Post by UVC Partners

A historic moment for European AI. 🇩🇪🇨🇦   We just joined the press conference live🎤: Today, our portfolio company Aleph Alpha and Cohere announced their merger – creating a transatlantic AI powerhouse with dual headquarters in Germany and Canada, backed by both governments. 🤝 The New York Times, CNBC, Bloomberg, Reuters, Financial Times – the global press was covering it live.✍🏼🌐 This is more than a deal. It's a geopolitical signal. 🏆  An alliance of nations that share the same values – and want to protect them. 🛡️ It's the idea that critical systems must remain under control and independent, anchored in European and Canadian infrastructure, and committed to enterprise and public-sector clients who cannot afford to outsource control of their data. And this alliance is open to further partnerships. Ready to learn from each other. A new model for how like-minded nations can pool strength without losing sovereignty.🕊️ As Andreas Unseld, General Partner at UVC Partners, puts it: "We have been part of this journey since 2021 – co-leading the Series A, supporting the Series B, and watching Aleph Alpha build 'alpha ONE', which became Europe's first sovereign AI data center, together with HPE GROUP and NVIDIA. From that moment, we knew Heidelberg was building something that mattered far beyond Germany's borders. Today, two strong partners coming together sends a powerful geopolitical signal – that Europe can build truly sovereign AI for critical systems, independently, at scale, and with a strong European footprint. We see enormous potential in what Cohere and Aleph Alpha can build together. This is the momentum for Heidelberg rising into the world-class locations for AI." #AlephAlpha #Cohere #SovereignAI #DeepTech #EuropeanAI #AIStrategy #UVCPartners Oliver Schoppe