i'm interested in technology, our physical world and running. partner @generalcatalyst, prev. founder @getkwest sold to @krakentech_ and @pointninecap

Joined April 2014
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biggest exit to date in EU industrial software Schneider Electroc acquires Cognite for $3.1 billion (all cash) cognite.com/en/company/newsr…
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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.
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it's the mix and "diversity of experience" in companies matters more than ever, ie. we don't only (!) want young, 'cracked' AI engineering teams miriamontech.substack.com/p/…
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stuffing your data room with AI generated docs is an anti-signal. i'd take a few human written, honest pages over 100 polished ones any day
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Robin Dechant reposted
Half my office hours is just telling founders they're not charging enough. It always feels scary to try and ask for more money, but very few contracts actually fall apart because you asked too high a price if the customer loves your product. At worst the customer will tell you that it's more than they expected and you can then choose ask them what amount they'd be interested in paying knowing that you've at least anchored them high.
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Excited for this - our technology is implemented in all core systems of the quarry site at kilometer scale. Even running nightly shifts daily underground fully autonomous.
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great news for banks and insurers
We raised a $110M Series C to power AI transformation in financial services. Led by Goldman Sachs, with participation from @balderton, @IndexVentures , @dig_ventures, @tigerglobal, @VisionariesVC, and @ycombinator. Great news for banks and insurers. Tough news for fraudsters and money launderers. Tough news for credit processes that make businesses wait weeks for an answer. Tough news for onboarding workflows that reject good customers. Tough news for claims processes where a single review takes days. We’re serious about solving our customers’ problems, so we hired the toughest people on the planet to get the word out: New Yorkers. If they didn’t convince you yet, here’s what we want everyone in our industry to know: AI can now reliably automate the decisions that define performance in banking and insurance. This was not true just 6 months ago - and it creates huge opportunity for efficiency gains and better customer experiences. But model capability is not the full solution. The challenge is making every AI-driven decision reliable, controlled, and ready for the most regulated industry. That’s what we’re building at @taktile_org. From New York to the world. To our customers, partners, investors, and team: thank you for getting us here. Very excited to collaborate with the @GoldmanSachs Asset Management team on the next chapter. Learn more: taktile.com/series-c-announc…
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Robin Dechant reposted
Hardware founders need to stop apologising for building tough things. @harveyhodd, Founder & CEO of @Rivanindustries, is building synthetic fuels to decarbonise industries that cannot electrify - after two successful SaaS exits he decided to turn his attention to the energy crisis: Rivan has already built the largest synthetic natural gas plant in the UK and a couple months ago they announced a £25m Series A to scale its technology. Harvey states that the team has a DNA of doing things quickly: "If we can reason effectively with good resources and great people, I think often times you can find many efficiencies and move a lot quicker." 🚀 This quote was taken from my interview with Harvey, which you can find wherever you get your podcasts.
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Grützi! the Swiss Deep Tech Report 2026 just launched 🇨🇭 switzerland is uniquely placed to capitalize on the physical AI shift. world-leading research institutions, a precision manufacturing heritage and the ambition I see first hand around ETH. and it's just an amazing places for running on top. deeptechnation.ch/resources/…
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Robin Dechant reposted
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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RT @iceye_global: Satellite to classified target in minutes. One system. Validated during NATO exercises.
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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. 💪
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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heimspiel on friday
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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
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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