Duarte Guerra

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Duarte Guerra

@0xDuarte

Shilling VC - $100m for Pre-Seed & Seed

Portugal Присоединился Kasım 2023
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Duarte Guerra
Duarte Guerra@0xDuarte·
I really think Portugal lacks this "Ripple" effect. In SV you see Jack Dorsey walking to the office, it may seem irrelevant, but i think it's a super powerful thing. The only time I've felt something like this was when I saw Carlos Moreira da Silva (worth ~900m) in Shilling's office. I didn't even talk with him, but this sense that he was real and somewhat approachable had this weird effect in me. I think there are equally smart people in SV to Europe and Portugal, but there are so many more that have build amazing companies in SV that the newcomers can look up to and learn from. I think Portugal would benefit a lot by having the few unicorn founders we have talk more, appear more and share more. And become a figure young people look up to! I think @diogomonica moving back to Portugal and appearing in some podcast is a great start.
Ricardo Sequerra Amram@ric0seq

European tech is going through this type of Ripple effect @ProjectEurope_ is turbo charging this 🚀

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Duarte Guerra
Duarte Guerra@0xDuarte·
@eastdakota @pmarca In the US, is it normal for a first meeting to be with a lot of the partners and it resembling an IC, where they make the decision on the spot?
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Matthew Prince 🌥
Matthew Prince 🌥@eastdakota·
Two of our worst VC stories: 1. A Sequoia partner passed on Cloudflare because he didn’t think a woman could lead a security infrastructure company. Seriously. 🙄 2. I got introduced to @pmarca. Meeting got scheduled for a Monday, which should have been a clue. I thought it was just a casual meeting. He thought it was a pitch and brought the whole @a16z partnership team. Hilarity ensued. 🤪 At one point one of them said: “You don’t seem very prepared.” Which was true because I wasn’t. I framed the rejection letter they sent.
GREG ISENBERG@gregisenberg

I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A. 12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going. I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital. You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious. It's a dance. And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious. If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird. No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there. It is weird.

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José Maria Macedo
José Maria Macedo@ZeMariaMacedo·
Management consulting is one of the biggest cancers on European talent For some inexplicable reason it became the default destination for smart graduates. So it vacuums them up, works them 100 hours a week for very little money during the most generative years of their lives, and teaches them remarkably few skills that translate into building anything real. Most of the value created is in decks. @augustalabs is the antidote I’ve seen brilliant people who would otherwise be at McKinsey join Augusta instead. They’ll have far more impact there, and learn skills that actually compound Zooming out: AI is the industrial revolution for services, and we are right at the beginning. Nobody knows yet what the right architectures are, what the right products are, what happens to the SaaS, consulting and PE incumbents. Augusta is building at the leading edge of exactly that question, working with some of the biggest companies in the world to implement AI. There is no better front row seat to this revolution That’s why I believe in a few years there will be an “Augusta mafia”, people who spin out to build vertical AI companies off the back of what they learned there Really excited to watch this one go down, and honoured to be a small part of it
rod@rodfernn

We just raised a historic funding round for Portugal, backed by some of the country’s top unicorn founders. And we're now looking for the best young talent to join us. So we built something to find them. It's called Arcus - a series of trials. No resume. No application forms. Just a terminal and a problem to solve. The first trial is live: Ode Triunfal, with €3k in prizes. Access it through 'ssh augustalabs[dot]ai'. More info in the comments. We're just getting started.

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bernardo
bernardo@0xvrea·
we've heard a lot of people are running out of tokens to solve the challenge. we're giving away 3 claude max subscriptions in the next hour. dm us 3 bullets describing your current approach, and if we like it we'll hook you up for the month.
rod@rodfernn

We just raised a historic funding round for Portugal, backed by some of the country’s top unicorn founders. And we're now looking for the best young talent to join us. So we built something to find them. It's called Arcus - a series of trials. No resume. No application forms. Just a terminal and a problem to solve. The first trial is live: Ode Triunfal, with €3k in prizes. Access it through 'ssh augustalabs[dot]ai'. More info in the comments. We're just getting started.

