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A very small number of people in Europe have the capability to build a sovereign hypersonic system. Philipp K. and Dr. Marc Ewenz are among them, which is why we backed them at pre-seed and why we'...

🚀 Max and the Legora team: your success speaks for itself. 🚀 Worth a listen for anyone interested in how AI is actually transforming professional services. 🇸🇪 Heja, heja Legora! 🇪🇺

Davos 2026: Leaving the Zauberberg and building in the flatlands As the snow-capped peaks of Davos fade behind us, Thomas Mann's metaphor of the Zauberberg (Magic Mountain) feels particularly reso...

Some founders spot the bottleneck before markets feel the pain. In the AI era, “intelligence” is getting cheap. Alignment isn’t. Teams are moving faster than ever, but they’re not moving together...

Some journeys come full circle in the most beautiful ways. General Catalyst is leading the seed round for Prime Meridian, founded by Saket Kumar and Rishabh Jain. This moment feels especially mea...

Spending time with exceptional founders is among the greatest privileges in this business. What truly sets them apart isn't just their compelling vision or impressive technology, though both matter...

🎄What a way to close out 2025 at our Tech Winter Ball! 🎄 Incredible minds from industry, startups, and policy all under the castle roof: pure magic! ✨ Celebrating not just the season, but a year ...

Sovereignty begins with the ability to build and control one’s own critical systems. Not someday, but now. ICEYE’s new funding round, led by General Catalyst alongside strong European partners, is...

At the edge of a northern winter, Europe’s innovation ecosystem is taking shape - by founders who choose to solve the hardest problems, not the fastest ones. The best founders frame the world in ...

🇪🇺Team up. It’s on, Europe!🇫🇷🇩🇪

Team Up. It’s on, Europe! Last night, my children asked me a seemingly simple question: "What is Europe, and why does it matter?" As I searched for an answer that a 6-year-old could understand, I ...

Europe’s security and prosperity will depend on how we innovate next. We're in the middle of a 30-year technology cycle that began around 2007. The transformational technologies we're developing n...

Two Years of GC Famiglia: Building the Engine for European Founders It began with a long walk in Berlin. Hemant and I walked through the city for hours, discussing what would be needed to truly ac...

🏎️ From Factory Floors to Formula Speed - Meet the Founders Rewiring Manufacturing When I first met Anna-Julia Storch and Leonie Freisinger, I thought I’d stumbled into a Formula One pit lane rath...

Some founders build companies. Others build momentum that reshapes entire industries. Max Junestrand is one of the latter. With today’s $150 million Series C, Legora is not just scaling, it’s rede...

Thanks so much for the great conversation, Michael Bröcker on topics close to my heart: Europe, founders, and how applied AI can strengthen resilience, among many others. 🎧 The interview starts at...

The train is about to leave, but Europe is still debating what to pack. At this year’s Berlin Global Dialogue panel on “Applied Intelligence: Europe’s Edge in the Global AI Race” we discussed a to...

🎉Europe’s New Renaissance🎉 “Wie gut wir sind, zeigt sich in Krisenzeiten” wins the Deutscher Wirtschaftsbuchpreis 2025 When Inge Kloepfer and I started writing this book two years ago, it was mea...

Our GC Famiglia members are growing up! Witnessing Alex Bouaziz and Shuo Wang evolve from visionary seed-stage savages to the leaders of a $17.3B company has been nothing short of inspiring. Howeve...

Some companies simply taste different from the start. 🍓 From the first connection with Charles Maddock, I knew Strawberry wasn’t just another productivity tool. It was a labor of love built to mak...