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What exactly are LPs buying when they allocate to venture today and do they still believe in it? In this episode, Andreas sits down with Max Bray and Juliet Bailin , both Venture Partners at Kindred Capital VC to unpack what’s really happening beneath the fundraising headlines. Max brings the raw perspective of trying to raise a first-time fund in 2025 with unicorn-founder GPs, strong angel track...

Climate isn’t “over.” But building in climate has entered a new chapter, defined by shifting regulation, politicized narratives, buyer confusion, and a market that funded dozens of overlapping platforms. In this episode, Andreas and co-host Carmel Rafaeli , Founding Partner at The Table , sit down with Lubomila Jordanova , Co-founder & CEO of Plan A , just weeks after Plan Ajoined forces with...

In a market where “AI fund” can mean almost anything, Lumo Labs is unusually specific: digital deep tech , deployed early , and anchored in one of Europe’s densest innovation clusters— Eindhoven , home of Philips’ legacy and the High Tech Campus (“smartest square kilometer” energy). In this EUVC pitch episode, Andreas sits down with Andy Lurling , founder & GP of Lumo Labs , to unpack how an e...

Welcome back to another episode of Upside where Dan Bowyer and Mads Jensen of SuperSeed go behind the headlines shaping European tech, capital, and power. This week we’re joined by Eyal Malinger , co-founder of Resurge Growth Partners , to unpack a genuinely strange week in global tech. China unveils humanoid robots that look disturbingly battlefield-ready. Anthropic tries to draw moral lines in d...

In this EUVC Live at GoWest episode, Olivier Tonneau , Founding Partner Quantonation , Jeppe Høier , Co-Host at EUVC Corporate , Paolo Pio , Co-founder and General Partner at Exceptional Ventures , Fergus Bell , Founder and Managing Partner at The Players Fund , and Prashant Agarwal , Chairman and Managing Director at Scandian xplore one defining question: How does Europe turn frontier innovation...

Is Europe’s defense investment wave real, or is it simply venture capital wrapped in a Ukrainian flag? The debate featured  Nicholas Nelson ,  General Partner at  Archangel Ventures , and  Sebastian von Ribbentrop ,  Founding Partner at  Join Capital . At stake is more than narrative. It is about capability, returns, sovereignty — and the structural future of European capital markets. Until recent...

Europe is not facing a crisis of ideas — it is facing a crisis of industrial depth. In this EUVC episode, Danijel Višević (Co-Founder & General Partner, World Fund), Heidi Lindvall (Founder & General Partner, Pale Blue Dot ), Narina Mnatsakanian (Partner & Chief Impact Officer at Regeneration VC ), Dr. Isabella Fandrych (Co-Founder and General Partner at Nucleus Capital) , and Moritz J...

Introduced by our very own  Andreas Munk Holm , this EUVC Live at GoWest session brings together policymakers, institutional investors, GPs, corporates, and public capital leaders around one defining question: How does Europe mobilise its own capital to secure its technological future? Across every session, one theme emerges repeatedly: Europe does not lack talent. It does not lack innovation. It...

Welcome back to another episode of Upside where Dan Bowyer , Mads Jensen of SuperSeed and Lomax Ward of Outsized Ventures go behind the headlines shaping European tech, capital, and power. This week is an AI-heavy sprint with a guest who’s right in the Gulf capital flow: Sam Marchant . Anthropic’s monster round is the headline, but the more interesting story is underneath: enterprise AI is becomin...

Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast, where we bring you the people and perspectives shaping European venture. In this pitch episode, Andreas Munk Holm sits down with Pedro Ribeiro Santos , Partner at Armilar , to walk LPs through the story, strategy, and succession plan behind Armilar Fund IV — the firm’s new pan-European early-stage fund. Armilar is one of Europe’s longest-standing independent tech...

Welcome to another episode of the EUVC Podcast! Today, we’re diving into How Corporates Might just be able Beat VCs in the AI Race. Or maybe more importantly, how we can collaborate. Our guest is Alex Dang , co-author of the bestselling book The Venture Mindset: How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth . Alex is a seasoned technology executive and innovation advisor with over two...

Europe’s debate about gender equity in venture has moved beyond awareness and intention. The real question now is much sharper: how does capital actually move, where does it get stuck, and what genuinely changes outcomes for women building companies today? In this episode, Andreas  sits down with D ebbie Wosskow , a serial founder, investor, and Chair of the UK’s Invest in Women Task Force, to dis...

Welcome back to another episode of Upside where Dan Bowyer , Mads Jensen of SuperSeed and Lomax Ward of Outsized Ventures go behind the headlines shaping European tech, capital, and power. This week is a high-velocity sprint through the AI model wars, hyperscaler capex, and the growing sense that SaaS is about to be structurally repriced by agents. Anthropic and OpenAI go toe-to-toe with flagship...

