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A fully electric autonomous tractor that lifts 4 tons, pulls 8 tons, runs 24 hours, and you can repair it in the middle of a field. This is Voltrac. 🦾 Made in Europe 🇪🇺 How would you design a futuristic autonomous tractor? Voltrac threw out everything and started from scratch. 70% fewer parts. One motor per wheel. Hot-swap batteries. Backwards compatible with any attachment a farmer already owns. Voltrac is more than a tractor, it’s the brain of the farm. One operator supervises multiple tractors across multiple farms. Every drive analyzes the crops, catches disease early, cuts fertilizer costs. And the same hitch that connects to farm tools connects to demining gear and resupply payloads for the front line. Disclaimer: I'm an early investor, because this is exactly what Europe needs. Europe had 70 million farmers in 2020. Projected 7 million by 2030. Our population keeps growing. Everyone still wants to eat. Somebody has to solve this. They build in Valencia, not China. Because the talent, the precision manufacturing, and the know-how are all here. We just forget how good we are. If we don't build this, someone in China will and sell it to European farmers. 🇪🇺🔥 Full Video on YT!

A fully electric autonomous tractor that lifts 4 tons, pulls 8 tons, runs 24 hours, and you can repair it in the middle of a field. This is Voltrac. 🦾 Made in Europe 🇪🇺 How would you design a futuristic autonomous tractor? Voltrac threw out everything and started from scratch. 70% fewer parts. One motor per wheel. Hot-swap batteries. Backwards compatible with any attachment a farmer already owns. Voltrac is more than a tractor, it’s the brain of the farm. One operator supervises multiple tractors across multiple farms. Every drive analyzes the crops, catches disease early, cuts fertilizer costs. And the same hitch that connects to farm tools connects to demining gear and resupply payloads for the front line. Disclaimer: I'm an early investor, because this is exactly what Europe needs. Europe had 70 million farmers in 2020. Projected 7 million by 2030. Our population keeps growing. Everyone still wants to eat. Somebody has to solve this. They build in Valencia, not China. Because the talent, the precision manufacturing, and the know-how are all here. We just forget how good we are. If we don't build this, someone in China will and sell it to European farmers. 🇪🇺🔥 Full Video on YT!

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29,627 Aufrufe • vor 1 Tag

I just visited a company in Finland that can turn any transparent surface — windows, glasses, plastic, anything — into a 3D display that perfectly augments what you see behind it. Welcome to Distance . One of the most exciting companies in Europe right now. And they're only two years old. We're not talking about a tiny rectangle in the corner of your windshield. The entire glass becomes your screen. They showed this to Kia's design team. It led to a concept car with a full edge-to-edge 3D windshield that paints navigation onto the actual road, shows you what the car sees, highlights threats, and yes, could theoretically replace every Pepsi billboard with a Coke one. But the defense side is where it gets serious. As a neighbor to Russia, Finland feels the pain of Ukraine very directly. The Distance team wanted to be part of the solution. Their field operator headset gives soldiers jet fighter-grade situational awareness. Any sensor (thermal, infrared, multispectral) overlaid onto what you actually see. Tested in over a dozen field trials with the Finnish army. Driving armored vehicles in arctic conditions in the middle of the night with full 3D perception. The field operator headset effectively allows soldiers to see through smoke, and with extra cameras even behind walls. Some of what they showed us had never been shown publicly before. And there's more cooking under the hood they couldn't share yet. Two years in. Moving at the speed of light. Welcome to Europe!

I just visited a company in Finland that can turn any transparent surface — windows, glasses, plastic, anything — into a 3D display that perfectly augments what you see behind it. Welcome to Distance . One of the most exciting companies in Europe right now. And they're only two years old. We're not talking about a tiny rectangle in the corner of your windshield. The entire glass becomes your screen. They showed this to Kia's design team. It led to a concept car with a full edge-to-edge 3D windshield that paints navigation onto the actual road, shows you what the car sees, highlights threats, and yes, could theoretically replace every Pepsi billboard with a Coke one. But the defense side is where it gets serious. As a neighbor to Russia, Finland feels the pain of Ukraine very directly. The Distance team wanted to be part of the solution. Their field operator headset gives soldiers jet fighter-grade situational awareness. Any sensor (thermal, infrared, multispectral) overlaid onto what you actually see. Tested in over a dozen field trials with the Finnish army. Driving armored vehicles in arctic conditions in the middle of the night with full 3D perception. The field operator headset effectively allows soldiers to see through smoke, and with extra cameras even behind walls. Some of what they showed us had never been shown publicly before. And there's more cooking under the hood they couldn't share yet. Two years in. Moving at the speed of light. Welcome to Europe!

