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2023 was a huge year for progress in robotics and manufacturing. I cover it all, including:
- US manufacturing boom
- El Segundo, the new Silicon Valley?
- Humanoid, AVs
- China EVs dominate, especially in Europe
- market consolidation and mega-rounds
(link below)
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EU be like:
“Ma’am, I can smell arithmetic in your vehicle, you’re gonna have to step out”
According to the EU AI act, calculating the mean counts as AI
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no one:
London VCs to London VCs:
Shall we catch up soon? Maybe we can meet in Helsinki, Finland to grab a coffee?
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So much 🇪🇺-tech FUD, time for some European Optimism:
> Home to 7 of top 20 STEM academic institutions
> 🔥world leading AI, Mech, Elec engineers
> Industrial base larger than US, w/ higher % of robotic automation
> Global winners like Spotify, Adyen, ASML, UiPath
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🎉 we did a thing
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PR for early-stage startups is hard 😨so we're hosting an online panel to help founders demystify this
Startup PR 101
w/ awesome panellists🚀
@amyrlewin
--
@Siftedeu
@Natashalytton
--
@seedcamp
@sohear
--
@TechCrunch
@Bryce_Keane
--
@atomico
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VCs talking with founders in Hyde Park
Looking at other VCs talking to founders in Hyde Park
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Insane energy at London DefenceTech hackathon
Engineers, operators and end users have travelled from Ukraine, Germany, France, Ireland and the US to hack
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Ex Cruise CEO
@kvogt
raises $150m inception round for a startup building humanoid for household chores
This, I believe, is a much better market for humanoids than warehouse automation + mftg
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Narrative violation: the most important global robotics company is in London 🇬🇧
Congrats
@alexgkendall
and
@wayve_ai
team
We’ve got some exciting news to share 🚨
We are thrilled to announce that we’ve raised $1.05bn in our latest fundraising round led by
@SoftBank_Group
with contributions from
@nvidia
and
@Microsoft
.
This milestone will propel us in developing and launching our first Embodied AI
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🚨New piece just dropped -> RealTech
Why the biggest companies of the next cycle will improve the physical world and how VCs will have to get comfortable with CAPEX (link below)
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come join the fight back
eu/acc
New post.
I tried to summarize my POV on Europe.
More importantly, i share share two small suggestions that, as a first step, could bring us back on track.
🇪🇺 eu/acc
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El Segundo?
🇬🇧Nah bruv, this is London's thriving HardTech scene.
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People think the weather in the UK is terrible, but it's actually much worse than that
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Absolute no brainer move from
@atomico
@andyhelbig
is amazing. A dear friend, ex-colleague and awesome person to have on your side!
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🏢 🚙 🤖 I just launched a weekly newsletter, focusing on the intersection of technology and the physical world; real estate, retail, transportation and cities - please subscribe here:
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The swag olympics have just been won by
@twilio
- this looks awesome
If you want to play DOOM on your HackPack, text "HP " to +1 (586) 474-4625 and then go to My App on the game section of your device.
#SIGNALconf
#hackpack
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@lpolovets
The problem with the ‘disrupting excel’ thesis is that most people really quite like excel
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Umm, seems Facebook just invented Facebook
Facebook is piloting Campus, a section specifically designed for college students to interact with peers at their school, at 30 universities around the US (
@ashleyrcarman
/ The Verge)
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🚨 Panel alert!
Learn how to build a community from the best in the biz
Erika Batista-
@beondeck
ex
@_TheFamily
Ben Tossell-
@makerpad
ex
@ProductHunt
Mac Reddin-
@Commsor
David Spinks-
@CMX
@DavidSpinks
Feb 3rd @ 4pm GMT / 11am EST
Sign up->
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What a day!
💥Announced: new $200m fund to back European startups at seed and A + new London + Stockholm offices
🙏Hosted: Investor Day w/ pitches from
@voitechnology
@DixaApp
@sennder
@TradeRepublicDE
@casavoHQ
@homeday_de
Cc
@ProjectAcom
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Audio as a new platform (!?)
Airpods sales at near parity to the iPhone 3 years after launch
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me: "let me just drag this tab into its own window so I can really concentrate"
7 mins later
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I've been captivated by recent examples of
@OpenAI
new GPT-3 model generating text + code
So much so that I decided to write a post on the model and its potential future use cases
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Here's a sentence describing what Google's home page should look and here's GPT-3 generating the code for it nearly perfectly.
