Sten Tamkivi

Partner @pluralplatform

❋ Skaala - Before: founded @TeleportInc (now @Topia_Official), EIR @a16z, @StanfordGSB, @Skype

sten.eth #EstonianMafia

[Sten Tamkivi @seikatsu]

What a surprise! 🤕

[Профессор Талк @SergejTalk]

Европейские пользователи сообщают, что Антивирус Касперского практически умер. Не работают обновления баз, пропал менед��ер паролей со всеми паролями, VPN прекратил существование. Сама компания уверяла европейцев, что не хранит их конфиденциальные данные в России, а делает это...

[Volodymyr Tretyak 🇺🇦 @VolodyaTretyak]

Ukrainian DJ Tapolskyi, now serving in the AFU, has recorded a live session from Khortytsia Island (Zaporizhzhia) to fundraise for this unit. During the recording, you can hear and see the explosions from Russian strikes. 💔

[The Irish Politics Newsletter @IrishPoliticsNL]

Reddit data show a massive decline in activity on some subs since the attack on Russian data centres. The Irish politics sub was down as much as 80% from one center.

[Tomáš Zdechovský @TomasZdechovsky]

If confirmed, this is telling: Russian data centres get hit, and online activity around AfD suddenly plummets. 📉

So much talk about German patriotism… then the connection from Russia goes down. 🤔🇷🇺

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I met with Estonian Defense Minister Martin Herem. In practically every meeting with partners, we discuss how to strengthen the protection of Ukraine’s skies. Estonia is actively helping us in this area, and we are grateful for every defense package and for its support for the PURL initiative, which enables us to obtain ballistic missile interceptors.

Today, we discussed possible new contributions and ways to secure additional funding for air defense procurement. The Drone Deal between our countries allows Ukraine to export its arms to Estonia. Estonia gains battle-tested weapons, and Ukraine gains additional funding for its defense. We agreed that our teams will move quickly to put together such an export package.

I am also grateful to Estonia for its steadfast support for Ukraine on our path to joining the EU.

[Mike Pence @Mike_Pence]

President Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin’s ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey Graham.

While Ukraine fights for its survival, Putin’s war machine continues to prosecute his terrorist war on civilian populations and innocent Ukrainians are dying every day.

Now, Instead of implementing the tough sanctions Lindsey Graham fought to his last breath to enact, President Trump has announced the United States is lifting sanctions on Russian energy, fueling the Putin’s war machine.

As I saw firsthand in Ukraine last month, Putin is losing this war. Ukraine has fought the Russian military to a standstill and reinvented warfare with drones taking the fight into the heart of Russia.

America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin’s war machine. Now is the time to stand strong against Russian aggression as we did during the first Trump administration.

Putin doesn’t want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. I have no doubt that if Putin overruns Ukraine, it will only be a matter of time until Russia’s military crosses a border that our troops will have to deal with him.

America is the Leader of the Free World. For our National Security, for the security of our Allies in Europe including Ukraine, President Trump should rescind this deal immediately and return to the strong policies of our four years in the White House; impose harsh sanctions on any nation purchasing Russian energy and work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava Ukraini🇺🇸🇺🇦

[Ambassador Jonatan Vseviov @vseviov]

Unwavering. Sacrosanct. Ironclad.

Our support for Ukraine.

Because that’s what defending Western civilisation requires: pressure on the aggressor and support for Ukraine — our bulwark against barbarism.

The outcome of this war will determine not only Ukraine’s freedom, but the future of freedom across Europe.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Total chaos in Russian cities after Ukraine's strikes on just two Yandex data centers wipes out GPS, payment systems, taxi apps and the largest websites, across the country.

Russia's centralized North Korean style internet is the country's weakness, the inability to relocate loads to neighboring nations, as Ukraine does when data centers were struck.

[Jamison Daniel @AntiquarianMuse]

Da

[Harvey Hodd @harveyhodd]

Production Base 1 is live! @Rivanindustries new 60,000 sqft space is gearing up to produce 50MWs/yr in 2027

[Finn Murphy @FinnMurphy12]

So many venture investors are used to the last decade of underwriting where the main risk was the ability to capture demand - find pmf, scale sales etc…

For many of the new businesses being funded today demand is no longer the issue - if you can make low cost reliable ballistic missile interceptors or high bandwidth low cost memory then ya obviously you will have insane demand.

