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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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  • August 19 · 18 min

    Award winner | Firm of the Year 2025 (Sub-€200M): Point Nine (represented by Ricardo Sequerra Amram)

    Ricardo Sequerra Amram⁠ takes the stage following ⁠Point Nine⁠ after Point Nine was named Firm of the Year 2025 in the sub-€200 million category at the EUVC Summit & Awards Show 2026. The award takes a holistic view of a venture firm, considering financial performance, firm building, founder and LP value creation, impact, diversity, transparency and fairness. Ricardo is a Partner at Point Nine, a thesis-driven early-stage venture firm based in Europe and investing globally. Point Nine operates as an equal partnership and has remained focused on leading pre-seed and seed rounds, with each partner making only a small number of new commitments each year. In the discussion, Ricardo explains why the firm has deliberately resisted scaling into later stages, how its thesis has evolved from B2B SaaS and marketplaces towards AI and other emerging technologies, and why staying close to what is genuinely new matters at seed. He also shares how Point Nine thinks about identifying founders before the opportunity is obvious, from the “magnetism” of people who attract talent, capital and customers to three qualities the firm looks for more deeply: insight, obsession and taste. The EUVC Summit & Awards Show returns in 2027. Find out more and secure your spot here⁠.

  • August 16 · 53 min

    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 boom The cybersecurity risks emerging from increasingly capable AI agents Why reverse acquihires could become more common in Europe Cambridge Aerospace and the gap in Europe’s defence manufacturing capacity

  • August 14 · 17 min

    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.

  • August 12 · 9 min

    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.

  • August 9 · 59 min

    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 challenge Google DeepMind’s shift from research towards execution Why venture returns remain dominated by a handful of outliers Europe’s growth capital challenge and who should manage it Why US investors are finding more opportunities in European tech This week’s notable deals in AI chips and energy storage

  • August 7 · 14 min

    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.

  • August 3 · 54 min

    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 market Whether today’s infrastructure spending can produce sustainable returns Nvidia’s expanding role in financing the AI ecosystem Why engineering, not model capability, may now be the main bottleneck What AI is revealing about post-quantum security How sovereignty is reshaping technology supply chains This week’s standout deals across nuclear energy, robotics, defence and quantum computing

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