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How VCs Think About European Startups with Sramana Mitra
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How VCs Think About European Startups with Sramana Mitra

Case Studies of Investors (Venture Capitalists and Angels) in Europe on Venture Capital Fundraising
Created bySramana Mitra
Last updated 3/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • Through in-depth interviews with prominent investors, learn what investors think about European startups.
  • What is investor-entrepreneur fit and how to look for it before you start looking for funding.
  • Why 99% of entrepreneurs who seek funding get rejected by VCs.
  • Why traditional VCs only invest in hyper growth startups.
  • What the key considerations are for investors when they evaluate startups.
  • How entrepreneurs can position themselves for success while building a startup.
  • What the common mistakes are that entrepreneurs make when pitching their startups to VCs.
  • The fastest way to find the relevant sources of funding when building a startup in Europe.

Course content

2 sections • 15 lectures • 5h 15m total length

  • Introduction1:11
  • How Investors Think About Startups in Europe7:08
  • Entrepreneur - Investor Fit10:36
  • Spotlight on Entrepreneurship in Central Europe with Ondrej Bartos, Credo Ventur35:06

    Ondrej Bartos, General Partner at Credo Ventures based in Prague, focuses on investing in Central European startups. Their major success story is UiPath in robotics process automation.

  • European-US Bridge for Tech Startups: Rajeev Singh-Morales, Alma Mundi Ventures24:13

    Rajeev Singh-Morales, Founder and Managing Partner at Alma Mundi Ventures, discusses the Europe – US bridge for tech startups.

  • Alternative Financing for Startups with Christian Czernich, Round2 Capital16:57

    Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Christian Czernich is Founder and CEO at Round2 Capital Partners, a firm that is experimenting with an alternative financing model.

  • Spotlight on Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital in Vienna25:00

    Daniel Keiper-Knorr is Founder and General Partner at SpeedInvest, a venture firm based in Vienna. It’s great to see exciting energy and activity in Vienna, one of my favorite cities.

  • Spotlight on Italian Startups with Giuseppe Donvito, P101 Ventures28:54

    Giuseppe Donvito is Partner at P101 Ventures based in Milan. We have a wonderful conversation about Italian startups.

  • Spotlight on Northern European Startups with Andrus Oks, Tera Ventures31:25

    Andrus Oks is Founding Partner at Tera Ventures, based in Estonia. We have a great discussion on entrepreneurship in the Baltic and Scandinavian countries in particular.

  • European Founder Perspective with Stefan Batory, Booksy36:02

    Stefan Batory is Co-founder and CEO of Booksy, a SaaS-enabled marketplace venture.

    Our previous conversation from 2020 is available as an external resource.

  • Discussion European Startups with Hussein Kanji, Hoxton Ventures38:54

    Hussein Kanji, Partner at Hoxton Ventures, is based in London. He discusses their primary focus which is European ventures during this podcast interview.

  • Focusing on Germany and Switzerland with Harald Nieder, Redalpine Ventures26:44

    During this podcast interview, we speak with Harald Nieder, Partner at Redalpine Venture Partners, a European firm primarily focused on Germany and Switzerland.

  • Eastern and Central European Startups with Cem Sertoglu, Earlybird Ventures29:54

    Cem Sertoglu is Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital based in Turkey. Cem brings the spotlight on Turkey and the Eastern and Central European startup ecosystems.

Requirements

  • The only requirement for this course is an open mind and a willingness to learn.

Description

In this course, we will do a deep dive into startup financing in Europe.

Raising money is a low probability game. You need to understand how investors think to be able to raise money successfully for your startup.

During this course, I will be teaching how investors in Europe think about and analyze startups. We will have in-depth conversations around startups with several real world investors.

Designed for tech entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs interested in building startups in Europe, this course provides insights into the minds of several investors operating in this region for many years in their own words.

With this course, we thoroughly discuss with a group of successful European investors the size of their investments, preferences, and the European startup trends they see in their dealflows.

Throughout this course, investors focused on the European startup scene share their perspectives and discuss the trends in the market with me. We hope you will join us.

Europe is generating Unicorns and the investors are becoming more and more ambitious. Nonetheless, some of the erstwhile pragmatism still remains, and the Silicon Valley led hubris of startup investing, while gaining ground, is still frowned upon a bit.

European investors are also developing deeper relationships with their US counterparts, which is very welcome.

The 1Mby1M courses are all heavily based on interview-based case studies on Innovation, Business Models, Go To Market Strategies, Validation Principles, and various other nuances of an entrepreneur's journey. We offer extensive opportunities for entrepreneurs to learn the lessons from the trenches from successful entrepreneurs who have done it before and Investors who support their ambition.

Who this course is for:

  • Ambitious entrepreneurs who want to pursue ideas for which they have both passion and expertise.
  • Engineers who want to turn their tech knowledge into multi-million dollar revenue businesses by becoming startup founders rather than remain employees.
  • Aspiring European founders who want to increase their chances of getting accepted into top startup accelerators such as Y Combinator, Techstars, and 500 Startups.
  • Any entrepreneur who wants to learn from successful entrepreneurs who have done it before and from investors who have supported them.
  • Professors who are teaching technology entrepreneurship courses in Europe.

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