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Neil Murray/Nordic Web Ventures: The early stage in Europe is crowded in quantity but not quality

Neil is founder and solo GP at The Nordic Web Ventures, an up and coming early stage investor out of Denmark.

Rainer Märkle/HV Capital: Munich is the best place in Europe for building a generational startup.

Rainer is a General Partner at HV Capital, the largest VC investment fund in Germany.

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 in London, a VC fund targeting to fund Series A / B Quantum scale-ups.

Roxanne Varza/Station F: There’s not a ‘a French way’ of building companies but still taboo saying that you want to make billions

Roxanne is director at Station F, a startup campus based in Paris, and an angel investor.

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.

Pär-Jörgen Pärson/Northzone: Swedish founders know what great looks like

PJ is GP at Northzone, British multi-stage VC with Norwegian origins and partnering with founders from seed to growth, across Europe and the US.

Sten Tamkivi/Plural: Wild bets now working in Europe – fusion, robotics, defence AI

Sten is a co-founder and partner at Plural, an early-stage European VC fund whose aim is to have GDP-level impact on Europe.

Ali Mitchell/Odyssey Ventures: The reality is that most European VC’s are generalists run by non-founders

Ali is a co-founder and managing partner at Odyssey Ventures, an early stage VC fund that announced a $75 million debut fund out of London in October 2025.

Finn Murphy/Nebular VC: It is not a serious persons business to sell to the US sitting in Europe.

Finn is a founder and solo VC at Nebular, an early stage fund operated from London and NYC, with global ambitions.

Philipp Moehring/TinyVC: There is no Euro playbook, just startup dudes getting shit done

Philipp is a co-founder at Tiny VC, one of the more active super early stage funds across Europe.

Hussein Kanji/Hoxton Ventures: If venture was a formula, I’d outsource my job to an LLM.

Hussein is a co-founder at Hoxton Ventures, a conviction-driven early stage investor in Europe.

Ophelia Brown/Blossom Capital: Enterprise AI is where it’s at

Ophelia is a co-founder at Blossom Capital, a series A investor doing high conviction deals with series A startups.