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Weekly analyses of funding rounds, exits, and dynamics in European venture capital. Björn Rieckhoff as recurring guest on Startup Insider with Jan Thomas.
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Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · July 6, 2026
BIS Warns Against Overinvestment in AI — Björn Rieckhoff and Jan Thomas on the railroad mania, the dot-com crash, and what the Cisco vs. Nvidia comparison reveals today.
softbank-frankreich-ki-souveraenitaet
Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · June 3, 2026
SoftBank’s €75 billion investment in France – Europe’s AI sovereignty is taking shape, but not through Europe.
selbsttrainierende-ki-und-application-layer
Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · May 20, 2026
$650M pre-product for Recursive Superintelligence – on self-training AI, growing tool dependency, and the rise of the application layer.
kandou-kestra-ai-infrastruktur-reift
Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · April 8, 2026
$225M Series A for chip interconnects, $25M for workflow orchestration – where the next infrastructure layer is emerging.
nscale-europa-ki-infrastruktur
Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · March 11, 2026
$2 billion for Nscale – Europe's largest AI infrastructure round. How bankable are GPU assets really, and what does this say about the new investment logic?
Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · February 17, 2026
Will agentic AI spell the end of venture capital? OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger's move to OpenAI — how smaller teams become more competitive, headcount loses relevance, and whether seed financing becomes obsolete.
is-venture-capital-becoming-political
Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · January 14, 2026
The fund announcement by Andreessen Horowitz is no longer a neutral capital markets document — it's a manifest: American Exceptionalism as its core thesis, and what it means for Europe.
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peec-ai-hypergrowth-und-peter-thiels-nvidia-exit
Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · November 21, 2025
$300m for Lab Automation – Periodic Labs
Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · October 22, 2025
oura-erreicht-11-milliarden-bewertung
Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · September 24, 2025
AI Agents: Europe as Market Leader in AI Security?
Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · August 19, 2025
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Optiml, Software for Decarbonizing Real Estate
Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · August 23, 2024
Amperecloud, Platform for Renewable Energy Assets
Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · August 2, 2024
ISPTech, Space Tech
Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · July 9, 2024
Accel: New €600m Fund & Funding Climate in Europe
Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · May 16, 2024
Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · April 12, 2024
Eye Security, Cybersecurity in Logistics & Ordio, HosTech
Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · March 14, 2024
Launch of Superlist, Christian Reber's To-Do List
Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · February 15, 2024
Lemon Markets Receives a BaFin License
Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · January 18, 2024
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Interview with Thomas Mensink, Golden Egg Check
At The Money · March 10, 2023
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Critical Commentary on "Work for Equity"
Startup Insider – Investments & Exits · October 11, 2022