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Scaling Europe — 216 episodes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Martin Mignot, Partner at Index Ventures: How founders are building and leading companies in the AI era

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James Regan, CEO of Oriole Networks: Building radically faster networks for AI

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Kevin Smith, CEO at Venture Comet: Helping founders unlock equity earlier in their startup journey

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June Angelides MBE, Founder of the Portfolio Method and Venture Partner at Samos Investments: Building a platform to manage multiple roles and income streams

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Andre Retterath, General Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital: Earlybird’s €360m fund and the future of European deep tech

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Stefan Bader: CEO on Cello on automating growth and GTM

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Dan Westgarth, Chief Operating Officer at Deel: From Revolut to Deel: inside two hypergrowth companies

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Harvey Hodd, founder at Rivan: Rivan raised a £25 million Series A

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Roxanne Varza, Director at Station F: Station F became a launchpad for Europe’s top startups

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Sarah Fleischer & Ksenija Milicevic Neumann, Co-founders at tozero: Building Europe’s first battery recycling plant

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Constantin Schröder, Co-founder at Arbio: How Arbio built an AI-enabled rollup machine for holiday rentals

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Roei Samuel, CEO at Connectd: Connectd is one of the fastest growing companies in Europe with 17m ARR

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Dan Lifshits & Ilia Drozdov, Co-founders of Dwelly: Entering the London market.

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Jonathan Sanders, CEO at Light: Light replaces fragmented finance tools with one platform

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Jon Coker, Founding Partner at Eka Ventures: Eka Ventures closed £80m second fund

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Mark Ball, Artistic Director at the Southbank Centre: AI and technology are changing how art is experienced

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Carlos Eduardo Espinal, Managing Partner at Seedcamp: European tech moved from small thinking to building for global stage

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BREAKING: Isaiah Baril-Dore, Index Ventures: UK expands EMI stock option scheme for startups

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Nick de la Forge, Co-Founder / GP at Planet A Ventures: Angel money is coming back to European tech

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Nadir Izrael, Co-founder & CTO at Armis Security: Armis got acquired by ServiceNow for $7.75B

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BREAKING: Orrick just launched DealFlow 6.0 report: Jamie Moore, Partner at Orrick

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Founders need to think global from day one: Sara Rywe, General Partner at byFounders

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IQM becomes the first listed European quantum computing company: Jan Goetz, CEO & Co-Founder at IQM

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Defence, security and resilience funding in Europe grew 4x in 5 years: Sander Verbrugge

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Brite pay-by-bank operates across 27 markets: Lena Hackelöer, Founder & CEO at Brite Payments

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Granola raised $125 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation: Sam Stephenson, Co-founder

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Spore.Bio’s technology can detect bacteria in 10 minutes: Amine Raji, Co-founder & CEO, Spore.Bio

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Startups in Europe are being built to win globally: Filip Dames, Founding Partner at Cherry Ventures

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Credo announces $88m Fund V: Maciek Gnutek & Jakub Krikava, Parters at Credo Ventures

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Dash0 raises $110M Series B at $1B valuation: Mirko Novakovic, CEO at Dash0

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0TO9 wants to build 1,000 profitable fintech companies: Jessica Holzbach, Partner and CEO at Germany 0TO9

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UK venture funding reaches $23.6B: Jenny Edwards, Managing Director, Head of NatWest Venture Banking

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A new generation of researcher founders think like engineers: Devika Thapar & Ale Maiano, Co-founders at Wilbe

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Fuse exceeds $500m ARR: Alan Chang, Founder and CEO at Fuse Energy

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nexos.ai raised two rounds in its first year: Justas Morkūnas, COO at nexos.ai

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Wiz is the largest venture-backed M&A in history: Shardul Shah, Partner at Index Ventures

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Backing Alan from 2017 to €785M ARR at a €5B valuation: Jan Hammer, Partner at Index Ventures

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Jentic builds the missing layer between AI and enterprise systems: Sean Blanchfield, CEO at Jentic

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Entrepreneurs First raised $200M: Jonny Clifford, Partner at Entrepreneurs First

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Wordsmith AI grows 100% quarter-on-quarter: Ross McNairn, CEO at Wordsmith AI

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From U.S. Navy pilot to CEO of Cloudsmith: Glenn Weinstein, CEO at Cloudsmith

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Harmonic is the startup discovery engine: Darri Atlason, Head of Growth at Harmonic

