Podcast · 251 episodes
Scaling Europe, page 2
by Sebastian Johnson · English
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.
All episodes, page 2
Patrick Murphy, Partner at Tapestry VC: Backing the repeat founders behind Europe's unicornsTapestry VC’s $80M third fund and its thesis of backing “repeat founders” in Europe to build globally scalable companies.30 Jul 2026 · 27 min · 15 chapters
Dan Lifshits & Ilia Drozdov, Co-founders of Dwelly: BREAKING: Dwelly raised $170m Series BDwelly, an AI-native residential lettings platform, announces a $170m Series B led by EQT Growth with General Catalyst co-leading.28 Jul 2026 · 17 min · 8 chapters
Linus Eriksson Noren and Resat Ozutok, Co-founders of TechCredit Partners: TechCredit Partners helps founders raise debt to scale fasterTechCredit Partners (London-based) explains how venture debt helps tech founders scale without unnecessary equity dilution, and why European debt demand is accelerating for capital-intensive…27 Jul 2026 · 22 min · 8 chapters
Oana Jinga, Co-founder of Dexory: Dexory’s robots save warehouses millionsDexory’s 18-meter “realtor” robots scan warehouses 24/7 to create continuously updated digital twins, giving logistics and warehouse operators visibility and enabling cost savings and better order…24 Jul 2026 · 22 min · 10 chapters
Issie James, Co-founder at Onstage: BREAKING: Onstage has been acquired by SiftedOnstage’s acquisition by Sifted and what it means for Onstage’s Demo Day, Deploy, and the early-stage startup audience strategy.23 Jul 2026 · 18 min · 9 chapters
Stanislaw Kastory and Mikolaj Firlej, Co-founders and General Partners at Expeditions: Backing Europe's defence startups with €197m fundExpeditions, a Europe-focused defense/security venture fund, discusses closing its second €197m fund, how it unlocked institutional capital despite defense restrictions, and its strategy for…22 Jul 2026 · 22 min · 12 chapters
Jacomo Corbo, CEO & Co-Founder at PhysicsX: Helping companies design & manufacture industrial products fasterJacomo Corbo (PhysicsX) explains how PhysicsX is replacing legacy numerical engineering simulation with AI “inference” physics models to speed product development and extend high-fidelity simulation…17 Jul 2026 · 24 min · 11 chapters
Francesco Sciortino, Co-Founder & CEO of Proxima Fusion: Building the critical power infrastructure for clean energyProxima Fusion’s plan to build steady-state magnetic confinement fusion using a stellarator (not pulsed systems), aiming for intrinsically safe, dispatchable clean baseload power.16 Jul 2026 · 24 min · 9 chapters
Max Buchan, CEO of Valarian: BREAKING: Valarian raised $50m Series AValarian (Acra) raises a $50m Series A led by NEA; discusses building secure “walled garden” digital infrastructure for running sensitive AI/critical workloads across any compute (public, private,…14 Jul 2026 · 22 min · 10 chapters
Jon Steinback, Co-Founder and CEO at Marker: BREAKING: Marker raised $13m SeedJon Steinback, co-founder/CEO of Marker, announces the company’s exit from stealth and a $13m seed round led by Index (with other participants).9 Jul 2026 · 16 min · 9 chapters
Laura McGinnis, Partner at Singular: Growing Singular's London office to back UK foundersLaura McGinnis announces she’s joining Singular as a partner to grow Singular’s London office and support UK/Ireland founders earlier, especially at Series A (with Seed to Series B).9 Jul 2026 · 19 min · 10 chapters
Sai Shivareddy, Founder and CEO at Nyobolt: Building the critical power infrastructure for the AI worldNyaBolt (Cambridge) builds fast, high-density energy storage for AI infrastructure, targeting dynamic power needs in data centers, mobile robotics, and “AI factories.” The episode argues…8 Jul 2026 · 24 min · 8 chapters
