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January, 2026

Week 5

Intel to be sent on January 26

Week 4

🇬🇧 Ben Barker was promoted to a CIO position at BGF, as he enters his tenth year in the Manchester office.

🇬🇧 Victoria Longhi joined Owl Ventures as an associate in London, after a year spent with Kirkby in Copenhagen.

🇬🇧 Chris Anderson joined Pillar VC as an advisor – he is founder at TED and an active investor in Europe via Ocean Zero and via Exascale.

🇬🇧 Tom Hollands joined a16z as a partner in San Francisco – he’s a Brit on the West Coast having been part of the founding teams of Wren and Turpentine, the latter acquired by a16z in 2024.

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🇩🇪 Philipp Emig joined Leitmotif as a partner in the Munich office, after four years with Picus Capital – for those who don’t know, Leitmotif is a $300M fund backed by VW for doing growth deals with decarbonization startups.

🇩🇪 Paula Weber quit her job as an associate at Northzone after two years in Berlin, and now does growth for Conduct.

🇩🇪 Beata Klein also quit her partner job at Creandum in Berlin for a lead CEO office position with Parloa – she’d worked for the Swedish VC for six years.

🇩🇪 Jeannette zu Fürstenberg was upgraded to President of General Catalyst, in addition to her role as Managing Director.

• she’d joined two years ago when La Famiglia was acquired by General Catalyst.
• she’ll complement Hemant Taneja, who’s the CEO of the group.

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🇫🇷 Alexis Frentz was promoted to partner at Elaia in Paris after nine years with the company.

🇫🇷 Maxime Furet was also promoted to a principal position at ​Serena, after three years spent with them in Paris.

🇫🇷 Maxime Brousse joined Hexa for running their climate-focused startup accelerator – he’s previously founded a marketplace startup and is an active VC scout of Sequoia Capital.

🇫🇷 Cindy Giraud was promoted to global head of comms position with Keensight Capital after three years.

🇧🇪 Alexine Capiau made partner at Pitchdrive, after almost two years as investment manager in the Bruxelles office.

🇳🇱 Nick Gosen was promoted to principal at Kompas in Amsterdam, after having worked four years with the company.

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🇪🇪 Siim Teller joined Norrsken VC as a venture partner in Tallinn – he’s been a managing partner with Lemonade Stand since 2019.

🇫🇮 Tony Nysten relocated to London where he’ll work as a partner for OpenOcean, after spending more than five years with the Finns in Helsinki.

🇸🇪 Nils Lange quit his investment manger job with Antler in Stockholm after four years to join the other side as GTM manager with Sana. 

🇩🇰 Peik Berg joined byFounders as an investor out of Copenhagen.

Week 2

🇸🇪 ​Fabian Erici​ made partner at Norrsken VC, after six years in the Stockholm office.

🇸🇪 ​Ashley Lundström​ stepped down from EQT Ventures after ten years spent in the Stockholm office.

🇸🇪 ​Hanna Andreen​ will leave Flat Capital, Sebastian Siemiatkowski’s family office, after having led it for five years – she’s going to join local investment company Creades later this summer. 

🇩🇪 ​Dominik Esen​ was promoted to principal by Northzone – he’s in his fifth year in their Berlin office.

🇩🇪 ​Gregor Haidl​ was also promoted to partner by HTGF after nine years and will lead their Munich office. 

🇩🇪 ​Nik Raupp​ made partner at HTGF as well, after four years in Bonn.

🇬🇧 ​Siobhan Brewster​ was made GP over at AENU, after three and a half years with the company in Berlin.

🇫🇷 ​Coralie Chaufour​ stepped down from her leading role at Entrepreneur First in Paris after almost eight years. 

🇫🇷 ​Anne-Laurence Roucher​ joined Rotschild as their head of private markets in Paris, after almost 14 years with Mirova.

🇳🇱 ​Cailin Greiner​ is now investment manager at Forward One in Amsterdam, after three years with the Dutch.