This episode starts with a surprising origin story: before building one of Europe’s most iconic on-demand companies, Sacha Michaud left home at 16 to become a professional racehorse jockey. From there, we go deep into the operator playbook behind Glovo ’s rise: launching fast, expanding internationally with limited capital, choosing battles ruthlessly, and pulling out of markets quickly when the d...

Welcome back! In this episode, Andreas Munk Holm sits down with Simon Thomas , CEO of Paragraf , one of Europe’s rare hard-tech success stories, taking graphene from scientific breakthrough to industrial-scale electronics. Graphene has been called the “wonder material” for two decades. The promise has always been clear: faster, better, and dramatically more energy-efficient electronics. The missin...

Welcome back to another episode of Upside where Dan Bowyer , Mads Jensen of SuperSeed , and Lomax Ward of Outsized Ventures go behind the headlines shaping European tech, capital, and power. This week’s episode opens, as always, with light deal banter, closing jokes, and a reminder that fourth-time founders are still the most bankable asset in venture. From Saudi Arabia’s surprisingly coherent Vis...

Welcome back to the EUVC Corporate Podcast . This week, Jeppe sits down with Axel Deniz , CEO of Bosch Business Innovations and Head of Venture Building at Bosch. Axel is building Bosch’s venture-building engine with a clear mandate: get Bosch technology out into the world , through founder-led spinouts, joint ventures, and seed rounds that can stand on their own with external investors. With ~80,...

In conversation with our very own  Andreas Munk Holm ,  Christian Hernandez , founding GP of  2150  and  Jan Hofmann   of the  Viessmann Generations Group , look at how climate investing is moving from narrative to industrial reality, where cities, energy, materials, and manufacturing become venture-scale markets, and execution matters more than slogans. Today,  2150  officially launched its  €210...

Welcome back to another episode of Upside at the EUVC Podcast , where Dan Bowyer , Mads Jensen of SuperSeed , and Lomax Ward of Outsized Ventures go behind the headlines shaping European tech, capital, and power. This week’s episode starts, as ever, with tech failing spectacularly, planes landing late, and VCs reminding each other they really should be doing deals. Then it gets serious. From a bil...

Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast, where we bring you the people and perspectives shaping European venture. This week, Andreas Munk Holm is joined by Max Schertel , co-founder & CEO of finmid , and Tim Rehder , General Partner at Earlybird , to unpack the rise of embedded lending infrastructure for B2B platforms . From food delivery and PSPs to ride-hailing and fleet platforms, finmid lets mark...

Welcome back to another episode of Upside at the EUVC Podcast , where Dan Bowyer , Mads Jensen of SuperSeed , and Lomax Ward of Outsized Ventures cut through the noise shaping tech, venture, and geopolitics in Europe and beyond. This week starts lightly, as all good episodes do, with kids, illness paranoia, and the small joys of enforced medical naps. It escalates quickly. From OpenAI’s new health...

Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast where we go behind the craft of building and backing venture-scale companies in Europe. Today, we’re joined by Sean Mullaney , Founder & CEO of Seapoint , and Will Prendergast , as the Founding Partner at Frontline Ventures . Seapoint has just come out of stealth with a $3M pre-seed to rebuild the fragile and fragmented financial stack that European startups (a...

Welcome back to another episode of the EUVC Podcast. Today, Jeppe sits down with Emil Eifrem , founder & CEO of Neo4j , the world’s leading graph database and a core infrastructure layer for AI applications used by all 20 of the top US banks, 9 of 10 global pharma giants, and every major automotive OEM. Emil recently announced a $100M global startup program to back founders building the next g...

In this episode, Andreas Munk Holm speaks with Oskar Hartmann , legendary operator turned super angel. From Kazakhstan to Germany, Russia, Japan, and now Dubai and Silicon Valley, Oskar has built and exited more than 10 companies, invested in 150+ ventures (14 unicorns among them), and today is pioneering a new way to solve concentration risk for founders and angels: Accumulator , a share-pooling...

Welcome back to another episode of Upside at the EUVC Podcast , where ⁠Dan Bowyer⁠ , ⁠ Mads Jensen⁠ of ⁠SuperSeed⁠ and ⁠Lomax Ward⁠ of ⁠Outsized Ventures⁠ ⁠⁠ cut through the noise shaping tech, venture, and geopolitics in Europe and beyond. This week starts lightly, as all good episodes do, with kids, illness paranoia, and the small joys of enforced medical naps. It escalates quickly. From OpenAI’...