9 episodes

Europe's Tech Stories, hosted by Chris O'Brien and Ethan Pierse, highlights important stories in the world of Europe's startups, its entrepreneurs, investors, and ecosystem leaders.

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Series.E: Europe's Tech Stories Series.E

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Europe's Tech Stories, hosted by Chris O'Brien and Ethan Pierse, highlights important stories in the world of Europe's startups, its entrepreneurs, investors, and ecosystem leaders.

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    Building The Restaurant Delivery Infrastructure with Deliverect's Zhong Xu

    Building The Restaurant Delivery Infrastructure with Deliverect's Zhong Xu

    Series.E's Chris O'Brien and Ethan Pierse had the chance to talk with Deliverect founder, Zhong Xu, about building the leading infrastructure provider for restaurant delivery...how they started, the pandemic effect, where they are going from here...

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    Europe's Tech Stories, hosted by Chris O'Brien and Ethan Pierse, highlights important stories in the world of Europe's startups, its entrepreneurs, investors, and ecosystem leaders.

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    • 32 min
    Early-Stage VC Investing in Europe with Ventech’s Jean Bourcereau

    Early-Stage VC Investing in Europe with Ventech’s Jean Bourcereau

    As a venture capital investor, Jean Bourcereau, managing partner at Ventech, has been around the block enough times not to panic when an economic cycle turns down. But he also knows that for a younger generation of European entrepreneurs, the current chill spreading across the investment landscape is the first slowdown they’ve experienced.
    Bourcereau joined Chris and Ethan recently on the SeriesE podcast to discuss how Ventech, one of Europe’s most influential early-stage investors, is adapting to these choppy waters and helping its portfolio companies navigate through as well.

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    Europe's Tech Stories, hosted by Chris O'Brien and Ethan Pierse, highlights important stories in the world of Europe's startups, its entrepreneurs, investors, and ecosystem leaders.

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    • 40 min
    Venture Investing in Europe in 2023 with IRIS

    Venture Investing in Europe in 2023 with IRIS

    Julien-David Nitlech, Managing Partner at IRIS, sits down with Chris O'Brien to talk about venture investing in Europe in 2023.
    – A bit of background on IRIS 1:01 – Sourcing startups as a European VC 4:39 – The growth of business angels and family offices in European early-stage investments. Competitors or Collaborators? 8:25 – Experience and Smart Money. Money that brings you more than just money. Money has no flavor. 15:33 – More on network and collaboration in successful deal-sourcing. Investing in the people who will invest in the next people. 20:42 – Portfolio management in the current economic context. 26:08

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    Europe's Tech Stories, hosted by Chris O'Brien and Ethan Pierse, highlights important stories in the world of Europe's startups, its entrepreneurs, investors, and ecosystem leaders.

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    • 35 min
    Startup Wise Guys Accelerating and Investing In Europe's Overlooked Ecosystems

    Startup Wise Guys Accelerating and Investing In Europe's Overlooked Ecosystems

    CEO Cristobal Alonso of the Estonia-based firm Startup Wise Guys joins us to chat about the announcement of the first €25m capital secured for their €45m raise and their 400th startup investment.

    – The money will be used to expand its network of accelerators and invest in a minimum of 200 startups from mostly across Europe and Africa in 2023/24

    – In addition to CEE countries, Startup Wise Guys has opened offices in Italy, Spain, and Africa where it sees big potential.

    – It made 120 early-stage investments in 2022, and hopes to go bigger in 2023.

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    Europe's Tech Stories, hosted by Chris O'Brien and Ethan Pierse, highlights important stories in the world of Europe's startups, its entrepreneurs, investors, and ecosystem leaders.

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    • 32 min
    Scaling a European FinTech Startup with Austria’s Bitpanda

    Scaling a European FinTech Startup with Austria’s Bitpanda

    Ethan caught up with Bitpanda’s Deputy CEO, Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad, on the state of retail cryptoassets investment in Europe, their recently acquired Crypto Custody and Proprietary Trading license in Germany, the potential of the EU’s upcoming MiCA regulatory framework, building a European FinTech startup from Vienna, and other good things. 


    Bitpanda, the European retail investors’ platform for 250 cryptoassets as well as stocks, ETFs, precious metals, and commodities 1:28
    Building a FinTech startup from Vienna, Austria 4:40
    FTX and the need for proper regulation and consumer protection 6:13
    Trust and security matter and so does the jurisdiction where your assets are held 9:45
    Centralized vs Decentralized exchanges 12:52
    Bitpanda gets Crypto Custody and Proprietary Trading license in Germany 16:54
    Europe’s upcoming MiCA regulation will bring clarity on how to deal with cryptoassets and crypto-companies 20:34
    Web3 as a new asset class: tokenized ownership through NFTs and functionality through smart contract interactions 24:02

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    Europe's Tech Stories, hosted by Chris O'Brien and Ethan Pierse, highlights important stories in the world of Europe's startups, its entrepreneurs, investors, and ecosystem leaders.

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    • 28 min
    Scaling Global Innovation from Europe with EQT Ventures

    Scaling Global Innovation from Europe with EQT Ventures

    On this episode of Series.E's Europe's Tech Stories, join Chris and Ethan as they discuss EQT Ventures history, mission, and the recent announcement of their 2.4 billion euros growth fund and 1.1 billion euros early-stage fund with Partner Ted Persson.

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    Europe's Tech Stories, hosted by Chris O'Brien and Ethan Pierse, highlights important stories in the world of Europe's startups, its entrepreneurs, investors, and ecosystem leaders.

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    • 27 min

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