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Paula Cristea - 4 Jun 2025

Why Execution Is the New Differentiator in Private Equity’s Tech Deals

In 2025, access to capital is table stakes. What distinguishes private equity sponsors now is execution. With deal volume returning and transaction size trending upward, value creation depends less on financial engineering and more on the ability to deliver results. Traditional levers such as cost reduction, integration, and restructuring have hit their limits, particularly in technology sectors marked by fast-moving innovation and systemic complexity. Execution has become the decisive edge. Strategy still matters, but it's the speed and precision of implementation that define outcomes.

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Stefan Sarbu - 27 May 2025

Market Validation Tactics for Pre-Seed and Seed Tech Startups

Every startup begins with a hypothesis: there’s a real problem, and you have the right solution. But you haven't validated anything until someone outside your team cares enough to engage—sign up, pay, or even just respond. Still, this step often gets overlooked. Early-stage founders frequently jump straight into building, pitching, or scaling, driven by momentum or pressure to show progress. Validation becomes an afterthought—something to deal with once there’s a product or a few users.

Idea to MVP Featured Startup
Tudor Iordache - 22 May 2025

How Lean Startups Use Synthetic Data to Build Smarter AI Faster

For many early-stage startups, launching an AI-powered product means facing two immediate hurdles—insufficient real-world data and limited bandwidth to collect, label, and secure it. As user acquisition ramps up slowly, the lack of usable data can delay product iteration and proof of concept.

Idea to MVP Featured Startup AI
Tudor Iordache - 12 May 2025

Foundation Models Are Redefining Lean Prototyping for Tech Startups

Startups are under pressure to move fast and prove value early. Investors want to see working demos before they commit. Users expect polished experiences even in beta. And founders—often working with lean teams and tight budgets—need to bridge the gap between idea and execution without burning through their runway. This is where foundation models come in. These large-scale AI systems, pre-trained on diverse data and capable of handling language, image, and multimodal tasks, dramatically lower the technical barriers to building a prototype.

Technology Idea to MVP Featured Startup
Tudor Iordache - 7 May 2025

From Prompts to Prototypes: Using AI Tools to Accelerate MVPs

Product teams are no longer starting with a blank canvas. Instead, they’re entering a landscape already populated by intelligent agents that can autonomously build interfaces, test logic, scan competitors, and extract signals from user noise. The implications are profound: AI isn’t just accelerating delivery; it’s shifting the product function from execution to strategy.

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Tudor Iordache - 28 Apr 2025

Enterprise DevOps Playbook: Driving Speed and Quality in Product Teams

Innovation teams within large enterprises face a paradox. Tasked with driving change, they are often slowed by the very systems they aim to improve—rigid processes, siloed functions, and layers of approvals that hinder rapid experimentation. Unlike startups, where agility is built into the culture, corporate product teams must navigate complexity while still delivering at speed. This is where DevOps becomes essential. More than just a set of tools, DevOps is a cultural and operational framework that enables faster, more reliable software delivery. By integrating development and operations, teams gain the autonomy to deploy frequently, respond to feedback quickly, and maintain product stability—all without compromising enterprise-level governance or security.

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Paula Cristea - 16 Apr 2025

Thinslices Partners with Salt Edge

Our partnership with Salt Edge is officially underway - by combining their expertise in financial data aggregation with our strengths in system integration and front-end development, we’re making it easier for businesses to access and integrate financial data seamlessly and leverage open banking payments.

Press Releases Featured
Tudor Iordache - 14 Apr 2025

Scaling Products by Moving from Monolith to Microservices

Legacy systems, once the backbone of digital growth, now increasingly act as bottlenecks. Their tightly coupled architectures slow down releases, complicate integrations, and limit scalability—placing enterprises at a disadvantage in markets that demand speed and adaptability. Microservices have emerged as the new standard for building resilient, modular, and scalable digital products. In fact, for most of our client engagements in recent years, microservices have been the default architectural choice. We've guided numerous enterprises through this transition—including BMJ, where we helped shift away from a monolithic platform toward a modern microservices-based ecosystem that now supports faster delivery cycles and greater product flexibility.

Technology Featured
Sabrina Szabo - 8 Apr 2025

Digital Banking Strategy: Balancing Automation with Human Touch

Over the past decade, the financial services landscape has undergone a profound transformation. Driven by rapid advances in technology, shifting consumer behavior, and an influx of agile fintech entrants, digital banking has evolved from a convenience into a baseline expectation. Customers today expect 24/7 access to their accounts, seamless digital experiences, and services that anticipate their needs with precision.

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Paula Cristea - 1 Apr 2025

Thinslices Partners with Databricks

At Thinslices, we build software that lasts—smart, scalable, and ready for the future. That’s why we’re integrating Databricks' AI and data intelligence capabilities into our software development approach.

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