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Jakob Diepen launches an oversubscribed $30 million venture fund for early-stage hardtech startups in El Segundo

The fund targets hardware founders building for critical industries.

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Mark Suster@msuster#1418inTech

Congrats Jakob. When people talk about Hard Tech in LA your name is one of the ones that comes up the most as leading the early stage charge 👏🏼👏🏼

Great to have your contributions to this community

Jakob Diepenbrock@jakobdiepen

Excited to announce a $30M oversubscribed fund. 🇺🇸

El Segundo is the world's best place to build hardtech and we're the pipeline for founders from across the world coming here to do it.

Joining @tbpn later today to share more.

If you're at the earliest stages of building hardtech for critical industries reach out now!

Link to Axios article in thread.

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Many users congratulated Jakob Diepen on closing his $30M oversubscribed hardtech fund in El Segundo, showing enthusiasm for the booming local hardtech investment scene.

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Palmer Luckey@PalmerLuckey

@jakobdiepen @tbpn Hell yeah brother

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Jakob Diepenbrock@jakobdiepen

Excited to announce a $30M oversubscribed fund. 🇺🇸

El Segundo is the world's best place to build hardtech and we're the pipeline for founders from across the world coming here to do it.

Joining @tbpn later today to share more.

If you're at the earliest stages of building hardtech for critical industries reach out now!

Link to Axios article in thread.

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Aaron Slodov@aphysicist

@PiresVino @jakobdiepen @tbpn i love how random reply guys think and decide things for me, is this how X works?

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Jakob Diepenbrock@jakobdiepen

Thx to TBPN for having me on to talk about the new Discipulus fund!

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Discipulus Ventures' @jakobdiepen says the Gundo is still ascendant.

Example: last Friday's bonfire had 200 people. When they first started a few years ago, they were averaging 30-50 people.

"There are a lot more people coming, from all over the world, honestly."

"I was in Europe a couple weeks ago and people were like, 'I'm going to build my company in El Segundo. I'm moving from London to El Segundo.' It's continuing to boom."

"For [hard tech] R&D and engineering, I think that will continue to be done in the LA area. And people will then go and open up the larger factories outside of LA for obvious reasons. But I always think the R&D and engineering will continue to be done in the LA area."

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