Jonathan Userovici

General Partner at global VC firm @HeadlineVC - helping founders win, bigger 🌎

[Mistral AI @MistralAI]

Today, we release the weights of a new and improved Le Chonk, advancing the open frontier for agentic coding and cybersecurity.

💻 Built to build: Le Chonk ranks #1 on @cognition’s FrontierCode among open models, and sets a new benchmark for Pareto efficiency on @artificialanalysis.

🛡 Built to defend: State-of-the-art in cyberdefense, put through the paces by the world's leading cyber vendors, including @CrowdStrike, @cloudflare, @rubrik, @zscaler, and others.

Built for sovereignty: Make it yours. Download the weights on @huggingface , customize it with Mistral Forge, and deploy it wherever you need it.

Read more from our team and customers 👇:

[Nicolas Sharp @nicolasosharp]

In the age of agents, systems of record have never mattered more. They’ve also never been less prepared for what’s coming.

Today, we’re announcing @attio's hybrid architecture, with the controls of application software at the scale of infrastructure.

To agents, Attio looks like a database, queryable in SQL - a language they're RL’d on. Unlike a database, the business logic, policies, and compliance sit behind the query.

This makes all of Attio’s data accessible by agents in the most powerful and flexible syntax. It gives GTM teams an order of magnitude more value from their time, with the full power of agents working across the entire customer lifecycle.

A new shape of software is here.

https://t.co/iF5HBuUBhw

[Arthur Mensch @arthurmensch]

Excited

[christian miele @christianmiele]

We're backing Max Bittner and Lisa Sorg's new company from day zero, leading their €12M inception round.

I've known Max since 2011, when we both worked at Rocket Internet before he left to build Lazada in Southeast Asia. Anyone who knows Max and has watched him build knows he's one of the most competitive founders out there. That's why we couldn't be happier that he's building again.

The same goes for Lisa, whom we've known for many years from her time at Visionaries Club. The opportunity to build alongside Max was compelling enough for her to leave Atomico, one of Europe's leading VC firms. A premier and complimentary co-founding team.

Together, they're now setting out to build a company at the intersection of fintech and AI in wealth management. Recent advances in AI mark a unique moment to capture this gigantic market and to prove that consumer-facing companies aren't dead. They're waiting to be disrupted.

The quality of the team and the opportunity is underlined by a world-class cap table: we're privileged to have former Federal Minister of Finance Christian Lindner co-investing alongside us, together with globally renowned founders like Miki Kuusi (Wolt), Ilkka Paananen (Supercell), Robert Gentz (Zalando), Oliver Samwer (Rocket Internet), Christian Gaiser (Numa), and several more.

On a personal note: these are the moments I love most. Day-zero investing remains one of my greatest passions. This is where true entrepreneurship happens. Everything is raw and uncertain. It's a beautiful stage to bring all the pieces together, and doing it with people we've known for so long makes it even better.

Off we go!

[Seb Johnson @SebJohnsonUK]

Europe now has category leaders across the AI stack

A new report by Headline has mapped the top 100 AI companies across Europe by each layer of the AI stack.

From the frontier labs to intelligent hardware, Europe is now building category leaders at each layer of the stack.

What's particularly amazing to see is how quickly things have changed in the last year.

There have been multiple $1bn rounds that have gone into the companies that are on this image, some of these companies didn't even exist a year ago.

HUGE CONGRATS to those on the top 100 list.

@JonUsero @HeadlineVC

[christian miele @christianmiele]

Adam is one of the most impressive young founders I have met. He presented his founding story at our last year‘s AGM and I was immediately blown away. This founder will make a dent in the universe! @adamguild

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Unveiling our new startup Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs).
We just completed our seed round: $1.03B / 890M€, one the largest seeds ever, probably the largest for a European company.
We're hiring!

[the background image is the Veil Nebula - a picture I took from my backyard, most appropriate for an unveiling]

More details here:
https://t.co/eWHyGLXwCA

[Alex LeBrun @lxbrun]

I am joining @ylecun and an exceptional founding team to lead @amilabs as CEO.

We have secured a $1.03 billion USD seed round to fuel our mission to build intelligent systems capable of truly understanding the real world—a long-term scientific endeavor.

[Jonathan Userovici @JonUsero]

Spot on

[Julien Bek @JulienBek]

https://t.co/hsKrbn1gEq

[Jonathan Userovici @JonUsero]

@Trace_Cohen @christianmiele

[Jonathan Userovici @JonUsero]

@nicolasosharp @attio Sick!

[christian miele @christianmiele]

The leading European AI company ❤️💪🏻

[Mistral AI @MistralAI]

We’ve raised €1.7B to accelerate technological progress with AI!

This Series C funding round, led by @ASMLcompany, fuels Mistral AI scientific research to keep pushing the frontier of AI to tackle the most critical technological challenges faced by strategic industries.

[Arthur Mensch @arthurmensch]

We're back to school! Very proud of our team accomplishments, and honored to partner with @ASMLcompany in our next phase. We're very excited to push frontier AI capabilities in science and technology, with exciting releases ahead.

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Le partenariat annoncé aujourd’hui entre Nvidia et Mistral AI est à la fois unique et historique !

Nous avons les atouts, les talents, l’énergie, les infrastructures, ainsi qu’un écosystème de startups de la French Tech particulièrement dynamique. Tout cela est essentiel pour notre souveraineté et notre autonomie stratégique.

Nous sommes déterminés à les préserver — nos services cloud, nos centres de données et nos capacités de calcul doivent rester sous notre contrôle pour protéger cette intelligence.

Choose France !

[Jonathan Userovici @JonUsero]

@antonosika @arthurmensch

[Sebastian Siemiatkowski @klarnaseb]

Dear EU officials I am co-founder of Klarna one of Europes largest fintech companies.

@vonderleyen

Please read this about open banking regulation how it needs to be reformed to bring value and innovation. Happy to speak whenever

EU ent. help me spread this so she sees it!

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

Everyone says Europe can't compete with America in tech.

But Mistral's 'Le Chat' just proved them wrong:

• 13x faster than ChatGPT
• 100% open-source
• Completely free (vs $20/month)

The European AI breakthrough Silicon Valley didn't see coming 🧵:

[Mistral AI @MistralAI]

Introducing the world's best OCR model!
https://t.co/Mi04wgj6cM

[Jonathan Userovici @JonUsero]

Plug, baby, plug! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Plug, baby, plug!