An entrepreneur, an investor, and an affiliated professor with a career spent 50/50 in the USA and Europe. This is Marc Fournier, the Managing Partner of the Paris, France-based venture capital firm Serena Capital, the guest of the second episode of Radio VC, a series of podcasts dedicated to discovering trends about the tech and the venture capital industry, which FinSMEs is bringing to you in partnership with LVenture.
During the chat with me and Tobia De Angelis, Marc speaks about the the past, the present and future of the venture capital industry in Europe, the opportunities and the main barriers, explaining that entrepreneurship culture, which tends not to give confidence to people who wants to start doing business, represents a critical issue that marks the difference with the US.
As a backer of LaFourchette, recently acquired by TripAdvisor, he illustrates the importance of correctly evaluating the entrepreneurs and the management team as one of the most important factor in deciding to invest in a company. Execution matters!
Finally, he unveils what’s hot in tech now and what can really change the world in which we live.
FinSMEs
18/09/2014