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Thanks
@dawncapital
for co-hosting our summer BBQ with us! Nice to see some many folks from London and Berlin 🇪🇺🇪🇺
@ProjectAcom
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New post hoping to solve the 'product v distribution' debate
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Was great to catch up with
@paulbz
on the
@ProjectAcom
podcast, we covered;
- his ambitions for
@lightspeedvp
in Europe
- investing in companies with PMF out of the gate
- reflection from 6 months out (+ co founding
@gokatch_
)
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Congrats
@carter
on the new role! Flying the 🇪🇺 flag in NYC!
Also kinda loving that headshot!
cc
@atomico
@alexrkonrad
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Narrative violation:
the most important tech company on the planet is in Europe, Veldhoven to be precise
ASML has created a network of suppliers and technology partners that may be the closest thing Europe has to Silicon Valley. And its business model ingeniously combines hardware with software and data
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Project A trebling down on London 🇬🇧🚀🇬🇧
Welcome to the team! Luc is a data scientist, philosophy major and ❤️ talking tech geo politics
Early-stage founders ->> we'd love to chat
We're expanding our London office! Together with
@Sam__Cash
and
@leolerach
, our new Investment Associate
@deLeyritzluc
will keep a close eye on the UK ecosystem. Welcome! Happy to have you on board.
#venturecapital
#projecta
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A delight to chat with two of the best in the game
@rsohoni
and
@tom_wils
,we covered;
- changes in first cheque investing
- UiPath from first money to IPO
- talent clusters across the continent
- what next for European tech?
Cc
@seedcamp
@ProjectAcom
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Are 4 million Londoners looking forward to taking the Tube again? Hell nah
Now is the time for personal mobility reform. less cars, less pollution, more bike lanes, new modes of transport - better safety
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Never try it on with Londoners or you'll get a geezer f*cking you up with a whale tusk
True heroes
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Awesome history, breakdown and state of the nation on Startup Studios by
@ezyjules
feat.
@betaworks
@rocketberlin
@ScienceInc
@efounders
@expa
etc
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It's hard to describe in one tweet how shite Microsoft Teams is
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This is awesome. Mike Ovitz is likely the person I’ve read about the most re my venture career
The industry is different but the lessons on finding and working with talent are the same
@AcquiredFM
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Congrats
@voitechnology
!
They came, they saw, they scooted off with a
@TheEuropas
award for best European Mobility company!
Cc
@ProjectAcom
@balderton
@localglobevc
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My current lockdown v3 hairstyle is channeling the energy of '04 Cesc
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I wrote words on emergent trends in workplace collaboration
-> from watercooler to workflows
+ the meta-layer opportunity
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> pipeline of next-gen companies like Wayve, Revolut, Checkout, Klarna, Celonis, Northvolt
> Strong in AI w/ DeepMind, Mistral, Hugging Face
> Distinct talent hubs; London-> fintech, Paris->AI, Munich->hardware, Cambridge -> Bio, Nordics->climate
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It's sunny in London, tomorrow is lockdown, the US election is TBD
A lot of people in central spotted day drinking already
Good on ya!
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@alex_avoigt
Like your posts generally but these recent ones on nuclear are not great. Choosing a single data point for why nuclear doesn’t make economic sense, doesn’t make sense
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Man’s out here accelerating tings
Made eu/acc logo
🇪🇺📈
I agree when I see EU flag I also have to vomit rn but maybe we can improve that sentiment with some acc
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The next RealTech Conference is on June 20th in London
We have a🔥line up- bringing founders, operators and policymakers to build our new industrial future- apply below
@dorothychou
@DeepMind
@TeamCloudNC
@gaurav_ven
@DimitriosKottas
@lambda_automata
@benedictcooney
@leoringer
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@alex
Thankful they reported community adjusted numbers- would have been totally confused without them
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Hyped to back
@lambda_automata
, led by
@DimitriosKottas
🇪🇺🇬🇧🇬🇷
They're building the AI backbone for civil protection, starting w/ 24/7 domain awareness at scale
investing w/
@nathanbenaich
@airstreet
,
@marathon_vc
@hardware_club
@201vc_
@olivercameron
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@tfadell
They can afford to do both buybacks and R&D given net cash position. Apple are always later adopters to trends + they have custom silicon that can do inference on edge and most current AI apps are upstream of iOS
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I kinda relaunced my newsletter - Socratic Tech - hi
@SubstackInc
First up 'Technology cost declines' as a framework for understanding breakout technologies.....
