Latest Ventureeurope Podcast Episodes
Annie Duke - Decision Science, Frameworks for entrepreneurs on how to decide, Mental time travel, The monkey on the pedestal, Decision quality VS Outcome quality, Thinking in Bets
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - May 21, 2024 09:20 - 44 minutesAnnie Duke is a Special Partner focused on Decision Science at First Round Capital Partners, a seed stage venture fund. Annie is a prolific author in the decision making space having written "Thinking in Bets" - a national bestseller, "How to decide: Simple tools for making better choices” and ...
Oliver Holle - From an angel fund to 1B AuM, Building specialized teams to support founders, Starting a company in the 90s VS today
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - May 14, 2024 10:16 - 28 minutesOliver Holle - co-founder, CEO and Managing Partner at SpeedInvest, a leading European early-stage VC. Starting in 2011 as an angel fund, today Speedinvest became a 1B Eur European powerhouse investing in startups at the earliest phases. With their sector focused teams across Deeptech, Fintech,...
Carmen Alfonso Rico - Investing in killers with a heart, The right to a secret, Co-founder relationships, Finding your superpower and win-win situations
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - May 07, 2024 08:09 - 51 minutesCarmen Alfonso Rico - founder and GP of Cocoa VC. Cocoa is a VC fund investing between $250k-$500k angel checks at pre-seed/seed and how they like to say it “they don’t give a damn about ownership stake”. In less than 3 years she invested in some of the most talented founders from Arcane, Twir...
Bernt Bornich - Androids for the worlds labor demands, Raising > Eur 100M from EQT and OpenAI fund, Building softness in robots, Embodied learning and AGI
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - April 30, 2024 08:47 - 40 minutesBernt Øivind Børnich - co-founder and CEO of 1X, an AI and robotics company producing androids to benefit society and meet the world’s labor demand. One of the most exciting companies in Europe that stands at the forefront of AI robotics. Their mission is to create androids that work among peop...
Kaushik Subramanian - Learnings from building products at Meta and Stripe, Extreme focus on the user problem, User first mentality, Choosing your design partners
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - April 23, 2024 09:26 - 34 minutesOur guest today is Kaushik Subramanian, partner at EQT Ventures, investing primarily in product-led technology businesses. From offices in Stockholm, London, Berlin, Paris and New York, EQT invests in and supports entrepreneurs building the next-generation of global winners from a 1.1B Euro fun...
Julius Bachmann - Coaching entrepreneurs, The ups and downs of entrepreneurship and the importance of finding a support system
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - April 11, 2024 14:37 - 38 minutesJulius is a certified coach and has coached over 150 entrepreneurs backed by Atomico, a16z and Creandum among others, has trained over 100 venture investors and just recently released his first single on Spotify. During this episode we discuss about the moment he decided to become a coach, the ...
Nicole Paulk - The evolution of modern medicine, 4h sleep cycle, Tackling cancer with gene therapy, Leaving academia and starting a business, Programming cells
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - March 19, 2024 12:36 - 37 minutesDr. Nicole Paulk is the CEO and founder of the viral gene therapy startup Siren Biotechnology. Prior to being a founder she was a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF in San Francisco, California where her lab worked at the forefront of developing and engineering e...
Bharat Vasan - Consumer Tech, Ozempic - the miracle drug, Assessing founders for grit bias to action and the ability to tell a story
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - March 04, 2024 12:51 - 47 minutesBharat Vasan, Partner and COO at The Production Board. Bharat is overseeing the consumer technology portfolio and actively invests in, advises and serves on the boards of early-stage businesses. He is one of Silicon Valley’s most battle-tested and proven CEOs and operators, with multiple succ...
Bjarne Kveim Lie - The status at growth stage, Eur 5B committed, 140 investments, Growth > FCF, Dr Alban and the asymmetric risk-reward ratio
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - February 15, 2024 06:18 - 33 minutesBjarne Kveim Lie - Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Verdane. Verdane invests in technology companies with equity tickets between 8 and 150m Euro, they have Eur 5B of committed capital and over 140 investments since 2003. They have a flexible mandate and can make both minority an...
James Currier - Built and sold $10B worth of companies between NfX founders, Being a 5x Founder and 2 key elements for success, Designing for the white-hot center, Choosing a life partner
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - January 18, 2024 14:10 - 32 minutesJames Currier - Founding Partner at NfX. James is a five-time Founder, an angel investor in DoorDash, Lyft, and Patreon, and a Founding Partner at the venture capital firm, NfX. Before becoming an investor, James was the co-founder and CEO of Tickle, one of the internet’s first successful user...
