A Collective of European VC Blogs

Recently I asked the audience of a panel on Venture Capital in Europe how many of them read blogs written by Venture Capitalists actually based in Europe. A small scattering of hands went up.

Of course there are several well known Venture Capital blogs from US based investors with a solid track record and lots of insights. However, what I’ve noticed over the years and especially having worked in both the London and Berlin tech ecosystems is how heavily culture in a particular ecosystem can influence the way that VCs think about investing and how start-up founders can leverage understanding these cultural differences and the way the VC they are pitching think when raising capital.

So here’s an evolving list of blogs I‘ve pulled together from my fellow VCs across Europe which not only help me get a better perspective on all the angles that influence their decision making but challenge my own assumptions.

From Individual VCs in:

UK

• Jason Ball (Investment Director, Qualcomm Ventures): www.jasonball.com
• Nathan Benaich (VC, Playfair Capital): www.medium.com/@nathanbenaich
• Robert Bonanzinga (Partner, Inreach Ventures): https://medium.com/entrepreneurship-at-work
• Nic Brisbourne (Managing Partner, Forward Partners): theequitykicker.com
• Ophelia Brown (Principal, Index Ventures): http://www.ophelia.vc
• Matt Clifford (CEO, Entrepreneur First): https://medium.com/@matthewclifford
• Linus Dahg (Principal, Wellington Partners): https://medium.com/@LDahg
• Fred Destin (Partner, Accel Partners): http://freddestin.com
• Carlos Espinal (Partner, Seedcamp): http://thedrawingboard.me
• Ari Helgason (VC, Dawn Capital): https://medium.com/@arihelgason
• John Henderson (Principal, White Star Capital): https://medium.com/@johnehenderson
• Christian Hernandez Gallardo(Managing Partner, White Star Capital): https://medium.com/@christianhern
• Martin Mignot (Principal, Index Ventures): https://medium.com/@martinmignot
• Rob Moffat (Principal, Balderton Capital): https://medium.com/@robmoff
• Sebastian Peck (COO, Digital Science): http://startupwise.london/
• Stephan von Perger (VC, Wellington Partners): https://medium.com/@vonperger
• Ashish Puri (Early Stage Investor, Episode1 Ventures): https://medium.com/@ashpuri
• Pradeep Raman (VC, Forward Partners): http://brainchatter.me
• Yannick Roux (Principal, EC1 Capital): http://sotp.me
• Eze Vidra (Partner, Google Ventures): www.vccafe.com/
• Matt Wichrowski (Associate, White Star Capital): https://medium.com/@mattwichrowski

GERMANY

• Pawel Chudzinski (Partner, Point Nine Capital): http://pawel.posthaven.com/
• Thomas Grota (Investment Director, T-Ventures): http://thomasgr.tumblr.com
• Ewa Grzechnik (Investment Manager, 3M): http://blog.ewencja.com
• Guido Hegener (Partner, XLHealth): www.digital-health.ventures
• Christoph Janz (Partner, Point Nine Capital): http://christophjanz.blogspot.de
• Paul Jozefak (MD, Liquid Labs): http://babblingvc.typepad.com
• Videesha Kunkulagunta (Principal, Redstone Digital): https://medium.com/@videesha
• Rodrigo Martinez (Principal, Point Nine Capital): https://medium.com/@decodingvc
• Max Niederhofer (General Partner, Sunstone Capital): http://path.niederhofer.com
• Ciaran O’Leary (VC): http://www.berlinvc.com
• David Rosskamp (VC): www.drosskamp.com
• Simon Schmincke (Principal, Earlybird): http://www.signed.vc
• Federico Wengi (Associate, Paua Ventures): https://medium.com/@federicowengi
• Nicolas Witterborn (Principal, Point Nine Capital): https://medium.com/@ncsh

REST OF EUROPE

• Willy Braun (VC, Daphni, France): http://www.willy-braun.com
• Rasmus Bjerngaard (General Partner, Northcap, Denmark): https://medium.com/@bjerngaard
• Yacine Ghalim (Associate, Sunstone Capital, Denmark): https://medium.com/@YacineGhalim
• Ekaterina Gianelli (Director, Inventure, Finland): https://medium.com/@ekagianelli
• Vincent Jacobs (Partner, Kima Ventures, France): https://medium.com/@vincejaco
• Nikos Kalliagkopoulos (Associate, Prime Ventures, Netherlands):
  http://nikos.vc/
• Luca Keresztesi (Investment Advisor, Day One Capital, Hungary): https://medium.com/@lucakeresztesi
• Riku Seppälä (Associate, Open Ocean Capital, Finland): www.medium.com/@rikutter
• Stefan Steiner (MD, Venturelab, Switzerland,German only): http://www.blogstone.net
• George Tziralis (Partner, Open Fund,Greece): http://gtziralis.com
• Stefano Zorzi (Partner, Founders, Denmark): https://medium.com/@stefanozorzi/

VC COLLECTIVES/FIRMS/COMPANY BUILDERS:

• M/VC (Germany/Europe): https://medium.com/@m.vc
• Creandum (Sweden): http://www.creandum.com/news/
• Earlybird (Germany): https://medium.com/birds-view
• EC1 Capital Blog (UK): http://www.ec1capital.com/blog
• eFounders (France/Belgium): https://blog.efounders.co/
• Frontline Ventures (Ireland): https://medium.com/at-the-front-line
• Notion Capital (UK): http://www.notioncapital.com/category/blog/
• Point Nine Capital (Germany): https://medium.com/point-nine-news
• Project A (Germany): http://insights.project-a.com/
• Reaktor Ventures (Finland): http://reaktorventures.com/blog/
• SOSv (Ireland): http://sosv.com/blog/
• Ventech (France): https://medium.com/ventech-insight-stories

If I’ve missed any then please do e-mail me: videesha@redstonedigital.de

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