The European VC

Today, we welcome Rodrigo Ferreira , Investment Director at Vinthera , for a new episode of the EUVC podcast. As a VC investor at Vinthera, a hybrid venture capital fund, Rodrigo is backing top-performing VCs as an LP and their breakout companies across the US, Europe, and Israel. Prior to joining Vinthera, Rodrigo gained 5 years of experience backing VC fund managers across the globe as Principal...

Today, we are joined by David Dana . David is the Head of VC Investments at the European Investment Fund , leading the Disruptive Tech & Innovation VC Team with 10 investment professionals. He contributed to developing the new #InvestEU financing program of the EU, aiming at ensuring the technological sovereignty of Europe. Previously, he has been in charge of EIF investments in VC funds in France...

Today, we have Natasha Lytton with us. Natasha is the Director of Brand at Seedcamp , where she runs all things brand, network strategy, and post-investment activities. She creates the infrastructure and runs the team to support the portfolio of the fund that stands for over +460 companies. She loves discovering and helping to build startups that have the potential to radically change the future a...

Celebrating one of the finalists in the Newcomer of the Year category at this year’s European VC Awards , this episode dives deep with Clare Murray , co-founder and Managing Partner of Blume Equity . Blume Equity is a climate-tech growth equity firm investing in companies driving sustainable outcomes for planet and people. With offices in Amsterdam and London, and based in Luxembourg, the fund inv...

Today, we have with us David Bateman , Managing Partner at Claret Capital Partners a growth capital fund based in the United Kingdom. The venture capital fund has a total size of €297M with +€700M in AUM and focuses primarily on growth-stage and VC-backed deals with European companies that are typically post-Series B. As an investment thesis, they focus on technology and life science companies, an...

Today, we have a different episode for you, introducing you to the first episode of the newly launched Startups in Focus series by Seedcamp . This first episode features Carlos Espinal , Managing Partner of Seedcamp, in a conversation with Johannes Keienburg, PhD , co-founder and CEO of Cakewalk , on building access management processes. Their conversation revolves around: * The importance of acce...

Today, we are joined by Michael Smith, the co-founder and General Partner of Regeneration. VC Fund II of $150M. Regeneration. VC is an early-stage venture fund supercharging consumer-powered climate innovation. Michael ran marketing & digital for Smith Broadcasting, a group of 20 network TV stations, before selling to Boston Ventures. Shortly thereafter, he followed his lifelong passion for music...

Celebrating one of the finalists in the Firm of The Year-category at this year’s European VC Awards, this episodes dives deep with Stephen Chandler , Co-founder & Managing Partner of Notion Capital. With 1.1 bn€ under management and 5 flagship funds under their belt, Notion is one of Europe’s absolute top firms and in this episode, Stephen dives into a level of detail rarely seen discussing everyt...

Today, we have with us Stephan Heller , Founding Partner at AlphaQ Venture Capital . AQVC is an innovative, evergreen VC fund of funds focused on small VCs globally and democratizing diversified access to venture capital. Stephan is a seasoned tech entrepreneur and investor passionate about nurturing the next generation of innovative companies, developing robust platforms, and cultivating thriving...

Today, we have Carina Namih and Sten Tamkivi with us. Carina and Sten are Partners at Plural , a 400M EUR early-stage venture fund to back ambitious European founders on massive missions with hands-on help from experienced operators. Plural launched in June 2022 with the aim to give serious founders in Europe investors with company-building experience to match their ambition. Plural’s mission is t...

The landscape of venture capital is evolving, and Isomer Capital is at the forefront with its new fund designed to meet the dynamic needs of the European venture capital market. We sat down with Joe Schorge and Omolade Adebisi from Isomer to talk through the market, the strategy and the future. Well-worth a watch as we open up the deck that raised the fund and tap the brains that incept and run it...

Rainer Märkle is the General Partner of HV Capital , €380m Venture and €400m Growth fund, with almost €3BN AUM. Rainer joined HV 15 years ago. In his third week at the firm, HV invested in Zalando. Accompanying the founders of Zalando from seed to IPO and beyond has been the most rewarding chapter in his VC career. It taught him that anything is possible, boundaries are imaginary, and amazing thin...

We continue our discussion on Fundraising during and after the tech reset, as part of our little hype parade ahead of the launch of the State of European VC Fundraising Report . Today, we have with us two close friends of the pod: Carlos Eduardo Espinal from Seedcamp and Bogdan Iordache from Underline Ventures . Carlos Eduardo Espinal is a Managing Partner at  Seedcamp , arguably , Europe's leadin...

