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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Impressive and encouraging results on applying AI for systematic reviews 🙌

Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🚀 Check out this technical note on some early work-in-progress on accelerating evidence synthesis with AI We're exploring OpenAlex and OpenAI LLMs to extract structured data from 1000s of research papers 🥵 medium.com/discovery-at...

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Accelerating evidence synthesis: how AI is transforming systematic reviews

Early work-in-progress in leveraging OpenAlex and OpenAI API to screen and extract structured data from research publications

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Thank you @dealroom.bsky.social for featuring Mission Radar in the latest newsletter! ✨ Read the full newsletter here: newsletter.dealroom.co/nobel-laurea...

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Nesta @nestauk.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Could seeing a heat pump in action encourage more homeowners to make the switch? Last year, we launched Visit a Heat Pump to connect the heat-pump curious with local heat pump owners. A year on, it's seen 1000+ bookings with 90% of visitors recommending the service. Find out more:

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One year on, Visit a Heat Pump sees over 1,600 visitors

Our research has shown visits make a clear difference to people’s attitudes, knowledge and confidence on heat pumps

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The surge in funding signals rising confidence in the commercial future of low-carbon heating and heat pump tech. More trends + signals from research & policy in our full Mission Radar update 👉 www.nesta.org.uk/feature/miss... 8/8

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Mission Radar: emerging signals and innovation trends in low-carbon heating

Our first edition of the series shares innovation signals for venture funding, research funding and policy trends in low-carbon heating

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🇬🇧 Mixergy (£12M) Smart hot water storage compatible with multiple energy sources (Nesta is an investor) 💡 Why it matters: Particularly useful when space constraints make it difficult to accommodate a full-sized hot water cylinder alongside a heat pump www.mixergy.co.uk/blog/mixergy... 7/n

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Mixergy Secures £12 Million in Funding Led by Barclays

£12 million funding investment reflects the demand for Mixergy’s game-changing technology in smart hot water storage and home energy solutions

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🇦🇹 Podero (€5.5M Seed) Smart energy control at the utility level, enabling bill savings & demand flexibility 💡 Why it matters: Could be a game changer for demand flexibility, helping households save while supporting a resilient grid. www.eu-startups.com/2025/02/pode... 6/n

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Podero closes €5.5 million round to help utilities win on grid flexibility and pricing | EU-Startups

Podero, a Vienna-based startup in the renewable energy sector, announced today it has raised €5.5 million in Seed funding to reduce energy costs for

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🇪🇸 Nido (€5M Seed) Digital tools for faster heat pump installs, reportedly reducing installation time by more than 40% 💡 Why it matters: If scalable, this could enable faster and more cost effective heat pump rollout across households. www.eu-startups.com/2025/02/nido... 5/n

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Nido secures €5 million to drive the energy transition through residential heat pumps | EU-Startups

Madrid-based Nido, a platform innovating the commercialisation, design, and installation of heat pump systems in the residential sector, has successfully

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🇩🇪 Green Fusion (€12M Series A) AI-powered optimisation of heating systems, claiming to cut heating costs and emissions by 16% 💡 Why it matters: This tech could help homes start decarbonising now without major upgrades. www.green-fusion.de 4/n

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Green Fusion | Der digitale Heizungskeller, der mehr kann.

Wir digitalisieren, optimieren und automatisieren Heizungskeller, sorgen für die reibungslose Transformation hin zu regenerativen Systemen und für maximale Effizienz und Nachhaltigkeit in der Wohnungs...

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

✨ Q1 2025: Venture capital highlights on our radar These startups stood out for their potential to accelerate home decarbonisation 👇 3/n

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

📈 Between 2020 and 2024, early and growth-stage VC investment in heat pump ventures grew by over 1,100% That made heat pumps the most heavily backed low-carbon heating tech in that period 2/n

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🔍 What’s new on the Mission Radar? In our latest innovation trends scan @nestauk.bsky.social, we tracked VC signals in low-carbon heating- and the trajectory is exciting! 1/n

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Nesta @nestauk.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

📡 Introducing Mission Radar: our new briefing on emerging trends in clean heat, obesity and early years. This edition dives into low-carbon heating, using AI to scan for innovation in business, academia and policy. Here's what we found ⤵️ bit.ly/4kiwsdp

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

What's on your radar? 📡 Excited to share our first Mission Radar – a quarterly look at innovation signals spotted in our foresight work at @nestauk.bsky.social We explored innovations around reducing home carbon emissions, linked to our sustainable future mission. www.nesta.org.uk/feature/miss...

