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The home of European tech.
Connecting the people, capital and companies building Europe.
EUVC features conversations with the founders, investors, operators and policymakers shaping the continent's future. We explore venture capital, startups, AI, deeptech, defense, industrial policy, entrepreneurship and the ideas driving European competitiveness. From emerging managers and unicorn founders to institutional investors and government leaders, EUVC documents the people building Europe's next chapter.
Episodes
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- Summit | Dario My (Deep Tech Nation Switzerland): How European pensions learn to back venture · 9 minGetting pension funds into venture is not simply a question of appetite. The harder part is giving institutions a structure they understand, a risk profile they can assess and a…
- Summit | Owen Reynolds (Innotek): Venture as an active family business · 10 minOwning and operating a business can give family investors access to insights that are difficult to reproduce from the outside. The question is how to turn that knowledge into a…
- This Week in European Tech: What should founders expect from their VCs? · 51 minWhat does a genuinely useful VC relationship look like, and how much should operating experience matter when investors are advising founders? In this episode of This Week in…
- Andreas Cleve (Corti): Why constraints can be an advantage in vertical AI · 50 minIn vertical AI, choosing a narrower market can look like giving up scale, but for Corti it created the focus needed to go much deeper into healthcare and build around the…
- Summit | Romain Lavault (Partech) & Joe Schorge (Isomer Capital): Managing liquidity as a seed fund · 12 minSeed investors are often told to ride their winners. But when the best companies remain private well beyond the original fund horizon, that creates a difficult question: when…
- Summit | Denes Ban (RAISE): Why "European resilience" is not a fundraising strategy · 11 minWant help sharpening your fundraising story? Request a discovery call with Denes Ban, Founder of RAISE. --- Fundraising is not just about having a strong company or a compelling…
- This Week in European Tech: Why Europe’s own capital isn’t backing its growth · 1 h 3 minEurope has deep pools of capital, but much of that money still fails to reach the companies and assets that could drive future growth. In this episode, Dan Bowyer and Mads Jensen…
- Summit | Oliver Vince (Basecamp Research) & Lorenzo Cerchi (Singular): Rewriting the map of life · 14 minAI has transformed what is possible in language, but biology remains a much harder frontier. Oliver Vince, Co-Founder at Basecamp Research, believes one of the biggest…
- Summit | Jan Goetz (IQM Quantum Computers): Building a quantum unicorn from Europe · 15 minQuantum computing is not simply about making today’s computers faster. For Jan Goetz, CEO & Co-Founder at IQM Quantum Computers, the opportunity lies in solving problems that…
- Edouard Gouin (Convelio): Building through the hardest years to reach profitability · 1 h 3 minConvelio’s most difficult period forced some of its most consequential decisions. After the art market contracted sharply, the company reduced its team, changed its business…
- This Week in European Tech: AI’s next test is who actually gets paid · 54 minThe AI market is moving from proving the technology works to proving who can actually capture the value. In this episode of This Week in European Tech, Dan Bowyer, Mads Jensen…
- Summit | Tomaz Stolfa (Sunrise Robotics) & Patrick Murphy (Tapestry VC): Revolutionizing European manufacturing · 15 minEurope’s manufacturing sector faces a growing labour shortage, while much of the continent’s industrial base remains difficult to automate with traditional robotics. In this…
- Harry Haeck (Smartfin): AI’s footprint is easy to measure. Its handprint isn’t · 13 minAI’s footprint is visible in the energy, water and infrastructure required to run it. Its positive impact is harder to capture in a single number, which can make the costs of AI…
- This Week in European Tech: Europe’s AI edge could be science, not scale · 52 minEurope’s strongest AI opportunity may not be building the biggest general-purpose model. It could be applying AI where the region already has an advantage in science, engineering…
- Summit | Joe McDonald (tem) & Adam Chirkowski (AlbionVC): Fixing the $900B energy problem · 13 minCheap, reliable energy is becoming a strategic advantage. As AI, data centres and manufacturing demand more power, the economics of electricity increasingly influence which…
- Jasper Roll (Haufe Group Ventures): How to build a credible CVC without a traditional fund structure · 45 minA credible CVC does not have to start with a traditional fund structure. Haufe Group Ventures built its model around an evergreen balance-sheet setup, a lean team and a clear…
- Summit | Pavel Mucha (Aspire11): Why and how a Czech pension fund launched a €500m venture fund · 15 minGetting pension capital into venture is not simply about proving that the returns are attractive. It requires building an investment model that institutions can actually…
- Patrick Murphy (Tapestry VC): Why drone delivery could replace millions of car journeys · 7 minSending a car or moped across a city to deliver a single meal is an expensive and inefficient way to move food. Drone delivery offers a different model, with the potential to…
- This Week in European Tech: What ElevenLabs says about Europe’s AI potential · 56 minElevenLabs reaching a $22 billion valuation is another sign that Europe can produce globally competitive AI companies. But as personal agents become more capable, Europe also…
- Greg Lawton (Nodes & Links): Why product-market fit won’t get you through enterprise procurement · 41 minA product can solve a real problem and still fail to make it through enterprise procurement. Greg Lawton, CEO at Nodes & Links, joins Andreas Munk Holm to explain why technical…
