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 

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

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

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.

Member of Advisory Board and 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

Transatlantic entrepreneur turned investor living in and loving Europe. 
20+ years in and around startups and venture capital. 
Passionate about innovation, technology, and startups.
Specialties: VC, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Deep Tech.

“This is a company that the world can’t exist without. They’ve got a 20-year head start…investors have clearly realized how important ASML is as a company and how difficult it would be to replicate. It’s a natural monopoly with secular growth winds. That’s unique.”

“A lot of ASML’s technology is not on blueprints. It’s in the heads of people. And you don’t need just the blueprints; you need everything surrounding it and the entire supply chain. You have to build an alternative Zeiss etc. That is a colossal task."

Good read on Europe's (and arguably the world's) most important tech company. ASML has a backlog twice its annual revenue and customer demand won't be declining anytime soon. 

🇳🇱 🌷 🧡 

https://lnkd.in/e2VEQ5rb

#tech #technology #innovation #deeptech #semiconductors #chips #computers #money #business #strategy #people #supplychain #growth 

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Open article: ASML, Europe’s Most Valuable Tech Firm, Is at the Heart of the US-China Chip War by bloomberg.com

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-26/asml-europe-s-most-valuable-tech-firm-to-define-us-china-chip-war?srnd=premium&leadSource=uverify%20wall

Cryptobro turned Web3 VC having a come to Jesus moment that he's now focused on investing in AI. 🙏 🤲  

TGIF! 😉

#venturecapital #vc #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #ai #artificialintelligence #web3 #investing #investors #investment 

Every CEO should know not to look to McKinsey for the best info on generative AI. 🤷🏼‍♂️

https://lnkd.in/eBJEZZUW

#ai #artificialintelligence #genai #generativeai #tech #technology #innovation #deeptech #consulting #mckinsey #ceo #data

Open article: What every CEO should know about generative AI by mckinsey.com

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/what-every-ceo-should-know-about-generative-ai?cid=soc-web

I'd watch this movie. 🎥 🍿 Star Wars trailer in the style of Wes Anderson by Curious Refuge made using various AI tools. 

AI offers the chance for an era defining explosion of creativity as anyone and everyone can now be producers and collaborators. Sad to see some fight against this in the name of artists and creators, when in reality they're just protecting incumbents and vested interests.

Happy Monday!

#tech #technology #deeptech #innovation #ai #artificialintelligence #creativity #content #media #entertainment #business 

Round sizes have returned to normal as the tourist investors have gone home. 

Image via Carta. 

#venturecapital #vc #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #funding #money #investing #investors #investment

"An Unrestrained Demon", from the October 26, 1889 edition of Judge magazine. New technology is always met with fear, existential and otherwise. Electricity was no different. ⚡️ 

Even something as benign as the bicycle was met with fear and loathing when it was a new invention, being blamed for everything from a variety of ailments to homicidal behavior ("there is not the slightest doubt that bicycle riding, if persisted in, leads to weakness of mind, general lunacy, and homicidal mania."- The New York Times, 1894*).

Remember that the next time you hear of some new innovation prematurely accused of being apocalyptic. 

TGIF!

* https://lnkd.in/eRe-QtSG

#technology #tech #deeptech #innovation #electricity #energy #future #ai #artificialintelligence #transportation #invention 

“France is a paradise inhabited by people who think they're in hell.” - Sylvain Tesson

Here’s to a lovely long holiday weekend in France!

🇫🇷 🥖🍷 🐓 👨‍🎨 

https://lnkd.in/eZVFENnc

#economy #france #europe #vacation #holidays

"European venture capital is failing to go after the hardest problems. Democracy won’t defend itself with the next grocery-delivery app." 

Truth here from Nathan Benaich. But it starts with the LPs. European LPs have to get comfortable with deeptech and dual use investing (and venture in general). We’re still not there. Throw in ESG and many European LPs are sitting on the sidelines in defensetech.

https://lnkd.in/eQgdVvB5

#venturecapital #vc #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #tech #technology #innovation #deeptech

Open article: European governments need to start taking defence innovation seriously by ft.com

https://www.ft.com/content/2bb42436-c85f-42b9-a945-9cd0464a9c37

“Sam Altman has privately suggested OpenAI may try to raise as much as $100 billion in the coming years to achieve its aim of developing artificial general intelligence that is advanced enough to improve its own capabilities”.

Sam's one of the few capable of raising that much.

💰 💰 💰 💰 💰 💰 💰 💰 💰 💰 

https://lnkd.in/eGF6gkdM

#venturecapital #vc #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #tech #technology #innovation #deeptech #ai #artificialintelligence #openai #chatgpt

Open article: OpenAI’s Losses Doubled to $540 Million as It Developed ChatGPT by theinformation.com

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-losses-doubled-to-540-million-as-it-developed-chatgpt

“The question we should be asking is: as A.I. becomes more powerful and flexible, is there any way to keep it from being another version of McKinsey?” 

