Upside

By Dan Bowyer & Mads Jensen - SuperSeed

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This week's happenings in startup and investing land. Getting underneath VC, and discussing how to better support the European startup eco-system. 

Every week we share what's been on our mind and get under the skin of VC, investing, startups and founder psychology. 

From the team behind SuperSeed who invest in technical teams solving difficult business problems. 

The network is run on LinkedIn so join me there - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danbowyer/

With full interview audio and video uploaded to all major outlets. 

Love to hear from you - dan@superseed.com 


Episode Date
Has AI Hit Its Glass Ceiling? Quantum IPOs at 500x Rev?! & Siri Goes Google!
Jun 13, 2026
Time To Rip Out Palantir? - Where Is The AI ROI? - And Florida Sues OpenAI?!
Jun 06, 2026
AI Winners Beyond NVIDIA - Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 Is Out! - A Zero Employee Startup Raises $30m!
May 30, 2026
IPOs Unfreeze - 3 Sovereign Euro Deals Land - Do You Hate AI?
May 22, 2026
Upside Special - What Would European Investors Back With Their Last Euro?
May 16, 2026
Anthropic Builds - ASML defends - Meta Cracks
May 09, 2026
Musk v. Altman - UK Eats EU AI Act - SMRs Solve UK’s Energy Crisis?!
May 01, 2026
EU Eats Its Own - Europe Gives Up On Space - Is SpaceX Really Buying Cursor?
Apr 24, 2026
EU Hungry for Hungary - Solo Founder Unicorns - & Let’s Ship Something Great!
Apr 18, 2026
Menacing Mythos, Mega IPOs & Dimon’s Doomerism
Apr 11, 2026
Why $800m Mistral? - Who’s Boycotting Palantir? - When CoreWeave Crushed Poolside
Apr 04, 2026
The AI Token Economy - Europe Finally Writes a Big Cheque - Cursor Caught Out
Mar 28, 2026
Jensen Drops a Trillion - Hyperscalers Go Broke - & Some Guy Cures Cancer with ChatGPT
Mar 21, 2026
It's a Recession. Europe Smashes. London Maxes.
Mar 14, 2026
AI Safety Theatre & War - What Is It Good For?
Mar 07, 2026
Intelligence Crisis, Europe’s Rearmament Boom & The End Of AI Safety
Feb 28, 2026
Clone Wars, Euro-Meme Stocks & Magic Mushrooms
Feb 21, 2026
Is AI Simply Making Work More Fun?
Feb 14, 2026
AI Wars, SaaSpocalypse & Muskonomics
Feb 07, 2026
Your AI Intern With Root Access - Masa Goes Massive - Europe's Midlife Crisis
Jan 31, 2026
Doh Davos, Data Centre Downsides, No To Delaware, Dead SaaS & Defence IPOs
Jan 24, 2026
Can EU Starlink? - The EU’s 25yr Mega Trade Deal - Anthropic's CoWork Kills It!
Jan 17, 2026
The Biggest Tech Co. You’ve Never Heard Of - FTSE Beats S&P, Psychedelics Are Back & CES AI Corner
Jan 10, 2026
10 Venture Predictions - The Picks & Nix For '26!
Jan 03, 2026
2025 Christmas Special - It’s a Wrap!
Dec 20, 2025
Why Company Sovereignty Matters - China's $1trn Surplus Flood Zone - European Punching
Dec 13, 2025
Europe’s Comeback - Brexit 2.0 - Another ‘Code Red’ & Roll Up Roll Ups
Dec 06, 2025
God AI - A German Ecosystem Deepdive - Part Time VCs - Google Hot Or Not?
Nov 29, 2025
We Get Slush’d - Germany Gets Space’d - As TPU’s Crush
Nov 22, 2025
Tech Sovereignty And Becoming Full Stack Nations
Nov 15, 2025
A Baltic Boom, Matt Clifford Rouses, A Tale Of Two Quants
Nov 08, 2025
Should You Raise Right Now? Should Govts Buy Stocks? Should NVIDIA Have Bought Nokia?
Nov 01, 2025
The Robots Are Here Already?! - UK Govt Wasting Time In AI Sandboxes - 28th Update.
Oct 25, 2025
VC's Fun'raising - Has China won AI already? & The WHY behind bubble-talk AI
Oct 18, 2025
Upside #61 - Defence Special PLUS what IS the AI bubble really?
Oct 11, 2025
Upside Ep #60 — Germany's White Gold, The UK's Red Ink, and Reinventing VC
Oct 04, 2025
Upside Ep #59 — UK at a Crossroads, AI Surge, Defence Tensions, H1B Shock
Sep 27, 2025
Upside #57 - What's Hot & Not in European Tech w/ Mike Butcher from TechCrunch
Sep 13, 2025
Upside #56 - Most Euro Pension Cash Ever, The Power of Xi, & Let Chaos Reign
Sep 06, 2025
Upside #55 - Digital Sovereignty vs Autarky
Aug 30, 2025
Upside #53 - EU vs US Wealth Creation, Energy Breakthroughs, M&A Boom Means?
Aug 16, 2025
Upside #52 - More Chips Please - Be More German - No Easy A?
Aug 09, 2025
🎙️ Upside #51 - Project Eurhope - SaaS Is Sexy Again - The EU US Trade Reality
Aug 02, 2025
