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Upside

Dan Bowyer & Mads Jensen - SuperSeed

This week"s happenings in startup and investing land. Getting underneath VC, and discussing how to better support the European startup eco-system.Every week we share what"s been on our mind and get under the skin of VC, investing, startups and founder psychology.From the team behind SuperSeed who invest in technical teams solving difficult business problems.The network is run on LinkedIn so join me there - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danbowyer/With full interview audio and video uploaded to all

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45:34

EU Eats Its Own - Europe Gives Up On Space - Is...

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2026/04/24

Upside is a weekly podcast that unpacks the real news behind the headlines affecting European venture startups and investing. Hosted by Mads and Dan from SuperSeed. This week: the EU admits it wrote a bad AI Act (shocking), Sergey Brin is wheeled out of retirement again, SpaceX buys a coding company because of course, and Wall Street invents a new way to short private credit. Dan and Mads untangle. (02:00) DeepSeek V4 drops overnight — Chinese open-weights model benchmarking at Opus 4.6...

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42:02

EU Hungry for Hungary - Solo Founder Unicorns - &...

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2026/04/18

Upside is a weekly podcast that unpacks the news and headlines that will affect European venture startups and investing. This week Dan and Mads go deep on what Hungary's political earthquake means for European capital flows, why Anthropic is speedrunning a monopoly, and whether one bloke with a laptop can really build a unicorn (spoiler: it's complicated). [03:28] Orbán Out, Money In Hungary was the EU's most corrupt member state and Orbán was Russia and China's favourite circuit-breaker i...

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48:41

Menacing Mythos, Mega IPOs & Dimon’s Doomerism

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2026/04/11

Upside is a weekly podcast that looks behind the headlines affecting European venture, startups and investing. On this week's show...Anthropic is having the week of its life, Jamie Dimon wants you to know the sky is falling (again), and Germany spent €2 billion learning that shipbuilding is hard. Dan and Lomax fly as a duo this week.00:00 – Intro & News Radar – Iran ceasefire (maybe), global VC hits $300B in Q1 alone (70% of all 2025 deployment), four companies absorbed $188B of that,

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53:20

Why $800m Mistral? - Who’s Boycotting Palantir? -...

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2026/04/04

Every week we look behind the headlines affecting European venture, startups and investing. This week it's with Lomax from Outsized Ventures, Andrew from 7 Percent, and myself, your host Dan Bowyer from Superseed. 00:00 – Dan declares himself sexy for the first time ever. The physical AI / reshoring zeitgeist has finally caught up with what SuperSeed's been doing for a decade. Lomax gently reminds him that being in vogue doesn't actually fix anything. 06:01 – Quick-fire news roundup: Art...

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57:53

The AI Token Economy - Europe Finally Writes a Big...

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2026/03/28

Every week, we look behind the headlines to explore what's coming down the track that will affect European venture, start-ups and investing. 00:00 — Meet Harry Destecroix Dan butchers the fund status (already closed, Dan), Harry sets out the SCVC thesis: generalist deep tech, breakthrough technologies from UK universities, everything from quantum to advanced therapeutics. 01:40 — EIF's €15B Fund of Funds: Salvation or Same Old? The EU's massive growth-stage vehicle promises to unlock €8...

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57:31

Jensen Drops a Trillion - Hyperscalers Go Broke - &...

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2026/03/21

Every week on Upside, we try to unpack the news that's going to affect European venture, start-ups and investing. If you're a founder, GP, or LP, this is the show for you to catch up on the week's shenanigans. Hosted by Dan Bowyer, Mads Jensen, and Lomax Ward, all European venture capitalists. 00:00 — Nvidia's GTC: Jensen Drops a Trillion-Dollar Bomb Three new chips announced, each more ridiculous than the last. The Groq inference chip does 35x tokens per watt. Vera Rubin does 10x...

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37:50

It's a Recession. Europe Smashes. London Maxes.