We sat down with Daniel Keiper Knorr , founding partner of Speedinvest for a discussion on what he thinks allowed them to raise 500 million during and after the tech reset. What ensued was a conversation revealing how Speedinvest decided to diverge from traditional VC practices by dedicating substantial resources including the full time attention Daniel, one of the founding partners, to fundraisin...

Today, we are meeting with Ertan Can , the Founding General Partner of Multiple Capital , a venture capital fund based in Luxembourg. Ertan has just closed his third fund with a target of $50M after investing already in companies like NP-Hard, Angular, Airstreet (1), Lunar, Fly, Inflection, Foreword by Declan, and Remote First Capital by Andi Klinger, Nomad by Marc McCabe. Watch it here or add it...

In this roundtable, we pull the curtain back on some of the core insights from our upcoming State of European VC Fundraising-report and dive deep on the impact of the tech reset for fundraising managers, discuss GP/LP dynamics and uncover how VCs best navigate the current fundraising environment. For the conversation, we brought together some of the most respected investors in our ecosystem: Danie...

In our webinar, "Investing and Scaling in Romania and Beyond," we delve into the dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), placing a special emphasis on Romania. We celebrate the region's remarkable technical prowess and its rich engineering history, exploring how countries across CEE navigate the complexities of fostering startups that are global in their aspirations...

Today, we have Davor Hebel with us. Davor is the Managing Partner at Eight Roads , a $11bn global venture platform. The firm has over 450 portfolio companies, including 60 IPOs and many unicorns , such as Alibaba , Toast , Flywire , Chewy , Hibob , Neo4j , and Fever . Eight Roads invests in companies at scale-up stages (usually rounds A-C) and helps them win globally. Davor runs the Europe and Isr...

Today, we have Christine Tsai with us. Christine co-founded 500 Global in 2010, and led the firm’s growth over the past decade from a startup accelerator to a multi-stage venture capital firm with $2.4B in assets under management, and investments in more than 2,900 companies in 80+ countries. 500 Global regularly ranks as one of the most active venture capital firms in the world , according to Pit...

Join us for a new episode of the NEUVC series dedicated to those embarking on their journey in the VC. In this episode, Freddie Macpherson , Associate at Isomer Capital , and Linda Võeras , Investment Manager at Karma Ventures , are joined by Marie Brayer , Partner at Fly Ventures . Fly Ventures is an early-stage deep tech and tech-heavy B2B software specialist fund. They are the first-check VC fo...

If one of your guilty pleasures is watching four wealthy, over-the-top opinionated talking heads every weekend, you may recall that Chamath Palihapitiya predicted that 2024 will be the year that bitcoin becomes a mainstream asset. We brought together three true crypto native VCs to discuss crypto’s comeback, recent trends and where we’re headed. Watch it above or on Apple / Spotify for a discussio...

Join us as we step back and chart the evolution of European VC with a true O.G. Roundtable: * Yaron Valler , Founding Partner at Target Global * Kerry Baldwin , Founding Partner at IQ Capital * Chris Wade , Founding Partner at Isomer Capital And moderated by Andreas Munk Holm from EUVC and Gabriel Shin, CFA from Vauban from Carta 🎙️. Chapters: * 00:02:28 The Transformation of European Venture Capi...

Today, we have Vincent Touati-Tomas with us. Vincent is the Head of Marketing at Northzone , a global VC firm Northzone that has raised more than ten funds to date, with its most recent fundraising in excess of €1 billion, investing in startups from Seed to Growth. Northzone is investing out of Fund X and more than 80 active portfolio companies and notable investments, including Personio , Klarna...

Today, we have Jan Voss with us. Jan is the Head of Family Office at BLN Capital , a Berlin-based Single Family Office. BLN invests across almost all asset classes but has historically been most active in early-stage ventures in Germany as well as the VC and PE fund space. AT BLN, Jan leads a three-person investment team focused on long-term investments across almost all asset classes. Jan is also...

Today, we have Julia Hawkins with us. Julia is a General Partner at Phoenix Court , a $1.5bn AUM EMEA multi-stage tech investor, backing the most ambitious founders on their journey from seed through to public markets and beyond over the last two decades. LocalGlobe is the pre-seed and seed fund investing out of Phoenix Court’s Fund 12 with an established portfolio of over 200 companies with notab...