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Convelio’s most difficult period forced some of its most consequential decisions. After the art market contracted sharply, the company reduced its team, changed its business model and shifted its focus from top-line growth towards profitability. Host Andreas Munk Holm speaks with Edouard Gouin , CEO and Co-Founder of Convelio , about navigating that period and the decisions that ultimately helped...

The AI market is moving from proving the technology works to proving who can actually capture the value. In this episode of This Week in European Tech, Dan Bowyer , Mads Jensen and Priyanka Savjani of SuperSeed discuss the pressure building across AI infrastructure, Nvidia’s growing influence as both investor and supplier and why founders need to think carefully about strategic dependency. They al...

Europe’s manufacturing sector faces a growing labour shortage, while much of the continent’s industrial base remains difficult to automate with traditional robotics. In this conversation from the EUVC Summit & Awards Show 2026, Tomaz Stolfa , Co-Founder and CEO of Sunrise Robotics , joins Patrick Murphy , Partner at Tapestry VC , to discuss what it takes to bring robotics into high-mix, low-vo...

AI’s footprint is visible in the energy, water and infrastructure required to run it. Its positive impact is harder to capture in a single number, which can make the costs of AI easier to see than the value it creates. In this talk, Harry Haeck , Partner at Smartfin , looks at both sides of that equation. He starts with the story of San Marcos, Texas, where residents rejected a $1.5 billion data c...

Europe’s strongest AI opportunity may not be building the biggest general-purpose model. It could be applying AI where the region already has an advantage in science, engineering and specialised industries. In this episode of This Week in European Tech, Dan Bowyer⁠ , ⁠Mads Jensen⁠ and ⁠Priyanka Savjani⁠ of ⁠SuperSeed⁠ discuss what London-built Isomorphic Labs tells us about that opportunity and wh...

Cheap, reliable energy is becoming a strategic advantage. As AI, data centres and manufacturing demand more power, the economics of electricity increasingly influence which countries and companies can stay competitive. Recorded at EUVC Summit 2026, Joe McDonald , CEO and Co-Founder of tem , joins Adam Chirkowski , Partner at AlbionVC , to discuss how the energy market needs to change and why the U...

A credible CVC does not have to start with a traditional fund structure. Haufe Group Ventures ⁠ built its model around an evergreen balance-sheet setup, a lean team and a clear mandate, proving the approach through deals rather than a large fund launch. In this episode, Andreas Munk Holm and Jeppe Høier speak with Jasper Roll , Managing Director at Haufe Group Ventures⁠, about how he helped build...

Getting pension capital into venture is not simply about proving that the returns are attractive. It requires building an investment model that institutions can actually underwrite, while knowing which parts of the strategy should remain non-negotiable. Pavel Mucha , Founder of Aspire11 , explains how a Czech pension fund committed €500 million to venture and growth investing, why the team chose t...

Sending a car or moped across a city to deliver a single meal is an expensive and inefficient way to move food. Drone delivery offers a different model, with the potential to make last-mile logistics faster, cheaper and cleaner. Patrick Murphy , Co-founder and Managing Partner at Tapestry VC and a founding investor and board member at Manna , explains how autonomous drone delivery is moving into r...

ElevenLabs reaching a $22 billion valuation is another sign that Europe can produce globally competitive AI companies. But as personal agents become more capable, Europe also risks falling behind if consumers get access later and the US captures the learning curve first. In this episode of This Week in European Tech, Dan Bowyer , Mads Jensen and Priyanka Savjani of SuperSeed discuss what ElevenLab...

A product can solve a real problem and still fail to make it through enterprise procurement. Greg Lawton , CEO at Nodes & Links , joins Andreas Munk Holm to explain why technical founders selling into large, risk-sensitive organisations need more than product-market fit. Greg argues that they also need company commercial fit: the processes, security, compliance and operational maturity require...

Working longer does not necessarily make founders feel worse. In fact, some of the founders putting in the most hours report feeling healthier than their peers. Itxaso del Palacio , General Partner at Notion Capital , explores this founder health paradox and why feeling capable of pushing harder may not be the same as performing sustainably. Using lessons from endurance sport and findings from Not...

