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Dealroom: 76 European deep tech and life sciences companies spun out from universities reached $1B valuations or $100M in revenue in 2025, or both (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/30/76-european-deep-tech-uni…

Almost 80 European deep tech university spinouts reached $1B valuations or $100M in revenue in 2025 | TechCrunch
According to Dealroom’s European Spinout Report 2025, 76 European deep tech and life sciences spinouts have either reached $1 billion valuations, $100 million in revenue, or both.

Become a 10x Reverse Centaur with this one simple trick!

This is an essential read from @… – well worth your time to understand the points he’s making fully as he’s spot on and the excellent analogies will make it easier for you to discuss the topic with others.

Cory Doctorow - featured essayist in The Guardian:
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

@… on the #AIbubble, why it is a #bubble and what we will get out of it after it busts:

Heads up!
@… is sharing his thoughts on the #AI #LLM #GenAI

Turns out, I have been using Cory's "Reverse Centaur" expression a little bit too liberally around polite company:

Golden opportunity to become a reverse centaur! You only need to audit/review 5,600 lines of c code ported to rust per hour!