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AI Startup Secures $5M to Power Physician Productivity

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Affineon Health Expands AI Inbox to Tackle Provider Burnout, Improve Patient Care

DENVER, Feb. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Affineon Health, a leader in AI-powered solutions to streamline the inbox for healthcare physicians and providers, today announced successfully closing a $5 million oversubscribed funding round. GPG Ventures led the seed round with participation from existing investor, AI Fund, and several other new investors.

The funding enables Affineon to accelerate product development, expand its fast-growing market presence, and deepen its impact on one of healthcare’s most pressing challenges: the administrative burden on providers that’s a leading cause of physician burnout.

“We’re empowering healthcare providers by automating tedious tasks so they can spend more time on patient care and less on administrative work,” said David Norris, Co-Founder and CEO of Affineon Health. “This oversubscribed round underscores how important solving this problem is and positions Affineon to scale our AI inbox to improve even more lives.”

Transforming Provider Inboxes with AI
By automating routine lab results, prescription renewals, and patient communications, Affineon reduces inbox volume up to 80% and saves providers over five hours per week, while improving response times and the patient experience. Seamlessly integrated with electronic health record (EHR) systems, providers reclaim their time in Affineon’s AI inbox without disrupting existing workflows.

Investor Perspectives
“By slashing the time doctors spend wrangling their inbox, Affineon reduces a major healthcare pain point,” said Claire England, Investment Partner at GPG Ventures. “We’re thrilled to back this experienced team’s innovative AI inbox and their dedication to improving physician efficiency and patient care.”

“The healthcare industry is hungry for solutions that combine advanced AI technology with practical applications,” said Matt Miller, Managing Partner at Headwater Ventures. “The administrative burden physicians face every day is why we invested in Affineon, with its unique AI inbox solution”

Other new investors in this round include Deepwater, Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV), Headwater Ventures, and Signal Peak Ventures. Together with GPG Ventures and AI Fund, their support reflects solid investor confidence in Affineon’s market leadership and momentum. This round brings Affineon’s total capital raised to $6 million.

Accelerating Momentum

The funding builds on Affineon’s recent achievements, including:

Market traction: Partnering with leading health systems, physician practices, and EHRs like athenahealth.Innovation: Advancing AI-powered tool development for lab results, Rx renewals, and patient communication.Recognition: Establishing itself as an essential innovator reducing provider burnout and improving patient care.

About Affineon Health
Affineon Health’s AI inbox streamlines provider workflows and eases administrative burdens. Its flagship solutions improve efficiency, reduce burnout, and help healthcare providers focus on delivering high-quality patient care. Affineon integrates seamlessly with EHR systems, saving providers time and enhancing the healthcare experience.

About the Investors
GPG Ventures is a Texas-based healthcare VC firm. With offices in Dallas, Houston, and Austin, GPG Ventures invests nationally in biotech, digital health, medtech, consumer health, and general B2B tech. Individual and family office LPs have invested alongside the firm’s partners in more than 100 portfolio companies since 2011.
AI Fund is a venture studio that strives to move humanity forward by accelerating the adoption of AI. Acting as a minor co-founder, AI Fund partners with entrepreneurs to form new companies together. AI pioneer Andrew Ng launched AI Fund in 2018 with $176 million from top-tier firms such as Greylock, NEA, Sequoia, and Softbank Group.
Deepwater Asset Management manages equity investment funds across the growth spectrum in public and private markets. They seek to invest in transformative technologies and innovators that will unlock value for their investment partners.
Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV) is a cross-border VC firm with deep roots in Silicon Valley and a focus on global Enterprise 5.0 AI technology innovation.
Headwater Ventures is a Minneapolis-based VC firm investing in tech founders building the next generation of category-defining healthcare companies.
Signal Peak Ventures is a Salt Lake City-based VC firm investing in technology companies in emerging markets, primarily outside of Silicon Valley.