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2026/03/14

Every week we dig into the news affecting European venture, startups and investing. This week, Trump may have speed-run a global recession. Europe is having a moment. Cursor might be toast. And Jensen Huang promises a chip that will "surprise the world." 00:00 — The Oil Shock: Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz, 20M barrels/day offline, IEA buffer lasts ~20 days. Dan calls it: we're in recession territory. 01:37 — Europe's Energy Crisis 2.0: Gas storage down 40%, prices doubled, the post-...

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68:00

AI Safety Theatre & War - What Is It Good For?

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2026/03/07

Every week we unpack the real stories behind the headlines affecting European venture. Hosts: Dan, Lomax and Mads - All European early stage VCs. 02:00 — Why Hormuz matters more than you think. 04:08 — Europe: affected, not influential. Europe keeps ending up front row for crises it cannot shape. 10:38 — The startup angles: energy, drones, sovereignty 13:29 — “Fast fashion” warfare. Ukraine-style low-cost interceptor drones versus million-dollar missiles. Warfare has entered its b...

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59:21

Intelligence Crisis, Europe’s Rearmament Boom & The...

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2026/02/28

Upside is a weekly review of all of the news affecting European venture, startups and investing. VC Hosts: Dan, Mads, Lomax [03:05] Nvidia Earnings — 14th consecutive beat. Data centre rev up 75% to $62B. Stock basically flat. The market has priced in perfection. Bull case: 16x 2028 earnings, Rubin shipping, China at zero = pure upside. Bear case: custom ASICs climbing, 75% margins under siege. "The question is whether the AI companies can actually monetise it." [09:11] Ukraine, Four Ye...

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42:47

Clone Wars, Euro-Meme Stocks & Magic Mushrooms

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2026/02/21

For the week's latest news behind the headlines affecting European Venture, startups and investing. Hosts: Dan Bowyer, Lomax Ward Guest: Eyal Malinger — Co-founder, Resurge Growth Partners (venture equity — the gap between VC and PE) [02:18] Humanoid Robots at China's Spring Festival Gala Four Chinese firms showed off cable-free dancing robots. Eyal's reaction progression: "game over" → "Clone Wars" → "why are there swords near children?" China controls ~90% of humanoid shipments. H1/G...

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46:42

Is AI Simply Making Work More Fun?

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2026/02/14

01:52 - Anthropic's Insane $30B Round Started as $10B rumour, became $20B in January, closed at $30B. 03:21 - The Great Model Migration Sam finally kicked OpenAI off his iPhone homepage. Claude's in. 08:23 - Claude Code: Mads' Love Letter Mads hasn't looked back since discovering Claude Code's skills and agentic workflows. It's not just better writing anymore—it's a whole different way of working. 09:36 - HBR Report: AI Makes Us Work MORE Generative AI isn't reducing work, it's in...

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60:44

AI Wars, SaaSpocalypse & Muskonomics

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2026/02/07

Upside captures all of the week's news affecting European Venture. 01:22 — AI models: two flagships drop 20 minutes apart Anthropic ships Opus 4.6; OpenAI replies with GPT 5.3. Key tension: best model vs stickiest workflow (tooling + habits = raw benchmarks). China keeps coming: Kimi K2.5, Qwen3 Max — strong performance at lower cost, plus “swarm”/multi-agent vibes. 07:02 — Recursive AI + security flex OpenAI: “GPT 5.3 helped build itself” (debugging training pipeline). Anthropic: claims mod...

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65:12

Your AI Intern With Root Access - Masa Goes Massive -...

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2026/01/31

00:59 — Saudi surprises, NEOM shrinks, Vision 2030 = Europe takes notes. 02:58 — Europe: zero vibes, zero mission. 03:55 — War bonds?! Saudi winter games postponed. Reality intrudes. 🤖 AI Corner 07:32 — Clawdbot → Moltbot now OpenClaw?! AI intern… with admin rights. 09:19 — Early wins: negotiates car deals, plans diets, orders Tesco shops. 10:38 — Early fear: unconstrained agents + inbox access = mild terror. 12:22 — It wakes itself up and takes action. Cool. Also horrifying. 13:17 —

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48:42

Doh Davos, Data Centre Downsides, No To Delaware,...

