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Pathfounders, with Mike Butcher, covers the tech startup and venture ecosystem.
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Yesterday something big happened in Europe. The EU Commission is putting its weight behind a proposal to create a cross-EU company structure (similar to a Delaware Corp) dubbed “EU Inc”. In fact, that idea and the name emerged from a lobby group made up of founders and investors literally called EU Inc. However, EU President Ursula von der Leyen has, so far, stopped short of fulfilling all the wishes of the movement. Pathfounders’s Mike Butcher caught up with Andreas Klinger, founder of Protoype Capital, an EU Inc co-organiser, to discuss the latest developments.
Clinical trials for new drugs involve some of the most expensive and complex processes in modern industry yet, remarkably, much of the infrastructure still runs on spreadsheets and manual reviews. AI has begun to flood into this sector, but the question is which startups can seize the opportunity to reduce costs and speed up this sector? Erik Scalfaro, CEO and Co-Founder of Rivia, thinks they have the answer, and joined Mike Butcher of Pathfounders to discuss their $15M Series A funding round.
Can you leverage media and community into an early start startup funding platform? That’s the bet that UK-based OPUS plans to make with its international membership network of founders and operators. The project, dubbed Day Zero, will be a venture investment platform aimed at backing technology startups from their earliest days across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, combining capital from individual investors with access to the OPUS network. Mike Butcher of Pathfounders spoke to OPUS founder Sam Tidswell-Norrish about how they think they can make it work, and where it might end up.
Cross-border commerce has never been larger, but for companies trying to sell internationally, it has rarely been more complicated. London-based Outpost has raised a $17.5 million Series A round to help companies sell across borders without building an expensive patchwork of legal entities. CEO Will Mahon-Heap unpacks his strategy with Mike Butcher, Founder & Editor of Pathfounders.
Component manufacturing is a trillion-dollar-a-year market, but in Europe it’s an area dominated by small, often family-run businesses that are rapidly dwindling as the owners retire. Isembard is a UK startup that manufactures high-precision components, operating both its own, and franchisee factories. Following its $50 million Series A funding, Mike Butcher of Pathfounders caught up with Alexander Fitzgerald, Isembard Founder and CEO.
Dr Ari Kristinn Jónsson has just stepped into the newly created role of President of the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF), the €1 billion venture fund backed by 24 NATO countries to invest in technologies that strengthen defence, security, and resilience across the alliance. Pathfounders caught up with him to unpack how he plans to steady the NIF ship after a turbulent period. Correction: In the video, we say Dr Ari Kristinn Jónsson replaced Klaus Hommels at head of NIF. Hommels has Klaus stepped into a new advisory role at the Fund’s Geopolitical and Strategic Advisory Council, focused on providing the NIF with guidance on industrialisation and scaling challenges. Dr Jónsson's role as President is a new one, and he will be reporting to the NIF Board.
Qevlar AI says it can deploy AI to turn alerts about cybersecurity attacks into data that was previously invisible. Pathfounder’s Mike Butcher speaks to Ahmed Achchak, Qevlar AI Co-Founder and CEO, and Damien Henault, partner with Forgepoint Capital, about how AI is changing cybersecurity.
Speaking at the inaugural Pathfounders London Mixer — the first in a series — a panel of VCs and experts tackled the thorny subjects of the white-hot era of AI, what’s next for deeptech, and the future of so-called ‘sovereign’ technologies — all amid the background of, at times, quite chaotic geopolitical tensions. The panel also identified a new generation of AI-native entrepreneurs, operating in palpably different ways from the generation that came before them. Featuring: • Sitar Teli, Managing Partner, Connect Ventures• Alex van Someren, recently exited as the UK's Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security and former VC • Manjari Chandran-Ramesh, Amadeus Capital Partners, Partner in the Early Stage Fund focusing on AI, Robotics and Quantum• Ana Barjasic, Connectology, European Innovation Council
Can Italy surf the new AI wave with the new “Wave” conference? Vento CEO and partner Diyala D'Aveni unpacks this and more with Pathfounders Founder & Editor, Mike Butcher.
Pathfounders Interview: Yaroslav Azhnyuk, founder/CEO, The Fourth Law
Spain-based Mundi Ventures recently launched the Kembara Venture Fund to address this with a €750 million first close, and the ultimate target of a billion euros. Partner Pierre Festal joined Pathfounders to unpack what this means for European deeptech.
Venture capital in the MENA region is moving decisively toward AI-native platforms, which captured 69% of AI funding. The UAE and Saudi Arabia jointly attracted 87% of all AI capital deployed. Pathfounders caught up with Philip Bahoshy, CEO of Magnitt, a key research house in MENA, to discuss how investment AI is shaping the region's tech industry.
‘Edtech’ is morphing into ‘Learning & Work’ according to a new report from Brighteye Ventures. Pathfounders caught up with report author Rhys Spence to unpack where VC investors are putting their money in Europe.
Last week, Multiverse acquired Berlin-based data and AI training provider StackFuel, a small startup that had raised only €1.5m in total, from a handful of seed investors. Multiverse now plans to use that acquisition as a wedge into the German market, and subsequently other European markets. In a wide-ranging conversation, I asked Founder and CEO Euan Blair what his next strategic moves would be, and why the US didn’t work out as a potential market for Multiverse's expansion a couple of years ago.
Pathfounders, Episode 1: Interview with Christian Hernandez of Climate tech VC 2150. In this interview with Pathfounders' Mike Butcher, we hear how 2150 has executed on its thesis that cities are where the battle for the climate will be won or lost.
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