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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!
Andreas Klinger 🦾 retweeted
One of the main reasons Russia doesn't take Europe seriously, is because Europeans play by arbitrary, high-trust rules only they themselves respect & others ignore.
Russia seizes European assets, Europe is too scared to do the same. Russia conducts sabotage in EU countries, Europe doesn't respond in kind.
There are still Russian tourists running around in Italy and Paris, Russia goes to sports events that Europeans still attend & fund.
The same with China: China massively funds industries defacto owned by the state, free to polute & exploit - while European industry has to compete fairly with massive disadvantages. We know China is spying & using dependency as leverage, yet we do little to stop it.
Developing nations vote against Europe at the UN, are uncooperative with migration or other issues. No problem, Europe still sends development aid. Morocco literally pushes migrants into out territory- our answer? We give them money to stop.
Europe acts like the "nice guy" of the world, who then cries at home becaude bullies don't respect him. Well, like in the school yard, somtimes instead of helping everyone with their homework, try kicking those who push you in the nuts for a change.
I am so desensitised to scandals i dont care that Jensen Huang had an affair.
Did anyone die because of it?
Did he enrich himself through massive corruption?
Did he have some sort of hypocritical hatespeech related to it?
Did he potentially force an abortion or had potentially had sex with minors?
If Ukraine would do a fraction of the attacks against civilians that Russia does, the whole world would get a aneurysm and would scream for them to stop.
But because it's Russia doing it's considered normal part of the war. I bet the US thinks of it as strategically smart.
Andreas Klinger 🦾 retweeted
Introducing Clarity – an AI-native agentic intelligence platform for armed forces.
Developed in Europe, under European control.
helsing.ai/clarity/
Andreas Klinger 🦾 retweeted
One of the coolest robotics events this year 😮💨
We planned a small dinner during NVIDIA GTC in Berlin. 2,000 people ended up on the list.
The original plan was a nice little get-together, 20 to 100 people, a few beers, maybe a few robot demos. Then Microsoft pinged us asking to join forces. Then NVIDIA jumped in.
With only a week to go to the GTC we somehow convinced a brewery directly behind the GTC main venue to take over their place for a night.
And to make it even crazier our “little meetup” kept escalating further and ultimately became the inofficial GTC afterparty.
To put this into context: There were people flew to Berlin just for the afterparty and the robot demos 🤯
The venue was capped at 500. The city even sent people to count every single guest at the door. So officially: exactly 500 people came. Any evidence to the contrary is a fabrication.
What was on the floor:
- Rollo, the monowheel robot that does 30 km/h through a forest on ice.
- A 6-ton autonomous mining loader from Sensmore, driven in straight from the mine.
- Allonic, with their braided robot hand.
- Coprod, with a bipedal robot and their unified robotic hardware stack
An underwater drone built in 3 months by Polish students, who are also casually building a Mars rover on the side.
And about a dozen more… just watch the video.
We also had a couple of great announcements with lots of free money for founders:
Microsoft launched ImagineCup, their new startup challenge and the Physical AI Growth Lab in Munich. SPRIND opened a 90 million challenge for robotics hardware, 15 teams, equity free. ESRA is bringing robot boxing to Europe.
Also shoutout to Scans for jumping in at the last minute to support.
We are also planning the next one: bigger venue, more robots, 1,000+ people. Officially this time.
Also see you next week at Slush – we got something crazy planned there too.
Full video on the channel. 🇪🇺🔥
Andreas Klinger 🦾 retweeted
Yes, Europe must identify one person and we absolutely can identify one person! His name is Alexander Stubb. Let‘s go! @alexstubb
We planned a small dinner during NVIDIA GTC in Berlin. 2,000 people ended up on the list.
The original plan was a nice little get-together, 20 to 100 people, a few beers, maybe a few robot demos. Then Microsoft pinged us asking to join forces. Then NVIDIA jumped in.
With only a week to go to the GTC we somehow convinced a brewery directly behind the GTC main venue to take over their place for a night.
And to make it even crazier our “little meetup” kept escalating further and ultimately became the inofficial GTC afterparty.
To put this into context: There were people flew to Berlin just for the afterparty and the robot demos 🤯
The venue was capped at 500. The city even sent people to count every single guest at the door. So officially: exactly 500 people came. Any evidence to the contrary is a fabrication.
What was on the floor:
- Rollo, the monowheel robot that does 30 km/h through a forest on ice.
- A 6-ton autonomous mining loader from Sensmore, driven in straight from the mine.
- Allonic, with their braided robot hand.
- Coprod, with a bipedal robot and their unified robotic hardware stack
An underwater drone built in 3 months by Polish students, who are also casually building a Mars rover on the side.
And about a dozen more… just watch the video.
We also had a couple of great announcements with lots of free money for founders:
Microsoft launched ImagineCup, their new startup challenge and the Physical AI Growth Lab in Munich. SPRIND opened a 90 million challenge for robotics hardware, 15 teams, equity free. ESRA is bringing robot boxing to Europe.
Also shoutout to Scans for jumping in at the last minute to support.
We are also planning the next one: bigger venue, more robots, 1,000+ people. Officially this time.
Also see you next week at Slush – we got something crazy planned there too.
Full video on the channel. 🇪🇺🔥
Andreas Klinger 🦾 retweeted
My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site in Mexico, using LiDAR data from a NASA dataset.
72 hours from a random thought on vacation to a reply from Mexico's national archaeology institute.
What a time to be alive…
Andreas Klinger 🦾 retweeted
Merz reagiert auf Kritik von Fico, der die deutsche Verknüpfung des EU-Haushalts mit der Zustimmung zum neuen Ukraine-Milliarden-Kredit „Erpressung“ nennt:
Die Ukraine-Unterstützung sei „eine gemeinsame europäische Aufgabe, keine Aufgabe einzelner Mitgliedsstaaten“, so Merz. „Deswegen gehört die Frage, wie wir die Ukraine in den nächsten Jahren notfalls finanzieren natürlich mit in den Kontext dieser Haushaltsverhandlungen.“
Er verstehe innenpolitische Befindlichkeiten in Ungarn und anderen Ländern, „aber ich habe umgekehrt um Verständnis geworben, dass der größte Beitragszahler in den Haushalt der Europäischen Union, und gleichzeitig das Land, das auch den größten Beitrag zur Unterstützung der Ukraine leistet, Wert darauflegt, dass wir diese grundsätzliche Frage miteinander klären.
Und das steht in den nächsten Tagen und möglicherweise auch in den nächsten Wochen dann eben auf der Tagesordnung.“
Andreas Klinger 🦾 retweeted
@Machenta_ is at #CoRL2026 (Lone Star Ballroom, Floor 3)
Come at our booth and play around with instant robot learning.
