Caroline Brochado and Sophia Bendz on the boom in Europe’s growth-stage and early startups
As part of Disrupt 2020 we wished to look at the contrasting positions of both early and later-stage investing in Europe. Who much better to unpack this subject than 2 highly experienced operators in these fields? After a career at Spotify and after that as a VC at Atomico
, Sophia Bendz has actually quickly acquired a reputation in […]
Brochado led investments in a number of appealing business at Atomico, consisting of logistics business OnTruck, health tech company Hinge Health and restaurant supply chain app Rekki. With that, in combination with my angel investing, I think I’m better fit to be in the earlier phases of investing. Brochado thinks 10 years ago it was tough for European founders as a lot of the talent to scale companies was still in the U.S.”What you’ve seen is a lot of big business grow up in Europe, a lot of people come back from the U.S., and so I think that pool of skill now is bigger, which is very valuable. I don’t think it’s yet at the scale of where the U.S. is. Bendz thinks we will “see a much slower spring, however … I believe it has actually been in general a great exercise for some business, and I have not seen a slower deal flow….
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