From the Team
Our thinking on markets, technologies, and the future of European innovation.
May 15, 2022
Hilberts AI Capital Closes $80M Seed Round to Back Europe's Deep Tech Pioneers
We have closed an $80 million Seed Round anchored by Speedinvest and leading European LPs, positioning us to back the scientists and engineers building the foundational technologies of the next generation.
December 15, 2025
Why Europe Is Poised to Lead the Next Wave of Deep Tech
The conditions for a European deep tech renaissance are converging — world-class research universities, maturing venture ecosystems, and a generation of scientists who want to build companies.
November 28, 2025
The $100B AI Infrastructure Opportunity No One Is Talking About
As foundation model training costs plateau, the next wave of value creation in AI will come from inference infrastructure, specialised chips, and the tooling that makes AI economically viable at scale.
November 10, 2025
Why Seed Stage Is the Right Time to Back Deep Tech
The conventional wisdom says deep tech is too risky for seed investors. We think the opposite — investing early in companies with genuine scientific moats is the most defensible strategy in venture.
October 22, 2025
Our Quantum Computing Investment Thesis
Quantum computing is at an inflection point. We explain why we are actively investing in European quantum companies and which applications we believe will deliver commercial value first.
October 5, 2025
Europe's Robotics Renaissance: Why Now
Labour shortages, supply chain disruptions, and advances in machine learning are creating the perfect conditions for a European robotics boom. Here is where we are placing our bets.
September 18, 2025
The State of European Biotech Seed Funding in 2025
European biotech is attracting more seed capital than ever before, but the quality of early-stage investors varies enormously. We share what founders should look for in their first institutional partner.
August 30, 2025
Founder-Market Fit in Deep Tech: A Different Kind of Assessment
In deep tech, the most important question is not whether there is product-market fit. It is whether this particular founder has the technical depth, credibility, and vision to solve this particular problem.
August 12, 2025
Climate Tech Is Not a Theme — It Is a Technology Revolution
The best climate tech investments are not defined by their environmental impact. They are defined by their technological differentiation. We explain our framework for evaluating climate tech opportunities.
July 25, 2025
How the European VC Ecosystem Has Matured in Five Years
In 2020, founders routinely looked to the US for their seed rounds. In 2025, the European venture ecosystem has evolved to support the best European companies from inception to global scale.
July 8, 2025
Europe's AI Act Is Not a Burden — It Is a Competitive Advantage
The EU AI Act will create compliance costs in the short term, but it will also create a generation of European AI companies built on trusted, auditable foundations that global enterprises will pay a premium for.