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

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

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.

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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.

Ah, they don't make VCs like they used. 😉

Happy Monday everybody!

via Sandhill Markets.

#vc #venturecapital #startups #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #funding #tech #technology #innovation #money #business

Michael Jackson

I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to find there's even more evidence that green finance is mostly a scam...ok, I'm not shocked at all. 😉

Climate change requires serious technical solutions, but a great many are coming at it purely emotionally and so we end up with crap like climate finance software startups built on shoddy foundations by useful idiots. 🌱 

"The offset market has not been a reliable way to support climate mitigation.” Yeah, no shit.

https://lnkd.in/ehzvUBVk

#tech #technology #innovation #deeptech #climatetech #greentech #greenfinance #climatefinance #finance #money #business #esg #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #vc #venturecapital

"The reason Silicon Valley has been so successful is because it's so fucking far away from Washington DC." 

Great talk here by Bill Gurley on the negative impacts of regulatory capture. 👏🏻 One issue with Europe is that you're never all that far from a capital city here, and bureaucratic culture ultimately ends up permeating everything.  

"Regulation is the friend of the incumbent." 🎯 Amen. This has proven to be correct time and time again, and is no doubt the case in new AI focused legislation as well. Governments should focus more on simplifying laws and regulations, instead of adding ever increasing layers to already complicated codes. 

Watch the full presentation here: https://lnkd.in/eyhiygX3

#venturecapital #vc #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #tech #technology #innovation #money #business 

“We are about to enter a new golden age of technological innovation and investment. The difference is that this time around, it won’t be about consumers, but industry.” 🏭

New Industrials/Dynamism/Whatever-you-want-to-call-it, the future of tech investing is staring us all in the face. Excited that this next wave of innovation and disruption will be as much, if not more, about atoms than bits. 😊 

"Three-quarters of the world’s $100tn in gross domestic product is made up of traditional legacy industries — such as manufacturing, transportation, logistics and healthcare — that have yet to be deeply transformed by technology." And they will be transformed. It's already happening. Massive opportunities there for those willing to back the transformation.

https://lnkd.in/ekNHGwJx

#vc #venturecapital #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #funding #tech #technology #innovation #deeptech #money #business

Open article: The future of Silicon Valley by ft.com

https://www.ft.com/content/8fc417de-6f55-4f14-be6c-025780375371

Him: I'm an operator turned VC.
Her to her friend: A what?? An 'operator'?
Friend: It just means he had a job.

Overheard this exchange at a recent post tech event drinks. People go to all sorts of lengths to spin their experiences to help overcome their feelings of inadequacy. The term 'operator' gets thrown around a lot in venture, especially by newbie VCs. Not sure how two years as a junior product manager at Google better qualifies someone to be a VC, but if calling yourself an operator helps you overcome your imposter syndrome, then more power to you I suppose. 🤷🏼‍♂️

#vc #venturecapital #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #tech #technology #innovation #job #work #career 

Since 2010, Google has paid Apple an estimated $120B to be the default search engine on Safari/iOS. In 2022, Google's payment was equal to a third of its net income and increased Apple's by 25%. 

Good read here from Matthew Ball on large scale platform building. Also, Apple is one hell of a business. 🍏 

https://lnkd.in/eTKsvwS5

#tech #technology #innovation #money #business #apple #google #facebook #future #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #vc #venturecapital

Company that helps other companies shutdown raises seven figure round in less than a day. Just needs AI in name to be peak 2023.

https://lnkd.in/eiNASR8S

#vc #venturecapital #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #funding #tech #technology #innovation #money #business

Great video of customers reacting to being able to use a credit card at Burger King in 1993. People tend to hate change and this is a great example of innovation changing markets.

Not paying in cash was seen as a potential inconvenience that could "slow things down", "that might work for people on holiday", with customers thinking it was "pretty bad to have to use a credit card...for something as little as $3.10". Now you can just tap your phone and be done with it. 

30 years from now people will surely look back at today and wonder why certain benign innovations that make their lives better and easier were similarly opposed by customers and governments. 

#tech #technology #innovation #progress #future #money #business #payments #fintech #banking #finance #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #vc #venturecapital 

Nvidia "has more money than it knows what to do with, so it’s trying to invest in every conceivable customer, partner and acquisition target—or ‘anything that smells like AI,’ as one tech investor put it—before it loses momentum.“

If you're in AI and need money and haven't talked to Nvidia, you're doing it wrong. They're looking to throw money at anything and everything AI related.

Also, hearing of a LOT of corporates, which have no real connection to AI other than FOMO, looking to do AI investments at the moment. I can practically hear the bubble growing. 🫧 

https://lnkd.in/eCiEKfPu

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

Open article: Nvidia and the Corporate VC Boom Ahead by theinformation.com

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-and-the-corporate-vc-boom-ahead

"Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical group behind the Wegovy weight-loss drug, briefly overtook French luxury conglomerate LVMH on Friday to become Europe’s most valuable company."

Good to see companies like Novo Nordisk and ASML do well in a continent where luxury, fashion, and cosmetics dominate the market cap leaderboards. 

🥇 🥈 🥉 

https://lnkd.in/eB-ytEFF

#tech #technology #innovation #biotech #medtech #pharmaceuticals #pharma #stocks #investing #investors #investment 

Like it or not, OnlyFans is one of the most successful internet businesses to come out of Europe.