Zeynep Yavuz - From ideation to IPO, Thematic Investor, Assessing first time entrepreneurs, Fintech and Crypto
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - January 11, 2024 07:43 - 34 minutesZeynep Yavuz - Partner at General Catalyst. General Catalyst, has $28bn assets under management and is one of the world’s best known VC firms. They backed some of greatest businesses that you probably are very familiar with including Airbnb, Stripe, Discord and Snap among many many others other...
Chris Smith - The state of Pre-seed investing, Fundraising process, Intuition VS Investment Memo, The importance of hard work
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - December 14, 2023 07:39 - 36 minutesChris Smith - Managing Partner of Playfair. (brought to you by Seedrs) Playfair is a generalist fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: maki...
Rex Woodbury - Consumer behaviour and techtonic shifts, Social Media 3.0, Pre-seed investing and being true to yourself
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - December 05, 2023 18:22 - 35 minutesRex Woodbury - founder and Managing Partner of Daybreak, an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City. (brought to you by Seedrs) Before founding Daybreak, Rex was a Partner at Index Ventures the premier venture capital firm that invested in Adyen, Revolut, Roblox, Discord...
Kirsty Grant - £2.6B through Crowdfunding, The new equity market, End-to-end infrastructure to fundraise for investors and founders across stages
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - November 14, 2023 15:32 - 28 minutesKirsty Grant - Managing Director at Seedrs - Europe’s leading private investing platform. Under her leadership, Seedrs has become the most active investor in early stage private companies in the UK, funding over 2,000 deals and participating in rounds totalling over £2.6 billion to date. This ...
Mark Kugel - Winning contracts with NASA, Creating biotech assets in space, The CDTM effect, Germany's PR problem
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - October 24, 2023 16:12 - 35 minutesMark Kugel - co-founder and co-CEO of Yuri. (brought to you by Seedrs) At Yuri they are sending payloads to space to take advantage of micro-gravity so they can build higher quality molecules and other useful biotech assets. Did you know that it is easier to print a heart in space as it has...
Francesco Sciortino - Making fusion a reality, The promise of the Stellarator, The competitive advantage of Europe
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - October 17, 2023 14:35 - 39 minutesCiao ragazzi e ragazze, I am here with Francesco Sciortino - co-founder and CEO of Proxima Fusion (brought to you by Seedrs) Originally from Italy, his passion for physics and plasma, took him across the world from Imperial College London for undergrad, to EPFL in Switzerland for his masters,...
Mikkel Skarnager - ~50m Eur exit to Trulioo, Building the next company, Advice for first time entrepreneurs, Normalizing the ups and downs
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - October 11, 2023 09:04 - 45 minutesMikkel Skarnager - co-founder and CEO of the stealth startup Spektr. (brought to you by Brevo and Seedrs) Mikkel is a second-time founder, prior to Spektr he was the founder and CEO of HelloFlow, an innovative no-code, drag-and-drop builder for client onboarding, monitoring, and digital workflo...
Fredrik Cassel - Creandum's culture, Investing in several iconic companies, The new mega trends, Finding user love
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - October 03, 2023 08:25 - 35 minutesFredrik Cassel - General Partner at Creandum. Creandum is a venture capital advisory firm with offices in Stockholm, San Francisco, London, and Berlin funding early stage entrepreneurs from a 450m euro fund. Fredrik has an exceptional track record having previously invested in several multibil...
Jevan Nagarajah - Precision fermentation, Dealing with co-founder break-up, Raising > 20m Eur for deep tech startup, Learning to take risks
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - September 26, 2023 14:46 - 32 minutesBrought to you by Zoom and Brevo. If you like the show please check out the sponsors as they are the ones making it possible. Thank you! 🙏 Jevan Nagarajah - is the founder and CEO of Better Dairy. At Better Dairy they are using precision fermentation to produce the cheeses, yoghurts, ice cream...
Mars Geuze - From building racing cars to winning SpaceX Hyperloop contest, The challenges in building infrastructure, The importance of enjoying the journey
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - September 10, 2023 18:46 - 35 minutesBrought to you by Zoom and Brevo. If you like the show please check out the sponsors as they are the ones making it possible. Thank you! 🙏 Mars Geuze is one of the co-founders of Hardt Hyperloop. Hardt Hyperloop is one of the leading teams in the world working to bring the concept of Hyperloop...
