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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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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.