Levin Bunz

Partner @heartcorecap

[Philipp Moehring - tiny.vc @pmoe]

A great addition to Europe's early stage scene - Bela's and Levin's new fund comes with a talent function built in.
After the raise, a lot of energy goes into building out the team, and the Calibration team is helping founders with network, talent, and strategy around hiring.

[Bela Wiertz @blwiertz]

📣📣 We are launching Calibration 🎉🎉

Calibration is an operator VC bridging the gap between the most ambitious founders and the best technical builders of Europe.

My mission has always been to help create a new generation of global technology companies from Europe. 

What makes or breaks a company isn’t capital, It’s the people building it. And that’s exactly where Europe has a structural disadvantage.

Europe’s technology ecosystem is distributed. And with that distribution comes a lack of visibility, for both founders and the engineers looking to join them.
Engineers lack visibility into which companies are worth joining, and founders struggle to find exceptional people before they become obvious to everyone.

Through {Tech: Europe}, with our hackathons, conference, media formats and the strongest talent team in Europe we have a view of both sides that no one else in Europe has.

Quietly we have already been operating like this for the last 12 months. We’ve been working with some of the most ambitious companies in Europe on talent, helped many of the most driven engineers across Europe to choose a new company to join and have been investing in some of the companies along the way. (Thanks for trusting our value proposition early to Marius, Magnus, Seb, Erik and many more)

Calibration is the logical next step in this journey, putting more resources behind this ambition.

I am not building Calibration alone, but together with Levin as my co-founder, who was an early investor in companies like Canva, has >10 years of experience in venture and is the best partner I could wish for on this journey. 

Thanks to everyone who trusted in me and us early on ❤️

(A little) More on https://t.co/URn65txjWG

[Rishabh Jain @rishabhjain1198]

We just released our paper! Our agent architecture gets a perfect 100% on TaxCalcBench, marking an inflection point of LLMs overtaking human CPAs.

And it does so through something very unexpected, but also obvious: navigating the tax code like a codebase!

(1/6 🧵)

[Yacine Ghalim @YacineGhalim]

I'm so excited to finally lift the lid on this after 2 years of hard work!

2023 marks my first 10y anniversary in crypto. Through this new fund, I'm hoping to make the second decade just as exciting as the first was. LFG.

Massive thanks to everyone who helped us along the way.

[Christian Miele @christianmiele]

Liebes @BMF_Bund, lieber @OlafScholz, der ESOP Vorschlag greift zu kurz und diese Selbstbeweihräucherung tut beim Zusehen weh. Zahlreiche Verbesserungsvorschläge wurden komplett ignoriert. Jetzt wird es ein Rohrkrepierer.

Warum?

Hier zum Nachlesen:

https://t.co/Kpo4D7St41

[Yacine Ghalim @YacineGhalim]

Thrilled to be unveiling "Fellowship", @HeartcoreCap pre-seed program for European founders starting Consumer Tech cos in these particular times

€100k per co-founder
7% stake (SAFE)
Fully remote

We bet on you, you don't even need to have an idea yet :)
https://t.co/fusseGmm21

[Gründerszene @gruenderszene]

Kapital trotz Krise?: Von wegen „open for business”: Wie VCs in der Corona-Krise wirklich ticken https://t.co/jj8DQ1sb5M

[Levin Bunz @levinbunz]

@HAHNmeint @Tololix1 @fdp Regieren bedeutet Verantwortung zu übernehmen. Und dann sind wir wieder bei deinem eigentlichen Thema. Gründer sein = Verantwortung übernehmen unter adversen Bedingungen. Selber machen, gestalten wollen. Nicht "die anderen sind Schuld". Wofür steht die FDP?

[Levin Bunz @levinbunz]

@giacus @azeem @fromedome @LeanLuxe @ataussig @ForerunnerVC @HeartcoreCap cool. I just subscribed to ARKInvest and Nathan AI based on your suggestions

[Levin Bunz @levinbunz]

my favorite newsletters that cater to (consumer tech) entrepreneurs & VCs. Any add. newsletters I should add to my inbox? cc @azeem @fromedome @LeanLuxe @ataussig @ForerunnerVC @HeartcoreCap --> https://t.co/ZHv6mgwDkW

[Levin Bunz @levinbunz]

How many brands can an individual "know"? Given natural, cognitive constraints we'll see aggregators that guide us through an abundance of brands to choose from, argues my partner @YacineGhalim - food for thought!

[Yacine Ghalim @YacineGhalim]

Turned a tweetstorm into a short blogpost. How I define “Soulful Aggregators”, why I like them, and why I think we don’t want dozens of DTC brands in our lives.

https://t.co/EGp5kapMi7

[Levin Bunz @levinbunz]

Will you still be in business when your CACs have doubled or tripled? We compiled some data that show that Online Marketing inflation is real --> https://t.co/tCNx53nyRl

[Levin Bunz @levinbunz]

Online Marketing inflation is real! --> ad revenue per MAU on Facebook grew exponentially. = Low margin/aov/repeat businesses will have a hard time surviving this if they dont diversify channels & have a great product/service that users love #facebook #onlinemarketing

[Levin Bunz @levinbunz]

When a founder comes with bad news, to me that’s good news. https://t.co/H75Ibh2f0T

[Levin Bunz @levinbunz]

The “Key City” strategy for building iconic consumer brands - learning from #adidas #nike https://t.co/2gp5YHLEn8

[Fred Destin @fdestin]

I love and rate @maxniederhofer - hence very excited to see a rebrand @SunstoneVC to @heartcorecap + pure focus on consumer + three new partners + new office (Paris) - https://t.co/8wsro3LqqH

[Levin Bunz @levinbunz]

There are over 10 B2B machine learning unicorns but none in B2C. A thesis on why we'll see successful "AI" startups in Consumer Tech rather sooner than later. --> https://t.co/R2KBjCXOC8 #machinelearning #venturecapital cc @SunstoneVC

[Levin Bunz @levinbunz]

I just published “Why Direct-to-Consumer is a Big Opportunity — Europe Edition” https://t.co/jhKS6kZmjf