Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc
Episodes
Paul Murphy - Platform VS Application Layer, Learnings from Microsoft, How to Print Money with AI, The gift for Europe
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Murphy - Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.For over twenty years Lightspeed has been the first investor and an early backer of some of the m...
Bryan Kim - Davos, Investing in ElevenLabs, Importance of Storytelling, Bryan's Personal Mission
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Bryan Kim is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz which is arguably the most influential venture firm in the world right now, and they are practically def...
Technological Adolescence - Dario Amodei
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Dario Amodei characterizes the current state of artificial intelligence as a "technological adolescence," representing a piv...
Sara Rywe - Investing the first check in Lovable, The importance of EQ as a Venture Capitalist, The work behind becoming a Tier 1 fund, Assessing talent and investing before there is proof
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Rywe is a General Partner at byFounders. byFounders is one of Europe's best performing venture funds and focused on early-stage across the N...
Jan Goetz - From quantum physicist to deep-tech founder, Raising $600M, First application around the corner, From academia to startup
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we step into the quantum frontier with Jan Goetz — co-founder and CEO of IQM Quantum Computers.From quantum physicist to deep-tech founder, J...
Max Kufner - Bioreactors that capture harmful CO2, Moving from VC to the co-founder role, Why attitude is sometimes more important than skill
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Maximilian Kufner - co-founder and CEO of Again.Bio.At Again they are using a millennia-old bacteria to turn CO2 emissions into clean sustainable prod...
Mati Staniszewski - Building ElevenLabs into a $6.6B Voice AI Powerhouse, The Importance of small teams, The Future of Human-AI Conversations, Real-Time Dubbing & Emotional Speech
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mati Staniszewski, is the co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs. He shares how a pre-seed idea turned into a $6.6B AI company powering the future of voice....
Tom Wilson - Learnings from a decade investing at seed-stage, The importance of Universities in innovation, Fixing Spin-offs, The common traits of successful founders
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Wilson is a Partner at Seedcamp - the legendary seed fund, started in 2007 in Europe that has backed companies like Revolut, UiPath, Wise and wefo...
Dan Ariely - Why We’re Predictably Irrational, The Hidden Psychology Behind Everyday Choices and Decision-Making, How to think about Pricing, The decoy effect, How to reframe a decision
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Ariely is the bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and one of the world’s leading behavioral economists. We explore why humans consisten...
Des Traynor - The AI wake up call, From pricing per seats to pricing per outcome, Difference between European and American entrepreneurs
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Des Traynor, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Intercom, one of the most iconic SaaS companies to come out of Europe.If you've ever message...
Maxime Barbier - From 300M+ monthly video views to founding an anti social media startup, The loneliness epidemic, Connecting 25,000+ people every week across 320+ cities in 65 countries
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest today is Maxime Barbier, co-founder and CEO of Timeleft. They are organizing dinners for strangers. Imagine a sort of blind date with 5 othe...
Deep Dive - Have I been Pwned?, The recent password leaks, Protecting Yourself from Mass Password Leaks
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A comprehensive guide to personal cybersecurity, emphasizing the evolving threat landscape from mid-2024 to mid-2025, marked by unprecedented data ex...
Supercharging Portfolio Value-Add - Platform 2.0, Creating engaging communities, The importance of playbooks, Business Development , Talent, Branding
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two weeks ago, I was in New York for the Venture Intelligence day (organised by Vestberry) moderating a panel with some pretty savvy VCs — among the...
Musk VS Trump: Helping Trump win, Twitter/X VS Truth Social, High stakes politics
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An in-depth look at the complex and often turbulent relationship between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, focusing on its historical context and a s...
Salar al Khafaji - Autonomous on-site construction robots, Construction ~10-15% of GDP but low productivity, How affordability affects fertility rates, Learnings from selling his startup to Palantir
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Salar al Khafaji - founder and CEO of Monumental.At Monumental they are developing a suite of autonomous, electric robots which can work around the cl...
Construction Market - Deep-dive
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We provide an extensive overview of the global construction market, highlighting its significant economic impact and projected growth to over $16 tr...
Mary Meeker - AI Trends
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trends – Artificial Intelligence - compiled by Mary Meeker "queen of the internet", Jay Simons, Daegwon Chae, and Alexander Krey of BOND.T...
