ben

chief of staff at @join_ef
waterloo engineering 🇨🇦

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@justinrgraham Only if it’s designed entirely by AI

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@v4vihan @dhanushtummala It’s because they didn’t let you wear your aviators

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@granawkins You're just heartmaxxing

https://t.co/FZtYbJFElh

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@aleksliving Meta did it

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@tomfgoodwin Someday we'll also encounter the scenario where AI is doing the litigation

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@theofinr Just you wait until someone builds an all-AI-led school and charges full tuition for it

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@hyprturing Who are doing this best rn?

E.g., Town (congrats on their recent raise)

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@jparkjmc What’s the best explanation you’ve ever seen

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@1854nebulosa Back when Zenith didn’t make watches that look like iron man meets teletubbies

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@join_ef portco news: Helicon (F25) raised a $16.5M Seed

They're building autonomous factories to build composite structures at scale

Massive congrats to @alexnhaus and @Esanzgadea

https://t.co/HHrCGhmxO7

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Helicon has raised $16.5M to industrialize advanced composites, with backing from AlleyCorp, Josh Buckley, Mike Chalfen, Charlie Songhurst and others.

Helicon is building a new generation of factories that combine specialised manufacturing models and robotic assembly to produce advanced composite structures at scale, making it possible to manufacture faster, iterate more quickly and reduce reliance on highly specialised manual labour.

Last April, we filmed @alexnhaus and Edmundo in San Francisco, just before they pitched at EF Demo Day, to hear about their vision for the future of manufacturing.

Six months later, they're taking that vision to the next level.

Proud to have backed Helicon from day zero at EF.

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@adxtyahq @join_ef 🫡🫡🫡

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@Ekaeoq I’d consider changing my opinion if AP went full Piaget and extended the woven design onto the dial (if weaving gold wasn’t hard enough already)

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@join_ef These guys are building Elon-level sci fi

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@antoineduchein @join_ef Crazy to think about the history you’re documenting here. How many unicorns in this photo?

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Porsche chose the best possible time to unveil the mission s

Now every tech person rich enough to buy one knows how good it looks, and their friend that's actually into cars will still tell them it's three million times better than anything produced by Tesla

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@iamneubert Insurance companies hate this one simple trick

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@Ekaeoq This has the potential to be as cool as the GT1

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Rough breakdown of the 42 teams:
- 6 | Physical AI & robotics
- 6 | AI models & compute
- 5 | Consumer AI
- 5 | AI x health
- 5 | Enterprise AI
- 4 | Defense & space
- 4 | Energy & grid
- 3 | Fintech
- 2 | Cybersecurity
- 2 | Neurotech

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@join_ef Summer '26 Demo Day pitches are up on YouTube.

Some ~3 month old companies in this batch already have:
- $ millions in revenue
- over half a billion in LOIs
- over 100k users

https://t.co/eiDU1tPhiJ