Scaling Europe

Checkout.com is having an absolutely phenomenal year:

• $12bn valuation in an employee share buyback
• 30% net revenue growth in 2025
• On track to have its first full year of profitability

I chatted to their CMO to understand how they've grown so quickly and the plan for the future.

The Stockholm based company just announced a $9m round led by Emergence with support from Creandum.

I sat down with the two founders to discuss:

• Working with Anton Osika at Depict
• Getting Paul Graham as an angel
• How they're helping lawyers move fasterand much much more

Alex founded Fleet, the bootstrapped, profitable French startup now doing £30m of revenue.

He's also a scout for Sequoia Capital and one of Europe's few Super Angels. He's made over 100 investments with his top performers including Lovable (100x), Fyxer AI and Tandem Health.

This one is a BANGER.

The man behind 20VC was, for a change, the one in the hot seat. Hector, another VC and podcast host sat down with him at the Onstage Demo day to ask him everything you would want to know about him, investing, and content.

Xavier is a serial Operator (with stints at Uber, Deliveroo and Turo) and Founder.

His newest venture - Wonder Studios, is an AI-native film studio that aims to both incubate emerging talent and produce original IP, building an ecosystem that empowers a burgeoning community of AI filmmakers, traditional creatives, and technologists.

They just announced a $12m seed led by atomico which we broke down in this interview.

OpenAI has just announced a new data sovereignty agreement with the UK as well as its new browser tool - Atlas.

I sat down with their Head of Product to discuss these releases, the different between Europe and the US in AI adoption and how OpenAI defines their product roadmap.

The Onstage team hosted a hacknight. The challenge was to build something worth $1m in just 3 hours.

The teams did not disappoint. I interviewed the winners and the judges which included leading investors at Episode 1, Chapter One, Antler.

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”.