Some of their 2022 financials:

- $5.6B in GMV (+17% y/y)
- $1.1B in revenue (+17% y/y)
- $525M in pre-tax profit (48% profit margin)
- 3.2M creators on the platform (+47% y/y)
- 239M users (+27% y/y)
- $338M in dividends paid out to Leo Radvinsky

https://lnkd.in/eS7NbRVA

#internet #onlyfans #content #business #money #management #tech #technology #innovation #creatoreconomy #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship 

Open article: OnlyFans users spent more than $5 billion last year, as the number of creators surged 47% by businessinsider.com

https://www.businessinsider.com/onlyfans-see-increased-in-revenue-profit-creators-2023-8?r=US&IR=T

"Sequoia, Instacart’s largest outside shareholder, invested $8M in one of its earliest rounds of funding in 2013. That initial investment has grown to a stake worth around $1B...the firm had less luck investing later. It put $50M into Instacart’s March 2021 funding round. At the IPO, that stake is set to be worth $12M or less."

Bull market growth investing is usually an even worse move than bull market venture investing. The past few years will be epically bad vintages for later-stage funds. 🐂 

https://lnkd.in/eh_u339U.

#vc #venturecapital #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #funding #tech #technology #innovation #ipo #sequoia #instacart #investing #investors #investment #money #business 

"When the pie was growing rapidly, the average person’s material circumstances were indeed more liable to improve without the aid of luck or connections. And if developed societies are more concerned with fairness, that is no bad thing."

Low growth/no growth/degrowth economies see increased hostilities and division, becoming a vicious, self-perpetuating race to the bottom. Economic growth is good. Economic growth is necessary. The unintended consequences of no economic growth are far worse than the ones that come with economic growth, partly because economic growth makes it easier to solve large-scale issues.

"A rise in zero-sum thinking has some unpleasant side-effects: Populism, conspiracy theories and nativism are all rooted in the belief that one group gains at the expense of others."

Good thread here too from the article's author, John Burn-Murdoch: https://lnkd.in/emyf5-Du

https://lnkd.in/eAVFuhWx

#growth #money #business #economy #economics #tech #technology #innovation #deeptech #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #politics 

“It would be a historic mistake to slow down investment in nuclear power in Europe”. - Emmanuel Macron 

He’s right on this. ⚛️ 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 

https://lnkd.in/eNnNhNSZ

#tech #technology #innovation #deeptech #energy #nuclear #nuclearpower #nuclearenergy #climate #climatetech

Open article: France threatening to fly solo on electricity market reform by euractiv.com

https://www.euractiv.com/section/electricity/news/france-threatening-to-fly-solo-on-electricity-market-reform/

"'We are worried,' said Olivier Dufour, co-founder of Verkor. 'What I see there is very similar to what I knew in aluminium. It’s more than preoccupying,' added Dufour, a former executive at mining company Rio Tinto." 

Overproducing and dumping is China's modus operandi. From solar panels to steel, aluminium, etc. this has been its approach and batteries will be no different. Europe needs to be prepared or local battery players will likely meet the same fate as its solar panel manufacturers, etc. did. 🔋 🪦 

https://lnkd.in/eCxj5QEg

#tech #technology #innovation #deeptech #batteries #electricgrid #funding #electricvehicles #ev #money #business #management #government 

“OpenAI is currently on pace to generate more than $1B in revenue over the next 12 months…that’s far ahead of revenue projections the company previously shared with its shareholders.” 

Fast growth for OpenAI in what is likely a winner take most market. 💰📈 

https://lnkd.in/eTxqRnDr

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

Open article: OpenAI Passes $1 Billion Revenue Pace as Big Companies Boost AI Spending by theinformation.com

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-passes-1-billion-revenue-pace-as-big-companies-boost-ai-spending

“The McKinsey framework will most likely do far more harm than good to organizations – and to the engineering culture at companies. Such damage could take years to undo.”

Big consulting firms have been trying to make inroads into tech and deeptech sectors. Those are the very types of companies that should avoid the big management consulting firms the most.

https://lnkd.in/e2HCq9j3

#tech #technology #innovation #deeptech #software #science #consulting #money #business

Open article: Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey by newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-developer-productivity?utm_medium=ios

“Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI: bots that can carry out tasks you set for them by calling on other software and other people to get stuff done.” 

Interview of Mustafa Suleyman that’s well worth reading. 

https://lnkd.in/eSiZr6qF

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

Open article: DeepMind’s cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI. by technologyreview.com

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/09/15/1079624/deepmind-inflection-generative-ai-whats-next-mustafa-suleyman/amp/

“Having a corporate investor decreases the chance of a startup going bankrupt.”

Ok, except bankruptcy rate isn’t how success is measured in venture capital. It’s about the slugging percentage, not the batting average. 

Also, this may just imply that CVCs are more conservative.

https://lnkd.in/exMcV72Z

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

Open article: Corporate-backed startups are more likely to survive - Global Venturing by globalventuring.com

https://globalventuring.com/corporate/corporate-backed-startups-are-more-likely-to-survive

"90% of VC-backed companies could disappear and there would be no impact on the world." - Chris Power

He ain't wrong...except that it's higher than 90%. 'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by [clicks/SaaS/fintech/etc], starving hysterical naked'. 🐺 

#vc #venturecapital #startups #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #funding #tech #technology #innovation #deeptech #money #business 

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