7percent Ventures

Pre/Seed ex-founder led VC, backing moonshot ambitious 🚀 deeptech & transformative startups changing the way our world works for the better. 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇪🇺

[7percent Ventures @7pcventures]

@beyond_aero have hit $2 billion in LOIs.

Since they completed France's first manned hydrogen-electric flight in 2024, they've now seen market demand for 192 of their private aircrafts.

The future of aviation is #electric.

@EloaGuillotin

[Josef Chen @josefchen]

If the Founder of Hugging Face asks, you gotta do it. Models and dataset now live: https://t.co/9gY7AiQ9xs

Also built an explorer:
https://t.co/2wSMBS5tQ7

[gensyn @gensynai]

https://t.co/g7qgm9VSum

[Josef Chen @josefchen]

Launching our new paper on arXiv: we trained the largest multilingual food model ever built.

4.1M recipes. 7 languages. 1,790 ingredients. 300 dimensions.

All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes.

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

Thanks @Benioff

[7percent Ventures @7pcventures]

Ukraine’s drone pilots hitting targets 500km away shows how frontier tech reshapes defence.

The UK must accelerate sovereign capability in dual-use tech to avoid dependency.

Bottleneck: industrial base and export controls need urgent alignment. 

https://t.co/zkclXEQ461

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

11% of US trade has turned fraudulent since Liberation day created massive incentive to cheat on your tariffs.

Chinese exporters declare the value of their US exports to the Chinese government $112B higher than the value of the same goods as declared to the US government.

[7percent Ventures @7pcventures]

Commodities brokerage is being rewritten by software.

@VosborExchange just executed the first AI-brokered physical ag trade:

1,000 MT of rapeseed oil. Zero brokerage fees.

No humans in the loop. No legacy fee stack.

https://t.co/NDIXOburtm

[Josef Chen @josefchen]

Huaqiangbei is the only place on earth where “just grabbing an arduino” can plausibly end in:
> prototype missiles
> inference ASICs
> carbon fibre FPV airframes
> ½ price RTX 5090
> 22 DOF robot hand
> a weirdly good espresso machine board

[gensyn @gensynai]

Gensyn CEO @benfielding speaking with @ambient_xyz and @PrismaXai on Distillation, Anthropic, OpenAI, the USA and China.

Also on Spotify https://t.co/yopDEKp5Az
and Apple Podcasts https://t.co/AG5QnQlWu4

[7percent Ventures @7pcventures]

UK’s £80m boost for life sciences signals a needed pivot from imports to local manufacturing. Vital medicines and jobs hinge on scaling domestic supply chains, not just lab innovation. Industrial strategy must prioritise resilience over convenience. 
https://t.co/tFoGSxQ60i

[Andrew J Scott @andrewjscott]

Good advice for any GPs raising out there.

[Interstellar Lab @InterstellarLA]

Our CEO @b_belvisi spoke at the Amazon MARS Conference, hosted by Jeff Bezos.
She presented Interstellar Lab’s work to leading experts in AI, robotics, and space.
Watch here: https://t.co/59XGRb2s9C

[Andrew J Scott @andrewjscott]

Some of these look like unusual screwdrivers. And I guess Europe doesn't have head for heights.

[Andrew J Scott @andrewjscott]

Tip of the iceberg.
We’ll be seeing a lot more of this across industries as we come to terms with just how unreliable current LLM AI models can be for many tasks; how fallible they sometimes are without guardrails.

[7percent Ventures @7pcventures]

Ukraine’s drones cutting into Russia’s oil profits illustrates how dual-use tech reshapes conflict economics. For the UK, investing in frontier embodied AI and autonomous systems is vital to maintain sovereign defence edge. 
https://t.co/Eq2YBLhyGQ

[7percent Ventures @7pcventures]

AI has landed in auditing. Regulators face a bottleneck: how to ensure AI transparency and trustworthiness in a sector critical for market integrity. UK must lead on clear standards or risk lagging behind global peers. 
https://t.co/Iu3vTzfAIf

[Vishal Kumar 🇬🇧 @vishalkumar]

Yep 👇

[gensyn @gensynai]

Gensyn at EthCC: Cannes:

Decentralized AI: Friends or Foes (Mon)
Panel with @diogortega, Eth Foundation, Hype and Kash-bot

REE Workshop (Wed)
A hands-on workshop with our engineers

(ai)RL: EthCC (Wed)
A casual, beachside evening with Gensyn team members

Find the links below.

[7percent Ventures @7pcventures]

China is winning the AI talent race. The UK must rethink its skills pipeline and immigration policy to compete - talent scarcity is a structural bottleneck. Boosting STEM education + skilled migration are critical if the UK wants to lead AI innovation. 
https://t.co/z4sH2TvqU0