Europe's First
Accelerating the next generation of European VCs, in partnership with

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.

Applications close 6th Dec.

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Let's get out our notebooks

Who will be your mentors?

VC Mentors
LP Mentors

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
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

VCs we've
previously selected

We have been running LP VC events for the last 5 years.
Let's get you some answers

FAQs

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Let's get serious

Why choose us?

We are award-winning for a reason.
Leading voice in European tech
We educate Family Offices with our VC Academy.
We host Europe’s leading LP-focused events.
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To date, we have hosted over 50 investor events in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Cannes, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Munich.
We have seen it all.
We actually get results.
We sell out every time.
We know what startups want from investors.
Our insights shape the LP landscape.
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.
Lasse Lehtinen
General Partner, Icebreaker VC
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!
Joe Schorge
Managing Partner, Isomer Capital
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.
Wouter Volckaert
Managing Partner, 6 Degrees Capital
The Mountside team understand the ecosystem well, give sage and well grounded advice and are very well connected.
Richard Anton
General Partner, Oxx
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.
Caspar Woolley
CEO, Sifted
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.
Nigel Meir
Single FO
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.
Sam Merullo
Single FO