B&P #34: Inside 3 German tech stars masterplan for a new €170 million European deep tech fund

Florian Leibert, founder of Mesosphere & Twitter and Airbnb alumnus, about what he's looking for in a startup as an investor. Meet Florian at #bits20

€170 million for European deep tech startups: Serial entrepreneur Florian Leibert shares the masterplan for the new fund called 468 Capital that he set up with former Rocket Internet executives Alexander Kudlich & Ludwig Ensthaler in this week’s conversation with Bits & Pretzels' Editor-in-Chief Britta Weddeling. Florian has 10+ years career in Silicon Valley, as the co-founder of California based cloud container company Mesosphere that secured funding of more than $250 million, and alumnus of Airbnb and Twitter. In this podcast he’s providing a rare glimpse into what he and his 2 partners are up to – how the team secured the million Euros funds to bridge the innovation gap between Europe and the US despite the economic uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 pandemic – and why he thinks the time to act for European tech founders is right now.

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Host:

Britta Weddeling, Editor-in-Chief of Bits & Pretzels

Featuring:

Florian Leibert, General Partner at 468 Capital, founder of Mesosphere. Former Tech Lead at Airbnb and Twitter

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