SuperVenture in 🇩🇪 Berlin

At the beginning of June, 🇩🇪 Berlin became the center of attention for private markets and a key hub for LPs and GPs. SuperReturn International, with 5,500 decision-makers in attendance, took place alongside SuperVenture. Across both events, discussions focused on AI, climate tech, liquidity (or the lack of it), and policy tailwinds - as investors tried to figure out what might be the safest long-term strategy in an increasingly volatile world.

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What we've been up to?

EWVC LP/GP lunch

150 cheque-writers compared notes on fund-raising dynamics and previewed EWVC’s forthcoming allocation playbook. Huge thank you to our event partners Goodwin and European Investment Fund (EIF).

Panel session: how can we unlock more institutional capital to power the next wave of venture?

Kinga (European Women in VC) quizzed the British Business Bank and M&G plc, alongside Redstone (Ian Connatty, Alex Seddon, Mickaël Bellaïche) on why pension pots still under-weight VC. Diving into the role of institutional capital in driving innovation, and discussing the key takeaways from the report done in collaboration with Pensions for Purpose.

Panel session: Corporate Venturing in 2025 and Beyond

Kinga (European Women in VC), moderated a panel alongside Saeed Amidi (founder of Plug and Play Tech Center) and Kevin Rodrigues (Managing Partner of bp Ventures) on the present and future of CVC.

We all know that competitiveness is central priority for Europe now. Stronger links between CVCs and startups, can play a catalytic role to this competitiveness. Acceleration services are the last item needed to build an ecosystem that can help European innovation scale. - (Kinga Stanislawska, European Women in VC)

Europe is ready. 🚀 The energy at SuperBerlin this year has confirmed what we are capable of. Despite critique, Europe is full of talent, the right long-term strategy can unlock the clearly untapped opportunity we are sitting on.

Huge thanks to the SuperReturn and SuperVenture teams for having us again this year. 🤝 If you are building or investing, we hope that Europe just became your move!

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​About the co-hosts

​Goodwin
They are in the business of building authentic, long-term relationships with their clients, who are some of the world’s most successful and innovative investors, entrepreneurs and disruptors at the convergence of and within the life sciences, private equity, real estate, technology and financial industries. Their immersive understanding of these industries – combined with their expertise across high-stakes litigation and dispute resolution, world-class regulatory compliance and advisory services, and complex transactions – sets them apart. To learn more about their global law firm, please visit www.goodwinlaw.com. 

​European Investment Fund (EIF)
As part of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group, European Investment Fund, (EIF) design and deploy financial instruments, which enable banks, funds and other financial intermediaries to better serve SMEs. As a result, they attract more private capital into the SME space, they kick-start new financing markets and ecosystems, and ultimately make more financing available to SMEs across the EU and associated countries. EIF encourage diversity and inclusion and promote a broader representation in the investment ecosystem through different initiatives like the Empowering Equity Academy and Mentoring Programme. They manage resources on behalf of the EIB, the European Commission (EC), national and regional authorities and other third parties.

​The EIF is a public-private partnership, whose tripartite shareholding structure includes the EIB, the EU represented by the European Commission and various public and private financial institutions.

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