Founders · new episode 23 Oct 2026
Scaling Europe
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European founders on scaling beyond their home market, and the money it takes.
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- 255Yinon Costica, Co-Founder and VP of Product at Wiz: Wiz’s AI agents protect companies from cyber attacks around the clock23 Oct 2026 · 35 minYinon CosticaGoogle▶Show page
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Wiz keeps the cloud systems of thousands of companies safe, and it has kept running as its own business since Google bought it earlier this year. It just launched Scan for Good, which uses its AI agents to find weak spots in critical services like hospitals and national archives before anyone can exploit them. Yinon…
- 254Carlos Trenchs Sainz de la Maza, Co-Founder at Masia: BREAKING: Masia closed first €18m fund22 Oct 2026 · 19 min▶Show page
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Masia just closed its first fund at €18m, backed by more than 70 founders, tech leaders and investors from Barcelona. It invests in startups with ties to the city at the very earliest stage, and connects them with some of the best funds from around the world. Carlos Trenchs Sainz de la Maza is Co-Founder and Chairman…
- 253Omer Kaplan, Co-Founder & CEO at ZyG: Helping e-commerce brands scale faster with AI agents19 Oct 2026 · 34 min▶Show page
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It’s easy to start selling online today, but growing an e-commerce brand into a much bigger business is still really hard. ZyG takes over the work of scaling for brands with great products, and its AI agents run everything from marketing to customer support. Omer Kaplan is Co-Founder and CEO, and they just launched…
- 252Nicolas Sharp, Founder & CEO of Attio: BREAKING: Attio powers 1.6 billion API calls a month14 Oct 2026 · 21 min▶Show page
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Attio just launched a new version of its CRM built for a world where AI agents do more and more of the work. Attio now handles 1.6 billion API calls a month, with usage growing 50% every month. Nicolas Sharp is Founder and CEO of Attio. Agents now handle the busy work, from routing leads to prepping calls, while…
- 251Raffi Kamber, General Partner & Co-Founder at Singular: Europe has unique talent for building AI and science companies8 Oct 2026 · 22 minRaffi KamberSingular▶Show page
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Singular is a Paris and London based venture firm backing some of Europe's most exciting early stage companies, from Basecamp Research to Aikido. Raffi Kamber is General Partner and Co-Founder at Singular. Europe is especially strong at combining AI and science, and a new generation of researchers is now starting…
- 250Laura Connell, Partner at Atomico: Deep tech is reshaping Europe’s growth stage funding5 Oct 2026 · 23 minLaura ConnellAtomico▶Show page
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Atomico is one of Europe's best known venture firms, backing tech companies from their early days all the way to going public. Europe now produces as many new tech companies as the US, and a lot of them will need big funding rounds as they grow. Laura Connell is a Managing Partner at Atomico, where she works with…
- 249Siadhal Magos, Co-founder & CEO at Metaview: BREAKING: Metaview Raised $60M Series C30 Sept 2026 · 22 min▶Show page
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Metaview just raised a $60m Series C led by Insight Partners, only a year after their previous round, bringing total funding to $110 million. Siadhal Magos is Co-founder and CEO of Metaview, which has grown from a tool for making sense of hiring conversations into a full set of AI agents for recruiting. They just…
- 248Alex Higginbottom, Founder at Zenithon AI: BREAKING: Zenithon AI raised $10m30 Sept 2026 · 20 minSOSV▶Show page
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Zenithon AI just raised $10m from Backed, Lunar, Seraphim, MMC, SOSV and others. It's building AI that runs complex physics simulations a million times faster than today's tools, so engineers can test far more designs before building anything. Alex Higginbottom is Founder at Zenithon AI. With the new funding, his…
- 247Oliver Vince, Co-Founder at Basecamp Research: BREAKING: Basecamp Research raised $140m Series C23 Sept 2026 · 23 min▶Show page
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Basecamp Research just raised a $140m Series C led by S32. It's teaching AI to read and write DNA, using huge amounts of genetic data it collects all over the world. It has been working with NVIDIA and Anthropic on its models, and both have now come in as investors too. Oliver Vince is Co-Founder at Basecamp…
