Scaling Europe

Richard is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fyxer AI, one of the world's fastest growing AI companies. The company just raised a $30m Series B after hitting $18m ARR 8 months after hitting $1m ARR.

Julio Martínez is the Co-founder and CEO of Abacum, one of Europe's fastest-growing SaaS startups. The company automates financial planning and analysis (FP&A) for mid-market and high-growth companies. We discussed: How the company managed to triple revenue while keeping headcount flat Building a leading SaaS company in Europe Expanding to the US and the strategy you need to win Raising $100m...

David Villalon is the Cofounder and CEO of Maisa, a fast-growing European AI startup focused on making enterprise automation trustworthy and accountable through agentic AI. Maisa secured a major $25 million seed round in August 2025. We discussed: Raising a $25m seed just 8 months after raising a $5m pre-seed Why 95% of Enterprise AI Projects fail The traction it's seen to date Building a lead...

Jan Sommerfeld is COO at Almedia, a Berlin-based company which is one of Europe’s fastest-growing startups. It's grown to over $100m in annual revenue with a small team and is entirely bootstrapped. We discussed: Scaling to 50m users in 5 years and the operational challenges of that Surpassing $100m in annual revenue with only 100 people Whether the company will stay bootstrapped forever Futur...

Tobie Morgan Hitchcock is the Co-founder and CEO of SurrealDB, a London-based startup building a multi-model, cloud-native database platform designed for real-time applications and AI workloads. The company recently raised a $20m Series A. We discussed: Raising in Europe when you're building at the infrastructure layer How and why the company took off thanks to AI Whether engineers should be w...

Ben Drury is the Co-Founder and CEO of Yoto, a leading educational technology company providing a screen-free, interactive audio platform for children. The company just announced hitting $127m of annual revenue, and has doubled it's revenue four years in a row. Ben is a three-time founder and angel investor. We discussed: The financial results and where growth had come from Raising money as a...

Matt Henderson is the Cofounder and CEO of Phoebe, a London-based startup building an agentic AI platform described as an “immune system for software.” He is a repeat founder and top executive, previously leading Stripe Europe and serving in senior product roles at Google, Amazon, and Rangespan (acquired by Google). We discussed: The results from the live pilots and the $17m Seed Selling his first...

Bill is a serial entrepreneur having successfully started three companies, all in the maritime space. His current company is Sedna, a leading data-driven communications platform for the shipping and logistics industries which has seen amazing success. We discussed: How to sell new tools to old, traditional industries Why they've acquired 4 companies and the secret to getting M&A right Knowing...

Max is the founder and CEO Azoma, GEO platform helping brands and retailers get recommended by AI Search. Max spent 6 years at Amazon in the search team before founding Azoma. The company has taken off and is now working with leading companies around the world to help them get their brands noticed by LLMs. We discussed How AI will fundamentally change the way people interact with retailers Why tho...

Will founded and exited a very early AI company. Since then he has been investing in Deeptech across Europe. On the day of the interview it was announced that Will was joining SpeedInvest as a partner leading on Deeptech. We discussed: Being a very early AI builder and what he thinks of the AI hype Why Europe desperately needs for ex-founder VCs The type of founder he's looking to back The state o...

Saul Klein is a serial entrepreneur turned investor. He created Phoenix Court, the VC firm that houses LocalGlobe, Solar and Latitude. Through LocalGlove he has invested in some of the best businesses in the world, including Wise, Figma, Monzo, Robinhood, Zego, Tide and many more. On the day of the interview  ⁨@DealRoom⁩  announced that, according to their analysis, Phoenix Court is the best VC in...

Guy is a partner at DN Capital where he led an early investment into Cognigy, the German AI company that was recently acquired for $955m. We discussed: His lead investment into Cognigy and sitting on the board The state of European venture and AI How he made it to Partner in 6 years US companies snapping up European scaleups and much much more

Amelia Miller is a Fellow at the University of Cambridge, a published psychologist, and a former international athlete, and now cofounder at Ivee. Ivee the job platform for people that have been out of work for some time. It launched last year and is already doing almost half a million in ARR. We discussed: Building her business with her sister while working full time and when the right time to go...

Onstage is Europe's largest demo day. Over 2000 companies apply for just 20 spots. Previous companies have gone on to raise close to $1bn. Issie is the cofounder and we discussed: What companies need to do to make it through The work they do helping emerging managers raise their first fund The future of Onstage and raising a fund The next demo day and when to apply And much more!

Meshed describes itself as the UK’s first AI-native insurance broker it's targeting the outdated and inefficient broker processes that are leaving UK SMEs underinsured. The platform uses AI agents to automate quoting, insurer chasing, and policy admin and just announced raising £950k from Haatch, Aviva and angels. We discussed: Traction to date How they raised their pre-seed Having a product backg...

Brian Walker is the CEO of Revel, a company building the AI data layer for Robotics. He also bought one of the Project Lovable companies during the hackathon and grew it to $100k ARR in under a week. We discussed: The future of robotics and whether Tesla will come out on top The Lovable hackathon, how he got involved and why he bought the company How he has managed to grow the company to $100k ARR...