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#venture-investment

The small microprocessor enables accurate positioning via Galileo, GPS, and Beidou. Invest-NL is investing €10 million in Qualinx and considers it to be a unique Dutch technology, according to the FD. "The chip is not only very economical compared to competing products, but also universal. If it is used to connect to another satellite system, only a software update is required," says investment manager Johan Stins. Invest-NL sees wireless communication chips as a huge market.

Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes - always a decade away! - to an increasingly tangible and tantalizing technology that has drawn investors off the sidelines. The technology may be challenging to master and expensive to build today, but fusion promises to harness the nuclear reaction that powers the sun to generate nearly limitless energy here on Earth.

Frustrated by how hard it was to fly with his own Labradors, Maple and Willow - and often having to leave them behind - entrepreneur Benton Miller founded RetrievAir, a pet airline that lets oversized dogs (or any-sized dog or cat) ride in the cabin alongside their owners. In an interview with Business Insider, Miller said the pet-air-travel sector represents a $5.5 billion US market with plenty of room for more players. RetrievAir fares average $775 per seat.