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Today we’re happy to introduce you to David Braga Malta, a Life Sciences Entrepreneur, Inventor and Investor, currently managing the health focused fund of Pictet Group, one of Europe’s largest private banks. He was previously a Venture Partner of Vesalius Biocapital III, one of Europe’s leading Life science funds and got his experiences in VC with Caixa capital investing in a mix of funds and startups.

What you'll learn in this episode:
- How being an LP formed the foundation for a solid VC career and why everyone should seek to get VC LP exposure in their own wealth management
- David's reflections on fund investment policies in Europe and why reformation is integral to reduce societal asymmetries
- The business case for life sciences in Europe and David’s reflections on why we’re not capturing the opportunity

For this episode of our special series on navigating the current market, we’re talking to an old friend of The European VC; Oliver Holle, founding and managing partner of Speedinvest. As one of Europe’s leading seed funds with 6 teams investing across as many verticals and great exposure to both the early and the late stage in their portfolio, Oliver has the perfect vantage point to comment on the status of the current market.

Join us as we're talking to Tom Wilson, Partner at Seedcamp and recovering lawyer. Seedcamp requires little introduction to most, but let’s do it anyway; Seedcamp was founded in 2007 with the strong belief that exceptional talent can come from anywhere, a belief that remains deep-rooted in the firm’s DNA and actions today. The team has backed more than 430 companies and are early investors in European successes like Hopin, Wise, Revolut, Sorare, wefox, Pleo, UiPath, viz.ai and Grover. In otherwords; say welcome to one of the greats.

In this episode, you'll learn:
- Tom's route into venture as a lawyer and how his background has helped him as a VC
- How Seedcamp pioneered the investment strategy of building a large portfolio of small tickets & ownership in European VC
- What's behind the concept of "Seedcamp Nation" and how network effects help drive the outlier performance that Seedcamp has achieved
- What Tom misses from the early days of Seedcamp and where he sees opportunity in the future
- Tom's best advise for emerging managers raising their capita for their first funds.

Today, we’re excited to bring you the first episode of a Special Series on navigating the current market. For this episode, we sat down with Shmuel Chafets, Chairman and Founder of Target Global, one the largest and most successful venture funds in Europe with more than €3 billion under management. They invests in companies across all stages, from pre-seed to pre-IPO and have backed global winners including Delivery Hero, Revolut, Auto 1 Group, Copper, Rapyd, Wefox, Flink, Cazoo, and many others. Their portfolio includes 15 unicorns, 19 exits and 7 IPOs - a European force to be reckoned with. So listen up, ‘cos Shmuel knows what he’s talking about.

Welcome to yet another Memo-episode where we dive deep on one of the funds that we’re raising an EUVC community syndicate for - in other words; one of the funds that you can join us in backing, with minimum tickets at just 1k€.

For this, we’re talking to Cristobal Alonso from Startup Wise Guys. You’ve met him before, in episode 49, so you know he’s quite a personality and that it’s an incredible mission they’re on with Startup Wise Guys. Today, we’re zoning in on the fund we’re investing in; Challenger Fund II, a 20 M€ fund to back and double down on the amazing startups coming out of the Europe-wide Startup Wise Guys accelerator program.

We’ve assembled a panel of LPs to discuss the current turbulent climate and give some insight into how they advise their VCs to act and react. Please welcome Marcus Börner, founding partner of AlphaQ, João Vale de Almedia, Investment director at August and an old friend of EUVC; Jeroen Van Doornik from Pacenotes.

We hope you’ll enjoy this roundtable and invite you to DM us with topics you’d like us to bring for future LP roundtables. We’re here to serve you.

Today we’re joined by Maria Palma, the latest addition to the famed Kindred partnership. She joined Kindred from NY-based VC fund RRE, where she spent five years, both building their platform team from scratch and leading investments into some of their most exciting break-out companies. Prior to that she had a decade long operating career spanning roles in startups and large corporations.

In this episode you’ll learn:
– How Maria broke into venture by creating FOMO and going deep
– All about Kindred’s founder carry sharing scheme and how it helps drive 40% of their top of funnel deal flow and 60% of their end of funnel!
– A deep dive on how Maria and Kindred works with founder community development as a core value add
– Marias views on the current market and what she feels most VCs are missing out on in crypto!

Dilek is the founding and managing partner of ScaleX Ventures, a 30M€ Turkey-based pan-European fund investing in B2B software, AI, bioinformatics, robotics, cyber and focuses her value-add on scaling and growing globally. In this episode we dive deep with Dilek on ScaleX’ founder carry sharing scheme, how they thought about initially, its reception with founders as well as LPs and how they optimize their founder portfolio community.

What you’ll learn in this episode:
- All about why and how the ScaleX team built their founder carry sharing scheme
- How ScaleX works to build founder community in their portfolio and how the carry sharing scheme connects with that
- Dilek’s learnings from the first years with the founder sharing scheme and how her narrative has changed towards LPs

Today we're happy to introduce you to Stephan Heller, founding partner of AlphaQ, a newly launched Fund of Fund in Berlin. The team is raising a 1 bn euro fund to back both emerging and established VCs in Europe and beyond. We dive deep on their model and mission to democratize access to the asset class, what they look for and what you can expect from them. So strap in and welcome Stephan and his team to the European VC scene.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

- All about the on-going journey of raising a 1bn€ FoF
- What AlphaQ are looking for in managers
- What mega trends Stephan see changing the world (and have the most potential!)
- What AlphaQ are bringing to the table besides capital

The hosts of The NextGen VC, Audrey and Ved, are joined by Michelangelo Valtancoli of Stride VC. The Stride team have invested in the likes of Cazoo, Zefir and Unibuddy. Before Stride, Michelangelo interned at PayPal and Wayra, Telefonica’s accelerator, and was also a student partner at Entrepreneur First. With his contagious energy and love for acting, Michelangelo is one of the few people we know that broke into VC straight out of university.

In this episode you’ll learn:

- How Michelangelo broke into VC straight out of university
- How his acting career made him a better VC
- Michelangelo’s advice for those who want to break into venture