The European VC

Today’s episode is a special one as we’re diving deep on Join Capital not only with Founding Partner Tobias Schirmer , but also with one of their core LPs, ‘The Architect’ Joe Schorge , Founding Partner of Isomer Capital . Recorded as their raise for Fund II is coming to a close, we dive into the story and strategy of Join from both the GP and LP angle, uncovering perspectives rarely shared public...

Today we're happy to welcome Sabina Wizander, Partner at Creandum , one of Europe’s leading European early-stage VC firms with a portfolio counting the likes of Spotify, Klarna, KRY, Epidemic Sound, and Small Giant Games. ✨ Sabina is a fearless, hands-on, go-getter. Before joining Creandum , she worked in the C-level team of Kry , one of the fund’s portfolio companies, and as a Consultant at McKi...

VC is a funny business. We back the smartest, hardest-working individuals on the planet in the hopes they’ll survive, even flourish, on the cutthroat journey to a VC-scale exit. Rightfully, they expect us to be on top of our game. We back these tech mavericks with funds it’s taken us years to raise from wealthy, powerful people around the globe. Rightfully, they expect us to be on top of our game....

Today, we're happy to welcome you to Rana Yared , General Partner at Balderton Capital - one of Europe's most successful venture capital firms that has raised almost $5BN across 10 funds over the past 21 years.  Balderton has backed some of the continent's most incredible companies, including Revolut, CityMapper, Workable, and Go Cardless, amongst other global tech leaders! This episode was kindly...

As an ardent admirer of Speedinvest 's exceptional work in Europe, we’re stoked to share with you our conversation with Andreas Schwarzenbrunner , partner at Speedinvest and author of the newly launched report “Inside the Minds of European VCs.” Here's some of what awaits you: 🔗 We'll unravel the intriguing similarities and differences between European and US venture capital , shedding light on t...

Earlier-than-expected first close of Isomer Capital’s third flagship fund continues proven strategy of investing in Europe’s best venture capital funds and their breakout companies The TL:DR * Isomer Capital’s track record and reputation as a ‘partnership’ investor has enabled the firm’s third flagship fund to reach a substantial first close ahead of schedule, despite headwinds in the macro-enviro...

Expect fascinating stories from Balderton's Rana Yared about her invaluable experiences from taking many companies from seed to successful exit, hear from industry experts like Speedinvest’s Deepali Nangia , who will share what it's like to who will share what it's like to make a move from angel investing into VC. Check Warner from Ada Ventures will discuss building a global movement to address ba...

For this week’s episode, we got a rare look at GP/LP co-investment dynamics with participants from both sides of the table . And most importantly: Alexis Hussou of HCVC & Chris Wade of Isomer have actually done deals together, so no skirting the uncomfortable stuff here. I must say, I’m particularly proud of this episode as I do think it’s one of the most honest conversations we’ve brought on eu.v...

This week we were joined by Umerah Akram , Head of Private Markets at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG ) and Martijn de Wever , Founder of Floww to dive deep on how they’re changing how private markets are run. I must say, we’ve seen quite a few firms come up in Europe lately trying to disrupt exactly this. And some have looked quite similar, if not indistinguishable. So when I first heard ab...

Today we are happy yo welcome Bruno Raillard , Co-founder & Managing Partner at Frst , a “Day 1” VC focused on founders building global-scale companies out of the French ecosystem. Launched in 2015, Frst now has over 200m€ under management and has invested in the likes of Payfit , Owki n, Pigment , Electra and Shippeo . Before launching Frst Bruno has built his career in financial consulting and g...

Today we are happy to welcome Enrique Alvarado Hablutzel and Christin ter Braak-Forstinger , Co-Founders of Chi Impact Capital , the conscious impact investor that is creating strong financial returns by investing in core-regenerative business models that advance the most burning Sustainable Development Goals in Europe. Through the Burning Issues Impact Fund, Chi is scaling early growth stage comp...

Today we are happy to welcome Augustin Sayer , General Partner at OVNI Capital , a VC seed fund specialising in France-based tech startups. Based in Paris, Augustin manages the company's investments in France and Israel. He was previously Partner at Newfund , a french-american fund, overseeing 20 investments in companies such as FairMoney , the largest African neo-bank, and Umiami , a plant-based...

