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A billion-euro bet on Europe’s most uncertain frontiers: climate, deep tech, and industrial transformation. Can government-backed funds catalyze global champions—or do they risk crowding out private capital? Dr. Elisabeth Schrey leads the Deep Tech & Climate Fonds (DTCF) , a €1B investment vehicle co-financed by Germany’s Future Fund and ERP Special Fund. From Munich to Berlin to Brussels, she...

Welcome back to another episode of the EUVC Podcast, where we bring together Europe’s venture family to share the stories, insights, and lessons that drive our ecosystem forward. Today we dive into one of the most under-discussed — yet increasingly important — topics in European venture: Opportunity Funds . Joining Andreas Munk Holm is Lea Strumberger , Senior Investment Manager at KfW Capital , o...

Welcome back to another episode of Upside at the EUVC Podcast, where ⁠ Dan Bowyer , ⁠ Mads Jensen of ⁠SuperSeed⁠, and ⁠ Lomax Ward of ⁠Outsized Ventures⁠ unpack the headlines reshaping European venture. This week, the trio dives into the UK’s blink-and-you-miss-it exit tax , China’s rising open-source AI threat, hyperscaler accounting drama courtesy of Michael Burry, Europe’s supply-chain vulnerab...

Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast , where we explore the frameworks moving European venture, finance, and policy. Two weeks after Building Bridges 2025 in Geneva, Andreas Munk Holm and Enrique , Chi Impact Capital sit down with Patrick Odier — Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Lombard Odier and Chair of Building Bridges — to get practical on financing systemic transition. Odier argues for a shif...

Welcome back to another episode of the EUVC Podcast, your trusted inside track on the people, deals, and dynamics shaping European venture. This week, Andreas Munk Holm is joined by Mariette Roesink , Co‑Founder of Curie Capital . Named after Marie Curie, the fund backs breakthrough life science technologies with a mission to both deliver outsized returns and transform patient outcomes. Mariette a...

Welcome back to another episode of Upside at the EUVC Podcast , where ⁠Dan Bowyer⁠ , ⁠ Mads Jensen⁠ of ⁠SuperSeed⁠ , ⁠Lomax Ward⁠ of ⁠Outsized Ventures⁠ ⁠, and this week’s guest Jone Vaituleviciute , Managing Partner at ⁠ Firstpick⁠ VC , unpack the forces shaping venture across Europe and the Baltics. This week’s conversation bridges Lithuania’s booming early-stage scene and Europe’s macro tension...

Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast — where we go deep with the people shaping European venture. Today, David sits down with Kristaps Ronis , Partner at ION Pacific , a global secondaries investor (HQ in LA, presence in Europe & Asia) focused on Series B+ tech and a specialty that’s getting hotter by the month: structured secondaries . Kristaps runs ION Pacific’s European practice and has been wi...

Welcome back to another EUVC Podcast, where we gather Europe’s venture family to share the stories, insights, and lessons that drive our ecosystem forward. Today we dive into the world of gaming with Alper Oner , Co-founder of Agave Games , and Enis Hulli , General Partner at e2vc . Agave has taken the gaming world by storm with its hit “Find the Cat” — a quirky hidden-object game that has become...

Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast, where we gather Europe’s venture family to share the stories, insights, and lessons that drive our ecosystem forward. Today we zoom in on the inner game with Seb Agertoft , former product leader turned executive coach and Partner at Evolution , a collective of ~80 coaching and leadership-development partners across the US and Europe. Seb works primarily with VC-ba...

Welcome back to another episode of Upside at the EUVC Podcast , where  ⁠Dan Bowyer⁠ , ⁠ Mads Jensen⁠ of  ⁠SuperSeed⁠ ,  ⁠Lomax Ward⁠ of ⁠Outsized Ventures⁠ and ⁠Andrew J Scott⁠  of  ⁠7percent Ventures⁠ , and Lomax unpack the forces shaping European venture capital. This week’s conversation spans the spectrum, from AI moratoriums and political overreach to funding freezes , LP pullbacks , and the q...

This week on the EUVC Podcast, Andreas Munk Holm sits down with Sebastian Peck , Partner at KOMPAS VC , Europe’s leading specialist in industrial tech and the decarbonisation of manufacturing and the built world. KOMPAS VC is an early- and growth-stage venture capital firm backed by leading corporates, focused on transforming how the world builds, moves, and powers itself. With offices in London,...

Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast , where we bring you the people and perspectives shaping European venture. Today we’re joined by Lucanus Polagnoli (Founding Partner & CEO) and Stephanie Urbanski (Managing Director) of Calm/Storm — a specialist early-stage fund backing software-only digital health across Europe. Fresh off the close of Fund II , we dive into how they’ve evolved from a solo-GP e...

