Max Niederhofer

Max Niederhofer

Austin, Texas & Europe
I am a general partner of Heartcore Capital, a top-decile European early-stage venture capital firm.
Dec
03

Disintermediation Revisited: Agentic AI and the Threat to Marketplaces

“Agentic AI” is currently used for LLMs autonomously performing tasks that previously required human intervention. I’m pretty sure that
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Nov
26

Operation Warp Speed and Why It Mattered

One of the most interesting things to happen during the pandemic, and a lesson we seem not to have internalized
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Nov
20

Overtourism as an opportunity in travel VC

Some time ago, in the context of a fellow investor's annual LP day, I attended an excellent talk
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Jun
13

The transactionality of VC-founder relationships

I will keep this as anonymous as possible. I had lunch with a founder today. We don't know
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