Kevin Costa
23 Nov 2025etn. - LIVE from Slush
3:06:1714 min
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.