Venture Trends - Europe vs Silicon Valley - with Mika Salmi, Lakestar @INSEAD's SF Hub 

It was a pleasure to host MIKA SALMI, Managing Partner at Lakestar, one of the leading European VCs. Mika has been an entrepreneur & an investor where he worked for more than two decades with some of the leading VCs in the Valley (Sequoia; Accel; Greylock; Benchmark); he moved 3 years ago to Europe where he joined the Lakestar investment team.
With both of us on INSEAD's San Francisco Hub, we organized a Fireside chat for alumni and decided to open it up for everyone.
The topic: Venture Trends in Europe vs Silicon Valley
The questions we tackled:
- Why is VC in Europe taking off now? (minute 11:35)
- What are the 3 things every Entrepreneur needs?
- Startup Valuations US vs EU - an Arbitrage opportunity? (minute 27:00)
- Exits - How does the US compare to the EU? (minute
Further reading on VC in the US vs EU below:
Despite a record 2021 in VC funding, a gap still exists. Lakestar’s Dr. Klaus Hommels and Italy’s former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi discuss what needs to happen in this article and video.
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