Every quarter, a company sets its targets: revenue, growth, margin. Clean numbers on a slide. Then reality intervenes, and the teams that win are the ones who read what actually happened and adapt faster than everyone else. AI works the same way. Benchmarks are the projection: clean scores, controlled conditions, and a leaderboard that crowns one model. Production is where the real signal lives.  That's the advantage hiding in plain sight. After observing more than 750 trillion tokens move through one of the world's largest AI marketplaces, @OpenRouter has a uniquely clear view of how AI is actually being used: which models developers actually reach for, how they balance quality against cost and reliability, and what real-world adoption reveals beyond benchmark scores.  This July 9, @Cclark, Co-Founder & COO of @OpenRouter, takes the Grace Hopper stage to share what that vantage point reveals: why the future is increasingly multi-model, why flexibility beats lock-in as a strategic advantage, and what patterns separate the teams already shipping AI at scale. For anyone trying to understand where AI is really headed, this session offers a perspective grounded not in theory, but in observed behaviour across the global AI economy. Limited tickets to RAISE Summit remain and are selling quickly.  🔗 Secure your ticket: hubs.li/Q04lcGc10

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For a century, cinematic quality was gated by capital: cameras, crews, lighting, and post-production. The look of a film was a function of the budget behind it. That barrier is dissolving. AI video generation is reaching the point where the output feels directed, not synthesized; real optical behavior, controlled camera movement, the texture of something shot rather than rendered.  This July 8, Alex Mashrabov, Co-Founder & CEO of @Higgsfield_ai, joins Antoine Blondeau, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at @alpha_fund, for a Fireside Chat on the Future of AI Infrastructure.  Mashrabov has built Higgsfield into one of the most talked-about platforms in AI video, putting cinematic-grade tools in the hands of anyone with an idea. Blondeau brings the investor's vantage, defined by two decades backing deep-AI companies and a clear view of which shifts are durable and which are hype. Together, they will explore the infrastructure making the next generation of AI applications possible, from the models and compute powering generative media to the systems that will underpin the next wave of AI-native products. Be in the room where the people building generative media decide what comes after the production barrier falls. Limited tickets to RAISE Summit remain.  🔗 Secure your ticket now: hubs.li/Q04ld2ss0

Few people sit closer to the intersection of startups, investors, and AI infrastructure than @GoogleCloud EMEA startup ecosystem lead. This July, three founders will pitch directly to him. We are proud to welcome Cyrille Saint Olive, VC Partnerships & Startup Ecosystem Lead for EMEA at @GoogleCloud, as a jury member for RAISE the STAKES, the flagship startup competition of RAISE Week 2026. Cyrille works at the point where early-stage founders gain access to the capital, network, and infrastructure that help them scale. At Google Cloud, he leads VC partnerships and startup ecosystem strategy across EMEA, connecting startups with the compute, tools, and investor networks behind their growth. His perspective is grounded in years spent building startup communities from the inside. A graduate of @EDHEC_BSchool and @ScPoLille, he previously served as General Manager of Réseau Entreprendre Paris and as Community Manager for investors at @GeneoCapital Entrepreneur.  Cyrille brings the capital-meets-ecosystem lens to the main stage: Does this team know how to use the ecosystem around them, or are they trying to build it all alone? Is the company investable at the earliest stage, before the metrics make the call obvious? Ready to prove your startup belongs on that stage?  Apply now 🚀 hubs.li/Q04lc_lc0

Designing a single advanced chip can take years, thousands of engineers and billions of dollars. Voltai is building AI to change that. Congratulations to Voltai on being named one of the @wef 2026 Technology Pioneers, a cohort of 100 early-stage companies selected worldwide for their work at the frontier of technology across AI, energy, space, and biotechnology. Founded out of a @Stanford AI research lab, Voltai develops AI models and agents that learn to design semiconductors and electronics, reasoning across hardware, software and manufacturing to push design beyond human limits. It is a hard, foundational problem that sits beneath almost everything the AI era depends on, and one that will be explored under the Foundation Track at @RaiseSummit . This recognition is well earned, and we are proud to have Voltai joining us as an Official Partner at RAISE Summit this July 8-9. 💡 Learn more about the 100 companies selected for the 2026 Technology Pioneers community: weforum.org/stories/2026/06/…

