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The Dranaissance Podcast explores the forces shaping Europe’s future.
Europe is rich, smart, and powerful… yet losing the future.
Why Listen?
• Real builders reveal exactly how they scale…
The Dranaissance Podcast explores the forces shaping Europe’s future.
Europe is rich, smart, and powerful… yet losing the future.
Why Listen?
• Real builders reveal exactly how they scale unicorns, AI factories, and Europe’s next giants.
• Battle-tested ideas that turn pessimism into action and competitiveness into dominance.
• Raw talks that reconnect the continent’s smartest minds and bring back the winning feeling.
No reports. No theory. Just the rebirth of European ambition.
For founders, investors, technologists, and leaders who refuse European decline.
Topics covered:
European industry • Entrepreneurship • AI & technology • Startups & venture capital • EU policy & regulation • Industrial strategy • Energy transition • Geopolitics & economic power • Leadership & innovation
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How EnergyVision Built a Profitable Energy Business | Maarten Michielssens
Can Europe still build, finance and scale companies that compete globally?
In this episode of Dranaissance, Brecht Seifi sits down with Maarten Michielssens, Group CEO & Co-Founder of EnergyVision…
Can Europe still build, finance and scale companies that compete globally?
In this episode of Dranaissance, Brecht Seifi sits down with Maarten Michielssens, Group CEO & Co-Founder of EnergyVision, to discuss European competitiveness, energy, capital markets and what it actually takes to build a company against the odds.
EnergyVision started in 2014 with just €6,200. Since then, the company has grown through energy market disruption, raised growth capital and entered the public markets while keeping its decision-making rooted in Europe.
In this episode:
• Why Europe’s real challenge begins when companies need to scale
• How EnergyVision turned customer obsession into a growth strategy
• Why affordable energy matters for European industrial competitiveness
• What Europe’s capital markets get wrong about growing companies
• Why the next generation of European industry may look very different
The episode shares practical insights about building through uncertainty, protecting founder control, allocating capital and finding competitive advantage when the obvious route stops working.
Can Europe create its next global champions and give them enough reason to stay?
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Maarten Michielssens
Group CEO & Co-Founder, EnergyVision
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Brecht Seifi
Founder & CEO, DraghiAI
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