Upside: European Tech & VC Weekly
by Dan Bowyer & Mads Jensen - SuperSeed
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About this podcast
Upside is a weekly show on European tech, venture capital and startups from the team at SuperSeed. Each week, Dan Bowyer and Mads Jensen look behind the headlines in AI, funding and policy, and what they mean for founders and investors in Europe. New episodes every Sunday.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 115 episodes
- Sequoia Leaves London - Voters Leave Data Centres - Notaries Leave Umm, Nothing · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 115Upside is a weekly look behind the headlines, where we connect the dots affecting European venture startups and investing. I took one week off and they handed Lomax the keys…
- The Budget - Are Founders' Relieved? Living In A Trustless World, and Are VCs Dangerous? · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 114Upside is a weekly show that connects the dots behind the headlines affecting European venture, startups and investing. The Big Boring Budget, Anthropic Goes Public & Are VCs…
- AI Cyber Shocks - The "Boring" Budget - How Britain Gets Its Mojo Back · 1 h 2 min · Season 1 Episode 113Every week on Upside we look behind the headlines and connect the dots that will shape European venture. This week Dan and Mads are joined by Karim Palant, Director of External…
- AI capex falters, AI goes vertical, AI's new moat · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 112Every week, we look behind the headlines and connect the dots across European venture, investing and startups. Record quarters everywhere, share prices down anyway. Dan, Mads and…
- AI - Who's Paying Now? - Le Chonk - Any Good? - The UK EU Situationship · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 111The latest news behind the European venture headlines - let's connect the dots. Dan, Mads and Pri follow the AI money and find it in your pension, your next laptop and a $40bn…
- Who Should Police AI - Inside Anthropic's S1 - UK Venture Shines · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 110Every week, we look behind the headlines affecting European venture. Oura had a book covered four times over and still walked. Micron is printing money. Bailey says everyone's…
- Trump & Xi summit means what for Europe? - The AI Price War & Agents Are Everywhere · 1 h 3 min · Season 1 Episode 109Dan, Mads and a lurgy-stricken Andrew dig behind the week's headlines that will affect European venture. Andrew sounds like Barry White. Mads has somehow become the pessimist…
- Unpacking AI Doomerism - What Rate Hikes Mean For CAPEX? - Humanoids Land! · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 108Upside is a weekly podcast that looks behind the headlines to unpack what will affect European venture, startups and investing. Dan and Mads flew to LA to sit in row four while…
- Our Future According To Anthropic - UK Is Innovating? - An AI Doomer Says What? · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 107Mistral's €3bn, Europe finally reaches orbit, and Anthropic says no to the UK. Mads is off. Pri and Andrew Scott step in. 00:45 – Elizabeth Holmes gets a documentary. Sam Altman…
- AI Free Lunch Is Over - Bonds Burning Will Bite - NVIDIA Circular $ Update · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 106Upside is a weekly podcast that unpacks the real stories behind the headlines that will affect European venture capital, startups, and investing. This week, Bonds, Bubbles and a…
- Nvidia Backstops Wall Street - Open Source is Back Baby! - More AI Agents Go Rogue · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 104Mads is back in London, it's mid-August, and the AI train has once again failed to read the "quiet news week" memo. Dan and Mads go solo on money-go-rounds, half-trillion-dollar…
- Markets Too Hot? - The DeepMind Shake Up - The UKs £1bn Fund · 58 min · Season 1 Episode 103Upside #103 - Power Laws, Poached Engineers & The Chuck Norris of Coding Unpacking the week's news that will affect European venture capital, startups and investing. Mads and Dan…
- Markets: Why Winning Is Losing - Big Tech Is Out Of Cash - Cracks in Claude’s Cryptography. · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 102Upside looks behind the headlines to uncover the real stories affecting European venture. Hosted by Europe's leading emerging managers investing early in innovation; space…
- US Bans Chinese AI? - Hugging Face Hack PR? - What Will Burnham Do Next? · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 101Every week we dig behind the headlines shaping European venture. This week Dan, Mads and Lomax - all early stage European VCs investing in space, resilience, physical AI and deep…
- 100th Episode Special: What will our world look like in 2028? · 1 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 100Upside #100 - Two Years, Two Wars, One Existential Crisis, Zero Trophies. Upside is a weekly podcast that looks behind headlines affecting European venture. Hosted by European…
- China Blocks AI - Are UK Pensions Now In Venture!? - Is it 1999? · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 99Live from a Lisbon beach studio, Dan, Mads and Lomax dig behind the headlines shaping European venture. This week: China's AI power play, is UK pension money finally trickling…
- Burnham’s Britain - AI Creates A New World Order - How Trade Becomes War · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 98Every week, Upside digs behind the headlines shaping European venture. This week Dan, Mads and Lomax get into Burnham's Britain and what a Manchester PM means for tech and…
- Why Does Micron Matter? Will UK Capital Flow? The AI Bill Is Due - Who’s Paying? · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 97Upside is a weekly podcast looking behind the headlines to see what's going to affect European venture, start-ups and investing. Hosted by Dan and Mads from Superseed, and this…
- Anthropic’s Fable - Technical or Political - The G7 AI Backroom Chat - Europe's $Trillion Company · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 96Upside is a weekly show that looks behind the headlines affecting European venture. This week Dan and Mads are joined by Joe Schorge of Isomer Capital — one of the people who…
- Has AI Hit Its Glass Ceiling? Quantum IPOs at 500x Rev?! & Siri Goes Google! · 1 h 9 min · Season 1 Episode 95Upside is a weekly show that looks behind the headlines that will affect European venture, start-ups and investing. On the show this week: 3:03 — SpaceX IPO day: pop, flop or…
