Code flies.
Atoms matter.
While sunburns and funding rounds keep heating up, some stories demand a second look — even the good ones.
This week, we zoom in on Lovable: the Stockholm-based “last piece of software” that just became Europe’s latest unicorn. It's a stunning win for Nordic tech, and a quiet warning for us in deeptech and hardtech. Because when software flies, hardware risks getting grounded.
So before you hit the archipelago or debug another prototype, take five for this week’s edition. It’s light, sharp, and still very much hardtech.
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Nordic Hardtech Deep Dive
This week: Simply a quiet warning for Europe’s real builders.
Lovable Just Went Unicorn – But Don’t Let Deeptech Starve
As the Stockholm-based “last piece of software” takes off, it’s tempting to treat their speed and scale as the new Nordic blueprint. But not everything should, or can, grow like that. Jonas Åström, asks the harder question: What gets left behind when software wins it all?