Martin Mignot

𝐍𝐨 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 In my 16 years in venture, there is only one other time that compares to the past couple of weeks of SaaSpocalypse… COVID. Tech is by ...

I knew about Singapore’s success story. What I didn’t know, and learnt reading Lee Kuan Yew’s memoir, is that when designing their welfare system in the 60s and 70s, he studied Western Europe’s in...

I’m excited to welcome Decagon into the Index Ventures family. We’ve been so impressed by our conversations with Jesse Zhang and Ashwin Sreenivas. Their "clockspeed" is pretty unique, and, in my e...

A message to European founders: no matter what you think of the current administration, the US is and will remain the most important software market in the world so you should spend more time here,...

Revolut just announced a new valuation of $75 billion. Higher valuation, same ambition. As Nik Storonsky told me at Slush last year, the goal remains clear: become the #1 global bank in 100 countr...

When I first met Maxime Germain in 2012, he was a precocious 20-year-old who dreamed of one thing: becoming a successful entrepreneur. After teaching himself to code at 11 and launching France’s mo...

Zack Urlocker has been part of the Index Ventures orbit for decades, dating back to his time leading engineering and marketing at MySQL. Since then, he’s led billion-dollar exits as COO of companie...

LLMs don’t change the fundamental physics of good software: value gets created either by bundling or by unbundling. If you opt for the latter, focus on a discrete pain point and solve it completely...

The next chapter of our Europeans of New York series is around the corner - and this time, we’ll be joined by Mati Staniszewski, cofounder and CEO of ElevenLabs. In less than three years, ElevenLa...

I guess the word about #EuropeansofNYC is out… Next event with a star guest dropping soon. https://lnkd.in/etGkdWid

Revolut today opened its brand new global HQ in London! Congratulations to Nik Storonsky, Vladyslav Y., Antoine Le Nel, Francesca Carlesi, James Gibson, Pierre Decote and the whole team. It’s a f...

Another big day at Index Ventures as we welcome new partner Sahir Azam! Selfishly, I’m thrilled to have him strenghten our NYC office further, where hebrings his unique operating chops and network...

Rocking the EU–INC cap in NYC, because the thing Europe needs the most is not capital and certainly not talent, but a giant fully unified market for their most ambitious startups to scale. A 28th...

Resharing this a year later as France's current political crisis is (almost) 100% the result of its catastrophic pension system. And the prime minister (for a few more weeks) just admitted as much ...

A recent study showed that people always thought that the very best music happened to be the music that was popular when they were teenagers. I’m no exception to this rule: Daft Punk will forever r...