• #12 Bjarke Klinge Staun, Super Angel Investor

  • May 18 2023
  • Length: 36 mins
  • Podcast

#12 Bjarke Klinge Staun, Super Angel Investor

  • Summary

  • Today, we're happy to welcome you to Bjarke Klinge Staun, a founder turned VC turned angel. Bjarke co-founded an algorithmic trading company before startups were cool, then worked at Creandum where he invested in Pleo, Bolt and Trade Republic. For the past 3 years he has been an active angel investor with a portfolio of 30 companies in fintech and SaaS across Europe.

    What you'll learn:

    - Bjarke's reflections and learnings from going from founder to VC to angel

    - The story behind Trade Republic, why Bjarke's investment was so contrarian and how a non-hot, non-typical deal turned out to be one of Europe's big hallmark VC successes

    - Reflections on deciding between being geo-focused vs more broad

    - How Bjarke thinks about managing and growing his angel portfolio beyond 30 companies

    - The importance of relationship & expectation management in venture investing


    This episode is sponsored by Vauban. Vauban makes it easy to launch your angel syndicate or VC Fund, check them out at www.vauban.io/euvc
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