AI as another of capital’s willing executioners. ☠️ 

https://lnkd.in/eNTuT8Pp

#tech #technology #innovation #deeptech #ai #artificialintelligence #consulting #mckinsey

Open article: Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? by newyorker.com

https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey

This anchor drops almost as hard and fast as many VC portfolios right now. ⚓️ 📉

TGIF!

#venturecapital #vc #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #tech #technology #innovation #funds

I’m on a panel at tomorrow’s Tech.eu  Summit with the CEO of the European Investment Fund (EIF), a VC backed by the EIF, a Director of the EIC, and a former EIC board member as moderator. Feels like I’ll likely be listening to a marketing campaign by both organizations. But it’s nice to be in Brussels! 🇧🇪🍻 

#venturecapital #vc #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #tech #technology #innovation #deeptech

When a company's leadership finally catches up to its potential. 

Happy Monday!

#startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #leadership #team #tech #technology #innovation #money #business 

“VC dollars shifted from subsidizing your taxi ride and burrito delivery to LLMs and generative AI compute.”

While it was nice having a venture subsidized lifestyle there for awhile, it's good to see some actual innovation being funded...even if AI investing has become a bit of a bubble at the moment.

https://lnkd.in/eYzyBaRa?

#venturecapital #vc #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #innovation #tech #technology #deeptech #ai #artificialintelligence #money #business #investing #investors #investment 

Open article: ChatGPT and generative AI are booming, but the costs can be extraordinary by cnbc.com

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/13/chatgpt-and-generative-ai-are-booming-but-at-a-very-expensive-price.html

Most jobs from past centuries no longer exist, and many are now employed in work that our ancestors wouldn't have imagined. 

Automation is nothing to fear. It's just part of an ever changing, and ever improving world. 🤖

https://lnkd.in/esxM2apH

#innovation #tech #technology #deeptech #automation #robots #robotics #ai #artificialintelligence #future #jobs #work #employment #money #business

“One of the great puzzles to me is that markets have become so sceptical and short term at a time when the pace of innovation and change, and the prospects of returns over five, 10 and 20 years, has got greater than less".

Good to see one of Europe's top investors, James Anderson, back in the game. If only Europe's institutional investors would take the same mindset.

“It’s essential that we carry on investing in these sectors rather than worrying about what the Federal Reserve is going to do next.” Amen. 👏🏻

https://lnkd.in/dJqY62zJ

#venturecapital #vc #investing #investors #investment #markets #innovation #tech #technology #money #business

Open article: James Anderson returns to investing with Agnelli family backing by ft.com

https://www.ft.com/content/b32ae4a2-b302-4b63-a2d9-2ca80084c847

Nvidia added more than an Intel worth of market cap after hours the other day. 📈

Nvidia will most likely pass $1T in market cap soon. That would be three $1T+ companies that were backed by Sequoia - Apple, Google, and Nvidia. Those three have a combined $5.25 trillion in current market cap.

#tech #technology #innovation #deeptech #nvidia #google #apple #stocks #nasdaq #ai #artificialintelligence #computerchips #semiconductors

"Silicon Valley uses apocalypse for marketing purposes: they tell you their tech is going to end the world to show you how important they are."

And then government bites and regulates away the competition. 

“The most important thing to remember about tech doomerism in general is that it’s a form of advertising, a species of hype.” Yup. 🎯 Useful idiots always fall for it. 

“The open letter called for a six-month ban. What, exactly, do they imagine will happen over those six months? The engineers won’t think about AI? The developers won’t figure out ways to use it? Doomerism likes its crises numinous, preferably unsolvable. AI fits the bill.” That open letter was nonsensical and counterproductive. It was pushed by many who would gain if current leaders in AI faltered. 

https://lnkd.in/eTddV2Ja

#innovation #tech #technology #deeptech #ai #artificialintelligence #openai #google #microsoft

Open article: The apocalypse isn’t coming. We must resist cynicism and fear about AI | Stephen Marche by theguardian.com

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/15/artificial-intelligence-cynicism-technology

“NEA had committed $12M and would lead the round at a $350M valuation, or 4.5x the $75M valuation a16z agreed to in a funding round last year. AI companies are commanding bull-market prices”. 

Ooof. This won’t end well. AI investing at the moment is crazy hot...but that means a lot of bad deals at bad valuations are happening. There will be massive AI successes, but there's a lot of deals being done at the moment that are disasters waiting to happen.

Also, $12M at $350M is going to require a crazy large exit to meaningfully impact a $3B+ fund. 🤷🏼‍♂️

https://lnkd.in/e_2557Q6

#venturecapital #vc #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #funding #ai #artificialintelligence #tech #technology #innovation #deeptech

Open article: AI Startup Rewind Gets 170 Offers—and $350 Million Valuation in Unusual Fundraising by theinformation.com

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-startup-rewind-gets-170-offers-and-350-million-valuation-in-unusual-fundraising

The Miami hype was generated by those who didn’t want to pay California taxes, and believed by those who’d never spent any actual time in Miami. 

#vc #venturecapital #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship

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