Neil S W Murray/Nordic Web Ventures: The early stage in Europe is crowded in quantity but not quality
Rainer Märkle, GP at HV Capital, highlights 2025 as a significant year with 20 investments exceeding €200m. He notes the transformative European tech landscape, emphasizing opportunities rather than corrections. He cites AI and deep tech as key sectors for future unicorns, with Munich as an ideal startup hub, while also acknowledging evolving challenges in the…
Rainer Märkle/HV Capital: Munich is the best place in Europe for building a generational startup.
Rainer Märkle, GP at HV Capital, highlights 2025 as a significant year with 20 investments exceeding €200m. He notes the transformative European tech landscape, emphasizing opportunities rather than corrections. He cites AI and deep tech as key sectors for future unicorns, with Munich as an ideal startup hub, while also acknowledging evolving challenges in the…
Kris Naudts/Firgun Ventures: We expect quantum to commercialise first in life and material sciences, finance, and telco.
Kris is a founding and managing partner at Firgun Ventures, a VC fund based in London targeting funding deals with Series A / B Quantum scale-ups. Why does Firgun exist and what do you offer that founders cannot already find from generalist growth funds or corporate strategics? We want to plug the funding gap for…
Roxanne Varza: there’s not a ‘a French way’ of building companies but still taboo saying that you want to make billions
Roxanne is a director at Station F in Paris, angel investor and one of the most knowledgeable persons when it comes to early stage startups in France. You’ve been leading Station F for almost ten years – that’s several startup generations and business cycles. How would you describe the state of the French startup ecosystem right…
Carmen Rico/Cocoa VC: Proprietary deal flow is dead – the war is not to see, the war is to win.
Carmen is a founder at Cocoa VC, VC-turned-angel that announced a $23 million close for their second fund in November 2025. What’s new with Cocoa, and what are the highlights of this year? You just announced the new fund – in today’s tougher market, how do you define success over the next few cycles and…
Pär-Jörgen Pärson/Northzone: Swedish founders know what great looks like
PJ Pärson is a GP at Northzone, British multi-stage VC with Norwegian origins and partnering with founders from seed to growth, across Europe and the US. What’s new with Northzone? What are the highlights of this year? 8 out of 10 new investments at Northzone have been AI related. Unprecedented growth in revenues in underlying…
Sten Tamkivi/Plural: Wild bets now working in Europe – fusion, robotics, defence AI
Sten Tamkivi is a co-founder and partner at Plural, an early-stage European VC fund whose aim is to have GDP-level impact on Europe. What’s new with Plural? What are the highlights of this year? Our newest equal Partner, Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty. The insane scar tissue from his ride (pun intended!) at Uber, growing Eats GMV to…
Ali Mitchell/Odyssey Ventures: The reality is that most European VC’s are generalists run by non-founders
Ali Mitchell is a co-founder and managing partner at Odyssey Ventures, an early stage VC fund that just announced a $75 million debut fund out of London. What is Odyssey’s raison d’être – and why now? How long – and how difficult – was it to raise in the current environment? Odyssey Ventures exists for…
Finn Murphy/Nebular VC: It is not a serious persons business to sell to the US sitting in Europe.
Finn Murphy is a founder and solo VC at Nebular, an early stage fund operated from London and NYC, with global ambitions. What’s new with Nebular? What are the highlights of this year? Good year! Starcloud getting set up for first satellite launch in early November. Myself and Taavet doubled down in Teton in their…
Philipp Moehring/TinyVC: There is no Euro playbook, just startup dudes getting shit done
Philipp Moehring is a co-founder at Tiny VC, one of the more active super early stage funds across Europe. What’s new with Tiny? What are the highlights of this year? Everything and nothing is new – we’ve got a well oiled machine by now, but there’s always so much exciting stuff happening… Tiny deliberately doesn’t…
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