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Philipp Moehring

Founding Partner, Tiny VC · 1 appearance on the record.

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Philipp Moehring is a Berlin-based technology investor who co-founded Tiny VC to back early-stage, technically complex startups across Europe, investing in companies such as Wayve, Synthesia, Sorare, and n8n. Prior to Tiny, he managed AngelList’s European business from 2013 to 2021 and was a Principal at Seedcamp.

15statements → 6claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 3.67/5average certainty → 2.33/5average debate potential → 4.5/5argument clarity · the sources → 1said about them ↓

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3 predictions · 3 assertions · 4 opinions · 5 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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What the tape says about how Philipp argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Assertion Supported
Moehring: CSC's $400M commitment is not funding for AngelList itself
“It's a fund that is being invested by CSC Upshot into syndicates. So this is not AngelList getting money as a funding round. This is not AngelList getting money to decide where to put. This is actually a very smart team of GPs that are investing directly in sy…”
Philipp Moehring Jan 6, 2016 ▶ 16:43 20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC

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4.5 / 5 directness 5 · coherence 4.9 · precision 4.1 · compression 3.8

answered every one of 18 assessed questions directly

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How they sound: speaking style how? →

228 words/min while actually speaking · 59.3 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,711 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

How the interview went all their pushback → series average →

Across 1 rated episode:

host pushback ▾ 3/10
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setup questions received 45%

Everything Philipp Moehring said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Moehring: AngelList will not render traditional VCs obsolete
“I also don't think to your second point that AngelList will, you know, make the VC model obsolete because the VC model is very boutique you know, especially in later stage investments larger Large amounts are very well managed by the VC firms that exist.”
Philipp Moehring Jan 6, 2016 ▶ 20:12 20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
Opinion
Moehring: The glass ceiling for young VCs exists for good reason
“There certainly is a glass ceiling, but I think it's for a very good reason. So the real thing about the VC industry that nobody really tells you is that things take a very, very, very long time.”
Philipp Moehring Jan 6, 2016 ▶ 6:50 20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Moehring: London is Europe's top tech ecosystem and will stay #1
“I think on all levels, London is just the number one ecosystem in Europe. And that won't change for, you know, either for a long while or ever.”
Philipp Moehring Jan 6, 2016 ▶ 14:51 20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
Opinion
Moehring: Berlin is Europe's second-ranked tech hub by momentum
“It's also pretty clear that in terms of momentum, Berlin is probably or is, in my eyes, the clear number two in Europe.”
Philipp Moehring Jan 6, 2016 ▶ 15:47 20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
Opinion
Moehring: Paris tech ecosystem is more inward-looking than peers
“Paris is obviously a great ecosystem, but that's a little bit more inward looking, or at least seems like a little bit more inward looking than other, other places.”
Philipp Moehring Jan 6, 2016 ▶ 16:05 20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
Insight
Moehring: Science fiction predicts tech trends better than academic research
“I've caught myself looking to science fiction much more than to, you know, research or academia when it comes to new technology advances.”
Philipp Moehring Jan 6, 2016 ▶ 23:56 20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Moehring: VC career paths for young joiners are slow and unpredictable
“People who start young in this industry usually don't make partner very quickly and the career path is a lot more Well, mysterious and a lot less plannable than a career path in other industries.”
Philipp Moehring Jan 6, 2016 ▶ 6:12 20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
Opinion
Moehring: Becoming rich as a young venture capitalist is a fallacy
“The illusion that you're going to make investments and become rich by being a VC when you're young is, is a fallacy that I think people need to understand.”
Philipp Moehring Jan 6, 2016 ▶ 7:38 20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
Insight
Moehring: Startup operational experience is essential for modern VCs
“Joining startups after that which I think is a great preparation for being a VC running your own startup, being part of a startup in, you know, in a crucial role really shows you much more what building companies is about, what growing companies is about and t…”
Philipp Moehring Jan 6, 2016 ▶ 7:50 20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
Insight
Moehring: US venture capital trends predictably repeat later in Europe
“It's often quite easy to look at what's going on trend wise in the U S and then see those same, same things happen over here a bit later.”
Philipp Moehring Jan 6, 2016 ▶ 9:39 20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
Insight
Moehring: US VCs rarely invest in European seed rounds due to proximity needs
“I think in the seed stage, it's very difficult to do that because in the seed stage, as I mentioned before, you probably want to be more involved with the company you want to meet the founders you know, maybe not every week, but certainly every month and there…”
Philipp Moehring Jan 6, 2016 ▶ 11:04 20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
Prediction Partly held up
Moehring: AngelList syndicates will lead Series A rounds and exit by 2021
“But yeah, I certainly see that something that's happening over the next five years, you know, which I think is a very interesting timeframe because five years will roughly be when we will likely see our first big exits. And that's really when the model will be…”
Philipp Moehring Jan 6, 2016 ▶ 11:55 20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
Insight
Moehring: AngelList scales seed investing by decentralizing general partners
“This is really where AngelList is really a very classical example of how a marketplace can take over an industry or can take part in an industry where we can now do something because of the structure of syndicates, because of the structure of the investments t…”
Philipp Moehring Jan 6, 2016 ▶ 12:47 20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
Assertion Supported
Moehring: CSC's $400M commitment is not funding for AngelList itself
“It's a fund that is being invested by CSC Upshot into syndicates. So this is not AngelList getting money as a funding round. This is not AngelList getting money to decide where to put. This is actually a very smart team of GPs that are investing directly in sy…”
Philipp Moehring Jan 6, 2016 ▶ 16:43 20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC
Assertion Supported
Moehring: Few AngelList syndicates lead Series A rounds as of 2016
“A lot of syndicates are already investing in Series A rounds not a lot of them are leading Series A rounds at the moment.”
Philipp Moehring Jan 6, 2016 ▶ 11:44 20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC

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20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 50 Jan 6, 2016 19m
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