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Ciprian will join as mentor the Founders Track at Leaders in Tech Mentoring Program. More details here: https://mentoring.leaders-in-tech.com/

Over a decade ago, RPA scaled from zero to hundreds of millions in revenue in a couple of years. Today, 👾 agentic AI promises something far more ambitious: systems that think, plan, and act. Despite the technology manifesto, real adoption is still at a snail's pace. The demos are spectacular. The pilots work. But getting from PoC to enterprise deployment? It remains to be seen.

“The biggest problem with generative AI within an enterprise is that these systems are non-deterministic. If you let this agentic system start creating records within your systems of records, your company can go bankrupt, no CEO will be able to certify their financial statements,” explains Dan Lupu, Venture Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital, and the investor behind Eastern European unicorns UiPath and Payhawk.

What’s actually agentic and what’s not? And how does automation still change the world? Read all about it in the extended interview in comments.

Congratulations are in order for Sereact, that just announced their $110M Series B investment today.

Read about Ralf Gulde’s (Sereact’s co-founder & CEO) vision on the next frontier of robotics here: https://underline.vc/ai-driven-robotics/ https://underline.vc/ai-driven-robotics

The next frontier in robotics is AI-driven - Ralf Gulde (Sereact) - My Framer Site We underline founders.

Last Friday in Bucharest, we met to discuss what it’s like to build 🪖defence or dual-use products in Romania with Bogdan Ochiana (Founder & CEO of Orbotix), Marius Trusculescu (Co-Founder of Romanian InSpace Engineering (RISE)), Razvan Costea-Barlutiu (Co-CEO BraveX Aero), and Botiș Horia-Razvan (NIAG, NATO DIANA).

There were candid conversations around the current technology and legal limitations, but also around scaling a defence tech product beyond Romania and the business opportunities programs like SAFE and NATO DIANA offer to startup founders.

Check out https://www.diana.nato.int/challenges.html for the current NATO DIANA challenge and contact Botiș Horia-Razvan if you need more details on the current opportunities in the defense sector.

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