On 28 February 2022, Daan Witteveen was interviewed by Marleen Evertsz and Jay-Jay Boske. During the interview, Daan touches on the importance of startup activity to shape our future of health, energy, mobility, living and work. However, innovation as such is not enough. In order to make impact, we need to turn successful startups into global leaders. This requires both bold moves and intentional small operational decisions day-in day-out. And whereas most scaleups are ‘one-product’ companies, a next level platform approach creating multiple value creation and growth options is needed to build global leaders. This is the investment thesis at Surmount Ventures.