Join our conversation with Carl Rivera, the Swedish Chief Design Officer at Shopify, and learn how he is preparing Shopify for the future. Moderated by Christian Dorffer (GP, Florent) and Mads Rydahl (Partner and Chief Science Officer, Florent).

In this episode, Joanna Rupp, former head of private equity at the University of Chicago’s endowment, reveals how top LPs spot standout emerging managers, master pacing and vintages, and tackle liquidity. We also dive into how U.S. endowments can break into European venture and how those new to VC can craft a winning first allocation.

In this episode, we sit down with Lisa Edgar, Founder and former Managing Director at Top Tier Capital Partners, one of the most successful venture fund-of-funds in the past decade. Lisa shares her insights on picking future top decile emerging managers and the evolution of VC in Europe, aligning with Silicon Valley values and terms.

Christian Dorffer, James Heath and Matt Curtolo dissect the top decile early stage funds from 2014 to 2024 and discuss the correlation between fund specialization and fund returns.

Christian Dorffer and Rahul Powar discuss the evolution of cyber threats and how generative artificial intelligence is giving enterprises the leg up on the bad actors.

Christian Dorffer and Johan Brand talk about Johan’s upbringing in Norway and evolution from frustrated student to focusing on his special skills and creating a unicorn company. There are so many nuggets for young Nordic founders in this episode.

Christian Dorffer and Mads Rydahl discuss how AI has the potential to supercharge scientific collaboration through reinventing peer reviews and producing more transparency, higher fidelity and better reproducibility. Mads previous was founding product design director at Siri and went on to create the successful AI company UNSILO before founding Proem.

Christian Dorffer and Johanna Smaros talk about Johanna’s upbringing in Finland and how she went from being the “non-technical” little sister, to earning an engineering PhD and applying her dissertation to the real world to eventually create a unicorn. This is a great episode that also emphasizes how to bootstrap successfully when you are customer-obsessed.