Hosted by Sebastian Johnson · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 194 episodes
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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.
Sebastian Johnson hosts Scaling Europe, a business show with 194 episodes published.
Factorial just raised $150m from General Catalyst at a $2.5bn valuation as the company enters its next phase as an AI-native business. The new capital will be used to accelerate growth through acquisitions across Europe.
Show notesEuropean investors are moving faster, while global funds are becoming increasingly active across the Nordics. As competition for the best founders intensifies, technical talent is attracting more attention than ever at t
Show notesEuropean AI startups are raising billion-dollar rounds, while defence and deep tech companies are attracting far larger rounds than the market was seeing a few years ago. Alex McCracken is Head of Venture Capital Relatio
Show notesTransition VC raised a new $150m fund to back highly technical founders building the next generation of energy, compute and industrial companies. David Helgason, Co-founder at Transition VC, says AI is increasing demand
Show notesCheckout.com is one of Europe’s leading payments companies, powering transactions for some of the world’s biggest digital businesses. Ashley Paulus, VP of Revenue (UK & EEA) at Checkout.com, is leading the company’s grow
Show notes1KOMMA5° is working to deliver the cheapest and cleanest electricity in the world, at a time when energy is becoming one of the biggest questions behind the AI boom. Philipp Schröder, Co-founder and CEO at 1KOMMA5°, has
Show notesScope is building AI for the people who inspect the physical world, from factories and industrial equipment to the assets companies rely on every day. Jonathan Low is CEO at Scope, and the company has just raised $20m le
Show notesMouro Capital is a fintech-focused venture firm investing at the intersection of financial services and technology. Manuel Silva Martinez is a GP at Mouro Capital, and they just announced a new $400m fund backed by Banco
Show notesEuropean founders are still going to the US earlier than ever, but AI is now changing how the companies they build actually operate. Martin Mignot, Partner at Index Ventures, looks at this shift from inside a global firm
Show notesAI data centres are running into a network bottleneck as models demand more bandwidth, more connected processors and dramatically more power. James Regan, CEO of Oriole Networks, thinks the industry is still trying to sc
Show notesFounders can spend years building valuable companies while paying themselves almost nothing, with all of the upside locked away until an exit that may still be years off. Kevin Smith, CEO at Venture Comet, is building a
Show notesMost people running multiple roles have no clear way to price their work or decide what is actually worth their time. June Angelides MBE, Founder of the Portfolio Method and Venture Partner at Samos Investments, is build
Show notesEarlybird raised a €360 million early-stage fund, its largest yet, after extending the hard cap during the raise to bring in an additional institutional LP. Andre Retterath, General Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital,
Show notesStefan Bader is a the co-founder and CEO of Cello, a tech company focused on user-led growth through referral-based marketing for B2B software companies. He is also running the GTM10 awards - an awards programme for the
Show notesDeel has grown into one of the fastest scaling SaaS companies globally, building a fully remote organisation of over 7,000 people and reaching more than $1 billion in annual revenue. Dan Westgarth, COO at Deel, shares ho
Show notesRivan has just raised a £25 million Series A to scale its synthetic fuel technology, after building and operating the UK’s largest synthetic natural gas plant in under a year. Harvey Hodd, Founder at Rivan, shares how th
Show notesStation F has become one of the defining institutions in French tech, housing 1,000 early-stage startups in Paris and launching F/ai, a new AI programme bringing together major labs, top funds and a sharper focus on comm
Show notestozero is building Europe’s first industrial battery recycling demonstration plant, taking lithium-ion battery recycling from research to a live facility running in the real world. Sarah Fleischer and Ksenija Milicevic N
Show notesArbio is acquiring holiday home portfolios across Europe and using AI to turn highly manual property managers into much more scalable businesses. Constantin Schröder, Co-founder at Arbio, shares how the company has compl
Show notesConnectd has grown to 17m ARR, building a cross-border network of senior talent and enabling companies to access specialised expertise on a flexible basis. Roei Samuel, CEO at Connectd, says the shift to fractional work
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