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Europe’s future GDP growth needs tech: Niklas Zennström, CEO at Atomico

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QuantumLight applies Revolut lessons as a venture firm: Dora Zikouli, Investor at Quantumlight VC

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ElevenLabs grew from 10 people to 400 in 3 years : Victoria Weller, Operations at ElevenLabs

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Valla's smart legal platform identifies workplace issues: Danae Shell, Founder and CEO of Valla

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ROCSYS enables charging robotaxis without humans: Crijn Bouman, CEO & Co-founder at ROCSYS

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Lawhive raised $60m Series B: Pierre Proner, Co-founder and CEO at Lawhive

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From AXA to $2.5B AUM at AVP: François Robinet, Founder & managing partner at AVP

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How a16z WON ElevenLabs Series A: Bryan Kim, Partner at A16Z

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Real leather without animals in a $100bn market: Michael Newton, CEO at Qorium

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Alpine Eagle builds air-to-air defence: Jan-Hendrik Boelens, Founder and CEO

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Sisyphus Ventures €20m fund backing defence founders: Louise Boucher, Founder and Managing Partner.

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Revolut's formula for high performance: Georgian Andrei, GM at Revolut People

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AI agent Fin nearing $100m revenue: Des Traynor, Co-founder at Intercom.

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Gilion offers intelligent funding with AI precision: Henrik Landgren, Co-founder & CPTO Gilion

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ivee has just raised £1m Seed: An interview with Amelia Miller, Co-founder of ivee

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Bloom & Wild has 20% YoY growth: Aron Gelbard, Co-founder and CEO

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Unitary AI agents deliver ROI day one: Sasha Haco, CEO & Co-founder

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George Davis, CEO at Lorum: 80% month-to-month growth for 6 months

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Encord has just raised a $60m Series C: An interview with Co-CEO and Co-founder Eric Landau

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Diyala D'Aveni, CEO at Vento: Italian founders building global companies

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An Interview with Danyal Akarca, Co-founder at Callosum & Suraj Bramhavar, Programme Director at Aria

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Tom Wehmeier, Partner | Head of Intelligence at Atomico: Europe has a culture of lifting everyone up

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An interview with Luke Harries, Growth / Engineering at ElevenLabs

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Eric Liaw, General Partner at IVP: European founders should enter US earlier

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Jarek Kutylowski, CEO and founder at DeepL: Why DeepL wouldn’t settle for “good enough” AI.

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Ritesh Singhania, Co-founder and CEO at Zango: Building AI agents for compliance

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Karl Gilbert, CEO & Co-Founder of Raylo on raising £150m, generating £50m of revenue and £10m profit

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Mati Staniszewski, Co-Founder at ElevenLabs: $11bn valuation and $330m ARR

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Lars Rasmussen: Cofounder of Google Maps and Panathenea

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Richard Anton, General Partner at Oxx: Europe has everything but capital

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Albert Malikov - CEO of Stacks, announcing their $23m Series A!

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Benedikt Nolte, Co-founder and CEO at Plato: Announcing their $14.5m seed after 10x growth last year

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SurrealDB has raised a $23m Series A Boost: An interview with the two founders!

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Ruben Miessen Co-founder and CEO at LegalFly: 8x ARR Growth in One Year

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"How to thrive as an employee in the AI era": Euan Blair, Founder and CEO at Multiverse

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Carl Pei, CEO at Nothing: Building a smartphone company is nearly impossible ant Nothing did it

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Eric Queathem, Co-founder at Velocity: Building the first platform for global CFOs and treasurers.

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Hakob Astabatsyan, Co-Founder and CEO at SynthFlow: Driving Double-Digit ROI with AI Workflows

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Gui Gomes and Joao Alves: Bleap is building a fintech completely on the blockchain

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Matt Miller: Founder & Managing Partner, Evantic Capital in his FIRST interview since leaving Sequoia

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Ashley Montanaro: Co-founder and CEO at Phasecraft: Turning quantum theory into software

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Lukas Saari, Co-founder and CEO of Tandem Health: Tackling admin in healthcare

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Meet Tyler Edwards: The former MI5 and GCHQ agent who just raised £2m for his AI systems!

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Max Buchan, CEO at Valarian: Building infrastructure to secure critical systems

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Hannah Payette Peterson, Co-MD at Nucleate Berlin: Why Europe struggles to turn science into startups

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“Great founders don’t have an exit plan”: Carmen Alfonso Rico, founder at Cocoa.

