One of the most exciting robotics startups announces its $100mm Series A. Congrats to @mavenrobotics. Proudly backed by @CreatorFund two years ago at inception when the pitch was a simple promise: we will build the world's best industrial robot.
The "exit tax" is the large equity that UK universities already take for permitting a spinout to start. Don't put more hurdles in the path of scientific founders. Just focus on making the UK a great place to build:
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Europe is often blind about who is operating in our waters. Mars is better mapped than the ocean floor. @CreatorFund has backed Triton Depth 🇩🇰 to build the security layer for the West's oceans.
This is why its urgent: piped.video/watch?v=TGu3mcMH…
How does 🇪🇺 compete with efficient 🇨🇳 engineering? We win on technical complexity. Quantum Diamonds shines light through synthetic diamonds (with quantum defects) to inspect the inside of semiconductors. Today announcing €91 million - proudly backed by @CreatorFund.
The Bayeux Tapestry is the most significant object in British history. I have been obsessed with it since I was 16. As it comes to England for the first time in 1000 years, I am doing a series of 🧵. Starting with the story in the margins 👇
Two of the 11th centuries great buildings: Westminster Abbey, and here Mont Saint-Michel appear in the tapestry. The church breaks through the tapestry's margins to show its size.
And lastly, the much questioned appearance of a lot of naked men! Maybe a joke by the embroiders to lighten a depressing story? Here Adam and Eve with another reminder of the sinfulness of mankind (why the whole story above happens).
We have raised the world's largest student VC of its kind. Because we believe the defining 🇬🇧 and 🇪🇺 companies of the next decade will be built by Scientific Founders who operate on the edge of human knowledge. @CreatorFund in @ObserverUKshorturl.at/aNnQy
Robots lack data to operate reliably in the natural world. We've backed LatentWorlds from @tudelft to allow robots to reliably capture from the edge. Full story of our second Dutch 🇳🇱🇳🇱 deal here @CreatorFund: piped.video/watch?v=2Xtin60O…
We think that when the world's best technical talent comes to 🇬🇧🇪🇺 universities to study. And has done so for centuries. Our single best route of staying ahead in the 🌍 is to harness that talent to found Deep Tech companies. @CreatorFund.
One of the best parts of Deep Tech investing is playing with our founders products for the first time. This is one of the world's most advanced lenses - keeping the object always in focus - no matter how bad your eyesight. Trialling in a pub in Cambridge with @allfocaloptics.
Major shift from Innovate UK to funnel money into fewer 🇬🇧 Deep Tech winners. And stop spray and pray small cheques. This is an overdue shift. 🇩🇪🇫🇷use grants much better than we do to create National Champions.
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Love to see a Glaswegian company raising a $50 million round led by @insightpartners. On the banks of the Clyde 🏴, the pioneering chemist @leecronin has built the first autonomous chemistry laboratory with @ChemifyX . Series B announced today. Proudly backed by @CreatorFund.