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An exclusive interview with William McQuillan, Founding Partner of Frontline Ventures. The interview first aired as the 5th episode of The European VC podcast. A little bit about William McQuillan William McQuillan is a co-founding partner at Frontline Ventures. Before starting Frontline, William was a founding employee at Ondra, an award-winning startup investment boutique that went from a 4-person team to …
An exclusive interview with Shomit Ghose, General Partner of Onset Ventures. The interview first aired as the 4th episode of The European VC podcast. A little bit about Shomit Ghose Shomit Ghose is the General Partner of ONSET Ventures, a leading early stage venture firm operating out of Sand Hill Road, in Silicon Valley. With more than 130 startups and …
An exclusive interview with Michael Hansen, CEO of DanBan – Danish Business Angel Network. The interview first aired as the 3rd episode of The European VC podcast. A little bit about Michael Hansen We were joined by Michael Hansen, CEO of DanBAN, Denmark’s leading Business Angel Association. DanBAN consists of more than 200 active Angels who collectively invest more than …
An exclusive interview with Stephan Morais, Founding & Managing Partner of Indico Capital. The interview first aired as the 2nd episode of The European VC podcast. A little bit about Stephan Morais Stephan Morais is the founder and Managing Partner of Indico Capital Partners, a leading early-stage deep tech VC firm based in Portugal. Stephan was formerly an Executive Board Member …
An exclusive interview with Marc Lorhmann, Managing Partner of Vesalius Biocapital III. The interview first aired as the 1st episode of The European VC podcast. A little bit about Marc Lohrmann Marc has over 18 years of experience and joined Vesalius Biocapital in 2012 as a venture partner. Since then, Marc advised on the corporate development of portfolio companies of Fund I and …
In this post we: Present a primer on the startup funding graduation rate in Europe; Find that both European and US VC-backed companies show a steep drop off rate between Seed and Series A; Find that the startup graduation rate in Europe and the US shows exponential decay; Find evidence suggesting that Seed investments have been increasing …
Europe has around 25 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that together represent the backbone of Europe’s economy. These account for more than 99% of all businesses in the EU. SMEs are responsible for more than half of EU-28 GDP, employ around two-thirds of the European workforce and are responsible for 85% of job creation. …
Recent events have upended working life, changing how and where we work and live, and inspired many to guess on how economies and our lives will forever change. Some argue everything will go back to normal. Others that everything will change. I believe some things will change, to a certain extent, but that many things …
The startup arena has its own vernacular. Navigating through it isn’t always obvious. All the hype around entrepreneurship and innovation doesn’t help either. Often, so-called “experts” use terms erroneously, potentially misleading unaware first-time founders. Data show that entrepreneurs who get help in building their startups have increased chances of attracting investment. Both incubators and accelerators …
Workforce engagement is low in Europe Recent stats show that up to 86% of the workforce in Europe is not engaged or actively disengaged from their work. This has serious implications for the bottom line of companies and the economy. Disengaged employees are disconnected from their companies and may be working against employers’ interests. This …