Today we are happy to welcome Andreas Schwarzenbrunner, Partner at Speedinvest, one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors with more than €1 billion AuM and 40+ investors based in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, and Vienna. Andy found his way into Venture via politics - and is always up for a debate. This gave him an exceptionally good eye for promising ideas and trends.
In this episode you’ll learn:
- Andy’s journey from politics to VC and the edge having a different background gives him today
- What 6000+ VCs say about how they make decisions
- A discussion of how the European results differ from the US results
- Where funds choose to domicile, why and the implications of this on a policy level
- A discussion of why IRR and MOIC requirements are the same for US and EU VCs and why that surprises Andreas
- Why 90% of EU VCs say Europe is fragmented and what the causes of this is
