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Saul Klein retweeted
Seedcamp has raised a huge $320m for its 7th early stage fund and $100m to double down on its winners! The firm was co-founded in 2007 by @rsohoni and @cape with a $2.5m fund. It's now led by Reshma and Carlos and manages an insane $1bn AUM. It's become one of the leading early-stage funds in Europe. @seedcamp Fund III has now returned over 13x DPI to its LPs, and Fund IV sits at over 5x net TVPI. Some of the companies it has backed include @RevolutApp, @Wise, @UiPath, @SynthesiaIO and @fluidstack. Today it is announced raising an additional $320m. The money is split with $220m for Seedcamp VII, the flagship first check fund, and $100m for the Select fund, which focuses primarily on backing portfolio winners as they scale toward Series B and beyond. I spoke to Will Bennett to get all the details about the new fund. Timestamps: - Introduction - Seedcamp’s $220M + $100M funds - Why the funds are getting bigger - Why Seedcamp launched a select fund - European founders moving to the US - How founder profiles are changing - What pre-seed means today - Defence and frontier technologies - What founders get from Seedcamp - Building a stronger US presence - The secret behind Seedcamp’s success Congrats to @tom_wils, @SiaHouchangnia, @_billiambennett, @felixjmartinez_, @rsohoni, @cee and the whole @seedcamp team!
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Can’t think of a better spot to hang and build. Again next Wednesday.
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another day, another new ATH for ostium > $206k in revenue L24H ($75M annualized) > broke $300m in RWA open interest > half a billion in daily volume > new ATH in new users trade the commodities supercycle onchain.
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The UK has more Unicorns 🦄 and $100M+ revenue Thoroughbreds 🐎 than France, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands combined. Yet, the narrative is often one of economic decline. @cape’s latest piece in @ObserverUK UK argues that the UK is sitting on a massive, underpriced long-term asset: its innovation economy. With $21bn in VC funding this year and a massive push into Deep Tech, the "gloomy sentiment" simply doesn't match the data. Is the UK doing enough to appreciate and support its tech? observer.co.uk/news/science-…
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Good news! Now we need more and faster…
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has announced Wylfa in North Wales will host the UK’s first small modular nuclear reactors The Government will invest over £2.5bn and the initial three reactors will power around 3m homes from the mid-2030s
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🔥 Just dropped: new podcast ep on how Europe can lead in the next wave of tech, and how we need to be funding our own success. Featuring powerhouse guests: @cape (@phxcrt) & @constantijn14 (@Techleapnl) 🇪🇺 Building Europe’s tech supercluster - New Palo Alto
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🚀 The AI Opportunities Action Plan is only as strong as its execution. That’s why we’ve joined @phxcrt, @faculty_ai & more as a partner on the AI Forum. The first meeting saw 68 leaders tackle key challenges—from infra to governance. Next meetings: 📅 30 April 📅 1 July 📅 19 Nov If you're shaping AI in the UK, now’s the time to get involved. Help shape the next phase via our community survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Europe can build! It's our collective responsibility to tell a story that will shape a prosperous future. A small contribution and some facts that should help. digitalculture.substack.com/…
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Over the past months I’ve increasingly encountered questions about “Europe’s decline in tech”. I wanted to share my response to these questions here. While I am realistic about Europe's modest past success, and that there are no trillion dollar companies, I am optimistic about its future. In fact, I "put my money where my mouth is" and chose to bet my career on it – I have been doing venture on the continent for over a decade instead of moving to Silicon Valley. Here are some of my thoughts on the topic.
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Reducing blood sample delivery from 30 min to 2 min (!) means faster results and quicker care for patients in critical need. Important use case for drone technology - well done to @Wing @apianaero @NHSuk thetimes.com/article/dbd69ff…
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Saul Klein retweeted
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We are announcing €600M in Series B funding for our first anniversary.  We are grateful to our new and existing investors for their continued confidence and support for our global expansion. This will accelerate our roadmap as we continue to bring frontier AI into everyone’s hands.
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What is the future of UK Technology? 🇬🇧 Does it lack ambition? 🚀 It is a point Tom Blomfield of Monzo @t_blom has raised in the last few weeks. But in a pocket of London, the new “Palo Alto of Europe” is emerging, attracting a concentrated hub of major tech firms and creative minds. A godfather of UK tech, Saul Klein, @cape took me for a tour of the King's Cross area, and dug into why it is already a powerhouse. You can watch the full episode of @JimmysJobs on our Youtube channel - link in bio etc.
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Tel Aviv is the world's #1 most productive tech ecosystem, shown by a new @dealroomco report: - Ranks #3 globally and #2 per inhabitant by unicorns produced. - Produces more unicorns for every seed funded startup and more unicorns for every $ amount of venture capital invested. - By number of decacorns produced for every VC-backed startup, Tel Aviv ranks #3 globally. - With less than 4% of seed funding, Tel Aviv produces 19% of EMEA unicorns. Get the full report on @dealroomco's website
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Mistral AI is what OpenAI would be if it were actually open. And they just threw the largest OSS LLM hackathon to date. Over 2000 hackers applied to compete for $10k in prizes. Here’s what we saw at the @MistralAI x @cerebral_valley hackathon (🧵):
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AI Tinkerers is coming to London!! 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 Join us Tuesday 18th July, mingle with fellow AI builders and researchers applying the bleeding edge of LLMs and Gen AI into production. RSVP london.tinkerer.ai/p/ai-tink…
AI Tinkerers San Francisco - first of 8 demos (of 49 proposals, > 300 wait list) — active builders! With @natfriedman @alexgraveley @mickeyxfriedman @aigrant_ and 225 tinkerers!
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Saul Klein retweeted
10/ And to that end I put out a call to people across the world. If you are an AI specialist or safety researcher who wants to build out state capacity in AI safety and help shape the future of AI policy then get in touch: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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