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Since Tuesday I am in London where Oliver invited me as mentor to Seedcamp. Seedcamp is an event where 20+ start-up companies from all across europe compete to get seed-funding (50k € each). It was great fun for both the start-up teams and mentors and also a good opportunity to connect with entrepreneurs and investors from Europe and the U.S.. Between the mentoring sessions I took some time for sightseeing…

Yesterday we have been at the Techcrunch Party in the aqua river brasserie near the Thames. Marc Lewis, a creative entrepreneur from the UK, joined the party on his Segway. It was totally fun to drive, especially since it was already a little bit later that evening…

Now it is already a little bit later on friday evening and London nightlife is calling me intensely…

After several months of planning today Lukasz  announced the official launch of Team Europe Ventures:

 ”The internet conglomerate ‘Team Europe Ventures‘ holds interests (usually minority stakes) in more than 50 internet companies.

The investment focus thereby lies in the field of consumer-orientated internet companies and the following stages:

• co-foundation of companies
• seed stage investments as co-investor or lead investor
• so called Series A or Series B investment rounds (mainly co-investments)

Geographically, the activities of Team Europe Ventures include Europe as well as North America. Core markets are Germany, Poland, France, United States and United Kingdom.

Depending on the form of an investment (lead or co-investment), Team Europe Ventures supports its portfolio companies actively or passively. Active support thereby can be far reaching, mainly including the fields of strategy, distribution, human resources as well as finance. US-companies can be actively supported in entering the European market.

The goal of Team Europe Ventures is to become one of the leading internet companies in Europe. Furthermore, the company wants to contribute to a stronger entrepreneurship culture in Europe.

Team Europe Ventures has been founded by Lukasz Gadowski who is the founder Spreadshirt, co-founder of StudiVZ and an active business angel.”

I strongly believe in the team and vision of Team Europe Ventures and will support Lukasz as “Entrepreneur in Residence”.