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Introduced by Andreas Munk Holm , this EUVC Live at GoWest series spotlights the thought leadership of 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 the sessions, one theme emerges repeatedly: Europe does not lack talent. It does not lack innovation...

Introduced by Andreas Munk Holm , this EUVC Live at GoWest series spotlights the thought leadership of policymakers, institutional investors, GPs, corporates, and public capital leaders around one defining question: How does Europe mobilize its own capital to secure its technological future? Across the sessions, one theme emerges repeatedly: Europe does not lack talent. It does not lack innovation...

Introduced by Andreas Munk Holm , this EUVC Live at GoWest series spotlights the thought leadership of policymakers, institutional investors, GPs, corporates, and public capital leaders around one defining question: How does Europe mobilize its own capital to secure its technological future? Across the sessions, one theme emerges repeatedly: Europe does not lack talent. It does not lack innovation...

Introduced by Andreas Munk Holm , this EUVC Live at GoWest series spotlights the thought leadership of policymakers, institutional investors, GPs, corporates, and public capital leaders around one defining question: How does Europe mobilize its own capital to secure its technological future? Across the sessions, one theme emerges repeatedly: Europe does not lack talent. It does not lack innovation...

Introduced by Andreas Munk Holm , this EUVC Live at GoWest series spotlights the thought leadership of policymakers, institutional investors, GPs, corporates, and public capital leaders around one defining question: How does Europe mobilize its own capital to secure its technological future? Across the sessions, one theme emerges repeatedly: Europe does not lack talent. It does not lack innovation...

Introduced by Andreas Munk Holm , this EUVC Live at GoWest series spotlights the thought leadership of policymakers, institutional investors, GPs, corporates, and public capital leaders around one defining question: How does Europe mobilize its own capital to secure its technological future? Across the sessions, one theme emerges repeatedly: Europe does not lack talent. It does not lack innovation...

Introduced by Andreas Munk Holm , this EUVC Live at GoWest series spotlights the thought leadership of policymakers, institutional investors, GPs, corporates, and public capital leaders around one defining question: How does Europe mobilize its own capital to secure its technological future? Across the sessions, one theme emerges repeatedly: Europe does not lack talent. It does not lack innovation...

Introduced by Andreas Munk Holm , this EUVC Live at GoWest series spotlights the thought leadership of 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 the sessions, one theme emerges repeatedly: Europe does not lack talent. It does not lack innovation...

Introduced by Andreas Munk Holm , this EUVC Live at GoWest series spotlights the thought leadership of policymakers, institutional investors, GPs, corporates, and public capital leaders around one defining question: How does Europe mobilize its own capital to secure its technological future? Across the sessions, one theme emerges repeatedly: Europe does not lack talent. It does not lack innovation...

Introduced by Andreas Munk Holm , this EUVC Live at GoWest series spotlights the thought leadership of policymakers, institutional investors, GPs, corporates, and public capital leaders around one defining question: How does Europe mobilize its own capital to secure its technological future? Across the sessions, one theme emerges repeatedly: Europe does not lack talent. It does not lack innovation...

Introduced by Andreas Munk Holm , this EUVC Live at GoWest series spotlights the thought leadership of 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 all sessions, one unifying theme emerges: Europe does not lack talent. It does not lack innovation....

Introduced by Andreas Munk Holm , this EUVC Live at GoWest series spotlights the thought leadership of 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 the sessions, one theme emerges repeatedly: Europe does not lack talent. It does not lack innovation...

Introduced by our very own Andreas Munk Holm , this EUVC Live at GoWest series spotlights the thought leadership of 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 the sessions, one theme emerges repeatedly: Europe does not lack talent. It does not la...

Introduced by Andreas Munk Holm , this EUVC Live at GoWest series spotlights the thought leadership of 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 the sessions, one theme emerges repeatedly: Europe does not lack talent. It does not lack innovation...

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 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 becoming workflow-sticky , while OpenAI f...

Celebrating Lassie ’s $75M Series C announcement, Andreas was joined by Hedda Båverud Olsson , Founder & CEO of Lassie , and Rob Moffat , Partner at Balderton Capital . It’s one of the largest European insurtech rounds of the past year. Lassie might be one of the clearest examples in Europe of what people mean when they say “agentic AI” — not as a concept, not as a demo, but as something that’s al...

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...

Allonic Raises $7.2M to Rebuild How Robotic Hardware Is Made As robotics intelligence advances, hardware manufacturing is emerging as the main constraint on scale. Most advanced robots are still assembled manually from many precision components, making them expensive, complex, and difficult to adapt to new use cases. Co-founded by Benedek Tasi , Dávid László Pelyva and David Hollo , Allonic , a Hu...

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 Debbie Wosskow , a serial founder, investor, and Chair of the UK’s Invest in Women Task Force, to discu...

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...

Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast where we dive deep into the craft of building and backing venture-scale companies in Europe. Roaming is one of those problems everyone accepts… until they travel. You land, your phone lights up, and suddenly you’re making tradeoffs: * Do I buy a local SIM? * Do I risk the roaming bill? * Do I go dark and live on WiFi? * Do I lose my number for a week? And here’s th...

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 , Lomax Ward of Outsized Ventures and Andrew J. Scott go behind the headlines shaping European tech, capital, and power. From Saudi Arabia’s surprisingly coherent Vision 2030 to Europe’s chronic inability to articulate a shared mission, this is a wide-ranging conversation about strategy, scale, and what actually...