Who: Hermann Hauser co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997 with Anne Glover. In his long and successful history as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist he founded or co-founded companies in a wide range of technology sectors, including Acorn Computers, where he helped spin out ARM, a British semiconductor and software design company based in Cambridge, England, which designs the instruction sets for modern chips. It was sold to Softbank in 2016 for $32 billion. He is a former member of and current advisor to the European Innovation Council.
Topic: Europe’s ability to compete and the launch this week of a Scale-up Europe Fund, a market-based, privately managed and privately co-financed growth fund investing in major European-led investment rounds.
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Quote: “We’ve got two new forces that are helping Europe to become more of a united entity than we’ve ever seen before: Trump and Putin. We are getting attacked from the East and the West, so if we can’t sort out our problems now we never will. There is a much greater willingness to have a united European front and look after our own sovereignty. Our traditional cousins in the U.S. have let us down so we’ve got to do it ourselves. I’ve never before encountered more readiness to knock our heads together than now so maybe we’ll finally be able to do it.”
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