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Melt & Marble , the company rethinking how fats and lipids are created, to deliver better performance, consistency, and sustainability across food and personal care, led by Anastasia Krivoruchko, PhD, Florian David, PhD, Jens Nielsen, Professor, Thomas Cresswell, and Tue Hodal, has closed  a €7.3 million Series A round led by  Industrifonden , with strategic participation from  Beiersdorf ,  Valio ,  Catalyze Capital ,  Chalmers Ventures , and the  European Innovation Council

Indico Capital Partners , supporting the best, most unique, and scalable high-tech and sustainable companies, led by Stephan de Moraes, Ricardo Torgal, Cristina Fonseca, Rui Rodrigues, Sofia Egídio, André Almeida Santos, and others, launched  its 6th fund, Indico VC Fund III, with a capital target of €125 million,   a pivotal moment for the firm and the entire Southern European VC ecosystem.  The fund has successfully secured a major anchor commitment of €30 million from The

Besimple AI , building the data layer for AI, led by Yi Zhong and Bill Wang, has secured  $3M in a seed round from Y Combinator , Surgepoint Capital , Porterfield Ventures, Amino Capital , WELIGHT Capital , Multimodal Ventures , Script Capital , and several amazing angel investors. The concept originated from challenges encountered at Meta, where training advanced AI models demanded vast amounts of high-quality data, an increasingly difficult resource to obtain. After years o