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123,315 Aufrufe • vor 15 Tagen

Berlin just hosted the best robotics meetup in Europe. 🦾 We wanted to get 50 friends together. 500 people applied once we put a private page up. The demos were all made in Europe: a fully autonomous electric tractor that lifts 4 tons (Voltrac). A multi-ton autonomous excavator (sensmore). Drones built fully in Europe (HIGHCAT). Anti-drone lasers (Stealth). Strike systems delivered by balloon (Planetfall). A payload that sees landmines through soil (Sapper Intelligence). Multiple robot arms working perfectly in sync (EVASIVE ROBOTICS). Satellite defense lasers (also Stealth). Actual Star Wars stuff. The reason we do this is simple. If these tractors, robots, lasers aren't developed and produced in Europe, they'll be built elsewhere. We need these jobs here. These manufacturing sites here. And the best way to get more founders building them is to show what's already possible and inspire the next ones. Next stops: Today in Athens (join us here, link 👇), soon in Munich and London. If you want to host one, hit us up. This is CLANKERS by PROTOTYPE. For Europe. 🇪🇺🔥

Berlin just hosted the best robotics meetup in Europe. 🦾 We wanted to get 50 friends together. 500 people applied once we put a private page up. The demos were all made in Europe: a fully autonomous electric tractor that lifts 4 tons (Voltrac). A multi-ton autonomous excavator (sensmore). Drones built fully in Europe (HIGHCAT). Anti-drone lasers (Stealth). Strike systems delivered by balloon (Planetfall). A payload that sees landmines through soil (Sapper Intelligence). Multiple robot arms working perfectly in sync (EVASIVE ROBOTICS). Satellite defense lasers (also Stealth). Actual Star Wars stuff. The reason we do this is simple. If these tractors, robots, lasers aren't developed and produced in Europe, they'll be built elsewhere. We need these jobs here. These manufacturing sites here. And the best way to get more founders building them is to show what's already possible and inspire the next ones. Next stops: Today in Athens (join us here, link 👇), soon in Munich and London. If you want to host one, hit us up. This is CLANKERS by PROTOTYPE. For Europe. 🇪🇺🔥

Andreas Klinger 🦾

33,112 Aufrufe • vor 8 Tagen

FR8 is a 12,000 m² palace, filled with geniuses researching or building startups, it charges 0% equity and even pays for your food, living, and flights. One of their founders drank actual poison on stage to demo their tech. Welcome to FR8. Nothing about FR8 makes sense because it’s so over the top in their ambition, but they might eventually become the biggest thing for young founders globally. And it’s happening right here in Europe. They are neither a hackerhouse, nor a startup accelerator, nor a classic research lab. Instead they think of themselves as a university-like institution for the post AGI world that pushes you towards building companies, ambition, obsession, and bias-to-action. Think YCombinator, Stanford and Bell Labs all wrapped into one thing for the most ambitious 20-somethings in the world to work, run by 20-somethings. They just came out of stealth. Until recently people didn’t even know where their latest cohort is based. Because additionally on top FR8 is absurdly secretive. Their target group knows them and that’s about all they care for. We visited last week to join them behind-the-scenes as they prepare for their first demo day in their new building - a 5 floor university building in the middle of Helsinki. We knew them for quite some time so we were allowed to film them as the first team worldwide. But even we couldn’t film multiple floors and rooms of their building. This video gives you an insight into the ambitious craziness that FR8 is – but trust me there’s more to come in the near future. The biggest new thing in startups – isn’t in SF – it’s in the north of Europe and attracts young geniuses worldwide. Welcome to FR8!

