EUVC

Corporate venturing works best when investing is only one part of the model. To drive real transformation, corporates need to build, partner and invest in ways that reinforce each other. In this episode, Andreas Munk Holm speaks with Alex Manson , CEO at SC Ventures by Standard Chartered and author of Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained , alongside Jeppe Høier , EUVC’s in-house corporate expert. Toge...

What happens when a society becomes too afraid to take risks? In the latest episode of This Week in European Tech , Mads Jensen and Dan Bowyer of SuperSeed are joined by Lomax Ward of Outsized Ventures to discuss whether the West's growing aversion to risk is holding back innovation, capital allocation and long-term competitiveness. Together, they explore UK technology policy, AI infrastructur...

Great consumer teams still start with the customer. AI is changing the speed, tools and team structures around them, but the fundamentals of building enduring consumer companies remain remarkably consistent. In Episode 3 of the Consumer Tech Napkin series, produced in partnership with True Global, ⁠Andreas Munk Holm⁠ speaks with ⁠Rishabh Kaul⁠ (Venture Partner at ⁠Hoxton Ventures⁠ ), ⁠Mike Martin⁠...

The next chapter for UK technology may depend as much on capital markets as company building. In this episode of This Week in European Tech , Dan Bowyer and Mads Jensen of SuperSeed are joined by Neil Shah , Director, Tech Sector Specialist at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) . They discuss what it will take to unlock more capital for UK technology, from pension reform and IPOs to public markets...

Most innovation programmes start with reasonable assumptions. The challenge is that reality often proves them wrong. In this episode, Andreas Munk Holm and Jeppe Høier speak with Cynthia Hansen , Managing Director of The Innovation Foundation , empowered by the Adecco Group, about four lessons learned from building and scaling employment solutions for people often excluded from the labour market....

Europe's best founders are no longer building for Europe first and the US later. They're building global companies from day one. In this episode, Andreas Munk Holm speaks with Seedcamp Principal Will Bennett as Seedcamp announces a new $320 million fund, split between a $220 million Core fund and a $100 million Select fund. Will explains why Seedcamp is expanding its US presence, how its transatla...

Europe already produces world-class technology companies. The mistake is assuming future winners will look obvious before they become winners. In this episode of This Week in European Tech, Dan Bowyer and Mads Jensen of SuperSeed speak with Joe Schorge , Founder and Managing Partner at Isomer Capital , about why the best investors focus less on predicting outliers and more on building exposure to...

The next generation of great founders will be scientists and engineers. That's the argument of ⁠Ramzi Rizk⁠ , General Partner at ⁠WIP Capital⁠ , a €10 million solo-GP fund backing scientists and engineers at the intersection of bio, neuro and foundational AI. In this episode, ⁠Andreas Munk Holm⁠ speaks with Ramzi about why the biggest opportunities in venture are moving beyond SaaS, how AI is...

Europe's challenge isn't a lack of entrepreneurs. It's making sure enough capital reaches them. In this episode, David Cruz e Silva speaks with Jaap Vriesendorp , Managing Partner at Marktlink Capital , one of Europe's most active LPs in venture capital, about why backing European innovation matters, how to build a resilient venture portfolio and what separates the best fund manage...

Quantum computing has spent decades being "just around the corner". Now quantum companies are raising record rounds, heading to public markets and moving closer to commercial adoption. In the latest episode of This Week in European Tech, Mads Jensen of SuperSeed is joined by Andrew J. Scott , Managing Partner at 7percent Ventures , and Callum Stewart , Principal at BullhoundCapital , to...

Most companies have access to AI tools. Far fewer have figured out how to drive adoption across an entire organisation. In this episode, Andreas Munk Holm and Jeppe Høier are joined by Nils Wagner , CEO of REHAU New Ventures , the corporate venturing unit of the REHAU Group, and a third-generation member of the Wagner family behind REHAU. Nils shares how REHAU built a secure AI platform, launched...

Europe wants AI sovereignty. But can it reduce its dependence on foreign technology without sacrificing innovation, capability and competitiveness? In this episode of This Week in European Tech , Dan Bowyer and Mads Jensen of SuperSeed are joined by Matt Russell , Managing Director (Head of Secondaries) at VenCap International , to discuss Europe's growing sovereignty push, the debate around Palan...

Tomorrowland is one of Europe's best-known festivals. Less known is that it quietly helped create one of Europe's most interesting corporate-startup matchmaking platforms. In this episode, Andreas Munk Holm speaks with Joris Beckers , Co-Founder of Love Tomorrow, and Mats Raes , Event Director of Love Tomorrow and The Impact Circle, about how a sustainability initiative evolved into an open innova...

