It only needs a few crazy ones to fix a continent… Let's be crazy… I got something to announce: We're launching PROTOTYPE: a new fund, fully focused on Europe. A small fund that punches way above it's size. With it we back what Europe is world-class at: robotics, automation, manufacturing, and anything that requires hard engineering. First check. First round. As early as it gets. Europe invented industry. We're the birthplace of precision manufacturing. The second largest manufacturing hub on the planet. Leaders in automation and robotics. And yet… We sell out our best tech to China. We export our best founders & most of our investment money to the US. That's insanity. What should we do instead? Build the next trillion euro companies in robotics, manufacturing, automation right here: in Europe. Showcase to young founders what is possible and change the system around them where needed. What we will do: → Publish all our fund updates and build in public: updates.prototypecap.com/ → Showcase Europe’s Most Ambitious Startups on Youtube: youtube.com/@prototypecap → Launch & support more projects like @euinc_petition. Enough talking about Europe. Time to build it: Startups, makerspaces, student clubs, and much more. → And most importantly, invest into the best founders in Europe. Same model as our previous funds that are in their top 1-5% cohorts worldwide. We won’t do a VC fund in the classic sense. This will be a community of hyper-ambitious people who want to actively change Europe for the better. It only needs a few crazy ones to fix a continent… Let's be crazy. Check out prototypecap.com!

The power of china isn't the cheap labor (that's fading) but their complex highly capable supply network. High levels of automation is the key to keep ours here. And no this isn't about labor cost cutting. The jobs that are only cost dependent are already since 20 years gone.

Support for the European Union has reached a record high, with 74% of Europeans saying their country benefits from EU membership, according to a new Eurobarometer survey. Support is even stronger among younger respondents. Participants most often cited the EU's role in maintaining peace and security, cooperation among member states, and economic growth.

pro-optimism and less complaining

We think Europe needs more pro-European, pro-tech, pro-abundance, pro-optimism propaganda. So we made it. Posters, t-shirts, hoodies. Full-on propaganda. We've been handing them out at robotics meetups and clubs all over Europe for weeks, and people love them. Why we are doing this: Europeans know more about the companies in the States than the ones right here at home. We need to change that. Time for propaganda. Every poster features a real European company: 🦾 Allonic is braiding humanoids. A completely new approach to building robotic parts. If it works, a number one company worldwide, right here in Europe. 🚜 Voltrac, the electric autonomous tractor (we made a whole video about them). 🏗️ Automated Architecture (AUAR), doing micro-factories for wooden houses.  🪨 Gondor Industries, a stone mason company using robotics. And many, many more to come. This is the first of many drops. More launching in the next few weeks, including flags, EU posters and more. 👉 Get yours at prototype-shop.com For Europe 🇪🇺🔥 PS: If you're organizing a robotics event or meetup, have a student club or hacker space, comment or message us and we'll send you a swag box.

They invaded us. They were “the magnificent empire”. We were the lowly “pig breeders”. When we didn’t greet them with flowers and fought back, they called us “American proxies”. When America said “it’s not our war”, they called us “war mongers”. As if we attacked them. In the fifth year of bombarding our cities, they started calling their strikes “retaliation” and our strikes “provocation”. Which doesn’t change the truth: their war is a geopolitical murder in plain view. It’s fascism pure. “Never again” is now, again.

EU countries are still buying Russian gas & supply Russia with raw materials. This is where their money goes: burying civilians under rubble in Kyiv. Europe is facilitating this.

Couldn't have put it better myself @andreasklinger "VC Summer seems to be a lie. The pipeline is the best we have ever seen. ... Right now could deploy 2x the amount and 2x the investments and still not make a single bad investment." it is soo back!

Slopenfreude, (n) /ˈsloʊpənˌfrɔɪdə/ Realizing someone you don't like uses AI slop and deciding if you should call them out. 😬

Among Europe's policy makers there is a misguided believe that paper-trails reduce risk. This seems to be – finally – slowly changing.

That's right. Nobody is escaping this. The Mormons are below replacement. The Muslims are below replacement. India is below replacement. America is below replacement. Mexico is below replacement. Even Communist North Korea is below replacement!

It's crazy how different fable feels in pi vs claude code. Harness really matters here.

Twitter is like a bar that pays for drunkards to provoke bar fights because it's "good for engagement".

this is so scary.. sonnet 5 use blender and did this in 2hrs..

There’s not enough hype about Flexion Robotics. They are literally one of the sexiest European companies these days! 🇪🇺 I had a chance to meet the founder Nikita last year and learn his story. He turned down offers from top physical AI companies to build his own. The reason was his specific vision of how robot intelligence should be built to actually scale. So he decided to build one himself. @FlexionRobotics is building an ultimate brain for humanoid robots. Yesterday they released Reflect v1.0. It’s an intelligence platform for long-horizon autonomous missions. The system has three layers. At the top, a custom vision-language model acts as mission control, observing the robot's camera feed and replanning continuously. Below that, a motion layer combines a VLA trained on real-world data with reinforcement learning-based skills. It translates perception into navigation, scene interaction, and manipulation commands. At the bottom, a whole-body controller runs in real-time, maintaining balance while the robot navigates and performs tasks. I highly recommend them visiting Zurich! 🇨🇭 @rdn_nikita cheapeu bas on the launch! 🎩 ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news → http:// ziegler.substack.com

OH: "EBITA? This is before tokens!!"

It’s hard to believe but this is a picture of the United States reflecting pool before the revolution happened. The US was once a very westernized country