FR8 is a 12,000 m² palace, filled with geniuses researching or building startups, it charges 0% equity and even pays for your food, living, and flights. One of their founders drank actual poison on stage to demo their tech. Welcome to FR8. Nothing about FR8 makes sense because it’s so over the top in their ambition, but they might eventually become the biggest thing for young founders globally. And it’s happening right here in Europe. They are neither a hackerhouse, nor a startup accelerator, nor a classic research lab. Instead they think of themselves as a university-like institution for the post AGI world that pushes you towards building companies, ambition, obsession, and bias-to-action. Think YCombinator, Stanford and Bell Labs all wrapped into one thing for the most ambitious 20-somethings in the world to work, run by 20-somethings. They just came out of stealth. Until recently people didn’t even know where their latest cohort is based. Because additionally on top FR8 is absurdly secretive. Their target group knows them and that’s about all they care for. We visited last week to join them behind-the-scenes as they prepare for their first demo day in their new building - a 5 floor university building in the middle of Helsinki. We knew them for quite some time so we were allowed to film them as the first team worldwide. But even we couldn’t film multiple floors and rooms of their building. This video gives you an insight into the ambitious craziness that FR8 is – but trust me there’s more to come in the near future. The biggest new thing in startups – isn’t in SF – it’s in the north of Europe and attracts young geniuses worldwide. Welcome to FR8!

Andreas Klinger 🦾

81,788 Aufrufe • vor 24 Tagen

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: → Showcase Europe’s Most Ambitious Startups on Youtube: → Launch & support more projects like EU–INC. 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

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: → Showcase Europe’s Most Ambitious Startups on Youtube: → Launch & support more projects like EU–INC. 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

Andreas Klinger 🦾

392,858 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

Fundraising sucks for founders, especially if you are a first-time founder. I've raised for my own companies, invested in over 100 startups and helped 1000+ founders raising money. We had a bit of time so we decided to do a 40-minutes fundraising crash course. It’s a mix of strategic stuff, mental models, understanding investor game dynamics and tactical advice. Hopefully useful to anyone raising money right now. A few takeaways – but I explain it all in the video better: 1. You can evaluate every deal on three vectors: “credentials, innovation, execution”. You want to be strong on two of them. And being able to understand where you stand here allows you to be pro-active in driving your raise. 2. "We're not fundraising yet, but..." is the most underrated hack. Use it to test the waters. If an investor is genuinely bullish, they'll make you an offer anyway. 3. If it's not a hell yes, it's a no. VCs that want in will do anything to get in. The rest keep you in weird limbo with fake homework. 4. "Come back with more traction" is a lie. It means: we don't believe in you yet, but if the market proves us wrong, sure. But there is an easy way around this. Get the right people involved. 5. Don't pitch. Send the deck before. Have a real conversation. Your only goal: can this investor repeat what you do in a way that's exciting at drinks afterwards? 6. Don't raise for long. Three months on the market and everyone knows? You're discounted sushi. 7. Velocity beats optimisation. Almost always. The best fundraising strategy is getting investor commitments so fast that other investors have to chase you. 8. The real elevator pitch isn’t between founder and investor but between two investors. Eg. an associate trying to show off to a partner or angels trying to get new opinions on the deal. => and tons more Full video in

Fundraising sucks for founders, especially if you are a first-time founder. I've raised for my own companies, invested in over 100 startups and helped 1000+ founders raising money. We had a bit of time so we decided to do a 40-minutes fundraising crash course. It’s a mix of strategic stuff, mental models, understanding investor game dynamics and tactical advice. Hopefully useful to anyone raising money right now. A few takeaways – but I explain it all in the video better: 1. You can evaluate every deal on three vectors: “credentials, innovation, execution”. You want to be strong on two of them. And being able to understand where you stand here allows you to be pro-active in driving your raise. 2. "We're not fundraising yet, but..." is the most underrated hack. Use it to test the waters. If an investor is genuinely bullish, they'll make you an offer anyway. 3. If it's not a hell yes, it's a no. VCs that want in will do anything to get in. The rest keep you in weird limbo with fake homework. 4. "Come back with more traction" is a lie. It means: we don't believe in you yet, but if the market proves us wrong, sure. But there is an easy way around this. Get the right people involved. 5. Don't pitch. Send the deck before. Have a real conversation. Your only goal: can this investor repeat what you do in a way that's exciting at drinks afterwards? 6. Don't raise for long. Three months on the market and everyone knows? You're discounted sushi. 7. Velocity beats optimisation. Almost always. The best fundraising strategy is getting investor commitments so fast that other investors have to chase you. 8. The real elevator pitch isn’t between founder and investor but between two investors. Eg. an associate trying to show off to a partner or angels trying to get new opinions on the deal. => and tons more Full video in

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78,597 Aufrufe • vor 29 Tagen

Yea… I am done. lol 🤯 I just drew a game and it works… 💀

Yea… I am done. lol 🤯 I just drew a game and it works… 💀

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1,284,200 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

