Scaling Europe

Scaling Europe

By Sebastian JohnsonBusinessEntrepreneurship
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Scaling Europe episodes

  • Nikola Mrkšić, Cofounder and CEO @ PolyAI

    Nikola is one of the smartest minds in AI and ML in Europe. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing from the University of Cambridge.


    He's now the co-founder and CEO of PolyAI, a London-based leader in conversational AI, specialising in advanced voice assistants for enterprise customer service.


    It was most recently valued at $500m, but given that it's on track to $50m ARR by year-end it could be a unicorn soon.


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    21 min
  • Gauthier Van Malderen - Founder and CEO of Perlego

    Perlego has raised $75m to built the Spotify for textbooks. One subscription - access to all the academic texts you could need.

    They've now scaled successfully and are working with hundreds of universities in the world.Gauthier is a world class founder.

    This is a great one. As always - subscribe for more!

    18 min
  • Matthew Wilson, Co-founder & CEO @ Jack and Jill, on raising $20m to fix recruitment

    This is the first tine I have ever interviewed an AI Agent. Jack and Jill are two AI agents that have been built to fix recruitment. Jack acts on behalf of candidates, helping them to find their dream job, while Job works for companies looking to find great talent. I chatted to Jack and the CEO Matt, who is a 3x founder having previously founded two companies (including Omnipresent, the large EOR company).They've just raised a $20m seed round from Creandum and are one of the hottest AI startups building in London right now.If you liked it - subscribe for more!

    23 min
  • Victor Riparbelli - Co-Founder & CEO at Synthesia.io

    Victor Riparbelli is the co-founder and CEO of Synthesia, the world’s leading enterprise AI video platform. The company is doing over $100m ARR and is valued at $2bn+.


    I spoke to Victor about the launch of Synthesia 3.0, their insane retention of 142%, how the company is performing and whether they will raise again soon...

    26 min
  • Maximilian Kufner, Co-founder & CEO @ Again

    Max has one of the most unusual stories in entrepreneurship. He led an investment and in a deeptech startup, then got more involved as an advisor and eventually became the CEO.


    He now runs Again, a Copenhagen-based climate tech startup specialising in transforming CO₂ emissions into valuable, carbon-negative chemicals for industrial applications,

    25 min
  • Hedda Båverud Olsson - CEO & co-founder at Lassie on hitting €70m ARR and €1m ARR per employee

    Founded in 2020 by Hedda Båverud Olsson, Sophie Wilkinson and Johan Jönsson, Lassie has developed an all-in-one pet health app where users can purchase insurance, file claims and get access to information to keep their pets healthy.The company is CRUSHING IT:🔥 The company is at a WHOPPING €70m ARR🔥 With 70 employees this means they're at €1m ARR per employee🔥 Growing 100% YoY I spoke to CEO Hedda about how they scaled while staying lean, hitting 70m and what's next for the company.

    20 min
  • Dom Hallas - Executive Director at the Startup Coalition, on what the UK needs to do for startups

    Dom Hallas is the Executive Director of the Startup Coalition, a leading independent advocacy group for UK and European tech startups, renowned for championing founder-first policy reform, industry lobbying, and ecosystem inclusion.

    His work, and the organisation, have been TRANSFORMATIONAL in shaping UK tech.

    We sat down to discuss what the Government needs to do to ensure tech can thrive.

    24 min
  • Sabba Keynejad, CEO & Co-founder at VEED.IO

    Sabba is the CEO of VEED.IO, the AI-powered online video editing platform transforming the way teams and individuals create professional video content.

    The company bootstrapped to $5m ARR raised a huge Series A from Sequoia and is now at $40m ARR.




    20 min
  • Maik Taro Wehmeyer, Co-Founder & CEO @ Taktile

    Maik has built an AI Decision Platform that is powering the largest banks and insurers in the world. The company went through YC during Covid, spent 3 years building their product and is now taking off. The company raised a $54M Series B led by Balderton Capital earlier this year, alongside their existing investors Index Ventures, Tiger Global, Y Combinator, Prosus Ventures, Visionaries Club

    13 min

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Every week Seb Johnson sits down with 5 of Europe's best builders and investors to talk about what's going on in European Tech.