PROTOTYPE 🦾

Andreas Klinger 🦾 Verified account @andreasklinger · Jan 19

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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Andreas Klinger 🦾 Verified account @andreasklinger · May 18

The best robotics meetup in the world.

Tonight in Berlin

CLANKERS

Multiple fully autonomous heavy duty machines. Industrial multi arm robot installations. Drones. Anti drone products. Space lasers. And thats not even all of it.

luma.com/0devxzvp

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ESRA | European Student Robotics Association @esra_robotics · Mar 25

We're launching the European Student Robotics Association (ESRA) (13 universities, 8 countries, 2.5k+ members)!

We’re young, driven and together we’re tackling the European fragmentation problem heads on.

Who are we?
- ETH Robotics Club (Zürich) @ethroboticsclub
- RoboTUM (Münich)
- EPFL AI Team (Lausanne) @epflaiteam
- Unaite (Paris)
- Team Polar (Eindhoven)
- TU Wien Robotics Club (Vienna)
- Robotics Collective (Aachen) @robocollectiv
- KTH AI Society (Stockholm) @KTHAISociety
- Delft Robotics Student Association
- KN CybAiR (Poznan)
- AEA Polimi (Milan)
And just getting started!

What do we do?
→ Pan-European robotics competitions
→ Cross-border technical project collaborations
→ Coordinated access to funding opportunities across Europe

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Robin Dechant Verified account @robindchnt · Mar 25

We ran a hackathon with @ethroboticsclub and
@Siftedeu covered it.

As I may have said: "What's happened here in the past 12 months is fricking awesome"

sifted.eu/articles/europ…

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Carl Pei Verified account @getpeid · Jan 23

Europe is building momentum.

We’ve been building @nothing out of London, proving you can build ambitious tech companies in Europe. Shipped millions of devices globally, crossed $1B in sales last year.

@andreasklinger, co-initiator of @euinc_petition and host of “Europe’s Most Ambitious Startups,” came to London to visit Nothing’s workshop. We talked about competing with Apple and Samsung, why manufacturing in Europe would be challenging for our product categories, and how AI will make every phone’s OS personal to its owner.

The tailwind is building for startups in Europe. For years, the narrative has been brain drain to the US, weak capital markets, startups relocating, and that is changing.

Ursula von der Leyen announced EU-Inc at Davos this week, a pan-European company structure letting startups scale across all 27 member states under one rulebook. What started as a grassroots initiative co-initiated by Andreas is now becoming policy.

€5B Scaleup Europe Fund launches this spring for AI, quantum, semiconductors. European Innovation Act coming in Q1 to remove barriers. The EU is moving.

Check out my interview with Andreas: youtu.be/Vc5o9aD8vZE

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