Burn Rate - The Venture Insider Podcast [AI-Translated]

In this episode, Season 4 of Burn Rate – The VC Insider Podcast officially launches. From now on, there are two episodes per week: the Saturday episode with news, listener question and deal of the week, and Burn Rate Intelligence on Wednesdays with a focus topic or guest.

In the news segment, Max Meister and Guy Giuffredi discuss the latest PitchBook numbers: 87.5% of all US VC dollars are going into AI megadeals, and the Anthropic IPO could reach a $2 trillion valuation. The second news covers new research on fraud in VC-backed startups and why certain market conditions create...

In this final episode before the summer break of Burn Rate – The VC Insider Podcast, Max Meister and Guy Giuffredi discuss a new Swiss growth fund, the old VC math and whether payments in Switzerland have become an invisible tax.

In the news segment, they cover the new Swiss Champion Fund targeting CHF 100M for Series A and B, Swisscom closing its Silicon Valley office after 28 years, and new PitchBook data showing experienced European founders raise 72% more capital than first-time founders.

In the focus topic, they examine Max's new Bilanz column: Does the old venture capital math...

In this episode of Burn Rate – The VC Insider Podcast, Max Meister and Guy Giuffredi discuss European billion-dollar rounds, a new AI venture studio and whether European venture capital faces a structural correction.

In the news segment, they cover the eight European startups that have each raised over USD 1 billion in 2026 – accounting for nearly a quarter of all European funding. They then look at the Swiss Founders Fund's new SFF Studio, which aims to systematically build AI-first startups in Zurich. And they congratulate Nicole Herzog on being named Business Angel of the Year 2026 by SECA....

Burn Rate Episode 100! In this anniversary episode, Max Meister and Guy Giuffredi go behind the scenes of the podcast: how Burn Rate started, how the format evolved since 2023, and why they're still doing this every week after 100 episodes. Along the way: numbers on more than 250 funding rounds covered, over CHF 3 billion in disclosed funding volume, and listeners in 103 countries.

Then it's back to the regular news segment: the >>venture>> Awards 2026 were handed out in Lausanne, with EPFL spin-off Edwatec taking the Grand Prize and AI dominating four of six category winners. OpenAI burned...