A student in Zurich sleeps in a camper van outside a hangar every night. Just to have more hours to build a humanoid robot. He’s obsessive. He's not alone. 2,500 students across Europe are getting into robotics right now. And now they united and just launched: ESRA, the European Student Robotics Association. 🇪🇺🦾 They are bringing together highly talented young people, give them space, give them resources and let them build. By now already 13 robotics clubs. 8 countries. 2,500+ students. I visited several of them over the last weeks to get to know them and let them tell their stories. We've also been helping behind the scenes where we can, because this is exactly what Europe needs. Several multiple billion dollar companies will come out of the ESRA network. Right here in Europe. If the Bay Area had a student robotics network like this, they would never shut up about it. Time we do the same. 😤🔥🇪🇺 It only needs a few crazy ones to fix a continent. Turns out they're already building. 🇪🇺

A student in Zurich sleeps in a camper van outside a hangar every night. Just to have more hours to build a humanoid robot. He’s obsessive. He's not alone. 2,500 students across Europe are getting into robotics right now. And now they united and just launched: ESRA, the European Student Robotics Association. 🇪🇺🦾 They are bringing together highly talented young people, give them space, give them resources and let them build. By now already 13 robotics clubs. 8 countries. 2,500+ students. I visited several of them over the last weeks to get to know them and let them tell their stories. We've also been helping behind the scenes where we can, because this is exactly what Europe needs. Several multiple billion dollar companies will come out of the ESRA network. Right here in Europe. If the Bay Area had a student robotics network like this, they would never shut up about it. Time we do the same. 😤🔥🇪🇺 It only needs a few crazy ones to fix a continent. Turns out they're already building. 🇪🇺

Andreas Klinger 🦾

116,317 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Last Christmas at brunch, my friend Peter showed me the latest version of his little bot he built. A crazy side project. Just for fun. This Monday he announced he's joining OpenAI. Sam Altman called him a genius. In between? OpenClaw went from a hobby project to the most talked-about AI agent in the world. Three months. No team. No funding. Just one retired guy from Vienna who rediscovered the joy of building things. ❤️ Last week I flew down to Vienna to sit down with him right in the middle of this madness to talk about everything: how he thinks about agents, why he let OpenClaw write its own soul file, why your mom will understand AI agents before most engineers do, and why open source as we know it might be completely broken. We are super proud of you, Peter. 🙌 Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:02 The mom test moment & Managing 3,000 PRs 04:47 The Soul Markdown file & why OpenClaw feels different 06:58 The agent's personality, humor & OpenClaw's wild week 10:31 Think like the model 12:37 Privacy & security 15:28 Open source burnout & the future of engineering teams 17:32 The end of apps & closing thoughts

Last Christmas at brunch, my friend Peter showed me the latest version of his little bot he built. A crazy side project. Just for fun. This Monday he announced he's joining OpenAI. Sam Altman called him a genius. In between? OpenClaw went from a hobby project to the most talked-about AI agent in the world. Three months. No team. No funding. Just one retired guy from Vienna who rediscovered the joy of building things. ❤️ Last week I flew down to Vienna to sit down with him right in the middle of this madness to talk about everything: how he thinks about agents, why he let OpenClaw write its own soul file, why your mom will understand AI agents before most engineers do, and why open source as we know it might be completely broken. We are super proud of you, Peter. 🙌 Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:02 The mom test moment & Managing 3,000 PRs 04:47 The Soul Markdown file & why OpenClaw feels different 06:58 The agent's personality, humor & OpenClaw's wild week 10:31 Think like the model 12:37 Privacy & security 15:28 Open source burnout & the future of engineering teams 17:32 The end of apps & closing thoughts

Andreas Klinger 🦾

159,802 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

“AC this, wash dryer that, US woohoo, EU boohoo” - Why are we eating this brand-warfare from the outside about us up? Europe has the strongest precision manufacturing in the world, we have leading teams in AI, CV, robotics. Europe is a leader in Automation and Frontier Tech! Not a single NVIDIA chip could be produced without European machines. Not a single American cloud, robotics, or deep-tech firm would operate without European manufacturing or suppliers. But we are too humble. Brainwashed to never celebrate Europe. By outsiders and our local politicians. Time for a change. Europe is the birthplace of industrialization. The home of frontier tech. Time, we act like it. Welcome to the real Europe! 🔥🇪🇺

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310,088 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten

