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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.

  1. 1 ngày trước

    This Week in European Tech: Can Europe compete with China in the robotics race?

    China is moving quickly in physical AI and humanoid robotics. For Europe, the bigger question is not simply whether it can match Chinese hardware, but whether it should try to compete on the same terms at all. In this episode of This Week in European Tech, Dan Bowyer⁠ and ⁠Mads Jensen⁠ of ⁠SuperSeed discuss what China’s progress in robotics means for European companies, where Europe may still have an edge and why the most valuable opportunity could sit in the software, intelligence and systems built around the hardware. They also explore whether humanoid robots are really the right form factor for many industrial applications. In some cases, the better answer may be to embed intelligence directly into the machine itself and focus on solving the full business problem. Other highlights Nvidia’s growing role in financing the AI infrastructure boomThe cybersecurity risks emerging from increasingly capable AI agentsWhy reverse acquihires could become more common in EuropeCambridge Aerospace and the gap in Europe’s defence manufacturing capacity

    This Week in European Tech: Can Europe compete with China in the robotics race?

  2. 3 ngày trước

    Award winner - Summit | Firm of the Year 2025 (€200M+): Creandum (represented by Staffan Helgesson)

    Staffan Helgesson takes the stage following Creandum being named Firm of the Year 2025 (>€200M AUM) at the EUVC Summit & Awards Show 2026. The award goes beyond returns, recognising how a VC performs across the full stack: portfolio outcomes, founder support, LP value creation and contribution to the ecosystem, from backing emerging sectors to setting standards on transparency, diversity and fairness. Staffan founded Creandum in 2003 and is now a Partner based in Stockholm. His work has focused largely on SaaS, alongside leading the firm’s climate practice with a particular focus on electrification. In the discussion, he reflects on how Creandum has evolved over more than two decades, why the firm treats venture as a team sport and how it thinks about fund size, performance and Europe’s changing venture ecosystem. He also returns to a principle Creandum has carried with it: “the price always increases”. What was enough to win a deal, recruit someone or build a firm last year will not be enough next year, especially as AI reshapes venture. The EUVC Summit & Awards Show returns in 2027. Find out more and secure your spot here.

    Award winner - Summit | Firm of the Year 2025 (€200M+): Creandum (represented by Staffan Helgesson)

  3. 5 ngày trước

    Award winner - Summit | Impact Leader of the Year 2025: Eka Ventures (represented by Camilla Dolan)

    Camilla Dolan, General Partner at Eka Ventures, joins a conversation following Eka being named Impact Leader of the Year 2025 at the EUVC Summit & Awards Show 2026. The award recognises exceptional positive impact alongside strong financial performance, with impact intention, measurement and reporting integrated throughout the investment process. The recognition follows the close of Eka’ $107 million second fund, focused on health, wellbeing and sustainability as long-term drivers of value. In the conversation, Camilla explains Eka’s shared value thesis and why the firm believes impact investing can drive outlier returns while bringing more commercial capital into the market. In Fund I, she says every pound invested by Eka has been followed by roughly £10 of additional capital, much of it from commercial investors. She also explains how Eka assesses founders, looking for people who learn at an exceptional rate, show high intentionality and have evidence of outlier achievement. Camilla connects that approach to investments including Runna, which Eka backed in 2022 before its acquisition by Strava. The discussion explores what it looks like to treat impact as part of the investment discipline itself, rather than something separate from commercial performance. The EUVC Summit & Awards Show returns in 2027. Find out more and secure your spot here.

    Award winner - Summit | Impact Leader of the Year 2025: Eka Ventures (represented by Camilla Dolan)

  4. 9 thg 8

    This Week European Tech: What happens when AI starts deceiving humans?

    What happens when AI agents begin doing more than following instructions and start actively deceiving the people around them? In the latest episode of This Week in European Tech, Dan Bowyer and Mads Jensen of SuperSeed are joined by Sion Evans, Managing Director at VenCap, to discuss a new AI security test where models created fake identities, tried to manipulate an open-source maintainer and attempted to hide what they had done when challenged. They look at what this means for cybersecurity, why increasingly autonomous systems create new attack vectors and how AI itself may become part of the defence. The episode also covers the wider shifts shaping European tech and venture this week. Highlights AI agents, deception and the next cybersecurity challengeGoogle DeepMind’s shift from research towards executionWhy venture returns remain dominated by a handful of outliersEurope’s growth capital challenge and who should manage itWhy US investors are finding more opportunities in European techThis week’s notable deals in AI chips and energy storage

    This Week European Tech: What happens when AI starts deceiving humans?

  5. 7 thg 8

    Award winner - Summit | Hall of Fame 2025: Accel’s Sonali De Rycker

    Sonali De Rycker, Partner at Accel, is inducted into the EUVC Hall of Fame 2025 in this awards presentation from the EUVC Summit & Awards Show 2026. The award recognises individuals who have shaped European venture over more than a decade through the founders they backed, the firms they helped build and the ideas they advanced. Sonali joined Accel in 2008 and invests across consumer internet, software and fintech. Her investments include Spotify, one of the companies that helped establish what a globally significant European technology business could look like. In her acceptance remarks, she reflects on choosing Europe at a time when the ecosystem was fragmented and widely considered far behind Silicon Valley. What she saw instead were founders building without much infrastructure or support, often far beyond the continent’s established technology hubs. She also discusses how Europe has strengthened as founders recycle talent, experience and capital into new companies, and why AI gives the continent another opportunity to build global leaders. Throughout, she returns to the belief that has shaped her career: exceptional European founders can build companies with global impact. The EUVC Summit & Awards Show returns in 2027. Find out more.

