Overview
Founded by Oleksandr Tsepukh, North Star operates in the product development space, combining product strategy with design and engineering execution. The company either builds its own products or serves as a product development partner for clients.
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- Looking back at 2014, it’s crazy how the world has evolved. Still happy that we tried to contribute to the conversation with our 5 books! Writing a book is easy in the beginning and hard towards the end, especially the last 20% where you need to bring everything together. But it forces you to clarify your thinking and define a direction, a North Star, something to believe in when the future feels foggy. Thanks to my compagnons de route: Jo Caudron, Omar Mohout, Nils van Dam and Jeremy Denisty for the shared thinking, the debates
- 70 people, one Saturday afternoon, and plenty of conversations around what’s next in AI. ☕️🤖 Last Saturday, we hosted Cafe Compute Brussels at BeCentral, bringing together developers, founders and AI enthusiasts for an afternoon of talks, ideas and connections. A big thank you to everyone who joined Cafe Compute, organized by North Star and bringing the community together, with Cerebras and OpenAI. More than the talks themselves, it was great to see how much conversation continued afterwards with people comparing ideas,
- Our Equity Portfolio continues to shine! ⭐🙌 From Polish startup to top European Quantum Finance player, finQbit is making an impact! They are shining on the European stage and has attracted investment from Mediobanca, valuing the company at around €20M as part of the overall transaction. As a former participant of the 28DIGITAL Venture Incubation Program, we have been with finQbit early on in their journey and invited them as one of our selected startups to attend Expand North Star in Dubai last year. With this announcement,
- We said our partnership with North Star would bring more AI builders together in Brussels. Time to put that into practice. 🚀 This Saturday, North Star kicks off its first meetup at BeCentral with Café Compute, together with Cerebras & OpenAI. On the menu: agents, LARGE FAST LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS, hands-on experimentation and a few people who know the subject pretty well. 👀 Including Rafaela Nicolazzi from OpenAI, working on data, privacy & consumer protection in EMEA, alongside the Cerebras team. Bring your laptop, your
- Change management usually fails because top-down messaging rarely survives contact with actual daily work. In a high-velocity, AI-first organization, you shouldn't compete for attention in overcrowded Slack channels anyway. You meet employees directly in their workflow loop, by silently steering their tools. This is where AI Gateways evolve from a security boundary into a cultural vector. By dynamically injecting strategic context into system prompts at the gateway layer, routine LLM usage becomes continuous, automated alignment:
- Big news: BeCentral is partnering with North Star ! Applied AI and robotics move faster when the right people, communities and ecosystems come together. Through this partnership, we’re connecting North Star’s community of builders, researchers and tech enthusiasts with the BeCentral ecosystem, creating more opportunities to meet, learn, experiment and build together. From community sessions and workshops to meetups and future events, our shared ambition is clear: strengthen Brussels as a key meeting point for applied AI
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