This might be the coolest use of Gaussian Splats in a movie i have seen in a while. Wait for 0:20 /cc Bilawal Sidhu amit MrNeRF

This might be the coolest use of Gaussian Splats in a movie i have seen in a while. Wait for 0:20 /cc Bilawal Sidhu amit MrNeRF

Andreas Klinger 🦾

200,219 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

This week we celebrated OpenClaw🦞 Conf in Vienna. 🔥 One thought stuck with me. We're entering a world where custom software is normal. Everyone has their own insta-coder, their own personal appstore. Soon software will exist on the fly, only when you need it. Just for one moment. Then it's gone. Personalized, disposable, one-shot. 🤯 Code can now be autogenerated. So if code is "no longer worth anything" (hyperbole speaking) and you can auto-build any idea into existence (slop gods be kind): What is the future of software development – especially for founders? I made a video on this. Spoilers: we had the working title: "Software Development is f**d" This video is maybe more questions than answers – especially for SaaS founders. But I also cover POVs of mine: Eg why GitHub is obsolete, why open source might actually be dead soon, the Mexican standoff between designers/engineers/PMs, why prompt injection could be bigger than SQL injection, and what I'd actually do as a SaaS founder right now. But there is also a paradox in all of this: Now might be the most exciting time to build software. Ever. 🦾 Thanks as always for watching. Likes, shares, subscribes, goat slaugthering, and any other algo magic you can throw at this: deeply appreciated. Trying to build this YouTube channel up and your support genuinely helps. Link to the channel in the reply ❤️

This week we celebrated OpenClaw🦞 Conf in Vienna. 🔥 One thought stuck with me. We're entering a world where custom software is normal. Everyone has their own insta-coder, their own personal appstore. Soon software will exist on the fly, only when you need it. Just for one moment. Then it's gone. Personalized, disposable, one-shot. 🤯 Code can now be autogenerated. So if code is "no longer worth anything" (hyperbole speaking) and you can auto-build any idea into existence (slop gods be kind): What is the future of software development – especially for founders? I made a video on this. Spoilers: we had the working title: "Software Development is f**d" This video is maybe more questions than answers – especially for SaaS founders. But I also cover POVs of mine: Eg why GitHub is obsolete, why open source might actually be dead soon, the Mexican standoff between designers/engineers/PMs, why prompt injection could be bigger than SQL injection, and what I'd actually do as a SaaS founder right now. But there is also a paradox in all of this: Now might be the most exciting time to build software. Ever. 🦾 Thanks as always for watching. Likes, shares, subscribes, goat slaugthering, and any other algo magic you can throw at this: deeply appreciated. Trying to build this YouTube channel up and your support genuinely helps. Link to the channel in the reply ❤️

Andreas Klinger 🦾

67,508 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

🦾🔥 2026 will be the year of robotics. And you should start a robotic company right now! Let me explain you why and show you the opportunities in the video – but here is an outline: We're in an Will Smith spaghetti moment. Remember how AI-generated video looked horrific two years ago? That's where robotics is right now. Computer vision is solved. VLAs (vision language action models) are starting to work. The reliability problem is being cracked as we speak. And unlike software, where you're competing against 15,000 marketing AI startups, humanoids has maybe 200 companies worldwide. Warehousing, the most crowded robotics vertical, has 700. Plus what are you going to do? Build a SaaS that claude can one-shot? The macro tailwinds are also obvious: Dark factories. Self-driving everything. Drones dominating warfare. China pushing automation hard. The West needing to reindustrialize with an aging workforce. But the real unlock is that small teams can now move incredibly fast. In the video we show robots built by one person, that is a year later already shown at CES, and raised couple million euros. Components costs are also dropping. Plus production suppliers actually want to work with startups now. In the video we are also going into opportunities. One mental model is simple: robotics is the next SaaS. Look at any industry, find one specific task, and build a robot that can do it better, faster, or around the clock. But we go through multiple mental models more in the video I uploaded the full video right here on X. But if you got a second, i'd appreciate a share, like, subscribe on youtube (link below!) ⬇️

