Scaling Europe

n8n is a workflow automation platform that frees employees from repetitive, boring tasks. SAP recently made a strategic investment in the company, valuing it at €5.2bn, more than double what it was worth seven months ago.

Jan Oberhauser is Founder and CEO of n8n. He believes the real value isn't the time saved, but the chance to give employees more meaningful work instead of repetitive tasks.

The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk

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Timestamps:

0:00 – Introduction

0:41 – n8n's €5.2bn strategic investment from SAP

2:41 – How valuable the SAP partnership could be

4:04 – What drove the valuation jump in seven months

5:03 – The real value customers get from n8n

11:38 – Balancing community users with enterprise customers

14:23 – How n8n's community has evolved

18:19 – How Jan's role has changed as CEO

22:44 – What Jan is seeing across the AI ecosystem

28:20 – What n8n looks for when hiring

29:11 – Why n8n rejects hustle culture

29:54 – Flexible hours and company values

31:49 – Balancing being CEO and a father

33:43 – Staying European

35:47 – US vs. European investors

37:33 – Quickfire round

Aspire11 invests European pension money into some of the world's biggest private tech companies, unlocking capital that's historically stayed on the sidelines. Its first fund raised €500m, and backs both early-stage VC funds and late-stage tech companies such as Revolut, Databricks, ElevenLabs and Vinted.

Zaya Kadyrova is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Aspire11. She believes much of the value created by Europe's biggest tech companies currently goes to US pension funds, and is trying to change that by putting pension money directly into companies at that scale.

The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk

Sponsors:

Chargebee: https://www.chargebee.com/events/beelieve/london/2026

SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/

Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk?utm_source=other&utm_medium=partner_referral&utm_campaign=v01_emea_multi_ib_dg_prtmk_mofu_scalingeurope

Lovable: https://lovable.dev/

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction0:20 - What Aspire11 does
1:31 - Why pension funds matter for venture
4:37 - Why Europe's pensions have stayed on the sidelines
8:51 - Tribes: backing the next generation of fund managers
12:07 - Why Aspire11 backed Revolut, Vinted and Eleven Labs
15:14 - The case for investing in Databricks
18:22 - How the fund is driving demand from young savers
19:35 - How Aspire11 wins access to the best deals

Tapestry VC backs repeat founders who are already building their second or third company. Around 60% of Europe's new unicorns in the past couple of years have come from exactly that group, and Tapestry just closed an $80m third fund to keep backing them.

Patrick Murphy is a Partner at Tapestry VC. Seven of the roughly 70 investments he's made in his career have grown into $100m+ revenue companies, a track record few investors can match.

The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk

Sponsors:

Chargebee: https://www.chargebee.com/events/beelieve/london/2026

SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/

Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk?utm_source=other&utm_medium=partner_referral&utm_campaign=v01_emea_multi_ib_dg_prtmk_mofu_scalingeurope

Lovable: https://lovable.dev/

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction
0:04 - Tapestry VC's new $80m third fund
0:24 - Why Tapestry backs repeat founders
2:01 - Inside Tapestry's portfolio
6:44 - Patrick's move back to London
9:02 - The psychology of investing in repeat founders
12:45 - What Patrick's most successful investments have in common
15:38 - British Business Bank as Tapestry's anchor investor
17:48 - Competition among European VCs
20:44 - Why US LPs are reshaping European venture
23:07 - Europe's growing exit market

Dwelly just raised a $170m Series B led by EQT Growth and General Catalyst, five months after its last round, taking total funding to around $250m. Dwelly acquires traditional letting agencies across the UK and moves them onto a shared AI system. The AI handles compliance and admin work, so staff can focus on landlords and tenants instead.

Dan Lifshits and Ilia Drozdov are Co-founders of Dwelly. The company has grown from around 10,000 lettings under management five months ago to more than 15,000 today, already making it one of the UK's ten largest letting agencies.

The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk

Sponsors:

Chargebee: https://www.chargebee.com/events/beelieve/london/2026

SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/

Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk?utm_source=other&utm_medium=partner_referral&utm_campaign=v01_emea_multi_ib_dg_prtmk_mofu_scalingeurope

Lovable: https://lovable.dev/

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction
0:21 - Dwelly's new $170m Series B
1:07 - Why AI is transforming the services industry
1:35 - What Dwelly does and how much it's grown
2:25 - Acquiring and integrating letting agencies
6:33 - Dwelly's underlying business fundamentals
7:12 - The size of the UK market and expanding into Europe
9:55 - Dwelly's biggest bottleneck: hiring
12:58 - Inside the Series B round
16:09 - Dwelly's north star metric

TechCredit Partners helps tech founders raise debt capital to fund growth without giving up more of their company. The firm has raised close to $1 billion for clients across more than 20 countries in the last three years.

Linus Eriksson Noren and Resat Ozutok are Co-founders of TechCredit Partners. Most founders don't realize how much of their business, like contracts or equipment, can be used to raise debt instead of equity, which is exactly the gap the two are trying to close.

The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk

Sponsors:

Chargebee: https://www.chargebee.com/events/beelieve/london/2026

SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/

Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk?utm_source=other&utm_medium=partner_referral&utm_campaign=v01_emea_multi_ib_dg_prtmk_mofu_scalingeurope

Lovable: https://lovable.dev/

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction
0:21 - What TechCredit Partners does
0:53 - The boom in European venture debt
1:37 - Why founders turn to debt over equity
3:43 - Why more capital-intensive businesses are turning to debt
6:24 - How founders know they're ready to raise debt
9:21 - The industries TechCredit Partners works in
11:01 - How founders should balance debt and equity
13:25 - Why Linus and Resat built TechCredit Partners
16:46 - Europe's debt landscape and standing out in the market

Dexory builds robots that scan warehouses and track everything inside them in real time. Companies use that data to know exactly what stock they have and where, resulting in massive savings.

