Europe has the talent and the research. What it lacks is the infrastructure to turn either into companies.

Banyan Ventures is a student-led venture fund at the University of Amsterdam, built to sit at the earliest point in that pipeline  where the best people are, before anyone else is looking. We source, analyse, and back opportunities from within the university, and we train the analysts who will run the funds that back them at scale.

For investors, we're proprietary dealflow and access to high-quality talent you can't reach directly. 
For founders, we're the first honest feedback, an introduction to the right VC, and a fund that takes a first-year student's idea as seriously as a Series A.
Nobody expects a group of students to do this properly. That's exactly why it works.

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