    Award winner - Summit | Hall of Fame 2025: Accel’s Sonali De Rycker

  6. 3 thg 8

    This Week in European Tech: Is AI’s spending boom creating real value or hiding bigger risks?

    AI infrastructure investment continues to accelerate, but the gap between technical progress and sustainable returns is becoming harder to ignore. In the latest episode of This Week in European Tech, Dan Bowyer and Mads Jensen of SuperSeed, Lomax Ward of Outsized Ventures and Andrew J Scott of 7percent Ventures, discuss volatile tech markets, the economics behind data centre expansion and why stronger AI models do not always translate into meaningful automation. Highlights Why AI and tech stocks are experiencing sharper volatility than the wider marketWhether today’s infrastructure spending can produce sustainable returnsNvidia’s expanding role in financing the AI ecosystemWhy engineering, not model capability, may now be the main bottleneckWhat AI is revealing about post-quantum securityHow sovereignty is reshaping technology supply chainsThis week’s standout deals across nuclear energy, robotics, defence and quantum computing

    This Week in European Tech: Is AI’s spending boom creating real value or hiding bigger risks?

  7. 30 thg 7

    Episode #4: Consumer Tech Napkin | Building great products in consumer tech

    When software can be built and copied faster than ever, what still makes a consumer product stand out? Episode #4 of Consumer Tech Napkin, produced in partnership with True, explores how strong teams create an edge through user love, distribution, experimentation, learning loops and human judgement. Host Andreas Munk Holm is joined by Neil Tanna, Co-Founder and CEO of Howbout, Graham Paterson, Co-Founder and CEO of Jitty and an angel investor in Howbout, and Mike Martin of True, a consumer and retail-focused investor and an investor in Jitty. Howbout is the shared calendar app for keeping up with friends and has grown to more than seven million users across 125 countries. Jitty is the search engine for finding your next home. They discuss why features rarely create lasting defensibility, what separates a genuine experiment from simply shipping and hoping, how teams balance data with product taste and how AI is changing the speed of product development. Highlights Building great products when features are easy to copyDistribution, user love and learning loopsIdeas versus executionWhat makes a genuine product experimentIncremental improvements versus bigger betsHow Howbout tests higher-risk changesWhere human judgement remains essentialTimestamps (01:00) Building great products when software is easy to copy(04:00) Does a unique founding insight still matter?(08:00) Ideas versus execution(11:00) The rising bar for consumer startups(13:00) Distribution as a moat(17:00) Why learning loops create an advantage(19:00) What makes an experiment?(20:00) Hypothesis-led product development(22:00) Product bets and building for remarkability(25:00) Where to test risky ideas(28:00) How Howbout runs experiments at scale(32:00) Lessons from Deliveroo’s logistics experiments(34:00) How AI accelerates shipping and analysis(37:00) Can AI run experiments autonomously?(39:00) Why human taste still matters(43:00) How audience size compounds learning(45:00) Closing thoughts Subscribe to EUVC, the home of European tech, for more insights.

    Episode #4: Consumer Tech Napkin | Building great products in consumer tech

  8. 28 thg 7

    Pascal Wittet & Sandy Farmer (Orca Equity Partners): Why Orca backs first-time CEOs to buy their own business

    Many talented professionals never realise there are investors willing to back them to buy and run an established small business, even if they have never been a CEO or worked in that sector before. In this episode of Unsung, host ⁠Will Maunder-Taylor⁠ speaks with ⁠Pascal Wittet⁠ and ⁠Sandy Farmer⁠, Co-Founders of ⁠Orca Equity Partners⁠, the UK’s first and most active fund of search funds.  They explain how Orca backs first-time CEOs across Europe, what they look for in aspiring business owners and why stable, cash-generative and often “boring” companies can offer compelling acquisition opportunities and large returns. They also explore what happens after a deal, from building the management team and introducing better systems to professionalising the business for its next stage of growth. Pascal shares the story of Water Direct, which grew from roughly £3 million to around £10 million in EBITDA and delivered a return of more than five times invested capital in under three years. Highlights Why investors back first-time CEOs with no sector experience How the search fund model works What Orca looks for in aspiring business owners Why stable, cash-generative and “boring” businesses can be attractive How succession creates opportunities to acquire strong companies What new CEOs should prioritise after taking over Why empathy and humility matter when buying from a founder How Water Direct delivered a return of more than 5x For more on entrepreneurship through acquisition, small business ownership and Unsung events, ⁠subscribe to the Unsung newsletter⁠⁠. Timestamps (01:22) Introducing Orca Equity Partners(02:16) How Sandy moved from private equity into search funds(06:32) Why backing first-time CEOs can work(10:07) Search fund returns and CEO incentives(13:42) What makes a strong acquisition target(17:40) How searchers find overlooked small businesses(21:07) Using technology and professionalising acquired companies(29:28) What Orca looks for in future CEOs(36:14) The Water Direct story(42:23) Adam Johnson’s first year as CEO(46:13) Building the right management team(51:51) Water Direct’s growth and liquidity event(58:23) What the story means for aspiring business owners(59:22) Leadership, humility and lessons from the military(1:07:23) Closing thoughts

    Pascal Wittet & Sandy Farmer (Orca Equity Partners): Why Orca backs first-time CEOs to buy their own business
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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.

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