Seltz just raised a $12.5m Seed as it launches its first product and looks to build a new generation of web infrastructure for AI.

Antonio Mallia is Founder and CEO at Seltz. The company is building for a world where AI agents become a new type of web user, requiring a completely different way to access information online. Instead of returning a list of links, Seltz is rebuilding the entire search stack so agents can access trustworthy, citable information and run hundreds of queries in parallel to complete tasks independently.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:25 - $12.5m Seed announcement

1:15 - Why AI needs a different type of web search

3:20 - Why Seltz rebuilt the entire stack

5:00 - Why investors backed the company

7:20 - Building a research-heavy team

11:50 - Early traction and customer use cases

15:40 - The next 12 months

16:25 - Rethinking retrieval for AI agents

18:30 - Running hundreds of queries in parallel

Seedcamp just closed $220M + $100M funds as it looks to support European founders from their first cheque through to later stages of company building. The new $220M core fund will continue backing early-stage companies, while the $100M select fund allows Seedcamp to double down on breakout portfolio companies from Series B onwards.

Will Bennett is Principal at Seedcamp. He believes the definition of pre-seed is changing rapidly, with founder profiles becoming increasingly diverse and companies achieving more at an earlier stage. As more founders move to the US earlier in their journey, Seedcamp is expanding its presence there to help companies build customer, talent and investor networks.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:25 - Seedcamp’s $220M + $100M funds

1:40 - Why the funds are getting bigger

2:30 - Why Seedcamp launched a select fund

3:50 - European founders moving to the US

6:30 - How founder profiles are changing

8:15 - What pre-seed means today

10:00 - Defence and frontier technologies

13:00 - What founders get from Seedcamp

15:20 - Building a stronger US presence

19:30 - The secret behind Seedcamp’s success

Debtist scaled to €15M ARR in just 3 years as it builds an AI-powered receivables management platform across Europe.

Matteo Benedetti is Founder at Debtist. The company started from identifying a gap in traditional debt collection and built an end-to-end software platform that automates receivables management using AI across email, calling, document handling, and legal workflows. It now serves around 500 clients across Germany, the UK, Scandinavia and other European markets.

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Sponsors:

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SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/

Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk?utm_source=other&utm_medium=partner_referral&utm_campaign=v01_emea_multi_ib_dg_prtmk_mofu_scalingeurope

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:25 - $60m Series A announcement

3:01 - What Debtist does

5:39 - Novesta partnership

6:56 - Enterprise adoption and go-to-market

8:41 - Scaling across Europe

9:02 - AI in receivables management

10:37 - Building organisation and learnings

15:18 - Expansion strategy

20:37 - Hiring and culture

Venture funds are becoming more systematic about finding founders before anyone else has seen them. As more firms build internal sourcing tools, the real advantage is shifting from collecting signals to knowing which opportunities are actually worth chasing.

Jacob Houlberg is Co-founder of Evertrace, which helps more than 220 venture funds identify founders at the earliest stages of company creation. He believes sourcing is becoming table stakes for early-stage investors, while the real job of a VC is still deciding which founders can build exceptional companies.

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SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/

Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk?utm_source=other&utm_medium=partner_referral&utm_campaign=v01_emea_multi_ib_dg_prtmk_mofu_scalingeurope

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:32 - Why Evertrace was created and the sourcing problem

2:13 - Finding founders before anyone else

4:44 - How VCs use Evertrace and data signals

6:44 - AI agents in sourcing

10:34 - Building vs becoming a VC fund

14:53 - Expanding the platform beyond sourcing

16:43 - Competition and acquisitions

20:25 - Future of data-driven investing

Conduct just raised $60m in a Series A co-led by Index Ventures and ICONIQ, with strategic investment from SAP and participation from existing investors.

JP Haas is Co-Founder and CEO at Conduct. The company builds an AI operating system for enterprise software that maps heavily customised systems like SAP and Salesforce and helps enterprises execute changes across them faster.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:25 - $60m Series A announcement

3:01 - What Conduct does

5:39 - SAP partnership and validation

6:56 - Enterprise adoption and go-to-market

8:41 - Partner ecosystem

9:02 - SAP as starting point

10:37 - Why enterprise systems are complex

12:05 - Working with large enterprises

14:23 - Building organisation and learnings

15:18 - Global expansion

16:29 - SAP distribution and co-selling model

18:34 - Growth and ambition

20:37 - Hiring and culture

Many of the industries that keep the economy running still rely on emails, phone calls and manual coordination between people. AI is starting to change that, allowing companies to automate work that previously required large operational teams.

