Episode Description

Anton is a General Partner at Project A Ventures, an early stage European VC with over € 460M of assets under management. Project A starts investing at Seed and Series A stages, and reserves up to € 15M for future rounds combined with heavy operational support.

Anton co-leads venture capital investment activities and the investment team.

Prior to joining Project A, Anton was the managing director of Axel Springer Digital Ventures Inc. and has built up the venture capital activities of this media company in the US.

What’s in this episode?

1) The notion of operational investing and spending resources for portfolio company assistance

2) Investing in Emerging Europe when not many VCs are looking at this region

3) Classic patterns in the main struggles emerging world founders face

4) Investing in regional champions vs global ‘helpfuls’ in the emerging world