From DeepMind's founding engineer to raising $130M to build superintelligence A fascinating look into the past and future of frontier AI with Ioannis Antonoglou next week on the newsletter Not to be missed sub: startuppirate(dot)com

🚁 securing the UK's National Rail service VelosRotors on Telegraph for their track-inspection work and spotting trespassers on the UK's railway system

Startup Pirate turns 5 and couldn't find a better excuse to celebrate entrepreneurs who keep venturing into uncharted territories, regardless of past successes or failures Startup. Exit. Repeat. Friday AM on startuppirate(dot)com

this mental model pretty much sums up how i've approached career/job changes over the years - best jobs aren't posted - do the job you want and the job will come to you

Europe’s modern defense prime in the making

Introducing Marathon Fund III with €75m to back ambitious founders building the future. Excited to be stepping up as a Partner to continue building Marathon together with George Tziralis and @PanosJee. They both made a big bet on me five years ago. I had just started Startup Pirate,

TechCrunch has more about our recent fund launch in this great chat with Connie Loizos and @PanosJee techcrunch.com/2025/05/06/ami…

In Athens and Thessaloniki, you can see two very interesting talent pools emerging in robotics & crypto around companies like: - Tesla, Progressive Robotics, Acumino - Sui/MystenLabs.sui, Common Prefix and I surely miss others

Ignore the mimetic warfare of the Gartner quadrant, the VC requests for startups, and think about what's unique, what's original, what's different I wrote some thoughts about startups and uncertainty as a moat: startuppirate.com/p/embracing-un…

A big day for Delian Alliance Industries! Announcing a $14M Series A co-led by Air Street Capital and Marathon Venture Capital to build Europe's modern defense prime: An impenetrable defense in an era where threats come from above, below, and everywhere in between