Scaling Europe

Every week Seb Johnson sits down with 5 of Europe's best builders and investors to talk about what's going on in European Tech.Prior guests include the founders of Lovable, Cleo, Voi an Zilch, as well as top VCs from 20VC, Index, Balderton and Creandum.

Scaling Europe is a business podcast hosted by Sebastian Johnson, with 236 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Sebastian Johnson hosts Scaling Europe, a business show with 236 episodes published.

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  Lukas Saari, Co-Founder & CEO of Tandem Health: BREAKING: Tandem Health raised $100M Series B

  Sep 14, 202622 min

  Tandem Health just raised a $100m Series B led by the Scale-up Europe Fund, managed by EQT. Its AI medical assistant handles clinical documentation and admin work for doctors, from transcribing patient visits and drafting medical notes to handling referrals, coding, and prescriptions. Lukas Saari is Co-founder and CEO of Tandem Health. The company has grown from three co-founders to about 230 people in three years, and now works with over 10,000 care organisations across 14 European countries. With the new funding, they'll deepen their work with care providers and build a full AI-native operating system for clinics. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/ Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk Lovable: https://lovable.dev/ Parloa: https://www.parloa.com/ Conveo: https://conveo.ai/ NatWest: https://www.natwest.com/ WWT: https://www.wwt.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 Intro and the new $100m Series B 0:38 Where the round came from and what it unlocks 2:04 Selling AI tools into Europe's biggest healthcare providers 3:51 Why clinicians are actually pushing for this5:27 A day in the life with Tandem's AI 7:32 The four levels of clinic automation 9:59 Growing from 3 founders to 230 people in 3 years 13:01 Why Europe's fragmented healthcare system is a strength 16:34 Why no US competitor has come to Europe 17:55 What the $100m will fund next 18:47 Stockholm's founder community and momentum

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  Simon Schaefer, Co-initiator at EU-INC: EU INC unlocks the simplest way to fund and scale a company in Europe

  Sep 10, 202618 min

  EU-INC is a grassroots initiative pushing to establish a unified corporate law framework across Europe. By creating a virtual "28th regime," the movement aims to eliminate fragmented national bureaucracy and simplify how tech startups are founded, scaled, and funded. Simon Schaefer is a co-initiator of EU-INC who has been driving the movement from the ground up. They just launched a new campaign to get its policy passed within the next 100 days. It's pushing for a single European legal structure that would let startups incorporate and scale across the EU without dealing with 27 different national systems. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/ Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk Lovable: https://lovable.dev/ Parloa: https://www.parloa.com/ Conveo: https://conveo.ai/ NatWest: https://www.natwest.com/ WWT: https://www.wwt.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:19 - Where EU Inc stands today 0:57 - How the EU process for passing this works 1:44 - Why the original proposal got watered down 3:44 - What's still up for negotiation 5:03 - Why EU Inc wants one shared company registry 7:06 - Pushback from notaries and trade unions 9:53 - Germany's resistance and the fight over insolvency rules 13:28 - Working with EU officials and politicians 16:16 - The moment EU Inc got its name from Brussels 17:44 - How people can help in the next 100 days

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  Jack Miller and John Daley, Co-Founders of HelmGuard AI: BREAKING: Helmguard raised $7.3M Seed

  Sep 9, 202624 min

  HelmGuard just raised a $7.3m Seed round led by Infinity Ventures and Frontline. Its AI agents handle a company's security and compliance work automatically, checking everything all the time instead of relying on manual paperwork and periodic reviews. John Daley and Jack Miller are HelmGuard's co-founders, John as CEO and Jack as CTO. It took them just nine months to hit a million dollars in run rate with a three-person team. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/ Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk Lovable: https://lovable.dev/ Parloa: https://www.parloa.com/ Conveo: https://conveo.ai/ NatWest: https://www.natwest.com/ WWT: https://www.wwt.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:20 - HelmGuard's $7.3m seed round 0:45 - What HelmGuard's platform does 1:15 - John's eight years at Palantir 2:24 - Jack's background in AI research 5:48 - How HelmGuard reacts to new model releases 8:45 - HelmGuard's work with Callosum 12:27 - HelmGuard's plans for the new funding 14:12 - Why legacy security platforms can't keep up 15:54 - What the OpenAI incident means for AI oversight 20:57 - How the OpenAI incident changed HelmGuard's thinking

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  Zeynep Yavuz-Willson, Partner at General Catalyst: GC is an early stage investor and AI transformation firm

  Sep 8, 202634 min

  General Catalyst has built one of the most active investment theses in Europe around artificial intelligence transforming massive service industries like law, property management, accounting, and insurance. Their portfolio features companies tackling this shift from different angles, including Legora selling software directly to law firms and Dwelly scaling through hands-on growth in real estate. Zeynep Yavuz-Willson is a Partner at General Catalyst, where she focuses on early-stage investing across Europe. Before venture she worked in private equity and operating roles, and she says learning from founders is still her favourite part of the job. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/ Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk Lovable: https://lovable.dev/ Parloa: https://www.parloa.com/ Conveo: https://conveo.ai/ NatWest: https://www.natwest.com/ WWT: https://www.wwt.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:06 - Why General Catalyst is betting on AI transforming services 4:04 - Why Dwelly was worth the risk despite being burned before 8:39 - Which other service industries General Catalyst is watching 11:08 - Why customer trust is becoming the real advantage in AI 13:50 - The rest of the AI stack, open source and data 20:35 - Why concentrated industries adopt AI faster than fragmented ones 26:31 - How General Catalyst's capital model is changing 28:51 - Is General Catalyst still a venture firm 30:46 - How the venture industry has changed since 2020

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  Quddus Pativada and Dominic Raab, Founder and Founding advisor of Index Law: BREAKING: Dominic Raab joins Index Law

  Sep 4, 202620 min

  Dominic Raab, the former UK Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary, has just joined IndexLaw as a founding advisor. IndexLaw helps businesses and individuals handle legal work, review contracts, and build legal strategies using artificial intelligence. The platform automates routine tasks while connecting users with real lawyers for final review. Quddus Pativada is founder and CEO , and Dominic Raab is a founding advisor at IndexLaw. They believe AI can make legal help simple and put people directly in control of their own legal matters. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/ Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk?utm_source=other&utm_medium=partner_referral&utm_campaign=v01_emea_multi_ib_dg_prtmk_mofu_scalingeuropeLovable: https://lovable.dev/ Parloa: https://www.parloa.com/ Conveo: https://conveo.ai/ NatWest: https://www.natwest.com/ WWT: https://www.wwt.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:21 - What IndexLaw is building 1:06 - Dominic Raab's new role at IndexLaw 3:18 - The personal story behind IndexLaw's founding 6:00 - How IndexLaw differs from Harvey and Legora 9:14 - Why the legal industry is ripe for disruption 11:54 - The UK's unusually open rules for legal AI 14:17 - Dominic's day-to-day role as advisor 15:18 - How Quddus and Dominic's partnership began 17:56 - IndexLaw's goals for the next 18 months

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