Sebastiaan Vaessen

The opportunities Silicon Valley doesn’t see tcrn.ch/28UJ8TF # via @techcrunch

US investors prefer Europemaxxing to Europebashing ft.trib.al/HoSQjG5 | opinion

@EugeneNg Check this out: Europe is much bigger in AI than we think. If anything US dominance in research is waning… prosus.com/state-of-ai-eu…

This chart surprised me. There are about 2X more active AI researchers in EU than the US.

"Europe is the invisible AI giant" — Sebastiaan Vaessen from Prosus explains why the continent is punching way above its weight in AI @dealroomco youtube.com/watch?v=LOVlg5…

‘EU Inc’ is a missed opportunity for start-ups ft.trib.al/5QfgKBL | opinion

@teslaeurope @grok would NL be first in Europe then?

Together with RDW, we have officially completed the final vehicle testing phase for Full Self-Driving (Supervised) and have submitted all documentation required for the UN R-171 approval + Article 39 exemptions. The RDW team is now reviewing the documentation and test results package internally. They have communicated the expected approval for Netherlands date of 4/10, shifting from 3/20 previously and we look forward to successful completion of this cooperation.  Following the Netherlands’ approval, European countries will be able to recognize this approval nationally. We are anticipating a possible EU-wide approval during the summer. Over the past 18 months, this approval has involved a series of intense documentation, development, testing, research & audits. Including but certainly not limited to: – 1,600,000+ km of FSD (Supervised) testing on EU roads – 13,000+ customer sales ride-alongs – 4,500+ track test scenario executions – Thousands of pages of written documentation for 400+ compliance requirements – Dozens of research studies into safety performance/results We're extremely proud of the work conducted with the RDW team up until this point. We very much look forward to the approval in April, and sharing FSD (Supervised) with our patient EU customers!

Is Europe an AI underdog or an "Invisible Giant"? 🇪🇺 Next week, @dealroomco and @Prosusgroup release the 2026 State of AI in Europe - The Invisible Giant report. We’re hitting the road to share the data and answer the big questions: ⚡️ Is the window still open for Europe to compete? ⚡️ Do we have the urgency and speed to match our talent? ⚡️ What’s next for world models and vertical AI? 💰 How much capital is needed to win globally? Join us in person to get the fresh data from Dealroom first - RSVP and Limited seats! 📍 Amsterdam | 16 March @ Prosus HQ 📍 London | 24 March @ The Jellicoe 📍 Brussels | 31 March @ Venue TBD

@gustaf Hi Gustaf, Happy to explore how we can help with @Prosusgroup and host your event in the AI House in Amsterdam. aihouse.nl

Planning an insane YC event in Europe this spring.

@Quintin24 @lexhoogduin Please expand…

@lexhoogduin Wind energie is echt by-far de domste keuze om te maken

Het klimaat/energiebeleid van Nederland is duur en riskant en loopt vast. Maar kabinet gaat stug door met er geld tegenaan gooien. En ik vrees dat kabinet Jetten dat ook zal blijven doen. ⬇️

@sabben Amazing data by the way. Very powerful lens

Thoroughbred graduation rate per region: It is significantly more likely for a startup to reach $100 million ARR in New Palo Alto and Europe in general than in North America or elsewhere in the world. About one in every hundred funded startups ends up with $100 million or more in revenue compared to 0.69% across the Atlantic. Go Europe! 🇪🇺

@sabben Do we have this data comparing different European hubs? Curious how Amsterdam compares

@sabben How does Silicon Valley compare to new Palo Alto? That seems more like for like…

We’re currently prioritizing 3 types of hires at @gen_intuition 1) top researchers in world modeling / policy learning (ideally both) 2) engineers with deep exp in complex 3d sim environments+ML cloud infra. Backend + engine. 3) large scale data ops (eng/teleop/etc) Dm open!

@andreasklinger @vonderleyen @euinc_petition You the man!

YO. WTF. This is from @vonderleyen's speech JUST NOW From impossible to inevitable!!! @euinc_petition FTW 🙌🔥🇪🇺

@pmddomingos @PimDeWitte

The robotics Catch-22: robots need to learn from a lot of data to become useful enough for wide deployment, but they need to be widely deployed to gather that data.

@pwk Doing a report on the state of ai in Europe with Dealroom.co Would love to include this view ( and happy to use you as source of course). Can you share the underlying source data and calculations?

@pwk Great chart! What is the source?

European players are already exponentially eating up US dominant market share in the European cloud services market. I've received a lot of push back on my last post about the massive EuroStack migration ("The Greatest Trade Ever") that is moving Euro-tech away from the US. Yet this alone is a ~$170 billion market and it is shaped by forces no US tech giant can't control anymore. And we are just at the beginning of a process that is getting now accelerated by US geopolitical idiocy. The fact that you don't see it yet, is just because all exponential phenomena are invisible, until they are everywhere...

@yoramdw @TheAeneas_ @zachglabman @HarryStebbings If anything, it gets worse Then why does share of Europe in total EV increase so much over time? Are European unicorns just higher quality?

@Seb_Vaessen @TheAeneas_ @zachglabman @HarryStebbings Surprisingly, it actually does not improve over time

If you are not bullish on Europe right now I can categorically tell you, you have s*** dealflow and need to improve. Never been more great entrepreneurs building mega European businesses.

@yoramdw @TheAeneas_ @zachglabman @HarryStebbings Timeframe? When selecting last few years maybe it is even closer…

@TheAeneas_ @zachglabman @HarryStebbings But actually you gave me an idea. Number of unicorn founders by origin. Many of these started in USA. So yes, Europe has 99 problems but "DNA" (or talent) is not one

One of Europe's main priorities should be setting up sovereign semiconductor fabs. It's insanity that we have the only company making the machines, but we don't use them ourselves. Europe should dominate the entire semiconductor sector. 🇪🇺