The European VC

Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast, your inside track on the people, models, and math reshaping European venture. This week, Andreas talks with Damian Cristian and Guy Conway , co-founders of Rule 30 - an AI research lab building what they claim is the world’s first fully systematic venture strategy. We go deep on the difference between “data-driven” (hygiene) and decision-driven (engine), why label...

This week, Andreas Munk Holm sits down with Jack Leeney , co-founder of 7GC , the transatlantic growth fund bridging Silicon Valley and Europe and a backer of AI giants like Anthropic , alongside European rising stars Poolside and Fluidstack . From IPOs at Morgan Stanley to running Telefónica’s US venture arm and now operating a dual-continental fund, Jack shares how 7GC reads the AI supercycle ,...

Welcome back to another episode of Upside at the EUVC Podcast , where ⁠Dan Bowyer⁠ , ⁠ Mads Jensen⁠ of ⁠SuperSeed⁠ , ⁠Lomax Ward⁠ of ⁠Outsized Ventures⁠ ⁠⁠, and this week’s special guest Robin Haak break down the real stories behind the headlines shaping European tech and venture. Robin joins us as the founder of Robin Capital , an early employee at SmartRecruiters , angel in 100+ companies, inclu...

Welcome back to another episode of the EUVC Podcast, your trusted inside track on the people, deals, and dynamics shaping European venture. This week, Andreas Munk Holm is joined by Max Kufner , Co-Founder and CEO of again , and Jan Miczaika , Partner at HV Capital . again is one of those rare European deep-tech stories that blends academic brilliance, industrial execution, and venture pace . Born...

Corporate venture capital isn’t just having “a bit of VC on the side.” Done well, it’s a strategic lens on the future. Done badly, it’s a short-lived pet project with a half-life of 3.7 years and a trail of confused founders and annoyed co-investors. In this episode, we sit down with Martin Scherrer , Partner & Head of Managed Funds at Redstone , alongside our own CVC lead Jeppe Høier , to unpack...

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 Jan Lozek , Co-Founder and Managing Director and Founder of Future Energy Ventures (FEV) , the Berlin-based climate-tech investor born from the carve-out of E.ON’s corporate venture arm . With a 50-company track record and a new €...

Editor’s note: Yes, this is meta. The piece below and the audio that goes with it are AI-generated: an interview between me and Boardy, stitched together from our WhatsApp messages, cleaned up by AI into a podcast script, and produced in Descript. I’m not asking you to trust it - I’m asking you to react to it. On a random Tuesday in late 2025, somewhere between a partner meeting in Berlin and a fo...

Welcome back to another episode of Upside at the EUVC Podcast , where ⁠Dan Bowyer⁠ , ⁠ Mads Jensen⁠ of ⁠SuperSeed⁠ , ⁠Lomax Ward⁠ of ⁠Outsized Ventures⁠ ⁠⁠ dissect the stories reshaping European venture, from Helsinki’s Slush takeover to China’s rising leverage, TPU vs GPU battles, the UK’s AI money wave, and why immigrants found half the unicorns in the Western world. This week’s episode ranges f...

Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast and today, a special Venture Beyond edition. Joining Mike Reiner of 432 Legacy and Andreas Munk Holm is Dave Bailey - one of Europe’s most in-demand founder coaches, the brain behind FounderCoach.com , and a voice shaping how CEOs grow into their role. Dave’s journey has been anything but linear: from co-founding startups like Delivery Hero to a stint in venture ca...

Welcome to a new episode of the EUVC Podcast, where we bring you the people and perspectives shaping European venture. Today, we’re joined by Adrian Locher , co-founder and GP at Merantix Capital , the Berlin-based AI venture capital firm and venture studio that’s just planted its flag in London. Known for building and investing in AI-first companies from the ground up, Mirantix operates at the in...

A billion-euro bet on Europe’s most uncertain frontiers: climate, deep tech, and industrial transformation. Can government-backed funds catalyze global champions—or do they risk crowding out private capital? Dr. Elisabeth Schrey leads the Deep Tech & Climate Fonds (DTCF) , a €1B investment vehicle co-financed by Germany’s Future Fund and ERP Special Fund. From Munich to Berlin to Brussels, she’s n...

Welcome back to another episode of the EUVC Podcast, where we bring together Europe’s venture family to share the stories, insights, and lessons that drive our ecosystem forward. Today we dive into one of the most under-discussed — yet increasingly important — topics in European venture: Opportunity Funds . Joining Andreas Munk Holm is Lea Strumberger , Senior Investment Manager at KfW Capital , o...

