🏕 GP at @ConceptVC_ leading & co-leading pre-seed rounds in Europe's best (ElevenLabs ⏳ & more) #FFC

London, UK.
Joined July 2010
SITUATION DETECTED: Warhound launched from stealth today with a $200M seed at a $1.2B valuation. Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey are cloning gene-edited bio-enhanced dogs and equipping them with custom Anduril vests, goggles, and sensors for the military and law enforcement.
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honestly is this thing itself vibe coded - outages every week
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So many friends are looking for the next big role - so starting this week im sharing some of the most interesting jobs I see across Europe... 1. Founding Product Manager (EU/UK Based - Remote) @ Duvo 🇬🇧 : Duvo builds aI agents that map and automate operational workflows across business systems — founding-team equity, not employee #200 fundfinder.concept.vc/rounds… 2. Founding Data Analyst @meetdexai 🇬🇧 : Dex builds aI-powered recruiting platform matching AI researchers, software developers and ML… fundfinder.concept.vc/rounds… 3. Chief of Staff Execution Lead @dexoryHQ 🇬🇧 : Dexory builds warehouse intelligence platform combining autonomous robots with AI-driven analytics… — the classic shortcut to running a company fundfinder.concept.vc/rounds… 4. Founding Deployment Strategist @claimsorted 🇬🇧 : ClaimSorted builds digital third-party administrator platform leveraging AI and automation to speed up… fundfinder.concept.vc/rounds… 5. Founding Customer Success Manager @DustHQ 🇬🇧 : Dust builds platform for creating and managing custom AI agents that integrate with company tools… fundfinder.concept.vc/rounds… 6. Chief of Staff, Strategy & AI Enablement @ Andercore 🇩🇪 : Andercore builds an AI-powered platform for industrial trade and distribution, streamlining procurement,… fundfinder.concept.vc/rounds… 7. Founding Account Manager, EMEA @ Geordie AI 🇬🇧 : Geordie AI builds platform for managing the risks of deployed AI agents, with continuous insight into… — first revenue hire — you set the playbook fundfinder.concept.vc/rounds… I see these because we track every freshly funded team's own job board at Concept Ventures → fundfinder.concept.vc
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So good hearing from the king @Carles_Reina at a packed out Concept HQ this morning - building GTM in a post AI world and learning from scaling @ElevenLabs 👑
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Congrats @mati, @dabkowski_piotr & team @ElevenLabs on this momentous achievement - let’s go!
We just closed an employee tender offer which values @ElevenLabs at $22BN, up 2x from our Series D in February. The tender was led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price. A few words on how we got here ↓
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Despite the headlines, not every European first round is a neo lab raising $100m+. This year at @ConceptVC_ we've backed (round sizes): 🥼 Bio – $1.7m 🏦 Fintech infra – $1.8m 🦾 Robotics – $3m 🔧 Dev tools – $2m 🛰️ Space infra – $2.7m +1 signed this week, 1 more closing. ~$12m across five rounds. Less than 1/8 of one neo lab raise… all incredible teams working on BIG problems (exited founders, scale-up operators on hard problems. Looking to back 3 more teams before Christmas. Raising first cheque? DMs open
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perfect london day, on or off bike, to and from office 10/10
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Source: AI assistant Instinct is looking to raise $1B in new funding after recently raising $250M, as it seeks more computing power amid capacity constraints (The Information) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
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Even more tech sponsorship at fulham this season, now with @ClickHouseDB on the front - massive club, massive ecosystem (and great to not have gambling companies represented)
We're proud to announce @ClickHouseDB, a global technology company specialising in real-time analytics, data infrastructure and AI applications, as our newest Principal Partner and Front of Shirt Sponsor for the Men’s First Team. 🤝

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chess night this wednesday at Concept Ventures HQ Very strong field already; people from frontier AI labs, quant funds, and a few stealth founders. Two spots left, dm with ELO score for an invite!
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just a great time to be alive
This is absolutely brilliant. 😂 Couldn’t stop laughing when Pickford appeared. 😭
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A few more spots for our invite-only GTM evening at @ConceptVC_ HQ next week (and a potential 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 game). Speakers from ElevenLabs, CrewAI (ex-Snowflake #1 global AE) + Zero, small-group GTM Circles, then the pub for the World Cup semi (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England, hopefully). Co-hosted w/ @PrimaryVC Apply below luma.com/ge940dxk
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For an allegedly irrelevant continent, we appear to live rent free in American billionaire’s heads
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woah, didn’t see this coming. No frontier models for us Europeans?
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Claude code surely activates the same part of your brain as idle / simulation games
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