Amplify Europe, Amplify Impact Breakfast

A European Breakfast. A European Conversation. ​Before Investor Day opens, we invite investors, LPs and ecosystem leaders to begin Slush week at the Amplify Europe Breakfast. ​This is the sixth stop. Copenhagen, Malmö, Barcelona, Oslo, Lisbon — now Helsinki. ​Over a relaxed breakfast inspired by Europe's tech hubs, we put a small number of dilemmas to the room. Not a panel. Not a presentation. You take a side, out loud, and defend it. ​In the other cities, 120+ investors did exactly that. The room disagreed with us on our opening premise within ten minutes, which was the point. ​The dilemmas on the table in Helsinki: ​European pension funds should be legally required to allocate a minimum share to European venture capital. ​Europe has no shortage of capital. It has a shortage of investors willing to take early-stage risk. ​The fastest route to more European pre-seed is American capital, not European capital. ​If the money arrives, Europe doesn't have enough managers small enough to deploy it where it's needed. ​Helsinki is the right room for the first of these. The allocation debate moving through Brussels would land hardest on exactly the institutions represented here. ​Come for breakfast. Stay for the argument. Leave with a position you've had to defend. ​Courage. Capital. Conditions. For the Europe worth building. Sign up: luma.com ↗