Jan-Hendrick Boelens - Air-to-air counter-drone system, Defending Europe, Why Europe needs a single defense market, The constrains in the supply chain and dependencies on China
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jan-Hendrick Boelens co-founder and CEO of Alpine Eagle.Munich-based and backed by leading investors including General Catalyst and IQ Capital, Alp...
Europe's Defense Transformation: Spending, Policy, and Investment Opportunities
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An overview of the European defense market, excluding Russia, highlighting a significant and accelerated increase in investment driven by the chang...
AI - History, Trends and Opportunities
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Explore the transformative force of Artificial Intelligence (AI), outlining its historical evolution from foundational concepts to modern advanceme...
Sebastian Hjärne - From prompt to hire, Recycling tennis balls, The search engine for talent, Raising funds from the Swedish Tech Mafia
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 hi...
A Deep Dive into the Global Recruitment Market, The $2 Trillion Projected Global Staffing & Recruitment Market Value by 2031, The Future of Talent Acquisition
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A comprehensive overview of the global recruitment market, describing its significant current size and projected growth, driven by factors like incr...
Jakob Sons - Starting a Medical Cannabis startup, Quitting the lawyer career, Making Eur 35M in 2024, The hyper-personalisation trend and diversifying from flower
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Deep-dive: European Medical Cannabis, Market Size, Trends, Regulation
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An overview of the global medical cannabis market, highlighting its rapid growth driven by legislative reforms, increasing research, and patient acc...
Stress-free productivity, The Bible of personal organisation, Productivity is directly proportional with the ability to relax
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This overview analyzes David Allen's "Getting Things Done" (GTD) methodology, a widely recognized system aimed at achieving stress-fre...
Ioan Iacob - The meeting with Revolut that influenced the founding of FlowX, Raising Eur 30M led by Dawn Capital, Why the Ego is the enemy of the founder
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ioan Jacob is the CEO and Founder of FlowX.AI.The FlowX platform fundamentally changes how large banks build mission-critical products and modernize a...
2025 FinTech Trends: AI Agents, The $100T wealth transfer, Stablecoins and the resurgence of B2C FinTech
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
FT Partners Research published a March 2025 report outlining key FinTech trends to anticipate in the coming year, alongside a recap of 2024 FinT...
Mastering the Inner Game for Peak Performance, Creating Harmony between Self 1 (Teller) and Self 2 (Doer)
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
W. Timothy Gallwey's Inner Game framework distinguishes between the conscious "Self 1" that instructs and judges, and the unconscio...
Dirk Sahlmer - Bootstrapped founders VS VC backed founders, Maximising your wealth when starting or selling your business, 3 mistakes founders make when selling
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, ho...
State of European Tech - Stats about the last decade and Hans Rosling, Mario Draghi Report, ASML and EU inc proposal and the Vision about the future of the region
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Daria Saharova - Pairing the climate performance potential with the venture capital model, Raising Eur 300M the biggest first time fund in Germany, The importance of understanding the VC mechanics
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daria Saharova Founding partner at WorldFund.Worldfund is a 300M Eur leading European Climate tech fund investing in startups that decarbonise the glo...
Christian Rebernik - First accredited edtech scale-up in Europe, Challenging the status quo in education, Creating 1M change-makers and the Importance of purpose
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Rebernik - co-founder and CEO of Tomorrow University.Tomorrow university is the first ed-tech scaleup to receive accreditation in Europe tha...
Anna Brandt - Learnings from acquiring talent at Uber, Zalando, Mollie and N26, Linking business strategy with Headcount Plan and the Trade-off between speed, quality and cost when recruiting
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, Mol...
Winston Churchill - Fifty Years Hence
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Winston Churchill's 1931 essay, "Fifty Years Hence," contemplates the rapid acceleration of human progress driven by science and techno...
Tatiana Shalalvand - The capabilities as a multi-stage fund, Impressing founders with knowledge, Investing in Aira and Travelperk
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tatiana Shalalvand - Venture Investor at Kinnevik and leads the Nordic early-stage strategy.Kinnevik is a multi-billion-dollar investment firm writing...