Media Inquiries:
Affineon Health
Marc Feder
marc.feder@affineon.com
www.affineon.com

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Witsbb Launches Age-Specific ‘Grow Pro Talplax Drink’ to Revolutionize Children’s Height Growth Nutrition

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SYDNEY, March 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — As “height anxiety” continues to spread among parenting circles, the field of children’s growth nutrition is reaching a critical turning point. On March 11, Australian infant and child nutrition brand Witsbb launched its heavily anticipated new product, Grow Pro Talplax Drink, on TMALL Heybox. They also officially announced that a women’s volleyball champion has become the “Witsbb Height Growth Ambassador”. With the core proposition of “scientific height growth over superstition, age-specific nutrition is key”, the product aims to help children establish a scientific growth system from ages 3 to 21.

Children’s height growth is a systemic project, involving multiple dimensions such as bone development, muscle growth, and endocrine regulation,” notes Dr. Bradley, Chief Scientific Officer of Witsbb. “There are significant differences in the types, ratios, and absorption efficiencies of nutrients required at different age stages. Simply applying traditional ‘one-size-fits-all’ and ‘one-age-fits-all’ solutions may be counterproductive.

Based on this scientific understanding, the Witsbb research and development team is dedicated to providing scientifically-backed bone development solutions for children aged 3 to 21. Grow Pro Talplax Drink focuses on three core critical age stages for height growth: the golden period from 3 to 8 years old, the intensive growth phase from 8 to 14 years old, and the final growth spurt from 14 to 21 years old.

At the same time, grounded in the principles of children’s bone development, Grow Pro Talplax Drink innovatively introduces the concept of a ‘growth plate accelerator.’ The product formulations include a comprehensive blend of nutrients designed to support growth plates, such as lysine, Chondroitin Peptide, and more. This approach aims to facilitate rapid height growth during these three critical stages.

Just as the Chinese women’s volleyball team wins matches through phased tactical training, Witsbb’s ‘Grow Pro Talplax Drink’ aims to support children’s scientific growth with precise nutritional formulas. On the volleyball court, each player plays an indispensable role, and every ingredient in Witsbb’s ‘Grow Pro Talplax Drink’ is meticulously selected. This not only reflects the brand’s persistent pursuit of depth in scientific research but also highlights the inevitable trend of the entire industry transitioning towards evidence-based medicine and precision nutrition.

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CoreWeave partners with Bulk Infrastructure for one of the largest NVIDIA AI deployments in Europe

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OSLO, Norway, March 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — CoreWeave, the AI Hyperscaler™, and Bulk Infrastructure (Bulk), a leading provider of sustainable digital infrastructure, have announced a partnership to establish one of the largest NVIDIA AI deployments in Europe at the N01 Datacenter Campus, Vennesla, Norway.

As part of this partnership, CoreWeave will use Bulk’s N01 Datacenter Campus to deploy a large-scale NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 cluster, interconnected with ultra-fast NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. This deployment aims to significantly enhance compute capacity in Norway and is expected to be operational by Summer 2025.

In 2024, CoreWeave announced an initial investment of $2.2 billion across Europe, building new data centers delivering the latest AI infrastructure to continental Europe powered by 100 percent renewable energy.

“I am pleased to hear about the collaboration between CoreWeave and Bulk Infrastructure in the establishing of CoreWeave’s new AI-data center in Norway, said Norwegian minister of digitalisation and public governance, Karianne Tung. “The goal of the Norwegian government is to establish a national infrastructure for AI towards 2030. Norway being selected as one of the host countries for CoreWeave’s expanded AI-infrastructure in Europe, shows we are attractive internationally as a location for high quality data center-services. As minister of digitalisation, I am confident that the Bulk-CoreWeave partnership will add value to the further development of AI in Norway.”

“We’re excited to partner with Bulk to further expand our regional footprint and capacity in Europe to support the growing need for AI and high-performance computing across the region,” said Mike Mattacola, Chief Business Officer, CoreWeave. “Bulk’s commitment to sustainability, future-proof infrastructure and ability to scale supporting our expansion plans make them an ideal partner in Norway.”

“Working with a globally renowned AI-company like CoreWeave marks a significant milestone for Bulk. Securing an AI deployment of this size demonstrates our capability to meet the needs of our major customers,” said Jon Gravråk, CEO, Bulk Infrastructure. “Our N01 Datacenter Campus is uniquely equipped to meet the stringent demands of AI workloads, and this collaboration aligns perfectly with our mission to provide sustainable and scalable digital infrastructure solutions.”

