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Team Change
CEO Alice Bentinck announced EF is scrapping its full France cohort and Germany hacker-house program, refocusing Paris staff on scouting-only across Paris/Zurich/Stockholm/Munich in favor of a US-centric strategy.
EF scraps France cohort, shifts to US-centric strategy
Kinetix, the Paris-based AI research team working on 3D human motion and video generation, joined Runway's Paris research hub to work on world models for robotics.
Open Cosmos raised €300M to expand satellite manufacturing capabilities and accelerate connectivity, Earth observation and real-time intelligence services.
Raised $200M in fresh capital from Reid Hoffman, the Collison brothers, Eric Schmidt, and Greylock, valuing EF at $1.3B and pushing collective portfolio value above $16B.