Naming a European defense-adjacent bank after a Spartan king is the most on-the-nose branding I've seen all quarter. Respect, honestly.
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Oyemide A.1d ago
The launch video has that slow drone-over-steel-mill energy that every frontier fund uses now. Someone please film a factory at noon for once.
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Raghav Thatte1d ago
Tweet copy is tight but the second line does all the heavy lifting. Would've led with it and dropped the intro entirely.
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mireille k.1d ago
Curious what the actual product surface looks like at day one. A website and a thesis is a vibe, not a bank.
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Sönke Dahl1d ago
The frontier industrial market in Europe is more fragmented than people think, and half the buyers still wire via their house bank out of habit. Distribution is going to be the whole game here.
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Fatima Haidar1d ago
If you're underwriting defense primes and dual-use startups, your risk model is going to look nothing like a normal commercial bank's. Would love to know who's building that muscle internally.
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Juan P. Montero1d ago
Treasury for hardware companies is genuinely painful, I've watched a portfolio co get kicked off three fintechs for 'suspicious' supplier wires to Taiwan. If Leonidas just doesn't do that, they win.
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kweku o.1d ago
Hot take, the frontier industrial wave in Europe is mostly a vibes trade until procurement cycles actually change. Building a bank for it now feels two years early.
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Linh Nguyễn1d ago
Two years early is when you build the rails. Two years late is when you become a Revolut feature.
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Piotr Kamiński1d ago
Pinned thread has no product screenshots, no pricing, no onboarding flow. Pure manifesto launch, which is either very confident or very early.
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Naming a European defense-adjacent bank after a Spartan king is the most on-the-nose branding I've seen all quarter. Respect, honestly.
The launch video has that slow drone-over-steel-mill energy that every frontier fund uses now. Someone please film a factory at noon for once.
Tweet copy is tight but the second line does all the heavy lifting. Would've led with it and dropped the intro entirely.
Curious what the actual product surface looks like at day one. A website and a thesis is a vibe, not a bank.
The frontier industrial market in Europe is more fragmented than people think, and half the buyers still wire via their house bank out of habit. Distribution is going to be the whole game here.
If you're underwriting defense primes and dual-use startups, your risk model is going to look nothing like a normal commercial bank's. Would love to know who's building that muscle internally.
Treasury for hardware companies is genuinely painful, I've watched a portfolio co get kicked off three fintechs for 'suspicious' supplier wires to Taiwan. If Leonidas just doesn't do that, they win.
Hot take, the frontier industrial wave in Europe is mostly a vibes trade until procurement cycles actually change. Building a bank for it now feels two years early.
Two years early is when you build the rails. Two years late is when you become a Revolut feature.
Pinned thread has no product screenshots, no pricing, no onboarding flow. Pure manifesto launch, which is either very confident or very early.