Sara Rywe is a General Partner at byFounders.

byFounders is one of Europe's best performing venture funds and focused on early-stage across the Nordics and Baltics.

Based in Stockholm, she's in the heart of "Silicon Valhalla" and she lead the first round in companies like Lovable, Corti, Digitail, Skye and many more.

Sara is known for her human and "all-in" approach to venture capital which is making founders rave about her.

During this episode we discuss the first days of GPT Engineer which is today Lovable and how they convinced the team to partner up, we also discuss how she asses founders at the before there is proof, and how byFounders leads through transparency on the term-sheet and full based meritocracy internally, that i think more European VC funds should learn from.

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Today, we step into the quantum frontier with Jan Goetz — co-founder and CEO of IQM Quantum Computers.

From quantum physicist to deep-tech founder, Jan has built one of Europe’s most ambitious hardware companies — raising nearly $600 million to turn quantum theory into reality.

We talk about what it takes to scale science into business, how IQM is the leading company selling quantum computers, and the first use probable uses case to be deploy first in only a couple of years.

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Maximilian Kufner - co-founder and CEO of Again.Bio.

At Again they are using a millennia-old bacteria to turn CO2 emissions into clean sustainable products.

Last year they’ve raised ~ Eur 40m led by HV Capital and Google Ventures bringing the total raise to ~Eur 100m.

They are building bioreactors that capture harmful CO2 emissions at the point source, thus producing carbon negative chemicals in an energetically efficient process.

During this episode we discuss about his journey from being a venture capitalist investing in Again to joining as a co-founder, The differences between chemocatalysis and biocatalysys and why optimism and attitude is sometimes more important than skills.

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