Everyone can see which AI companies are winning. Far fewer get to sit at the table while they're being built. We are proud to welcome @ICONIQcapital as an Ecosystem Partner of the CxO Summit at RAISE Summit 2026. From its roots as a trusted advisor to some of technology’s most influential founders and its early conviction in SaaS, data infrastructure, and now AI, ICONIQ has built enduring partnerships with many of the world’s most consequential companies. These companies include @AnthropicAI—where ICONIQ is one of the company’s largest investors—as well as @wearelegora, @ElevenLabs, @OpenAI, @Snowflake, @Figma, @Datadoghq, @RampLabs, and @Airbnb, among others. What differentiates ICONIQ is the combination of its exceptional community of global leaders and a deep commitment to shared learning. Through frameworks such as Enterprise Five and extensive benchmarking research, the firm captures insights from the world’s best operators and companies, translating them into actionable wisdom for founders and CxOs. The CxO Summit is a private, invitation-only forum for CxOs of the world's largest enterprises and CEOs of category-defining AI companies, taking place this July 8–9 at the Carrousel du Louvre. When you're allocating against AI, what signals separate a durable company from a well-funded one?

The next trillion-dollar tech companies won't just be built in Silicon Valley. The question is whether Europe has the capital, the conviction, and the ecosystem to back them. Prosus is one of the world's largest technology investors, backing the companies transforming how billions of people buy, sell, and transact across Europe, Latin America, and India. Listed on @Euronext Amsterdam with interests in over 100 markets, Prosus operates at the intersection of consumer internet, AI, and global growth.  Through Prosus Ventures, the group committed over $400M across 40 transactions in FY25 alone, including $88M in AI-related investments. Their portfolio spans the full stack of AI's real-world impact, from LLM routing and enterprise agents to frontier materials science.  At #RAISESummit 2026, Prosus joins the companies providing the capital shaping the next generation of intelligent systems. 💡 Enterprise AI is moving from pilot to production. Who's backing the companies that will define the application layer?

Build AI. Meet builders. Ship something real. Join the @RaiseSummit Hackathon for 48 hours of creating autonomous agents, enterprise AI applications, and next-generation products alongside founders, developers, mentors, and investors. cerebralvalley.ai/e/raise-su…

Every cloud vendor wants to be your only cloud. Emma is built on the opposite bet. As AI workloads scale, fragmentation becomes a material cost rather than an inconvenience: untraceable spend, skills gaps spread thin across providers, and vendor lock-in that compounds over time.  The more enterprises invest in AI, the more their cloud infrastructure must be managed as a single system rather than five separate ones.  Emma makes that possible. Its cloud-agnostic platform unifies hybrid and multi-cloud environments into a single layer for deployment, optimization, governance, and cost management, helping teams run AI wherever their cloud runs without sacrificing control or efficiency. Backed by leading investors, including @BlackRock , @Smartfin_vc , @rtpvc, CircleRock Capital, @altairvc, and AAL, Emma operates with a simple conviction: cloud infrastructure should be intelligent, efficient, and accessible to everyone. This July 8-9, Emma joins the builders, operators, and technology leaders shaping cloud infrastructure for start-ups to large enterprises.  Limited spots remain, and are going quickly.  🔗 Secure your ticket now: raisesummit.com/tickets

