The European VC

<p>Turbine Raises $25M to Bring “Virtual Cells” Into Drug Discovery</p><p>Live announcement feat. Szabi Nagy, Founder and CEO of Turbine</p><p>Budapest-based biotech company Turbine has raised a $25 million Series B...

<p>In this episode of Upside, Dan Bowyer, Mads Jensen of SuperSeed and Lomax Ward of Outsized Ventures unpack a week where geopolitics, AI arms races and Europe’s tech momentum took over the headlines.</p><p>A new oil...

<p>What happens when a 60-year-old frontline charity decides not only to support families but also to invest in startups?</p><p>For more than six decades, Young Lives vs Cancer has supported children and families...

<p>Europe’s climate transition is no longer only about emissions. It is increasingly about sovereignty. Industrial capacity, access to critical materials, and resilient supply chains are now national and continental...

<p>Welcome back to Upside, where Dan Bowyer, Mads Jensen of SuperSeed and Lomax Ward of Outsized Ventures go behind the headlines shaping European venture, geopolitics and technology.</p><p>This week felt like multiple...

<p>This special episode is an inside look at AI music from three very different vantage points: the builder, the investor, and the industry insider.</p><p>Andreas is joined by Sundar Arvind, CEO & Co-Founder at Mozart...

<p>Industrial systems are responsible for 75% of global emissions, yet only a quarter of climate-focused VC money flows into them. Not because investors don’t care, but because these systems are hard. They’re...

<p>Europe does not have a deep tech problem. It has a commercialisation problem.</p><p>The last European companies to reach €100B+ market caps were SAP and ASML, both founded 40–50 years ago. If Europe wants a new...

<p>Europe’s banking stack wasn’t built for high-growth digital operators.</p><p>Not for D2C brands spending six figures a month on Meta.Not for agencies juggling multiple revenue streams.And not for founders who want...

<p>Welcome back to another episode of Upside where Dan Bowyer, Mads Jensen of SuperSeed and Lomax Ward of Outsized Ventures go behind the headlines shaping European tech, capital, and power.</p><p>This week felt like...

<p>What exactly are LPs buying when they allocate to venture today and do they still believe in it?</p><p>In this episode, Andreas sits down with Max Bray and Juliet Bailin, both Venture Partners at Kindred Capital VC...

<p>AI can already automate close to 50% of knowledge work. Sahil Patwa believes the real opportunity isn’t building another SaaS tool. It’s acquiring entire industries and transforming them from within.</p><p>In this...

<p>Clinical trials take, on average, 12 years and billions in capital before a drug reaches a pharmacy shelf. Pedro Coelho thinks that the timeline can be cut in half.</p><p>In this episode, our very own Andreas talks...

<p>Climate isn’t “over.” But building in climate has entered a new chapter, defined by shifting regulation, politicized narratives, buyer confusion, and a market that funded dozens of overlapping platforms.</p><p>In...

<p>In a market where “AI fund” can mean almost anything, Lumo Labs is unusually specific: digital deep tech, deployed early, and anchored in one of Europe’s densest innovation clusters—Eindhoven, home of Philips’ legacy...