Welcome to The Venture Kitchen
Where ideas are tested, refined, and served with honesty.
Hosted by Thijmen Meijer, venture builder and co-founder of UniPrisma, the show brings together founders, investors, and creators at the table to explore how meaningful ventures are made.
Like any good kitchen, it’s messy, human, and full of flavor. Some episodes are quick bites, thoughts on leadership, systems, and mindset. Others are long-form conversations where guests share the real ingredients behind growth, resilience, and impact.
The Venture Kitchen is also a blog and newsletter for those who believe that business should be built with care, not just capital.
Available on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Podcast.
EP02-What We Are Really Building With UniPrisma
Thijmen Meijer shares how UniPrisma co-builds university and deep tech startups, aligning founders, capital, and a connected European university VC ecosystem.
Building With Scarcity
Thijmen Meijer shows how scarcity sharpens companies. Constraints create clarity, discipline, and smarter systems. By learning to build with less, founders develop resilience and build organisations that grow with intention, not excess.
The Human System
Thijmen Meijer shows why performance starts with people. When teams share values, clarity, and trust, the human system drives sustainable growth. Fix the human system, and the business follows.
Rebuilding Venture: From Funds to Ecosystems
Thijmen Meijer argues that venture capital is shifting from passive fund management to hands-on ecosystems built by operators, studios, and human-centered systems. The future of venture belongs to builders who co-create with founders and connect platforms where ideas, people, and capital move faster together.
Building High-Performing Teams
Thijmen Meijer shares a practical framework for building high-performing teams through people, mindset, clarity, and purpose. This model shows how growth follows when leaders hire for drive, build structure, create consistency, set boundaries, invest in relationships, and scale through human-centered systems.
EP01-How I co-founded UniPrisma
From hospitality floors to venture studios, Thijmen Meijer shares how early hard work, headhunting, and system building shaped his human first approach to UniPrisma and Venture Kitchen for deep tech founders and authentic investors.