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Building @D1Seed | AI-native deal platform for investing in early-stage startups ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช

Paris, France
Joined April 2010
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Tomer Attias retweeted
wore my QR code to a startup pitch night tonight. people actually scanned my back ๐Ÿ˜‚ founders answer one honest question out loud, 2 minutes, no signup. scan it or: foundertape.fm
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Any European founders here building AI agent startups?
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Bootstrap or raise? Founders, which side are you on, and what made you pick it?
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Tomer Attias retweeted
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ The EU is introducing a โ‚ฌ10,000 cash payment limit in 2027. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland has no such general limit. Reminds me of an old Swiss joke ๐Ÿ˜‚ A German walks into a Swiss bank and whispers: โ€œIโ€™d like to withdraw โ‚ฌ10,000.โ€ The Swiss banker replies loudly: โ€œSir, no need to whisper. Poverty is nothing to be ashamed of in Switzerland.โ€ ๐Ÿ’€
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Tomer Attias retweeted
My sincere condolences to Adam's (@RetentionAdam) family and friends. He was a massive inspiration for founders, bootstrapers, and for building one of the first autonomous businesses. You will be missed.
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That would be great.
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ Britain is considering cutting university fees for EU students. Some pay more than ยฃ30,000 a year, while British students in England pay just over ยฃ9,000, and the proposal would put EU students on the British rate. In return, Britain wants its businesses let into the EUโ€™s planned โ€œMade in Europeโ€ programme, which would favour European-made cars, steel and clean energy products. The government could give universities up to ยฃ450 million a year to cover lost income, though Treasury sources say the final bill could be much lower. The Russell Group, which represents 24 leading universities, puts the cost above ยฃ500 million. Nothing is agreed yet, with a UK-EU summit set for November 20. British graduates still paying off their own loans might have thoughts. Source: Philenews / Writer: Daniyal
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Happy UAE Flag Day ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช A day to celebrate the unity, vision, ambition, and remarkable spirit of the United Arab Emirates. My admiration goes to His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, whose leadership continues to shape the UAE's journey, carrying forward its legacy of progress, innovation, stability, and ambition. Wishing the UAE continued prosperity, peace, and success!
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๐Ÿ–๏ธ Minimum paid vacation days by law in the world's 20 largest economies 1. ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France: 25 2. ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil: ~22 3. ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain: ~22 4. ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany: 20 5. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy: 20 6. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia: 20 7. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands: 20 8. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland: 20 9. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom: 20* 10. ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia: ~20 11. ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South Korea: 15 12. ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Saudi Arabia: ~15 13. ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท Tรผrkiye: 14 14. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico: 12 15. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Indonesia: 12 16. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India: ~12 17. ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan: 10 18. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada: 10 19. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China: 5 20. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States: 0 France guarantees workers 25 paid vacation days a year, the most among the world's 20 largest economies. The United States is the only one with no legal minimum at all. Paid vacation there depends entirely on the employer. Worldwide, 105 countries guarantee at least 20 paid days off a year. Only seven countries, plus the Vatican, have no legal minimum: the US, Gambia and five Pacific island nations (Palau, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Tonga). Working days after one year of employment, not counting public holidays. ~ converted from calendar days. *UK: 28 days, which may include the 8 bank holidays. Laws as of January 2026. Source: WORLD Policy Analysis Center; national labour laws; thatonemap. com
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Europe's supermarkets are learning an expensive lesson: Cyber risk is now operational risk. Hackers have discovered that poorly secured industrial systems can cause millions in physical damage without stealing a single customer record. Photograph: Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency/AFP/Getty Images
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Weekly MENA Business & Economic Brief ๐Ÿงต | 26 Oct โ€“ 2 Nov 1/ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Israel: Tuesdayโ€™s election left no clear winner. The shekel fell about 2% to ~3.12/$, its worst day in 16 months, and Tel Avivโ€™s TA-125 dropped 2.5% on Wednesday. 2/ ๐Ÿ‡ด๐Ÿ‡ฒ Oman: 28 investment agreements worth over RO 304M (~$790M) were signed across its economic and free zones. Sultan Haitham also proposed a preferential trade and investment deal to China. 3/ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt: Egypt signed a $1B World Bank financing deal backing economic reforms. Itโ€™s the second of three loans, and signing isnโ€™t disbursement. 4/ ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช UAE: First Abu Dhabi Bankโ€™s Q3 profit rose 6% to AED 5.73B. Dubai also announced Nad Zabeel, a research and AI campus for 30,000+ participants a year. 5/ ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco: Net FDI inflows rose 58.4% to MAD 35.24B in nine months. Rand Merchant Bank now ranks Morocco Africaโ€™s 4th most attractive investment destination. 6/ ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Saudi Arabia: Snowflake announced $300M of investment through 2030 and opened its regional HQ in the Kingdom. 7/ ๐ŸŒ MENA: AI infrastructure keeps spreading, from a planned 45MW AI data campus in Oman to Dubaiโ€™s new AI campus. Full stories on Substack ๐Ÿ‘‰ abramundi.substack.com
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Tomer Attias retweeted
Attacks will accelerate from here on - We are there: Six months ago I said Mythos like capability will be widely available. It's happening. A critical vulnerability, a social engineering attack that looks innocuous, or daisy chaining publicly available vulnerabilities and conducting a sniper strike is all being witnessed in the wild. Incident responders have never been busier. Some key points: - attacks are not becoming more sophisticated, it's the same attacks, faster and by a lot more people. - attack path discovery which took trial and error and multiple attempts is now trivial, open source LLMs are here to help - you are as secure as your supply chain, insecure down or upstream players who have access to your infrastructure could be the next attack path, marketplaces and supply chain is an easier vector The increase in activity is a result of more people becoming better at hacking due to the ease of being able to attack. Had not contemplated that in my calculus. Please: 1. Test your infrastructure for accessible vulnerabilities and misconfigurations 2. Fix your code and demand your vendors do. 3. Old infra, or insecure infra at the perimeter needs to be updated first 4. New AI tools, especially coding need a security framework. Your developers will do more with code, new skills, and more automation. Don't forget the coding models have trained on human code. Stay safe this Halloween :)
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Tomer Attias retweeted
The pitch deck is the only document a startup writes for people who will never use the product.
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Learn to be human
2023: "Learn to code." 2026: "Learn to prompt." 2028: ...?
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๐Ÿšจ UAE AND OPENAI JUST SIGNED 4 MAJOR AI DEALS! Abu Dhabi is bringing AI into government, energy, and investment. ๐Ÿ”ฅ ADNOC becomes the first energy company in the world to deploy OpenAIโ€™s frontier technology. The deals also include: โ†’ AI-powered government services โ†’ AI-driven investment analysis with Mubadala โ†’ A 5 year Ai adoption partnership.
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The UAE is always one step ahead ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช
JUST IN: UAE signs 4 deals with OpenAI to become the worldโ€™s first "fully AI-native government"
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Forbes 30 under 30 to prison pipeline remains undefeated
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More investments should be made in Europe ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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Tomer Attias retweeted
Which startups are most likely to get an investment from top tier VCs? I looked at ~60 attributes across 5000 startups and these were the 15 strongest. #1 is being from a top tier fund. MBA is a negative signal Full list of signals below:
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I built an AI workflow that forwards every email I get straight to WhatsApp, with the sender, subject and context. I can even reply to it from there. I havenโ€™t missed an email since. It honestly changed my life.
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Tomer Attias retweeted
Central Park in winter
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