Our cofounder & CTO Tiebe shares his perspective on the rise of Chinese AI models and their growing competition with US models. At frontier prices a lot of use cases do not clear the bar. At a fraction of that, they do, and the volume goes up rather than down. Jevons paradox, applied to tokens.



Our cofounder & CTO Tiebe shares his perspective on the rise of Chinese AI models and their growing competition with US models. At frontier prices a lot of use cases do not clear the bar. At a fraction of that, they do, and the volume goes up rather than down. Jevons paradox, applied to tokens.

Understanding goes further than drawing a process flow. A late delivery might have started weeks earlier. With incomplete product information in sales, a design change that wasn’t processed correctly or a planning adjustment nobody connected to the original issue.

Two twenty-somethings want to become global market leaders with their software, which automates office work using AI agents. "AI is evolving so fast that you can barely think long-term."


The Ghent-based AI company Tekst.com, which makes data flows visible, has raised €11.5 million. The round was led by the American investment fund Elephant. "American venture capitalists only invest in a Ghent company because we have technology that doesn't yet exist in Silicon Valley."

Tekst has raised EUR €11.5 million in Series A funding in a round led by US venture firm Elephant. The Ghent-based company was founded in 2022 by Wouter Janssen and Tiebe Parmentier. Existing investor Entourage also increased its backing through Pieterjan Bouten, a former Showpad executive.

The Ghent-based technology company Tekst has raised €11.5 million in fresh growth capital from American investors. The start-up plans to use the funding to break through globally with artificial intelligence that helps businesses automatically take over administrative work. "Many companies are investing heavily in AI, but still struggle to work with it truly efficiently. We solve that problem," say founders Wouter Janssen and Tiebe Parmentier.

Ghent-based Tekst has closed an €11.5 million Series A led by US venture firm Elephant. Tekst reconstructs processes automatically from the digital trail employees leave behind every day.
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