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2026/01/24

01:35–10:24 — UK data centres: blocked… but a way through A £1bn London-area data-centre project gets halted after a planning/EIA mess-up → delays of 9–12+ months, potentially worse. The twist: data centres are being upgraded to “nationally significant infrastructure,” enabling central-government fast-track (DCO route) instead of local NIMBY planning. Still: EIAs + judicial reviews can keep slowing everything down. Core complaint: the system keeps “deciding whether to build” after we’ve alrea...

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49:04

Can EU Starlink? - The EU’s 25yr Mega Trade Deal -...

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2026/01/17

BBC yeets kids shows onto YouTube, EU does a mega trade deal, Open Cosmos tries to be European-ish Starlink, Meta buys nuclear vibes, UK bins digital IDs (again), Anthropic’s “CoWork”, Grok vs governments, plus Deals of the Week. Basically: geopolitics, space, energy, AI, and British admin disintegration. (00:34) BBC on YouTube: “iPlayer walked so Netflix could run” Dan: YouTube is enormous; BBC is adapting for younger audiences (and maybe… survival mode).Mads: iPlayer was genuinely visionar...

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60:36

The Biggest Tech Co. You’ve Never Heard Of - FTSE...

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2026/01/10

Hosts: Dan Bowyer, Lomax Ward, Mads Jensen Episode summary This week we cover Trump’s Greenland rhetoric and the broader implications for NATO, European defence spending, and sovereignty. Then we dive into the tech and markets that (quietly) moved: Meta’s acquisition of Manus, Octopus/“Kraken” spinning out as a major energy-software player, Discord’s IPO momentum, Revolut’s Turkey expansion via license acquisition, and why UK pensions are underperforming (plus what reform could actually fix)....

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46:48

10 Venture Predictions - The Picks & Nix For '26!

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2026/01/03

Guests: Dan Bowyer, Mads Jensen, Lomax Ward and Dan Gray Part 1 — 2025 predictions: what hit, what missed? 02:59 — OpenAI “dethroned”: debate, but mostly “yes” 04:47 — China/Taiwan “decisive year”: mostly no 05:46 — Defence tech surge: yes 06:46 — Europe/UK tech sovereignty: yes-ish but hard to measure 07:25 — Space enabling tech keeps attracting capital: yes 07:30 — US recession H2 2025: nope 09:07 — Stock correction early 2025: correct-ish 09:45 — M&A rebounds: yes 10:24 — IPO window re...

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63:17

2025 Christmas Special - It’s a Wrap!

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2025/12/20

With European VCs Lomax, Mads, Andrew and Dan 2025 year-in-review for European tech: capital, unicorns, geopolitics, AI, health, defence, and space space spaaaace. 01:25 – European tech in numbers $45bn into European startups (flat vs 2023–24, still ~½ of 2021 peak).28 new unicorns in 2025 (up from 14 in 2024).US dominates: ~$250bn private tech funding.VC fundraising still tight (~$10bn into European funds).Exits are back: Wiz–Google, Klarna IPO, SMG IPO.04:16 – 2025 in one sentence Dan: “Ext...

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43:52

Why Company Sovereignty Matters - China's $1trn...

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2025/12/13

Upside is a weekly pod that looks at the global news headlines and works out what really matters for European tech, venture, startups and investing. With European VCs - Lomax Ward, Dan Bowyer and Mads Jensen What’s on the docket this week: •SpaceX mega-raise / IPO noise: “what are you really buying?” •“Europe’s euro success”: North–South polarity flipping •China’s $1T+ goods trade surplus + what it means for Europe •US defence spend reality check •AI corner: chips, models, and AI bubble chatt...

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45:57

Europe’s Comeback - Brexit 2.0 - Another ‘Code Red’ &...

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2025/12/06

Upside #69 - For the real news behind the headlines affecting European venture, startups and investing. Every week Mads, Lomax, Andrew and myself (Dan) get together and chat. Bending Spoons 01:27 Berkshire-like roll-up; mostly debt-funded; big integration/tech-debt execution risk. 3:30 “US→Italy arbitrage”—cut expensive US costs, rebuild with top Italian talent + high-efficiency culture; cash-cow ops; high employee satisfaction. 05:13 Success likely hinges on better distribution/ops than prev...

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