Andreas Helbig
@andyhelbig
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Partner @atomico — investing in the AI application layer (vertical AI, service automation), Seed to Series B, in Europe 🇪🇺🚀. Football fan, skier, engineer.
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Joined March 2015
Dominique is a legend
I spent 37 days doing nothing but talking to manufacturers across Europe: Cold emails, cold walk-ins, a trade show, and a week on the line in a Polish electronics factory. Over the summer, I’d been in San Francisco working on robotic AI. Robotics is deeply technical, and closing
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. @EverettRandle is spot on — for AI-native software and service automation, dollar gross margin per customer matters more than % gross margin. [The "MARGINS DON'T MATTER " thumbnail on his 20VC video snippet is an oversimplification, and it's not what he actually said] Some
Benchmark’s newest GP shared an insightful comment about how evaluating AI native companies requires a different set of metrics (taxonomy) versus traditional SaaS ones. According to him, the key difference lies in the fact that SaaS is characterized by high gross margin %
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SPAC is back, alright
Self-driving truck firm Einride to go public via SPAC deal at $1.8 billion valuation https://t.co/jML2lKUqEz
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Genuinely few feelings as good as arriving in Berlin and getting an Uber that blasts German Gangsta Rap.
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My colleagues and portfolio companies will be pleased to not receive 30+ emails in the moment I land any more
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BREAKING: Matt Clifford (@matthewclifford) Co-founder, Chair at Entrepreneurs First (@join_ef) will be joining the etn. boys next week on Tuesday 11th Nov to talk about fixing UK stagnation among other things.
The UK is a great country with an extraordinary history. Our stagnation is real, but it's fixable and worth fixing. Enjoyed giving this talk at @lfg_uk last week and so encouraged by the optimistic responses I've had from people who are building a brilliant future for Britain 🚀
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BREAKING: Xavier Collins (@_Xaviercollins_), CEO and Co-Founder of Wonder Studios (@WonderStudiosX) is joining the etn. boys tomorrow at 12:30PM GMT.
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The etn. boys talking with Andreas Helbig (@andyhelbig) Partner at @atomico about @Klarna paying for @SnoopDogg for an ad and how the goal posts of great branding are constantly moving forward in the tech world especially Fintech's. "As the tech industry, we're now reaching
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Distinguished people of the internet, we're live on X tomorrow at 11am BST hearing from: - @alexloiz Co-Founder & CPO @clovefi - @andyhelbig Partner @atomico - @sab8a Founder @veedstudio - @blwiertz Founder @techeurope_ - @sourceful_wing Founder @sourceful_wing
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BREAKING: Partner at @atomico Andreas Helbig (@andyhelbig) has struck a trade deal with the etn. boys Andy is coming on etn tomorrow at 12pm BST
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BREAKING: Andreas Helbig (@andyhelbig) Partner at Atomico (@atomico) is joining the etn. boys this coming Tuesday 21st at 12pm BST
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German Chancellor Merz calls for single European stock exchange
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it's cringe, it's just a copy, it's cool, it's exciting — there's so much buzz and opinions around this show that it can only be great entertainment. love seeing this come to life. as the eu tech ecosystem, we were first lacking actual substance / actual companies, then we were
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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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"AI will eat SaaS" IMO, no, it will eat Services which is 25X larger. the prize isn’t the familiar $200B SaaS pool; it’s the $4.6T enterprises pour each year into salaries and outsourced services – the very labor-intelligent agents are now poised to absorb.
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The Soham Parekh of football?
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(seriously @British_Airways please fix this monstrosity of an app...)
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The year is 2040. We all have humanoid robots at home. All cars are self-driving. AI agents run every SaaS workflow, for consumers and enterprises. Singularity is near. Except one thing remains. One tiny piece of software still resists AGI. The BA app. It still asks you to
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