🦾🔥 2026 will be the year of robotics. And you should start a robotic company right now! Let me explain you why and show you the opportunities in the video – but here is an outline: We're in an Will Smith spaghetti moment. Remember how AI-generated video looked horrific two years ago? That's where robotics is right now. Computer vision is solved. VLAs (vision language action models) are starting to work. The reliability problem is being cracked as we speak. And unlike software, where you're competing against 15,000 marketing AI startups, humanoids has maybe 200 companies worldwide. Warehousing, the most crowded robotics vertical, has 700. Plus what are you going to do? Build a SaaS that claude can one-shot? The macro tailwinds are also obvious: Dark factories. Self-driving everything. Drones dominating warfare. China pushing automation hard. The West needing to reindustrialize with an aging workforce. But the real unlock is that small teams can now move incredibly fast. In the video we show robots built by one person, that is a year later already shown at CES, and raised couple million euros. Components costs are also dropping. Plus production suppliers actually want to work with startups now. In the video we are also going into opportunities. One mental model is simple: robotics is the next SaaS. Look at any industry, find one specific task, and build a robot that can do it better, faster, or around the clock. But we go through multiple mental models more in the video I uploaded the full video right here on X. But if you got a second, i'd appreciate a share, like, subscribe on youtube (link below!) ⬇️

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64,769 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

A startup in Wales is manufacturing diamonds for semiconductors in space. Yep… for real. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔥🇪🇺 To repeat this and to make this clear: Space Forge is literally building forges in space. And if their vision works – and trust me this is not hyperbole – this will literally kickstart a whole new industry for humanity: Manufacturing in Space! 🧑‍🚀 Their mission? Grow ultra-pure crystals in orbit. Each worth a fortune. Those crystals the foundation for chips of countless future technologies. Chips that power everything from 5G networks, to EVs, to future quantum systems. Ok what the hell: Why satellites? The problem: On Earth, gravity frequently ruins the crystals while growing. Eg convection introduces tiny defects into every crystal we grow. In orbit, with less effective gravity, those defects disappear. The result: dramatically more efficient, more powerful and better functioning semiconductors. Launching an actual satellite factory sounds completely insane, but exactly the kind of level of ambition we need here in Europe. 🔥 So naturally, I flew to Wales to find out how it works. We were the first to tour their new facility – and you are the first to see it! In the video we will be touring their clean rooms, see crystals grown, stand in their mission control, and learn how the two founders started this company after three pints in a pub. I am not overhyping this when i say: Space Forge is literally the spearhead of a whole new industry for humanity… This is the kind of level of WTH-ness we need here in Europe. 🙏❤️ Shoutout and thanks to Joshua, their founder, and his team for having us around! Full video on our Youtube and in the replies. Appreciate your like & RT🙏

A startup in Wales is manufacturing diamonds for semiconductors in space. Yep… for real. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔥🇪🇺 To repeat this and to make this clear: Space Forge is literally building forges in space. And if their vision works – and trust me this is not hyperbole – this will literally kickstart a whole new industry for humanity: Manufacturing in Space! 🧑‍🚀 Their mission? Grow ultra-pure crystals in orbit. Each worth a fortune. Those crystals the foundation for chips of countless future technologies. Chips that power everything from 5G networks, to EVs, to future quantum systems. Ok what the hell: Why satellites? The problem: On Earth, gravity frequently ruins the crystals while growing. Eg convection introduces tiny defects into every crystal we grow. In orbit, with less effective gravity, those defects disappear. The result: dramatically more efficient, more powerful and better functioning semiconductors. Launching an actual satellite factory sounds completely insane, but exactly the kind of level of ambition we need here in Europe. 🔥 So naturally, I flew to Wales to find out how it works. We were the first to tour their new facility – and you are the first to see it! In the video we will be touring their clean rooms, see crystals grown, stand in their mission control, and learn how the two founders started this company after three pints in a pub. I am not overhyping this when i say: Space Forge is literally the spearhead of a whole new industry for humanity… This is the kind of level of WTH-ness we need here in Europe. 🙏❤️ Shoutout and thanks to Joshua, their founder, and his team for having us around! Full video on our Youtube and in the replies. Appreciate your like & RT🙏

Andreas Klinger 🦾

50,932 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

🚨 Hey folks I got something to announce: I am launching a new investment fund brand: Prototype Capital 🦾 A globally-active first-check investment fund. We focus on cool stuff that's technical hard to achieve, but also still new enough to be a bit weird – globally. Think Robotics in Eastern Europe, AI in SF, Software remotely, OpenSource SaaS, Space-tech in India, Reindustrialization of Europe, AI Agents in Brazil, among many others… - $100k-$200k - we say we invest early and we actually mean it - with every 5th investment we are the first to commit - only 6% of all ivnestments were after seed - the brand will be a larger umbrella for all kinds of stuff from our own prototypes 😬, to streams, to communities, to investinpublic transparency efforts - this is legally speaking a rebrand of my previous solo GP fund so we got track record to proof - we do about 15-20 investments per year Link in thread! 🔥 Please RT if you got a sec – Appreciate your launch support 🙏❤️

