The European VC

Today we are happy to welcome Carlos Eduardo Espinal , Managing Partner at Seedcamp , arguably, Europe's leading seed fund, first launched in 2007 to support European entrepreneurs truly compete on a global scale. With investments in over 460 companies including publicly listed Romanian-founded, UiPath , Wise and unicorns Revolut , wefox and Pleo . Carlos is a published author, fellow podcaster an...

Today we are happy to welcome José del Barrio , Founding Partner of Samaipata . Before joining the early-stage pan-European VC fund, José was the co-founder of La Nevera Roja , the leading food-delivery platform in Spain, which sold to Rocket Internet for $100 million in 2015. José has also worked at PWC and Accenture in Strategy and M&A Advisory. In this episode you’ll learn: * VC Brand building...

Today we are happy to welcome Anne Solhaug Tutar , Partner at Antler Nordics, former entrepreneur and startup expert. At Antler, Anne has made more than 40 investments in early-stage startups and was named Company Builder of the Year in 2021 as well as top 10 Leadership Talents 2021 in Norway by E24 . Anne's entrepreneurial background comes from Turkey where she founded one of the country's first...

Today we are happy to welcome Jon Coker , Founding Partner of Eka Ventures , an early stage venture capital firm that invests in Seed and early Series A consumer technology companies building sustainable economy. Jon founded Eka alongside Camilla Dolan to build a leading venture firm that integrates impact investing with mainstream venture. Prior to Eka, Jon has spent 11 years at MMC Ventures , ul...

Today we are happy to welcome Diana Florescu and Piyush Puri . Diana is the CEO and Founder of mediaforgrowth , a media for equity advisory firm, specialised in Series A to pre-IPO media capital fundraising. Piyush leads the Brand Capital International team in Silicon Valley as Vice President of BWI , the strategic investment arm of The Times Group – India’s largest multimedia conglomerate. In thi...

Today we are happy to welcome Edward van Wezel , Founding and Managing Partner of BioGeneration Ventures . Launched in 2006, BGV has managed over 250 million euros across four funds. They invest in medical and healthcare innovations that have high potential to positively impact patients. In this episode you’ll learn: * Edward’s route from chemical engineering to VC * How BGV thinks about sourcing...

Today we are happy to welcome Sara Rywe , Partner at byFounders - a €110m early-stage, community-powered, founders-led VC fund. Sara is an entrepreneur at heart with experience from a range of tech startups and has also worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and led the global strategy implementation at Danske Bank . In this episode you’ll learn: * Going from a simple town in Swed...

Today we are happy to welcome Ali Karabey , Founding Partner at 212 , a venture capital firm that backs B2B tech startups with 85 million dollars of commited capital and 170 million dollars in Assets Under Management. This year are launching their Fund III aiming for 70 million in size. In this episode you’ll learn: * How the Turkish ecosystem has developed since 212 launched as the first fund in...

Today we are happy to welcome Rune Hven-Jensen and Andreas Green Rasmussen , Co-Founders and General Partners of Ugly Duckling Ventures , a VC firm that invests in Nordic companies at the pre-seed, seed and early stages, currently raising their first fund and about to announce their closing. In this episode you’ll learn: * How they pivoted their raise from the tech ecosystem to family offices * Ra...

Today we are happy to welcome you to our favorite type of episode: our memo episode! That means we’ll be diving deep on a fund that the EUVC LP Syndicate is investing into together with the GP team. So, please welcome Borys and Diana , Founding Partners of SMOK Ventures , an operator-led VC fund focusing on top serial founders from the CEE region. At EUVC , we’re hyped about this investment becaus...

Today we are happy to welcome Premysl Rubes , Founder and Managing Partner of Presto Ventures , a Prague-based VC firm investing in early-stage (pre Series A) startups built by exceptional founders from Central and Eastern Europe. In this episode you’ll learn: * Premysl’s journey from entrepreneurship, to angel investing to VC * Learnings going from a single GP & LP firm to multiple-partner team w...

Today we are happy to welcome Annie Theriault , Managing Partner at Cross-Border Impact Ventures (CBIV) , an impact venture capital firm investing in health technology companies addressing large international markets. Cross-Border focuses on expanding access to world class technologies within North America and Europe as well as to reach people living in emerging economies. Prior to founding CBIV,...

