“Everyone Says Europe Is Finished. They’re Wrong.” Season 1 Trailer
Dienstag, 3. November 2026 · 3 min
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United Founders Show: Season 1 Trailer | Europe's tech future, argued out loud
Europe has the talent, the science and the founders. So why does it keep renting its future from someone else?
The United Founders Show is a new video podcast about European tech sovereignty: who builds Europe's next great companies, who funds them, and what it will take to stop losing the race to the US and China. The conversations you usually only hear at closed-door dinners, now on camera.
Each episode puts founders, investors, scientists and policy fighters in one room with one hard question. They disagree, push back, and say what they usually only say off the record.
Season 1 guests:
1. Cristina Caffarra: competition economist, UCL Honorary Professor and co-founder of the EuroStack Industry Initiative. She spent 25 years fighting Big Tech in court and now says that wasn't enough.
2. Tariq Krim: founder of Netvibes and Jolicloud. A two-time founder asking whether Europe has become a digital colony.
3. Alexander Glätzle: co-founder and CEO of planqc, building quantum computers in Munich. Why Europe can't afford to lose the hardware race.
4. Clark Parsons & Maxime Paradis: Managing Partners at United Founders. One argues for European sovereignty, the other backs American tech companies. Does sovereignty rhetoric survive contact with real capital?
5. Michal Pěchouček & Stefan Drüssler: Czech Technical University in Prague and UnternehmerTUM. How Europe turns world-class research into companies, and why it so often doesn't.
6. Václav Pavlečka & Markus Raunig: Czech Founders and AustrianStartups. Two ecosystem builders, two opposite theories: does Europe need more capital, or more community?
Your host
Vít Horký is a General Partner and co-founder of United Founders, a pan-European pre-seed and seed deep tech VC built around Founders Force, a community of 150+ founders across 27 countries. He's a two-time exited founder who has lived in the US and the UK, came back to build in Europe, and believes the people who'll win this race are founders, not regulators. He's not a neutral host, and he says so in every episode.
Who it's for
Founders deciding whether to build in Europe or leave. Investors betting on European deep tech. Scientists thinking about spinning out. Policymakers who want to hear what builders actually think. And anyone tired of hearing that Europe is "too late."
Season 1 is out now, with a new episode every Tuesday. Subscribe so you don't miss one.
Watch and listen:
▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@UnitedFounders
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/71XyROrJszyQ8kzgC0vePd
🍎 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/cz/podcast/united-founders-…
🌍 All episodes: unitedfounders.vc/show
Who should we talk to next? What question do you want asked? Tell us in the comments or find Vít Horký on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/vithorky
The best suggestions get asked on camera, with your name on them.
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Vit Horky: In the upcoming months, I'm gonna be taking you behind the scenes to the most non-obvious places of Europe
Tariq KRIM: business leaders and political leaders of every country in Europe I've been actually believed in their heart that Europe was not up to the task.
Cristina: In the delusion that we were taming big tech, here's the news: was a total waste of time.
Markus: I think there's a campaign behind that.
Vaclav Vince Pavlecka: European innovators, they have largest share in AI and quantum subfields. guys, come on.
Clark Parsons: We're not talking about building a great firewall of China.
Maxime Paradis: we cannot stay dependent on US or Chinese technology.
Tariq KRIM: Can you imagine a business that you give 30% to someone before you operate?
Alex: this is the first 1000 qubit quantum compute made in europe
Michal: this can happen overnight,
Stefan Drüssler: How can you learn as a junior when actually Claude is doing your job? How can you become a senior?
Maxime Paradis: at first I had to work at night in clubs and build the company the day.
Michal: You cannot do this without loving risk.
Clark Parsons: But had we held on six months longer, it could have been a totally different world.
Alex: But in the end it's probably the best CFO who will win the race and not the best CTO. And this is something which sometimes causes me sleepless nights.
Cristina: Europe Is absolutely not an economic middle power.
Maxime Paradis: Future is gonna be get built either way, it's just about who's gonna control it
Cristina: And if the mountain is moving. by a few inches, but the mountain is definitely moving.
