🇫🇮 The investor Breakfast at SLUSH

Over 150 VC investors, LPs, and partners joined us this morning at the European Women in VC ⭐️ Annual Slush Breakfast ⭐️

Every year, this gathering reinforces how powerful our community can be when we collaborate across funds, corporates, LPs, and ecosystems. Slush brings global energy to the Nordics, and we bring together the people shaping the future of European tech.

Programme highlighted some of the most relevant themes in our industry:

🔹 US investors participation in European Market by Butterfly Ventures with Anette Nordvall and Tanya Horowitz: “US Investor sentiment on Investing in Europe"

Geopolitical and macroeconomic shifts are prompting US family offices and institutions to diversify beyond traditional US private markets. They are increasingly seeking exposure to DeepTech, AI, and ClimateTech, areas where Europe is competitive, credible, and increasingly leading.

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🔹 LP–GP Alignment by Adara Ventures with Rocio Pillado: “What Best-in-Class Transparency Looks Like in 2025”

A timely discussion as the industry resets expectations around governance, communication, and true partnership between LPs and GPs. Transparency is no longer optional - it is a competitive advantage.

🔹 Liquidity Crunch & Secondaries by Roschier with Kiira Tuohimaa-Leisio: “Can Secondaries Bridge the Gap?”

With extended exit timelines and the rapid growth of the asset class, liquidity pressure is being felt by both GPs and LPs. Secondaries can help but come with complexities. The roundtable explored these dynamics from GP, LP, and company perspectives.We also touched on the growing global interest in Europe:

What made this breakfast exceptional was the wonderful collaboration between all speakers, partners, and attendees. The commitment to building a stronger, more inclusive European innovation ecosystem is real and it is growing.

Thank you to everyone who joined us. 💙 See you next year. Bigger, bolder, and even more aligned.

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Huge thank you to our partners:

Roschier is a leading business law firm in the Nordics, with offices in Helsinki and Stockholm and a strong global network through international partners. By understanding your legal and business needs, they provide cutting-edge solutions that challenge traditional thinking. They focus on simplifying legal and regulatory complexities in a fast-changing world, delivering practical solutions that drive business goals and unlock growth. Their combined expertise and deep knowledge of the Nordic market and the Nordic startup ecosystem ensure the best support for your journey from scaling to international expansion and strategic partnerships.

Adara Ventures is a European venture capital firm with over €350 million under management, backing exceptional early-stage deeptech startups, particularly in cybersecurity, energy AI, and enterprise software, from seed stage through growth.

Butterfly Ventures is one of the leading deep tech focused seed entry funds in the Nordics/Baltics with heavy emphasis on impact. Over the years Butterfly Ventures has invested 110+ startups. Focusing on industrial shift towards sustainable future.  

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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