Ted Persson

Co-head The Scaleup Europe Fund @ EQT, Partner at EQT Ventures

[Pari Singh @parisingh]

Flow has raised a $50M Series B at a $750M valuation, co-led by Antonio Gracias (Valor) and Gavin Baker (Atreides) with Sequoia Capital, Roelof Botha (SpaceX, Block), and more.

When I became a mechanical engineer, I wanted to invent. In reality, 90% of the day to day execution work (CAD, excel, sim) was digital manual labour. That’s about to flip. The engineer’s role will change more profoundly than at any point since the invention of CAD, with humans focusing on invention, architecture, tradeoffs and judgement calls, and agents taking the grunt work.

Anduril, Joby, Stoke Space, Rivian & many more - Flow is now the default platform for requirements and verification for frontier hardware teams. But it’s not just next-gen anymore. Industry giants including General Motors PPU and Volkswagen & Rivian’s joint venture (RV Tech) are reshaping their core development practices with Flow’s AI.

The revolution is just starting. Models are getting better quickly at CAD, analysis, simulation, and tool use. In the next year, AI will move from integrating the work to doing the work.

One day, this shift won't just enable us to iterate faster, it will enable us to design a class of products that we could not have dreamt of before.

We’re hiring.

[Odyssey @odysseyml]

Today we’re unveiling Odyssey-3, a big step forward for foundation world models.

It can control robots, power humanoids, drive cars (on the roads of India!), train AIs, pilot drones, and even play video games.

We can’t wait to see what intelligent systems it enables.

[Anton Osika @antonosika]

Lovable just raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation to build the business that helps build businesses.

Apps built on Lovable now get 900M visits every month, and we’ve quadrupled ARR in the last 12 months.

Since we started, Lovable has become the place where founders create million dollar businesses, business leaders spin up new product lines, and people inside companies rewire workflows and build tools that fit their exact needs, typically at a fraction of what software used to cost.

There’s a lot more to do.

We will create the most intuitive platform to build and run a business.

That means:

- Understanding what success looks like for you, then helping you achieve it. Not only ensuring your software works but also that you can attract customers, improve workflows, and grow your company.

- Deeper integrations that work with your existing tech stack so you can build the interface to your entire business across sales, ops, marketing, finance, etc.

- Becoming the safest platform to build and run your business on, which means secured code by default and that you get help to make safe decisions. As you build, the platform carries more of the security weight, spotting risks and helping you close them, so you can move fast without needing to become a security expert.

- Staying model-independent and orchestrating the best models for every task so you don’t have to. We’ll continue to absorb the complexity of evaluating and teaching models to route to the best ones in the background, to minimize cognitive load for our users.

As more people depend on Lovable, the quality standards our team is driving increase every single day.

We’re growing the team with people with a founder mindset: curious, ambitious, and who think end to end. Model training, product geniuses, infrastructure tinkerers, and security are the priority.

The world is full of ambitious people with deep knowledge of problems worth solving. Very few of them have historically had the power to act on them. Our ambition is to give people that power, and then help them achieve more than they thought possible.

Thank you to everyone who has followed along our journey. Thank you to @MenloVentures for leading, the Scaleup Europe Fund (managed by @eqt) for co-leading, and all of the new and returning investors who recognize our global ambitions and will help make them a reality.

We have made a lot of progress but we are nowhere close to done, it’s still day zero.

See our blog: https://t.co/d1L2ZQPjtN

[Bernt Bornich @BerntBornich]

Introducing NEO’s 25 Degrees of Freedom, tendon-driven hands — nearing or surpassing human-level dexterity, strength, speed, and reliability.

For seventy years, robotics worked around the hand problem. The humanoid bet is the reverse: it lives or dies at the fingertips.

[Pari Singh @parisingh]

We’re thrilled to announce our $23M Series A led by @Sequoia - joined by @patrickc, @collision, and @david_helgason. Honored to welcome @roelofbotha to our board.

We’ve entered a new era of manufacturing. Reusable rockets. Humanoid robots. Self-driving cars. Humanity is reinventing how it builds.

We started by building hybrid rocket engines. Along the way, we built tools that made us move faster - design, build, test, iterate.

Those tools became @buildonfloweng.

Today, Flow has become the default platform for next-gen hardware teams, powering the systems that will define our future.

[Ted Persson @tedpersson]

@forstall that’s your cue to get back to where you belong. Bring your Emmy!

[Bloomberg TV @BloombergTV]

1X CEO Bernt Børnich says that the industry is "a few years, not decades" away from being able to have humanoid robots building chip fabs, energy infrastructure, data centers and other robots https://t.co/ZRLoRDTxxj

[Oliver Cameron @olivercameron]

Introducing interactive video from @odysseyml—video you can watch and interact with, imagined by AI in real-time.

Give it a try for free today on (almost) any device, and let us know what you think. We think it's pretty cool!

[Oliver Cameron @olivercameron]

It feels like the magic’s gone from entertainment today.

But it wasn’t always this way.

New technology once unlocked films and games we thought were impossible.

We’re bringing that magic back at @odysseyml—powered by something new in AI.

[Bernt Bornich @BerntBornich]

A closer look at NEO Gamma

[Christie's @ChristiesInc]

Enter the world of Augmented Intelligence, Christie's first auction solely offering artworks created with AI. Featuring works from @refikanadol, @clairesilver, @vanarman, @hollyherndon @matdryhurst and more, the sale challenges us to rethink the limits of artistic agency.

[Ted Persson @tedpersson]

Go Europe!

@Spotify

[Ted Persson @tedpersson]

Flintstones! @Jaguar
https://t.co/nNHfJthBP4

[1X @1x_tech]

Introducing NEO Beta.
Designed for humans. Built for the home.

[Carl Pei @getpeid]

We've only built 0.1% of @nothing, but it has been a wild ride so far.

Grateful to @garrytan @ycombinator for the platform to share our journey. 🙏

[Ted Persson @tedpersson]

@HarryStebbings Tough to pick one. Lack of talent density, capital density, pay it forward culture, techno optimism… The IRA (for climate/industrials). In our first fund raises we spoke about that our main “competitor” was ‘the idea of Silicon Valley’. Now we’ve expanded to the US, haha.

[Ted Persson @tedpersson]

@awilkinson https://t.co/2rorznbO7l

[Rasmus Andersson @rsms]

Such a friendly cute vibe

[Nothing @nothing]

An unboxing like no other. Phone (2a) just dropped in London.

Launching 5 March.

[Ted Persson @tedpersson]

A very concrete headline.
https://t.co/vBwsyekSx4
I like it @verge @StarFire2258