Thomas Wolf is one of Europe's most impressive founders having scaled Hugging Face to over $4bn valuation building one of the largest open source communities in the world. We discussed:

• Open vc closed source
• Open vs closed LLMs and the advantages of both
• Building your own personal LLM
• Why Hugging Face is getting into robotics and much much more

Sandeep Bakshi is the Head of Investments, Europe at Prosus Ventures, a leading global technology investor focusing on transformative startups from early stage to growth across marketplace, fintech, AI, and consumer internet sectors.

Based in London, he leads the European investment strategy and portfolio for Prosus Ventures, part of Naspers Group.

Sam Tidswell-Norrish is Founder & Chair of Opus, a London-based global leadership network and highly vetted club for early-stage entrepreneurs, executives, and investors.

Opus is focused on supercharging founder journeys, facilitating connections with investors and experts, and elevating diverse talent in the tech and innovation ecosystem.

Andreas started his career at in startups where he was on the founding team and CTO of Product Hunt, VPE of CoinList, Head of Remote at AngelList, and CTO at On Deck.

He is now an investor through his own fund Prototype Capital.

He's also one of the leading figure behind 🇪🇺 EU Inc, an initiative to make Europe a better place to start and scale companies.

Alan was the 3rd employee at Revolut, becoming the company's CRO before founding Fuse Energy, a fast-scaling European cleantech company redefining renewable energy supply and infrastructure through software-driven, vertically integrated operations.

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 to automate FP&A

and much much more

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 leading Spanish AI startup

and much much more

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
• Future growth plans and what the company wants to achieve

+ much much more

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 worried about losing their jobs to AI

+ much much more