Jonno Evans
@jonno_evans
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Deep tech VC @ IQC | Formerly @10DowningStreet @cabinetofficeuk @FCDOGovUK @UKinUSA All views my own. Retweet≠Endorsement.
London, England
Joined April 2010
Really enjoyed chatting to @jamespaulwise about all things govt, innovation and deep tech!
Great speaking to @jonno_evans for the latest episode of What’s Next. He has gone from advising two Prime Ministers to becoming a deep tech investor. We discuss: - navigating the policy landscape as a deep tech founder - why we should have an AI success department in
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Launching the @SovereignAlbion Podcast: How to Regulate British Nuclear, with @JohnFingleton1 & Mustafa Latif-Aramesh Since writing @sovereignalbion, I have been lucky to have some of the truest and best conversations of my life. What was intended to be a personal essay, albeit
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Finally some good news on the industrial policy front...
Huge from the PM. Starmer accepts the Fingleton Review *and* pledges to extend it to other infrastructure: data centres, railways, tramways, towns, labs, and more. Massive, and a big shift from the Treasury's equivocation. Implementation will be a big battle, but we can win.
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Part 3 on how they are financed https://t.co/Pb6WtkhlGL
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Private capital joins Big Tech in seeking to capture rewards from historic expansion of data centres
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Part 2 on how they are powered: https://t.co/X2t5tk7NOg
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Energy demand for training machines and running apps is driving a surge of investment into fossil fuels
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The $3 trillion AI data-centre boom is here. Big Tech + private capital racing to fund massive, energy-hungry infrastructure. Cool series on data centres from the @ft .. https://t.co/AKUW3HGPGw
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The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed
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This looks like it'll be a classic .. look forward to reading it! @_brianpotter
How was penicillin able to eliminate 80% of WWII battlefield deaths? Why did nails once make up 0.4% of US GDP? In The Origins of Efficiency, @_brianpotter unpacks how production efficiency happens, and why it is of civilizational importance. Preorder: https://t.co/KEyYy67F90
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The UK is shaking up clinical trials – aiming to cut setup times from ~250 to 150 days, approving studies in 40 days, and letting millions join via the NHS app. Could make research faster, cheaper, more representative, and speed new treatments to patients.
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New system would avoid ‘unnecessary contracts’ and ‘duplication on technical assurances’
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Amazing example of how the UK can lead in AI and build the assets for future companies to win! Exactly what govt should be doing… well done @charlieharris01 @matthewclifford
Really pleased to share what I have been working on for 2 months: 🇬🇧 UK SovAI are today announcing our £8m seed investment into OpenBind - A consortium that will actually make AI for drug discovery great by generating 500k experiment protein-ligand complexes!! Explainer 🧵 (1/n)
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v good piece from @jonno_evans on reindustrialising in US/UK/Europe competing on cost efficiency is a losing battle, but we can compete on the ability to recursively scale new classes of factories, materials & products aka, Meta-Production:
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5/ But change is happening. Founders today are more ambitious. Companies like Nyobolt, Stegra, and 1X aren’t just licensing tech—they’re building full-stack businesses to dominate their industries.
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4/ You see this in acquisition data: US startups acquire far more companies than European ones. Instead of scaling up, European technology too often gets absorbed into larger players vs going for the big vertically integrated play.
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3/ The result? Europe produces more toolmakers (scientists creating new technologies) than techno-industrialists (founders who use those tools to create massive businesses). [h/t @packyM]
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2/ In Europe, prestige is given to inventors—scientists who publish groundbreaking research. In the U.S., entrepreneurs are the ones celebrated, whether they invented the technology or not.
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1/ Europe has world-class deep tech, but where are the trillion-dollar companies? The usual suspects—capital, regulation, and market fragmentation—get blamed. But there’s another, often-overlooked issue: status. 🧵👇
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it's crazy how this basically happens with everything, let alone drone technology
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