Oana Jinga is Co-founder of Dexory. The company has scanned over 1.3 billion warehouse locations so far, using real data collected directly from customer sites. Dexory recently raised a $165m Series C to scale up its commercial team, now tripling its growth year after year.

The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk

Sponsors:

Chargebee: https://www.chargebee.com/events/beelieve/london/2026

SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/

Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk?utm_source=other&utm_medium=partner_referral&utm_campaign=v01_emea_multi_ib_dg_prtmk_mofu_scalingeurope

Lovable: https://lovable.dev/

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction
0:24 - What Dexory's robots do
1:27 - The value Dexory delivers to customers
3:04 - Dexory's biggest customers
5:41 - How Dexory expands into new countries
9:56 - Will warehouses change to be built for robots?
12:31 - Dexory's data and the future of physical AI
15:20 - Inside Dexory's Series C round
19:29 - What's next for Dexory

Onstage has just been acquired by Sifted. The company runs Demo Day, an early-stage pitch event that connects founders with VCs, backed by a network of 350 venture capital partners who select the finalists.

Issie James is Co-founder at Onstage. Onstage's strategy has always been to build an audience its founders and VC partners can use to reach more customers, and joining Sifted was the natural next step for that.

The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk

Sponsors:

Chargebee: https://www.chargebee.com/events/beelieve/london/2026

SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/

Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk?utm_source=other&utm_medium=partner_referral&utm_campaign=v01_emea_multi_ib_dg_prtmk_mofu_scalingeurope

Lovable: https://lovable.dev/

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:17 - Onstage's acquisition by Sifted

1:36 - What changes and what stays the same

4:10 - What the acquisition means for Issie

6:03 - What happens to Deploy

6:52 - Issie's career journey at Onstage

11:51 - What makes a great event

13:16 - What success looks like after the acquisition

14:27 - Lessons from thousands of startup pitches

Expeditions is one of Europe's only venture funds dedicated to defence and security startups. The firm recently closed its second fund at €197m.

Stanislaw Kastory and Mikolaj Firlej are Co-founders and General Partners at Expeditions. The firm backs early-stage teams across defence, cybersecurity, quantum and space technology. The new fund plans to make around 40 early-stage investments, with half its capital reserved for follow-on rounds.

The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: ⁠https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk⁠

Sponsors:

Chargebee: ⁠https://www.chargebee.com/events/beelieve/london/2026⁠

SurrealDB: ⁠https://surrealdb.com/⁠

Airwallex: ⁠https://www.airwallex.com/uk?utm_source=other&utm_medium=partner_referral&utm_campaign=v01_emea_multi_ib_dg_prtmk_mofu_scalingeurope⁠

Lovable: ⁠https://lovable.dev/⁠

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:08 - Expeditions closes its €197m second fund

1:04 - How raising fund two differed from fund one

4:23 - Fund one's early bets in defence tech

7:10 - What's different about fund two's strategy

9:40 - Where Europe's biggest defence gaps are

12:36 - How Expeditions finds and evaluates startups

16:20 - Do European countries compete for their own defence champions?

19:52 - Financing war vs. financing European defence

PhysicsX helps companies design and manufacture industrial products faster, using AI instead of traditional physics simulation.Jacomo Corbo is CEO and Co-Founder of PhysicsX. Its technology helps manufacturers cut defects and lower costs, from casting aerospace parts to smelting aluminum more efficiently. The company recently raised a $300m Series C at a $2.4bn valuation, more than doubling its Series B valuation in under a year.

The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk

Sponsors:

Chargebee: https://www.chargebee.com/events/beelieve/london/2026

SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/

Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk?utm_source=other&utm_medium=partner_referral&utm_campaign=v01_emea_multi_ib_dg_prtmk_mofu_scalingeurope

Lovable: https://lovable.dev/

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:16 - What PhysicsX does

2:24 - Real-world use cases

4:32 - PhysicsX's $300m Series C

6:50 - The scaling laws behind PhysicsX's models

7:46 - Scaling up to meet demand

9:51 - Selling to incumbents vs newer manufacturers

15:02 - Selling to Europe vs the US

19:00 - The Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA partnership

20:46 - What industrial engineering will look like in five years

Proxima Fusion recently raised €411m at a €2.4bn valuation, the largest funding round in European fusion. The company is building a fusion reactor designed to produce clean, safe energy continuously, without the risk of a runaway reaction.

Francesco Sciortino is Co-Founder and CEO of Proxima Fusion. The company has around 200 people working across Munich, Zurich and Oxford. Proxima's next milestone is a full-scale magnet that will prove the reactor design works, expected by the end of 2027.

The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk

Sponsors:

Chargebee: https://www.chargebee.com/events/beelieve/london/2026

SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/

Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk?utm_source=other&utm_medium=partner_referral&utm_campaign=v01_emea_multi_ib_dg_prtmk_mofu_scalingeurope

Lovable: https://lovable.dev/

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:09 - Proxima Fusion's €411m raise

0:50 - What fusion actually is

4:04 - Why Proxima bets on stellarators over tokamaks

9:29 - What's changed to bring investors on board

11:42 - Inside the Bavarian government partnership

16:12 - The next milestone: the Stellarator Model Coil

18:29 - Publishing the Stellaris power plant design

20:38 - Supply chain risk for fusion magnets