Entrepreneur, now active early stage tech investor. Portfolio includes/d: LoveFilm,Moo,Graze,Zoopla,Citymapper,Improbable,Wise, Monzo, Tide + others.
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Robin Klein retweeted
Far from a summer slowdown, we've just witnessed an extraordinary quarter for the founders we've backed.
From robotics to biocomputing, from outer space to inner creativity, here are Q3's highlights from the extraordinary teams in our portfolio.
Thanks Neil. Great supporter of UK innovation economy lnkd.in/p/ekq94pMB
Robin Klein retweeted
@MistralAI bet in 2023 that the best AI would be built in the open.
Three years on, European industry is queuing up to deploy their frontier models to solve their hardest problems.
Today, we're backing their €3BN Series D alongside @Samsung, Scaleup Europe Fund & PSG Equity.
A world of food heroines —
Top of the list: @sheryloz Sheryl Ozinsky. Serious and playful about food!
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Robin Klein retweeted
The Prime Minister, @andyburnham, today asked me to attend Cabinet as Minister for AI, a sign of his deep commitment to AI's importance.
AI is likely the most significant technology in human history. Its impact will dwarf other things.
The best case for it is compelling beyond our dreams: a reindustrialised Britain, stronger national security, public services transformed for the better.
The risks, too, are real: it is right that the British public shares those worries, for jobs, for the pace of change.
The central fact is that it is happening. Nations have a narrow window to decide whether they shape AI or get shaped by it. Britain is in that window right now.
While that window is still open, I will act with pace, I will act with ambition, and I will focus relentlessly on securing British influence in shaping AI.
I will also bring to this job the place I represent - a constituency in Wales, a nation with industry and ambition at its heart, a proud history of punching above its weight on the global stage. A nation which welcomed a 12-year old and his family, gave us the best chance at opportunity, put me in Parliament as Wales' first ethnic minority MP, and now affords me the chance to make a mark in Cabinet. Diolch o galon to everyone in the Vale of Glamorgan.
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Exclusive: Phoenix Court changes course — four senior departures as firm shifts to shared ownership pathfounders.com/p/phoenix-c…
It takes an outlier founder with the vision and execution ability to build Super. Samir has stacks of both. phoenixcourt.vc/news/super-s…
Robin Klein retweeted
So encouraged to read this moving, bravely reasoned statement of impassioned solidarity from Muslim friends and co-citizens . Exactly what is needed right now. Thank you so much. Be assured that we Jews would feel and speak the same way in the face of virulent Islamophobia.
Robin Klein retweeted
@BioOrbitSpace might look like a space company, but really it's a new infrastructure layer for pharma.
Today, we're excited to announce we're co-leading their £9.8M seed with @BreegaVC.
Read more below.
What an opportunity…. Join a ground breaking company
Today the Financial Times reported on OLIX's latest financing round. We've now raised just north of $250M to continue building the first Optical Tensor Processing Units (OTPUs), and deliver them to customers.
We're also publishing the OLIX Compute Manifesto: our view on what it will take to win in inference-era compute. Link in comments.
It is our belief that scaling an SRAM-architecture integrated with photonics can surpass HBM-based architectures on throughput/MW and TCO, and significantly outperform silicon-only SRAM-architectures in interactivity and latency.
We're scaling fast. If you want to work on the most important compute problem of the next decade, we're hiring across London, Austin, San Francisco, Toronto, and Bristol.
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A real tour de force from @zivreichert - What a roadmap to the future, Ziv. Thanks for sharing.
Cleo is a pretty special company and Barney is one special founder! Business built with AI/ML before AI was a thing. Now turbo charging.
Getting to $100M ARR was hands down the most brutal thing I’ve ever done.
You start with nothing. No team. No capital. No momentum. And you have to do everything - purely through willpower.
Every $100M after that is dramatically easier and comes much faster.
Adding products, optimising, and launching new geos is infinitely easier compared to finding PMF and reaching the first real scale. By $100M ARR, you have a great team, capital, and a platform to build from.
Starting with just a laptop and an idea and saying “I’m going to build a Google-sized company” is pretty unhinged in hindsight!
Cleo's growth...
$0 → $100M ARR: 94 months
$100M → $200M ARR: 14 months
$200M → $300M ARR: 9 months
$300M → $400M ARR: 6 months (coming soon)
If you’re a founder grinding toward your first $100M... gl! Just know it gets easier, keep going.
Robin Klein retweeted
Ten years ago, we invested in @faculty_ai at seed, when the team was just ten people.
Today, they announced their acquisition by @Accenture.
A huge moment.
