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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. 1d ago

    Laura Modiano (OpenAI): How AI-native founders build differently

    AI-native founders are not just building different products. They are changing how companies test ideas, organise teams, gather feedback and scale. In this EUVC conversation, Laura Modiano, who leads Founder Experience at OpenAI, shares what she is learning from founders building with AI across every stage of the company journey, from inception and pre-seed through to later-stage scale-ups. Laura explains how founders are using AI to pressure-test ideas from the perspective of investors, customers and different functions before entering real conversations. She argues that as building becomes easier, taste, speed and a strong point of view become increasingly important competitive advantages. The conversation also explores why AI-native teams are moving beyond rigid job titles, how centralised company knowledge can improve collaboration and why every function, from engineering to finance and marketing, should increasingly be able to build with AI. In addition, Laura discusses how established companies can become AI-first, the role OpenAI wants to play alongside startups building on its models and why European founders may benefit from being closer to industries such as manufacturing, logistics and healthcare. Highlights How founders can pressure-test ideas with AI Why taste is becoming a startup moat How AI-native teams organise and collaborate Why shared company knowledge matters more than ever How small teams can increase their output with AI How scale-ups can become AI-first Where OpenAI sees its role alongside application-layer startups Why European founders may have an edge in the real economy Timestamps (00:00) Intro(02:45) OpenAI’s support for startups(05:45) How Laura works with founders(08:40) What AI changes at the inception stage(10:00) Pressure-testing ideas with AI(12:20) Using AI before the first investor meeting(16:00) How founders should use AI at pre-seed(18:10) Why taste is becoming a moat(22:00) How AI-native teams should operate(25:20) Building a centralised knowledge system(28:40) How startups can scale with AI(31:00) Will OpenAI move further into the application layer?(34:00) How non-AI-native companies can become AI-first(38:40) Why everyone in a company should be a builder(40:40) Why European founders have an advantage(42:00) What AI is already changing inside enterprises

    Laura Modiano (OpenAI): How AI-native founders build differently

  2. 2d ago

    Summit | Dario My (Deep Tech Nation Switzerland): How European pensions learn to back venture

    Getting 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 clear path to returns. In this conversation from EUVC Summit 2026, Dario My, Head Venture Hub Switzerland at Deep Tech Nation Switzerland, joins Joe Schorge, Founder and Managing Partner at Isomer Capital, to discuss how Switzerland is trying to make venture more accessible to pension funds. Dario explains what Deep Tech Nation Switzerland has learned from working directly with pension funds, where interest in venture exists but experience with the asset class is still limited. He shares how its roundtables grew from three participating pension funds to around 20 and why performance remains the starting point for any allocation decision. The conversation also explores why early-stage venture is still perceived as highly risky, how education can gradually change that view and why pension fund mobilisation needs to be solved at country level. Dario also discusses the pension fund investment foundation created with pension funds themselves to address practical barriers and provide a more workable route into venture. Highlights Why pension fund appetite alone is not enough What Swiss pension funds need before allocating to venture Why performance remains the primary requirement How education can change perceptions of early-stage investing What Deep Tech Nation Switzerland learned from pension fund roundtables Why pension fund mobilisation needs country-specific solutions How a dedicated investment structure can reduce practical barriers What Switzerland’s approach could mean for European venture

    Summit | Dario My (Deep Tech Nation Switzerland): How European pensions learn to back venture

