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Scaling Europe — 191 episodes
Martin Mignot, Partner at Index Ventures: How founders are building and leading companies in the AI era
James Regan, CEO of Oriole Networks: Building radically faster networks for AI
Kevin Smith, CEO at Venture Comet: Helping founders unlock equity earlier in their startup journey
June Angelides MBE, Founder of the Portfolio Method and Venture Partner at Samos Investments: Building a platform to manage multiple roles and income streams
Andre Retterath, General Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital: Earlybird’s €360m fund and the future of European deep tech
Stefan Bader: CEO on Cello on automating growth and GTM
Dan Westgarth, Chief Operating Officer at Deel: From Revolut to Deel: inside two hypergrowth companies
Harvey Hodd, founder at Rivan: Rivan raised a £25 million Series A
Roxanne Varza, Director at Station F: Station F became a launchpad for Europe’s top startups
Sarah Fleischer & Ksenija Milicevic Neumann, Co-founders at tozero: Building Europe’s first battery recycling plant
Constantin Schröder, Co-founder at Arbio: How Arbio built an AI-enabled rollup machine for holiday rentals
Roei Samuel, CEO at Connectd: Connectd is one of the fastest growing companies in Europe with 17m ARR
Dan Lifshits & Ilia Drozdov, Co-founders of Dwelly: Entering the London market.
Jonathan Sanders, CEO at Light: Light replaces fragmented finance tools with one platform
Jon Coker, Founding Partner at Eka Ventures: Eka Ventures closed £80m second fund
Mark Ball, Artistic Director at the Southbank Centre: AI and technology are changing how art is experienced
Carlos Eduardo Espinal, Managing Partner at Seedcamp: European tech moved from small thinking to building for global stage
BREAKING: Isaiah Baril-Dore, Index Ventures: UK expands EMI stock option scheme for startups
Nick de la Forge, Co-Founder / GP at Planet A Ventures: Angel money is coming back to European tech
Nadir Izrael, Co-founder & CTO at Armis Security: Armis got acquired by ServiceNow for $7.75B
BREAKING: Orrick just launched DealFlow 6.0 report: Jamie Moore, Partner at Orrick
Founders need to think global from day one: Sara Rywe, General Partner at byFounders
IQM becomes the first listed European quantum computing company: Jan Goetz, CEO & Co-Founder at IQM
Defence, security and resilience funding in Europe grew 4x in 5 years: Sander Verbrugge
Brite pay-by-bank operates across 27 markets: Lena Hackelöer, Founder & CEO at Brite Payments
Granola raised $125 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation: Sam Stephenson, Co-founder
Spore.Bio’s technology can detect bacteria in 10 minutes: Amine Raji, Co-founder & CEO, Spore.Bio
Startups in Europe are being built to win globally: Filip Dames, Founding Partner at Cherry Ventures
Credo announces $88m Fund V: Maciek Gnutek & Jakub Krikava, Parters at Credo Ventures
Dash0 raises $110M Series B at $1B valuation: Mirko Novakovic, CEO at Dash0
0TO9 wants to build 1,000 profitable fintech companies: Jessica Holzbach, Partner and CEO at Germany 0TO9
UK venture funding reaches $23.6B: Jenny Edwards, Managing Director, Head of NatWest Venture Banking
A new generation of researcher founders think like engineers: Devika Thapar & Ale Maiano, Co-founders at Wilbe
Fuse exceeds $500m ARR: Alan Chang, Founder and CEO at Fuse Energy
nexos.ai raised two rounds in its first year: Justas Morkūnas, COO at nexos.ai
Wiz is the largest venture-backed M&A in history: Shardul Shah, Partner at Index Ventures
Backing Alan from 2017 to €785M ARR at a €5B valuation: Jan Hammer, Partner at Index Ventures
Jentic builds the missing layer between AI and enterprise systems: Sean Blanchfield, CEO at Jentic
Entrepreneurs First raised $200M: Jonny Clifford, Partner at Entrepreneurs First
Wordsmith AI grows 100% quarter-on-quarter: Ross McNairn, CEO at Wordsmith AI
From U.S. Navy pilot to CEO of Cloudsmith: Glenn Weinstein, CEO at Cloudsmith
Harmonic is the startup discovery engine: Darri Atlason, Head of Growth at Harmonic
Europe’s future GDP growth needs tech: Niklas Zennström, CEO at Atomico
QuantumLight applies Revolut lessons as a venture firm: Dora Zikouli, Investor at Quantumlight VC
ElevenLabs grew from 10 people to 400 in 3 years : Victoria Weller, Operations at ElevenLabs
Valla's smart legal platform identifies workplace issues: Danae Shell, Founder and CEO of Valla
ROCSYS enables charging robotaxis without humans: Crijn Bouman, CEO & Co-founder at ROCSYS
Lawhive raised $60m Series B: Pierre Proner, Co-founder and CEO at Lawhive
From AXA to $2.5B AUM at AVP: François Robinet, Founder & managing partner at AVP
How a16z WON ElevenLabs Series A: Bryan Kim, Partner at A16Z
Real leather without animals in a $100bn market: Michael Newton, CEO at Qorium
Alpine Eagle builds air-to-air defence: Jan-Hendrik Boelens, Founder and CEO
Sisyphus Ventures €20m fund backing defence founders: Louise Boucher, Founder and Managing Partner.
