Jeannette zu Fürstenberg
19 Nov 2025etn. at Slush 2025
Break — Back in 10 Minutes
The stream pauses for a short break, with a repeated 'back in 10 minutes' bumper while the team resets. The hosts tease Robin, CEO and co-founder of Hyperdrive, as the upcoming guest.
General Catalyst: Europe's Awakening & the AI Champions Initiative
A General Catalyst guest describes Europe's startup awakening: founders building global companies at a talent discount, the energy around winners like Lovable, and the firm's ethos of meeting founders where they are and engineering outcomes. They praise Slush's student-run scale and Helsinki's density of entrepreneurial talent, and detail the European AI Champions Initiative — corporates like SAP, Deutsche Telekom and Novo Nordisk alongside startup founders, with $3T combined market cap and 18 partnerships announced the day before. They also note GC has deployed over $2B into European companies in the past two years.