Fundraising in the Age of AI: Fireside Chat with Florian Huber

​AI has changed how startups raise money. Teams are smaller, traction comes faster, and investors are asking different questions than they did three years ago about defensibility, team size, and what good early-stage traction actually looks like.

​Few people in Europe have a sharper view on this than Florian Huber. He's a two-time founder (united-domains sold to 1&1, neubau kompass sold to Scout24 in 2024), early angel in 60+ companies including Foodora, and German Business Angel of the Year 2018. In 2022, he co-founded EWOR with Daniel Dippold and other unicorn founders (SumUp, ProGlove, among others): a fellowship that picks 35 founders out of 35,000+ applicants and writes €500k checks before the company exists.

​Baris Efe sits down with Florian to talk about:

• ​What investors actually want to see in 2026 and what stopped working

• ​How AI is reshaping founder evaluation

• ​Capital efficiency, smaller teams, and what it means for valuations and dilution

• ​The "AI wrapper" question: where the real moats are still being built

• ​What he'd raise on today if he were starting over

​Open Q&A to close. Drinks to follow.