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Mad-scientist investor main-questing Europe 🇪🇺 @prototype_cap 🦾 @euinc_petition 🇪🇺 🔧-prev: @producthunt @angellist @coinlist @beondeck ❤️ @susanneknoll
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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!
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AI is killing your company.
It should be making you more revenue.
Introducing BuildBetter: the first AI Head of Product.
Here’s how it works 👇
The amount of political astroturfing on X is off the charts.
Whats happening? Elections in Europe? Is Russia preparing an escalation?
It's also that the quality of the astroturfing is absurdly low – so i assume a lot of new providers. Tons of rando-anon new accounts really half-assing it.
Keep in mind that X seems to be doing barely anything to hold astroturfers back. So you shouldn't expect deep seeding or long warming up like in reddit.
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this video was created entirely by astra controlling blender
i just gave general direction and storylines, it controlled renders, rotos, tracking
full vfx breakdown here:
🔥 @euinc_petition in the president’s state of the union speech!
Again!
"100 tech founders and investors told us just last week to get EU–INC right!"
President of the @EU_Commission @vonderleyen
"We have to be very careful." Von der Leyen warns capitals against creating more fragmentation. "Let's get EU Inc done, let's get it done right!"
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Just image the corruption we don’t see. Unimaginable.
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Oh I love nerding out with some of the best people in Robotics so much
@andreasklinger and the one and only @mapo1
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Excellent video on manufacturing and competition in China youtube.com/watch?v=OgYKVpOs… by @andreasklinger
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The EU-INC team have just kicked off a 100 day campaign to get the policy over the line.
If we get this right it could be transformational for European tech.
@andreasklinger, @_iwonabiernat, @SimonSchaefer, @MarvinTBaumann, @vojtechcz, @robinwauters and the @euinc_petition team have worked tirelessly to get this over the line but it’s at risk of being watered down to irrelevance
I spoke to Simon Schäfer, a co-initiator of EU-INC, on the Scaling Europe show about the massive push to let startups scale across the continent effortlessly.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:19 - Where EU Inc stands today
0:57 - How the EU process for passing this works
1:44 - Why the original proposal got watered down
3:44 - What's still up for negotiation
5:03 - Why EU Inc wants one shared company registry 7:06 - Pushback from notaries and trade unions
9:53 - Germany's resistance and the fight over insolvency rules
13:28 - Working with EU officials and politicians
16:16 - The moment EU Inc got its name from Brussels
17:44 - How people can help in the next 100 days
At Seedcamp, we've been laser-focused on backing generational talent building in Europe for almost two decades.
With @euinc_petition , Europe is close to something huge: a single market in which the next generation of category-defining companies can start and scale, without friction.
But the next 100 days are crucial.
Getting EU Inc right will unlock investment and spur a new wave of entrepreneurship.
This is a pivotal moment for the European tech ecosystem, and we're proud to support @vojtech, @andreasklinger, and the rest of the EU Inc team with the final push.
There are over 90 robot gyms launching in China right now. 100+ robots per center. We are in the robot data gold rush.
China's humanoid makers now ship 97% of all humanoids globally. The central government just put $138 billion into a robotics venture fund. And this is only the tip of the iceberg.
Robots need an ungodly amount of data to work in the real world. The biggest bottleneck isn't hardware, it's data.
So a whole industry appeared overnight to feed them. Welcome to our generation's gold rush: the robot data gold rush.
We made a full video on it.
We cover why it's such an insane business, how it actually works, the shady stuff (yes, sweatshops for robot data are a thing), and why this might be the completely wrong approach.
This is definitely the kind of vibe Europe needs to lean into much more.
Great job @andreasklinger
You asked for more pro-Europe merch. We made more pro-Europe merch. 🇪🇺
PROTOTYPE Collection #2 is live: 12 new posters. 2 new shirts. 2 new hoodies.
For Europe 🇪🇺🚀
👉 prototype-shop.com
PS: Due to popular demand, The Holy Draghi is now available.
You asked for more pro-Europe merch. We made more pro-Europe merch. 🇪🇺
PROTOTYPE Collection #2 is live: 12 new posters. 2 new shirts. 2 new hoodies.
For Europe 🇪🇺🚀
👉 prototype-shop.com
PS: Due to popular demand, The Holy Draghi is now available.
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The European Parliament represents 450 million people across 27 countries. But what should it prioritise?
Eurobarometer surveys help to regularly check the pulse of what Europeans think.
Check out the latest findings, country by country: link.europa.eu/TJB8hy
ALT Heatmap displaying citizens' top 4 policy priorities by EU member state and topic area, according to results from the Eurobarometer 105.3 survey (April–May 2026). Fifteen policy areas are ranked, including cost of living, economy, EU defence, public health, poverty, climate change, democracy, food security, migration, industry autonomy, terrorism, consumer protection, humanitarian aid, gender equality, and digitalisation. Colour intensity indicates the percentage of respondents selecting each priority (69–60% in dark red, down to 9–0% in pale yellow). Cost of living ranks highest overall (47%), followed by economy and jobs (35%), and EU defence (34%). Priorities vary significantly by member state.