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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.

The last thing you see the morning the robots turn against us. 🤖

Michael Jackson

Venture Capitalist

"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

One more because Halloween is awesome…and so is science.

🧟 🎃 🕷️ 🕸️ 👻 ⚰️ 🧛‍♂️ 🦇 🐈‍⬛ 🕯️ 🪦 💀 🧡 🖤

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. ⛏️

Economics Editor at Sky News

"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

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

"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

“Every meeting starts at the whiteboard. It’s not about nostalgia for analog tools—it’s about transparency. When you’re forced to build your argument from first principles in real time, there’s no place to hide.

The whiteboard strips away the polish of slide decks and exposes whether you’ve actually thought through your proposal. Can you articulate why this matters? Can you connect it to the company’s strategy? Can you defend it when challenged? If not, it becomes obvious within seconds.

But the whiteboard serves another purpose that’s equally critical: it reinforces the impermanence of ideas. Even a brilliant strategy that’s working perfectly today will eventually be erased to make room for the next one. At Nvidia, there’s a mandate for constant reinvention, and the whiteboard is a daily reminder that what got you here won’t get you there”. 

https://lnkd.in/eHaJbErf

Another news outlet diagramming the AI spend ecosystem. 

https://lnkd.in/eGdsi8jK

“Step up support for strategic industries, like cars”. 🤔 🤦‍♂️ 🤣 

Automotive...sorry, 'cars'...is the first industry that is mentioned as strategically important?! 😳 Ladies and gentlemen of the EU, that ship has sailed and shows that your thinking is still largely stuck in the mid 20th century. 

https://lnkd.in/e8CRvhen

Andrew Côté ain’t wrong here.  

https://lnkd.in/e7x5qyw2

"The principle is just 'Do the opposite of the EU'...it's almost like a gameshow: they do everything they can to strangle [startups] in their crib, and if they make through a decade of abuse as small companies, then they're going to get the money to grow...you're not going to regulate your way to winning the AI race."

Dunking on Europe when it comes to tech is easy. Really easy. It's basically Vince Carter posterizing Frederic Weis. It's easy, but still thunderous and satisfying at the same time. What Europeans have to understand though about the dunking is that it's done (most of the time) out of a place of love. Many Americans have a special affinity for Europe, and American VCs want a Europe that is economically vibrant and growing, and is a great place to invest, to get customers for portfolio companies, to go holidaying, etc. 

If Europe is Batman to America's Superman in championing the West, it increasingly looks like Batman is old and retired with a broken back, and that's worrying. People will naturally express that worry, and they should, and some of that might sting. That's ok. There's no need to be thin-skinned about it. Who you should be upset with are the politicians and bureaucrats who have made Europe a less than ideal place to be an ambitious founder, and who have not prioritized Europe's prosperity.

https://lnkd.in/ewhMvuwS

"When you build something ambitious, you realize geography isn’t neutral. It either multiplies your luck or quietly kills your momentum." 🎯 💯 

It's possible to build anywhere...but some places are just a lot more probable. The hard reality is founders can doom their companies by where they choose to be based. It's hard enough getting a startup off the ground and scaling it without the numerous friction points that some geographies add via regulations, culture, etc. As a founder you need to go wherever it is that gives you the best chance at success. For many, that's not where you currently are.

Most Europeans don't seem to realize just how much Europe's gap with the US is widening when it comes to funding and commercializing deeptech. Alarm bells should be going off in Europe. Alas, they are not. Europe keeps hitting the snooze button.

Anyways, thanks to Clara Gold for sharing. Good luck and godspeed on your move to the US!  🇺🇸 🫡 

https://lnkd.in/erK6uENn

Founder @Gigi

If there was a Hall of Fame for chart crimes, this from Wells Fargo would be first ballot. 🏆 

TGIF!

Wells Fargo

KUKA to the Chinese. ABB's robotics arm to SoftBank. Europe should be leaning harder into robotics and automation, especially given its demographic issues, but it's obvious that Europe is largely tapped out at this point.

There's definitely potential in this. Will be interesting to see if and how quickly Softbank can turn this business around given ABB's robotics business being dependent on some struggling sectors like European automotive (European automotive is the touch of the death at this point ☠️). 

https://lnkd.in/ecquw3rh

🦾 🤖

KUKA

SoftBank

How things are going in tech at the moment.

Implementing an exit tax when it’s easier than ever for entrepreneurs to setup shop elsewhere makes no sense. Labour would be shooting the UK’s startup ecosystem in the foot just for a one off tax. They should focus on growth instead.

European countries don't have the gravitational forces that the US market has to offset doing silly things like an exit tax. Every ambitious UK founder should be looking to leave now, if they weren’t already.

Good on Barney Hussey-Yeo for calling this out. It would be truly foolish of the UK.

https://lnkd.in/eC_-ErgP

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