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bernardo
bernardo@0xvrea·
for everyone trying - the flag is not virgilio @VSwordH they are coming after you
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rod@rodfernn

We just raised a historic funding round for Portugal, backed by some of the country’s top unicorn founders. And we're now looking for the best young talent to join us. So we built something to find them. It's called Arcus - a series of trials. No resume. No application forms. Just a terminal and a problem to solve. The first trial is live: Ode Triunfal, with €3k in prizes. Access it through 'ssh augustalabs[dot]ai'. More info in the comments. We're just getting started.

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David Gomes
David Gomes@davidgomes·
A couple months ago, these guys showed me an insanely cool project for tracking government-issued private contracts and the entire public procurement process for these. Congrats on the raise! And for those of you looking for something new... I smell great opportunities there!
rod@rodfernn

We just raised a historic funding round for Portugal, backed by some of the country’s top unicorn founders. And we're now looking for the best young talent to join us. So we built something to find them. It's called Arcus - a series of trials. No resume. No application forms. Just a terminal and a problem to solve. The first trial is live: Ode Triunfal, with €3k in prizes. Access it through 'ssh augustalabs[dot]ai'. More info in the comments. We're just getting started.

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Humberto
Humberto@patife·
My friends over at Augusta Labs were first 100% AI company I ever met. They just raised an amazing round from top people (and me). What they do: they work with PE to reimagine and transform businesses from an AI-grounded view. Check them out!
rod@rodfernn

We just raised a historic funding round for Portugal, backed by some of the country’s top unicorn founders. And we're now looking for the best young talent to join us. So we built something to find them. It's called Arcus - a series of trials. No resume. No application forms. Just a terminal and a problem to solve. The first trial is live: Ode Triunfal, with €3k in prizes. Access it through 'ssh augustalabs[dot]ai'. More info in the comments. We're just getting started.

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Duarte Guerra
Duarte Guerra@0xDuarte·
Historic round in Portugal! All the best unicorns in the country backing one company. If you want to work there try ssh augustalabs(dot)ai
rod@rodfernn

We just raised a historic funding round for Portugal, backed by some of the country’s top unicorn founders. And we're now looking for the best young talent to join us. So we built something to find them. It's called Arcus - a series of trials. No resume. No application forms. Just a terminal and a problem to solve. The first trial is live: Ode Triunfal, with €3k in prizes. Access it through 'ssh augustalabs[dot]ai'. More info in the comments. We're just getting started.

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rod
rod@rodfernn·
We just raised a historic funding round for Portugal, backed by some of the country’s top unicorn founders. And we're now looking for the best young talent to join us. So we built something to find them. It's called Arcus - a series of trials. No resume. No application forms. Just a terminal and a problem to solve. The first trial is live: Ode Triunfal, with €3k in prizes. Access it through 'ssh augustalabs[dot]ai'. More info in the comments. We're just getting started.
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Duarte Guerra
Duarte Guerra@0xDuarte·
@chrija @PhilipQiu5 +$15m in 3 months ;) Only one immutable rule in venture, make money to your LPs and to you, strategies are imaginary
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Duarte Guerra
Duarte Guerra@0xDuarte·
We're for sure getting to Mars
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Duarte Guerra@0xDuarte·
AI is more capex heavy than space :)
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Duarte Guerra
Duarte Guerra@0xDuarte·
@elonmusk when you speak or think about SpaceX’s mission, is the first image that pops in your head the rocket launching or the rocket landing?
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Nick Katz
Nick Katz@NicholasKatz·
If you’re a founder raising in Portugal in 2026 and your pipeline is dry, start here. especially relevant for AI, enterprise software, fintech, climate, and marketplaces these are among the most consistent first institutional cheques: @ShillingVC @IndicoCapital @ByndVC @FaberVC @OlisipoWay @Portugal_Ventures Armilar and Lince matter later. Portugal runs on intros. One strong connection unlocks most of the ecosystem. #raise #venturecapital #startups
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