Welcome back to another episode of Upside at the EUVC Podcast , where ⁠Dan Bowyer⁠ , ⁠ Mads Jensen⁠ of ⁠SuperSeed⁠ , ⁠Lomax Ward⁠ of ⁠Outsized Ventures⁠ ⁠⁠ unpack the headlines reshaping European venture. This week, the trio dives into the UK’s blink-and-you-miss-it exit tax , China’s rising open-source AI threat, hyperscaler accounting drama courtesy of Michael Burry, Europe’s supply-chain vulner...

Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast , where we explore the frameworks moving European venture, finance, and policy. Two weeks after Building Bridges 2025 in Geneva, Andreas Munk Holm and Enrique , Chi Impact Capital sit down with Patrick Odier — Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Lombard Odier and Chair of Building Bridges — to get practical on financing systemic transition. Odier argues for a shif...

Welcome back to another episode of the EUVC Podcast, your trusted inside track on the people, deals, and dynamics shaping European venture. This week, Andreas Munk Holm is joined by Mariette Roesink , Co‑Founder of Curie Capital . Named after Marie Curie, the fund backs breakthrough life science technologies with a mission to both deliver outsized returns and transform patient outcomes. Mariette a...

Welcome back to another episode of Upside at the EUVC Podcast , where ⁠Dan Bowyer⁠ , ⁠ Mads Jensen⁠ of ⁠SuperSeed⁠ , ⁠Lomax Ward⁠ of ⁠Outsized Ventures⁠ ⁠, and this week’s guest Jone Vaituleviciute , Managing Partner at ⁠ Firstpick⁠ VC , unpack the forces shaping venture across Europe and the Baltics. This week’s conversation bridges Lithuania’s booming early-stage scene and Europe’s macro tension...

Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast — where we go deep with the people shaping European venture. Today, David sits down with Kristaps Ronis , Partner at ION Pacific , a global secondaries investor (HQ in LA, presence in Europe & Asia) focused on Series B+ tech and a specialty that’s getting hotter by the month: structured secondaries . Kristaps runs ION Pacific’s European practice and has been with t...

Welcome back to another EUVC Podcast, where we gather Europe’s venture family to share the stories, insights, and lessons that drive our ecosystem forward. Today we dive into the world of gaming with Alper Oner , Co-founder of Agave Games , and Enis Hulli , General Partner at e2vc . Agave has taken the gaming world by storm with its hit “Find the Cat” — a quirky hidden-object game that has become...

Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast, where we gather Europe’s venture family to share the stories, insights, and lessons that drive our ecosystem forward. Today we zoom in on the inner game with Seb Agertoft , former product leader turned executive coach and Partner at Evolution , a collective of ~80 coaching and leadership-development partners across the US and Europe. Seb works primarily with VC-ba...

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 J Scott⁠ of ⁠7percent Ventures⁠ , and Lomax unpack the forces shaping European venture capital. This week’s conversation spans the spectrum, from AI moratoriums and political overreach to funding freezes , LP pullbacks , and the questi...

This week on the EUVC Podcast, Andreas Munk Holm sits down with Sebastian Peck , Partner at KOMPAS VC , Europe’s leading specialist in industrial tech and the decarbonisation of manufacturing and the built world. KOMPAS VC is an early- and growth-stage venture capital firm backed by leading corporates, focused on transforming how the world builds, moves, and powers itself. With offices in London,...

Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast , where we bring you the people and perspectives shaping European venture. Today we’re joined by Lucanus Polagnoli (Founding Partner & CEO) and Stephanie Urbanski (Managing Director) of Calm/Storm — a specialist early-stage fund backing software-only digital health across Europe. Fresh off the close of Fund II , we dive into how they’ve evolved from a solo-GP exper...

Welcome to a new episode of the EUVC Podcast , where our good friends Dan Bowyer , Mads Jensen , Lomax Ward , and Andrew Beebe (Managing Director at Obvious Ventures) dig into the headlines shaping Europe’s venture, policy, and tech future. This week, the crew dives deep into automation and AI’s real-world impact :Amazon’s plans to replace half a million jobs with robots, the question of whether A...

Welcome back to another EUVC Podcast, where we explore the lessons, frameworks, and insights shaping Europe’s venture ecosystem. Today’s episode marks a major milestone for Notion Capital - the launch of its new Growth Fund , designed to back Europe’s most ambitious B2B software founders beyond Series B. Today, Andreas Munk Holm sits down with Stephen Chandler , Jessica Bartos , formerly of Salesf...

Welcome back to another episode of the EUVC Podcast , where we bring you the people and perspectives shaping European venture. Today, we’re joined by Alexandre Mars , the French entrepreneur and philanthropist behind Blisce , one of Europe’s pioneering B Corp-certified venture funds. From bootstrapping his first business at 17 to building and selling multiple startups across Europe and the US, Ale...