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Ando, founded by Sara Du, is building the messaging platform for teams and agents. Hear and read more from Accel’s Ivan Zhou about how Ando is approaching AI-native messaging and the design sensibility Sara brings to this work https://lnkd.in/gJiQ7zED

AI Innovate is underway at AI House Amsterdam and we're looking forward to seeing what everyone builds with Nebius, Tavily and Lovable! If you didn't make it to Amsterdam, join us for our London hackathon with Anthropic, Lovable, Hackathon Hub, UCL Artificial Intelligence Society and {Tech: Europe} on 15 October. Sign up now! https://lnkd.in/eyynyxpH Join the off the record content session for an evening of candid conversations on building, running and scaling businesses in the AI era. Wayve's Alex Kendall and Fractile's Walter Goodwin will be taking to the stage! https://luma.com/mf2ed20g

"It's kind of like a crazy sci fi movie, if you think about it" - Qasim Mithani and Sara Ittelson discuss the new vulnerabilities AI-enabled attackers are able to exploit and how consumers can take steps to ensure they are protected.

Amsterdam, get ready. 🇳🇱 Accel's AI Innovate roadshow makes its second European stop right here, a full day at AI House, co-hosted by Prosus. → By day: The Hackathon "Future Founders: From Open Model to Real Product" kicks off with "Welcome to AI House" by Sebastiaan Vaessen  (Prosus) and continues with a hackathon where you can build a working AI product for a real customer in a single day, using an approved open-weight model served through Nebius Token Factory. → By night: Accel Off The Record Unscripted conversations with founders who've lived it: 🔹Fabian Hedin (Co-founder & CTO, Lovable) with Accel Partner Ben Fletcher on the founding story, the GPT Engineer iterations, and building a global company from Europe. 🔹Christopher Pedregal (Co-founder & CEO, Granola) with Accel Partner Matt Robinson about shipping on models that change weekly, product love, and privacy as a product principle. This is for Future Founders, builders, and anyone navigating the AI era. 📍 AI House, Gustav Mahlerplein 5, Amsterdam 🗓️ Wednesday, 23 September — hackathon by day, off the record by night Hackathon spots need host approval — request yours early: 👉 https://lnkd.in/eayMMasH Off The Record spaces are limited: 👉 https://luma.com/3an297r3 Follow our website to see more events happen at AI House Amsterdam:   👉https://www.aihouse.nl/ We look forward to seeing you there! #Prosus #AI #Hackathon #FutureFounders #Amsterdam #AIHouse #OpenSource #Accel #Granola #Lovable

That’s a wrap on AI Innovate Stockholm! Thank you to all the future founders and builders who came together at Norrsken House for an all-day hackathon with Lovable, Polar, KTH AI Society and Hackathon Hub. We were so impressed with what everyone created in just a day. Congratulations to the top three teams: 🥇 SiteSync, a digital construction manager that turns site cameras into a live project-intelligence system. Built by Axel Claesson (Team Lead), Axel Prander, Stellan Ban Spaak, John Lorentzi 🥈 Re-Addie, an AI tool that recreates video ads you love featuring your own product. Built by Erik Lidman Hillbom (Team Lead), Lass Najmuldeen, Tage Sköldefors, Tony Qiu, Håkan Wang 🥉 TruePrice, a product price checker that evaluates quality and finds the best price. Built by Leonardo Norouzi (Team Lead), Alex Alazar A big "thank you" to all the speakers who took to the stage with the Accel team to share their insights with the next generation of founders: Lovable’s Fabian Hedin, Polar’s Birk Jernström, Repodo’s Ken Villum Klausen, Tandem Health’s Lukas Saari. Onwards to AI Innovate Amsterdam on Wednesday. You can sign up for the hackathon here: https://lnkd.in/ebTNwnJr To join the discussions with Lovable's Fabian, Granola's Christopher Pedregal, Picnic Technologies' Daniel Gebler and Weaviate's Bob van Luijt, sign up here: https://luma.com/3an297r3

If you haven't signed up for our hackathon at AI House Amsterdam next week with Nebius, Tavily, Lovable, AISO and Hackathon Hub, what are you waiting for? https://lnkd.in/ebTNwnJr We're looking forward to seeing what you build!

Decagon keeps raising the bar on what great looks like. Their annual conference, Dialogues, is October 1 in SF. If you want to see where customer experience is heading, this is the room to be in.

Last call for tonight's off the record content session in Stockholm! Lovable's Fabian Hedin, Polar's Birk Jernström, Tandem Health's Lukas Saari and Repodo's Ken Villum Klausen will be taking to the stage with Accel's Matt Robinson and Zhenya Loginov. Sign up now here: https://luma.com/xl8t75i0