Revolut's formula for high performance: Georgian Andrei, GM at Revolut People
AI agent Fin nearing $100m revenue: Des Traynor, Co-founder at Intercom.
Gilion offers intelligent funding with AI precision: Henrik Landgren, Co-founder & CPTO Gilion
ivee has just raised £1m Seed: An interview with Amelia Miller, Co-founder of ivee
Bloom & Wild has 20% YoY growth: Aron Gelbard, Co-founder and CEO
Unitary AI agents deliver ROI day one: Sasha Haco, CEO & Co-founder
George Davis, CEO at Lorum: 80% month-to-month growth for 6 months
Encord has just raised a $60m Series C: An interview with Co-CEO and Co-founder Eric Landau
Diyala D'Aveni, CEO at Vento: Italian founders building global companies
An Interview with Danyal Akarca, Co-founder at Callosum & Suraj Bramhavar, Programme Director at Aria
Tom Wehmeier, Partner | Head of Intelligence at Atomico: Europe has a culture of lifting everyone up
An interview with Luke Harries, Growth / Engineering at ElevenLabs
Eric Liaw, General Partner at IVP: European founders should enter US earlier
Jarek Kutylowski, CEO and founder at DeepL: Why DeepL wouldn’t settle for “good enough” AI.
Ritesh Singhania, Co-founder and CEO at Zango: Building AI agents for compliance
Karl Gilbert, CEO & Co-Founder of Raylo on raising £150m, generating £50m of revenue and £10m profit
Mati Staniszewski, Co-Founder at ElevenLabs: $11bn valuation and $330m ARR
Lars Rasmussen: Cofounder of Google Maps and Panathenea
Richard Anton, General Partner at Oxx: Europe has everything but capital
Albert Malikov - CEO of Stacks, announcing their $23m Series A!
Benedikt Nolte, Co-founder and CEO at Plato: Announcing their $14.5m seed after 10x growth last year
SurrealDB has raised a $23m Series A Boost: An interview with the two founders!
Ruben Miessen Co-founder and CEO at LegalFly: 8x ARR Growth in One Year
"How to thrive as an employee in the AI era": Euan Blair, Founder and CEO at Multiverse
Carl Pei, CEO at Nothing: Building a smartphone company is nearly impossible ant Nothing did it
Eric Queathem, Co-founder at Velocity: Building the first platform for global CFOs and treasurers.
Hakob Astabatsyan, Co-Founder and CEO at SynthFlow: Driving Double-Digit ROI with AI Workflows
Gui Gomes and Joao Alves: Bleap is building a fintech completely on the blockchain
Matt Miller: Founder & Managing Partner, Evantic Capital in his FIRST interview since leaving Sequoia
Ashley Montanaro: Co-founder and CEO at Phasecraft: Turning quantum theory into software
Lukas Saari, Co-founder and CEO of Tandem Health: Tackling admin in healthcare
Meet Tyler Edwards: The former MI5 and GCHQ agent who just raised £2m for his AI systems!
Max Buchan, CEO at Valarian: Building infrastructure to secure critical systems
Hannah Payette Peterson, Co-MD at Nucleate Berlin: Why Europe struggles to turn science into startups
“Great founders don’t have an exit plan”: Carmen Alfonso Rico, founder at Cocoa.
