The European VC

Welcome back to the EUVC Corporate Podcast . This week, Jeppe sits down with Axel Deniz , CEO of Bosch Business Innovations and Head of Venture Building at Bosch. Axel is building Bosch’s venture-building engine with a clear mandate: get Bosch technology out into the world , through founder-led spinouts, joint ventures, and seed rounds that can stand on their own with external investors. With ~80,...

This episode kicks off with a clear provocation: climate tech is not dead. What has died are weak business models, shallow narratives, and capital that confused virtue with value. Andreas is joined by Christian Hernandez , founding GP of 2150 and Jan Hofmann of the Viessmann Generations Group , for a wide-ranging conversation about what is actually happening in climate and industrial investing rig...

Welcome back to another episode of Upside at the EUVC Podcast , 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’s episode starts, as ever, with tech failing spectacularly, planes landing late, and VCs reminding each other they really should be doing deals. Then it gets serious. From a bil...

Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast, where we bring you the people and perspectives shaping European venture. This week, Andreas Munk Holm is joined by Max Schertel , co-founder & CEO of finmid , and Tim Rehder , General Partner at Earlybird , to unpack the rise of embedded lending infrastructure for B2B platforms . From food delivery and PSPs to ride-hailing and fleet platforms, finmid lets marketpl...

Welcome back to another episode of Upside at the EUVC Podcast , where Dan Bowyer , Mads Jensen of SuperSeed , and Lomax Ward of Outsized Ventures cut through the noise shaping tech, venture, and geopolitics in Europe and beyond. From OpenAI’s new health-focused ChatGPT and the FDA’s sudden sprint toward deregulation to Trump’s fixation on Greenland and what it really signals about European soverei...

Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast where we go behind the craft of building and backing venture-scale companies in Europe. Today, we’re joined by Sean Mullaney , Founder & CEO of Seapoint , and Will Prendergast , as the Founding Partner at Frontline Ventures . Seapoint has just come out of stealth with a $3M pre-seed to rebuild the fragile and fragmented financial stack that European startups (and l...

Welcome back to another episode of the EUVC Podcast. Today, Jeppe sits down with Emil Eifrem , founder & CEO of Neo4j , the world’s leading graph database and a core infrastructure layer for AI applications used by all 20 of the top US banks, 9 of 10 global pharma giants, and every major automotive OEM. Emil recently announced a $100M global startup program to back founders building the next gener...

In this episode, Andreas Munk Holm speaks with Oskar Hartmann , legendary operator turned super angel. From Kazakhstan to Germany, Russia, Japan, and now Dubai and Silicon Valley, Oskar has built and exited more than 10 companies, invested in 150+ ventures (14 unicorns among them), and today is pioneering a new way to solve concentration risk for founders and angels: Accumulator , a share-pooling...

Welcome back to another episode of Upside at the EUVC Podcast , where ⁠Dan Bowyer⁠ , ⁠ Mads Jensen⁠ of ⁠SuperSeed⁠ , and ⁠Lomax Ward⁠ of ⁠Outsized Ventures⁠ ⁠⁠ cut through the noise shaping tech, venture, and geopolitics in Europe and beyond. This week starts lightly, as all good episodes do, with kids, illness paranoia, and the small joys of enforced medical naps. It escalates quickly. From OpenA...

Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast where we connect and champion the people building European venture. In this episode, Andreas Munk Holm sits down with two pillars of Italy’s modern tech ecosystem: * Giovanni Daprà , CEO & co-founder of Moneyfarm , one of Europe’s leading digital wealth management platforms * Paolo Gesess , co-founder & GP at United Ventures , one of Italy’s premier early-stage VC...

Redstone’s co-founder on building Europe’s original data-driven VC platform, why specialization beats scale, and how their new evergreen LTIF gives investors exposure to 200+ ventures through a single allocation. Today, we’re going inside a firm that’s been doing data-driven VC long before it became a meme. Redstone is a European specialist investor built as a dual company from day one:a family of...

Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast where we dive deep into the craft of building and backing venture-scale companies in Europe. Modern software doesn’t fail quietly. It fails on Black Friday. It fails while the CFO is in a board meeting. It fails when your biggest customer is mid-way through a critical workflow. And when it does, there’s one brutal reality: The data is there but nobody has time to i...

Welcome back to another EUVC Podcast , where we explore the lessons, frameworks, and insights shaping venture ecosystems across the globe. In this special Southeast Asia edition this week, David Cruz e Silva from EUVC and Ambika from Circle Capital sit down with Binh Tran from AVV (Ascend Vietnam Ventures ) - a VC firm headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, backing tech founders across Vietnam, Southe...

