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

Oct 22 2024 76 ep. 33 mins 16

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personal conversations with the entrepreneurs and investors creating a future worth getting excited about

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Colin Hanna - Competing as a team, Being adaptable, Time at Soundcloud, Getting in to the zone, Meditation, Assessing founders and investments, The partnership between an investor and a founder

Oct 22 2024 25 mins

Colin Hanna - Partner at Balderton Capital. Balderton is multi-stage venture firm with over twenty years of expertise in aiding European founders from the initial seed stage through to IPO. According to Dealroom they have invested in over 30 companies valued at over a billion euros - among them Revolut, Sinch and Waye among many others. Recently they’ve raised $1.3 billion, divid

George Henry - Most successful investor in unicorns at seed stage, Learning velocity, Having a compelling vision, Taking more risks

Oct 08 2024 34 mins

George Henry - General Partner at LocalGlobe - the seed fund which is according to Dealroom figures, EMEA’s most successful investor in unicorns at seed stage. LocalGlobe invests across Europe and some of its notable investments include Wise, Improbable, Motorway, Tide and Automata. George himself focuses on finding the next generation of industry-transforming businesses to serve

Lukas Saari - AI copilot for healthcare practitioners, Raising $10M seed round in 8 months, The administrative burden and the future of Healthcare

Sep 25 2024 35 mins

Lukas Saari - CEO and Co-founder of Tandem Health. Tandem is building an AI co-pilot for healthcare practitioners. Their first product is an ambient scribe that listens during the patient-doctor consultation, transcribes the conversation and generates the draft of the medical note. They were founded only 1 year ago, and recently closed a ~$10M seed round, led by Northzone, to acce

Florian Brand - MDMA and DMT trials, Raising $400M from Peter Thiel and other investors, Difficulties of bringing a drug to market, The journey of increasing self-awareness

Sep 17 2024 28 mins

Florian Brand co-founder and Co-CEO of ATAI Life Sciences. ATAI was founded in 2018 and is a global, listed, biopharma company with the vision to heal mental health disorders so that everyone, everywhere can live a more fulfilled life. They were one of the pioneers to use psilocybin in treating mental health and they have raised around $400M equity and debt from Petter Thiel and ot

Michael Lazarenko - 350 meetings to raise pre-seed round, The effects of the war in Ukraine, Gearing to raise Seed, The importance of Storytelling, The $140B electronics R&D market

Sep 10 2024 22 mins

Michael Lazarenko, founder and CEO of Embedd. With Embedd they provide a unified framework so that all the components coming from tens of different manufacturers can communicate with each other on the circuit board. They raised $1.2M Eur pre-seed round led by Cocoa in May last year and now they are ready and gearing up to raise their seed round. During this episode we discuss how

Alexandre Momeni - Investing in founders with a sense of urgency, The future of brain machine interface, Paris VS London, Product Market Fit as a spectrum, Opportunities in healthcare in Europe

Aug 21 2024 30 mins

Alexandre Momeni - Partner at General Catalyst. Alex specialises in healthcare and AI and has been instrumental in bringing some of Europe’s biggest AI deals to General Catlayst’s door. For background 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 familiar with in

Robert Jäckle - Finding and investing in talent, The path to €600M AuM in 5 years, The correlation between risk and success, Surrounding yourself with driven and ambitious people

Aug 14 2024 34 mins

Robert Jäkle is a Partner at Visionaries Club. Visionaries is a leading European early-stage VC fund with offices in London and Berlin. The fund is backed by over 30 unicorn founders - such as the founders of UiPath, Flixbus, Miro and Skype - as well as leading European family business entrepreneurs. Bobby joined the fund on day one and has helped build it over the past five years

Aleksander Larsen - $1.3B revenue, North Korean hack, From the hottest company in web3 to being called a scam, Building digital nations, Competing with Visa

Aug 07 2024 32 mins

Aleksander Larsen is the Co-Founder, Chairman, and COO of Sky Mavis, the company behind the popular crypto game Axie Infinity and the Ronin Network. SkyMavis is the breakout company at the intersection of gaming and blockchain, they’ve raised around 300 million dollars according to Dealroom and Crunchbase from top investors like a16z, Accel and Paradigm. During this episode we di

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

May 21 2024 44 mins

Annie 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 the latest book “Quit - the power of knowing when to walk away”. As

Oliver Holle - From an angel fund to 1B AuM, Building specialized teams to support founders, Starting a company in the 90s VS today

May 14 2024 28 mins

Oliver 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, Marketplace and Consumer among others and operational teams, they deeply support founder