Europe’s exposure to technologies and supply chains it does not control is becoming harder to ignore. In this episode of This Week in European Tech, Dan Bowyer, Mads Jensen of SuperSeed and Andrew J Scott of 7percent Ventures look at that problem from several angles. The discussion starts with US–China tensions over rare earths before turning to Europe’s own reliance on Chinese refining capacity a...

AI in GTM is often framed as a productivity tool: write the email faster, automate the workflow or increase the volume of outreach. Harrison Rose , Co-Founder of Goodfit and Paddle , makes the case for a more fundamental shift. His argument is that AI becomes far more valuable when it moves from executing tasks to making decisions. Harrison traces that thinking back to Paddle, where classification...

Uncertainty is uncomfortable, but Marc Thom , Head of Henkel Ventures , argues that it can also create the conditions for new businesses, technologies and growth. Marc describes resilience as a muscle: not simply surviving disruption, but learning how to turn challenges into commercial opportunities. He connects that idea to sustainability, resource dependency and demographic change, and explains...

A CVC can stay active on paper while becoming increasingly irrelevant to the company that owns it. That was the situation Hans Söhngen stepped into at KPN Ventures. After years of early-stage investing, the fund lacked strong internal anchoring and had too little evidence of the value it was creating for KPN. In this conversation, Andreas Munk Holm and Jeppe Høier speak with Hans Söhngen , Managin...

For climate hardware, technical performance is only the start. Commercial viability depends on risk-averse buyers trusting the product, industry recommenders backing it and manufacturers being able to reproduce it reliably at scale. Blue Frontier ’s journey from pilot units to commercial deployments shows how much of that work happens outside the lab. More than 90,000 hours of field operation and...

Europe’s venture ecosystem has grown, but how durable is the capital supporting it? Government and sovereign funding remain significant while European pension fund participation is still limited. In this episode, Dan Bowyer , Mads Jensen and Priyanka Savjani of SuperSeed examine what Europe’s reliance on public capital means for the long-term strength of its venture market. They also share their t...

What changes when an investor encounters a founder who expands their sense of what is possible? Krishna Visvanathan , Co-Founder and Partner at Crane Venture Partners , reflects on meeting James Dacombe in 2019. At 19, James was proposing a non-invasive brain sensor inspired by the experiences of two grandparents with dementia. Krishna could not yet know whether the technology behind CoMind would...

Europe can invest heavily in AI, but without enough cheap, reliable electricity, its ambitions will eventually hit a physical limit. Data centres, industry and digital infrastructure all need power, making Europe’s energy system an increasingly important part of its technology strategy. Alex Bakir , General Partner at Norrsken Evolve , argues that electricity is becoming a question of competitiven...

What Europe lacks is not necessarily talent. The bigger challenge is keeping ambitious founders here, financing them at scale and capturing more of the value created by European technology. In this episode of This Week in European Tech, Dan Bowyer and Priyanka Savjani of SuperSeed are joined by Andrew J Scott of 7percent Ventures to discuss what needs to change if Europe wants to build and retain...

What does it really mean to be AI-native when hiring or backing a leadership team? Chris Preston , CEO at ZEREN , a global technology recruitment firm, and Rishabh Kaul , Venture Partner at Hoxton Ventures , discuss how AI is changing the signals that matter in senior talent, from curiosity and hands-on experimentation to judgement and functional expertise. Recorded at the EUVC Summit & Awards...

Responsible innovation works best when it creates products people genuinely prefer, not when it asks them to accept a compromise. Rokas Peciulaitis , Founder and Managing Partner at Contrarian Ventures , argues that better products, longer lifecycles and stronger customer loyalty can make responsibility a competitive advantage. Using examples from Vinted, Patagonia and Mako, Rokas explores how fou...

Apple’s decision to rent rather than build its core AI model raises a wider question for Europe: where should companies own the technology, and where does it make more sense to build on top of the best models available? That is one of the themes in this episode of This Week in European Tech, featuring Dan Bowyer , Mads Jensen and Priyanka Savjani of SuperSeed , alongside Andrew J Scott of 7percent...

Complexity is one of the biggest barriers to scaling, and AI may make it worse. As building new features gets easier, the temptation is to keep adding. Dave Bailey , CEO of Founder Coach , argues that scaling requires the opposite: subtraction. In this talk from the EUVC Summit & Awards Show 2026, he shares a practical framework for focusing on the goal that matters most, challenging plans tha...