Scaling Europe

Amal is the Founder and CEO of Saturn - the AI platform used by over 2000 financial advisors to automate admin tasks. It's just raised $15m (which is closed in 10 days) to go bigger. The team are building an amazing company with real, sticky customers. We chatted raising a round in 10 days, how they scaled to 600 customers in 2 years and mistakes made along the way.

Arnau is one of the co-founders at Throxy, a London based startup automating outbound sales ops for companies selling into traditionally hard-to-reach industries using AI agents and proprietary data. The company went though YC, hit $1.5m ARR with just 3 employees, and just raised $6m from a leading SF Fund.

Tom is one of the most influential voices in European Tech. He is a Partner and Head of Intelligence at Atomico, where he leads the renowned Insights team and is the founder and editor of the industry-defining “State of European Tech Report”.

Nikola is one of the smartest minds in AI and ML in Europe. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing from the University of Cambridge. He's now the co-founder and CEO of PolyAI, a London-based leader in conversational AI, specialising in advanced voice assistants for enterprise customer service. It was most recently valued at $500m, but given that it's on track to...

Perlego has raised $75m to built the Spotify for textbooks. One subscription - access to all the academic texts you could need. They've now scaled successfully and are working with hundreds of universities in the world. Gauthier is a world class founder. This is a great one. As always - subscribe for more!

This is the first tine I have ever interviewed an AI Agent. Jack and Jill are two AI agents that have been built to fix recruitment. Jack acts on behalf of candidates, helping them to find their dream job, while Job works for companies looking to find great talent. I chatted to Jack and the CEO Matt, who is a 3x founder having previously founded two companies (including Omnipresent, the large EOR...

Victor Riparbelli is the co-founder and CEO of Synthesia, the world’s leading enterprise AI video platform. The company is doing over $100m ARR and is valued at $2bn+. I spoke to Victor about the launch of Synthesia 3.0, their insane retention of 142%, how the company is performing and whether they will raise again soon...

Max has one of the most unusual stories in entrepreneurship. He led an investment and in a deeptech startup, then got more involved as an advisor and eventually became the CEO. He now runs Again, a Copenhagen-based climate tech startup specialising in transforming CO₂ emissions into valuable, carbon-negative chemicals for industrial applications,

Founded in 2020 by Hedda Båverud Olsson, Sophie Wilkinson and Johan Jönsson, Lassie has developed an all-in-one pet health app where users can purchase insurance, file claims and get access to information to keep their pets healthy. The company is CRUSHING IT:🔥 The company is at a WHOPPING €70m ARR🔥 With 70 employees this means they're at €1m ARR per employee🔥 Growing 100% YoY I spoke to CE...

Dom Hallas is the Executive Director of the Startup Coalition, a leading independent advocacy group for UK and European tech startups, renowned for championing founder-first policy reform, industry lobbying, and ecosystem inclusion. His work, and the organisation, have been TRANSFORMATIONAL in shaping UK tech. We sat down to discuss what the Government needs to do to ensure tech can thrive.

Dimi has built Wondercraft into a $2m ARR business and very recently went incredibly viral for their launch video for Wanda - an AI agent on the platform that helps you create and edit video simply by chatting. Dimi is an expert in the intersection of AI and Content and has amazing advice for those looking to either build content in the age of AI.

Sabba is the CEO of VEED.IO, the AI-powered online video editing platform transforming the way teams and individuals create professional video content. The company bootstrapped to $5m ARR raised a huge Series A from Sequoia and is now at $40m ARR.

Maik has built an AI Decision Platform that is powering the largest banks and insurers in the world. The company went through YC during Covid, spent 3 years building their product and is now taking off. The company raised a $54M Series B led by Balderton Capital earlier this year, alongside their existing investors Index Ventures, Tiger Global, Y Combinator, Prosus Ventures, Visionaries Club

Enrico is an ex-operator turned amazing VC. He's a partner a Lakestar, one of Europe’s most prominent venture capital firms, where he leads early-stage investments from Berlin, backing founders in deep tech, AI, fintech, and digital health across the continent. We chatted to him about investing in Fyxer AI, how the VC model is going to change, European Space Tech and much more. We also had a g...

Jan is the CEO & Co-Founder @ Conduct, a London based AI startup that just raised $12m from Creandum. The company was founded in 2024 by ex-Palantirians and has been in stealth for the past 18 months. The company will be focused on modernising legacy ERP systems, which the trio saw as causing a massive burden for enterprise organisations.

Balderton Capital is one of Europe's oldest and most successful VC firms. It's raised 12 funds and billions of dollars, and has invested in over 250 companies. 30 of which are unicorns. I spoke to Managing Partner Bernard Liautaud and General Partner Suranga Chandratillake about the firm turning 25, its their biggest winners (Revolut), its biggest misses (Spotify) and where the firm is loo...

George is a Partner within the Phoenix Court investment house, recently ranked as the best VC in Europe. I sat down with him at Open Court - LocalGlobe's monthly event with London's top builders.

Ivan is one of London's most CRACKED young builders: 🚀 The UK's youngest chartered engineer 🚀 Founded his first company, an electronics startup, while still at school 🚀 Forbes 30U30 and occasional voice actor at cartoon network And now he is building robots for restaurants.

Malte is the CEO & Co-Founder at Parloa, the AI voice startup that became a unicorn earlier this year. We chatted to him at Bits & Pretzels in Munich where we discussed: The future of Parloa Building and raising for AI before the hype Achieving unicorn status

Sélim Benayat is a Sequioa-backed, twice exited founder who is now building at the intersection of hardware and AI.He is working at  @NothingTechnology  - the recent UK unicorn taking on Apple. Last week LocalGlobe hosted their monthly Open Court session where they bring the top builders in London to meet, present and talk all things Tech. At the event I sat down with Selim to discuss:- The future...

Thomas Wolf is one of Europe's most impressive founders having scaled Hugging Face to over $4bn valuation building one of the largest open source communities in the world. We discussed: Open vc closed source Open vs closed LLMs and the advantages of both Building your own personal LLM Why Hugging Face is getting into robotics and much much more

Sandeep Bakshi is the Head of Investments, Europe at Prosus Ventures, a leading global technology investor focusing on transformative startups from early stage to growth across marketplace, fintech, AI, and consumer internet sectors. Based in London, he leads the European investment strategy and portfolio for Prosus Ventures, part of Naspers Group.

Sam Tidswell-Norrish is Founder & Chair of Opus, a London-based global leadership network and highly vetted club for early-stage entrepreneurs, executives, and investors. Opus is focused on supercharging founder journeys, facilitating connections with investors and experts, and elevating diverse talent in the tech and innovation ecosystem.

Andreas started his career at in startups where he was on the founding team and CTO of Product Hunt, VPE of CoinList, Head of Remote at AngelList, and CTO at On Deck. He is now an investor through his own fund Prototype Capital. He's also one of the leading figure behind 🇪🇺 EU Inc, an initiative to make Europe a better place to start and scale companies.

Alan was the 3rd employee at Revolut, becoming the company's CRO before founding Fuse Energy, a fast-scaling European cleantech company redefining renewable energy supply and infrastructure through software-driven, vertically integrated operations.