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
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pär-Jörgen Pärson - general partner at NorthZone, a 1B Eur multi-stage venture capital fund partnering with founders from Seed to Growth. Across Eu...
Vadim Fedotov - Hyper-personalised Supplements, Why Cristiano Ronaldo started using it in 2022 and then invested, Building a high-performing team, The future of personalised wellness
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Machines of Loving Grace - Essay review of Dario's Amodei, CEO of Anthropic
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Max Junestrand - Raising $35M in 6 months, Mapping pain points and using Aha! moments, Choosing Benchmark as a lead investor, Empowering Lawyers
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Max Junestrand - CEO and co-founder of Legora.They recently raised $35M from investors including Benchmark and Redpoint to empower exceptional lawyers...
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
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Keiper-Knorr - one of the co-founders and Managing partners at SpeedInvest, a leading European early stage VC. Daniel role is capital format...
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
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ralph Stayer, CEO of Johnsonville Sausage, recounts his journey of transforming the company by empowering employees and distributing decision-making. ...
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
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
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
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James Regan, founder and CEO of Oriole Networks. Oriole Networks solves AI’s biggest challenges – speed, latency and sustainability. They use ligh...
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
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Thomas von der Ohe - Bridging the gap to full autonomy, Quitting a cushy job to start a startup, Embodied learning, The market opportunities in the more than $1T self-driving car industry
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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, Creandu...
Anton Osika - Idea to app in seconds, The last piece of software, The YC hype, How to have a successful fundraise, Machine intelligence becomes more capable than human intelligence
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anton Osika - co-founder and CEO of Lovable. With Lovable you can go from an Idea to app in seconds. It functions like your superhuman full stack eng...
Walter Ballheimer - Sending satellites into space, The CubeSats revolution, Different types of satellites, The space-tech market
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Walter Ballheimer - founder and CEO of Reflex Aerospace. The first venture backed satellite manufacturer in Europe. They have raised ~15m Euros ...
Christian Vollmann - Building the first of a kind green methanol plant, Learnings from building and selling multiple digital businesses and the importance of Mental Health for entrepreneurs
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Vollmann - founder and CEO of Carbon One. Founded in 2022 they have raised approximately $14M to date with the mission to lower the gr...
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
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Hanna - Partner at Balderton Capital. Balderton is multi-stage venture firm with over twenty years of expertise in aiding European founders from...
George Henry - Most successful investor in unicorns at seed stage, Learning velocity, Having a compelling vision, Taking more risks
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
George Henry - General Partner at LocalGlobe - the seed fund which is according to Dealroom figures, EMEA’s most successful investor in unicorns at ...
Lukas Saari - AI copilot for healthcare practitioners, Raising $10M seed round in 8 months, The administrative burden and the future of Healthcare
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
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
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
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
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Lazarenko, founder and CEO of Embedd. With Embedd they provide a unified framework so that all the components coming from tens of different m...
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
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alexandre Momeni - Partner at General Catalyst. Alex specialises in healthcare and AI and has been instrumental in bringing some of Europe’s biggest...
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
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
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
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. S...
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
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Oliver Holle - From an angel fund to 1B AuM, Building specialized teams to support founders, Starting a company in the 90s VS today
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Oliver Holle - co-founder, CEO and Managing Partner at SpeedInvest, a leading European early-stage VC. Starting in 2011 as an angel fund, today Speedi...
Carmen Alfonso Rico - Investing in killers with a heart, The right to a secret, Co-founder relationships, Finding your superpower and win-win situations
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Carmen 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 ...
Bernt Bornich - Androids for the worlds labor demands, Raising > Eur 100M from EQT and OpenAI fund, Building softness in robots, Embodied learning and AGI
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bernt Øivind Børnich - co-founder and CEO of 1X, an AI and robotics company producing androids to benefit society and meet the world’s labor deman...
Kaushik Subramanian - Learnings from building products at Meta and Stripe, Extreme focus on the user problem, User first mentality, Choosing your design partners
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest today is Kaushik Subramanian, partner at EQT Ventures, investing primarily in product-led technology businesses. From offices in Stockholm, ...
Julius Bachmann - Coaching entrepreneurs, The ups and downs of entrepreneurship and the importance of finding a support system
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Julius is a certified coach and has coached over 150 entrepreneurs backed by Atomico, a16z and Creandum among others, has trained over 100 venture inv...
