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Munich-based StoryBox secures €5.5 million to lead the future of AI-powered B2B video content creation | EU-Startups https://lnkd.in/dEwzVpYf StoryBox Ben Rodrian Rusmin Causevic #startups #startup #munichstartup #germanstartup #munich #münchen

Established in 2010, Gameloft Romania (Cluj Studio) will shut down after 14 years. The studio's star point is its role as a key player in Romania’s IT and gaming sectors. While supporting titles like Asphalt and Iron Blade, the Cluj Studio employed diverse teams of developers, artists, designers, and other professionals. This, in turn, significantly contributed to boosting Romania's local economy and tech community. What happened was that Gameloft had substantially hired last year, and many of the impacted individuals had joined less than a year ago. Since they were let go within a year, I am sure they must be tense about how bad this would look on their resumes. But it's important for recruiters to understand that they didn’t leave voluntarily; they didn’t have a choice, and the studio is closing altogether. Last week, I highlighted a few of the individuals who are being impacted by Cluj Studio’s closure. So this is list 2 of the impacted folks! A humble request to anybody reading this: Share this to bring these folks maximum visibility from recruiters and game studios currently hiring. Marieta Candrea — A Quality Assurance Analyst for Cluj Studio, she is skilled in JIRA and Testrail. Before Gameloft, she worked for Quantic Lab. Călin Tudor Crețu — One of Cluj Studio’s veterans who started his life in the games industry as a Translator for Gameforge to localise their games. He has been working for Gameloft for almost a decade and has donned two hats. At first, he began as a Game Designer working on single-player and multiplayer environment design plus scripting. Then, he became a Live Ops Designer for Asphalt 9, maintaining day-to-day live operations for the game’s Switch version. Cristian Marginean — Seems like a passionate Game Tester! His focus is on using his experience to identify and isolate issues by pushing video games to their limits! Anca Gliga — From an English Teacher to a Human Resources Specialist at Cluj Studio! Anca handled almost every important task that was required for a game studio (check out her LI profile for details). Otto Norbert Horvath — From tracking QA to becoming a Certification Specialist for Gameloft Cluj! He is a highly driven individual who has built skills in many fields due to his love for computers. Otto has experience in testing and investigating JIRA and Testrail defects in applications from a Compliance and Certification standpoint. Dragos Raul Rusu — Another promising QA talent who began as a Data Entry Specialist and went on to become one of Cluj Studio’s senior QA Testers. He is quite skilled in Test Planning. Infinite support♾️ #layoffsupport

Congrats to our WERK1 alumni startup Proxima Fusion! 🚀 The team has raised €20 million in a seed round to begin building its first generation of fusion power plants. 🌱 Proxima Fusion works towards a future where fusion will provide clean, abundant and safe energy. As the first spin-out company from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Proxima aims to bring the expertise developed in Germany with the W7-X stellarator to the energy market. Leveraging recent advances in computational optimization, engineering design and high-temperature superconductors, stellarators can now win the fusion race and truly scale to power plants. Proxima’s seed round was led by redalpine, with participation from Bayern Kapital, DTCF | DeepTech & Climate Fonds and Max-Planck-Förderstiftung. Plural and existing investors HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds, Wilbe | Home for Scientist Leaders, UVC Partners and the Tomorrow fund of Visionaries Club also participated in the round. #werk1 #werk1startups #startups #werk1community #startupoffice #startupmunich #fusionenergy #cleanenergy #seedfunding #seedround Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, Landesentwicklung und Energie Gründerland Bayern

6,1 Millionen Euro für Blackwave Blackwave GmbH Bastian Behrens https://lnkd.in/dbkgRA48 #munich #munichstartup #startup #startupplay

Munich-based Stackfield raises a double-digit million investment to scale its privacy-first collaboration platform https://lnkd.in/dbHs4UhQ Stackfield Cristian Mudure #startup #munichstartup #startupplay #munich

Mindfuel closes €3.75 million to measure and monetize the success of data investments across Europe https://lnkd.in/d4EyqDyr #munichstartup #startupplay #startup

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