Duco van Lanschot: Co-Founder and CEO at Duna announcing a $30m Series A!
Fintech Cleo hits $350m ARR and returns to the UK: An interview with Barney, the Founder and CEO
An interview with Yann de Vries on raising a €1bn Growth Fund for European Deep Tech!
How Attio 3x'ed its customers in the last year, with CEO Nicolas Sharp
Mick Hodgins, GM EMEA at Notion, on scaling Notion in Europe and building with AI
Joe McDonald, Co-founder and CEO of tem: Fixing the $900bn problem in energy
Gabe Pereyra, Harvey, and Ilya Fushman, Kleiner Perkins: How law firms went all-in on AI.
"How we bootstrapped €5k into a €100m exit": Sevan Marian: Co-founder & CEO at Fleet
Vidu Shanmugarajah, GP at Google Ventures, on backing Synthesia from Series B to a $200m Series E
Kanishka Narayan MP: Minister for AI and Online Safety, on how the UK can win in AI!
How we grew and scaled to a $32bn exit in 5 years (Josh Reiner, VP of Wiz)
Synthesia CEO on turning down a $3bn acquisition offer and instead raising at a $4bn valuation
BREAKING: 2150 has raised its second fund closes reaching €500m in assets under management!
Chaz Englander: Co-Founder and CEO At Model ML on how he raised $75m 6 months after their seed
Bar Winkler, Co-founder and CEO of Wonderful on how they raised a $100m Series A
Andreas Klinger announcing his new $15m Fund!
Maor Sason: Cofounder and CEO at Appcharge on how they're taking on Apple and Google!
Madeline Lawrence: Chief Growth officer at Aikido announcing their $60m raise at a $1bn valuation!
Edgar Vicente: Founding Partner of Enzo Ventures on raising a fund in your 20s
Peter Wood: Founder and CEO of the Graduate guide on getting acquired as a 24 year old and building his second!
An interview with Judith Dada: General Partner at Visionaries Club
Itxaso del Palacio: General Partner at Notion Capital on how founders avoid burnout
Tamar Gomez and Wiem Gharbi: Cofounders at Ankar on raising $20m!
Sebastian Fallert: Co-founder and CEO of Ben announcing a $27m fundraise!
Georgia Stevenson: Partner at Index Ventures on investing in Mirelo - a European foundation model in
CJ Simon-Gabriel: CEO and Co-founder of Mirelo AI announcing their $42m Seed from Index and a16z!
Omid Ekhlasi: Founder & CEO of Techarena - Scandinavia's Biggest Tech & Business Event
An interview with Alice Bentinck: CoFounder and CEO at Entrepreneurs First
Paul Rippon, the cofounder of Monzo and Starling launches a $300m fund
An interview with Michiel Kotting: Early investor into Vinted, Fiverr and Personio
Nicolas Sharp: Founder and CEO at Attio on taking on Salesforce from Europe
Oliver Thomas: Managing Partner at Expedition Growth Capital as they announce a new €325m fund!
Nicolas and Jonas: Cofounders of Donna announcing their $4.8m Seed round!
Mark Swan: CEO & Co-Founder at Nevis announcing their $35m Series A led by Sequoia!
Charles Maddock: CEO at Strawberry Browser on building the browser of the future
Roman Chernin: Cofounder at Nebius AI on how they've built Europe's $25bn AI Infrastructure giant
Carles Reina: Solo GP at Baobab announcing his $15m fund!
Aidan Cramer: CEO of AIApply on seed-strapping to 1 million users and millions of revenue
Leonardo Ubbiali: Founder & CEO at Visum Labs
Joel hambly: Founding partner at Onstage announcing their £10m Fund to build the YC of Europe!
Daniel and Felix: Co-Founders at Cellbyte on $2.75m raise!
Marius Meiners: Co-Founder & CEO at Peec AI announcing their $21m Series A!
Paulo Guichard: Co-Founder & CEO at Condukt announcing their $10m round!
Fabio Schmidberger: Co-Founder and CEO at voize announcing their $50m Series A led by Balderton!
