European VC Digest: Stripe. No-Code. Angel Investing. The SPAC Goldrush. Ordinary Investors.
Capital Call #36
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Chris Brown 🇩🇪, an operator working with the Point Nine Capital portfolio, is sharing talent best practices: Talking Talent once you’ve raised your Series A.
Nicolas Colin 🇫🇷 of The Family discusses Stripe’s success and if it could be emulated today without being based in the Bay Area: Could a Stripe today succeed without Silicon Valley?
Also by Nicolas, check out these notes on Moneyball in Consulting Services.
Miruna Girtu 🇷🇴 of SyndicateRoom writes about the pitfalls that rookie angel investors could avoid if only they knew: Angel Investing: What Experienced Investors Wish They Knew When They Started.
David Grimm 🇬🇧 of the UCL Technology Fund explains why deeptech startups have very different needs from a funding perspective: Want to build a deeptech startup? Throw out the VC playbook.
Pietro Invernizzi 🇮🇹 of Stride VC teams up with Makerpad’s Ben Tossel to explore the fast-growing space of no-code: Decoding the no-code / low-code startup universe and its players.
Julie Kainz 🇦🇹 and David Arndt 🇦🇹 of Dawn Capital discuss the future of data infrastructure, deriving lessons from a well-known precedent: Snowflake 2.0.
Elena Pantazi 🇨🇾 of Northzone gather some learnings talking with Chief People Officers of the portfolio: Operator Workshops: Designing Organisations that Scale.
Matt Wichrowski 🇩🇪 of Fly Ventures spoke with Maddy Cross, one of Europe’s best minds on early stage startup talent: First On: Talent with Maddy Cross.
Johan Brenner 🇸🇪, Frederic Court 🇫🇷, Brent Hoberman 🇿🇦🇬🇧, Klaus Hommels 🇩🇪, and other European investors tell Sifted’s Isabel Woodford why they’re hesitant about SPACs: European VCs are still wary of joining the SPAC goldrush.
Eileen Burbidge 🇺🇸🇬🇧 of Passion Capital walks the walk about having more individual investors allocate capital to VC as an asset class: Passion Capital opens up its latest fund to 'ordinary' investors.
David Arndt 🇦🇹 Venture Capital Investor, Dawn Capital, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn
Johan Brenner 🇸🇪 General Partner, Creandum, Stockholm 🇸🇪 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Eileen Burbidge 🇺🇸🇬🇧 Partner, Passion Capital, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Chris Brown 🇬🇧 Independent Consultant, Point Nine Capital, Berlin 🇩🇪 LinkedIn
Nicolas Colin 🇫🇷 Co-Founder & Director, The Family, Munich 🇩🇪 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Frederic Court 🇫🇷 Partner, Felix Capital, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Gil Dibner 🇺🇸🇮🇱 Founder & General Partner, Angular Ventures, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Miruna-Ioana Girtu 🇷🇴 Venture Partner, SyndicateRoom, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
David Grimm 🇬🇧 Investment Director, UCL Technology Fund, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn
Taavet Hinrikus 🇪🇪 Angel Investor, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Brent Hoberman 🇿🇦🇬🇧 Co-Founder & General Partner, First Minute Capital, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Klaus Hommels 🇩🇪 Founder & CEO, Lakestar, Zurich 🇨🇭 Twitter | Blog
Pietro Invernizzi 🇮🇹 First-Cheque Investor, Stride VC, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Julie Kainz 🇦🇹 Vice-President, Dawn Capital, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn| Twitter
Beata Klein 🇸🇪 Associate, Creandum, Stockholm 🇸🇪 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Tim Levene 🇬🇧 CEO, Augmentum Fintech, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Mattias Ljungman 🇸🇪 Founder, Moonfire, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Haakon Overli 🇬🇧 General Partner, Dawn Capital, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Elena Pantazi 🇨🇾 Head of Talent and Portfolio Development, Northzone, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Matt Wichrowski 🇩🇪 Partner, Fly Ventures, Berlin 🇩🇪 LinkedIn I Twitter | Blog