Nicole Paulk - The evolution of modern medicine, 4h sleep cycle, Tackling cancer with gene therapy, Leaving academia and starting a business, Programming cells
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. 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 Dep...
Bharat Vasan - Consumer Tech, Ozempic - the miracle drug, Assessing founders for grit bias to action and the ability to tell a story
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bharat Vasan, Partner and COO at The Production Board. Bharat is overseeing the consumer technology portfolio and actively invests in, advises and se...
Bjarne Kveim Lie - The status at growth stage, Eur 5B committed, 140 investments, Growth > FCF, Dr Alban and the asymmetric risk-reward ratio
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bjarne Kveim Lie - Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Verdane. Verdane invests in technology companies with equity tickets between 8 and...
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
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
James 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...
Zeynep Yavuz - From ideation to IPO, Thematic Investor, Assessing first time entrepreneurs, Fintech and Crypto
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Zeynep Yavuz - Partner at General Catalyst. General Catalyst, has $28bn assets under management and is one of the world’s best known VC firms. They ...
Chris Smith - The state of Pre-seed investing, Fundraising process, Intuition VS Investment Memo, The importance of hard work
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Smith - Managing Partner of Playfair. (brought to you by Seedrs) Playfair is a generalist fund with a contrarian a...
Rex Woodbury - Consumer behaviour and techtonic shifts, Social Media 3.0, Pre-seed investing and being true to yourself
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rex Woodbury - founder and Managing Partner of Daybreak, an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City. (brought to you by Se...
Kirsty Grant - £2.6B through Crowdfunding, The new equity market, End-to-end infrastructure to fundraise for investors and founders across stages
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Grant - Managing Director at Seedrs - Europe’s leading private investing platform. Under her leadership, Seedrs has become the most active in...
Mark Kugel - Winning contracts with NASA, Creating biotech assets in space, The CDTM effect, Germany's PR problem
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark 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 mic...
Francesco Sciortino - Making fusion a reality, The promise of the Stellarator, The competitive advantage of Europe
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ciao ragazzi e ragazze, I am here with Francesco Sciortino - co-founder and CEO of Proxima Fusion (brought to you by Seedrs) Originally from Ita...
Mikkel Skarnager - ~50m Eur exit to Trulioo, Building the next company, Advice for first time entrepreneurs, Normalizing the ups and downs
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mikkel 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 Sp...
Fredrik Cassel - Creandum's culture, Investing in several iconic companies, The new mega trends, Finding user love
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fredrik Cassel - General Partner at Creandum. Creandum is a venture capital advisory firm with offices in Stockholm, San Francisco, London, and Berlin...
Jevan Nagarajah - Precision fermentation, Dealing with co-founder break-up, Raising > 20m Eur for deep tech startup, Learning to take risks
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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Mars Geuze - From building racing cars to winning SpaceX Hyperloop contest, The challenges in building infrastructure, The importance of enjoying the journey
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brought 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 Ge...
Antoine Moyroud - Commitment to Europe, The Eur 105M seed investment in Mistral AI, From failing Class Preparatoire to becoming a partner at Lightspeed
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Antoine Moyroud - Partner at Lightspeed. Lightspeed is a venture capital firm focusing on multi-stage investments in the enterprise, consumer, and h...
Andre Retterath - Data-driven VC, Tracking 10M talents, From analyst to partner, Eagle-eye platform, Building sustainable defensibility
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andre Retterath - Partner at Earlybird Capital, Lead of the EagleEye platform used for data driven sourcing and writing the popular newsletter Data-dr...
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
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michel 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 em...
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
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jakob Sons is the co-founder of Cansativa. Cansativa is building the largest cannabis platform in Europe and are offering the most desirable products...
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
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest today is Andreas Helbig - Partner at Atomico. Atomico is the venture capital firm founded by the Niklas Zennstrom, one of the founders of Sk...
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
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our 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 go...
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
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Benaich is a General Partner at Air Street capital a investment firm investing in AI startups. When asking around in the European ecosystem his...
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
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alex 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 ...
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
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David is the founder and CEO of The Production Board, a holding company that builds and invests in businesses that solve the most fundamental problems...
