Capital Call

The weekly European VC digest, straight to your inbox—by @WillyBraun @Nicolas_Colin @VincentTouati

[Capital Call @CapitalCall_]

This morning we sent out issue #46 of
@CapitalCall_ — the weekly European VC digest, straight to your inbox. Want to stay on the pulse of what 🇪🇺 investors write every week?

A thread with our picks this week 👇

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

I've made that point before:
- LLM: 1E13 tokens x 0.75 word/token x 2 bytes/token = 1E13 bytes.
- 4 year old child: 16k wake hours x 3600 s/hour x 1E6 optical nerve fibers x 2 eyes x 10 bytes/s = 1E15 bytes.

In 4 years, a child has seen 50 times more data than the biggest LLMs.

1E13 tokens is pretty much all the quality text publicly available on the Internet. It would take 170k years for a human to read (8 h/day, 250 word/minute).

Text is simply too low bandwidth and too scarce a modality to learn how the world works.

Video is more redundant, but redundancy is precisely what you need for Self-Supervised Learning to work well.

Incidentally, 16k hours of video is about 30 minutes of YouTube uploads.

[Thomas Philippon @ThomasPHI2]

(1) New Working Paper: the fundamental driver of growth in modern economies, Total Factor Productivity (TFP), is linear, not exponential.

This is a paper I did not expect to write...

[Nicolas Colin @Nicolas_Colin]

1/ My latest NL: a few notes, quotes & sources on revenue-based financing—and why Europe is lagging behind.

Following a panel discussion yesterday w/ @henrik_grim of @GetCapchase & @joshbell of @dawncapital via @SaaStock (replay will be available soon).

https://t.co/DVgbKXOB3F

[Nicolas Colin @Nicolas_Colin]

2/ See what I wrote on the topic a while ago—in @Siftedeu:

https://t.co/bJgfKkRUKG

Cc @henrik_grim @joshbell @VincentTouati @_TheFamily @CapitalCall_ @EuropeanStraits

[Nicolas Colin @Nicolas_Colin]

1/ Tomorrow I'm participating in a panel with some fantastic speakers together with @SaaStock & @GetCapchase.

We will focus on why European SaaS founders should consider revenue-based financing rather than ever more equity capital.

See you at 4pm CET! 👇
https://t.co/ulgSFGaJca

[Henrik Grim @henrik_grim]

Looking forward to the event and to learning more about your perspectives on this topic @Nicolas_Colin!

[OMERS Ventures @OMERSVentures]

Just discovered @CapitalCall_ - great roundup of trending themes across EU investors. This week's issue featuring our own @lilymshaw and @CharlieRenzoni. https://t.co/slemJFx1tw

[Couch Nish 🛋️ @CouchNish]

A person called OwlKitty changed the Business Card scene from “American Psycho” to the guys showing each other pictures of their cats on their phones… and it could possibly be the greatest masterpiece ever 😂

[Nicolas Colin @Nicolas_Colin]

Gradually unlocking @EuropeanStraits's paid content so that everyone can read and share.

Here's an in-depth discussion of revenue-based financing, as part of my series on 'Diffracted Venture Capital' 👇

Cc @_TheFamily @vonsydow

https://t.co/0JbsED6q8X

[Mary @maryglazkova]

European VC Digest: Healthcare. Unicorn Founders. Time-Variant Business Models. Retail Investors. GP Commits. https://t.co/fif4hqVVK3 @CapitalCall_

[The Untitled Ventures @UntitledVC]

European VC Digest: Healthcare. Unicorn Founders. Time-Variant Business Models. Retail Investors. GP Commits. https://t.co/thLDiZ5k2Y @CapitalCall_

[The Untitled Ventures @UntitledVC]

Our founder op-ed about FFF-money got featured in our fav weekly newsletter highlighting what investors in European startups are thinking – @CapitalCall_ https://t.co/cXK84110Pv

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[Capital Call @CapitalCall_]

This morning we sent out issue #46 of
@CapitalCall_ — the weekly European VC digest, straight to your inbox. Want to stay on the pulse of what 🇪🇺 investors write every week?

A thread with our picks this week 👇

[Capital Call @CapitalCall_]

15/ Threads of the week:

@nathanbenaich 🇬🇧
https://t.co/bsD2RlAtYY

@sharmadeanreid 🇬🇧
https://t.co/4sv65TtvAr

[Sharmadean Reid @sharmadeanreid]

Watching Dragons Den for the first time in ages and twice women entrepreneurs have been told they “have no commercial sense.” Has anyone done any stats on the amount of male teams vs female teams who have raised and also the language and tone used in the pitches?