Thom

Co-Founder & CEO of Paleon 🦕
Building a gamified natural history learning app
1.7M+ Followers • 50M+ monthly views
Meta Creator Program • Founders Inc Canopy

[Thom @Thompaleon]

Crazyyyyyy, we got 100 Million views on the Paleon app socials so far this year! Launch next month is going to be awesome!! 🎉🦖
#startup #dutch #edtech

[Thom @Thompaleon]

Y Combinator is not ready yet for Paleon…. It’s okay @ycombinator take your time 😜

[Thom @Thompaleon]

@hthieblot A massive dinosaur fossil🦖

[Thom @Thompaleon]

@hthieblot Dinosaurs 🦖

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@sflorimm Dinosaurs 🦖

[Thom @Thompaleon]

@Tancrededib my edge is that together with co-founder we already have 1.7 million followers before we started to build a product

[Thom @Thompaleon]

@hthieblot Paleon- consumer Software

[Thom @Thompaleon]

I was out today doing some VERY important research for the Paleon app🦖🚀🔥

[Founders Inc @fdotinc]

we're investing in students building startups

hardware, software,
if it's your obsession we want to support you

because we don't believe you should wait for a certificate to tell you you're ready

you are.

inviting 100 teams to our SF campus in the next 2 weeks

apply in bio

[Thom @Thompaleon]

@adahstwt Railway

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@hthieblot Hell yeah🦖🦖

[Thom @Thompaleon]

@TTrimoreau Claude now but trying codex again for the next few weeks

[Thom @Thompaleon]

Went to AWS Summit Amsterdam today. Met a lot of founders, sat in on some talks, got advice from AWS people. Also got invited to a few build nights during Amsterdam Tech Week next month. Great day! 🦖🚀

[Thom @Thompaleon]

Just finished Founders Inc.’s online Canopy program! now applying for the in-person off-season cohort.

Where Paleon is at right now:
→ 1,000 users on the demo
→ 4.92 rating
→ 1.7M organic followers
→ €0 spent on ads

Official app launches in 2 weeks.

[Thom @Thompaleon]

@rickbossenbroek Ben benieuwd!

[Thom @Thompaleon]

@iamjasonstacks @fdotinc wish i could come, could not afford the plane tickets, good luck tho!

[Founders Inc @fdotinc]

Introducing the Canopy graduating class.

120 teams across software, hardware, and creators.

After flying to San Francisco from 103 countries,

they've spent the past 5 weeks building from our campus

and they've made amazing things:

- Autonomous underwater work robots.
- World models for spatial reasoning.
- Drones that charge themselves on power lines.
- The fastest photo to 3D model tool ever.
- A full-stack OS for physical AI.
- Drones that launch as rockets & land with precision.
- Private RL worlds for frontier agents.
- Provable outputs for black-box AI.
- A tool that cuts LLM bills 20x with tiny models.
- Insurance for AI agents.
- Infinite connections for agentic payments.
- Cloud storage for agents/humans that needs 0 upload.
- The muscle layer for every AI agent.
- Smart glasses for industrial workflows.
- Advanced touch screens built for Ferraris.
- Camera earbud wearables
- The first smart pregnancy wearable.
- A headband that forces you into deep sleep.
- Foundation models for human behavior.
- Frontier models that detect tumors

and there's 100 more... too many to just list here,

So tomorrow, we're opening up our campus.

The same place they've been working out of for the past 5 weeks, so that they can show you everything they've built

Some are at $1M ARR, decided to move to San Francisco full-time, & are ready for their life's mission

Some have joined our portfolio, & will continue building out of our campus until they become unicorns.

All 200 of these founders are the world's freshest and brightest minds here to tackle real problems.

We're very proud to introduce them to you tomorrow:

RSVP @ luma .com/festival

[Thom @Thompaleon]

I’ll be attending the AWS Summit in Amsterdam next week (27th). Hit me up if you’re also attending, would love to connect! #aws #dutch #startup #event

[Thom @Thompaleon]

What I learned from marketing Paleon to horses🐴:

After optimizing our hay-to-hoof dinosaur funnel and introducing stable-native paleo storytelling, the horse still isn’t fully converted yet, but pasture-based engagement is moving in the right direction…

#edtech #startup

[Thom @Thompaleon]

I built an app where you can learn about dinosaurs!🦖 @fdotinc #startup #edtech @hthieblot