Carla Gómez Cano, Co-founder at THEKER: Theker Robotics’ generalist robots automate any factory taskTHEKER Robotics’ generalist, reconfigurable industrial robots that automate heterogeneous factory tasks (moving, assembling, garment folding) and deploy them quickly on customer sites, using a…7 Jul 2026 · 19 min · 13 chapters
Toby Mather, Co-Founder of Rig: BREAKING: Rig raised $2.8 Pre-seedRig’s $2.8M pre-seed raise and its “headless” AI data infrastructure for using internal SaaS data with AI (ingest, connect to a warehouse, add a context layer, and enable AI agents/apps/automations…1 Jul 2026 · 22 min · 10 chapters
Jonathan Godwin, CEO at Orbital: Orbital raised $50m Series BScaling Europe podcast episode featuring Jonathan Godwin (co-founder/CEO of Orbital Industries) discussing Orbital’s $50m Series B (led by Plural), its “AI industrial” approach, and how AI is used to…29 Jun 2026 · 21 min · 8 chapters
Seltz raised $12.5M seed: Antonio Mallia, CEO at SeltzSeltz’s $12.5M seed raise and launch of a web search product built specifically for AI models/agentic workflows, aiming to reduce hallucinations by delivering the actual information and context AI…24 Jun 2026 · 20 min · 6 chapters
Will Bennett, Principal at Seedcamp: BREAKING: Seedcamp closed $220M + $100M FundsWill Bennett (Seedcamp) announces Seedcamp Fund7 ($220M core) plus a $100M “select fund” for Series B+ with a US angle, and explains Seedcamp’s evolving pre-seed strategy, founder profiles, and…22 Jun 2026 · 21 min · 7 chapters
Matteo Benedetti, Founder at Debtist: Debtist scaled to €15M ARR in just 3 yearsMatteo Benedetti, co-founder of Debtist, explains how the company uses an end-to-end, in-house AI platform to digitize and automate receivables management/collections across Europe, and discusses…19 Jun 2026 · 19 min · 7 chapters
Jacob Houlberg, Co-founder of Evertrace: Evertrace helps early stage funds identify new investment opportunitiesEvertrace, a data-driven “founder detection” platform for early-stage VCs, using signals from stealth, company registries, domains, GitHub, patents/grants, and other high-intent activity to surface…18 Jun 2026 · 23 min · 13 chapters
JP Haas, Co-Founder & CEO at Conduct: BREAKING: Conduct just raised $60m in a Series AConduct, co-founded by JP Haas, announces a $60M Series A co-led by Index and Iconic, with SAP joining as a strategic investor.16 Jun 2026 · 21 min · 13 chapters
Pablo Palafox, CEO at HappyRobot: HappyRobot helps enterprises run core operations with AIHappyRobot CEO Pablo Palafox explains how HappyRobot builds enterprise AI agents (voice and other channels) to run core operations across “order to cash,” orchestrating and governing agents for…12 Jun 2026 · 21 min · 9 chapters
Judith Dada, General Partner, Visionaries Club: How Europe can stay competitive in the age of AIJudith Dada discusses her AI-focused report “Europe 2031,” a scenario for the next five years arguing Europe is “asleep at the wheel” on AI.11 Jun 2026 · 25 min · 11 chapters
Nad Chishtie, Founding Designer, Head of Design at Lovable: Turning non-technical people into buildersNad Chishtie, founding designer and Head of Design at Lovable, discusses Lovable’s London expansion, design principles for empowering non-technical builders, and how AI is changing roles in product…10 Jun 2026 · 17 min · 8 chapters
Johannes von Borries and Benjamin Erhart, GPs at UVC Partners: Backing Europe’s next deep tech championsUVC Partners’ new €400M fund strategy for backing Europe’s next deep tech champions, especially seed-to-Series A and growth-stage deep tech/AI, with a focus on capital-intensive, long-timeline…9 Jun 2026 · 28 min · 12 chapters