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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

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 

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

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 as an entrepreneur and VC. 
Passionate about innovation, technology, and startups.
Specialties: VC, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Deeptech.

When "venture" was truly part of venture capital. 

via Aaron Slodov.

Michael Jackson

“It very clearly shows we, as Europe, fail to support innovative deep tech companies through the growth phase. There is no such thing as a growth market in Europe". 

But the answer to that is not governments bailing out badly run VC backed companies who've failed to deliver numerous times. Simply being a deeptech company isn't reason enough to merit support. 

Also, it's not like Europe suddenly became a tough market for growth. Every VC that really knows European deeptech knows that most of the funding and most of the revenue will inevitably come from outside Europe. The VCs and board members for Lilium and Nortvolt just look naive. That's part of the growth curve of Europe not having a deep roster of investors with experience in deeptech. Live and learn.

"Lilium could be easily comparable to Tesla." Nope. No. No, no, no. For sooo many reasons, no. A trillion dollar market cap company run by (like him or not) the most important entrepreneur of his generation versus a company that has failed to deliver on everything every damn time. 

"Lilium, until recently one of Europe’s top tech bets". Again, no, it was not. Northvolt though might be an even bigger shitshow than Lilium. Appropriate that this article talks about "disaster" as that's exactly how one of Northvolt's investors described the company to me over beers recently. 🍻 

https://lnkd.in/eGCaN7RS

Elon on some of the over-regulation strangulations that SpaceX has had to face. 🚀 🛰 🦈 🐋 

The Western world is facing a major problem of over-regulation impeding and preventing the building of new things. The planning and permitting of major projects can take years to complete and cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars/pounds/euros...and that's before ground is broken.

Take the UK's proposed Sizewell C power station. The environmental impact report for Sizewell C is over 44k pages, and the Development Consent Order required more than 4k documents and 26 months of approval time. This has to change. Processes must be streamlined.

TGIF!

“Europe is in a much more competitive landscape than it was 30, 40 years ago. China is the big panda in the room…other parts of the world are starting to really grow their economies and focus on tech and innovation. Europe can’t be on the sidelines.” - Me.

Far too many Europeans are in denial as to just how much Europe is faltering economically, and most Europeans lack the financial literacy and general business knowledge to understand that Europe’s high quality of life isn’t permanent, and that it can only be sustained through economic prosperity. 

Good on The EU Inc Petition for trying to make life a little easier on Europe’s startup ecosystem. 👏🏻

Happy Monday!

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