Hackathon insights from Nikita (Zubr Capital)
Nikita (invest director, Zubr Capital) on Gen Z rebuilding old products, AI enabling one-day MVPs, and strong talent in Cyprus; next stop Warsaw.
Nikita (invest director, Zubr Capital) on Gen Z rebuilding old products, AI enabling one-day MVPs, and strong talent in Cyprus; next stop Warsaw.
Timestamps to a video where Sergey Osipov explains what Placy is, the team's achievements, 2025 plans, Cyprus choice, competition and the main challenge.
OpenAI pilot for group chats — ChatGPT aims to become a messenger; frequency stats show messaging could make it stickier and threaten AI startups.
Quick take on how Perplexity and SearchGPT change search economics: data owners get paid, marketplaces add AI, and paid search models emerge.
Founder insight: platforms like OpenAI or Anthropic can both enable growth and wipe out vertical startups; execution and trust matter more.
Founder update: Placy born on Halloween, MVP in July and €1M pre-seed; lead-qualification tool sold to B2B clients; leader in Cyprus expanding to Greece, Spain, UAE.
Curated niche AI funding rounds in 2024 — Poly AI, Inflection AI, SmarterDx, Sixfold and others for startup idea inspiration.
Cyprus posts ~3% GDP growth and a startup-friendly regime (2.5% IP Box, 0% dividends, grants), with a strong Russian-speaking IT community and active meetups.
Future Unicorns Party at Web Summit in Lisbon on Nov 11, 7pm — speakers Oleg Khusaenov, Michael Bychenok, Eugene Zhiharev; registration: fienta.com/futureunicorns (code UNICORN)
AI trends, opportunities and early-adopter challenges at the Cyprus session on May 28; includes Business Meets Tech networking and promo code LMBI10.
One-day AI Forum in Limassol on Nov 24 with speakers from Microsoft, EPAM, HPE and more; promo code Placy20 for 20% off.
List of corporate euphemisms for 2026 (Marketer → Storyteller, Automation → AI agents) from Placy founder Sergey Osipov.
Apple focused on local intelligence: unified memory, Neural Engines and clustered Mac Minis as an affordable approach to AI compute.
Summary of a Doers Summit Dubai talk outlining PropTech 2026 trends: AI agents, roll‑ups, portals at risk — 5‑minute video on YouTube.
Two AI assistants from Placy: a free consumer-facing product and Placy Pro, a white-label AI for real estate pros; 10 companies set to test it.
Recap of the Zubr Capital Young Hackathon in Warsaw: 12 teams, 90 founders, mentors and a €1,000 prize — film coming to Naturally Artificial YouTube in March.
How GPU farms and autonomous agents could drive unemployment, market collapse and the scenarios in THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS (Citrini Research).
Placy seeks an AI Prompt Engineer (voice/text): design prompts, A/B tests, monitor in Langfuse, tune models (OpenAI/ElevenLabs); remote OK, Cyprus core.
Data shows equal 50/50 splits fell below half in 2025; 3-founder equal shares were 27.3% and 4-founder equal splits jumped—chart included.
Andrew Chen (a16z) on how AI can turn marketplace supply agentic and robotic — robotaxis, delivery robots and programmable supply for startups and PropTech.