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𝗗𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻. Here are some of the biggest recent funding rounds from our community: 🚀 Axelera AI – $𝟮𝟱𝟬𝗠+ The largest investment in an EU AI semiconductor company. Ever. Led by Innovation Industries with BlackRock and SiteGround joining as new investors. Co-founder and CEO Fabrizio Del Maffeo: "Data centers are hitting power and cooling limits. We designed our architecture from the ground up to overcome these obstacles. Our edge-first approach isn't just about efficiency; it's about making AI deployment economically viable at scale for real-world applications." These are the other big rounds recently: 🏨 Mews – $𝟯𝟬𝟬𝗠 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗗 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 $𝟮.𝟱𝗕) The Amsterdam-based hospitality operating system raised the largest funding round ever in hospitality software. As CEO Matthijs Welle put it: "We are engineering an operating system that is changing how hoteliers interact with their guests." With 15,000 customers across 85 countries, Mews is proving that Dutch tech can set the global standard. 🔐 Duna – €𝟯𝟬𝗠 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗔 Founded by Stripe alumni Duco van Lanschot and David Schreiber, Duna is building the internet's missing identity layer. As Duco says: "Duna is addressing one of the internet's biggest unsolved problems: identity." Backed by Alphabet's CapitalG and Index Ventures, with customers already reporting 10.6x faster onboarding. 📊 Stacks – $𝟮𝟯𝗠 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗔 Less than a year after coming out of stealth, this Amsterdam-based agentic finance platform has already onboarded 30+ enterprise customers. Founder Albert Malikov: "From day one, we focused on solving the core problem: fragmented data. We're shifting CFO teams from process execution to higher-value analysis and decision-making." Congratulations to these teams – and to everyone building alongside them. #CommunityWins #DutchTech #ScaleUp #VentureCapital