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Danyal Akarca, Co-founder at Callosum: BREAKING: Callosum raised $100m Seed

Thomas Bigagli, EMEA Partner at Plug and Play Ventures: Europe needs bigger and faster capital to keep startups home

Srdjan Kovacevic, CEO & Co-Founder of Orqa: Building leading drone hardware in Europe

Shahriar Tajbakhsh, Co-founder & CTO of Metaview: BREAKING: Metaview acquired Reval

Ameera Patel, CEO at TidalSense: TidalSense diagnoses lung disease in under 4 minutes

Jan Oberhauser, Founder & CEO at n8n: Freeing employees from repetitive boring tasks

Zaya Kadyrova, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Aspire11: Unlocking Europe's pension money for tech growth

Patrick Murphy, Partner at Tapestry VC: Backing the repeat founders behind Europe's unicorns

Dan Lifshits & Ilia Drozdov, Co-founders of Dwelly: BREAKING: Dwelly raised $170m Series B

Linus Eriksson Noren and Resat Ozutok, Co-founders of TechCredit Partners: TechCredit Partners helps founders raise debt to scale faster

Oana Jinga, Co-founder of Dexory: Dexory’s robots save warehouses millions

Issie James, Co-founder at Onstage: BREAKING: Onstage has been acquired by Sifted

Stanislaw Kastory and Mikolaj Firlej, Co-founders and General Partners at Expeditions: Backing Europe's defence startups with €197m fund

Jacomo Corbo, CEO & Co-Founder at PhysicsX: Helping companies design & manufacture industrial products faster

Francesco Sciortino, Co-Founder & CEO of Proxima Fusion: Building the critical power infrastructure for clean energy

Max Buchan, CEO of Valarian: BREAKING: Valarian raised $50m Series A

Jon Steinback, Co-Founder and CEO at Marker: BREAKING: Marker raised $13m Seed

Laura McGinnis, Partner at Singular: Growing Singular's London office to back UK founders

Sai Shivareddy, Founder and CEO at Nyobolt: Building the critical power infrastructure for the AI world

Carla Gómez Cano, Co-founder at THEKER: Theker Robotics’ generalist robots automate any factory task

Toby Mather, Co-Founder of Rig: BREAKING: Rig raised $2.8 Pre-seed

Jonathan Godwin, CEO at Orbital: Orbital raised $50m Series B

Seltz raised $12.5M seed: Antonio Mallia, CEO at Seltz

Will Bennett, Principal at Seedcamp: BREAKING: Seedcamp closed $220M + $100M Funds

Matteo Benedetti, Founder at Debtist: Debtist scaled to €15M ARR in just 3 years

Jacob Houlberg, Co-founder of Evertrace: Evertrace helps early stage funds identify new investment opportunities

JP Haas, Co-Founder & CEO at Conduct: BREAKING: Conduct just raised $60m in a Series A

Pablo Palafox, CEO at HappyRobot: HappyRobot helps enterprises run core operations with AI

Judith Dada, General Partner, Visionaries Club: How Europe can stay competitive in the age of AI

Nad Chishtie, Founding Designer, Head of Design at Lovable: Turning non-technical people into builders

Johannes von Borries and Benjamin Erhart, GPs at UVC Partners: Backing Europe’s next deep tech champions

Michael Bajwa, CEO and Co-founder of Zaro: BREAKING: Zaro just raised $5.1m pre-seed

Hadrien Canter, CEO and Co-founder of Alta Ares: BREAKING: Alta Ares just raised $50m

Jordi Romero, Founder and CEO at Factorial: Factorial raised $150m at a $2.5b valuation

Oliver Molander, Founding General Partner of Inception Fund: Europe needs to build indispensable technology.

Alex McCracken, Head of Venture Capital Relationships, EMEA at J.P.Morgan: European AI startups are raising bigger rounds than ever

David Helgason, Co-founder at Transition Ventures: Raising $150m Fund II

Ashley Paulus, VP of Revenue (UK & EEA) at Checkout.com: Checkout.com reached 78% growth in the UK and 60% in Europe

Philipp Schröder, Co-founder and CEO at 1KOMMA5°: Delivering the cheapest and cleanest electricity in the world

Jonathan Low, CEO at Scope: BREAKING: Scope raised $20m

Manuel Silva Martinez, GP at Mouro Capital: BREAKING: Mouro Capital closed $400m fund

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