Venturing Switzerland

In this episode recorded on 15 February 2023, we are talking to Krzysztof Bialkowski of TX Ventures via a Teams call. 

Krzysztof's book recommendations have both been covered here before (Steven Mallaby's Power Law and Hans Rosling's Factfulness) - so they are evidently witness to the Swiss VC scene's inherent optimism. His recommendation for a conversation partner is Andreas Bezner of Stableton, a platform popularising venture capital direct investments (and portfolios, too) for the masses. 

Interestingly for a fintech VC, Krzysztof shares his passion for energy solutions and their geopolitical impact - a red hot topic if ever there was one. He recommends the Undecided (now Still TBD) podcast. We are certainly going to listen in on that. 

This is the first Venturing Switzerland episode in the new year! We have been talking to Alex Stöckl of Wingman Ventures on 23 January 2023 via a Teams call. 

Alex' recommendations were Hans Rosling's Factfulness as a pick-me-up in these sometimes dreary days. He recommends us to talk to two LPs building funds of funds, namely Thomas Christensen of LGT Capital Partners and Thomas Schneider of Isomere Capital. Lastly, he was most impressed by a recent speaker's claim about autogenerativ videos that in perhaps 12 months' time, you could feed all episodes of The Simpsons into a model and ask it to build a 20 minutes episode about an Obama visit to Paris ...

Today we are talking to Teddy Amberg of Spicehaus AG, with an occasional sigh from my dog Divo in the background. 

Teddy's recommendations are a bit contrarian, in that he recommends to restrict one's media consumption, which is also an active media recommendation, of course.

In term of people to talk to, he recommends Michael Wüst of portfolio company Amnis, and Armin Koller of Kemaro. 

Finally, when it comes to recent discoveries - he discovered how low you can fly a drone over an active volcano without crashing it.