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Mission Radar: emerging signals and innovation trends in low-carbon heating

Our first edition of the series shares innovation signals for venture funding, research funding and policy trends in low-carbon heating

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Looking forward to The AI Summit London 2025, and exploring opportunities for AI for social good! invt.io/1bxb3ko7fn4

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I'm attending The AI Summit - where commercial AI comes to life

Why not join me there?

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Come and join our team at Nesta! We're hiring a data scientist (maternity cover, 12-month fixed-term contract). You will work with me and a team of other data scientists and researchers to develop AI-powered tools for supporting analysts and policymakers! www.nesta.org.uk/jobs/data-sc...

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Data Scientist (Maternity Cover)

We are looking for a Data Scientist to develop innovative methods leveraging data science and AI to impact our Missions and improve the practice of policymaking.

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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Data Scientist (Maternity Cover)

We are looking for a Data Scientist to develop innovative methods leveraging data science and AI to impact our Missions and improve the practice of policymaking.

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

It was great to participate in the AI evidence synthesis workshop organised by ai@cam this week! Amazing to see so much interest and activity in this space (and very impressed by the work done by the Conservation Evidence team) Looking forward to contributing more to this topic in the near future

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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Oligarchic control and subservient justice & security systems are lessons Russia has for Americans, & another is the neutering of the Russian Duma, which abdicated most of its powers to Putin and soon had the rest taken away. The GOP looks ready to become Trump's United Russia.

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Very interesting @jeremycliffe.bsky.social Are there any articles or papers where I can read more analysis about the Spanish economic success of the recent years? Thank you!

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

💡 Last autumn, @helloaidank.bsky.social had a spark of an idea: a gen AI chatbot to support heat pump installations. Fast forward, and it’s amazing to see how that idea has grown into an actual feature on a real-world platform. Excited to see what's next! 🚀 www.nesta.org.uk/project-upda...

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How could generative AI change the heat pump skills sector?

Partnering with Renbee, we designed a chatbot to provide clear, practical advice for queries on heat pump installation

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 05/11/2024

saw this piece being shared around on the bird site and sharing it here cuz it's so good genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

🙌 New blog alert! It was great to collaborate with Rinske Jongma over this summer on using generative AI for summarising political speeches. medium.com/discovery-at...

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How to use AI to summarise decades of political discourse

Using and evaluating large language models and chain-of-thought prompting for summarisation

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

I'm looking forward to participating in the Policy Live event this Thursday! 🙌 I will present highlights from our latest report on innovation trends around technologies for supporting development of young children! 🐣 www.nesta.org.uk/data-visuali...

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Innovation Sweet Spots: digital technologies for the early years

Our analysis finds that AI is powering a wave of digital technology aimed at supporting children and parents in the early years

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Nesta @nestauk.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

What would it take to improve the UK's trajectory to 2040? A new report series from UK 2040 Options brings together innovative policy ideas in areas critical to the country’s future – economic growth, health, education and net zero. Read the ideas: options2040.co.uk/ideas-to-pro...

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Ideas to propel us to a better 2040

Our analysis on the challenges and bold solutions required to tackle economic growth, health, education and net zero

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Happy to share a new report on innovation trends in early-years digital technologies! Our @nestauk.bsky.social study points to a burgeoning ecosystem of tech and AI that could enhance the way we support child development. www.nesta.org.uk/data-visuali... #tech #children #parenting #childcare

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Innovation Sweet Spots: digital technologies for the early years

Our analysis finds that AI is powering a wave of digital technology aimed at supporting children and parents in the early years

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Karlis Kanders @karlisk.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Curious to try out Bluesky! I'm overall quite excited about open social networking protocols and interoperability so happy to support this experiment and seeing what happens 👀

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