Index Ventures
Venture Capital
Trends
Presentation to European IT Summit, Reims
March 6th, 2014
Mar$n
Mignot
@mar&nmignot

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Agenda
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1. A few words about Index
2. The coming of age of European Tech
3. What are we seeing?

A few words about
Index

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One Mission
Help European entrepreneurs build global leaders
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One Team
Geneva, London, San Francisco
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200 Companies
Enterprise + Consumer
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2 (not so) Secret Weapons
+
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The coming of age
of European tech

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BUILD SELL RUN FUND
No Better Times To Be An Entrepreneur
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Exceptional Scale / Incredible Speed
Source: King F1 Filing
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Europe Has Got What It Takes
Infrastructure Education
Capital Consumers
EXITS?
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And Unicorns Are Multiplying
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What are we
seeing?

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Three Waves Of Disruption
IT users are consumers too
Bitcoin is revolutionizing finance
The 3 Ps of mobile transformation:
Penetration, Performance, Polymorphism
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Welcome To A 100% Mobile World
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Software Is Eating Up The World
Core of the
digital economy
(6% GDP)
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Sectors being
digitalized
(12% GDP)
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Sectors leveraging
technology
(60% GDP)
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Sectors still
untouched
(22% GDP)
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Numbers from 2009!
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Software Is Getting Smarter
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The Future Is Now
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And It Is Everywhere
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Three Waves Of Disruption
IT users are consumers too
Bitcoin is revolutionizing finance
The 3 Ps of mobile transformation:
Penetration, Performance, Polymorphism
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There Are No “Corporate” Users
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The Great Unbundling Of Legacy Software
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Planet Of The APIs
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New World => New Threats => New Opportunities
July 2013 | $2.7bnJan 2014 | $1.5bnJan 2014 | $1bn
IPO Nov 2013 | +66% IPO Jul 2012 | +33% IPO Apr 2012 | +200%
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Three Waves Of Disruption
IT users are consumers too
Bitcoin is revolutionizing finance
The 3 Ps of mobile transformation:
Penetration, Performance, Polymorphism
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Store Of Value
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Mean Of Exchange
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Payment Protocol
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Supercomputer
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Political Force
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My Dad Tried To Buy Bitcoins…
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Take-aways
We have never been busier…
Technology doesn’t know geography and Europe is well positioned
Large exits are multiplying, which will strengthen the ecosystem
Software is eating up the world
We believe crypto currencies will revolutionize finance
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Thank you