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Today we are happy to welcome Alan Poensgen , Partner at Antler , a global early-stage VC active in the major startup ecosystems across six continents. Alan has an extensive experience in building and scaling technology businesses. He was previously MD and Co-Founder at Westwing , a home & living e-commerce company, and one of Europe’s few e-commerce IPOs of the past years. Before Westwing, he bui...

Today we are happy welcome Charlie Graham-Brown , CIO & Co-Founder of Seedstars , a platform that educates thousands of tech founders each year and facilitates the scale-up of high growth companies. Charlie is an investment professional and entrepreneur focused on emerging and developing markets, responsible for global seed stage VC investments. In this episode you’ll learn: * Exactly what Seedsta...

Today we are happy to welcome a real legend to the show; Reshma Sohoni , Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Seedcamp . With Seedcamp, Reshma has not only pioneered seed stage investing in Europe, but also built what’s become one of Europe’s consistently highest performing funds. Consequently, we thought we had no choice but to dive deep with Reshma on firm building to tease out some learnings from...

Today we are happy to welcome Romain Diaz , Founder and CEO of Satgana , a Climate Tech Venture Capital firm, investing in early-stage pre-seed with follow-on reserves for the seed round up to €500k. Romain is a passionate entrepreneur, a pragmatic idealist, and genuinely a nice guy! In this episode you’ll learn: - How Romain’s journey into VC took him from Rocket Internet in Germany, to a venture...

Today we are happy to welcome Frederik Groenewegen , Co-Founder and General Partner of 415 CAPITAL . He has been an investor in more than a dozen of innovative medical technology companies and currently serves as a Board Director at Cardiac Success and R3 Vascular. In this episode you’ll learn: - How Frederik and his family’s experience and position in MedTech led them to building 415 Capital - Ho...

Today we are happy to welcome Bogdan Iordache , General Partner at Underline VC . Bogdan is also the founder of HowToWeb , the go-to conference for startups and investors in CEE. This year’s event in Bucharest Romania was amazing, we were able to do a s**t load of live interviews and host some of the craziest EUVC dinners. Will we be seeing you in the next ones? In this episode you’ll learn: – How...

Today we are happy to welcome Julia Padberg and René Savelsberg , partner and managing partner at SET Ventures . Julia's mission is to reduce the climate impact of the energy sector through digital innovation, together with industry-leading entrepreneurs. René co-founded SET Ventures in 2007. He has 25+ years of experience in technology investing in both deeptech and in energy transition with a ba...

Welcome to a very special episode where we've brought the founders of Vauban , Rémy and Ulric on for a deep dive on the story behind the acquisition of Vauban by Carta . You'll hear all about the founding story of Vauban, how they continue hustling to create the infrastructure for European venture and what's to come In this episode you’ll learn: - The love story of Rémy and Ulric and what the futu...

Today's episode is a special one, as we are happy to welcome John Dutton , Head of UpLink at the World Economic Forum , as our co-host. John will tell you all about the Innovative Funds for our Future. And as our guest, we welcome Sandra Osborne Kartt , Managing Director of Investments at ImpactAssets . In this episode you’ll learn: – A rare peak into how the WEF’s Uplink supports the VC ecosystem...

Today's episode is a special one, as we share with our audience the amazing content from Nada Ahmed , from the Braving Innovation Podcast. Nada hosts conversations with global leaders in the field of Innovation, Technology and Leadership. She dives into transformational stories from startup founders and thought leaders in Innovation and Venture Capital. And this time, the tables were flipped, as D...

This is a special EUVC episode straight from the Engaged Investments conference in Prague, hosted by our friends from Depo Ventures . Shout out to Petr who was kind enough to invite us. This is the recording of the panel “Perspective of LPs and VCs on the current market situation” which had the participation of our hosts Andreas and David; Ondřej , general partner at Credo Ventures ; Vuk , venture...

Today, we are happy to welcome Tim Draper , founder of the Draper Venture Network , a global network of venture capital funds. He funded Baidu, Tesla, Skype, SpaceX, Twitch, Hotmail, and numerous other well-known unicorns at the seed stage. He is a supporter and global thought leader for entrepreneurs everywhere, and a leading spokesperson for Bitcoin, Blockchain, ICOs and cryptocurrencies. In thi...

