Europe's First
Emerging VC Manager Programme
Accelerating the next generation of European VCs, in partnership with
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What’s the goal?
Mountside Ventures is proud to launch the first free programme for emerging VCs in Europe, to accelerate exceptional investors towards closing their next fund.
Amongst other benefits, the inaugural programme will provide:
- Warm introductions to a relevant LP base,
- Mentoring from world-class VCs,
- Significantly reduced barriers for underrepresented managers and;
- 6 days of fundraising workshops from experts.
Let's get specific
What will you actually receive?
A fast-track to raising your fund more efficiently.
Participants are expected to be exceptional investors already. However, our experience suggests that most VC managers are not necessarily exceptional fundraisers.
But let’s get specific.
1. Warm LP Introductions
2. Curated LP & FO Directory
3. Latest Fundraising Templates
4. At least 10 hours of mentorship from the been there, done it of European venture
5. Outcome-driven fundraising workshops from experts
6. Community of your peers.
7. Option of a fund committment from our LP network.
8. Exclusive benefits from our VC corporate partners
Let's get our diaries out
All applicants will receive exclusive benefits and fundraising resources.
The first cohort was announced in January 2025.
Let's get out our notebooks
Who will be your mentors?
LocalGlobe
Speedinvest
Connect Ventures
Peak Capital
Hoxton Ventures
Stride.VC
Kibo Venture
Partech
Voima Ventures
and many more...
VC Mentors
LP Mentors
Founding Partners from the most prominent VCs in Europe, such as Robin Klein from LocalGlobe, Haakon Overli from Dawn Capital and Sitar Teli from Connect Ventures are joining the programme as mentors. They have collectively raised over $11bn across 80 funds.
Robin Klein
LocalGlobe
Sitar Teli
Connect Ventures
Johan van Mil
Peak
Inka Mero
Voima Ventures
Haakon Overli
Dawn Capital
Coen Van Duiven
henQ
Hussein Kanji
Hoxton Ventures
Javier Torremocha
Kibo Ventures
Jimmy Nielsen
Heartcore Capital
Katya Almasque
OpenOcean
Kjartan Rist
Concentric
Oliver Holle
Speedinvest
Philippe Collombel
Partech
Jurgen Ingels
Smartfin Capital
Daniel Blomquist
Creandum
Christian Meermann
Cherry Ventures
Fred Destin
Stride.VC
We are also excited to have a fantastic group of Limited Partners investing in Emerging Managers such as Christian Stiebner from KfW, Charlotte Palmer from Integra and Dom Maier from AXA Venture Partners.
Chloe Dagnell
Isomer Capital
Christian Stiebner
KfW
Dario De Wet
LTV Capital
David Silva
EU.VC
Dom Maier
AXA Venture Partners
Dougie Sloan
Better Society Capital
Gregor Knesebeck
Blue Future Partners
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Jaap Vriesendorp
Marktlink Capital
James Heath
Dara5
Raida Daouk
Amkan Ventures
Saemi Finnbogason
Kria Ventures
Yvonne Bajela
Basecamp
Charlotte Palmer
Integra FO
Christian Pedersen
Institutional Investment Partners Denmark
Jan Rettel
Bertelsmann Investments
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Mark Sims
British Business Bank
Nils Heise
Lombard Odier
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Enni Rautio
Tesi
Rene Andres
EIF
Chris O'Connor
NATO Innovation Fund
Your VC mentors have raised over $11bn across 80 funds.
Let's get down to business
What's the cost to join?
No cost. No hidden fees.
This programme is funded and made possible by our best-in-class corporate partners.
Blue Future Partners are our fund selection partner, they are a leading European fund-of-funds, investing in top-performing venture capital funds globally, with a focus on early and growth-stage opportunities in technology.
VC Selection
Osborne Clarke has been an adviser to VCs across the European ecosystem for decades, with a team of fund formation experts. They have worked with funds such as Firstminute Capital, Passion Capital, and High-Tech Gründerfonds.
Legal
Sage is our tech partner, delivering cloud-based financial management platforms for startups, scale-ups, and VCs. Sage Intacct supports over 3,000 portfolio companies operating across 120 countries, offering AI-powered automation, GAAP-compliant reporting, and real-time insights enabling smarter, faster decisions during growth.
Tech
We selected Ballou as our PR partner, a pan-European communication agency for tech companies and VCs, having worked with Commerz Ventures, 2150, & Speedinvest, as well as Deel, Pinterest, & Waze.
PR
HFL is our fund admin partner, and specialises in VC-focused fund administration and services, and has worked with leading managers including LocalGlobe (Phoenix Court), Seedcamp, and Moonfire Ventures.
Fund admin
Johnston Carmichael is our accounting partner. They are one of the top independent accountancy firms with an audit, tax and accounting team with plenty of experience working with startups and VCs.
Accounting
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Leela Capital is our regulatory partner, specialising in fund structuring & compliance. They support funds through all stages of regulatory processes, ensuring alignment with industry standards.
Regulatory
EA First is our recruitment partner who specialise in hiring the best talent for investors and their portfolio companies.
Recruitment
VCs we've
previously selected
We have been running LP VC events for the last 5 years.
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FAQs
Read them before applying
What do we want to achieve with the programme?
Who is the programme for?
Who do we consider to be an Emerging Manager?
How do I apply?
How will the cohort be selected?
Who are the mentors involved?
Which Limited Partners will you meet?
How much will the programme cost?
What is the time commitment?
Who are our partners making the programme possible?
Let's get serious
Why choose us?
Let's get a second opinion
Testimonials
Hear from founders, operators & investors we've worked with
Mountside Ventures' events are a veritable feast of quality, from the stellar lineup of participants to the impeccable arrangements. After a string of less-than-stellar experiences with other LP-GP gatherings, I'm strongly considering an exclusive RSVP policy for Mountside's invitations.
The team curates high-impact events to connect Venture Capital firms and Limited Partners in a collaborative environment with some great thought leadership. LPs often struggle to find the quality segment of the emerging manager universe, so these events are very efficient for investors of all kinds. If you are an LP looking to access European VC I recommend you get to know Jonathan and his team!
Mountside Ventures is a one of a kind platform that allows emerging VCs to build a long lasting relationships with some of the best and most open-minded LPs.
When Mountside Ventures invite us, we always attend. The caliber of people, relevance of topics, and depth of discussions consistently exceed expectations.
Perhaps one of the best events I've been too for some time. It managed to speak to different audiences at the same time; to those green to venture as well as the more hardened investors. It also proved a necessary advocate for the industry itself and the benefits of investing for Family Offices.
The Family Office Academy was a triumph. Even for a relatively experienced ex VC and serial venture investor like myself, the content was fresh and enlightening, the panels had great people sharing their rich experience and knowledge and the other attendees were like-minded serious investors.
We really enjoyed working with the Mountside team, leveraging their experience to support us in preparing for and completing our funding round. We’re now laser-focused on growing the Sifted team and becoming the definitive media brand for Europe’s startup ecosystem.
The Mountside team understand the ecosystem well, give sage and well grounded advice and are very well connected.
The Mountside Ventures team is awesome. Quality deal flow, impressive contact list and the team behind the best conference of the year we attended last year. They helped us raise funds, and introduced us to some of our best performing companies. Genuine value add for GPs, LPs and companies.