Markus Bohl: 'Nobody cares if it's the best European solution'
19 dec. 2025
13:15
Over a virtual coffee, we sat down with Markus Bohl – founder of Ignite Next – to talk about the new deep tech scale-up programme, Europe’s funding gap, and why he thinks world-class technology matters more than sovereignty slogans.
Let’s start with you. What’s your background?
"I’ve been building companies almost my whole life. My own companies, VC- and family-office-backed companies, and ventures inside large corporates. I’ve also built companies for family-owned businesses, which is a very different animal. That journey eventually led me to Intel, where I became managin...