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Patrick Polak, Partner of Newion Partners and Board Member and Member of the Venture Capital Platform Council of Invest Europe, looks at how Europe’s entrepreneurial talent, combined with a growing track record of scaling business globally, has driven the continents start-ups forward and will lead to even greater venture capital success stories in the future.
If you are a visionary founder having big dreams you can achieve them. You know being resilient, being focused, work hard, dedication, and with a little help of venture capital friends you can achieve those big dreams and that's just amazing. It will take you 8 years it take you 10 years but to participate in that journey that's just amazing.
If you look at the Venture Capital industry in Europe today we have developed so much from a ugly duck a couple of years ago to a well performing industry and in order to build global market leaders you don't have to be starting in California it can be done here in Europe and that's the to the contribution of all these fure capitalist but also the ecosystem that has been created over the last years with role models of successful other entrepreneurs digital transformation is changing the world look at it 10 years ago or 15 years ago you know even 25 years ago when I started mobile Cloud AI today is changing has changed the world and for most of it to the better.