  3. 4d ago

    Summit | Owen Reynolds (Innotek): Venture as an active family business

    Owning 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 genuine advantage for funds and founders. In this conversation from EUVC Summit 2026, ⁠Owen Reynolds⁠, Investment Director VC at ⁠Innotek⁠, shares how an active family business can bring deeper market knowledge, faster diligence and practical operating context into venture investing. Innotek is a single family office investing across venture capital, private equity and direct investments, with roots in industrial, manufacturing and technology. Owen explains how its in-house automation, robotics and engineering expertise can support investment decisions and portfolio companies in ways that go beyond capital. He also discusses why operating companies can sometimes “skip the first five slides” of a pitch deck, how continuous exposure to customers and supply chains creates an information advantage and why specialist investors risk losing some of that edge as they become professional investors. The conversation also covers how family offices can support VCs and portfolio companies more effectively, why that support needs to be specific rather than assumed and where LP expectations and established fund structures may be holding venture back. Highlights How operating businesses create an investment edge Why active operators can accelerate due diligence How in-house technical expertise can support venture investing Why specialist VCs can gradually lose their specialisation How family offices can work more effectively with VCs Why operating support needs to be specific and credible Where LP structures may be restricting venture funds How family offices can become stronger long-term partners

    Summit | Owen Reynolds (Innotek): Venture as an active family business

  4. 6d ago

    This Week in European Tech: What should founders expect from their VCs?

    What 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 European Tech, Dan Bowyer and Mads Jensen of SuperSeed discuss what separates strong VC partnerships from weaker ones, why venture outcomes naturally follow power laws and what founders should realistically expect from the investors around their table. They also look at the UK Budget and whether it goes far enough for founders, the wider economic pressures facing younger people and what could encourage more people to build companies. The conversation then turns to AI, including Anthropic’s planned IPO, where inference may happen in the future and the growing question of whether companies can trust the models and agents operating inside their businesses. Dan and Mads also discuss technological sovereignty, the case for stronger European AI infrastructure and what Europe should prioritise rather than trying to recreate every layer of the technology stack. Highlights What founders should expect from a strong VC partnership How much operating experience matters for investors Why venture capital produces power-law outcomes What the UK Budget means for founders Why entrepreneurship may have an energy problem as well as a policy problem What Anthropic’s planned IPO could tell us about the AI market Why more AI inference could move onto personal devices The security risks created by AI agents at scale Whether European companies can trust foreign AI models Where Europe should focus its technology sovereignty efforts

    This Week in European Tech: What should founders expect from their VCs?

  5. Oct 30

    Andreas Cleve (Corti): Why constraints can be an advantage in vertical AI

    In 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 accuracy, compliance and real-world complexity that clinical environments demand. Andreas Cleve, Co-Founder and CEO of Corti, joins us to explain the thinking behind that choice and what it has meant in practice. Andreas describes healthcare not as one market but as many highly specialised ones, each with its own workflows, terminology and requirements. That depth means bigger general-purpose models alone are not enough. Corti has instead had to build further down the stack and take greater control over the technology and infrastructure required to get AI into production. The trade-off becomes especially clear around accuracy. AI can perform well in a demo and still fall short in a clinical environment, where one incorrect word or detail can change the meaning entirely. Andreas explains why clinical-grade performance depends on much more than training better models, from working closely with users to adapting to individual specialties and solving the last-mile problems that appear when technology meets real workflows. The conversation also explores why Corti brought compliance in-house rather than treating regulation as something to outsource. For founders building in healthcare, legal, financial services or other high-stakes domains, the broader question is how to decide which constraints to accept, which capabilities to own and where going deeper can create an advantage that broader competitors struggle to replicate. Highlights Why Corti chose vertical AI over a broader horizontal approachWhat founders give up when they deliberately narrow their marketWhy bigger models do not automatically solve regulated-domain problemsWhy 90% accuracy can still fall far short in clinical environmentsHow specialisation pushes vertical AI companies deeper into the stackWhy getting AI into production requires more than model performanceWhy Corti built its compliance capability in-houseHow founders can think differently about regulation and other high-stakes constraints Timestamps (00:00) Intro(01:45) What Corti is building(03:45) Why healthcare needs specialised AI(05:45) Why bigger models do not solve healthcare(07:40) Healthcare is not one market(09:50) The trade-offs of going vertical(11:50) Funding a capital-intensive AI company from Europe(13:15) Why Corti is doubling down on Copenhagen(16:45) Copenhagen’s talent problem(19:30) Why 90% accuracy is not enough in healthcare(23:00) Solving the last mile of healthcare AI(25:45) Where AI adoption is happening fastest in healthcare(31:20) Why regulation is not the enemy(34:40) How founders should approach compliance(37:40) What founders should understand about venture funding(42:30) Why European VCs need a GPU strategy(46:40) Europe’s growth funding gap(48:00) When should European founders move to the US?