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Duco van Lanschot: Co-Founder and CEO at Duna announcing a $30m Series A!

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Fintech Cleo hits $350m ARR and returns to the UK: An interview with Barney, the Founder and CEO

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An interview with Yann de Vries on raising a €1bn Growth Fund for European Deep Tech!

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How Attio 3x'ed its customers in the last year, with CEO Nicolas Sharp

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Mick Hodgins, GM EMEA at Notion, on scaling Notion in Europe and building with AI

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Joe McDonald, Co-founder and CEO of tem: Fixing the $900bn problem in energy

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Gabe Pereyra, Harvey, and Ilya Fushman, Kleiner Perkins: How law firms went all-in on AI.

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"How we bootstrapped €5k into a €100m exit": Sevan Marian: Co-founder & CEO at Fleet

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Vidu Shanmugarajah, GP at Google Ventures, on backing Synthesia from Series B to a $200m Series E

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Kanishka Narayan MP: Minister for AI and Online Safety, on how the UK can win in AI!

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How we grew and scaled to a $32bn exit in 5 years (Josh Reiner, VP of Wiz)

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Synthesia CEO on turning down a $3bn acquisition offer and instead raising at a $4bn valuation

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BREAKING: 2150 has raised its second fund closes reaching €500m in assets under management!

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Chaz Englander: Co-Founder and CEO At Model ML on how he raised $75m 6 months after their seed

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Bar Winkler, Co-founder and CEO of Wonderful on how they raised a $100m Series A

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Andreas Klinger announcing his new $15m Fund!

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Maor Sason: Cofounder and CEO at Appcharge on how they're taking on Apple and Google!

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Madeline Lawrence: Chief Growth officer at Aikido announcing their $60m raise at a $1bn valuation!

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Edgar Vicente: Founding Partner of Enzo Ventures on raising a fund in your 20s

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Peter Wood: Founder and CEO of the Graduate guide on getting acquired as a 24 year old and building his second!

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An interview with Judith Dada: General Partner at Visionaries Club

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Itxaso del Palacio: General Partner at Notion Capital on how founders avoid burnout

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Tamar Gomez and Wiem Gharbi: Cofounders at Ankar on raising $20m!

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Sebastian Fallert: Co-founder and CEO of Ben announcing a $27m fundraise!

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Georgia Stevenson: Partner at Index Ventures on investing in Mirelo - a European foundation model in

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CJ Simon-Gabriel: CEO and Co-founder of Mirelo AI announcing their $42m Seed from Index and a16z!

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Omid Ekhlasi: Founder & CEO of Techarena - Scandinavia's Biggest Tech & Business Event

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An interview with Alice Bentinck: CoFounder and CEO at Entrepreneurs First

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Paul Rippon, the cofounder of Monzo and Starling launches a $300m fund

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An interview with Michiel Kotting: Early investor into Vinted, Fiverr and Personio

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Nicolas Sharp: Founder and CEO at Attio on taking on Salesforce from Europe

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Oliver Thomas: Managing Partner at Expedition Growth Capital as they announce a new €325m fund!

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Nicolas and Jonas: Cofounders of Donna announcing their $4.8m Seed round!

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Mark Swan: CEO & Co-Founder at Nevis announcing their $35m Series A led by Sequoia!

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Charles Maddock: CEO at Strawberry Browser on building the browser of the future

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Roman Chernin: Cofounder at Nebius AI on how they've built Europe's $25bn AI Infrastructure giant

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Carles Reina: Solo GP at Baobab announcing his $15m fund!

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Aidan Cramer: CEO of AIApply on seed-strapping to 1 million users and millions of revenue

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Leonardo Ubbiali: Founder & CEO at Visum Labs

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Joel hambly: Founding partner at Onstage announcing their £10m Fund to build the YC of Europe!

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Daniel and Felix: Co-Founders at Cellbyte on $2.75m raise!

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Marius Meiners: Co-Founder & CEO at Peec AI announcing their $21m Series A!

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Paulo Guichard: Co-Founder & CEO at Condukt announcing their $10m round!

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Fabio Schmidberger: Co-Founder and CEO at voize announcing their $50m Series A led by Balderton!

