Scaling Europe

The team at Mirelo have built the market leading foundation model for developing sound for videos.

The founders have a unique background of being musicians, academics, and having experience working in the big tech labs.

They've just announced raising $41m from Index Ventures and a16z which we get into to.

Techarena has been a key player in growing the Nordic ecosystem, including recent success stories such as Sana, Tandem, Flower, and Too Good to Go.

The 2026 Techarena event will play host to a star-studded line-up including Boris Johnson, Northvolt founder Peter Carlsson, Legora’s CEO Max Junestrand, and Lovable Co-founder Fabian Hedin.

Omid was a former Swedish semi-professional footballer turned entrepreneur, scaling Techarena from a small, community-driven startup competition in 2014 - which had eight attendees in a rented cinema - to a global meeting place for 10,000+ attendees.

Alice co-founded Entrepreneurs First in 2011 along with Matt Clifford and is now the CEO of the business.The company has backed a range of amazing startups including Cleo, Tractable and PolyAI. While the portfolio is performing stronger than ever the team have come under fire for relocating their European founders to the US.

We get into it all!

Paul has had one of the most interesting careers in UK Fintech:

• Joined Northern Rock as Credit Director 6 months before the credit crunch and had to help steer the company through the crisis.
• Started an alpaca farm with his wife
• Cofounded both Starling and Monzo Bank

Now he's launching Rippon Capital - a new equity and debt fund to back UK founders.

He's looking for companies around the Series A level that are close to profitability and looking for growth and or debt, as well as seasoned operators to help them out.

He's a seasoned angel investor having made 30+ investments and is current portfolio is returning 35% a year excluding Monzo, or over 500% a year including Monzo.

Michiel is a partner at Northzone and one of Europe's leading VCs.

He's led investments into Vinted, Fiverr and Personio - all multi billion dollar companies.

He was also on the investment team at Accel when they invested into Spotify so he knows European Tech in and out.

This one is a banger.

Nicolas is the CEO and Founder of Attio - the AI native CRM.

The company announced a $52m Series B led by Google Ventures this summer and is absolutely crushing it:

• Over 5000 customers (inc. Lovable, Granola, Modal, and Replicate)
• On track to 4x ARR this year
• $116m raised to date

We discussed building from Europe, taking on Salesforce, building a product-led organisation and much more.

Expedition Growth Capital has raised a new $375m fund to back European software companies that have been bootstrapped.

The company has already backed 17 bootstrapped software leaders from 9 European countries.The firm specialises in supporting companies that have bootstrapped to $5m ARR are looking for capital to help them get to $50m ARR.

We discussed raising its 3rd fund in 5 years, backing bootstrapped founders, and what they look for in founders.

Nicolas and Jonas are both exited entrepreneurs who are now building Donna - a AI assistant for field sales teams.

The team has just announced a $4.8m seed round led by Frontline Ventures, and joined by Pitchdrive, Fortino Capital, Syndicate One, WeLoveFounders, and others.

We get into the success they've seen to date, raising the round and what's next for the team!

Nevis is a purpose-built AI platform that helps financial advisors and their teams automate administrative workflows end-to-end.

It's built by three amazing operators who met each other at Revolut and has just announced raising a $35m Series A from Sequoia Capital, ICONIQ, and Ribbit Capital.

Charles Maddock is the co-founder and CEO of Strawberry - one of the HOTTEST AI companies in Europe right now.

The team are building an “agentic” AI-native browser designed to modernise how people automate and manage digital workflows at work and home.

In October 2025, Strawberry raised $6M in seed funding led by General Catalyst and EQT Ventures, joined by founders from Lovable, Supabase, and Hugging Face.