Today we are happy to welcome Kim Lundberg , Senior Portfolio Manager at the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark, formerly known as Vækstfonden , a Danish Growth Fund that he joined in 2017. Kin has been supporting numerous Danish startups with venture debt and growth loans in collaboration with both investors and other venture debt lenders, offering a great overview on tech lending. In this epi...

Today we are happy to welcome Nick de la Forge, Co-Founder and General Partner of Planet A , a leading European GreenTech Fund looking to invest into scalable, sustainable innovation. Before following the calling of building Planet A, Nick worked in different roles at leading firms at European deep-tech startups and funds, his own company Scalewonder, and he has a long-ranging track record as an a...

This is the second part of Miguel 's episode. Today we will explore the common misconceptions about the VC techstack and check his top tips for emerging VCs building their techstack. Miguel is the head of technology at Seedcamp , the European seed fund launched in 2007 that helps European entrepreneurs to compete on a global scale. He works on internal and public-facing projects ensuring they leve...

Today we have a special episode, brought to you by Latitude 59 , the flagship startup and tech event of the world’s first digital society taking place in Tallinn, Estonia, from the 24th to the 26th of May. Latitude59, in collaboration with a syndicate by Estonian Business Angels Network and TeraVC , is looking for bold and promising startups that are shifting paradigms and changing the world for t...

If you are a EUVC regular listener you know we've had a few of Seedcamp's stars on the show, but this will be a whole new ride. This is the first of a two-part special episode. Today we are happy to welcome Miguel Pinho , head of technology at Seedcamp , he works on internal and public-facing projects ensuring they leverage the right tool suite to continue to identify, invest and support the most...

Today we are happy to welcome Bryan Duarte and Keyona Meeks , the CoFounder and Managing Partner and the General Partner of BlackTech Capital , a Toronto based pre-seed fund that invests in Black and other Underrepresented Founders focused on CleanTech, leveraging partnerships with top organizations, universities & accelerators and the managers’ expertise, networks and track record in growing seve...

Today, we are happy to welcome Luca Zerbini . Luca is the Managing Partner and co-founder of Una Terra , a €200M Venture Capital fund to accelerate European scale-ups fostering solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss, and targeting the removal of 2 Gtons of CO2 and 1Mtons of plastic waste per year from the environment by 2030. In this episode you’ll learn: * The value that the WEF networ...

Today we are happy to welcome Isabelle O'Keeffe , partner at Sure Valley Ventures , an AI-focused VC firm which helps early-stage software entrepreneurs in the UK and Ireland grow and scale. Isabelle joined SVV in 2018 and was involved in building out the fund as well as relationships with founding teams innovating in immersive tech, e-sports, Metaverse, Enterprise AI and cybersecurity. In this ep...

Today we are happy to welcome Eleanor Kaye , Executive Director at Newton Venture Program - a joint venture of LocalGlobe and London Business School . Newton trains aspiring and practising venture capital professionals with an explicit mission to diversify the VC Ecosystem. Previously, Eleanor worked at Palantir Technologies across multiple operational roles during Palantir’s period of hyper-growt...

Today's episode is one for the geeks! 🤓 We are happy to welcome Dmitry Galperin , General Partner at Runa Capital in Berlin. He invests in cloud infrastructure, deeptech and quantum computing. He has a PhD in physics, was a visiting researcher at the University of Ulm and Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. Come and join us as he discover what the hell photonics are. In t...

Today we are happy to welcome Thomas Otter , General Partner at Acadian Ventures , an early-stage venture capital firm that helps founders around the world build enduring companies. Recent European investments include Techwolf , Fifty , and Figures . Thomas has an operator background in HR Tech and the Future of Work, having been a Research VP at Gartner , and led Product at SuccessFactors . In th...

Today we are happy to welcome Matthias Engel and Sven Heiligtag , Managing Partner and Partner of Vireo Ventures , an early-stage VC investing in seed and pre-seed highly scalable start-ups that drive electrification, in the energy, mobility and smart city space. Matthias has served 5 years as Managing Director of innogy’ s corporate venture capital activities building and managing an investment t...

Today we are happy to welcome Siim Teller , Founder and General Partner of Lemonade Stand . After 20 years growing products in a number of startups (most notably at Skype ) in Tallinn, London and Berlin, Siim set up Lemonade Stand in 2019 to invest in early stage Baltic and East European startups. Lately he has been looking for AI and Machine Learning applied to boring business problems. In this e...