{"podcast":{"title":"Scaling Europe","slug":"scaling-europe-7780754","podcast_index_feed_id":7780754,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/108a8a74c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scaling-europe","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/44302379/44302379-1756114015030-846dc0246eba9.jpg","author":"Sebastian Johnson","episode_count":223,"summary":"Every week Seb Johnson sits down with 5 of Europe's best builders and investors to talk about what's going on in European Tech. Prior guests include the founders of Lovable, Cleo, Voi an Zilch, as well as top VCs from 20VC, Index, Balderton and Creandum.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T22:17:10.818712+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-europe-7780754"},"episode":{"title":"Johannes von Borries and Benjamin Erhart, GPs at UVC Partners: Backing Europe’s next deep tech champions","slug":"johannes-von-borries-and-benjamin-erhart-gps-at-uvc-partners-backing-europe-s-next-deep-tech-champions","published_at":"2026-06-09T16:15:36+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-europe-7780754/johannes-von-borries-and-benjamin-erhart-gps-at-uvc-partners-backing-europe-s-next-deep-tech-champions","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-europe-7780754","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scaling-europe/episodes/Johannes-von-Borries-and-Benjamin-Erhart--GPs-at-UVC-Partners-Backing-Europes-next-deep-tech-champions-e3ja6ab","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/108a8a74c/podcast/play/119920395/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-13%2F424059514-44100-2-25d7698833aa8.mp3","summary":"UVC Partners is a European venture capital firm investing in early-stage deep tech companies in Europe, including Proxima Fusion and Isar Aerospace. Johannes von Borries and Benjamin Erhart, GPs at UVC Partners, back companies working on fusion energy and space systems, where development takes long cycles and requires high capital and coordination between research and industry. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel - check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: Mishcon: https://www.mishcon.com/pop-ups/scaling-europe Chargebee: https://www.chargebee.com/events/beelieve/london/2026 SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/ Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk?utm_source=other&utm_medium=partner_referral&utm_campaign=v01_emea_multi_ib_dg_prtmk_mofu_scalingeurope Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:32 - UVC Partners 1:10 - Proxima Fusion 3:41 - Isar Aerospace 8:21 - Deep tech investing in Europe 13:15 - Fusion energy 16:08 - Space systems 20:02 - Germany’s deep tech ecosystem 24:27 - Berlin vs Munich 27:04 - Germany’s deep tech ecosystem","meta_description":"UVC Partners is a European venture capital firm investing in early-stage deep tech companies in Europe, including Proxima Fusion and Isar Aerospace. Johan…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1664,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/scaling-europe-7780754/episodes/johannes-von-borries-and-benjamin-erhart-gps-at-uvc-partners-backing-europe-s-next-deep-tech-champions/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-europe-7780754/johannes-von-borries-and-benjamin-erhart-gps-at-uvc-partners-backing-europe-s-next-deep-tech-champions.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}