Upside #50 - Can Stablecoins Save The Dollar? UK vs US AI Strategies & The Red or Blue Pill?
Jul 26, 2025
Upside #49 - The United States of Europe
Jul 19, 2025
Upside #48 - Defence The Only Game In Town? Are We Peak LLM? WFH Killing Me Softly...
Jul 12, 2025
Upside #47 - Will AI Kill The Internet? IPO's Up? Can Doctors Beat AI?
Jul 05, 2025
Upside #46 - Is Big Tech Britain On Track? Bubble or Boom?
Jun 28, 2025
Upside #45 - Proxy Wars, Booming IPOs, & Defence Saves Europe
Jun 21, 2025
Upside #44 - Cybercrime Up, UK Govt Investments Up, Nuclear Up, War... Down.
Jun 14, 2025
Upside #43 - EU Rate Advantage, Naughty Lawyers, AI Copy…right? A UK Defence Reviewer Says What?
Jun 07, 2025
Upside #42 - Worlds Biggest Trade + EU Scale-err-up Strategy + The Jony & Sam Love-in
May 31, 2025
Upside Special - The Inside Track Of European Venture in 2025
May 25, 2025
Upside Special - Poker Power For Founders & Investors
May 17, 2025
Upside #41 - Publics Meets Privates – What It Means for Venture
May 10, 2025
Upside #40 - Pension Cash *Will* Unlock UK VC - But when, how & so what?
May 03, 2025
Upside #39 - Lab Grown Meat Back On? Euro-Funds Swim In Cash & Why Anti-Trust Wins
Apr 26, 2025
Upside #38 - Turkish Tech, Tough Love & Trends for '25
Apr 19, 2025
Upside #37 – Q1 2025 in Review + Tariffs & European Venture + Heads Down & Build
Apr 12, 2025
Upside #36 - Tariffs - Liberating Europe - Pension Cha-Ching - “Peace” Tech
Apr 05, 2025
Upside #35 - Spring Non-Statement, Project EurHope, Power of Brand
Mar 29, 2025
Upside #34 - Filthy Food, AI Jesus, 7pm Bryan and Startup Spies.
Mar 22, 2025
Upside #33 - UK DOGE, Project Europe, Trump's Real Tariff Tactics
Mar 15, 2025
Upside #32 - Tech to kill, tech to heal.
Mar 08, 2025
Upside #31 - The Grind is Back
Mar 01, 2025
Upside #30 - Can Europe win AI, Fusion & Quantum?
Feb 22, 2025
Upside #29 - Le Summit, Le Chat, Le $100bn
Feb 15, 2025
Upside #28 - Inside no.10, Going Nuclear, UK merely a startup incubator? European (lack of) sovereign wealth?
Feb 08, 2025
Upside #27 - You say to NATO, EU defence up in arms, UK growth rhetoric vs reality, Deepseek deep dive.
Feb 01, 2025
Upside #26 - Operator operates, AI workforces launch, More runways = what? Trumps first days and Stargate.
Jan 26, 2025
Upside #25 - UK IPOs Rise, AI Opportunities Action Plan, A Jurassic Lark & White Hydrogen
Jan 19, 2025
Upside #24 - Fact Check This, European Unicorns, Should Govt Invest in Startups? Digits For Who?
Jan 11, 2025
Upside #23 - Some not so obvious predictions for 2025
Jan 04, 2025
Upside #22 - The News Behind 2024's Biggest Tech Headlines
Dec 22, 2024
Upside #21 - UK Govt to act like a startup? Why China's downturn matters here. The EU Brain drain - is it real? A quantum leap, and green steel.
Dec 15, 2024
The Seed #20 - Euro-Autocrash, Euro-(no)Doom, Europe's 1st Trillion $tartup, Musk v Altman
Dec 10, 2024
The Seed #19 - Body scans yay nay, ChatGPT is 2 - now what for LLMs, are psychedelics back?
Dec 01, 2024
The Seed #18 - Slush worth it? Bitcoin and morality. Anthropic with $4bn. Peak AI?
Nov 24, 2024
The Seed #17 - AI in real money, Identity politics is dead, M&A up, Bitcoin up. Humanity down.
Nov 12, 2024
The Seed #16 - Trump in CHIPS out - UK CHIPS in? Burnout Stats and Buffet Cashes Out
Nov 06, 2024
The Seed #15 - The UK Budget, ARM vs NVIDIA, Germany's Non-Profits, Where Are all the Investors Going?
Oct 30, 2024
The Seed #14 - hAIpe at Perplexity, Claude controlling the desktop, Palantir & the NHS, is everyone a media company? US markets will chill
Oct 27, 2024
The Seed #13 - who cares about climate, Trump poll trolls, liquidity is nowhere, UK trade, and is the EU project over?
Oct 20, 2024
The Seed #12 - UK Budget, Are LPs Still Grumpy, DOJ Breaking up Google, Where Are All The Startups
Oct 13, 2024
The Seed - Episode 11 - This week in Euro startup land - 29th Sep
Sep 29, 2024
The Seed - Episode 10 - This Week In Euro Investing and StartupLand
Sep 22, 2024
The Seed - Episode 9 - This Week In Euro StartupLand
Sep 15, 2024
The Seed - Episode 8
Sep 08, 2024
The Seed - Episode 7
Sep 01, 2024
The Seed - Episode 6
Aug 23, 2024
The Seed - Episode 5
Aug 09, 2024
The Seed - Episode 4
Aug 04, 2024
The Seed - Episode 3
Jul 28, 2024
The Seed - Episode 2
Jul 21, 2024
The Seed - Episode 1
Jul 14, 2024
The Seed - Pilot
Jul 07, 2024