From Europe, for the world.
Langdock (YC 23) is now a Societas Europaea, registered in Germany.
US Inc. → European SE
We believe it is possible to build one of the world’s biggest technology companies from Europe and that doing so matters for the prosperity of the continent and society.
Meetings – an integrated AI notetaker
Apps – workflows that become team applications
Code – a model-agnostic editor for software teams
And building the infrastructure that powers it: managed inference on our own infrastructure and data centre.
Open-source models, sandboxes and compute, hosted under European law.
Starting this autumn we go further.
Meetings – an integrated AI notetaker
Apps – workflows that become team applications
Code – a model-agnostic editor for software teams
And building the infrastructure that powers it: managed inference on our own infrastructure and data centre. Open-source models, sandboxes and compute, all hosted under European law.
One of the most exciting companies in Europe just flipped from a US inc to a European SE.
This is one of the first times I've seen this happen.
Usually it goes the other way - European companies "flip" their legal top co from a European one to a US one.
In its annoucement the company has said:
"We believe one of the world's great technology companies can be built here. One that helps people shape the future of their work with confidence.
We're putting our ambition, our work and our company's legal home behind that belief.
With ambition,
Langdock SE"
@langdock also announced surpassing €50m ARR
This is HUGE. I hope this inspires many more great European companies to do the same.
Massive shoutout to the team. Lots of people say they're pro-europe. Very few are taking action.
NICE:
@DadaJudith@ld_hendrik@jbeissw@emmakudlich@balazscsomor@lenschmi@tobiaskemkes
LETS GO 🇪🇺
Narrative violation: We flipped from a US Inc. → European SE. @langdock is now a European company.
We believe it is not only possible, but an economic and social imperative to build one of the biggest technology companies in the world from Europe. So we are raising our ambition accordingly:
Many of our customers are Mittelstand companies and large enterprises across Germany and Europe. In Germany alone, small and medium-sized firms make up over 99% of all companies and employ around 55% of the workforce.
Among them sit roughly 1,500 hidden champions: family-owned companies in towns you'd drive past without noticing, holding the world's number one position in something wonderfully specific. Somewhere out there is a company that dominates the global market for a screw you have never once thought about. And they are on generation four.
They think in decades because they intend to still be here in a few.
There's a lot of criticism of the European economy right now, and a lot of frustration. Some of it is deserved. But the way many of these companies think about quality, about continuity, about standing by what they say, is something I find truly inspiring.
Miss it in a lot of other places these days.
Congrats to the team @langdock on the $3M seed!
Langdock (YC S23) lets companies use foundational models, open source models, or host their own, while staying fully in control of their data. https://t.co/CKyyinV2GV
We've added Workflows to @langdock. 🎉
Writing emails, summarising/improving text, and performing bulk actions are the first ones we added. More coming soon!
Excited to share a quick update on what we have been working on over the past few weeks:
We are building the AI productivity hub for knowledge workers. We help our users to incorporate LLMs in their daily workflows with company context and in a secure way. (@langdock)
Some of the bigger features that we added in recent weeks include:
> Integrations: Easily connect and access knowledge bases like Confluence, Notion and Google Drive.
> Models: Choose from 10+ language models hosted in the EU (GDPR-compliant) and in the US.
> Webpages: Provide webpages as input and use them as context for your prompts.
> Bulk Processing: Upload CSV files and write one prompt that is being applied to all rows in the file.
> Collaboration: Save your prompts for future use and share them with your team members.
I recorded a quick video tour of the product, check it out below!
Congrats on the launch, @jbeissw, @tobiaskemkes, and @lenschmi!
@langdock (YC S23) is building the GDPR-compliant ChatGPT for teams, enabling companies to easily and safely embrace the productivity increase that LLMs bring to their workforce.
https://t.co/2ZKFIofteb