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Episode 2 features Stephan Morais, founder and Managing Partner of Indico Capital Partners, a leading early-stage deep tech VC firm based in Portugal. With a diversified background as an investment banker, consultant, entrepreneur and CEO, he has lived in 8 countries and 4 continents over the last 24 years, and acted as and advisor to politicians and pan-European institutions. Prior to founding Indico, Stephan was an Executive Board Member at Caixa Capital, where he led investment rounds of many Portuguese global tech success stories. **In this episode, you’ll learn**– How Stephan tackled raising a VC fund and what to should look for in LPs– How European VCs can push for policy developments that allow for more capital to be deployed into VC– What Europe can learn from other countries and regions– What learnings Stephan has drawn from running an iberian fund vs a single-country fund

Episode 1 features Marc Lohrmann, Managing Partner of Vesalius Biocapital III, a 120 €M venture capital fund investing in late-stage companies in drug development, medical devices & diagnostics and eHealth / mHealth, across all of Europe. Prior to joining the fund, Marc started eight life sciences companies, worked as an investment manager at one of Europe’s leading corporate VCs and worked with several corporate finance boutiques focused on life sciences M&A transactions.**In this episode, you’ll learn**– How VBC III works as a country-agnostic VC fund and what Marc believes are the main barriers to more funds investing across Europe.– How investors without a natural sciences background can create value in Life Sciences companies and why technical founders often find this type of investor a refreshing element in the board room.– What Marc would love to change about the European VC scene, what’s important to remember when investing across European borders and what’s next for Marc and Vesalius.

In this teaser episode, Andreas and David briefly explain what The European VC is all about. It's short and straight to the point. You'll also get a chance to listen to snippets of some of our guests from Season 1. You might even know who they are.Follow us and join the discussion at Linkedin, using # EUVC.