Wilbe | Home for Scientist Leaders

Wilbe is the home for scientist leaders. We believe that science should come first and that through education, support and investment we can help scientists build solutions to a large part of the problems that we face today.

Venture Partner

Multiple Capital

Multiple invests in micro and seed stage venture capital funds globally with a focus on European managers. We seek out innovative, emerging, and solo fund managers in niche geographies and verticals that are often overlooked. 

Our portfolio of 30+ funds includes over 700 companies, more than 50 of which are valued at $100M+...including 10 at $1B+.

Venture Partner 

Redstone

Redstone Quantum is a €50M+ investment fund focused on seed and Series A investments in quantum and quantum adjacent technologies.

Member of Advisory Board and Investment Committee, Quantum Fund

QAI Ventures

Empowering the future of computing through global startup investments and collaborative ecosystem building.

Advisory Board Member, Member of Investment Committee

European Defense Investor Network

Members network of venture capital professionals who invest in European defense and dual use technologies.

Member

Various 

Entrepreneur. Some venture-backed, some not. Some exited, some not. 
Mentor over the years in several startup programs including Seedcamp, Startup Bootcamp, Wayra, Techstars, Le Camping, and others.
Time spent on the investing side at Morgenthaler and Advent, amongst others.
Board member on seed funds, VC funds, accelerators, non profits, two schools, a private bank, and dozens of startups. 
Still learning.

Founder, Investor, Mentor, Board Member

QDNL Participations

QDNL Participations is the investment fund of Quantum Delta NL, a €615M Dutch public-private partnership of global tech companies, government agencies, and all major quantum research centers in the Netherlands. Portfolio includes Quantware, Fermioniq, Q*bird, Orange Quantum Systems, and more.

Member of Advisory Board and Investment Committee

Techleapnl

Techleap is a non-profit, publicly funded organisation helping to build a thriving startup ecosystem in the Netherlands. Techleap helps quantify and accelerate the Dutch tech ecosystem, creating the optimal climate for tech companies to scale with programs and initiatives for improving access to capital, market and talent.

Advisory Board Member

Transatlantic entrepreneur turned investor living in and loving Europe. 
20+ years as an entrepreneur and VC. 
Passionate about innovation, technology, and startups.
Specialties: VC, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Deeptech.

Michael Jackson

"When things need to be done quickly." And they say Germans don't have a sense of humor. 😉 

The German company which built the lift used in the recent Louvre heist is using photos of the scene as advertising. Well played! Props to the Böcker Maschinenwerke GmbH social media team for this gem. 💎

“The European 996: 9 hours a day, 9 days every fortnight, and only a 6 week summer vacation”. 🤣

Damnit, that’s good…and I’m a bit miffed I didn’t come up with it. 😉

Props to everyone’s favorite new European VC, Henrick Von Aaldenbörg Johansson. Well played sir. 👍🏻

https://lnkd.in/ebhDycTp

Of Europe's top 10 universities, only two are in the EU, with those two both being in Munich. 🍻 

The area of southern Germany and Switzerland - with an axis of Zurich and Munich - is continental Europe's best chance for having a vibrant deeptech focused region.

https://lnkd.in/eq4W995h

"How do we know that humans are general intelligences? By telling their story. Human thought doesn't consist of mechanically converting motivations into actions, prompts into output. It's mainly about choosing motivations. Just as science is not extracting theories from data, it's seeing a problem, guessing explanations, criticizing and testing them." - David Deutsch

Deutsch expressing some skepticisms, and admitting he's been wrong a bunch of times. Sam too. Worth watching. 

Full video here: https://lnkd.in/e_rwwYJB

"Every photo, every message, every file you send will be automatically scanned—without your consent. This is not about catching criminals. It is mass surveillance imposed on all 450 million citizens of the European Union."

The vote on the EU's Chat Control bill has been delayed, but its supporters will keep trying to get it passed. The proposed bill is a major attack against privacy and part of a troubling, concerted, and ongoing effort to rollback personal freedoms in Europe. Such legislation should never see the light of day. 

Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/e7NtcU7i

Another news outlet diagramming the AI spend ecosystem. 

https://lnkd.in/eGdsi8jK

The West voluntarily giving up leadership in nuclear is one of the biggest own goals of the past 50 years. Useful idiots sadly did what they do. 

The West needs to push significantly harder into solar and batteries…but has been largely half-assing it instead. ☀️🔋⚡️ 

https://lnkd.in/eNjXfuvT

Nice primer on rare earths here from Ed Conway. REEs aren't actually all that rare. It's the regulations around mining and refining (and the byproducts of that refining) REEs that keep production levels low in the West. That's going to have to change asap. ⛏️

Nice map of the Swiss quantum ecosystem from the good folks at Swissnex. 👏🏻 

🇨🇭🐄🍫⌚️🫕🧀⛷️🏔️ 

https://lnkd.in/ea-PaMrw

How things are going in tech at the moment.

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Happy Halloween!  👻 

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Dark mode is not really a more sustainable experience. This is theater. Europe loves performative acts of virtue signaling that hinder more than they help. It's death by a thousand inconveniences, but feeling good about it. 

Shout out to Elliot Lindberg for the post. 

https://lnkd.in/exatRmEZ

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