20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
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🗓️ 6 January 2016
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
1.) How Philipp made it into startups and investing with AngelList and now 500?
2.) In a recent post Philipp said that management consulting, investment banking and accounting were the worst backgrounds for VCs. Why do you think this and where would you like to see the new breed of VCs emerging from?
3.) Considering your work with AngelList, how do you think the US investing scene differs from the European? Why are we seeing this sudden influx of US capital into European markets? What is driving this influx?
4.) The recent £400m that AngelList received from CSC, Philipp tells us a little more about this and what it means for European companies?
5.) How does Philipp's role with 500 integrate with the AngelList model? How does Philipp split the time? Is Philipp ever concerned that with the dominance of syndicates in the years to come, VCs will become non existent?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 20 minute VC with your host Harry Stebbings and following on from our amazing interview with European Tech Titan Morton Lund. |
| 0:08.0 | We welcome another dominant player in the European tech scene today with Philip Murring joining me. |
| 0:14.0 | Where do I start with Philip? He is head of Angelless Europe and he was also their first European hire, a role he has had since January |
| 0:21.6 | 2014. Whilst being head of AngelList Europe, he's also a venture partner for our friends |
| 0:27.1 | at 500 startups, and prior to 500 and AngelList, Philip was a principal at Seed Camp and has |
| 0:33.8 | been involved in more than 100 start-up since becoming an investor. |
| 0:41.7 | And for anyone looking to join an angelist syndicate, absolutely check out Phillips, |
| 0:44.5 | with the link included in the show notes for this episode. |
| 0:48.6 | And I'd like to say a huge thank you to the awesome John Henderson at White Star for making the intro to Philip, without which this interview could not have happened. |
| 0:53.2 | And before we jump into today's show, |
| 0:55.3 | we'd like to say a huge thank you to Mattermark for providing all the data and analysis for today's |
| 1:00.0 | episode. And if you're looking for a New Year's resolution, join me and mine and read all the |
| 1:04.9 | articles on Mattermark daily. And for more voracious readers out there, follow at Thinker on Twitter |
| 1:10.6 | for some amazing reading suggestions. |
| 1:13.2 | But now it's time to dive into today's episode with Philip Murring, head of Angel This Europe and Venture Partner at 500 startups. |
| 1:25.8 | You have now arrived at your destination. |
| 1:30.5 | Philip, a legend of industry. |
| 1:32.3 | I'm hugely excited to have you on the 20 minute VC today. |
| 1:35.3 | Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:37.3 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:38.4 | I don't know if I'm a legend yet, but thanks for that. |
| 1:42.0 | And I'd like to also thank John for introducing us, John at White Star that is, and for making this happen. |
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