Kevin Costa
General Partner at Belief Capital
23 Nov 2025etn. - LIVE from Slush
Kevin Costa of Belief: First-Belief Checks & Mispriced UK University Talent
Kevin Costa runs Belief, a concentrated fund making inception-stage 'first belief' checks into young technical founders, arguing that Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial talent is mispriced relative to MIT and Stanford. He explains finding founders on 'the one street on the internet' (X over LinkedIn), why European founders often have more substance but worse one-liner communication than US peers, and what he backs: endurance, a 30-year worldview, and stubborn, disagreeable founders.
Andreas: EU Inc.'s Brussels Push, a New Europe-Only Fund & YouTube
Andreas, who missed his earlier slot, gives an EU Inc. update: the push for a pan-European standard for incorporating and fundraising (Stripe Atlas meets Delaware Inc. meets YC SAFEs) is now the top startup item on Brussels' agenda, with a proposal expected Q1 next year after ~19,000 signatures including Patrick Collison. He explains the negotiation — keep employment and taxation national while standardizing corporate law, and avoid being 'niched to oblivion' — and describes policy work as meme-and-momentum driven. He also previews his upcoming Europe-only early-stage fund targeting 15–20 million for 'absurdly crazy' engineering bets and his unstaged, behind-the-scenes YouTube channel on hyper-ambitious European companies.