- 246Hugo da Silva, CEO at Morphotonics: Morphotonics raised over €40m Series B23 Sept 2026 · 18 min▶Show page
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Morphotonics just raised over €40m Series B to build the machinery behind AI smart glasses and data center optics. Hugo da Silva is CEO of Morphotonics, and they make equipment that imprints microscopic displays onto AI smart glasses, combining high precision with mass manufacturing scale. The new funding will go…
- 245Neil Daly, CEO of Skin Analytics: Helping detect skin cancer using a phone21 Sept 2026 · 18 min▶Show page
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Skin Analytics has built AI technology that can spot skin cancer from a photo, and health systems use it to check patients faster and catch more cases early. Earlier this year, it got approval across Europe to check for skin cancer using just a smartphone camera, with no doctor needed to review each case. It has…
- 244Gustav Bang, Co-founder & CEO of Complir: BREAKING: Complir raised $11m Seed16 Sept 2026 · 17 min▶Show page
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Complir just raised an $11m Seed led by General Catalyst, with new and existing investors joining the round, just eight to nine months after its pre-seed round. They are growing rapidly and the revenue has grown 40% month over month for the last six months. Gustav Bang is Co-founder and CEO of Complir. It helps…
- 243Matt Wilson, Co-Founder and CEO of Jack & Jill: BREAKING: Jack and Jill raised $40m Series A15 Sept 2026 · 21 minAir Street CapitalStreet Capital▶Show page
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Jack and Jill just raised a $40m Series A led by Air Street Capital with Madrona joining the round, and participation from existing investors. This brings total funding to $60m, just ten months after their $20m Seed. Revenue has grown 40x since the seed round. Matt Wilson is Co-Founder and CEO of Jack & Jill. They…
- 242Gianni Cuozzo, Founder & CEO at Exein: BREAKING: Exein raised $270M at a $1.7B valuation15 Sept 2026 · 21 minGianni CuozzoEuropean Investment BankKfW Capital▶Show page
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Exein just raised $270m at a $1.7bn valuation. The round was led by Headline, with participation from Sofina, Goldman Sachs, European Investment Bank Group ETCI, KfW Capital and T.Capital, with involvement from previous investors. Gianni Cuozzo is Founder and CEO of Exein. It builds on-device security software for…
- 241Lukas Saari, Co-Founder & CEO of Tandem Health: BREAKING: Tandem Health raised $100M Series B14 Sept 2026 · 22 min▶Show page
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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…
- 240Christoph Klink, GP at Antler: Europe's funding gap is also its biggest opportunity10 Sept 2026 · 21 minChristoph KlinkAntler▶Show page
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Antler just released a new report recently on the state of European tech. It shows the biggest companies scaling faster and raising more money than ever, while funding for new companies at the earliest stages keeps shrinking. Christoph Klink is General Partner at Antler, an early stage venture firm. To him, the…
- 239Simon Schaefer, Co-initiator at EU-INC: EU INC unlocks the simplest way to fund and scale a company in Europe10 Sept 2026 · 18 minSimon Schaefer▶Show page
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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…
- 238Jack Miller and John Daley, Co-Founders of HelmGuard AI: BREAKING: Helmguard raised $7.3M Seed9 Sept 2026 · 24 minInfinity Ventures▶Show page
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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…
- 237Zeynep Yavuz-Willson, Partner at General Catalyst: GC is an early stage investor and AI transformation firm8 Sept 2026 · 34 minZeynep Yavuz-Willson▶Show page
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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…
- 236Quddus Pativada and Dominic Raab, Founder and Founding advisor of Index Law: BREAKING: Dominic Raab joins Index Law4 Sept 2026 · 20 min▶Show page
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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…
- 235Gabriel Le Roux, Co-founder & CEO at Primer: Primer gives companies more control over how they accept customer payments3 Sept 2026 · 22 min▶Show page
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Primer gives merchants one place to manage and optimise every part of their payments. Through a single integration, businesses can connect payment providers, payment methods, and fraud tools, then control how payments are routed and processed. By bringing payment data and AI-powered intelligence together, Primer helps…
