Awesome night The Europas. Very proud of our ongoing involvement. Congrats to Mike Butcher (BlueSky/Threads: @mikebutcher) on tonight’s success! Great to see so many friends! #startups #scaleups #investors #TheEuropas #fastgrowth #LondonIsOpen #PR

Massive congratulations to everyone that won at yesterday’s 10th The Europas! Here’s to another year of celebrating the European tech ecosystem 💪🏽 A special thanks for Mike Butcher (BlueSky/Threads: @mikebutcher) for putting it all together!

Germany has a long way to go. Thanks Reshma Sohoni for this! #motherhood #workinglife

"This transformation of manufacturing may well play a key role in helping humankind not only improve our quality of life but also tackle the many environmental challenges of our time." #purposeandprofit

I’m going to challenge myself to have fun this weekend. Many founders/CEOs/fund managers probably relate. It’s hard not to worry about *something* 24/7. And my mom recently told me she doesn’t see me happy as often as she’d think I’d be. So I’m going to let myself experience joy.

Berlin is a city that - like no other - bears the scars of the 20th century and carries the promise of the 21st.

Such a great job Julie Kainz! A delight to be there with you and the other fund managers ❤️

Can't think of more empathetic or smart people to work with!

The competitive landscape in the German e-scooter market by bjørn link.medium.com/kAcgqroSqY

If you think women in tech is just a pipeline problem, you haven’t been paying attention by Rachel Thomas link.medium.com/SKFKYnfaRW

Founders asking for (and getting) 2m at 10m for seed without any traction is now the new norm in EU. Mega rounds raised with no proof of scalability + path to profitability. Valu at 25X ARR? No probs! VC parodies accounts as if VC was a huge industry. Bumpy times ahead. ☂️

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Great breakdown of the new Cambridge Associates post on VC value creation by Ch®️istie 📈 spoiler alert: "success is no longer limited to a handful of (often inaccessible) fund managers...new and developing fund managers consistently rank as some of the best performers." #openlp

I've seen three decks in the last week refer to 'seed A', 'seed B' and even 'seed C' to denote pre-seed, seed and late seed. Is this a new thing Maren Bannon Elizabeth Yin 💛?🤯

We’ve just published the Balderton B2B SaaS Sales Playbook. Hope it’s useful to those of you starting to build sales teams. Please reach out to anyone you know at Balderton Capital for any feedback or questions.

Know we have bigger problems but just got 1st kid summer camp cancellation :(. No camps will be hard for working parents. Hoping some awesome entreps will hold fun engaging digital camps this summer - hit me if you hear of some pls!

Any VC rejections for reasons not on list? Too early. Small market. No defensibility. No network effects. Questionable team. Too crowded. Can't scale. Low gross margin. Dependent on Facebook. Hits driven industry. Weak tech. Unreasonable valuation. No revenue. Capital intensive.

Congrats to the entire Thriva team and especially Hamish Grierson Eliot Brooks #NEFalumni #newentrepreneursfoundation

Why it takes privilege to make it as an entrepreneur - in network (VCs 13x more likely to fund startups that come via ‘warm introductions' reports Diversity VC) - of social/economic backup via Amy Lewin Sifted sifted.eu/articles/inspi… #diversitymatters #vcfunding #femtech

I don’t have Ivy League pedigree, I’m not a Kauffman fellows graduate and I don’t have a successful tech exit. I know I’m not suppose to be in VC, but if you underestimate me, you’ll definitely regret it.