The risk moves to supply - ‘can you actually make the thing’ - a question literally no one asked in the era of HRISs & Neobanks - feels like a lot of faces will get ripped off people pricing ‘demand’ for magic beans that will never be delivered.

[Good Shepherd @HoyasFan07]

From 1995 to 2025, Poland's GDP per capita went from $3,700 to $28,400.

Estonia's GDP per capita went from $3,100 to $34,400.

Czechia went from $5,900 to $35,900.

All 3 now have a higher GDP per capita than Greece (which was part of the West during the CW). And they're more or less at the same level of Portugal (also Western during CW).

Poland & Czechia were Soviet satellite states during the CW. In Warsaw Pact. Estonia was literally one of the Soviet Socialist republics.

Despite that, these countries have prospered and thrived since the end of the Cold War.

Stop blaming the "legacy of Communism" or "the West's neoliberalism" for Russia's failures. Russia has failed in recent decades because of Russia. Not because they were Communist in the 20th century and not because the big bad Western powers gave them the "Wrong" economic policy guidance.

Stop infantilizing Russia. It is not a toddler. It has agency.

https://t.co/nzP4WxxjrX

[Baltic International Security Centre - BISC @securebaltics]

🧵 Coverage of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania often repeats the same mistakes. We call them ‘seven deadly sins’ and share them so that anyone writing about the region can check it before the piece goes out. 👇

[Sten Tamkivi @seikatsu]

Something very obviously needed as the tech waves of this decade converge:

[Superfluid Wallet @sfwallet]

Introducing Superfluid Wallet: a wallet you and your agents use together. Now in beta testing.

For on-chain finance and agentic commerce where agents act for people and people stay in charge.

Understand what you’re authorising. Control what your agent can do. Let participating services verify who your agent represents.

Built With the Best: @turnkeyhq , @proof , @circle , @navaai

Read the launch article :
https://t.co/pcCgBWobff

[Sten Tamkivi @seikatsu]

If you are a CISO scratching your head about how to shepherd all these agents roaming around your org: in-code guards and centrally managed remote policies.

[Arcjet @arcjet]

When AI was just a chatbot, the worst thing it could do was be wrong. That is no longer where the risk sits. Today we are announcing Agent Runtime Security.

[Ian Hogarth @soundboy]

I love how uncompromising Hélène Huby is. One of the most hardcore founders in Europe.

"we will not be relevant without a massive rocket at a massive cadence."

https://t.co/cJkjavd44D

[Sten Tamkivi @seikatsu]

//kood koolide mōju Eestile esimese viie aastaga:
https://t.co/z4CR4SFWdP

@koodjohvi

[Sten Tamkivi @seikatsu]

@SebJohnsonUK Thanks, Seb, for cheering to the early steps.

As all the founders of these companies (and more) would tell you: "only getting started" :)

[Seb Johnson @SebJohnsonUK]

Plural, is by far, one of the most impressive and most interesting VC firms in Europe.

Their mission has always been to back companies that could have a genuine GDP impact in Europe.

If you look at their portfolio they really do back insanely unconventional founders building things that could have a transformational impact for the continent.

Non-obvious bets that they made a few years ago are now doing insanely well.

Across 2026 alone the portfolio has gone on to raise $3.3 billion.

Some of the highlights include:

- @HelsingAI raised $1.8bn
- @ExplorationTEC raised $450m
- @proximafusion raised $468m
- @OLIXComputing raised $220m
- @CallosumAI raised $100m
- @Rivanindustries raised $34m

These companies are leading the way in European defence, space exploration, nuclear fusion, chip design etc... industries which most investors weren't looking at a few years ago but have since become mainstream.

The team have a remarkable knack for predicting future trends.

NICE

@pluralplatform team is made of @soundboy, @seikatsu, @taavet, @carinanamih, @KHelioui, @pierre_dimitri

[Rainer Sternfeld @rsternfeld]

“If you think small, you get small results.”

Great panel in Haapsalu last week at the Baltic VCA Summit, on what it takes for Europe to build global tech leaders.

Grateful to be in the conversation with my good friends @seikatsu and @taaviveskimagi

https://t.co/I13Rundd6x