European VCs This Week: Break Into VC; Blitzscaling Europe; Is Europe a Market?
Capital Call #16
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Stefano Bernardi 🇮🇹🇫🇷 & Yannick Roux 🇫🇷 share the most recent update about European VC firms raising capital from LPs: https://tinyletter.com/euroVCs/letters/q3-20-european-vc-fundraising-note
Philippe Botteri 🇫🇷 of Accel just released their latest report on European cloud companies, sharing some crunchy data about the most promising SaaS companies in Europe: 2020 Accel Euroscape.
Willy Braun 🇫🇷 of Gaia Capital Partners (and co-host of Capital Call) writes about the importance of taking decisions quickly while not underestimating the potential consequences and accumulation of bad decisions in Fighting Decision Inertia & Path Dependency.
Robin Dechant 🇩🇪 of Point Nine Capital announces that the firm is taking its Founder Summit online: Announcing our first P9 Family Virtual Summit.
Alexandre Dewez 🇫🇷 of IdInvest shares his benchmarking of the pricing strategy of 100+ subscription-based mobile apps.
David Galbraith 🇬🇧 of Anthemis describes how the various systems on Earth interact to harness energy to create complex systems and determine both output and waste.
Miruna Girtu 🇷🇴 spent some time with Ben Blume 🇬🇧 of Atomico and Akriti Dokania 🇮🇳 of Octopus Ventures to determine what it takes to scale an AI company.
Pietro Invernizzi 🇮🇹 of Stride VC unleashes a fantastic guide for everyone who wants to break into VC, navigating an industry that’s still small and unstructured: breakinto.vc.
Alex Kiltz 🇩🇪 of UVC Partners shares his personal drawing of the landscape of the European quantum computing startup.
Jean de La Rochebrochard🇫🇷 of Kima Ventures provides an analogy between cooking and seed investment, by discussing the cooking recipe fallacy in VC Recipe.
Bernard Liautaud 🇫🇷 of Balderton explains to Sifted’s John Thornhill why they’ve decided to boost their scaling-up game: Exclusive: Balderton to launch new fund to “blitzscale” Europe.
Lillian Li 🇨🇳🇬🇧 sharpens our European eyes on China, with a captivating war story between Alibaba and Tencent: The shadow investment war between Alibaba and Tencent.
Stanislas Lot 🇫🇷 of daphni offers a deep dive into the exit process, unraveling clichés and sharing best practices for founders: Who is the best buyer for you and how to approach it?
For Yannick Oswald 🇱🇺 of Mangrove Capital Partners, the most ambiguous term in startup land is ARR, and there are a lot of definitions for that acronym.
Sarah Nöckel 🇩🇪 of Northzone writes about a forthcoming event about sleep recovery for founders and why it’s important for investors: Strategy recovery for founders.
Eze Vidra 🇦🇷🇮🇱🇬🇧 of Remagine Ventures discusses the potential of esports and business models associated with this market: Esports and money in 2020.
Reshma Sohoni 🇮🇳🇺🇸 , a Founding Partner at Seedcamp, talks about everything seed investment with Saastock: Seed funding: past, present and future.
Benedict Evans 🇺🇸 has launched “Another Podcast” with Toni Cowan-Brown. The first episode offers a discussion of whether Europe is a single market and why there are no huge European tech companies, looking at a telling precedent: American companies expanding in Europe.
Stefano Bernardi 🇮🇹🇫🇷 Angel Investor & Scout, Atomico, Italy 🇮🇹 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Ben Blume 🇬🇧Principal, Atomico, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Philippe Botteri 🇫🇷 Partner, Accel, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Willy Braun 🇫🇷 Operating Partner, Gaia Capital Partners & founder .exe, Paris 🇫🇷 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Nicolas Colin 🇫🇷 Co-Founder & Director, The Family, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Jean de La Rochebrochard 🇫🇷 Managing Partner, Kima Ventures, Paris 🇫🇷 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Robin Dechant 🇩🇪 Associate, Point Nine Capital, Berlin 🇩🇪 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Akriti Dokania 🇮🇳, Investor, Octopus Ventures, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Gil Dibner 🇺🇸🇮🇱 Founder & General Partner, Angular Ventures, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Alexandre Dewez 🇫🇷 Analyst, Idinvest, Paris 🇫🇷 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Benedict Evans 🇬🇧 Venture Partner, Entrepreneur First & Mosaic Ventures, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
David Galbraith 🇬🇧 Partner, Anthemis, Geneva 🇨🇭 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Miruna-Ioana Girtu 🇷🇴 Venture Partner, SyndicateRoom, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Pietro Invernizzi 🇮🇹 First-Cheque Investor, Stride VC, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Alexander Kiltz 🇩🇪 Early stage VC, UVC Partners, Berlin 🇩🇪 LinkedIn I Twitter
Lillian Li 🇨🇳🇬🇧 (Formerly) Investor, Eight Roads Ventures, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Sarah Nöckel 🇩🇪 Seed Investment Manager, Northzone, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Yannick Oswald 🇱🇺 Principal, Mangrove Capital Partners, Luxembourg 🇱🇺 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Yannick Roux 🇫🇷 Investor, Semantic Ventures, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Reshma Sohoni 🇮🇳🇺🇸 Founding Partner, Seedcamp, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Eze Vidra 🇦🇷🇮🇱🇬🇧 Managing Partner, Remagine Ventures, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
We are Willy Braun 🇫🇷, Nicolas Colin 🇫🇷 and Vincent Touati-Tomas 🇫🇷. We work as investors and operators in the European VC industry. Hit reply if you want to send us feedback!