Suranga Chandratillake (Balderton)

Suranga Chandratillake (Balderton): Built in Europe

Suranga Chandratillake, GP at Balderton, explains the Built in Europe campaign: out-of-home billboards in five major European tech cities with over 100 participating CEOs, most of them non-Balderton, meant to balance negative European tech coverage by celebrating companies already built there. He contrasts Europe's self-critical culture with California's positivity, notes tech has grown to ~15-16% of European GDP, and points to builtineurope.com's jobs database and founder resources. He also discusses when founder domain expertise matters, citing a nurse-focused speech AI company in Germany and Revolut, and says enterprises are still early in figuring out where AI actually adds value.

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