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Capital Call #39
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Alexandre Dewez 🇫🇷 of Idinvest just published the first part of his deep-dive profile of Deliveroo: 🦘Deliveroo's IPO - Building a European Food Delivery Giant (Part I).
Gil Dibner 🇺🇸🇮🇱 of Angular Ventures expands on his thoughts about the (potential) looming conflict between accelerators and seed funds: The great acceleration of seed investing.
Georgia Forbes 🇬🇧 of Balderton Capital just published part II of her series about employee equity and why it’s harder in Europe: Part II: Employee equity compensation: Europe vs. US.
Xavier Lazarus 🇫🇷 writes about Elaia making progress in building up diversity within the firm: Diversity creates value: this applies to the VC industry too, and we are on a mission to prove it.
Rob Moffat 🇬🇧 of Balderton Capital writes about his firm’s partnership with market research platform Premialab: Why Balderton are partnering with Premialab.
Kevin Monserrat 🇬🇧 of Consilience Ventures writes about the VC industry diversifying in many directions: “What’s Next” for the Venture Capital Industry?
Daisy Onubogu 🇬🇧 of Backed suggests we should curb our enthusiasm when it comes to building communities in a business context: Business communities will never be real communities.
Emma Phillips 🇬🇧 of LocalGlobe wonders if European employers should emulate their US counterparts in offering female employees to freeze their eggs: Do women really want their employers to freeze their eggs?
Pauline Roux 🇫🇷 and Amélie Juge 🇫🇷 of Elaia Partners writes about the firm’s interest in technology powering retail: Retail + Tech = the Future of Commerce and at Elaia, we love it.
Sameer Singh 🇬🇧🇮🇳, an angel investor with Atomico, joins the discussion on how Europe could give birth to social media giants: A blueprint for building social media giants in Europe.
Peter Specht 🇩🇪 of Creandum provides founders with a key part of what they need to raise a Series A: Creandum Series A Deck Template.
Alice Zagury 🇫🇷 of The Family tells us about 6 topics on which she revisited her views over the recent period: Change your mind.
Suranga Chandratillake 🇬🇧 of Balderton Capital comments on how hard it still is to raise late-stage rounds in Europe: Europe suffers from lack of late-stage investors, says Balderton Capital.
Vinoth Jayakumar 🇲🇾of Draper Esprit touches on how retail investors are being empowered by fintech: PrimaryBid is surging as companies are “waking up” to the community opportunity.
Saul Klein 🇿🇦🇬🇧 of LocalGlobe was a guest on the To the Point podcast to talk about the UK in the European tech landscape: Saul Klein on why tech is not just for techies.
Magda Lukaszewicz 🇸🇪🇬🇧 of Balderton Capital talks about what a difference good advisors make at the early stage "All companies should surround themselves with good advisors from the start".
Cecilia Manduca 🇮🇹🇬🇧 of Talis Capital was a recent guest on the Walk the Talk podcast: A chat with Cecilia Manduca of Talis Capital.
Pär-Jörgen Pärson 🇸🇪 of Northzone spoke with Bloomberg about SPACs: SPACs flood Spotify venture capitalist with offers that he’s rejecting.
Fleur Pellerin 🇫🇷 of Korelya Capital talks about her journey from politics to VC and why Europeans should explore opportunities in Asia: Fleur Pellerin wants Europe's entrepreneurs to look east.
Suranga Chandratillake 🇬🇧 General Partner, Balderton, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Alexandre Dewez 🇫🇷 Analyst, Idinvest, Paris 🇫🇷 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Gil Dibner 🇺🇸🇮🇱 Founder & General Partner, Angular Ventures, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Georgia Forbes 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Investment Associate, Balderton, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Sarah Guemouri 🇫🇷 Senior Associate, Atomico, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Vinoth Jayakumar 🇲🇾 Partner, Draper Esprit, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Amélie Juge 🇫🇷 Associate, Elaia Partners, Paris 🇫🇷 LinkedIn
Saul Klein 🇿🇦🇬🇧 Co-Founder, LocalGlobe, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Xavier Lazarus 🇫🇷 Partner, Elaia Partners, Paris 🇫🇷 LinkedIn | Twitter
Magda Lukaszewicz 🇸🇪🇬🇧 Principal, Balderton, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Cecilia Manduca 🇮🇹🇬🇧 Principal, Talis Capital, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Rob Moffat 🇬🇧 Partner, Balderton, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Kevin Monserrat 🇬🇧 Co-Founder, Consilience Ventures 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Patrick Newton 🇬🇧 Founding Partner, Form Ventures, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Daisy Onubogu 🇬🇧 Head of Network & Communities, Backed VC, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Pär-Jörgen Pärson 🇸🇪 General Partner, Northzone, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Fleur Pellerin 🇫🇷 CEO & Co-Founder, Korelya Capital, Paris 🇫🇷 LinkedIn | Twitter
Emma Phillips 🇬🇧 Partner, LocalGlobe, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Pauline Roux 🇫🇷 Partner, Elaia Partners, Paris 🇫🇷 LinkedIn | Twitter
Sameer Singh 🇬🇧🇮🇳 Network Effects Advisor & Investor, Atomico, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Peter Specht 🇩🇪 Principal, Creandum, Berlin 🇩🇪 LinkedIn | Twitter
Alice Zagury 🇫🇷 Co-Founder & CEO, The Family, Martinique 🇫🇷 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog