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Insights from the CVT team on deep tech, cybersecurity, and the founders we back.
48,000 Attacks in Thirty Days
Hackurity's June threat intelligence report puts specific numbers to the enterprise attack surface — 48,957 threat events, 2,207 attacker IPs, 142 exploit attempts. The patterns are more repetitive than the headlines suggest.
Critical Ventures Invests in Almetra to Bring AI Intelligence to the Factory Floor
Critical Ventures backs Almetra, a Berlin-based startup using AI and computer vision to make the human side of manufacturing finally visible — measurable, improvable, and ready for what comes next.
Staying Alive: Uncensored Survival Analysis with Tabular Foundation Models
Rhizome Labs researchers show how Tabular Foundation Models can perform zero-shot survival analysis — handling censored data through an iterative Buckley-James-inspired imputation loop, with no survival-specific training required.
Critical Ventures Brought Its Ecosystem Together in Lisbon for a Day That Delivered
On 22 June, around 100 investors, founders, advisors and corporate partners spent the day together at the Beato Innovation District — not at a conference, but at something more deliberate.
Thoughts on the AI Disruption
AI is changing the world faster than any technology cycle in living memory — and nothing is going to stop it. Here is how we read the disruption, and why we invest in the critical-systems layer the new world will depend on.
The World is changing and we might not be ready for it… or are we?
AI is going through a major up-tide. The recent news that Anthropic's Claude found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities — some hidden for 27 years — in hours, not months, is more relevant than you might think.
The Security Crisis Hitting Investors' Business
As an investor in Hackurity, their latest white paper on cybersecurity risks in VC and PE is a wake-up call for the whole industry. The data is overwhelming.
Why We Invested in Almetra
AI for the factory floor that turns raw production into measurable, repeatable gains.
Why We Invested in Rhizome
AI that keeps learning at the edge — on the device, in real time, where the cloud can’t reach.
Strengthening Europe's Defense Manufacturing: Why Intralogistics Is the New Front Line
As NATO members accelerate rearmament and defense budgets hit record highs, the bottleneck isn't engineering — it's what happens inside the factory walls. Twinzo's real-time digital-twin platform is turning intralogistics into a strategic advantage for Europe's defense manufacturers.
Why We Invested in Hackurity
Advanced penetration testing across the whole attack surface — applications, networks, embedded systems and the deep web, tested continuously and autonomously.
Why We Invested in RunSafe Security
Cyber-hardening for the systems you can’t patch on a Tuesday — vehicles, weapons, fielded infrastructure.
Why We Invested in Kirontech
Turning medical data into knowledge — and making health insurance markets efficient enough to be sustainable.
Why We Invested in Twinzo
A live, walk-through replica of the factory floor — powered by data nobody else owns.