Scaling Europe

00:23:11

Laura Connell, Partner at Atomico: Deep tech is...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/10/05

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 founders at the growth stage. More investors from the US, Asia and the Middle East are now backing these companies, while Europe's own growth funds are still too small to take a big

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00:22:28

Siadhal Magos, Co-founder & CEO at Metaview:...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/09/30

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 launched their newest agent, fillmore, which finds and reaches out to candidates and books them into meetings. It takes on the time-consuming parts of hiring, so recruiters can focus on the

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00:19:36

Alex Higginbottom, Founder at Zenithon...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/09/30

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 team is training larger AI models and getting them into the hands of their first customers in fusion and chipmaking. Both fields have trillions of possible designs to explore, which

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00:23:21

Oliver Vince, Co-Founder at Basecamp...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/09/23

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 Research, which is using this AI to design new medicines for cancer, rare genetic diseases and infections. The next step is getting the first ones to patients, which he expects within the

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00:17:52

Hugo da Silva, CEO at Morphotonics: Morphotonics...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/09/23

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 toward delivering their next-gen equipment and growing across Asia.The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjkSponsors:SurrealDB:

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00:18:13

Neil Daly, CEO of Skin Analytics: Helping detect skin...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/09/21

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 already found more than 25,000 cancers across the NHS.Neil Daly is Founder and CEO of Skin Analytics. His goal is to make sure no one dies from skin cancer, because caught early enough,

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00:16:38

Gustav Bang, Co-founder & CEO of Complir: BREAKING:...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/09/16

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 retailers and brands sell physical products anywhere in the world, handling the compliance work that would otherwise fall on the retailer itself.The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel

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00:21:28

Matt Wilson, Co-Founder and CEO of Jack &...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/09/15

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 are two AI agents, where Jack works for the person looking for the next step in their career, while Jill works for the company hiring. When they agree it's a good match, the

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00:20:47

Gianni Cuozzo, Founder & CEO at...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/09/15

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 connected systems, running on everything from coffee machines to satellites. The company has grown 400% year on year for the past three years, and it's now become one of Europe's

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00:21:42

Lukas Saari, Co-Founder & CEO of Tandem...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/09/14

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

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00:21:24

Christoph Klink, GP at Antler: Europe's funding gap...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/09/10

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 funding gap is one of the best opportunities in venture right now. Plenty of good companies can't get funded, and that's exactly where new investors could step in.The Scaling Europe

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00:18:29

Simon Schaefer, Co-initiator at EU-INC: EU INC...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/09/10

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

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00:23:54

Jack Miller and John Daley, Co-Founders of HelmGuard...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/09/09

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:

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00:34:10

Zeynep Yavuz-Willson, Partner at General Catalyst: GC...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/09/08

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

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00:19:51

Quddus Pativada and Dominic Raab, Founder and...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/09/04

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

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00:21:33

Gabriel Le Roux, Co-founder & CEO at Primer: Primer...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/09/03

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 businesses reduce failed payments, lower costs, and expand into new markets.Gabriel Le Roux is Co-founder and CEO at Primer. He believes that as payments get more automated and

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00:34:54

Erik Bernhardsson, CEO of Modal: Modal powers cloud...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/09/02

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 startups will keep needing more computing power than anyone expects, and that demand is contributing to Modal's growth.The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out

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00:25:39

Hendrik Van Hove, Co-founder of Conveo:...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/09/02

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 has grown from 12 to 80 people in less than a year.Hendrik Van Hove is Co-founder of Conveo. He believes the real value of AI for big companies comes from pairing it with people, and

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00:36:27

Danyal Akarca, Co-founder at Callosum: BREAKING:...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/08/20

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.Danyal Akarca is Co-founder at Callosum. He believes AI can only have a real economic impact once it becomes cheaper and faster to run, and that's exactly what Callosum is built

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00:20:52

Thomas Bigagli, EMEA Partner at Plug and Play...

Scaling Europe ·

2026/08/18

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 Ventures. He believes Europe already has the talent and ideas, and just needs investors willing to move faster and write bigger checks to keep its best startups from

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