This is a special EUVC episode straight from the Engaged Investments conference in Prague, hosted by our friends from Depo Ventures . Shout out to Petr who was kind enough to invite us. This is the recording of the panel “Why should business Angels invest in VC?" which had the participation of our host Andreas Munk Holm ; Petr Sima , partner at DEPO Ventures; Mikk Orglaan , founding partner at Fst...

Today we are happy to welcome Bo Ilsoe , managing partner of NGP Capital . From his current base in Geneva, Switzerland he has developed NGP Capital from initial commitments of $25M to more than $1.6B investing in the US, Europe, and China. Bo has through his portfolio exits created more than $3.0B in shareholder value during his time as an investor. A technologist at heart, he believes in the pos...

Today we are happy to welcome Borys Musielak , Founding Partner at SMOK Ventures . They help fund top early stage entrepreneurs (checks from €50k to €1M) based in Central & Eastern Europe, focusing on software and gaming startups. We were fortunate to record live with Borys during this years edition of How To Web . In this episode you’ll learn: – Why Borys is in love with Bucharest and the How To...

Today we are happy to welcome Juan Alonso-Villalobos , Partner & CFO at Portfolio Stock Exchange and Member of the Board at Startup Wise Guys . This year, we had the pleasure of recording with Juan at How To Web in Bucharest. In this episode you'll learn: – What is fintech accelerator and why there is a fund backing it – Who are the LPs Juan is bringing in – How the ecosystem is being built around...

Today we are happy to introduce you to Mick Halsband , Founding GP of Lunar Ventures , a deep tech seed stage investor, backing technical founders solving problems in big markets. Mick is CTO and a software architect. He has two decades of key roles at startups and multinational leading tech firms. Led software development for embedded mobile, realtime systems, computer graphics, computer vision,...

Today we are happy to welcome Marvin Liao , Partner at Diaspora VC and Board member at Game Groove Capital , an International Gaming Holding Company. He was previously a Partner at VC Fund 500 Startups . Marvin has invested in over 414 Pre-seed & Seed stage startups and we were lucky enough to record this episode with him during How To Web. In this episode you’ll learn: – Why Marvin as a successfu...

Today, we are happy to welcome Hampus Jakobsson , General Partner at the early stage climate tech venture fund Pale Blue Dot . Prior to co-founding Pale Blue Dot, Hampus was a Venture Partner at science fund Blue Yard and a prolific angel investor with more than 100 angel investments. He is a software engineer turned founder, turned angel investor, turned VC. When not working with ambitious climat...

This is the last of a four episode long special on the MENA region here at The European VC . This special series of episodes focuses on everything MENA VC, bridging the gap with its European counterparts. We intend to shed light on the ins and outs of venture in the region and promote collaboration between Europe and MENA. For this special series of episodes we welcome our dear friend and special...

Today, we are happy to welcome Peter Sandberg , Founding Partner & Managing Director of Nordic Secondary Fund , the first and only fund in the Nordics to exclusively invest in secondaries. Peter has 35 years’ experience from investments and asset management; 5 years’ experience as an early-stage investor and 30+ investments in a.o. LegalDesk & Sky. We had the pleasure to be together with Peter, re...

Welcome to yet another Memo-episode where we dive deep on one of the funds that we’re raising an EUVC community syndicate for - in other words; one of the funds that you can join us in backing, with minimum tickets at just 1k€. For this, we’re talking to Cristobal Alonso from Startup Wise Guys . You’ve met him before in past episodes, so you know he’s quite a personality and that it’s an incredibl...

Today we are happy to welcome Audrey Soussan , General Partner at Ventech in its Paris office. The firm is deeply implicated in the evolution and diversity of European tech. Audrey focuses on Product Led Growth, Retail Tech, HR Tech and Marketplaces. She has unique insights on entrepreneurs’ business development, impact investing, and women in tech. She has joined the company since 2011, starting...

This is the third of a four episode long special on the MENA region here at The European VC. Today, we’re welcoming Laila Hassan , General Partner at Algebra Ventures . She has joined their second, $90 million fund, and her appointment marks progress in Egypt’s VC ecosystem, becoming the country’s second female partner at a VC. This special series of episodes focuses on everything MENA VC, bridgin...

Today we are happy to welcome Maria Dramalioti-Taylor , founding managing partner of Beacon Capital , a London-based fund that invests with a laser-sharp focus in enterprise tech venture across Europe. Maria is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD Business School and serves on the Committee of the Chairs in Emerging Technologies as well as the Enterprise Hub of The Royal Academy of Engineering....