Scaling Europe

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

Ben Drury is the Co-Founder and CEO of Yoto, a leading educational technology company providing a screen-free, interactive audio platform for children.

The company just announced hitting $127m of annual revenue, and has doubled it's revenue four years in a row.

Ben is a three-time founder and angel investor.

We discussed:

• The financial results and where growth had come from
• Raising money as a hardware business in Europe
• How they nailed their US expansion
• Partnering with ElevenLabs

+ much much more

Matt Henderson is the Cofounder and CEO of Phoebe, a London-based startup building an agentic AI platform described as an “immune system for software.” He is a repeat founder and top executive, previously leading Stripe Europe and serving in senior product roles at Google, Amazon, and Rangespan (acquired by Google).

We discussed:

• The results from the live pilots and the $17m Seed
• Selling his first business to Google and whether he regrets it
• What he's learnt working at Stripe, Amazon and Google
• The future of European Tech

+ much much more

Bill is a serial entrepreneur having successfully started three companies, all in the maritime space.

His current company is Sedna, a leading data-driven communications platform for the shipping and logistics industries which has seen amazing success.

We discussed:

• How to sell new tools to old, traditional industries
• Why they've acquired 4 companies and the secret to getting M&A right
• Knowing when to stay in your niche vs branch out
• Lessons learnt from 3 successful startups

and much much more