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Cherry Ventures’ Tatiana Shalalvand on operator DNA, AI application layer, and why Europe’s first trillion-dollar company will come from the Nordics
Before she was picking startups to back, Tatiana Shalalvand was the person companies called when everything had already…
September 22, 2026
Anthropic’s CEO wants AI to slow down. European VCs ask: Who really benefits?
Dario Amodei is urging the AI industry to slow down, even though he plans to raise up to…
September 17, 2026
European AI startups are valued at just one-eighth of their US peers
The median pre-money valuation of AI startups in Europe is €8.3 million, compared with €64.2 million in the…
September 15, 2026
Why Oura chose Wall Street over Helsinki for its $16B IPO and what its early backers think
Earlier this month, Oura, the Finnish healthtech decacorn, submitted an application to list on Nasdaq, aiming to raise…
September 14, 2026
How Backed VC decides who to back: Andre de Haes checks whether early hires took a pay cut
Before Andre de Haes decides whether to write a check, he asks a question that has nothing to…
September 10, 2026
France’s robotics founders have a message for VCs: Stop chasing quick wins
At TETMET's full-scale ‘factory of the future’ demonstration at VivaTech in June, both French President Emmanuel Macron and…
September 7, 2026
She quit her job with no co-founder and no plan. Two months later, Project Europe backed her
“How are you ever going to find a co-founder or an engineer that wants to work on that…
September 2, 2026
The Transatlantic Brief: European VC intelligence for American investors
What you need to know about European startup funding, written for the US investor who doesn't have time…
August 25, 2026
Entrepreneurship ‘favours the privileged’ – why the rise of the million-dollar solo founder isn’t as fair as it looks
There is no shortage of praise when it comes to the rise of the million-dollar solo founder, with…
August 13, 2026