up new opportunities for visionary founders to scale faster, reach further, and drive meaningful global change. Thank you to Sabine Elsaesser for the interview. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/dJqm8H_Q #Startups #Innovation #VentureCapital #VC #GlobalGrowth #Partnership

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