Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc

Sebastian Hjarne - founder and CEO of Talentium. At Talentium they are building the search engine for talent and creating an end-to-end platform for hiring. €3.5m pre-seed round led by EQT ventures, with participation from some exceptional angels like Sebastian - the CEO of the giant Klarna, Joel - CEO of Sana Labs and Fredrik - CEO of Voi Technologies. During this episode we discuss about the how...

A comprehensive overview of the global recruitment market, describing its significant current size and projected growth, driven by factors like increased job vacancies and technological advancements. We segment the market by staffing type (temporary dominating), recruitment channel (online leading), end-user industries (IT & Telecom prominent), and service types (RPO and Executive Search growi...

Jakob Sons is one of the co-founders and Managing Partners of Cansativa . Cansativa is building the largest medical cannabis platform in Europe and are offering the most desirable products and brands yummy. In 2022, they've raised the 15 million round from Snoop's dog, Casa Verde, and they generated 35M Eur in Revenue in 2024 and projected 90M Eur in 2025. During this episode, we'll di...

An overview of the global medical cannabis market, highlighting its rapid growth driven by legislative reforms, increasing research, and patient acceptance. While North America currently leads, Europe, particularly Germany, is identified as a major growth engine due to recent law changes significantly boosting patient access and imports, despite challenges like reimbursement, physician education,...

This overview analyzes  David Allen's "Getting Things Done" (GTD) methodology , a widely recognized system aimed at achieving  stress-free productivity  by externalizing mental clutter. The episode explains how GTD addresses  cognitive overload  and unmanaged commitments through a  trusted external system , contrasting it briefly with other approaches like Alice Boyes' work. It d...

Ioan Jacob is the CEO and Founder of FlowX.AI . The FlowX platform fundamentally changes how large banks build mission-critical products and modernize applications systems and infrastructure. They are the first-ever multi-agent AI platform bringing enterprise-grade AI that is robust and safe to use for large financial services organizations. Ioan has been working together with the same core team o...

FT Partners Research published a March 2025 report outlining key FinTech trends to anticipate in the coming year, alongside a recap of 2024 FinTech deal activity. The report offers insights on AI, crypto, and the IPO market. Key trends highlighted include the rise of AI agents, expanding crypto infrastructure, the resurgence of B2C FinTech, and increasing consolidation within the sector. The analy...

W. Timothy Gallwey's Inner Game framework distinguishes between the conscious "Self 1" that instructs and judges, and the unconscious "Self 2" that performs. The core argument is that internal interference, primarily from Self 1, hinders optimal performance by causing tension and self-doubt. The Inner Game methodology focuses on techniques to quiet Self 1 through non-judgme...

Dirk Sahlmer - Head of origination at Saas.group . During this episode we discuss about how to prepare the exit of your company to get the best deal, how to focus on sustainable growth if you are a VC backed founder and you are considering an exit, and we cover top 3 mistakes founders make when selling their business Ciao!

Tom Wehmeier - Partner and Head of Insights at Atomico the 1B Eur fund, founded by Niklas Zennstrom the famous founder of Skype, one of the first tech breakthroughs from Europe, and  Yoram Wijngaarde - Founder and CEO of Dealroom - the source of record and insights on startups. During this episode we discuss how well did tech Europe do in the last 10 years and why so many people were bashing Europ...

Daria Saharova Founding partner at WorldFund . Worldfund is a 300M Eur leading European Climate tech fund investing in startups that decarbonise the global economy. They support startups from early to growth stage, focusing on Energy, Food and Agriculture, Manufacturing, Buildings, and Mobility. During this episode we discuss how Climate change isn't theoretical—it's already disrupting sup...

Christian Rebernik - co-founder and CEO of Tomorrow University. Tomorrow university is the first ed-tech scaleup to receive accreditation in Europe that offers bachelors, masters and MBA programs reimagining education starting from first principles. Previously, Christian was the CTO of several multibillion Euro companies like N26, Scout24 and Awin Global. During this episode we discuss about the a...

Anna Brandt has close to 20 years experience in talent acquisition at some of the most iconic tech companies of our generation like Uber, Zalando, Mollie and N26 to name a few. She is the co-founder of Invested a consulting and investment firm and she is a Venture Partner with EQT Ventures, Insight Partners and Fidelity. During this episode we discuss about the importance of marrying business stra...

