Sasha Vidiborskiy

Partner at Atomico; former quantum physicist investing in complex products, models, and problems. Opinions are mine, humour is accidental or borrowed.

[Prince Canuma @Prince_Canuma]

Excited to introduce Nativ 🚀

Run frontier open models locally on your Mac. No accounts, no subscriptions, no cloud.

⚡ Built on mlx-vlm — multimodal + fastest on Apple Silicon
🔒 100% private — every token generated on your machine
🛠 Plug your coding agents into a local endpoint
📊 Live telemetry — tokens/sec, memory, usage
🆓 100% open source, MIT licensed, free forever

Your Mac is more capable than you think. Stop renting intelligence.

Download for macOS 👇
https://t.co/JoWC2hLXYA

Github repo 🌟
https://t.co/ZXxv58SoWu

[Sasha Vidiborskiy @vidiborvc]

What @hubertvlayer and the team @vlayer_xyz are building is truly special. And I personally believe that ZK is the future of how sensitive (incl. personal) information is going to be shared with digital services and AI agents. Can't wait for it to be available to everyone!

[vlayer ⛛ @vlayer_xyz]

💥 gm! We’ve raised $10M from @a16zcrypto CSX, @BlockTower @CredoVentures and top builders

@Zac_Aztec @jaosef @recmo @yush_g @kaimi_eth @liameagen @kevaundray @matiii @NamatBahram @vidiborvc @JMFlorkiewicz @MichalBene @dragonix_xpt

Solidity “2.0” is coming. Learn more👇

[Sasha Vidiborskiy @vidiborvc]

@byrnemluke Discovered her recently and it’s 🔥

[Sasha Vidiborskiy @vidiborvc]

Amazing stuff! @vlayer_xyz is executing at lightning speed!

[vlayer ⛛ @vlayer_xyz]

thrilled to announce we're joining @a16zcrypto Crypto Startup Accelerator ⛛

vlayer is headed to New York with a16z and other startups! we're excited to learn from top experts to build verifiable data infrastructure

follow @vlayer_xyz for updates on the adventure

[Andreas Helbig @andyhelbig]

💥🤝 @atomico leads deeploi's $6.5m Seed round!

💻🔥 Imagine you're an office manager, or an HR lead in an SMB — and your boss suddenly tasks you with taking care of "IT". What does that even mean? Buying a few laptops? What's an MDM? Am I responsible for cybersecurity now? And of course: Have you tried turning it off and on again?

🤷‍♂️🚨 That's the life of accidental IT owners — and 60% of the 55,000 SMBs in Germany rely on a non-expert to lead the IT function. No wonder that this leads to frustrations, breaches, non-compliance, and to the feeling of being overwhelmed.

✌️🎁 deeploi is a comprehensive end-to-end IT Operating System, consolidating all expert point solution tools, and offering an experienced in-house helpdesk. Thinking from First Principles: This is how the IT domain should be run!

👨‍🔧🧑‍💻 Julian Lübke and Philipp Hoffmann met just over a year ago, and have been off to the races in spectacular fashion: The product is truly magical, and over 30 customers are saving money and time (and gaining peace of mind!) already. We're so happy to partner up!

🥨🇩🇪 Thanks to @Lisa_Sorg_ & Konstantin for the great work on this — and to @chrismeermi & @brueckner_max for spotting this one early!

🤫🫡 Publishing our investment thesis below

[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

In London + working in open source?

Come join a bunch of good folks @vinogradovk @vidiborvc @elenasamuylova for January drinks ⬇️

https://t.co/UqNG0eLVWv

[Atomico @atomico]

"The promise of AI isn't tomorrow, it's today. It can actually help save women's lives today." Find out how @KheironMedical ended up on the front page of the @nytimes on Nov 28th. Sign up here to be one of the first to get this year's report: https://t.co/drkHaGiGt4 #soet23 #AI

[Atomico @atomico]

The CTO (& European) that everybody wants to hear from this year - @OpenAI CTO @miramurati sat down with @Bryce_Keane for this year's State of European Tech Report launch Tues Nov 28th. Get all the insights delivered straight to your inbox here https://t.co/drkHaGiGt4 #soet23 #AI

[Victor Navarro @victornavgar]

Today is day 0 at Yellow. We’re launching a 30M€ fund to invest in pre-seed founders across Europe, focusing on Southern Europe and France
https://t.co/dXVo2KN4Rv

[Atomico @atomico]

Atomico founder @nzennstrom sat down with @johnthornhillft for this weekend’s Lunch with the @FT https://t.co/6n43F3xiey

[Sasha Kaletsky @SashaKaletsky]

Some hard learned lessons from ~5 years looking at and sometimes investing in creator economy startups. Some more controversial than others. All to be taken with a pinch of salt.

1. Turning businesses into creators is a better model for startups than turning creators into businesses

2. In a creator-founded business, the creator can generate short term cash flow, but never enduring value

3. Creators purchase software like consumers, not like businesses. They do not give a monkey’s about optimising their workflows, faster financing or other B2B concerns

4. Creators will not recommend something to their audience unless you pay them, or they truly believe in it. They can only add fuel to a fire, not ignite it

5. Creators as customers have a long and painful sales cycle, far outweighing their purchasing power. Generally creators are terrible customers

6. Creative tools (incl distribution tools) are one of the only parts of creators’ software stack they will actually care about, spend money on and advocate for

7. Crypto and the creator economy made no sense. Creators do not want their products to have liquidity, because they don’t want fans to lose money

8. Monetising content is a lot harder than it sounds. Adult is the only area where this works at scale. Simps are the only true whales

9. Making AI creator clones work will be a lot harder than people think. Fans engage with creators for parasocial validation, and speaking to a robot does not give them that

10. Influencer marketing (B2C and B2B) is still in early innings, there is still a huge volume of marketing spend that will move from traditional brand advertising to influencer over the next decade

11. TikTok and short form social has created an authenticity gap between creators and fans. Highly-authentic newsletters and podcasts are filling this gap, and this bifurcation will continue to grow

[Sasha Vidiborskiy @vidiborvc]

@nathanbenaich 54k a piece worth a discount 🤔

[Sasha Vidiborskiy @vidiborvc]

@hassankhosseini Def! Don’t watch vlogs at all, but really enjoyed this one

[Sasha Vidiborskiy @vidiborvc]

@andyhelbig The best is - what's your AI strategy in light of recent developments in superconductivity

[Sasha Vidiborskiy @vidiborvc]

Why it’s a big deal? (In layman's terms) - posted here

https://t.co/kdsZqOYbxc

[Sasha Vidiborskiy @vidiborvc]

Last week was one of those rare moments when my previous experience in materials science and low-temp physics actually turned out to be directly useful – the world has gone hyped about a potential discovery of room-temperature superconductivity in a material nicknamed LK-99.

[Sasha Vidiborskiy @vidiborvc]

Question 3 – are we going to have very cheap energy, palm-sized MRIs, and levitating cars soon?

TLDR – I really hope so, but it looks unlikely.

[Atomico @atomico]

We’re delighted to announce that Atomico is partnering with @neko, the preventative healthcare tech company that allows customers to diagnose a variety of diseases and skin conditions long before they take hold.
Read the full story here:
https://t.co/6AiEAkatwN
#VC #tech

[Sasha Vidiborskiy @vidiborvc]

@hassankhosseini Great stuff - love the blog post!
on the other one - working on it 😅 but seriously, hope to get it out soon 🙇‍♂️

[Atomico @atomico]

A joint statement for @Jeremy_Hunt & @hmtreasury, from a number of leading UK venture capital funds, in support of @SVB_UK