i'm interested in technology, our physical world and running. partner @generalcatalyst, prev. founder @getkwest sold to @krakentech_ and @pointninecap
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Robin Dechant retweeted
To all technical students and engineers in Europe.
The US export control on LLMs is the first taste of what will become the new norm. Many people are calling for "radical measures" and that we need the equivalent of a Manhattan Project to create change in Europe. But this is not how change will happen. Change will never come top-down from a government. The state and EU can fund, but they cannot found it. That part is on us.
You are the only ones who can change this.
You are among the few people on this continent who actually know how to build foundational technology - LLMs, robotic AI, actuators from scratch, chip infrastructure, rocket engines, organoids. ETH, EPFL, TUM, École Polytechnique, KTH, Imperial and dozens more produce absurd talent every single year. And almost all of it talks itself out of building.
We finish our degrees surrounded by such an incredible average that we're sure someone is always better at [your idea] - so who are we to start? I've seen so many friends at ETH think they need to "get more experience first" and take a job at Nvidia or Google and never do anything interesting again.
Technology-driven companies aren't founded by the most qualified person. They're willed into existence by people who see what others do not and refuse to stop. The person who's "better than you" almost never does it. And as for experience, nothing will teach you how to build the thing like, well, just trying to build the thing.
Our education is a chance most of the world will never have. There are people in Europe who have to worry about getting a job. We get to worry about finding our dream job. We're able to make bets that not many people can make or afford. It's nothing anybody expects you to do, but if you want a life filled with purpose, this is a unique kind of responsibility you can choose to step up to.
So if you actually want to do something ambitious, how about changing a continent?
If you really want change, you cannot wait for others. You are one of the few people who can create it. It starts with you.
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Jun 11
RT @iceye_global: Satellite to classified target in minutes. One system. Validated during NATO exercises.
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Robin Dechant retweeted
Jun 9
Our portfolio company @iceye_global
Is leading the new era of sovereign intelligence from space with €1B new funding round
cc @jcfurstenberg @generalcatalyst
iceye.com/newsroom/press-rel…
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Robin Dechant retweeted
Jun 9
Thrilled to deepen our partnership with @evanbeard and the entire @StandardBots team. AI-native robotics will be one of the defining technology shifts of the next decade, and Standard Bots is redefining industrial automation for the AI era. This is just the beginning. 💪
Jun 9
Today, we’re thrilled to announce our $200M Series C funding round at a $1B valuation, led by @RoboStrategy and existing investors including @generalcatalyst.
Standard Bots is now America’s largest manufacturer of AI-native industrial robots. Our customers include Sunoco, Lockheed Martin, NASA, and the US Army along with hundreds of other manufacturers across the country. We’re proud to say that we’re on track to deploy 10% of all U.S. industrial robots by next year.
We are expanding our Glen Cove, New York facility to 70,000 square feet to scale our vertically integrated production process. We currently design almost all our own parts, including our own actuators, and we assemble every final product in-house. By 2027, we’ll manufacture everything — from metal in to robots out — right here in America.
We believe AI-native robots are the essential power tool of the 21st century — the tool that will grow American manufacturing and help every American worker to be a force at work. You just show your robot how it’s done, and it learns through demonstration. No coding, no consultants, just unbox and deploy faster than anything else on the market.
Right now it’s possible for the United States to revitalize our manufacturing base if we become the worldwide leader in this transformative technology.
We must build American robots, and put them to work in American factories. It’s a national imperative, and it’s our central mission. This fundraise gets us one step closer to the goal.
The future of American manufacturing is bright! Join Standard Bots, and show your robot how it’s done — we’re just getting started.
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we're entering a new era of sovereign intelligence from space - led by @iceye_global
this is a prime example of a European native company becoming a global champion
Jun 9
Leading a new era of sovereign intelligence from space.
ICEYE Series F funding round exceeds €1B, led by @generalatlantic, at a valuation of over €10B.
Read more: hubs.li/Q04kDLnz0
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what once required armies of specialists can become accessible to whole organizations
physicsx.ai/
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interesting stat
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Coatue's Thomas Laffont on a "Power Law Paradox": a business valued between $100B and $1T (a "Centacorn") has a higher statistical likelihood (31%) of multiplying its value by 10x compared to smaller, earlier-stage unicorns (8%).
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Robin Dechant retweeted
Going to Super Venture in Berlin Next week? Got an open Wednesday night?
If you want a very fun evening with people & not companies; are ready to commit & not bail; leave the suit & promise to put on your dancing shoes… DM, text, email, etc.
Very limited in size for extra fun.
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The sovereign stack
Jun 4
Mistral went from 0 to $400M ARR in 33 months.
The growth playbook behind Europe's only frontier AI lab 🧵:
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Robin Dechant retweeted
Jun 4
In the tactical world, timing is everything.
ICEYE is pushing SAR imagery toward a 15-minute latency baseline.
Discover how we're making "time to decision" the metric that matters most: hubs.li/Q04k1hbp0
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physical world => real world search
Jun 3
From a 1BR apartment to $10.7M Seed Round lead by @generalcatalyst
What was GeoSpy is now Raven. We are turning the physical world into real-time search.
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this is a great milestone for our @generalcatalyst CVF fund
Jun 3
BREAKING: Spanish @factorialapp has JUST raised a WHOPPING $150m Series D at $2.5bn valuation! 🇪🇸
The round was led by @generalcatalyst (@pranavsinghvi), who have also committed an additional $540m through its Customer Value Fund.
This is AMAZING news for one of the top companies coming out of Spain.
I spoke to Founder and CEO Jordi and discussed:
0:00 - Introduction
0:21 - General Catalyst invests $150m in Factorial
1:10 - Why raise capital now?
2:28 - The relationship with General Catalyst
3:55 - How the Customer Value Fund works
5:24 - From HR software to AI-native workforce operations
9:00 - Leading AI transformation inside a company
11:18 - Why Europe is a great place to build
13:16 - Barcelona’s startup ecosystem
15:52 - Lessons from Silicon Valley
18:21 - Building a company for the long term
19:57 - What Factorial looks for when hiring
Congrats @jordiromero, @bernatfarrero, Pau Ramon Revilla, and the rest of the Factorial team!
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hard to grasp this achievement, delivering full sovereign SAR system in unter 12 months @iceye_global
iceye.com/newsroom/press-rel…
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this
May 31
Grindmaxxing is a cultural phenomenon that come backs every bull cycle (same discourse happened in 2021).
One thing I always think about is that for the most successful people I know, I just can’t imagine them doing this.
Zuck, the Collisons, Sam, Dario, etc. Can you imagine any of them doing the performative stuff? They’re all too busy.
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Robin Dechant retweeted
May 31
> For the deals done by mega-funds, they tend to be much larger ($8-10M round size)
This is not true at least for us.
But FWIW since I’ve been both an EM and now at a larger platform, LPs often ask me about room for EMs in today’s market and I’m very optimistic 🤷♂️
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