This week in Upside #67 Mads returns from Slush with 24 one-to-ones under his belt and a head full of insights. Dan and Lomax dig into Germany’s €35B space strategy, the surprising data behind immigrant-founded unicorns, and Europe’s defence-IPO boom. They break down Vinted’s huge secondary, the EU’s attempt to kill cookie banners, and the UK’s sudden wave of AI investment initiatives. In AI Corner: why 70% of AI startups now ship on open-source models, Google’s new TPU-trained Gemini 3, and ...
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This week in Upside #67 Mads returns from Slush with 24 one-to-ones under his belt and a head full of insights. Dan and Lomax dig into Germany’s €35B space strategy, the surprising data behind immigrant-founded unicorns, and Europe’s defence-IPO boom. They break down Vinted’s huge secondary, the EU’s attempt to kill cookie banners, and the UK’s sudden wave of AI investment initiatives. In AI Corner: why 70% of AI startups now ship on open-source models, Google’s new TPU-trained Gemini 3, and ...
Upside #52 - More Chips Please - Be More German - No Easy A?
Upside
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Upside #52 - More Chips Please - Be More German - No Easy A?
Upside #52 The weekly podcast for all things European venture, startups and investing. Each week we look behind the headlines for the real news affecting our ecosystem. VC Hosts: Mads, Andrew & Dan This week: Seed-to-Series A: harder or hype? Germany’s €100B Deutschlandfonds UK interest rate cut OECD’s corporate investment warning EU Chips Act 2.0 - 1.0 #fail AI Corner – GPT-5, Anthropic’s advances, open-source wars Deal of the Week 00:50 – Series A: Out of Reach? Really? US: Avg...
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This week in Upside #67 Mads returns from Slush with 24 one-to-ones under his belt and a head full of insights. Dan and Lomax dig into Germany’s €35B space strategy, the surprising data behind immigrant-founded unicorns, and Europe’s defence-IPO boom. They break down Vinted’s huge secondary, the EU’s attempt to kill cookie banners, and the UK’s sudden wave of AI investment initiatives. In AI Corner: why 70% of AI startups now ship on open-source models, Google’s new TPU-trained Gemini 3, and ...