Pablo Palafox, CEO at HappyRobot, believes the biggest opportunity in AI is not building better chatbots, but helping businesses actually get work done. As more companies move from experimenting with AI to deploying it across their operations, the question is becoming less about what the technology can do and more about where it can create the most value.

The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here:

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Sponsors:

Mishcon: https://www.mishcon.com/pop-ups/scaling-europe

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SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/

Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk?utm_source=other&utm_medium=partner_referral&utm_campaign=v01_emea_multi_ib_dg_prtmk_mofu_scalingeurope

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:32 - Building AI agents for the real economy

3:43 - How AI is transforming logistics

7:47 - Why enterprises are adopting AI faster than expected

10:47 - Finding product-market fit

14:03 - Hiring and international expansion

15:49 - Building in San Francisco

17:33 - Maintaining startup urgency

18:51 - Scaling through rapid growth

20:02 - The future of AI agents

AI is becoming one of the most important questions facing Europe, yet many leaders still underestimate both the speed and scale of the transformation.

Judith Dada is General Partner at Visionaries Club and one of the authors behind Europe 2031, a new scenario exploring how Europe could fall behind in an AI-driven world over the next five years. The solution, she believes, is for Europe to move faster, make difficult trade-offs and focus on building leverage rather than pursuing sovereignty alone.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:19 - Europe 2031

3:39 - Where Europe went wrong on AI

7:23 - Who needs to hear this message

9:16 - Can Europe change course?

11:36 - The trade-offs Europe may need to make

13:17 - Who is responsible for Europe’s future?

15:06 - Sovereignty vs leverage

20:21 - What success looks like for Europe 2031

21:37 - Five proposals for Europe’s AI future

23:43 - Can Europe still get this right?

More people than ever before can now build software, as AI removes many of the technical barriers that previously stood in the way. Lovable is helping lead that shift, with two-thirds of its builders coming from outside the tech industry.

Nad Chishtie is Founding Designer and Head of Design at Lovable. He believes the next generation of software will be built by far more people than ever before, with AI helping turn ideas into products while giving both generalists and specialists new ways to create and operate.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:22 - Why Lovable is expanding its presence in London

1:21 - Building a London hub alongside Stockholm

3:19 - Scaling from startup to 50 million projects

5:02 - Why empowerment sits at the centre of Lovable

6:22 - How AI is changing who gets to build software

7:23 - The simplest way to think about design

10:15 - Why AI could benefit both generalists and specialists

11:44 - Why Lovable focused on the 99% who are not developers

13:21 - Building products for both beginners and experts

14:14 - Nad’s proudest moments building Lovable

15:04 - Building Lovable’s new creative engine

UVC Partners is a European venture capital firm investing in early-stage deep tech companies in Europe, including Proxima Fusion and Isar Aerospace.

Johannes von Borries and Benjamin Erhart, GPs at UVC Partners, back companies working on fusion energy and space systems, where development takes long cycles and requires high capital and coordination between research and industry.

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Sponsors:

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:32 - UVC Partners

1:10 - Proxima Fusion

3:41 - Isar Aerospace

8:21 - Deep tech investing in Europe

13:15 - Fusion energy

16:08 - Space systems

20:02 - Germany’s deep tech ecosystem

24:27 - Berlin vs Munich

27:04 - Germany’s deep tech ecosystem

AI agents are becoming more capable, but most companies still rely on software built for a different era. Zaro just raised a $5.1 million pre-Seed round led by Cherry Ventures to build infrastructure designed specifically for the agentic era.

Michael Bajwa is CEO and Co-founder of Zaro. Following the sale of Convergence to Salesforce, he believes enterprises have not yet had their ChatGPT moment, and that the next generation of software will be built around AI agents rather than traditional applications.

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Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk?utm_source=other&utm_medium=partner_referral&utm_campaign=v01_emea_multi_ib_dg_prtmk_mofu_scalingeurope

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:14 - Zaro’s $5.1m pre-Seed round

2:47 - Lessons from Convergence and Salesforce

5:23 - Making AI agents accessible

8:54 - Coming out of stealth

11:11 - Creating a new category of software

13:25 - Compressing startup timelines

16:01 - Building a category-defining company

17:49 - Hiring battle-tested operators

19:15 - The future of AI-native software