🇳🇱 ​Kyang Yung​ joined Gamma Waves Partners as CIO in Amsterdam, after 10 months with daphni. (see Gamma intel below)

🇫🇷 ​Clarisse Lam​ joined TX Ventures as investment manager in Zurich, jumping ship from NewAlpha’s office in Paris, where she’d worked as VC investor for five years.

🇬🇧 ​George Critchley​ was promoted to Senior Investment Manager, Private Equity at Gestron Asset Management after six years spent with them in Luxembourg.

🇬🇧 ​Charlotte Barttelot​ was promoted to partner over at MMC Ventures, after four and half years with the British VC.

🇬🇧 ​Alex Stroud​ also made it to partner with Concentric, after more than six years in London.

🇬🇧 ​Katie Ramsey​ was named Head of the Global Venture Capital Unit (VCU) within the Office for Investment in His Majesty’s Government – she’s been with the Department for Business and Trade for two years.

🇬🇧 ​James Heath​ joined as Private Markets lead investor for Athenaeum Partners, a London-based family office associated with AW Rostamani Group, one of the largest and most diversified family conglomerates in the United Arab Emirates.

🇬🇧 ​Ashleigh Fawcett​ was upgraded to a Sustainability Director position, after three years as Sustainability Manager and overall ten years spent with Atomico in London.

🇨🇭 ​Magnus Karnehm​ made partner at Left Lane Capital, after five years in the London office.

🇮🇹 ​Alessandro Luciano​ was promoted by Insight Venture Partners to a principal post in London after six years.

🇩🇪 ​Mila Cramer​ quit her job as principal at Project A in London after seven years in order to join Knowunity as VP of Operations. 

🇹🇷 ​Zeynep Bayazid​ joined AEA Investors as head EMEA IR and Fundraising in London, jumping ship from AlbaCore Capital Group, where she’d spent the past nine years.

🇫🇷 ​Foucault de Fraguier​ was promoted to VP by Atomico, after two years with the company in London.

🇸🇪 ​Oscar Engqvist​ joined Sixth Street as principal – EMEA capital formation in London, after he’d spent almost five years with General Atlantic.

Week 50

🇬🇧 ​Peter Rutland​ was promoted to a president role with CVC Capital, after 18 years with the company in the London office, while ​Advai Pathak​ was made managing director after 8 years. 

🇬🇧 ​Cornelia Gomez​ was promoted to an MD position at General Atlantic after working for almost four years as global head of sustainability in London. 

🇬🇧 ​Flavia Levi​ was promoted to investment manager in Join Capital‘s London office after a little more over a year with the company.

🇬🇧 ​Julian Gay​ joined Odyssey Ventures as a venture partner – he is a founder at Cred Protocol.

🇬🇧 ​Adam Milner​ joined YFM Equity as a portfolio director out of their Leeds office, after six years spent with Endless in a similar role.

🇫🇷 ​Maxime Lhoustau​ joined Motier Ventures as a principal in Paris, after three years with Elaia.

🇫🇷 ​Jean-Patrice Bellier​ joined Revaia as partner in Paris, after working as a consultant for Bain for 15 years – he will lead a new dedicated impact fund focused on energy transition.

🇪🇸 ​Carolina Martínez-Caro​ was hired by Samaipata as an advisor for European expansion – she was previously a CEO at Julius Baer Spain and Portugal. 

🇳🇱 ​Thierry Fakkert​ joined Volve Capital as operating partner – he is a founder at MetricAngel in Amsterdam.

🇫🇮 ​Colin Brown​ joined Sparkmind VC as a GP in the Helsinki office – he’s a Brit, previously a consultant with the World Bank and did a bit of angel investing on the side.

🇸🇪 ​Max Larsson​ and ​Margarethe Böhme​ were both hired by Wave Ventures on full time basis in Stockholm.

🇸🇪 ​Ebba Forsberg​ was promoted to an investment associate position at Norrsken VC after almost three years with the company. 

🇸🇪 ​Ali Farha​ joined Behold Ventures as an associate.

🇪🇺 The EIC Fund announced adding 15 new members to its board led by ​Michiel Scheffer​ – full list of the 20 board members is ​here​.

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