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E2B, a startup providing cloud infrastructure specifically designed for artificial intelligence agents, has closed a $21 million Series A funding round led by Insight Partners, capitalizing on surging enterprise demand for AI automation tools.

As generative AI and large language models like ChatGPT rapidly grow, enterprises encounter new data searching and retrieval difficulties. TopK seeks to transform this experience.

While some VCs shout from rooftops, others quietly back billion-dollar revolutions. KAYA, one of CEE’s earliest and most successful venture firms, just announced the first close of its fifth fund.

Sensible Biotechnologies, a biotechnology company pioneering a cell-based platform for the design and manufacturing of mRNA therapeutics, today announced an initiative to accelerate the development of next-generation mRNA medicines through AI-driven molecular design powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI.

A new company, Veloq, has been created within the Rohlik Group. It will offer other players the technologies on which the Czech online supermarket itself grew.

Yoneda Labs, a leader in computational tools for reaction optimization, has successfully collaborated with Symeres, a leading transatlantic, small molecule contract research and manufacturing organization.

Warsaw-based Jutro Medical, an AI-first primary care provider integrating online and offline care, has raised €12 million in Series A funding to expand their physical footprint across Europe – opening its first clinic in the Netherlands.

A group of former Google DeepMind researchers has created an AI behavior engine that aims to transform traditional video games into a more dynamic experience by improving how non-playable characters (NPCs) behave and interact with gamers.

The salad days of fresh grocery delivery startups are over, but those that have stayed the course, and built businesses that are seeing gains, are still here and hungry for more growth. On Friday, one of those survivors, the Czech grocery delivery company Rohlik, announced $170 million in new funding.

Today, Zeta Labs, a London-based startup founded by former Meta engineers Fryderyk Wiatrowski and Peter Albert, announced the launch of Jace, an LLM-powered AI agent that can execute in-browser actions on command.

The Walach brothers built and successfully sold the pharmaceutical factory Walmark, known for Marťánek and Proenz, and since then they have devoted most of their energy to charity and investments. They are betting on proven funds led by Kaya and are going big - their invested capital is around six billion crowns.

Founded by Michal Mgeladze-Arciuch, Daniel Vlasits and Jan Oboril, Yoneda Labs seeks to develop a foundation model for chemical manufacturing. “Whenever chemists need to make a new drug, we use AI to tell them how,” Mgeladze-Arciuch explained to VentureBeat. “This enables the creation of new drugs and makes chemical manufacturing faster and cheaper.”

Founded in 2021, the Czech-US Upheal brings the first AI-powered mental health platform for clinicians to save time through note-taking and transcribing sessions, secure video calling, and organizing the data into summaries, highlights, and other analytics.

Better Stack, a Czech company which aims to help developers with observability solutions with collaboration tools, raised $10M in funding for future growth and expansion from the European early-stage investor KAYA.

DocPlanner, the Polish medical services booking platform, according to unofficial information, has joined the group of the so-called unicorns, i.e. technology startups whose valuation exceeds $1 billion.

Beauty and wellness appointment booking apps have proliferated of the last few years, but it appears the race is still on as today one of the leaders, Booksy, raises $70 million in a Series C.