A decade ago, building an online store meant months of development and a small fortune. Then @Shopify turned e-commerce into a few clicks, and millions of businesses came online overnight. That was the last great rewiring of commerce. The next one is already underway, and this time the customer might not be human. As agentic AI enters e-commerce, software is starting to browse, compare, and buy on our behalf. What makes that possible isn't the model. It's large-scale, real-time access to data on a web built for people, not agents. And the web isn't giving it up easily: dynamic page structures, anti-automation friction, and a legal landscape rewriting itself in real time all stand in the way. This July 8, on the #RAISESummit Master Stage, Juras Juršėnas, COO, at @Oxylabs_io and Fred de Villamil, Senior Director of Technology, at @NielsenIQ for Digital Commerce, break down what it takes to access web data at scale: compliantly, ethically, and without losing the human expertise that still makes it work: When agents become the shoppers, who controls the data they run on? Limited tickets to RAISE Summit remain.  🔗 Secure your ticket:  hubs.li/Q04l4yWs0

We are pleased to welcome Cecilia Wang, Principal at @Accel, as a jury member for RAISE the STAKES, the flagship startup competition of RAISE Week 2026. Cecilia joined Accel in 2021 and focuses on AI, fintech, and consumer businesses. She led Accel's investment in SolveAI and works closely with the teams at Fuse, Perceptic, and Viktor. Before Accel, Cecilia led product strategy at @Revolut, reporting directly to founder and CEO Nik Storonsky and helping the company reach profitability. Earlier, she worked at @Citi's Banking, Capital Markets and Advisory group across New York and London. Having scaled Revolut from the inside, Cecilia brings an operator's eye to the table; she'll be looking at whether founders truly understand their market, whether their product holds up under real-world pressure, and whether the team has the execution discipline to turn traction into scale. At #RAISESummit, RAISE the STAKES finalists will pitch to Cecilia and a jury of operators, investors, and builders who've scaled companies from zero to production. If your startup is ready to prove it belongs in that company, this is your chance to pitch in front of the people who've backed the best. Apply now: hubs.li/Q04l0K4p0

Congrats to TensorWave on their $350M Series B funding to expand AMD-powered AI infrastructure globally. This significant investment underscores the growing momentum behind AI hardware and infrastructure development, reflecting confidence in TensorWave's strategic vision. With this funding, TensorWave is poised to make substantial advancements in global AI infrastructure, emphasizing the importance of scalable and efficient solutions powered by AMD technology. The ability to leverage such backing highlights TensorWave’s role as a key player in the evolving AI landscape. Piotr Tomasik, President and Co-Founder of TensorWave, will bring his insights to Raise 2026. As a confirmed speaker, Piotr's participation underscores our commitment to featuring leaders driving real innovation in AI infrastructure.

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Most enterprises are securing the wrong layer. The conversation has fixated on agents in production, but the deeper shift is upstream: software is increasingly being written by agents, not developers.  That moves the security question from "is this code secure?" to "can we trust the system that created it?" It's a gap that introduces three security problems that no existing category was built to solve:  1. The supply chain the agent depends on: MCP servers, skills, plugins 2. The agent's behavior at runtime: tool calls, shell access, network traffic 3. The code the agent ships: it passes tests but breaks at authorization, trust boundaries, and business logic. This July 8, Manoj Nair, Chief Innovation Officer at @Snyksec, addresses these frictions during his Keynote, “Agentic Development Security: The Three Problems Nobody Was Solving, and the One That Matters Most for 2026.”  Snyk knows security. Agents know the app. Neither works alone.  If you're a senior leader shaping security strategy, the AI Security Summit (July 7), hosted by Snyk during RAISE Week, is where this conversation continues ✉️ Apply for an invitation: hubs.ly/Q04l0vMv0

2026 is a BRUTAL grind in VC. You start in Davos, freeze in Aspen, hit Upfront, survive Milken, then it’s straight to Paris for the French Open. Briefly back in NYC for the Knicks. Then, total blur: SuperReturn in Berlin, Founders Forum in London, then back stateside for the World Cup, back to Paris for Raise AI, Idaho for Sun Valley, quick respite in Mykonos, then the Goldman tech gauntlet, Slush in Finland, NeurIPS in freakin’ Sydney… and *boom*, a productive year of thought leadership and adding value is over, and you’re a wreck.

