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

Mar 13 2025 90 ep. 33 mins 17
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personal conversations with the entrepreneurs and investors creating a future worth getting excited about

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Tatiana Shalalvand - The capabilities as a multi-stage fund, Impressing founders with knowledge, Investing in Aira and Travelperk

Mar 13 2025 23 mins  
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 c

Pär-Jörgen Pärson - Recognising Outliers, Good VCs VS Great VCs, Building Northzone, Changing the narrative for European tech, Giving back, Learning from heavy-metal to build customer and team love

Mar 06 2025 44 mins  
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, th

Vadim Fedotov - Hyper-personalised Supplements, Why Cristiano Ronaldo started using it in 2022 and then invested, Building a high-preforming team, The future of personalised wellness

Feb 26 2025 36 mins  
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, acros

Machines of Loving Grace - Essay review of Dario's Amodei, CEO of Anthropic

Feb 22 2025 17 mins  
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 bi

Max Junestrand - Raising $35M in 6 months, Mapping pain points and using Aha! moments, Choosing Benchmark as a lead investor, Empowering Lawyers

Feb 21 2025 31 mins  
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 wo

Daniel Keiper-Knorr - Speed and direction, Gap and the growth stages, Working with weird and exceptional people, The need for specialisation when scaling and the magic slide

Feb 20 2025 24 mins  
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 man

How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead - A review about how Ralph Stayer changed the way he lead to empower workers and improve efficiency

Feb 13 2025 26 mins  
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

Casper Heningsen - Agentic AI for consumer research, Snuggle with the customer to reach $10M ARR, The need for domain mastery, Focus on the inputs and the outcome will follow

Feb 04 2025 39 mins  
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 S

James Regan - Raising $35M to build Networks of AI chips with Photonic Integrated Circuits, Training LLMs 100x faster while reducing AI energy consumption, AI electricity demands by 2030

Jan 22 2025 33 mins  
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 r

John Rush - $400k ARR with 6 projects while bootstrapping, Going out of cash with a VC-backed startup and pivoting, Moving to a tax friendly country, The sovereign individual

Jan 15 2025 44 mins  
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 le