Tobias Bengtsdahl: Partner at Antler on the state of Nordic Tech
Vidya Peters: CEO of DataSnipper - the fastest growing company in the Netherlands
Andre de Haes: Co-Founder and Partner at Backed VC announcing their new $100m fund
Milos Rusic: CEO & Co-founder at deepset
Boaz Falkin: Cofounder and CEO at Falkin on raising $2m to prevent AI Scams
Will Orde: Partner at Passion Capital
Jonny Plein: Cofounder of YASO
Callum Woodcock: Founder and CEO at WineFi
Mark Fairless: CEO at ClearBank on hitting profitability and surpassing £100m of revenue
Tom Pope: Co-founder & CEO at Adfin
Taos Edmondson: Partner at dmg ventures, Founder at Onstage
Rory O'Neill: CMO at Checkout.com
Vesence raises $9m from Emergence, Anton Osika and Paul Graham | Henrik and Ludvig, the Cofounders
Alexandre Berriche: Founder at Fleet, Scout at Sequoia and Super Angel
Harry Stebbings being interviewed at the Onstage Demo Day
Xavier Collins: Co-founder & CEO of Wonder Studios
Olivier Godement: Head of Product, Platform at OpenAI
Interviews with the Onstage Hacknight judges: Episode 1, Chapter One, Antler and the Winners!
Amal Jolly: Founder and CEO at Saturn on raising a $15m Series A in just 10 days
Arnau Ayerbe: Cofounder at Throxy on going through YC and hitting 7 figures of ARR
Tom Wehmeier - Partner, Head of Intelligence @ Atomico
Nikola Mrkšić, Cofounder and CEO @ PolyAI
Gauthier Van Malderen - Founder and CEO of Perlego
Matthew Wilson, Co-founder & CEO @ Jack and Jill, on raising $20m to fix recruitment
Victor Riparbelli - Co-Founder & CEO at Synthesia.io
Maximilian Kufner, Co-founder & CEO @ Again
Hedda Båverud Olsson - CEO & co-founder at Lassie on hitting €70m ARR and €1m ARR per employee
Dom Hallas - Executive Director at the Startup Coalition, on what the UK needs to do for startups
Building the Lovable of video creation, with Dimi Nikolaou - the Founder and CEO of Wondercraft
Sabba Keynejad, CEO & Co-founder at VEED.IO
Maik Taro Wehmeyer, Co-Founder & CEO @ Taktile
Enrico Mellis, Partner at Lakestar (+ a guest appearance from the guy building the European SpaceX)
Jan Philipp Haas - CEO & Co-Founder @ Conduct
Balderton Capital's 25 Year Anniversary: An Interview with Bernard Liautaud and Suranga Chandratillake
George Henry, Partner at LocalGlobe
Ivan Tregear, CTO and Cofounder of KAIKAKU - the startup building robots for restaurants!
Malte Kosub, CEO & Co-Founder at Parloa - the German AI Unicorn
Sélim Benayat: 2x exited founder and now building AI Hardware at Nothing Technology
Thomas Wolf - Cofounder at Hugging Face on LLMs, robotics and the future of technology
Sandeep Bakshi, Head of European Investments at Prosus Ventures
Sam Tidswell-Norrish, Chair & Founder @ OPUS
Andreas Klinger, Co-initiator at EU-Inc, and founder at Prototype Capital
Alan Chang, Co-Founder and CEO @ Fuse Energy
Richard Hollingsworth, CO-Founder & CEO @ Fyxer AI
Julio Martínez, Co-founder & CEO at Abacum on how he tripled revenue while keeping headcount flat
David Villalon, CO-Founder & CEO @ Maisa
Jan Sommerfeld, COO @ Almedia on bootstrapping to $100m of revenue
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, Co-founder & CEO at SurrealDB
Ben Drury, Co-Founder and CEO at Yoto
Matt Henderson - Cofounder and CEO of Phoebe
Bill Dobie - Founder and CEO at Sedna
Max Sinclair, CEO at Azoma, on how brands should be thinking about AI search
Will Wells, Ex-AI Founder and now Partner at SpeedInvest
Saul Klein, Founder of LocalGlobe (and investor into 13 Unicorns at Seed)
Guy Ward Thomas, Partner at DN Capital, and early investor in Europe's largest AI exit to date
Brian Walker, Founder at Revel
Jake Wells, Cofounder at Meshed
Issie James, Cofounder at Onstage
Amelia Miller, Cofounder of Ivee