Antoine Moyroud - Commitment to Europe, The Eur 105M seed investment in Mistral AI, From failing Class Preparatoire to becoming a partner at Lightspeed
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - August 29, 2023 09:35 - 38 minutesAntoine Moyroud - Partner at Lightspeed. Lightspeed is a venture capital firm focusing on multi-stage investments in the enterprise, consumer, and health sectors. Lightspeed invests in seed, early and growth-stage companies. For over twenty years Lightspeed has been the first investor and an e...
Andre Retterath - Data-driven VC, Tracking 10M talents, From analyst to partner, Eagle-eye platform, Building sustainable defensibility
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - August 15, 2023 07:46 - 32 minutesAndre Retterath - Partner at Earlybird Capital, Lead of the EagleEye platform used for data driven sourcing and writing the popular newsletter Data-driven VC. With over 2 billion Euro under management, nine IPOs and 31 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture ca...
Michel Elings - Selling the company to Apple, Moving to Cupertino, Building products used by millions, Cultural differences, Surround yourself with people that believe in you
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - July 25, 2023 08:49 - 23 minutesMichel Elings is the founder of Vev. Michel, has a history of delivering successful products with over 100 million users and with Vev they plan to empower millions of freelancers and SMBs by providing the basic tech tools they need so they can smoothly run their business. Prior to Vev he foun...
Jakob Sons - Cannabis startup in the highly regulated German market, Raising $15m round from Snoopp Dogg's Casa Verde Capital, Reaching 20m Euro run rate and Building a European category leader
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - July 18, 2023 06:20 - 34 minutesJakob Sons is the co-founder of Cansativa. Cansativa is building the largest cannabis platform in Europe and are offering the most desirable products and brands. Yummi! In 2022 they’ve raised a 15m dollar round from Snoopp Dogg's, Casa Verde VC firm and currently they have a 20m euro run rate...
Andreas Helbig - Extreme product market fit, Investment criteria at Atomico, The journey from junior analyst to partner, The importance of culture and a healthy hustle
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - June 23, 2023 12:48 - 35 minutesOur guest today is Andreas Helbig - Partner at Atomico. Atomico is the venture capital firm founded by the Niklas Zennstrom, one of the founders of Skype, and investing in disruptive technology companies from Series A onwards. They have an exceptional track record having previously invested in...
Kajetan von Armansperg - Founding story of Leapsome, Tackling culture, Bootstrapping to 10M ARR then raising 60M Series A, Opening an office in the U.S., Money as a taboo topic
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - June 09, 2023 10:15 - 34 minutesOur guest today is Kajetan von Armansperg, Co-CEO of Leapsome. Leapsome is an all-in-one platform for people enablement. They combine the tools for goals and OKRs management, performance reviews and 360s, and compensation and surveys among other features. More than 1500 companies including Spot...
Nathan Benaich - The State of AI, Transformer models across data sets, What does an AI startup look like, Obama's cloned voice, AI as the magic editing wand, The AI brain drain
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - May 23, 2023 11:59 - 34 minutesNathan Benaich is a General Partner at Air Street capital a investment firm investing in AI startups. When asking around in the European ecosystem his name came across several times as a thought leader in the AI space. I highly recommend you read the State of AI report which he co-authors. It’s ...
Alex MacCaw - From 50M ARR B2B SaaS to 20k MRR B2C, Hacking the first sales, The beauty of mom-and-pop tech shops, Stepping down as a CEO, Relationship with money
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - May 11, 2023 08:37 - 36 minutesAlex MacCaw is the founder and CEO of Reflect app. The note-taking tool that allows you to take notes the same way you think — by associating notes through backlinks. Prior to Reflect he built and ran Clearbit a venture-backed 50M Eur annual recurring revenue B2B saas company. During this epis...
David Friedberg - The founding story of The Climate Corporation and the exit to Monsanto for $1.1B, High bias to action, The Production Board and reimagining earth, The coming era of abundance
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - May 01, 2023 08:42 - 43 minutesDavid is the founder and CEO of The Production Board, a holding company that builds and invests in businesses that solve the most fundamental problems that affect our planet, by reimagining global systems of production; across food, agriculture, biomanufacturing, human health, and the broader li...
Lina Chong - Leaving U.S. for Europe, Berlin calling, Studying philosophy, Surrounding yourself with excellent people, Assessing startups, Overcoming challenging periods
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc - April 20, 2023 05:37 - 36 minutesLina Chong is a Partner at Target Global. Target Global is one of the leading European venture capital investors with more than 3bn EUR in AuM and offices across Berlin, London, Tel Aviv and Barcelona. They have backed more than 15 unicorns including household names such as Delivery Hero, Revo...
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