Welcome to a new episode of the EUVC Podcast , where our good friends Dan Bowyer , Mads Jensen , Lomax Ward , and Andrew Beebe (Managing Director at Obvious Ventures) dig into the headlines shaping Europe’s venture, policy, and tech future. This week, the crew dives deep into automation and AI’s real-world impact : Amazon’s plans to replace half a million jobs with robots, the question of whether...

Welcome back to another EUVC Podcast, where we explore the lessons, frameworks, and insights shaping Europe’s venture ecosystem. Today’s episode marks a major milestone for Notion Capital - the launch of its new Growth Fund , designed to back Europe’s most ambitious B2B software founders beyond Series B. Today, Andreas Munk Holm sits down with Stephen Chandler , Jessica Bartos , formerly of Salesf...

Welcome back to another episode of the EUVC Podcast , where we bring you the people and perspectives shaping European venture. Today, we’re joined by Alexandre Mars , the French entrepreneur and philanthropist behind Blisce , one of Europe’s pioneering B Corp-certified venture funds. From bootstrapping his first business at 17 to building and selling multiple startups across Europe and the US, Ale...

This week, Andreas Munk Holm and Jeppe Høier sit down with Matti Rönkkö , Managing Director of Kiilto Ventures , the venture arm of Finnish family-owned Kiilto . From Rocket Internet to running a corporate-backed, family-owned venture arm, Matti shares how Kiilto Ventures blends family capital, industry know-how, and VC pace to back startups in the sustainable built environment . They dive into po...

In this episode, Andreas Munk Holm speaks with Anders Kjær , General Partner at PSV Hafnium , Denmark’s first dedicated deep tech fund. Together, they explore the evolving role of technical founders, the Nordic research-industrial complex, and how early-stage deep tech capital needs to work differently to unlock tomorrow’s transformative companies. Here’s what’s covered: 01:30 Why PSV Hafnium Was...

Welcome to a new episode of the EUVC Podcast , where our good friends Dan Bowyer and Mads Jensen from SuperSeed are joined by Lomax Ward from Outsized Ventures and Ben Prade , investor & operator at Bullhound Capital (the investment arm of GP Bullhound), for an unfiltered look at Europe’s venture reality: fundraising pain, secondaries-as-a-service, AI’s power hunger, China’s “dark factories,”...

Welcome back to the EUCVC Summit Talks, where we spotlight Europe’s corporate venture leaders, founders, and academics shaping the future of venture collaboration. In this episode, Francesco Di Lorenzo, Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School, takes the stage to share fresh research on the state of corporate venture capital (CVC) in the Nordics. From Sweden to Denmark, Francesco explores...

Welcome back to the EUCVC Summit Talks, where we bring you candid conversations with Europe’s leading founders, corporate leaders, and investors shaping the future of venture collaboration. In this session, Christian Tang, Partner at San Francisco–based Acme, and Claus Gregersen, CEO of the 275-year-old evergreen investor Augustinus Fabrikker, explore what global ambition really means in today’s v...

Welcome back to the EUCVC Summit Talks, where we bring you candid conversations with Europe’s leading founders, corporate leaders, and investors shaping the future of venture collaboration. In this episode, Anne C. Fleischer , Global VP of Consumer Engagement and New Business Models at Novo Nordisk , joins Henrijette Richter , Managing Partner at Sofinnova Partners , for a conversation on the futu...

Corporate venture capital has become a $100B+ force in tech. Charlie Hayward from Global Corporate Venturing unpacks what’s really driving the trend: which sectors are heating up, where CVCs make a difference, and how Europe stacks up under capital constraints and geopolitical pressure. Here’s what’s covered: 00:00 – Setting the stage: CVC as a $100B+ global force 01:00 – Why corporate venture mat...

Welcome back to the EUCVC Summit Talks, where we bring you candid conversations with Europe’s leading founders, corporate leaders, and investors shaping the future of venture collaboration. In this session, Marcus Behrendt , Managing Director at BMW i Ventures , and Nicole LeBlanc , Partner at Woven Capital (Toyota’s global growth fund), join Andreas Munk Holm to explore the shifting landscape of...

Welcome back to another episode of the EUVC Podcast, where we bring you the people and perspectives shaping European venture. Today, we’re joined by Alexey Plesakov and Alexander Lis from Social Discovery Ventures (SDV) — a quietly influential, globally active investment firm deploying capital across the US and Europe. Born out of the bootstrapped success of Social Discovery Group (the company beh...

With: Nicholas Nelson (Archangel) • Dan • Lomax • MadsTL;DW• Defence-first wins on capability and returns; primes are partners and channels.• Helsing: buys platforms/revenue for access; layers AI—different from Anduril’s buy-TRL-tech + scale model.• Beyond drones: biggest gap/opportunity is tactical EW.• Procurement: more fast lanes (SOF, pilots); primes getting easier to work with.• AI: real prof...