Supporting (technical) entrepreneurs solving hard problems starting from day 0. Leading DACH & tech deals for Fortino Capital and before built Picus Capital.

Joined August 2021
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Jointly mapping out the tech powering the famous green @FlixBus with CIO Daniel Krauss and learning why he's the Luigi and not the Super Mario of @FlixBus. As always tune in - thisisthecraft.substack.com/. @picuscap #flixtech #monolithsareback #TheCraft

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🎙️Wrapping up 2023 & The Craft with @seanmullaney CTO at @algolia in a pre-🎅 episode discussion all things OSS, enterprise AI & search infra. Tune in here: thisisthecraft.substack.com & shorturl.at/flvMO.

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Discussing all things WebAssembly, OSS & the future of building platforms together with the one and only @technosophos. 🎙️ Tune in here: thisisthecraft.substack.com & lnkd.in/e9NP_7Si.

We've just released episode #2 of The Craft, the new podcast hosted by our Investor @patrickhrmn 💥 This time he chats to @technosophos, CEO of @fermyontech - about the world of WebAssembly & the evolution of the OSS. 👉 Don't miss out & listen here: thisisthecraft.substack.com/
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1/ Spice.ai is now generally available 🎉 Get composable, data and AI building blocks, including models for AI predictions, petabyte-scale cloud data infra preloaded with 100TB of Web3 and time-series data. Read the announcement ↓ blog.spice.ai/spice-ai-is-ge…
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Today we’re making Spice.ai and a new Community Edition plan available to all developers building data and time-series AI applications. Read the announcement at blog.spice.ai/spice-ai-is-ge…
25 Oct 2023
1/ Spice.ai is now generally available 🎉 Get composable, data and AI building blocks, including models for AI predictions, petabyte-scale cloud data infra preloaded with 100TB of Web3 and time-series data. Read the announcement ↓ blog.spice.ai/spice-ai-is-ge…
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🎙Excited to finally launch my podcast The Craft - Pioneers of the Coding Frontier & honored to officially kick it off with none other than @raychaser. We jam on all things dev & software observability. Make sure to watch out for the famous Sumo Dog! 🐶. Link to the session below
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📣Reflex v0.2.7 is out!🎉 Major features: -Reduced initial package size by 60% -Client-side Storage integrated with State -Added on_mount and on_unmount triggers for all components -Per-component prop autocompletion for IDEs and breakpoints support github.com/reflex-dev/reflex…
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Last week was @WeAreDevs in Berlin - and while I couldn't make the conference it was awesome to host a mini tech dinner to meet both old and new friends - some even travelling from across the globe! @picuscap @fermyontech @StackOverflow @Billie_Payments @trustedshops @LevityAI
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Really excited to be partnering with the team @getreflex together with our friends from @Lux_Capital, @AbstractVC, @BoxGroup, @ycombinator and @outsetcap Looking forward to the journey @awlk99 & @nikhi1rao to redefine modern Python apps 🚀#python @picuscap
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Reflex open source tool helps turn Python code into web apps tcrn.ch/458CjdQ by @ron_miller
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Interesting debate: Will the EU finally use its full OSS potential (historically strong OSS contributor community) or will it be making similar prior mistakes (US capturing most of OSS commercial value) and now miss out on the AI momentum? @Sharongoldman @VentureBeat
Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-f…
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Another interesting piece in this context - x.com/Siftedeu/status/168386… @Siftedeu

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Europe has many talented open source developers, but turning their ideas into businesses is often frowned upon sifted.eu/articles/open-sour…
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Thrilled to launch my series "The Craft - Conversations with global dev pioneers" at @picuscap and kick-off with none other than engineering mastermind Niilo Säämänen - CTO at @woltapp in Episode #1. Full convo here - medium.com/p/ed7b5c2c5593.
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🌐 Open source software at the core of Wolt engineering: “We wouldn’t exist without a proper open-source community & couldn’t have built what we did” - Open source software as a key efficiency enabler for Niilo & Wolt.
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🤖 Large language models at Wolt = jumping on a bandwagon: Internal Hackathon, an open community, and the use of existing internal ML infra allows Niilo & his teams to test & use large language models quickly.
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