What does a genuinely useful VC relationship look like, and how much should operating experience matter when investors are advising founders?
In this episode of This Week in European Tech, Dan Bowyer and Mads Jensen of SuperSeed discuss what separates strong VC partnerships from weaker ones, why venture outcomes naturally follow power laws and what founders should realistically expect from the investors around their table.
They also look at the UK Budget and whether it goes far enough for founders, the wider economic pressures facing younger people and what could encourage more people to build companies.
The conversation then turns to AI, including Anthropic’s planned IPO, where inference may happen in the future and the growing question of whether companies can trust the models and agents operating inside their businesses.
Dan and Mads also discuss technological sovereignty, the case for stronger European AI infrastructure and what Europe should prioritise rather than trying to recreate every layer of the technology stack.
Highlights
What founders should expect from a strong VC partnership
How much operating experience matters for investors
Why venture capital produces power-law outcomes
What the UK Budget means for founders
Why entrepreneurship may have an energy problem as well as a policy problem
What Anthropic’s planned IPO could tell us about the AI market
Why more AI inference could move onto personal devices
The security risks created by AI agents at scale
Whether European companies can trust foreign AI models
Where Europe should focus its technology sovereignty efforts
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