Andreas Klinger 🦾

212,496 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

When I was a founder, every VC fund looked identical. Same landing page, same language, zero transparency into how they actually worked or what they actually believed. I couldn't figure out who was aligned with what I was building. So we're doing something about it: we're open-sourcing our investor updates. Same document our LPs get, fully public, nothing redacted. We hope by being transparent we can build trust with the best people to join our mission. Future founders who will build generational companies right here in Europe and future community members who will support them. We just published the first one. Let me walk you through it. ❤️🔥🇪🇺

When I was a founder, every VC fund looked identical. Same landing page, same language, zero transparency into how they actually worked or what they actually believed. I couldn't figure out who was aligned with what I was building. So we're doing something about it: we're open-sourcing our investor updates. Same document our LPs get, fully public, nothing redacted. We hope by being transparent we can build trust with the best people to join our mission. Future founders who will build generational companies right here in Europe and future community members who will support them. We just published the first one. Let me walk you through it. ❤️🔥🇪🇺

Andreas Klinger 🦾

26,589 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

Autonomous businesses run by AI will be the big thing in 2026. Autonomous AI company builder Polsia just launched, so naturally I gave it my credit card and clicked "surprise me" to see what could possibly go wrong. It instantly went full stalker mode. Researched me, figured out I run PROTOTYPE, and decided to build an AI-native version of my own analyst team. It came up with a name, wrote a mission statement, set up an email address, and tweeted about it. Before the landing page existed. It tweeted before building the landing page. 🤯 Then it wanted to send cold outreach emails to European founders. On my behalf. Using the Gmail I'd logged in with. This is Polsia . Think of it like Claude, but instead of writing code, it builds businesses. You give it an idea (or just click "surprise me"), and it sets up everything: servers, Stripe, landing page, email, ads. Then every night an AI "CEO" wakes up, checks how the business is doing, fixes bugs, sends emails, runs Meta ads, handles support. You get a morning summary. Reply if you want to steer. Don't reply and it keeps going anyway. The founder Ben Cera calls it: "You're the creative director. Polsia is the CEO." His 91-year-old dad uses it. Gets an email every morning in French. Replies when he feels like it. That's the whole interface. Solo founder. Zero employees. 2,000+ companies on the platform. $1.8M in cash flows running through the system (and that number changed between when I started testing and when we did the interview two hours later.) Is the output perfect? No. The apps are basic. The cold outreach will annoy people. The AI-generated video ads look like what they are. But this is as bad as it will ever be. And it's already kinda working. The logical conclusion of AI coding tools was always this. First Claude writes your code. Then it takes over your desktop. Now it runs your business. Someone just had to be crazy enough to wire it all together. I go through the entire product live, panic about email permissions in real time, and then talk to Ben about the AI that's currently trying to raise its own funding round. 🦾

Autonomous businesses run by AI will be the big thing in 2026. Autonomous AI company builder Polsia just launched, so naturally I gave it my credit card and clicked "surprise me" to see what could possibly go wrong. It instantly went full stalker mode. Researched me, figured out I run PROTOTYPE, and decided to build an AI-native version of my own analyst team. It came up with a name, wrote a mission statement, set up an email address, and tweeted about it. Before the landing page existed. It tweeted before building the landing page. 🤯 Then it wanted to send cold outreach emails to European founders. On my behalf. Using the Gmail I'd logged in with. This is Polsia . Think of it like Claude, but instead of writing code, it builds businesses. You give it an idea (or just click "surprise me"), and it sets up everything: servers, Stripe, landing page, email, ads. Then every night an AI "CEO" wakes up, checks how the business is doing, fixes bugs, sends emails, runs Meta ads, handles support. You get a morning summary. Reply if you want to steer. Don't reply and it keeps going anyway. The founder Ben Cera calls it: "You're the creative director. Polsia is the CEO." His 91-year-old dad uses it. Gets an email every morning in French. Replies when he feels like it. That's the whole interface. Solo founder. Zero employees. 2,000+ companies on the platform. $1.8M in cash flows running through the system (and that number changed between when I started testing and when we did the interview two hours later.) Is the output perfect? No. The apps are basic. The cold outreach will annoy people. The AI-generated video ads look like what they are. But this is as bad as it will ever be. And it's already kinda working. The logical conclusion of AI coding tools was always this. First Claude writes your code. Then it takes over your desktop. Now it runs your business. Someone just had to be crazy enough to wire it all together. I go through the entire product live, panic about email permissions in real time, and then talk to Ben about the AI that's currently trying to raise its own funding round. 🦾

