Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital

By Calin Fabri | Entrepreneur | Investor | Founder Coach

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Episodes: 65

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personal conversations with the entrepreneurs and investors creating a future worth getting excited about

Episode Date
Bernt Bornich - Androids for the worlds labor demands, Raising > Eur 100M from EQT and OpenAI fund, Building softness in robots, Embodied learning and AGI
Apr 30, 2024
Kaushik Subramanian - Learnings from building products at Meta and Stripe, Extreme focus on the user problem, User first mentality, Choosing your design partners
Apr 23, 2024
Julius Bachmann - Coaching entrepreneurs, The ups and downs of entrepreneurship and the importance of finding a support system
Apr 11, 2024
Nicole Paulk - The evolution of modern medicine, 4h sleep cycle, Tackling cancer with gene therapy, Leaving academia and starting a business, Programming cells
Mar 19, 2024
Bharat Vasan - Consumer Tech, Ozempic - the miracle drug, Assessing founders for grit bias to action and the ability to tell a story
Mar 04, 2024
Bjarne Kveim Lie - The status at growth stage, Eur 5B committed, 140 investments, Growth > FCF, Dr Alban and the asymmetric risk-reward ratio
Feb 15, 2024
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
Jan 18, 2024
Zeynep Yavuz - From ideation to IPO, Thematic Investor, Assessing first time entrepreneurs, Fintech and Crypto
Jan 11, 2024
Chris Smith - The state of Pre-seed investing, Fundraising process, Intuition VS Investment Memo, The importance of hard work
Dec 14, 2023
Rex Woodbury - Consumer behaviour and techtonic shifts, Social Media 3.0, Pre-seed investing and being true to yourself
Dec 05, 2023
Kirsty Grant - £2.6B through Crowdfunding, The new equity market, End-to-end infrastructure to fundraise for investors and founders across stages
Nov 14, 2023
Mark Kugel - Winning contracts with NASA, Creating biotech assets in space, The CDTM effect, Germany's PR problem
Oct 24, 2023
Francesco Sciortino - Making fusion a reality, The promise of the Stellarator, The competitive advantage of Europe
Oct 17, 2023
Mikkel Skarnager - ~50m Eur exit to Trulioo, Building the next company, Advice for first time entrepreneurs, Normalizing the ups and downs
Oct 11, 2023
Fredrik Cassel - Creandum's culture, Investing in several iconic companies, The new mega trends, Finding user love
Oct 03, 2023
Jevan Nagarajah - Precision fermentation, Dealing with co-founder break-up, Raising > 20m Eur for deep tech startup, Learning to take risks
Sep 26, 2023
Mars Geuze - From building racing cars to winning SpaceX Hyperloop contest, The challenges in building infrastructure, The importance of enjoying the journey
Sep 10, 2023
Antoine Moyroud - Commitment to Europe, The Eur 105M seed investment in Mistral AI, From failing Class Preparatoire to becoming a partner at Lightspeed
Aug 29, 2023
Andre Retterath - Data-driven VC, Tracking 10M talents, From analyst to partner, Eagle-eye platform, Building sustainable defensibility
Aug 15, 2023
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
Jul 25, 2023
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
Jul 18, 2023
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
Jun 23, 2023
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
Jun 09, 2023
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
May 23, 2023
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
May 11, 2023
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
May 01, 2023
Lina Chong - Leaving U.S. for Europe, Berlin calling, Studying philosophy, Surrounding yourself with excellent people, Assessing startups, Overcoming challenging periods
Apr 20, 2023
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
Apr 14, 2023
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
Mar 27, 2023
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
Mar 10, 2023
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
Feb 24, 2023
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
Feb 17, 2023
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
Feb 07, 2023
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
Jan 31, 2023
Francesco Simoneschi - Raising $130m at the top of the market, The banking API revolution, The opportunity in payments, Founding TrueLayer, Learning to unplug
Jan 24, 2023
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
Jan 10, 2023
David Heinemeier Hansson - Learnings from working remote for the last 20 years, Creating Ruby on Rails, Bootstrapping, Define success, Startups
Nov 21, 2022
Kerry Murphy - The marketsize for digital fashion, how fashion is part of our identity and the future of the Metaverse despite market turmoil
Nov 10, 2022
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
Nov 03, 2022
Julien Codorniou - The journey with FB (Meta) from 500m users to IPO, assessing teams and angel investing and the consumerization of IT
Oct 27, 2022
Michel D. Traore - The clear case for NFTs in the $30B music streaming market
Oct 13, 2022
Timmu Tõke - Raising from a16z, finding product market fit and building for the metaverse
Sep 30, 2022
Daniel & Dorin - How to raise Eur 10M in 10 months
Sep 06, 2022
Xavier Collins - You get what you measure
Aug 31, 2022
Tony Jamous - How to hire a high performing team
Aug 14, 2022
Judith Dada - Defining your mission. For Whom and For What?
Jul 28, 2022
Anthony Danon - FinTech is eating the world
Jul 14, 2022
Nina Achadjian - Vertical SaaS
Jun 30, 2022
Ulric Musset - Liberation Capital
Jun 13, 2022
Andrei Brasoveanu - Prepared mind
May 31, 2022
Hannah Seal - Future of Work
May 08, 2022
Henrik Landgren - How to implement a data-driven culture
Apr 24, 2022
Eléonore Crespo - Doer till the IPO
Apr 07, 2022
Sebastian Mallaby - The Power Law
Mar 20, 2022
Ophelia Brown - High-conviction investing
Feb 10, 2022
Roland Manger - Cohesion and autonomy
Jan 12, 2022
Kyle Samani - Decentralised
Dec 07, 2021
Mathias Ockenfels - Network effects
Nov 14, 2021
Paul Murphy - Fuck it, ship it!
Oct 24, 2021
Matt Miller - In pursuit of 'world-class'
Sep 28, 2021
Karl Munthe-Kaas - Happy, but never satisfied
Aug 22, 2021
Johan Brand - Building Kahoot!
Jun 16, 2021
Jacqueline van den Ende - It is not the critic who counts; but the "entrepreneur" who is actually in the arena
May 24, 2021
Patrick Meutzner - High-growth and mental health
Apr 01, 2021
Saul Klein - The changes in the landscape since 1995 in the VC ecosystem in Europe and the requirement of practical science fiction when they invest in teams at seed stage
Apr 01, 2021