If you’ve spent any time in European venture lately, you’ve probably noticed two things: * Everyone says they “do AI now.” * Almost nobody wants to touch consumer. That’s exactly where Michael Sackler and Supernode Global are leaning in. Michael started his career not in venture, but in film . He founded and ran Rook’s Nest Entertainment in London, producing and executive producing 12 feature film...

Welcome back to another EUVC Podcast , where we explore the lessons, frameworks, and insights shaping Europe’s venture ecosystem. Today, Andreas Munk Holm sits down with Matti Hautsalo , Founding Partner at Nordic Science Investments (NSI) , a €60M early-stage fund dedicated to university spin-outs across the Nordics and Europe. With a team spanning tech transfer, research, founding, VC, and inves...

Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast. Today Andreas is joined by Stefan Roebel , Co‑Founder & CEO of ARX Robotics — one of Europe’s fastest-rising defense tech startups. From his 12 years in the German Armed Forces to leadership roles at Amazon, eBay, and Grover, Stefan has lived both sides: the military front line and the global business battlefield. Now, he’s combining that experience to tackle one...

This week on the EUVC Podcast , Andreas Munk Holm sits down with Matthew Wilson , co-founder of Jack & Jill , and Peter Specht , General Partner at Creandum . Fresh off a $20M seed to take their AI recruiting agents global, they dig into how conviction is built in Europe, from founding insight to investor belief, and what it now takes to scale an agent-native company with speed, precision, and cra...

Welcome back to another episode of Upside at the EUVC Podcast , where ⁠Dan Bowyer⁠ , ⁠ Mads Jensen⁠ of ⁠SuperSeed⁠ and ⁠Lomax Ward⁠ of ⁠Outsized Ventures⁠ ⁠⁠ gather for a holiday-home special to cut through the noise around Europe’s tech, geopolitics and AI shifts. What begins as an innocent debate about whether DeepMind is “still a UK company” quickly spirals into a tour of sovereign AI strategy,...

If you’re in B2B SaaS, you probably feel it already: the old way of “just hire more SDRs and send more emails” is broken. Everyone has the same tooling. Everyone is running the same sequences. Everyone is “personalising at scale” with the same prompts. Yet pipeline quality is down, efficiency is under scrutiny, and suddenly… go-to-market (GTM) design has become a first-class strategic problem. Few...

This week, Andreas Munk Holm talks with Sergey Jakimov , Co-founder and Managing Partner at LongeVC , a leading longevity-focused venture fund backing breakthroughs in biotech, AI-driven drug discovery, and the science of healthy aging. From pre-seed biotech spin-outs to multi-hundred-million-dollar exits with Big Pharma, LongeVC is building the category-defining fund at the frontier of life exten...

In this episode, Andreas Munk Holm sits down with Ole Lehmann to explore the rise of the solopreneur movement, what AI unlocks for solo founders, and how blockchain may finally have its moment as the infrastructure layer for AI. Ole also unpacks his new initiative, Built in Europe , and why he’s betting on a future where ambitious company builders thrive without moving to the U.S. Here’s what’s co...

Andreas Munk Holm opens the episode by introducing Charles Dunn , Principal at SV Health Investors , and Ruth McKernan , CBE and Operating Partner at SV Health, former CEO of Innovate UK. SV Health is a transatlantic healthcare specialist with a focus on company creation and full-spectrum biotech investing. Notable wins include the exit of SV-created EyeBio to Merck & Co for up to $3bn including $...

Welcome back to another episode of Upside at the EUVC Podcast , where ⁠Dan Bowyer⁠ , ⁠ Mads Jensen⁠ of ⁠SuperSeed⁠ , ⁠Lomax Ward⁠ of ⁠Outsized Ventures⁠ ⁠⁠, and Andrew Scott of 7percent Ventures , to break down the real stories behind the headlines shaping European tech and venture. From Bending Spoons’ audacious European rollup strategy, to Brexit’s economic hangover, to the existential challenge...

This week on the EUVC Podcast , Andreas Munk Holm sits down with Mikael Johnsson , Co-Founder and General Partner at Oxx , one of Europe’s leading specialist B2B software investors. Mikael has a very clear-eyed view on the current AI wave: he’s seeing valuation discipline slip, fundamentals being stretched, and a real risk that the market mistakes pilot-driven excitement for lasting enterprise val...

Welcome back to another episode of the EUVC Podcast. Today, we’re thrilled to feature Leyla Holterud , partner at Vintage Investment Partners . Many will know Leyla from her years at StepStone , where she helped shape venture growth strategy across EMEA. Now at Vintage, she’s helping deploy $4.3B from a global multi-strategy platform spanning fund-of-funds, growth, and secondaries with a renewed f...