    Andreas Cleve (Corti): Why constraints can be an advantage in vertical AI

  6. Oct 29

    Summit | Romain Lavault (Partech) & Joe Schorge (Isomer Capital): Managing liquidity as a seed fund

    Seed 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 should a fund start turning paper gains into cash? In this conversation from EUVC Summit 2026, Romain Lavault, General Partner at Partech, joins Joe Schorge, Founder and Managing Partner at Isomer Capital, to discuss how seed funds can manage liquidity without giving up too much of their strongest positions. Romain explains how longer company lifecycles have changed the economics of seed investing, why secondaries have become a major route to liquidity and how Partech uses a framework to decide when to sell portions of high-performing companies. They also explore LP expectations around DPI, why liquidity decisions should be planned rather than emotional and how early conversations with founders can make future secondary transactions easier. Highlights Why seed funds face a growing liquidity challengeHow longer company lifecycles affect fund returnsWhy secondaries have become more importantWhen to sell part of a winnerHow to balance DPI with long-term upsideWhy founders need advance notice of liquidity plansWhy funds need a liquidity model as well as a fund model

    Summit | Romain Lavault (Partech) & Joe Schorge (Isomer Capital): Managing liquidity as a seed fund

  7. Oct 27

    Summit | Denes Ban (RAISE): Why "European resilience" is not a fundraising strategy

    Want 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 idea. It is also about understanding where the process breaks, how investors respond and what actually moves them to act. In this talk from EUVC Summit 2026, Denes Ban, Founder of RAISE, explains why fundraising should be treated as a measurable system rather than a matter of charisma or instinct. Drawing on his work with hundreds of founders and GPs, Denes breaks down the conversion funnel behind fundraising, why most people misdiagnose their bottleneck and how numbers, story and urgency work together. He also introduces the idea of a minimum viable story, built around five elements: how the world is changing, the problem, the solution, why you win and why now. Along the way, he explains why founders often rush too quickly to the solution and why “European resilience” on its own is not enough to raise capital. Highlights Why quality alone does not win How to identify the real fundraising bottleneck Why fundraising is a system that can be improved The role of numbers, story and urgency How to build a minimum viable story Why the problem should come before the solution What creates urgency in an investor process Why “European resilience” alone is not a fundraising strategy

    Summit | Denes Ban (RAISE): Why "European resilience" is not a fundraising strategy

  8. Oct 26

    This Week in European Tech: Why Europe’s own capital isn’t backing its growth

    Europe 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 of SuperSeed are joined by Karim Palant, Director of External Affairs at UK Private Capital, to discuss why domestic capital remains underrepresented in venture and private markets, and why that matters for Europe’s competitiveness. They look at pension reform, the UK’s reliance on international LPs, the incentives that keep domestic capital flowing elsewhere, and what the upcoming UK budget could mean for founders, investors, and wealth creation. The conversation also turns to AI infrastructure and cybersecurity, including whether trillion-dollar CapEx plans will actually materialise, how AI is making old cyber vulnerabilities easier to exploit, and what personal AI agents could mean for future security risks. Highlights Why Europe’s own capital is not backing enough of its growth Why pension money still struggles to reach venture and private markets The risks of relying too heavily on international capital What the UK budget could mean for founders and investors Whether the AI infrastructure boom is starting to slow How AI is changing cybersecurity What personal AI agents could mean for security

    This Week in European Tech: Why Europe’s own capital isn’t backing its growth
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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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