What if the strongest moats in the AI era aren't algorithms, but the data those algorithms depend on? In the second episode of the Consumer Tech Napkin series, Andreas Munk Holm speakes with Renato Circi and Rafaël Michali , Co-Founders at Sava , and Joe Seager-Dupuy , Director, Investment at True , to discuss how founders should think about defensibility when technology is becoming easier to...

Everyone says AI is taking jobs. The data says something more complicated. In this episode of This Week in European Tech , Dan Bowyer and Mads Jensen of SuperSeed unpack the growing panic around AI-driven job losses, why junior hiring is falling across many industries and whether AI is actually the culprit. They explore new research suggesting remote work may be having a bigger impact on entry-lev...

Most VCs think corporate venture capital is slower, more conflicted and structurally weaker than traditional venture firms. Marc Thom , Corporate Vice President and Head of Henkel Ventures , argues the opposite and explains why the best CVCs may actually outperform traditional VCs over time. In this episode, Marc joins Andreas Munk Holm and Jeppe Høier to discuss how Henkel built one of Europe’s l...

AI is no longer just a technology story. It is reshaping capital markets, infrastructure and industrial policy. In the latest episode of This Week in European Tech, Mads Jensen and Dan Bowyer of SuperSeed break down NVIDIA’s dominance of the AI economy, the return of the IPO market through OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX, and Europe’s push to build sovereign technology capabilities. Highlights NVIDIA...

Demis Hassabis, Co-Founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, refused to leave London, challenged Google on AI safety and helped lead DeepMind back into the AI race. Sebastian Mallaby , author of The Infinity Machine and The Power Law , joins Andreas Munk Holm to discuss the founder psychology of Demis, the story behind DeepMind and why Europe may be entering a new era in technology. The conversation exp...

Batteries do not just power products anymore. They shape what products can be built. In this episode, Andreas Munk Holm speaks with Michael Brehm and Mohamed Foulser from Redstone alongside Moritz H. Futscher , CEO and Co-Founder of BTRY , about why the next wave of battery innovation is not about bigger battery packs but entirely new form factors. BTRY is a Swiss battery startup developing an ult...

What changes when AI agents can transact on their own? Andreas Munk Holm speaks with Viggo Stenseth , CEO and Co-Founder of SolvaPay , alongside Redstone General Partners Samuli Sirén and Mickaël Bellaïche , about building payment infrastructure for the agentic economy. The conversation explores agent-to-agent transactions, usage-based billing, protocol interoperability, regulatory moats and why e...

Most corporates struggle to move fast enough for AI and robotics. Toyota’s answer is corporate venture. In this episode, Andreas Munk Holm and Jeppe Høier speak with Ro Gupta , CEO and Managing Director of Woven Capital , Toyota’s growth-stage venture fund focused on mobility, AI, automation and climate technology. They discuss how Toyota uses CVC to identify frontier technologies, work with start...

What actually gets a consumer company funded in Europe? Fewer things than most founders think. This is one of the questions the first episode of Consumer Tech Napkin explores, with Andreas Munk Holm joined by Sameer Singh (Partner with Speedinvest 's Marketplaces and Consumer team), Susan Lin (Partner and Investor at Felix Capital) and Joe Seager-Dupuy (Director, Investment at True ). The conv...

This week on This Week in European Tech, Mads Jensen of SuperSeed , Lomax Ward of Outsized Ventures and Andrew J Scott of 7percent Ventures discuss Arm’s AI pivot, Spotify earnings and Anthropic’s explosive growth. The conversation also covers the EU’s clash with Meta, ASML’s semiconductor moat, UK fusion ambitions and SAP’s €1 billion acquisition of Prior Labs. Key highlights Why AI may be shifti...

Europe isn’t a collection of isolated hubs. It’s an interconnected system where talent, capital and industry come together to build deep tech. That's the perspective Julien Fredonie⁠ , Program Lead for Europe and Africa at ⁠Honda Xcelerator Ventures⁠ , shared on our latest episode hosted by Andreas Munk Holm and Jeppe Høier . They spoke about why Europe’s deep tech moment is real, how the pipeline...

AI demand is surging, but infrastructure is the constraint, with memory now the key bottleneck. In this episode of This Week in European Tech, Dan Bowyer and Mads Jensen of SuperSeed explore a range of topics such as AI constraints, Big Tech earnings, monetisation, geopolitics, Europe’s position, and what capital flows into AI labs and SpaceX signal about what comes next. Key highlights AI growth...