Ilya K

entrepreneur & investor | CEO @ QuantumLight

[Ilya K @iskondrash]

Revolut CEO Storonsky Builds Side Bet to Disrupt Venture Capital With AI https://t.co/L2FI8u5LfI

[Revolut @Revolut]

UK. Banking. License.

[Seb Johnson @SebJohnsonUK]

BREAKING: @Revolut has FINALLY secured its full UK licence after a four year wait!

It has happened!

The Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) is expected to grant Revolut the licence as soon as this week.

This has been a long time coming and must be a great feeling for those working at Revolut.

The company is supposedly being pushed to do another secondary sale at a $100bn valuation and this, no doubt, will help.

Being able to offer banking services to its 12m UK customers could be a huge growth lever for the company.

AMAZING NEW - LETS GO

Amazing scoop from The Financial Times (link below)

[Ilya K @iskondrash]

Apple AI experience today @Apple

“Hey Siri, what’s the weather like today?”

“Rain is forecast today, temperatures between 9 and 12 degrees”

“Hey Siri, what time will the rain start, it seems sunny outside?”

“Rain is forecast to start at 2300”

“Hey Siri, and what’s the weather like before that?”

“It’s March 27th, 2026”

[Ilya K @iskondrash]

Congrats @antonosika and @FabianHedin on the most insane progress with @Lovable !

[Anton Osika @antonosika]

Lovable just raised $330M at a $6.6B valuation.

It's been an iconic, insane, wonderful journey so far.

Thank you to everyone who made this possible: (thread)

[Ilya K @iskondrash]

@matanSF @nikesharora @PaloAltoNtwks Wow huge 🚀🚀🚀🚀

[Ilya K @iskondrash]

Amazing how much can change in one short year! Congrats @antonosika and team @Lovable ❤️🔥🚀

[Anton Osika @antonosika]

We launched Lovable one year ago from a co-working space in Stockholm.

In the last 12 months:
- Multiple Lovable-built products reached $10k-$100k MRR
- Our community of users grew to 9M
- We've crossed $200M ARR
- Enterprises started building: Klarna, Netflix, Adobe, and more.

I'm deeply grateful to every person using Lovable and the Lovable team for making this possible.

[Ilya K @iskondrash]

@patrickc @LucianaLix @moritzKBE @roelofbotha Bittersweet that he decided to roll off

[Ilya K @iskondrash]

Incredibly proud to support @arthurquerou and the team at https://t.co/AB9V5U6fFd! Through its innovative ad-tech platform https://t.co/AB9V5U6fFd is enabling businesses of all sizes to access TV advertising with huge returns on spend. Congrats to the team on a BIG Series B! 🚀

[Arthur Querou @arthurquerou]

we've raised $50M at $410M valuation

goal: $1B revenue by 2028

will talk about it on @tbpn later today

back to work

[Ilya K @iskondrash]

Must be a great feeling when the most important putt of your life goes in ☘️🍀⛳️@rydercup

[Ilya K @iskondrash]

Congrats @matanSF &team on a huge achievement! - Factory Droids are now the best software development agents in the World on Terminal bench.

[Factory @FactoryAI]

The best agents for software development are becoming the best agents for everything. Droids are the best software development agents in the world, reaching #1 on Terminal-Bench.

We have raised $50M from NEA, Sequoia Capital, J.P. Morgan, Nvidia, Abstract Ventures, and other industry leaders including Frank Slootman, Nikesh Arora, and Aaron Levie.

Today, Droids are available to anyone, with any model, in any interface: CLI, IDE, Slack, Linear, Browser.

[Ilya K @iskondrash]

@victoralazarte Congrats and excited for your next big move ! 🤘

[Ilya K @iskondrash]

God level PR

[Ilya K @iskondrash]

AI will disrupt literally everything, … except Venture Capital

[vitrupo @vitrupo]

Marc Andreessen says when AI does everything else, VC might be one of the last jobs still done by humans.

It's more art than science. There's no formula. Just taste, psychology, and chaos tolerance.

[Ilya K @iskondrash]

“Dubai chocolate is causing a worldwide pistachio shortage…”

But what is this intended use of pistachios, where they are now short?

My understanding is that the main usage of pistachios is food.

[Ilya K @iskondrash]

Don’t know about all this market panic but we’ve seen some of the best companies we’ve ever seen in Q1 with HUGE revenue growth across AI, Cyber, Crypto, SaaS and consumer both US and Europe + EVERYONE I know is looking to buy more stocks right now.

[Ilya K @iskondrash]

@HarryStebbings “Free-float-adjusted-volume” sounds like community-adjusted EBITDA

[Ilya K @iskondrash]

@patrickc What about austerity measures introduced post GFC in countries that can’t print money (eg UK)?

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

I love London, I have lived here my whole life and I am immensely sad to be writing this.

In the last week I have seen 4 phone thefts and tonight had my phone stolen by a bike gang for the 2nd time.

I pay $2M in taxes per year, the lawlessness is off the charts, the entrepreneurs have left, the taxes are higher than ever.

London is sadly falling.

[Ilya K @iskondrash]

In addition to BRUV other potential new parties:

Londoners Opposed to Vandalism and E-bike theft (LOVE)

Metropolitan Aspiration for Trust and Empowerment (MATE)

Yes, BRUV

Oi, LOVE

Arite, MATE!