Andreas Klinger 🦾

33,286 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

Let's do a robots watch party! 😉 This is a whole video where we go through videos of real-world use cases for robotics – industry per industry – 20 minutes – only the coolest robot stuff out there. 🤖🔥 And I have the perfect person to join me: Lukas Ziegler, 300k+ followers across platforms, million views, one of the leading influencer voices bringing robotics mainstream. We start with five markets that are mature: 📦 Logistics, ⚡ Energy, 🌾 Farming, 🏗️ Construction, 🔒 Security. Robotics, real world, actually happening. Not pitch decks. We explain the context and what opportunities we see. 👀 Then we get into the weird stuff. Robot skin made from human cells. Brain-controlled robots. Robots in Brains. Fight clubs. A happy robot whose only job is to stop grain bins from exploding. If you ever wondered what the robotics landscape actually looks like right now: This is it. 00:00 Intro 00:37 Logistics 📦 03:04 Energy ⚡ 05:22 Farming 🌾 07:47 Construction 🏗️ 09:46 Security 🔒 11:20 Humanoids 🧍‍♂️ 13:48 😵 Freak section

Let's do a robots watch party! 😉 This is a whole video where we go through videos of real-world use cases for robotics – industry per industry – 20 minutes – only the coolest robot stuff out there. 🤖🔥 And I have the perfect person to join me: Lukas Ziegler, 300k+ followers across platforms, million views, one of the leading influencer voices bringing robotics mainstream. We start with five markets that are mature: 📦 Logistics, ⚡ Energy, 🌾 Farming, 🏗️ Construction, 🔒 Security. Robotics, real world, actually happening. Not pitch decks. We explain the context and what opportunities we see. 👀 Then we get into the weird stuff. Robot skin made from human cells. Brain-controlled robots. Robots in Brains. Fight clubs. A happy robot whose only job is to stop grain bins from exploding. If you ever wondered what the robotics landscape actually looks like right now: This is it. 00:00 Intro 00:37 Logistics 📦 03:04 Energy ⚡ 05:22 Farming 🌾 07:47 Construction 🏗️ 09:46 Security 🔒 11:20 Humanoids 🧍‍♂️ 13:48 😵 Freak section

Andreas Klinger 🦾

28,578 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

🔥🇪🇺 New Video! Fun fact – the fastest-growing smartphone company ever is in Europe It's Nothing ! We went to meet their founder Carl Pei in their design studio! Nothing is different to all other phone company emulating apple. Instead of wanting to be like Apple, they want to be the next Apple. They bet on radical design, strong community, specialized products for markets (eg india), and a product culture that actually feels different. In the video: We go inside Nothing’s workshop, see how they design and build hardware, and how Carl Pei thinks about the future of smartphones in the AI era. Link to the YouTube video in the reply!

🔥🇪🇺 New Video! Fun fact – the fastest-growing smartphone company ever is in Europe It's Nothing ! We went to meet their founder Carl Pei in their design studio! Nothing is different to all other phone company emulating apple. Instead of wanting to be like Apple, they want to be the next Apple. They bet on radical design, strong community, specialized products for markets (eg india), and a product culture that actually feels different. In the video: We go inside Nothing’s workshop, see how they design and build hardware, and how Carl Pei thinks about the future of smartphones in the AI era. Link to the YouTube video in the reply!

Andreas Klinger 🦾

36,993 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

Quick EU–INC update 🇪🇺🔥 We are about to hand over the final EU-Inc proposal paper to the commissioners. Additionally we had several meetings with the workgroups, and the president’s team focusing on the topic today. So far the feedback has been very positive. Wish us luck!

Quick EU–INC update 🇪🇺🔥 We are about to hand over the final EU-Inc proposal paper to the commissioners. Additionally we had several meetings with the workgroups, and the president’s team focusing on the topic today. So far the feedback has been very positive. Wish us luck!

Andreas Klinger 🦾

75,375 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr