Inside Vantage Point and Doublepoint's Exit to Ōura
News and investment activity covering the next era of computing - brought to you by FOV Ventures.
Dave Haynes
April 08, 2026
Welcome to Viewpoints, news and investment activity covering the next era of computing - brought to you by FOV Ventures.
This Month:
We just wrapped Vantage Point: Robotics Edition in London - 300 investors, founders, and operators, 25 speakers, 6 panels, and 14 startup showcases.
The conversations showed how much has shifted in 18 months. Early-stage robotics companies now have customers, deployment pipelines, and paths to unit economics. The focus has moved to scaling - capital structure for hardware-intensive growth, building manufacturing partnerships, and navigating enterprise procurement cycles.
We published a full event recap covering the key sessions: NVIDIA and DeepMind on infrastructure readiness, the research-to-revenue translation problem, where capital is actually flowing, dual-use as default strategy, and what real deployment looks like across logistics, construction, and healthcare.
FOV NEWS
Portfolio Exit: Doublepoint → Oura
Doublepoint has been acquired by Oura for an undisclosed amount. One of our earliest bets from Fund I.
We backed Ohto, Jamin, Lauri and Eemil at seed when they were building gesture recognition tech that many couldn't yet see a use case for. Today they're joining Oura, an $11B company to build the next generation of human-device interaction.
Ohto was an obvious first call (and our first Finnish founder investment) when we launched FOV Ventures in 2020. We completely bought into Doublepoint's vision that new human-computer interfaces would be fundamental building blocks for the next era of computing.
Huge validation for the Finnish deep tech ecosystem, and you can read more about the decision to join Oura on Ohto’s personal blog.
Pathways Summit: The Female LP Report Launch May 6, Helsinki
We're launching the first data-driven report on female LP participation in European venture capital. Over six months, FOV Ventures, Tesi, and partners across 16 countries surveyed women about their relationship with venture capital as an asset class.
The event includes:
Report launch with key findings and data.
Workshops and working sessions, including a live DD simulation.
Networking and facilitated introductions.
This is for women exploring investing in VC funds, GPs building a broader LP base, institutional investors, and anyone working to widen the European VC funding base.
FOV Robotics Market Map 2026 Now Live
We published our European Robotics Market Map - mapping where the next generation of physical AI companies are being built across 12 application verticals and 6 enabling technology layers.
The map covers industrial robotics, logistics, healthcare, agriculture, construction, defence, and the full enabling stack from hardware components to AI models. It's a collaborative resource - contribute companies, corrections, or updates directly.
This is a collaborative map that will continue to evolve and expand - contribute companies, corrections, or updates here.
ICYMI: Europe's Deep Tech Frontier
Last month of Vantage Point, David Ripert published an in-depth analysis on why Europe is positioned to lead in physical AI and robotics. The piece covers Europe's research-to-real-world advantage, structural advantages in spatial computing, and the case for European technological sovereignty.
FOV Portfolio News
Scenario opened their MCP server to Public Beta, connecting AI agents directly to Scenario's full generation stack - images, video, 3D, audio, hundreds of models, custom trained models, assets, and workflows. More here
Edailabs (Emma) was named to the VivaTech Top 100 2026 - the only edtech company selected from 100 startups across 12 countries and 28 sectors. Emma now has the 2nd highest retention rate globally among language learning apps, ahead of Babbel and SpeakAI. More here
ai|coustics launched Quail Voice Focus 2.0, their most powerful speaker isolation model yet. It delivers 10-43% reduction in Word Error Rate under real-world conditions by stripping competing speakers, background noise, echo and codec artifacts before audio reaches ASR. More here
Flow Computing was selected for the Deep Tech Momentum Watchlist from 5,000+ startups and will be at DTM26 in Berlin meeting with investors, partners, and industry leaders across the deep tech ecosystem. More here
Starstuff hit 35M views on TikTok (+3M on Instagram) while completing a major infrastructure overhaul. They're preparing to launch their creator program and UGC marketplace, with significant user growth coming from Japan and South Korea. More here
Move launches Genesis on April 8th - their next-generation inertial motion capture system. Real-time data and post solve, exponentially higher quality than previous systems. Markerless motion capture is here. More here
Graswald released AI 2.0, rebuilding their platform to become a core operating system for fashion imagery production. The new version organises everything into projects, treating each product as a trackable task. More here
FOV Job Board
Nunu ai has multiple positions: Growth Intern (United States) and QA Product Support Specialist (Remote)
ai|coustics has openings in Berlin, Germany: Talent Pool for Audio Data Engineering & Machine Learning, and Content & Growth Marketer
GEEIQ - Client Manager (London, UK)
Atopia Space - SDR / Outbound Sales Freelancer (Remote or Munich, Germany)
Iconic AI has multiple AI Research positions in London, UK across Expressive Embodiment, Reinforcement Learning, and Model Optimization
Levtek - Mechanical Engineer (Malmö, Sweden)