Scaling Europe

AIApply is an AI-powered job-search platform that automates resume creation, cover-letter writing, interview preparation, and even end-to-end job applications through its auto-apply engine. It frequently goes viral on socials, has an incredibly lean team (4 people), and is doing millions in revenue.

Leo is a serial entrepreneur and YC founder. He's now building Visum Labs - an AI & Data consulting & implementation company. He's helping some of the leading tech companies in the world build and implement AI that has a meaningful impact on their business.

The team at Onstage run Europe's largest demo day. They get over 2,000 applications for 20 spots. It's quickly become one of the leading events in Europe and has seen amazing success. Demo day finalists have collectively raised more than £500m from leading VCs, with the likes of Scan.com (£60m) and Lawhive (£44m) becoming some of Europe’s fastest growing startups. Today it's announced...

The startup, founded in 2024 by Daniel Moreira, Felix Steinbrenner and Samuel M., has built an AI platform that helps pharmaceutical companies launch new drugs worldwide. It streamlines pricing, market access and regulatory workflows for drug launches by automating data extraction and insight generation, enabling faster decision-making across global markets. The company saw RAPID growth after laun...

Peec AI is one of the standout European companies of 2025. It launched at the start of the year and has exploded:- Gone from $0 to $4m+ ARR in 10 months- Onboarded 1,300 brands and agencies onboarded (including n8n, Attio and ElevenLabs)- Added 300+ new customers every monthThe company launched in February 2025 and raised a seed round led by 20VC in July 2025.Today it's announced raising a HUG...

The founders are ex-Revolut and have built a next-generation compliance platform for financial services powered by AI agents and real time data. It's already onboarded some amazing fintechs, such as Wise, Tide and Mollie. It's just announced raising a $10m round which we discuss on this episode.

Voize was founded by Fabio Schmidberger, Marcel Schmidberger, and Erik Ziegler, when the Schmidberger brothers’ grandfather moved into a nursing home, revealing the inefficiencies of healthcare documentation. The Berlin-based company has since exploded: 75k nurses and care workers are using the tool with 95%+ retention 1,100 care facilities have implemented the tool Growing 3x year over year Voize...

Tobias is a successful founder-turned-influential VC, currently a partner at Antler in the Nordics. Antler is a global early-stage investor present in 27 cities worldwide and has made over 1,500 investments across a portfolio valued at $5.7bn, including recent unicorns Lovable and Airalo. Tobias is one of the most well connected people in the ecosystem.

DataSnipper has been the #1 fastest-growing company in the Netherlands for the past two years and in 2024, the company achieved unicorn status following a $100m Series B led by Index Ventures, valuing the business at $1bn. The company has active users in 175 countries, 250 employees worldwide, and offices in Amsterdam, New York, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur.

European venture firm Backed VC has closed its third fund, Backed 3, at its $100 million cap, alongside making its 100th investment. The firm has a remarkable track record (5 unicorns) and it's first two funds are top performing funds in their vintage. I spoke to Cofounder and Partner Andre to get all the details of the fund.

Milos is the CEO and Co-founder of deepset - the Berlin AI company behind Haystack, a leading open-source framework for building secure, modular, and production-ready AI agents. Deepset has raised over $30m and empowers organisations like the European Commission and Airbus with trustworthy, adaptable AI solutions.​ We discussed why Sovereign AI means more than just owning models - it’s about contr...

Boaz is a serial fintech operator turned founder. He's spent years building and shipping at some of the UK's leading startups. Then his mother lost 15% of her life savings to a scam. This led him to create Falkin - an AI powered set of tools to stop people getting scammed. The company just raised $2m from leading VCs.

Will is a Partner at Passion Capital, one of the UK’s most recognised early-stage venture capital firms with a long track record of backing European founders in B2B SaaS, AI, fintech, and emerging risk sectors. Its portfolio includes Monzo, Marshmallow and Attio. Will joined Passion Capital as a Partner in October 2023 after leading investments at Conviction VC and high-profile roles at Downing Ve...

Jonny is a serial founder with one exit under his belt. He's now building YASO - a UK startup enabling global brands to directly sell to consumers in China via social commerce. The company just raised an $11m Series A to accelerate growth and take the company to the next level.

Callum is the CEO of one of London's most exciting Fintechs - WineFi. The company is making fine wine a mainstream, data-driven asset class for private investors and institutions. The company has raised millions from VCs, industry leaders and crowdfunders, and is already doing 7-figures of revenue.

Mark is the CEO Clearbank, one of the UK's leading Fintechs. The company has raised hundreds of millions, achieved profitability and surpassed £100m in annual revenue. The company works behind the scenes powering so many of the consumer focused-fintechs that people are familiar with (e.g. Revolut and Wealthify).

Tom is the co-founder and CEO of Adfin, a London-based fintech platform on a mission to simplify and automate payment collections for small businesses, professional services, accountants, and bookkeepers. The company is FLYING right now. It raised another €12.5m this year from existing investors Index Ventures and Visionaries Club. Tom himself is a serial operator in Fintech. He's had stints a...

Taos is a Partner at DMG Ventures - one of the UK’s most prominent media-backed venture funds - where he leads investments in consumer startups and supports portfolio scale-ups with unique access to mass-market reach. He is also the co-founder of Onstage (formerly Focal), Europe’s largest and most influential startup demo day platform, which connects top early-stage founders with over a thousand a...

Checkout.com is having an absolutely phenomenal year: $12bn valuation in an employee share buyback 30% net revenue growth in 2025 On track to have its first full year of profitability I chatted to their CMO to understand how they've grown so quickly and the plan for the future.

The Stockholm based company just announced a $9m round led by Emergence with support from Creandum. I sat down with the two founders to discuss: Working with Anton Osika at Depict Getting Paul Graham as an angel How they're helping lawyers move fasterand much much more

Alex founded Fleet, the bootstrapped, profitable French startup now doing £30m of revenue. He's also a scout for Sequoia Capital and one of Europe's few Super Angels. He's made over 100 investments with his top performers including Lovable (100x), Fyxer AI and Tandem Health. This one is a BANGER.

The man behind 20VC was, for a change, the one in the hot seat. Hector, another VC and podcast host sat down with him at the Onstage Demo day to ask him everything you would want to know about him, investing, and content.

Xavier is a serial Operator (with stints at Uber, Deliveroo and Turo) and Founder. His newest venture - Wonder Studios, is an AI-native film studio that aims to both incubate emerging talent and produce original IP, building an ecosystem that empowers a burgeoning community of AI filmmakers, traditional creatives, and technologists. They just announced a $12m seed led by atomico which we broke dow...

OpenAI has just announced a new data sovereignty agreement with the UK as well as its new browser tool - Atlas. I sat down with their Head of Product to discuss these releases, the different between Europe and the US in AI adoption and how OpenAI defines their product roadmap.

The Onstage team hosted a hacknight. The challenge was to build something worth $1m in just 3 hours. The teams did not disappoint. I interviewed the winners and the judges which included leading investors at Episode 1, Chapter One, Antler.