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incredible interview of
@patrickc
by
@Noahpinion
Touching on breakout technologies, the great stagnation, productivity growth, science + governments role in R&D, talent and opportunity in a networked world
Every link in the interview is worth reading
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Was a blast hosting an evening on Micromobility 🛴 last night w/
@McKinsey
Thanks to all who came and
@voitechnology
@VanMoof
@TortoiseHQ
@floatility
for providing the hardware !
#MME
Cc
@ProjectAcom
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Incredible to see a number of physical technologies go exponential in the last few years
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Some Twitter accounts I've been vibing recently
GANs/ AR
@hulahuub
//
@scape
@agermanidis
//
@runwayml
@snapkit
General Tech
@mhdempsey
@_DanielSinclair
Tesla/Mobility
@jwangARK
//
@ARKInvest
@stevecheney
@michalnaka
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I know a lot of VCs passed on this one
Good to see highly speculative growth rounds taking place that don't involve Gen AI
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Excited to co host this alongside portco
@lambda_automata
If you're a builder or engineer interested in NatSec in Europe, sign up
We have 200+ super impressive profiles signed up already
2024 London Defense Tech Hackathon
We are excited to partner with
@skyralgroup
,
@futureforces_uk
&
@lambda_automata
to unite students, military units, investors, and defense technology startups in pursuit of novel solutions for the allied warfighter in London.
Apply below:
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🔥Hot off the press.
I cover the latest news on;
-
@wayve_ai
LINGO-2 model
-
@Tesla
's FSD release
- Xiaomi's new EV
-
@solugen
's AI for chemicals discovery
-
@anduriltech
's flurry of product releases,
- BTS of the London DefenceTech hackathon + much more
(link in comments)
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Finally something we can all agree on
Its been a great weekend for the Four Seasons Total Landscaping marketing team
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Some seriously impressive projects built this weekend
🇬🇧London DefenseTech Hackathon came to an end. Here are some of the teams projects:
1) High Speed Interceptor to take down Orlan Drones
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“there is 23,800 times as much geothermal energy in Earth’s crust as there is chemical energy in fossil fuels everywhere on the planet”
@elidourado
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We're hosting the next RealTech Conference in London on November 22nd
We have a🔥line up - if you're founder, operator or policymaker building in Frontier Tech, apply below
@dexoryHQ
@hoxtonfarms
@OptimalAg
@atomico
@OctopusVentures
@UKsynbio
@_davehunter
@benblume
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Just when you thought this year couldn't get any worse
God help us.
LinkedIn appears to have rolled out Stories to (some?) users in the Netherlands
h/t
@odweusthof
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New world order
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Just like that, expanding from land to air.
Lambda is cookin'
The future of defence lies in low-cost, small-scale and attritable unmanned systems across land, sea, and air.
To that end, we're pleased to announce our acquisition of Smart Flying Machines (SFM), a manufacturer of autonomous aerial vehicles, to help build the technologies
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First time in Soho since February
Cycled whilst humming 'Ghost Town' by The Specials
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Massive congrats to
@Airbnb
Also, huge props to
@silverlake_news
who invested $1bn in March, the absolutely eye of storm. That's a +5x return in 8 months
Must have taken serious courage to write that cheque
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You wanted flying cars
We got £10 lateral flow tests delivered by 10 min grocery delivery
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🔥Super excited to be backing the amazing Twig Bio team led by
@DrRussTucker
, with £3m in pre-seed funding for
@ProjectAcom
"Using AI to make ingredients that don't cost the earth"
Alongside
@seedcamp
@ZeroCarbonCap
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I interviewed
@DimitriosKottas
, CEO of Lambda Automata, after the announcement of his seed round led by
@airstreet
We cover;
- His story, from robotics to Apple
- Challenges building at software x hardware intersection
- Defending democracy
- The European security landscape
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Some highlights of what happened in climate, robotics and defence this last year
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Feel the irony of Zoom is that most meeting attendees would rather have it default to audio only
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Surreal to have one of my first venture investments IPO last week. Big congrats to all those at
@Compass
for the years of toil and hard work, especially after such a hard 2020
On to find and support the next one...
$COMP
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Good start, but much much more capital needed.
Especially at the messy middle-stage for defence tech companies
For comparison, this is 1/8th of Anduril's last funding round and spread over 3 years
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