“We need partners like Bulk building the latest large scale liquid ready AI data centers and CoreWeave building and deploying leading AI infrastructure to satisfy the needs of our customers across Europe,” said Jaap Zuiderveld, Vice President EMEA at NVIDIA. “The deployment of this large-scale NVIDIA GB200 cluster by CoreWeave and Bulk represents a significant step in scaling advanced AI compute capacity across Europe in one of the region’s most sustainable locations.”

Located in Southern Norway’s Agder region, just outside Kristiansand, the N01 Datacenter Campus lies on a 300-hectare (3km²) site located next to one of the largest transformer stations in Europe, with direct and redundant connections to multiple hydropower stations supplying 100% renewable energy. Bulk has secured 400 MW at the site with potential up to 1GW.

About CoreWeave

CoreWeave, the AI Hyperscaler™, delivers a cloud platform of cutting-edge software powering the next wave of AI. The company’s technology provides enterprises and leading AI labs with highly performant and efficient infrastructure for accelerated computing. Since 2017, CoreWeave has operated a growing footprint of data centers covering major regions in the US and across Europe. CoreWeave was ranked as one of the TIME100 most influential companies of 2024. Learn more at www.coreweave.com.

About Bulk Infrastructure

Bulk is a leading Nordic industrial developer, owner, and operator within digital infrastructure. We are driven by our vision – racing to bring sustainable infrastructure to a global audience. Based in Oslo, Norway, and across the Nordics we support customers in transitioning their workloads from traditional fossil fuel-powered sites to low-carbon, renewable facilities.

Bulk offers highly adaptable, interconnected, and scalable data centers supporting AI, HPC, and large cloud service providers IT workloads, backed by essential fiber networking capabilities. We are the only neutral fiber network company providing strategically diversified, sustainable connectivity linking sites across the Nordics with markets in the US, UK, and Western Europe. We are trusted by a broad range of organizations including cloud service providers, Nordic enterprises, system integrators, teams running AI and HPC workloads and cloud providers.

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The nomination committee proposes that Boliden’s board be expanded

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STOCKHOLM, March 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Nomination Committee of Boliden AB (publ) proposes that Victoire de Margerie is elected as new Board Member at the Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) on April 23, 2025. Further, the Nomination Committee proposes re-election of all current Board Members.

Ahead of the AGM on April 23, 2025, the Nomination Committee proposes re-election of all current Board members (Karl-Henrik Sundström, Helene Biström, Tomas Eliasson, Per Lindberg, Perttu Louhiluoto, Elisabeth Nilsson, Pia Rudengren and Derek White) and new election of Victoire de Margerie.

Born in 1963, Victoire de Margerie has solid experience from the metals and polymers industry, strategy, research, operations and business development. She is currently Executive Chairman of Rondol Industrie, a Board Director and Chair of the Technology Committee at Verkor and she holds board positions at Ivanhoe Electric and Mines ParisTech. She is also a member of the National Academy of Technologies of France. Previously, Victoire de Margerie served on the boards of several multinational companies, including Eurazeo, Arkema, Babcock International, Norsk Hydro and Outokumpu. She has also held senior executive roles at Pechiney, CarnaudMetalBox and Elf Atochem. She is the co-founder and Co-Chair of World Materials Forum. Victoire de Margerie holds a PhD in Management Science from Université de Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, a Master’s degree from HEC Paris and additional qualifications from Sciences Po Paris and Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Karl-Henrik Sundström is proposed to be re-elected as Chairman of the Board. The Nomination Committee’s further proposals and motivated statement will be presented in connection with the notice to the AGM.

Boliden’s Nomination Committee in respect of the 2025 AGM comprises of Lennart Francke (Swedbank Robur Fonder) Chairman of the Nomination Committee, Karin Eliasson (Handelsbanken Fonder) and Patrik Jönsson (SEB fonder), with Karl-Henrik Sundström, Chairman of the Board of Directors, as co-opted member.

For further information, please contact:
Lennart Francke
Chairman of the Nomination Committee
lennart.francke@gmail.com

Klas Nilsson
Director Group Communications
+46 70 453 65 88
Klas.nilsson@boliden.com

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