Even Europe's Biggest VCs Can't Get Into These Deals | Building a VC Ep. 21

The newsletter, where I write up what I am seeing: https://deal-by-deal.beehiiv.com/ I asked one of Germany's biggest VCs how you get into the seed rounds everyone reads about, and he told me they can't get into them either. This episode starts at the Venture Kick demo brunch in Zurich with four deeptech founders from the top 2.5 percent of applicants, and ends with the question I still don't have an answer to, how do you get invited into a round that was closed before anyone heard about it. CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 0:22 Venture Kick demo brunch, Zurich 2:28 Catching Deeptech Founders at Demo Brunch 11:01 Why the best rounds never reach the market 13:25 ESA business incubation centre at ETH I'm Johannes Gemmingen, Managing Partner at Auctora Partners. We invest in deeptech and medtech, companies building actual technology. It's not a fund. I anchor every deal with my own capital, then invite co-investors in on the same terms. WATCH NEXT https://www.youtube.com/show/VLPLHdlgGoESaRc?sbp=QAE%3D