Winston Churchill's 1931 essay, " Fifty Years Hence ,"  contemplates the rapid acceleration of human progress driven by science and technology.   He notes the  vast improvements in living standards and the potential for future scientific breakthroughs, particularly in energy.   However, Churchill  cautions that humanity's moral and spiritual development has not kept pace with its...

Tatiana Shalalvand - Venture Investor at Kinnevik and leads the Nordic early-stage strategy. Kinnevik is a multi-billion-dollar investment firm writing checks from 5M to a 100M Euro, from early-stage to post-IPO, and even into the public markets. They invested in the likes of TravelPerk, Spring Health, Pleo, and Zalando to name a few. During this episode we discuss about Kinnevik's capabilities to...

Pär-Jörgen Pärson - general partner at NorthZone , a 1B Eur multi-stage venture capital fund partnering with founders from Seed to Growth. Across Europe and the US. With more than 20 years of VC experience, PJ is a legend in the VC industry and has led the investments in some of the greatest startups coming out of Europe like Spotify, now listed on the NYSE and valued at $123B, the online classifi...

Vadim Fedotov, co-founder and CEO of Bioniq . Having raised a total amount of over $30M with backers like HV Capital and Cristiano Ronaldo - Bioniq is changing the world of personalized health with a data-driven wellness platform that’s redefining how we approach our health. From playing professional basketball to leading one of the fastest-growing e-commerce giants, Groupon, across 48 countries,...

Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic. Valued at $60B, the company focuses on AI research and products that put safety at the frontier and it is the company behind Claude. Dario Amodei's essay, "Machines of Loving Grace," explores the potential positive impacts of advanced AI, despite the risks.  He believes AI's upside is vastly underestimated and details how it could revolutionize biology, neuros...

Max Junestrand - CEO and co-founder of Legora . They recently raised $35M from investors including Benchmark and Redpoint to empower exceptional lawyers everywhere through collaborative AI. With a team of engineers and lawyers from Google, Microsoft, McKinsey, and top law firms, Legora curently serves several thousands users across 200 clients in 15 countries, including some of the world's largest...

Daniel Keiper-Knorr - one of the co-founders and Managing partners at SpeedInvest , a leading European early stage VC. Daniel role is  capital formation, capital markets and investor relations. Starting in 2011 as an angel fund, today Speedinvest is a 1B euro European powerhouse investing in startups at the earliest phases. With 5 specialized investment teams with 40+ investment managers they offe...

Ralph Stayer, CEO of Johnsonville Sausage, recounts his journey of transforming the company by empowering employees and distributing decision-making.   Initially, Stayer felt burdened by the need to control every aspect of the business, leading to disengaged employees and missed opportunities.  He recognized the need to shift from an authoritarian style to one where employees embraced responsibili...

Casper Henningsen - co-founder and CEO of GetWhy - The Agentic AI for Consumer Research. At GetWhy they obsess over finding the why and provide end-to-end consumer research for marketing and insights teams. They unlock empathy at scale to drive smarter, more precise decisions and transform insights from a bottleneck into an enterprise capability. They recently raised $34M dollars Series A, one of...

James Regan, founder and CEO of Oriole Networks . Oriole Networks solves AI’s biggest challenges – speed, latency and sustainability. They use light, via advanced photonics technology, to create networks of AI chips and combine their processing power. With this novel approach, LLMs can be trained up to a 100x faster, whilst consuming a fraction of power, allowing algorithms to run with much lower ...

John Rush - Bootstrapper of more than 20 projects with 6 of them with $400k ARR and previously a co-founder and CTO of the VC-backed company Filmgrail. After following the investor advice to raise a Series A and expand the market, they almost ran out of cash and went bankrupt. They had to give up the unicorn dream and pivot into a regular midsize profitable business. After this learning John is a...

Vay is one of Europe’s best funded startups in the mobility industry with almost $150M raised to date, from top tier investors like Atomico, Creandum and Kinnevik among others and Thomas the co-founder and CEO is here with us today, tuning in from Las Vegas to tell us more about his journey. Vay pursues a different approach to the likes of Waymo, which is “remote driving”. Remote driving is the mo...