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Build
We co-found ventures from thesis. Operators, designers and engineers who ship the first version with founders — not just a deck.
Venture studio · Sovereignty · Deep tech
Building Europe's
sovereign digital backbone.
The EU Studio co-founds, capitalises and connects ventures that give Europe control over the technologies it depends on — from infrastructure to AI, cybersecurity to industrial software.
Est. in Europe · For Europe
Why now
European sovereignty is no longer a policy debate — it's a product roadmap.
Europe's productivity, defence and democratic resilience now depend on infrastructure it does not own. Trade policy shifts, extraterritorial laws and AI-scale compute have collapsed the timeline. The next decade will be defined by the European companies that close the gap — and by the capital and operators that back them.
~80%
of EU cloud spend leaves Europe
3 of 3
hyperscalers headquartered outside the EU
€200B+
annual EU digital trade deficit
2030
EU sovereignty targets converging
The model
Build · Finance · Ecosystem
One studio, three reinforcing engines — designed to compress the time from sovereign thesis to market-defining company.
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Finance
Patient pre-seed and seed capital from a fund built for sovereignty timelines, with follow-on conviction through Series A.
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Ecosystem
An operator network of European CTOs, regulators and customers — so portfolio companies move faster than the market.
Thesis
Where we focus
We back companies in the layers Europe most needs to control — from the silicon up to the workflow.
Cloud & data sovereignty
Sovereign infrastructure, residency, repatriation.
Cybersecurity
From CISO services to detection and response.
Deep tech & infra
Compute, networking, energy, hardware-software.
Applied AI
European models, vertical agents, on-prem deployment.
Industrial software
Manufacturing, logistics, defence-adjacent tooling.
Trust & compliance
NIS2, DORA, AI Act — turning regulation into product.
Portfolio
Building the next layer of European tech
Founders
Building for European sovereignty? Talk to us.
We meet founders early — from napkin to first hire. If your company makes Europe more sovereign, we want to know.