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Why I Left Europe's Top Rocket Lab to Start My Own Startup
In this episode, Lukas shares his journey from a mechanical engineering student rejected from aerospace programs to spending 14 years at DLR before selling his motorbike to raise startup capital.
The DESY spinoff looks inside rocket engines and turbines that X-rays can't penetrate. First Momentum led the €7.1m round with Caelora, backed by the EU's Horizon Europe program.
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Sebastian Böhmer
Atlas Bio: Running Clinical Trials Without Patients
First Momentum invested in Atlas Bio at pre-seed. The Basel-based techbio company replaces Phase II drug trials with AI, and it now comes out of stealth with a $11m seed round led by Creandum.
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Magentic Raises $18M to Scale Its Procurement Agents
Axios reports Magentic's $18 million Series A, led by Felicis, backing AI agents that help procurement teams work across fragmented data under shifting tariffs and tighter budgets.
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