// 2026
PODIM pitch competition. 4th of 136.
anyconcept reached the final of the PODIM pitch competition, placing 4th among 136 startups. PODIM is one of the leading startup competitions in Central and Eastern Europe.
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// 2026
anyconcept presents at AI Factory Austria opening.
"Innovation means proving everyone wrong." That was how Manuel opened the presentation at the AI:AT Coworking Hub launch in February 2026. When EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced at the Paris AI Summit in February 2025 that Europe's supercomputers would be made available to startups and researchers, most expected years of delays. Less than a year later, anyconcept has access.
// 2025
Internal data labelling tool finalized.
anyconcept completed its proprietary data labelling infrastructure. The tooling used to annotate the training data behind the VAM. The infrastructure will be open sourced. Details to follow.
// 2025
anyconcept at Slush, Helsinki.
At Slush 2025, the founding team spent 40 minutes in conversation with researchers from Anthropic. Two teams working on fundamentally different approaches to AI finding enough common ground for a real conversation.
// 2025
aws Seedfinancing DeepTech. €850K.
anyconcept received €850K through the austria wirtschaftsservice Deep Tech Seedfinancing programme toward a €1.1M project. The grant supports deep tech startups advancing from research to market. Funding goes toward advancing the VAM and starting go to market.
Read the case study// 2024
SFG Start!Klar plus grant.
anyconcept received funding through the Steirische Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft Start!Klar plus programme, supporting the transition from research to market.
// 2023
anyconcept referenced in Google Cloud blog.
While building training infrastructure on Google Cloud, anyconcept developed a storage optimization approach using Cloud Storage Fuse and shared the scripts publicly. Google referenced the work in their official blog post marking the tool's general availability.
Read the post// 2023
FFG Basisprogramm grant.
anyconcept received a research grant through the Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG Basisprogramm, supporting foundational research into the Vision Action Model.
// 2021
aws PreSeed DeepTech grant.
anyconcept received its first institutional funding through the austria wirtschaftsservice PreSeed DeepTech programme. The grant supported the earliest stage of VAM research.
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