The NextGen VC EUVC

Today, we are happy to welcome Berenice, early stage investor in Healthtech, Writer and Disabilities Advocate. She is a Tech journalist turned investor. Berenice has written for TechCrunch, WIRED UK, Fast Company and Sifted, and acted as the Venture Capital Reporter at VentureBeat.

In this episode you’ll learn:

– The future of HealthTech investing

– Transferring skills from journalism to VC

– How to get started Angel Investing

In today’s episode we are joined by Jan-Soeren Zinke, an early stage investor at IRIS based in Berlin. Jan has spent a number of years in his early twenties working in VC and with startups, and was also part of the Founding Team of Innovators Room. Jan speaks about why he strongly believes that working on side-projects is the best way to differentiate oneself when applying to a VC fund, and also touches on the German startup ecosystem.

In this episode you’ll learn:

– The Growing German Startup Ecosystem

– How to break into VC in your early 20s

– How to build and maintain VC relationships

– The importance of side-projects

Today we are happy to welcome Amy Trang Nguyen, a former Investment Manager at Wave Ventures, a pre-seed fund that invests in Nordic startups changing the way millennials and GenZ live. Awarded as one of Sifted’s top 10 GenZ investors in Europe, Amy moved to Finland when she was 15 and has spent time in the startup and VC world ever since.

In this episode you’ll learn:

– How to gain experience in Venture as a student

– About the vibrant Finnish startup ecosystem

– What the Included VC programme is

Today we are joined by Andreas Fischer, the founding partner of First Momentum Ventures. Founded and led by a team of “engineers at heart and investors by choice”, First Momentum supports tech founders tackling the B2B space, including many university founders. Andreas himself has a background in mechanical engineering, and today he will be sharing with us the ups and downs of starting a fund straight out of uni and why he thinks university founders are greatly underserved.

Francesco Perticarari is the founder and Managing Partner of Silicon Roundabout Ventures. Silicon Roundabout began as a community of 15,000 founders and engineers who love Deep Tech. Today, Francesco invests in the most promising founders within this community through the Silicon Roundabout Venture fund, primarily focusing on post-MVP pre-seed and post-commercialisation seed teams.

Francesco will be sharing why he’s so excited about Deep Tech and why he thinks many traditional funds are afraid of investing in early-stage Deep Tech start-ups.

In this episode you’ll learn:
– Why he loves investing in DeepTech
– Key trends in DeepTech
– Why he thinks many traditional funds are afraid of investing in early-stage DeepTech start-ups
– How DeepTech companies should be assessed differently to other start-ups

We are thrilled to be joined by Gary Stewart, the founder and CEO of Founders Tribe, a platform that aims to level the playing field for founders across the globe by providing access to investors, mentors and industry-specific networks. Gary also co-founded a multi-million dollar start-up Nuroa Internet before helping Telefonica set up the world’s largest corporate accelerator, Wayra, and is now a visiting lecturer of Entrepreneurship at Yale University.

With his extensive and diverse experience, Gary has a lot to say on why founder diversity is still an issue and why VCs may not be the right solution for every founder.

In this episode you’ll learn:
– Why venture capital isn’t the answer for all founders
– How Founders Tribe leverages homophily to tackle common problems faced by budding entrepreneurs
– Why founder diversity is still and issue and he thinks we can do