Scaling Europe

Tandem Health was built to reduce the amount of time doctors spend on administrative work instead of patient care. At Slush in Helsinki, I sat down with Lukas Saari, Co-founder and CEO of Tandem Health.

We talked about why clinical documentation became the starting point for AI in healthcare and how Tandem Health is scaling across Europe while working within existing clinical workflows.

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Tyler Edwards spent eight years building AI systems for British intelligence agencies including MI5, MI6 and GCHQ.

He's now building Overmind - a startup building the supervision layer for AI agents, which just announced a £2M seed round led by specialist cybersecurity investors.

We discuss the round, working in MI5 and the future of cybersecurity in a world of AI.

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I spoke with Max Buchan, CEO of Valarian, about building systems that are meant to keep working even when trust, borders, and assumptions break down. Valarian focuses on the digital backbone behind sensitive operations, where losing control of data or access is not an option.

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Hanna Payette Peterson is trying to close the gap between world-class science and company creation in Europe.She shares why Berlin has the research, talent, and ambition to produce breakthrough bio and AI companies, but still struggles to turn academic work into startups. We talk about mixing scientists with builders early, why hackathons can spark real ventures, what Europe can learn from more mature ecosystems, and why she believes the next wave of scientific startups will come from cities like Berlin.The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel – check them out here:https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk

Carmen Alfonso Rico is the founder of Cocoa, a pre-seed fund backing founders at the moment before a company really exists.

We talked about what she means by backing “killers with a heart”, why building a venture-scale company makes no rational sense, and how she looks for founders who feel it’s inevitable for them to build.

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The company, founded by Duco van Lanschot and David Schreiber, has built an AI-native compliance platform that accelerates business onboarding and automates manual work.

It announced a €10.7m seed round last May led by Index Ventures and is today announcing a $30m Series A led by CapitalG .

The company has been accelerating like CRAZY.

We sat down to discuss the round and much more.

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Barney is one of the UK's top founders. He started Cleo way before AI was hot and has now built one of the UK's strongest AI companies.

It expanded to the US where it has seen it's huge success, but now after 4 years it has come back.

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Raising money as a Series B / C Deep Tech company in Europe has been notoriously hard. A new €1bn fund, Kembara, is looking to change that.

It will make 20 investments of €40m each as it looks to plug this gap.

It's founding partners have between them invested in OpenAI, SpaceX, Anduril, the Exploration Company, RobCo and many other amazing deep tech companies.

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Attio has tripled its customer base to over 7,000 in the last year.It raised a $52m Series B led by GV (Google Ventures) last year and has gone from strength to strength.

Today it's announced Ask Attio, its new conversational AI layer that can reason over and act on everything in your CRM.

It ingests all your data (emails, notes, calendars, product data, billing, interactions etc.) and enables you to ask anything about your entire business.

It's built a foundational data model that lets AI deeply understand everything synced into Attio which is BONKERS.

Attio is one of my favourite European startups and one of my top picks for most likely to become a unicorn this year.

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Mick Hodgins recently joined Notion as GM of EMEA after more than a decade at Google and a year-long career break. I spoke with him about why he made the move, how Notion was building with AI before ChatGPT took off, and what it means to scale a product-led company across regions while moving upmarket into enterprise.

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