- 234Erik Bernhardsson, CEO of Modal: Modal powers cloud infrastructure for AI2 Sept 2026 · 35 minErik Bernhardsson▶Show page
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Modal gives AI startups the computing power they need to run their products, and a safe way to run code their AI writes on its own. Its revenue has grown 5x this year and is now closing in on $1bn annually, backed by a recent $355m raise to keep up with demand.Erik Bernhardsson is CEO at Modal. He's certain AI…
- 233Hendrik Van Hove, Co-founder of Conveo: BREAKING: Conveo raised $50M Series A2 Sept 2026 · 26 minBalderton CapitalDST GlobalY Combinator▶Show page
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Conveo just raised a $50m Series A from DST Global, Balderton Capital, Visionaries, 6 Degrees Capital and Y Combinator, bringing its total funding to $55.8m. Conveo helps large companies understand what their customers want, using AI to run the research and get the findings to the teams that need them. The company…
- 232Danyal Akarca, Co-founder at Callosum: BREAKING: Callosum raised $100m Seed20 Aug 2026 · 36 minAtomicoDCVCPlural▶Show page
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Callosum just raised $100m led by Atomico, Plural and DCVC. It's one of the largest seed-stage rounds in UK history, coming just five months after Callosum came out of stealth. Callosum builds software that lets AI run across many different types of chips at the same time, making it faster, cheaper and more capable.…
- 231Thomas Bigagli, EMEA Partner at Plug and Play Ventures: Europe needs bigger and faster capital to keep startups home18 Aug 2026 · 21 minThomas BigagliPlay Ventures▶Show page
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Plug and Play Ventures invests in startups across Europe and runs a platform connecting them with large corporate partners. It has grown from a family office into an institutional investor with nine funds, and now runs 65 offices with more than 700 people worldwide. Thomas Bigagli is EMEA Partner at Plug and Play…
- 230Srdjan Kovacevic, CEO & Co-Founder of Orqa: Building leading drone hardware in Europe14 Aug 2026 · 24 min▶Show page
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Orqa is a Croatian company that designs and manufactures drones, components and ground stations entirely in Europe, a rare setup in an industry that mostly relies on China. Orqa now builds primarily for defence customers across NATO and the West, and shipped 250,000 products last year, a number it's on track to double…
- 229Shahriar Tajbakhsh, Co-founder & CTO of Metaview: BREAKING: Metaview acquired Reval11 Aug 2026 · 21 min▶Show page
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Metaview just acquired Reval, a recruiting agency built to run entirely on AI. The deal brings more talent and technology into Fillmore, Metaview's AI recruiting co-worker. Metaview's platform is already used by more than 5,000 companies, and Fillmore works by researching, sourcing and reaching out to candidates…
- 228Ameera Patel, CEO at TidalSense: TidalSense diagnoses lung disease in under 4 minutes7 Aug 2026 · 17 min▶Show page
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TidalSense has built a handheld device that diagnoses COPD, a common lung disease, in under four minutes. It's already used across the NHS and has drawn interest from more than 60 countries since launching last year. The Cambridge-based company just raised $19m to expand into new markets. Ameera Patel is CEO of…
- 227Zaya Kadyrova, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Aspire11: Unlocking Europe's pension money for tech growth4 Aug 2026 · 23 minZaya Kadyrova▶Show page
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Aspire11 invests European pension money into some of the world's biggest private tech companies, unlocking capital that's historically stayed on the sidelines. Its first fund raised €500m, and backs both early-stage VC funds and late-stage tech companies such as Revolut, Databricks, ElevenLabs and Vinted. Zaya…
- 226Jan Oberhauser, Founder & CEO at n8n: Freeing employees from repetitive boring tasks4 Aug 2026 · 51 minJan Oberhauser▶Show page
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n8n is a workflow automation platform that frees employees from repetitive, boring tasks. SAP recently made a strategic investment in the company, valuing it at €5.2bn, more than double what it was worth seven months ago. Jan Oberhauser is Founder and CEO of n8n. He believes the real value isn't the time saved, but…
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