Today we are happy to welcome Michiel Kotting , Partner at Northzone , a venture capital fund shaped by lives as entrepreneurs and investors. He leads Northzone’s investments focusing on SaaS, marketplaces, healthcare and AI. In this episode you’ll learn: * The journey from entrepreneur into VC * How Northzone have managed to be relevant to founders as they’ve far outgrown their Nordic outspring *...

Today we are happy to welcome Monik Pham , co-founder of Pact VC , an early stage tech fund backing mission driven founders with global ambitions. They have over 40 years’ experience building businesses in Asia, Middle East and India, and a strong track record investing in them in the UK and Europe. Pact invests in seed-stage companies under three themes which they call their ABCs - Access, Better...

Today we are happy to welcome Fridtjof Berge , Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Antler , a startup generator and early-stage venture capital firm. Fridtjof works with a global team dedicated to developing the next generation of world-changing technology companies. He oversees external activities across the firm globally and serves as a member on its investment committees. In this episode...

Today we are happy to welcome one of Europe's true OG LPs: Chris Wade , co-founding Partner of Isomer Capital . With an extensive career as a founder, startup mentor and LP with more than 50 Venture fund investments under his belt, Chris is a guy you should want to know. At Isomer, Chris co-leads their fund investments and leads their co-investment program - and has a weekly section in the EUVC ne...

Today we are happy to welcome one of Europe's true OG LPs: Chris Wade , co-founding Partner of Isomer Capital . With an extensive career as a founder, startup mentor and LP with more than 50 Venture fund investments under his belt, Chris is a guy you should want to know. At Isomer, Chris co-leads their fund investments and leads their co-investment program - and has a weekly section in the EUVC ne...

Today we are happy to welcome Patrick Newton , co-founder of Form Ventures , an early-stage VC focused on investing in startups that are disrupting regulated markets, or building in new markets that will face regulation. Patrick helps founders break down policy barriers and shape winning regulatory strategies. In this episode you’ll learn: - How Patrick got to found Form Ventures to fund the futur...

Today we are happy to welcome Sergey Jakimov founding partner of LongeVC , a venture capital company supporting early-stage biotech and longevity-focused founders that are changing the world. Sergey is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded 3 deep-tech ventures and raised more than $40 million in venture funding for his own ventures and as an entrepreneur in residence. In this episode you’ll lea...

Today we are happy to welcome Sasha Kaletsky , Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Creator Ventures , a firm that invests and collaborates with content creators. This year they closed their first $20m fund, to invest globally in early-stage companies innovating in consumer-internet. Together with his partner Caspar Lee , Co-Founder of influencer.com , a content creator with an audience of over 10 m...

Today we are happy to welcome Enis and Kaan , General Partner and Investor at 500 Emerging Europe , who the EUVC syndicate is investing into. In this episode, we dive deep on their recent rebrand from 500 Istanbul to 500 Emerging Europe, their emerging talent thesis and the value chain drift that’s causing emerging Europe to be such an overlooked opportunity. It was an absolute pleasure to meet up...

Today we are happy to welcome Jean Bourcereau , President and Managing Partner at Ventech . He has joined the company in 2000, acting as a facilitator of the Partners Committee defining Ventech’s global development strategy and is a veteran driving investments notably in hardware and communications. In this episode you’ll learn: - The founding story of Ventech and how it grew out of a large bank -...

Welcome to a very special episode of EUVC where we dive deep with Oliver Holle , founding and managing partner of Speedinvest , for a one-of-a-kind (and super nerdy) discussion on Speedinvest’s newly launched fund 4 of 500M€! Speedinvest is one of Europe’s hands-down best seed stage investors and a household name in the industry that takes a perfectly oiled and scaled investing machine to be able...

Today we are happy to welcome David Peterson and Gil Dibner , from Angular Ventures . Gil is the General Partner and Founder of Angular. He has been an active venture investor focused on enterprise technology companies born in Europe and Israel since 2005. As a venture investor and angel, he has backed over 30 companies. Prior to founding Angular, Gil was a Partner at DFJ Esprit and a Principal at...

Today we are happy to welcome Guillaume Fournier , partner at Credo Ventures , a venture capital company focused on early stage investments in Central Europe. His mission is to identify and back the most interesting early stage companies in the region, support them in their growth plans (including expansion to the U.S. and global markets) and help them to achieve their objectives. In this episode...