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April 11, 2022

Europe has a new deeptech research powerhouse on its way

INSAIT aims to help nurture the next wave of computer science and AI startups


Tom Nugent

4 min read

ETH Zurich is backing the institute

Deeptech startups and investors, pay attention. There’s a new computer science and AI institution in the works — backed by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and DeepMind — and it plans to nurture the next wave of deeptech startups and entrepreneurs. 

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Martin Vechev, architect of INSAIT
Martin Vechev, the brains behind INSAIT
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Tom Nugent

Tom Nugent is Sifted’s managing editor. He covers robotics, chips and university spinouts. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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