Ian Hogarth

@soundboy

co-founder & partner at @pluralplatform, co-founder & chair @AISecurityInst, co-founder @songkick

LDN stand up tall ianhogarth.com/about Joined October 2007

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Ian Hogarth @soundboy Jan 23, 2024

1/ 18 months into @pluralplatform, we’ve raised a new €400M fund. This is an endorsement of the first 26 teams we’ve backed and the level of ambition now emerging from Europe: techcrunch.com/2024/01/22/plu…

techcrunch.com Plural, the VC led by founders, pulls together a new $432M fund to back European startups |... European VC Plural has carved out a reputation for itself as being one of the few VCs in the region started and led by entrepreneurs who grew their own

Ian Hogarth @soundboy 3d

I did an interview with Amol Rajan on AI and the UK amongst other things. Has been a while since I did one of these longer form interviews so let me know if you find it useful!

Amol Rajan Verified account @amolrajan 3d

I believe Ian Hogarth - @soundboy - deserves much wider and deeper credit and recognition for voluntarily forfeiting shares in Anthropic so that he could set up and run the AI Security Institute (@AISecurityInst) - where he, and Britain, are generally acclaimed to be doing an outstanding job. (Something else he deserves greater credit for).

This noble decision was *very* expensive.

I also believe, and hope, that for our fast-growing audience this may be one of the most useful conversations they hear about Technology this year. We go deep on:

> What is AI?
> The real rate at which it is developing
> The race dynamic in global innovation
> Humanity’s fork in the road
> The significant chance of a huge market crash
> The exhilarating case Quantum Computing
> The exhilarating case for Fusion
> The exhilarating potential for Robotics
> Why outstanding British companies sometimes struggle to scale
> How Britain, and Europe, can lead
> The Future of jobs
> How Founders succeed
> His noble decision to do a public service role
> His fantasy for Battersea Power station

Ian is co-Founder and Partner at Plural, and co-Founder and Chair of the UK's AI Security Institute (@AISecurityInst).

This was a great, immensely useful conversation and I'd be honoured if you lent an ear to The Amol Rajan Connection.

Out now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and YouTube.

Thanks for your time and attention to this matter.

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Ian Hogarth @soundboy 6d

1/ In February, I traveled to the artic circle to watch Hypersonica successfully conduct the first privately funded hypersonic test flight in Europe. The company has now raised a €100M Series B. @pluralplatform is doubling down as they move to delivery.

Ian Hogarth @soundboy Oct 24

Thank you Alex for everything you've done for UK startups over the past couple years.

Ben Riley-Smith Verified account @benrileysmith Oct 24

BREAKING

The Treasury’s entrepreneurship adviser has announced she is quitting.

Alex Depledge tells my colleague @hannahprevett start-ups are treated as a “sideshow” and a “nice to have”.

“Entrepreneurship can’t be seen as a good news bonus on the margins of economic policy. That mentality is really dangerous for British business as a whole…”

Depledge due to leave her role on Thursday, the day after the Budget.

Read her full comments here👇
thetimes.com/article/b28ab8…
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Ian Hogarth @soundboy Oct 23

If you're a founder raising VC it's important to take references from portfolio companies who are not (yet) breakout superstars. It's as important to learn from founders who hit sudden headwinds, needed a critical bridge round etc and find out how the VC was during hard times.