Lina Chong - Leaving U.S. for Europe, Berlin calling, Studying philosophy, Surrounding yourself with excellent people, Assessing startups, Overcoming challenging periods
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lina 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 of...
Koen Thijssen - Raising $16M Series A, Rocket Internet Mafia, Going from 0 to 1 in the insurance industry, Stick to the plan regardless of market volatility, Why you hardly overpay for the best people
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Koen Thijssen, founder and CEO of Insify. At Insify they modernize the insurance market for Europe’s small and medium companies. Prior to founding I...
Stef van Grieken - Moonshots projects at Google, Assessing the risk of starting a start-up, Falling in love with biology, Why we need more definite optimists Europeans
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stef van Grieken is the co-founder and CEO of the biotech company Cradle. Based between Delft and Zurich, Cradle’s machine learning platform helps s...
Eric Lagier - Founding byFounders and the Nordic pledge to pay it forward, The journey to San Francisco and the exit with Memolane, and Erics' tattoo - Muditā - the pleasure in seeing others succeed
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest today is Eric Lagier - founding Partner at byFounders. byFounders is an early-stage venture fund backed by a collective of some of the most ...
Filip Dames - Founding Cherry Ventures, Learnings from startup to IPO with Zalando, Making the first million and the importance of doing More of what you love
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest today is Filip Dames - Founding Partner at Cherry Ventures. Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepre...
Sabina Wizander - The journey from 20-1000 employees and from 0-150M EUR with the healthcare startup KRY, The pursuit of work life balance, and The excitement for the Energy market
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest today is Sabina Wizander - Partner at Creandum. Creandum is a venture capital advisory firm with offices in Stockholm, San Francisco, London...
Julian Kley - From preparing to become a heart surgeon to COO, Learning to trust your intuition, The importance of continuous and instant feedback, Founding AVI Medical, The future of Healthcare
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Julian Kley Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of AVI Medical. Avi Medical is a Munich-based health tech company that runs patient-centric, tech-e...
Alfonso Peccatiello - The effect of high interest rates on the economy, The probability of a recession, Europe position in the changing world order, Strategies to protect capital
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the last 6 months I was trying to wrap my little head around the macro environment and the effects on the economy and to be honest on my pocket. I ...
Francesco Simoneschi - Raising $130m at the top of the market, The banking API revolution, The opportunity in payments, Founding TrueLayer, Learning to unplug
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Please meet Francesco Simoneschi - Co-Founder and CEO of TrueLayer. In a couple of short years Francesco and his co-Founder Luca, have built TrueLayer...
Joel Nordström - Raising €5M Seed in a frozen market for Atlar, The journey with Tink from employee #12 to the sell to Visa for $2.2B, and hustling your way and get your dream job while at uni
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year you lovely humans, I hope you had a relaxing holiday season together with your loved ones and you are ready to rock'n'roll 2023. Our gu...
David Heinemeier Hansson - Learnings from working remote for the last 20 years, Creating Ruby on Rails, Bootstrapping, Define success, Startups
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
DHH is the Creator of Ruby on Rails the popular web development framework used by companies like Twitter, Github, Shopify, AirBnb, Square, Twitch...
Kerry Murphy - The marketsize for digital fashion, how fashion is part of our identity and the future of the Metaverse despite market turmoil
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kerry Murphy is the founder and CEO of The Fabricant. The Fabricant is a digital fashion house that operates at the intersection of technology and fas...
Sebastian Pollok - Why Europe needs to wake up, why it's all about the people and their fresh Eur 400m across 3 funds to support B2B SaaS early and growth and science-driven moonshots
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastian Pollok is a founding Partner of Visionaries Club. Visionaries Club is a Berlin-based early stage VC fund, backed by leading European digital...
Julien Codorniou - The journey with FB (Meta) from 500m users to IPO, assessing teams and angel investing and the consumerization of IT
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Julien Codorniu is a partner and investor at Felix Capital, the 600m Euro fund investing in brands and related enabling technologies. At Felix h...
Michel D. Traore - The clear case for NFTs in the $30B music streaming market
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michel Traore - the co-founder and CEO of anotherblock, a Web3 platform democratizing music ownership through NFTs. Anotherblock connects music rights...