Venture Capital Forum 2026

Venture Capital Forum is Invest Europe's flagship venture capital conference — the major annual European VC event organized by the trade body that represents the European private equity, venture capital and infrastructure industry to EU institutions. Held in Amsterdam, the forum convenes European VC GPs, the institutional LP base allocating to European venture, and the policy actors that increasingly shape the European tech and venture environment.

The conference reflects Invest Europe's distinctive positioning: at the intersection of the European VC industry's commercial reality and the EU policy environment that is now structurally important to it. Programming covers the substantive investment questions of the year — fundraising environment, portfolio construction across stages, exit dynamics, sector rotation toward AI, deeptech and climate — alongside the policy questions that increasingly determine the operating environment for European venture.

European venture has its own distinctive features that the conference treats as core programming. The European exit environment — slower-graduating companies, smaller exit multiples, a less consolidated set of strategic acquirers — produces different return dynamics than US benchmarks. EU sovereign and member-state tech-sovereignty programs are now structurally important LP capital pools and policy frameworks shaping deal flow. The cross-Atlantic capital flow, both LP and GP, is now bidirectional in ways it was not a decade ago.

For European VC GPs, the forum is the major fundraising touchpoint with the European institutional LP base — pension funds, fund-of-funds, sovereign wealth, family offices and the rapidly growing corporate venture programs. For non-European LPs assessing European venture exposure, it is the most efficient annual venue for understanding the GP set and the policy environment.

European institutional venture LPs (pension, sovereign wealth, fund-of-funds, family office, corporate venture); European VC GPs at every stage; US and Asian GPs with European LP relationships; EU and member-state policy actors; the legal, banking and recruiting ecosystem around European venture.

European venture is at an inflection point — the post-2015 vintages are reaching exit, the EU sovereign tech-sovereignty programs have created new structural capital pools, and the resulting realized-return data is reshaping institutional allocation conviction. Invest Europe is the natural venue for understanding both the commercial and the policy dimensions of that inflection.