The EUVC Summit & Awards Show 🏆
We can’t wait to welcome you to a full-day event dedicated to shaping Europe's future—while we celebrate the winners of this year’s EUVC Awards 🏆
Here's the agenda
🏆 Hall of Fame Winner Spotlight – To be announced!
⚔️ Europe’s Counter-Offensive: A VC-Led Response to the US Tech Agenda – Oliver Holle, Speedinvest
🌍 Winning Through European Culture – Jörg Binnenbrücker, Capnamic & Andre Christ, LeanIX
⚖️ Navigating Geopolitical Conflict & Uncertainty – Shmuel Chafets, Target Global
💰 Winning in European Secondaries – Joe Schorge
🚀 The Path to European SME Tech Leadership – Videesha Böckle, Altitude & Lucile, Eight Roads
🏢 The Path to EU INC – Andreas Klinger, EU INC
📊 Building Index & Winning in Today's Market – Bernard Dalle, Index & Thomas Kristensen, LGT
📈 The Path to Superior Venture Returns in Europe – David Clarke (Vencap), Ertan Can (Multiple), Chloe Dagnell (Isomer)
🏦 Unlocking European Pension Capital – Kerry Baldwin (IQ Capital) & Chris Elphick (BVCA)
❄️ The Path to the North Pole - A Story About Grit – Ben Saunders, Record-breaking Arctic Explorer & Climate Investor
🌟 The Need for Inspirational Leadership in Europe – Marius Istrate, ex-UiPath
🇪🇺 Breaking the ‘Europe vs. US’ Myth – William McQuillan, Frontline
💹 State of VC fundraising in EMEA – Thies Sander, GP of Project A & David Cruz e Silva from EUVC
🤖 Building European Resilience Through Applied AI – Juliet Bailin, General Catalyst
💡 The Path to Success for European Micro Funds – Sarah Drinkwater & Anthony Danon
🌱 Achieving Large Scale Climate Impact – Natalie Tydemann, Kinnevik
🔥 Climate Tech in a Trump Era – Hampus Jakobsson, Pale Blue Dot
🌳 ESG, CSR, DEI — Where do the acronyms go from here? - Hampus Jakobsson, Pale Blue Dot & Romain Diaz, Satgana
💭 Living a Meaningful Life in Tech – Fred Destin, Stride
🪖 Defending Europe - Sebastian von Ribbentrop, Join Capital
🏭 Winning with CVCs in Europe – Nicholas Sauvage, President of TDK Ventures
🔄 The Next Generation of European VC Franchises – Christian Meermann, Cherry & Elsa Deseiligny, Senior Investment Associate at Cambridge Associates
🔎 Europe is Not Monolithic – Mehmet Atici, Bek Ventures
🧬 Future of Medicine: How VC is Driving the Future of Healthcare Innovation on Tech Bio – Nirmesh Patel, Amino Collective
🏆 Throughout the day, the winners will be announced across these prestigious categories:
Hall of Fame
Firm of the Year
Emerging Manager of the Year
Newcomer of the Year
Impact Leader of the Year
Achievement of the Year
Exit of the Year
Off stage, the day offers networking breaks and of course a beautiful dinner 🥂. With the EUVC Award finalists, the continent's leading thinkers and practitioners and LPs from around the globe attending, these breaks will are bound to be magical.
This truly is the most powerful venture assembly of 2025.
And finally, a massive thank you to our core partners Google Cloud, HSBC Innovation Banking and Isomer Capital as well as our supporting partners: Synaptic, Haynes Boone, Fundcraft, Ace Alternatives, CEW Communications, & Goodwin 🙏
Go to euvc.events/summit for an overview of the speakers, awards and more.