How Nordic Alpha Scales Hard-Tech Without Venture's Failure Rate — Laurits Bach Soerensen

Innovation and Private Capital x aulium · Apr 28, 2026 · 1h 30m

If Europe wants resilience and sovereignty, it must stop treating green tech as a moral project and start treating it as the path to re-industrialization. Laurits Bach Soerensen argues that 92% of Europe's risk capital flows into software, fintech, and biotech—sectors designed to hit a profitability plateau—while the hard technologies needed to rebuild energy infrastructure, production systems, and supply chain independence remain starved of capital. The gap isn't ideological; it's structural. Traditional private equity can't handle the capex intensity and networking capital demands of…