Foundation models, cloud, and the chips underneath.  Most providers offer one. Alibaba Cloud runs all three. Alibaba Cloud is bringing full-stack AI infrastructure to RAISE Summit 2026. As one of the world's largest cloud providers, @Alibaba_Cloud spans the entire AI stack from foundation models to cloud infrastructure to proprietary silicon. At the center is its open-source Qwen family of models, which has surpassed 600 million downloads.  As the leading cloud provider in the Asia Pacific by market share, last year, Alibaba Cloud announced plans to invest at least $53B over the next three years to advance its cloud computing and AI infrastructure.  This July 8-9, Alibaba Cloud joins the builders laying the foundation for the next era of AI.  Be in the room with the leaders building AI infrastructure, advancing research, and deploying AI at scale across North America and Asia at @RAISESummit 2026.  Limited tickets remain.  🔗 Secure your ticket: hubs.li/Q04kWSYT0

Headphones on. The world narrows to a single screen. But the engineer isn't typing. The agents are.  One reads the codebase. One drafts the feature. One writes the tests, runs them, fixes what breaks. Lines of code scroll past faster than any human could write them, and the engineer's role is to steer, to decide, to point the fleet at the next hard problem.  Entering a flow state, redrawn for the agentic era: fewer keystrokes, more judgment. This is how the best engineering teams already work, running fleets of cloud agents. The scope of what one person can build has exploded in the last year. Engineers are taking on projects that once needed an entire team.  Security backlogs cleared in an afternoon. Year-long migrations compressed into days. Production issues fixed without a human writing a line of code. At @cognition, 89% of its code is written with cloud agents. This July 8 at the Carrousel du Louvre, we are proud to welcome @ScottWu46, Co-Founder and CEO at Cognition, to the Master Stage for his keynote on “The Golden Age of Software Engineering,” how the best engineers are working today, and what any developer can do to start building at this scale. What does your flow state look like now that the agents do the typing? Limited tickets to RAISE Summit remain.  🔗 Secure your ticket: hubs.li/Q04kLGC50

RAISE the STAKES just secured the man who's been building @Google's startup ecosystem in France for years. We are proud to announce Grégoire Peiron, Director of @Google Cloud France for Startups & Digital Natives, as a Jury member at RAISE the STAKES, the flagship startup competition.  Grégoire leads Google Cloud's Go-To-Market strategy for founders working directly with the startups, VCs, accelerators, and incubators shaping the next wave of European tech. With 25 years in technology and GTM leadership, he has a proven track record scaling fast-growing businesses.  He has seen what separates the startups that get Google Cloud's attention from the ones that don't. Grégoire brings the infrastructure-meets-go-to-market lens to the main stage: Is your product solving a real enterprise problem or a founder's fantasy? Does your distribution strategy hold up when the people who've actually scaled businesses are stress-testing it? And are you building something that investors and ecosystem partners will want to pull into their portfolio or one that looks better on a deck than in a data room? At #RAISESummit, on July 8-9, you will be pitching in front of him across a packed hall of operators, investors, and builders who've done it themselves. Are you ready for it? This is your final chance to apply.  hubs.li/Q04kVCmX0

Congratulations to @cognition on closing $1B at a $26B valuation. The metrics speak for themselves. Nearly $500M in revenue run rate. More than 90% of their own code is written by Devin. A target of $1B ARR before the year is out. Devin isn't a concept anymore. It's shipping product, serving enterprise clients, and redefining what engineering teams can execute. This is the kind of company shaping AI's next chapter. Meet them at the Cognition Activation Lounge in Soufflot at #RAISESummit this July. luma.com/raiseweek-he4w 🇫🇷