Episodes
Every Campus To Capital episode. Long-form conversations with VCs, founders, and industry leaders on business, tech, and careers.
- #34 Fede de Ponte - Making Human Expertise Downloadable: Building the Spotify for AI Agents
What if you could download someone’s expertise as easily as you add a song to your playlist?
- #33 Falco Schneider - The Keyboard Has to Die: Building the Next Human-Computer Interface
Six weeks for a prototype?“What the f*** are you talking about?”
- #32 Florian Reister - Your EV Is Worth More Abroad: Building Europe's Marketplace for Used EVs
Can you sell a used electric car across Europe without the buyer ever seeing it?
- #31 Jacob Houlberg - What If Every VC Had Access to the Same Deals?
What if every VC had access to the same deals? Evertrace is building the infrastructure to make that increasingly close to reality.
- #30 Philipp Baumanns - Customer Service Still Runs on Phone Calls: Reinventing It with Telli
In EP 30, we sit down with Philipp Baumanns, Co-Founder & COO at Telli, the YC-backed company rethinking how businesses run customer-facing operations.
- #29 Christian Meermann - Backing Founders Before the Numbers Exist: Inside Cherry Ventures
What does it take to identify exceptional founders before the numbers exist, and win the right to back them in an increasingly competitive venture market?
- #28 Dennis May - Zero to €10M ARR in 16 Months: Building at Hypergrowth Speed
What does it take to outpace a wave of well-funded competitors and build one of the fastest-growing AI startups?
- #27 Maximilian Meyer - Europe Starts Investing: Building an Investment Culture at Scalable Capital
Why do nearly half of European household assets still sit in cash while retail investors in the US continue compounding wealth through the markets?
- #26 David Stålmarck - The Lovable for Hardware: Why Building Hardware Is Still So Hard
Why is hardware still dramatically harder to build than software?
- #25 Niels Martin Brøchner - Same Company, Different Realities: Rethinking How Organizations Work
Why are organizations still structured around management principles that are thousands of years old?
- #24 Yerrie Kim - Beyond the Classroom: What a University Entrepreneurship Center Is For
What happens when universities move beyond teaching entrepreneurship and start shaping it?
- #23 Hendrik Brandis - 50,000 Pitches, 15 Deals: Deep Tech and Europe's Innovation Gap
What does it take to back the most ambitious technology companies before the breakthrough?
- #22 Peter Møllgaard - Business Degree, Still? What Business Schools Are For in the Age of AI
How should a European business school position itself in a world shaped by AI and geopolitical fragmentation?
- #21 Michael Wiatr Aagaard - Building Startups Before They Exist: Inside Antler
How do you invest in founders before there’s a company, a product - or even an idea?
- #20 Deniz Schütz - No Plan B: Building AI for M&A
How do you turn millions of financial data points into faster, more objective investment decisions?
- #19 Robert Habeck - Europe Can Only Regulate What It Builds: On AI, Energy, War and Leadership
The past years reshaped Europe more than any decade since the end of the Cold War: war returned, energy systems fractured, AI accelerated, and political extremes gained ground. We spoke with someone w
- #18 Kim Rants - Flipping a Danish Startup to Delaware for Y Combinator
How do you turn study stress into study success - for millions of students worldwide?
- #17 Herbert Pohl - Heat from Below: The Economics of Geothermal Energy
How do you decarbonize a country’s heat supply from the ground up?
- #16 Joseph Pinto - Leading Through AI and ESG: How an Asset Manager Adapts
How is technology reshaping the future of asset management?
- #15 Bastian R. Larsen - From BlackRock to BlackWood: What Data Changes in Venture Capital
Ever wondered how venture capital can scale smarter with technology and community?In this episode of Campus To Capital, we sit down with Bastian R. Larsen, Founder & CEO of BlackWood Ventures, to
- #14 Laurits Bach Sørensen - Changing the Math: How Hard Tech Scales
Ever wondered how to scale real-world innovation without the hype?
- #13 Fiona Korwin-Pawlowski - Decoding Sperm Whales: AI and Interspecies Communication
Did you ever wonder how interspecies communication really works?
- #12 Andreas Schwarzenbrunner - Where Europe Already Leads: Industrial Tech at Speedinvest
In this episode of Campus To Capital, we sit down with Andreas Schwarzenbrunner – General Partner at Speedinvest and one of Europe’s leading voices in early-stage venture capital.
- #11 Ruben Benjamin - From Engineering to Emotion: Becoming an Artist
In this episode of Campus To Capital, we sit down with Ruben Benjamin – a German visual artist whose sculptural, three-dimensional works are collected and exhibited from Seoul to Los Angeles.
- #10 Jonas Gjørup Larsen - Scaling Fintech: Finance Leadership in a Tokenized World
In episode 10 of Campus To Capital, we sit down with Jonas Gjørup Larsen, CFO at Bitpanda, to explore what it takes to build resilient financial structures in a rapidly evolving fintech landscape. As
- #09 David Höhl - Start Your Own Fund: Launching a Hedge Fund from Scratch
In this episode of Campus To Capital, we sit down with David Höhl, Co-Founder and CEO of Phoenix Alpha Capital – a newly launched hedge fund focused on Europe’s overlooked small and midcaps.
- #08 Eddie Opara - More Than a Logo: How Pentagram Builds an Identity
In this episode of Campus to Capital, we sit down with Eddie Opara, Partner at Pentagram and one of the most influential figures in contemporary design. From early drawings in church pews to reshaping
- #07 Torsten Slok - Rates, Tariffs, What Next? Reading the Markets in 2025
In this episode of Campus To Capital, we sit down with Torsten Slok, Chief Economist at Apollo Global Management and one of the most respected macro thinkers on Wall Street. With previous roles at the
- #06 Jonas Deichmann - 120 Ironman Distances in 120 Days: What Business Can Learn from Endurance
In this episode of Campus To Capital, we speak with Jonas Deichmann, world record-breaking extreme athlete, motivational speaker, and bestselling author. From cycling 18,000 km across Eurasia to compl
- #05 Simon Schmincke - When Gut Feeling Beats Good Numbers: Inside Creandum
In this episode of Campus To Capital, we speak with Simon Schmincke, General Partner at Creandum — one of Europe’s leading early-stage venture capital firms. Simon’s career path is marked by a rare bl
- #04 Joakim Bruchmann - From Goldman Sachs to Building the Robinhood of the Nordics
In this episode of Campus To Capital, we sit down with Joakim Bruchmann, CEO and Co-Founder of Pluto.market. Joakim's journey spans from trading at Goldman Sachs and Danske Bank to becoming a serial e
- #03 Noah Leidinger - Finanzmedien neu gedacht [DE]
Disclaimer! This episode is a special episode – it's in German - all of our future episodes will be in English.
- #02 Magnus Resch - Who Sets the Price? Cracking the Art Market
In this episode, we sit down with Magnus Resch, serial entrepreneur, professor at Yale, and one of the world’s leading experts on the art market. We explore the business of art, how value is created i
- #01 Christian Kromann - Think AI First: How Financial Services Rebuild Their Culture
In our first Campus To Capital episode, we speak with Christian Kromann, former CEO of SimCorp and now executive board member for investment management solutions at Deutsche Börse Group, about the int