E360 | EUVC | First Momentum Ventures' David Meiborg on The European Deep Tech Hardware Napkin

In this episode of the EUVC podcast, Andreas discusses with David Meiborg, General Partner at First Momentum Ventures.First Momentum Ventures, with their €30M fund, specializes in backing deeply technical founders at the pre-seed stage. Their focus spans deep tech, industrial climate tech, dev tools, data, and enterprise SaaS across the DACH region and beyond.In today’s discussion, David introduces us to the Deep Tech Hardware Napkin framework they recently launched, which includes the latest benchmarks on funding, team, product, and commercialization, broken down by stage. The Napkin and full report are based on a survey completed by 30 DeepTech VCs from 8 countries.Go to eu.vc for our core learnings and the full video interview 👀Chapters:00:02 Meet David Marburg from First Momentum Ventures00:28 Deep Tech Heartware Napkin05:48 Deep Tech Napkin Collaboration06:17 Inspiration and Data Sourcing09:34 Deep Tech Hardware Napkin Breakdown10:54 Pre-Seed Stage Insights14:18 Seed Stage Insights16:40 Series A Insights24:07 Series B Insights26:59 Founding Teams and Commercial Savviness35:46 Technology and Product Stages44:12 Tech Maturity and Valuation49:06 Common Hardware Business Models