Clark Parsons
@ClarkSP
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CEO @eustartupnet; MD @IEdotF; Partner @iconomypartners; Jury Sec. @aureaaward; Ex @Berlinschool MD. Expat 🇺🇸 in 🇩🇪. 🇪🇺Lover. Views private
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Joined September 2008
Europe has so much potential. We have to unleash it. We’re launching Choose Europe and the Scale-up Fund. Advancing the Savings and Investment Union. And proposing the 28th legal regime for innovative companies. This is vital. This is urgent ↓
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🚀 NEW REPORT: Startups driving Europe’s AI transformation The EU Apply AI Startups Report is out: a data-driven look at how startups are powering Europe’s AI transformation. Produced by Innovation Radar Bridge, in partnership with @DealflowEU and @EU_Startups. Europe’s AI
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This is the way.
My friend @kasparkorjus runs one of the zero hype AI companies in Europe, Pactum. He’s set on making Estonia a role model for other European countries, and I respect him a lot. Like me, he’s signed the Founder’s Pledge, committing part of what he builds to humanity. Want to
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Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
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@Microsoft @VLCInnovation @Calabria_Lucia @oascities @UPV @nunsys Join the first panel of the Scalability Day hosted by Estech at Future Stage 👀 ✈ Scaleups: From Micro-Economics to Competitiveness and Economic Security3 With @ClarkSP, CEO, @EUStartupNet; @VocesSusana, President, @adigital_org; Chema Blasco, Executive Director, @ICEX_;
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When 27 nations create a new company form for 450 mio. people, well, the sayings about sausage making are true. Nevertheless, Kudos to DG JUST team of the EU Commission for steady work again today. Keeping the faith for a unanimous regulation. @EUStartupNet @euinc_petition
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Thanks to @d_boeselager, @euinc_petition and the @VoltDeutschland team for a helpful workshop today in Berlin on the 28th regime! Great inputs from @andreasklinger, David Hanf and Franziska Teubert. @EUStartupNet @StartupVerband
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I guess Allianz and Deutsche Bank will also invest this much…in the US instead of Europe. ;-)
BREAKING: JPMorganChase will invest $1.5 TRILLION into 27 "critical industries" in America. 🇺🇸 Here's the list: ‣ Advanced Bulk Materials ‣ Advanced Manufacturing ‣ Artificial Intelligence ‣ Autonomous Mobile Robots ‣ Battery Storage ‣ Command & Control Tech ‣ Critical
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Chatting to Tano Santos, he gave an excellent summary of Mokyr's key ideas: 1) Growth requires a culture of growth (hence the importance of Bacon) and 2) What makes sustained growth possible in the Industrial Revolution is the feedback loop between technology and science, which
Congratulations to Aghion, Howitt, and Mokyr for a well deserved Nobel on growth and innovation. Mokyr carefully showed why it started. Aghion & Howitt showed how it continues: a process of "creative destruction," where new technology must be allowed to displace the old.
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Go go go @vithorky and #czechfounders!
🚀 NEW REPORT: Prague’s tech ecosystem hits €19.2B in value; 83% of Czechia’s total 💸 €2.5B VC raised since 2019 🦄 5 unicorns (@jetbrains, @rohlikcz, @productboard, @MewsSystems, @ataccama) ⚙️ Top sectors: Enterprise software, Fintech, AI, Deep Tech & Life Sciences 🤖 AI
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Really happy to see this. Go Mike go!
Today, I am soft-launching Pathfounders, a new tech media brand to offer informed reporting, analysis, and opinion on the top tech startups and VC firms across Europe, Silicon Valley, and globally. Pathfounders is based out of Europe, and much of our coverage will be European,
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We are working on: •Better access to funding. •One single, simple set of rules for innovative companies all over our Union. I want a start-up to scale up easily across Europe, as they could in the US. •Faster AI adoption - we will present an Apply AI Strategy next week.
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🇪🇺 “The limited availability of risk capital forces our startups to turn to foreign investors. This jeopardises our tech sovereignty.” – @vonderleyen Proud to see the #ScaleupEuropeFund - an idea I’ve long championed - now take shape. 🚀 #SOTEU
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.@ASMLcompany's strategic investment in @MistralAI marks a defining moment for European technological sovereignty, positioning both companies as leading lights in the global AI and semiconductor ecosystem. By becoming Mistral’s top shareholder after leading a $1.5 billion funding
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💥 New Report: Pension Power - How 2% Pension Fund allocation could transform Europe’s startup and innovation funding gap. Europe's tech ecosystem has undergone a dramatic evolution. VC-backed startups in Europe are now worth a combined $3.5T. After a 30 year late start,
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“AC this, wash dryer that, US woohoo, EU boohoo” - Why are we eating this brand-warfare from the outside about us up? Europe has the strongest precision manufacturing in the world, we have leading teams in AI, CV, robotics. Europe is a leader in Automation and Frontier Tech!
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🤯 MERZ AND MACRON JUST CONFIRMED A PAN-EUROPEAN LEGAL ENTITY IS COMING It's now up to all of us to ensure the solution that gets passed into law is fit for purpose for European startups. That means: EU–INC. 🚀 Support us and we all will get this done together. 🇪🇺🤝
🔴 Emmanuel Macron et Friedrich Merz s'expriment 🗣️ Friedrich Merz : "Nous voulons des entreprises européennes fortes et des emplois de qualité. Pour cela il faut un changement de cap radical."
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What does the future hold for the EIC? 🤔 With the new proposal for the Multiannual Financial Framework being released, there is much debate on what is in store for the EIC. 🎙️ Hear expert opinions in our latest podcast. Listen here: https://t.co/ntxK8OhaJg
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