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Tobias Bengtsdahl: Partner at Antler on the state of Nordic Tech

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Vidya Peters: CEO of DataSnipper - the fastest growing company in the Netherlands

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Andre de Haes: Co-Founder and Partner at Backed VC announcing their new $100m fund

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Milos Rusic: CEO & Co-founder at deepset

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Boaz Falkin: Cofounder and CEO at Falkin on raising $2m to prevent AI Scams

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Will Orde: Partner at Passion Capital

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Jonny Plein: Cofounder of YASO

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Callum Woodcock: Founder and CEO at WineFi

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Mark Fairless: CEO at ClearBank on hitting profitability and surpassing £100m of revenue

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Tom Pope: Co-founder & CEO at Adfin

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Taos Edmondson: Partner at dmg ventures, Founder at Onstage

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Rory O'Neill: CMO at Checkout.com

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Vesence raises $9m from Emergence, Anton Osika and Paul Graham | Henrik and Ludvig, the Cofounders

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Alexandre Berriche: Founder at Fleet, Scout at Sequoia and Super Angel

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Harry Stebbings being interviewed at the Onstage Demo Day

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Xavier Collins: Co-founder & CEO of Wonder Studios

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Olivier Godement: Head of Product, Platform at OpenAI

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Interviews with the Onstage Hacknight judges: Episode 1, Chapter One, Antler and the Winners!

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Amal Jolly: Founder and CEO at Saturn on raising a $15m Series A in just 10 days

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Arnau Ayerbe: Cofounder at Throxy on going through YC and hitting 7 figures of ARR

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Tom Wehmeier - Partner, Head of Intelligence @ Atomico

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Nikola Mrkšić, Cofounder and CEO @ PolyAI

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Gauthier Van Malderen - Founder and CEO of Perlego

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Matthew Wilson, Co-founder & CEO @ Jack and Jill, on raising $20m to fix recruitment

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Victor Riparbelli - Co-Founder & CEO at Synthesia.io

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Maximilian Kufner, Co-founder & CEO @ Again

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Hedda Båverud Olsson - CEO & co-founder at Lassie on hitting €70m ARR and €1m ARR per employee

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Dom Hallas - Executive Director at the Startup Coalition, on what the UK needs to do for startups

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Building the Lovable of video creation, with Dimi Nikolaou - the Founder and CEO of Wondercraft

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Sabba Keynejad, CEO & Co-founder at VEED.IO

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Maik Taro Wehmeyer, Co-Founder & CEO @ Taktile

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Enrico Mellis, Partner at Lakestar (+ a guest appearance from the guy building the European SpaceX)

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Jan Philipp Haas - CEO & Co-Founder @ Conduct

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Balderton Capital's 25 Year Anniversary: An Interview with Bernard Liautaud and Suranga Chandratillake

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George Henry, Partner at LocalGlobe

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Ivan Tregear, CTO and Cofounder of KAIKAKU - the startup building robots for restaurants!

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Malte Kosub, CEO & Co-Founder at Parloa - the German AI Unicorn

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Sélim Benayat: 2x exited founder and now building AI Hardware at Nothing Technology ​

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Thomas Wolf - Cofounder at Hugging Face⁩ on LLMs, robotics and the future of technology

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Sandeep Bakshi, Head of European Investments at Prosus Ventures

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Sam Tidswell-Norrish, Chair & Founder @ OPUS

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Andreas Klinger, Co-initiator at EU-Inc, and founder at ⁨Prototype Capital

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Alan Chang, Co-Founder and CEO @ Fuse Energy

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Richard Hollingsworth, CO-Founder & CEO @ Fyxer AI

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Julio Martínez, Co-founder & CEO at Abacum on how he tripled revenue while keeping headcount flat

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David Villalon, CO-Founder & CEO @ Maisa

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Jan Sommerfeld, COO @ Almedia on bootstrapping to $100m of revenue

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Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, Co-founder & CEO at SurrealDB

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Ben Drury, Co-Founder and CEO at Yoto

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Matt Henderson - Cofounder and CEO of Phoebe

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Bill Dobie - Founder and CEO at Sedna

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Max Sinclair, CEO at Azoma, on how brands should be thinking about AI search

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Will Wells, Ex-AI Founder and now Partner at SpeedInvest

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Saul Klein, Founder of LocalGlobe (and investor into 13 Unicorns at Seed)

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Guy Ward Thomas, Partner at DN Capital, and early investor in Europe's largest AI exit to date

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Brian Walker, Founder at Revel

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Jake Wells, Cofounder at Meshed

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Issie James, Cofounder at Onstage

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Amelia Miller, Cofounder of Ivee