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Everyone here was named by somebody already inside: a connector, a neighbour, a founder. Open to read, no account, permanently: what they do, who pays for it, who they need to meet, and why that introduction had never been made.

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MISS-1 Oct 2, 2026 6 min read

Erinys is making it possible for one lawyer to start an AI-native firm

Erinys gives lawyers the infrastructure they need to start AI-native law firms without building the operating machinery themselves. Which means far more lawyers can realistically become firm owners.

Traditional Business & Services San Francisco Bay Area
MISS-1 Oct 2, 2026 7 min read

EuraTechnologies moved Lille to the middle of the map without moving Lille

Described as the periphery of France, the city is a backwater. Described as the centre of the London, Paris and Amsterdam triangle, it is a gateway. The trains did not change.

Ecosystem builder Lille, France
MISS-1 Sep 29, 2026 6 min read

Riften is fighting for your prompt

Carl Li He Stauffer's AI routing company sends each request to the cheapest model that can handle it, checks the results, and helps companies build models of their own. The routing is the reason to u…

AI infrastructure United States
MISS-1 Sep 28, 2026 7 min read

Startup Abuja charges its founders nothing, and embassies come to it for advice

The founders pay no fee and give up no equity, and Startup Abuja pays for its programmes itself. What those programmes have built is valuable enough that a European embassy came to Abuja to ask for i…

Ecosystem builder Abuja, Nigeria
MISS-1 Sep 7, 2026 17 min read

HPC VAST takes equity, not cash

HPC VAST looked at the obvious trade (buy GPUs, rent them out), modelled it at 5 to 8 per cent, and walked away. What it built instead is an investment firm that pays for its positions in compute.

AI & Data Mainland China

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