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Now the largest solo GP venture firm in Europe.
Our third epoch begins today. Join us!
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- A major win for UK university spinouts! This is the fruit of 2 years of work from us to create a more permissive environment for founders to form companies out of their inventions in university. Many said it couldn't be done. Many didn't want it to happen. Now, it's official.Today’s review marks a huge step forward for UK spinout founders 🇬🇧 It adopts almost all of the policy reform proposals I made via @spinoutfyi and have been pushing on for 2 years. A few thoughts on why this is a big day for the ecosystem and UK science&tech below:
- Year 3 @airstreet, let’s go! We’ll be adding 5-7 new names in 2021 💎 Come join @anagenex @graphcoreai @labgeni_us @MissionBarns @V7Labs @Join_ZOE + 3 announcing soon.
- Bit of news 👀🌟 @airstreet update! 6 months after public launch our $17M Fund has upscaled to $26M! The market to build AI-first tech and life science companies to solve huge global challenges is massive. Our largest investor is @PrimaMateria_ led by @shak @eldsjal @brettbivens! Thread 🔽
- Today is a big day for our friends at @ProfluentBio! 🧬 We're announcing a $35M Series A, led by @sparkcapital, with significant participation from @airstreet. Here's why I'm psyched for what's to come:
- 👋 I'm excited to unveil @airstreet’s second fund of $121,212,121 as we accelerate our mission to back ambitious AI-first companies in North America and Europe! 🧵 My reflections on the journey, opportunity and what this means for our founders and community:
- it's still Day 1 at @lambda_automata and they've already made their first acquisition moving fast without compromising on quality - real European Dynamism 🚀🇬🇷🇬🇧🦾📈The future of defence lies in low-cost, small-scale and attritable unmanned systems across land, sea, and air. To that end, we're pleased to announce our acquisition of Smart Flying Machines (SFM), a manufacturer of autonomous aerial vehicles, to help build the technologies
- one of the biggest rate limiters to entrepreneurial progress in the uk is cafés closing their doors on weekends at like 3-5pm or not even opening on sunday in the states you can be working in a cafe like 24/7 on the weekend, builders in sf work need to start a proper café
- "Ukraine has changed everything. Ukraine is showing to all the allies that you can adopt technology and experiment at a much faster pace." cc. @lambda_automata
- The report we’ve worked on over the summer is now live! Welcome to the State of AI Report, epoch 2023.🪩The @stateofai 2023 is now here. Our 6th installment is one of the most exciting years I can remember. The #stateofai report covers everything you *need* to know, covering research, industry, safety and politics. There’s lots in there, so here’s my director’s cut 🧵
- 🪩 The State of State of AI Report is here! 934 slides compressed into 70, covering half a decade of wild progress across research, industry, politics and safety Have a read and tell us what you think 🙏In October ‘23, @stateofai reached its 5th anniversary. With 934 slides over 6 editions serving as a historical document, we’re opening 2024 with a retrospective of the main storylines, what we predicted, and what we didn't. Welcome to the State of the State of AI. 🧵
