Scaling Europe

The firm, which raised €210m for its second fund, invests in companies that are redefining cities and the industries that sustain them. It invests across energy, industrial decarbonisation, advanced manufacturing, mobility solutions, and urban systems. I sat down with their founding partner to hear all about it.

Chaz is a twice-exited founder now building Model ML - the fast-growing AI firm helping financial giants like UBS, HSBC and more automate their gruntwork. Fresh from raising one of Europe’s largest $75M Series A (six months after Seed), ModelML recently beat McKinsey and Bain in a benchmarking head-to-head, now operates across the UK, US, Singapore and Hong Kong, and is onboarding financial heavyw...

Wonderful is one of the fastest growing AI companies in the world. It launched in January last year, raised a $34m Seed in Summer and then a whopping $100m Series A led by Index Ventures. I chatted to their CEO about how they're growing so quickly, how they raised so much money and what's next

Andreas Klinger has just raised $15m for his new fund. His previous funds have been in top 5% of funds globally. We chat it all through. Timestamps: 01:25 - What does first cheque mean in Hardware/Robotics? 03:35 - Sourcing strategy 06:11- Does Europe underfund hardware companies at the early stages? 07:50 - Prototype Value-add 09:25 - How Andreas analyses investment opportunities 12:30 - Previous...

Appcharge has become the fastest-growing global payment solution, enabling game studios to scale paying user growth, customise web stores, optimise player retention, and gamify offerings all Direct-to-Consumer (DTC). The company recently raised a $58 million Series B round (led by IVP) and saw a year of record growth in which the company processed more than $500 million in transactions and grew fo...

Aikido Security has just raised $60 million USD in a Series B funding round at a $1 billion valuation, led by DST Global. Aikido’s Series B follows a year of rapid growth for the company, including five-times revenue growth and nearly three-times customer growth. The company is now the fastest-ever European cybersecurity company to reach unicorn status. I caught up with Madeline to get all the det...

At the age of 23 Edgar created Enzo Ventures. The firm invests millions into startups in Southern Europe every year and co-invests with some of the leading firms in the world. We sat down to discuss tech in southern europe, building a VC firm in your twenties and much more.

Peter's first company - The Graduate Guide, started as a podcast at university. He turned that into a successful business which just got acquired. Now he's building his second one. Tune in to hear his story from student to podcaster to serial entrepreneur.

Judith is one of Europe's leading European VCs. Her portfolio includes unicorns such as Personio and Parloa and her substack is quickly becoming one of the hottest media assets in European Tech. She writes deep dives about tech and the state of the ecosystem and every article causes a lot of noise and chatter across tech. We get into the newsletter, why Europe is heading for a perfect storm an...

Itxaso del Palacio, General Partner at Notion Capital, has just released an amazing report on founder wellbeing which states: Overall founders report feeling healthy (7 on a scale from 1 to 10) Early stage founders report more stress than later stage founders 40% of founders exercised for more than five hours a week Most founders who work over 80 hours a week don’t report fatigue or burnout. The r...

Tamar and Wiem met at Palantir before emabrking on their own entrepreneurial journey with Ankar. Ankar is building the AI operating system for innovation, reinventing how companies generate and protect their inventions and has already signed with leading Fortune 500 companies. They've just announced raising $20m raised from Atomico.

Ben is an employee benefits platform helping enterprise clients manage their benefit programmes. It has just announced raising a $27m Series B funding round led by Mercia Ventures with strong participation from existing investors Atomico, Cherry Ventures and DN Capital, along with Revolut founder Nik Storonsky’s Quantum Light Capital. I spoke to their Founder and CEO about the round, surpassing £1...

Index has just co-led a $41m seed round into Mirelo alongside Andreessen Horowitz. The team at Mirelo have built the market leading foundation model for developing sound for videos. The founders have a unique background of being musicians, academics, and having experience working in the big tech labs. I speak to Georgia about why they invested, and Index's view of AI across Europe

The team at Mirelo have built the market leading foundation model for developing sound for videos. The founders have a unique background of being musicians, academics, and having experience working in the big tech labs. They've just announced raising $41m from Index Ventures and a16z which we get into to.

Techarena has been a key player in growing the Nordic ecosystem, including recent success stories such as Sana, Tandem, Flower, and Too Good to Go. The 2026 Techarena event will play host to a star-studded line-up including Boris Johnson, Northvolt founder Peter Carlsson, Legora’s CEO Max Junestrand, and Lovable Co-founder Fabian Hedin. Omid was a former Swedish semi-professional footballer turned...

Alice co-founded Entrepreneurs First in 2011 along with Matt Clifford and is now the CEO of the business. The company has backed a range of amazing startups including Cleo, Tractable and PolyAI. While the portfolio is performing stronger than ever the team have come under fire for relocating their European founders to the US. We get into it all!

Paul has had one of the most interesting careers in UK Fintech: Joined Northern Rock as Credit Director 6 months before the credit crunch and had to help steer the company through the crisis. Started an alpaca farm with his wife Cofounded both Starling and Monzo Bank Now he's launching Rippon Capital - a new equity and debt fund to back UK founders. He's looking for companies around the Se...

Michiel is a partner at Northzone and one of Europe's leading VCs. He's led investments into Vinted, Fiverr and Personio - all multi billion dollar companies. He was also on the investment team at Accel when they invested into Spotify so he knows European Tech in and out. This one is a banger.

Nicolas is the CEO and Founder of Attio - the AI native CRM. The company announced a $52m Series B led by Google Ventures this summer and is absolutely crushing it: Over 5000 customers (inc. Lovable , Granola , Modal , and Replicate ) On track to 4x ARR this year $116m raised to date We discussed building from Europe, taking on Salesforce, building a product-led organisation and much more.

Expedition Growth Capital has raised a new $375m fund to back European software companies that have been bootstrapped. The company has already backed 17 bootstrapped software leaders from 9 European countries. The firm specialises in supporting companies that have bootstrapped to $5m ARR are looking for capital to help them get to $50m ARR. We discussed raising its 3rd fund in 5 years, backing boo...

Nicolas and Jonas are both exited entrepreneurs who are now building Donna - a AI assistant for field sales teams. The team has just announced a $4.8m seed round led by Frontline Ventures, and joined by Pitchdrive, Fortino Capital, Syndicate One, WeLoveFounders, and others. We get into the success they've seen to date, raising the round and what's next for the team!

Nevis is a purpose-built AI platform that helps financial advisors and their teams automate administrative workflows end-to-end. It's built by three amazing operators who met each other at Revolut and has just announced raising a $35m Series A from Sequoia Capital, ICONIQ, and Ribbit Capital.

Charles Maddock is the co-founder and CEO of Strawberry - one of the HOTTEST AI companies in Europe right now. The team are building an “agentic” AI-native browser designed to modernise how people automate and manage digital workflows at work and home. In October 2025, Strawberry raised $6M in seed funding led by General Catalyst and EQT Ventures, joined by founders from Lovable, Supabase, and Hug...

Nebius AI is one of the most interesting, and underrated, European AI companies out there. It was formed from the remnants of Yandex (the russian search browser that got hit with sanctions after the Ukraine War), and is now building the full-stack cloud for AI. It is flying recently: $25bn market cap (up 220% YTD) Recently signed a $20bn deal with Microsoft I chatted to their cofounder, Roman, to...

Carles is one of Europe's top investors and operators. His first investment as an angel was into Revolut. More recently he was the first investor into ElevenLabs, where he ended up working at employee number 4 and owning GTM (he grew ARR to over $200m). He's just launched his own VC - Baobab, which we get into.