World Fund’s AGM and Summit 2026 – themed ‘Built to Scale’ – took place on 9 June at the Delphi Filmpalast am Zoo in Berlin, coinciding with SuperVentures Berlin week, Europe’s most concentrated gathering of early-stage VC.
The closing panel, moderated by TFN’s Akansha Dimri, brought together Jean Latapy of Lithosquare and Daniel Rothmund of Hyperscale Power to debate what Europe needs to produce sovereign industrial tech champions.
The room was asked whether Europe would produce a $100 billion industrial tech company in the next decade. Only 10% raised their hands, while OpenAI is aiming for a $1 trillion valuation and confidentially filed an IPO, the same morning.
The day began with Levin Holle, Director General at the German Federal Chancellery, and ended with a three-minute film designed to change the way you see things. In between, the World Fund AGM & Summit 2026 – held at the Delphi Filmpalast am Zoo in Berlin on 9 June, during SuperVentures week – put the question of European industrial sovereignty directly to the founders who are trying to answer it.
The afternoon closed with a 35-minute panel titled “From Breakthrough to Sovereignty,” moderated by Akansha Dimri, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Tech Funding News. The two panellists were Jean Latapy, CPO and founding team member of Lithosquare, and Daniel Rothmund, co-founder of Hyperscale Power. Both companies are bets on infrastructure that underpins the AI and energy transition.
