Plural

Like, so it's really wild to, to observe kind of how Europe is becoming much more like the US from the perspective that people that grew up in Massachusetts moved to California and all of that, right? So I think that that has really changed in the last 15 years.

You know, we had the good honor of being your pre-seed investor and then, uh, Seedcamp and Plural, and now some other people have become part of your cap table.

You've met many VCs on both sides of the Atlantic over the last decade and a half.

What are some thoughts on the industry and how it's developed here and maybe other compliments or, uh, points of feedback for the industry now that you have all of their ears?

Um, you know, so these were people that navigated, uh, the maze with us early days.

I mean, this is all public information, I guess, a little bit, but, you know, our seed was pretty competitive.

Um, at the end of the day, Plural was the best choice for us, uh, because the partnership there is just spectacular.

Um, and, you know, we continue building the cap table like in a very, very deliberate way.

In Q3 is the quarter that the test got priced.

The evidence, Helsing, 1.8 billion at 18 billion in a round led by Dragonair with Lightspeed, Iconic Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, JP Morgan Chase, CPP Investments, General Catalyst, Plural, and StepZone.

Quantum Systems, $1.2 billion at approximately 8 billion post-money co-led by Blackstone, Nutios, Airbus, and Advent.

And co-CEO Florian Seibel told the Financial Times that investors uncomfortable with move into lethal systems had the opportunity to exit in the transaction.

It was non-exclusive because I wanted her to find bigger leads and co-leads, really.

And that happened, of course, with Baldit and Plural leading the previous round.

And that's how it happened.

So that's also the reason why we were able to be listening to the board meetings, even though we were one of the smaller investors, because early on, we really believed in Helen.

In Q3 is the quarter that the test got priced.

The evidence, Helsing, 1.8 billion at 18 billion in a round led by Dragoneer with Lightspeed, ICONIQ Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, JPMorgan Chase, CPP Investments, General Catalyst, Plural, and StepStone.

Quantum Systems, $1.2 billion at approximately eight billion post-money, co-led by Blackstone, Nutikos, Airbus, and Advent.

And Co-CEO Florian Seibel told the Financial Times that investors uncomfortable with move into lethal systems had the opportunity to exit in the transaction.

Yeah, I mean, pumped to announce we raised another round of funding.

So we raised $60 million, led by Insight Partners, joined by other folks like Intrepid, Growth Partners, GV, Google Ventures, Seedcamp, Plural.

Yeah, a bunch of our favorite people.

So yeah, excited to get back to building and yeah, pumped to be on the show as well.