European Venture Capital Network
Bringing the European VC Community together
Our sold out Christmas Party was a huge success. Thanks for adding the EVCN to your holiday party schedule. We had over 60 members sipping cocktails and feasting on sliders at the hottest lounge in Soho, The Player. While the DJs kept us grooving, we had a few people dancing on tables (we promised not [...]
Survey of 462 members, December 2012 2012 was the second year we have run this survey and we were very pleased with more than 25% of our members responding. The data was gathered anonymously directly from Venture Capital and Private Equity Professionals currently working across Europe providing insight into remuneration standards across a broad range [...]
The 7th Annual VC softball event was held is glorious sun in Primrose Hill last Friday 17th August. The game was tightly fought. The rules were bent, the catches were spectacular and the running between bases, vigorous. Arun was particularly menacing, insisting on carrying his bat (between the wickets??). The result was Sean’s team emerged [...]
Yesterday the EVCN had its annual Summer Party, but this time at Regent’s Park Hub. We had a huge gathering, with over 80 people attending, some old and some new to the organization. While eating a mix of yummy carnivorous and vegetarian food, we avoided errant cricket balls overlooking a beautiful London summer sunset two [...]
This time the VC-boutique BambooVentures invited a well-known expert to talk about the German Angel- and VC-Market: Dr. Hellmut Kirchner shared his experiences with us on his direct investments in emerging businesses. Dr. Kirchner has been working in the Venture business for more than 30 years and is considered as one of the most influential German Business [...]
We invited an expert to discuss about incubators. Stefan Kalteis shared with us his experiences in building up the successful incubator i5invest. # from VC to Incubator: highlighting differences based on Stefan’s on the job experience # from Incubator to successful companies: learnings from successful and unsuccessful attempts at i5invest # from Incubator to VC: [...]
A good group of 15 Germany and Abroad based VCs went for a 3 day skiing outing to Kitzbühel in the Austrian Alps. It has been a perfect mix: hitting down the slopes as a crowd of surprisingly good skiers, interesting discussions on hot venture capital topics during dinner events and having fun crashing the [...]
EVCN Munich program finished up with another highlight of the year 2010: “Company building – Different perspectives of founders vs. VCs” Kurt Mueller (Managing Partner at Target Partners) knows both sides. He founded his company Dataware Technologies in 1986, raised VC capital, brought his firm public (NASDAQ) and continued to be CEO for 6 years [...]
On September 15th the Munich EVCN chapter organized its first speaker event. Rolf Dienst from Wellington Partners who has been playing a key role in shaping the German VC landscape shared some of his war stories and gave us a close insight into his lessons learned of his 30 years venture capital experience. We had [...]
Thanks to Robert we made it happen! -The more or less impossible thing once a year during Oktoberfest in Munich. We catched a table for the EVCN crowd at the Hippodrom tent on Friday afternoon (24.11.10). The table was limited to the first 10 EVCN members who signed up. A couple of members from London [...]
