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Pathfounders, with Mike Butcher, covers the tech startup and venture ecosystem.

  1. 26 Oct

    Exclusive interview: Nous raises $17m to expand its AI agents for households

    London-based startup Nous has raised $17 million to expand internationally, as nearly 250,000 UK households now use its AI agent to manage bills, switch providers and automate everyday household administration. Pathfounders Podcast host Mike Butcher spoke to CEO and founder Greg Marsh to get the download. To get first access to Pathfounders content, join Pathfounders Network: pathfounders.com/network

  2. 20 Oct

    AlphaGo co-creator comes out of stealth with new startup

    Can this startup kill hallucinations and agentic overreach? London-based Metis Reasoning — the startup founded by Thore Graepel, another DeepMind alumnus — will base itself in the Kings Cross AI cluster and is said to be raising a large VC funding round. He spoke to Pathfounders editor Mike Butcher about his plans. See also our story on Pathfounders.

  3. 16 Sept

    Burbidge is back! UK veteran VC launches NFG

    Eileen Burbidge is one of the best-known figures in UK venture capital. As a co-founder of Passion Capital, she backed companies including Monzo, GoCardless and Marshmallow, after an earlier career spanning Apple, Yahoo and Skype. Now she’s starting again with NFG, her new VC vehicle targeting £20 million to invest at the earliest stages. She spoke to Pathfounders’ editor Mike Butcher.

  4. 14 Sept

    Tandem Health’s $100m raise to scale globally

    Swedish healthtech startup Tandem Health has raised $100 million in Series B funding, led by EQT’s €5 billion Scaleup Europe Fund, taking its total funding to $160 million. Tandem started with an AI scribe designed to take the administrative burden off doctors. But its ambitions are now much bigger: it wants to build an AI-native operating system for healthcare. @Pathfounders Mike Butcher spoke to Dr Katie Baker, Tandem Health’s Director for the UK and Ireland and a former NHS GP.

    Tandem Health’s $100m raise to scale globally

  5. 14 Sept

    Exclusive: Mistral’s first investor on what their €3B raise really means

    Mistral just raised €3 billion in a Series D, valuing it at more than €21 billion, the largest equity fundraising ever completed by a European technology company.With this, Mistral still intends to build frontier AI models, but will also invest heavily in compute, infrastructure and sovereign AI, positioning itself as an alternative for governments and companies that want more control over their technology and their data.So is Mistral still trying to become Europe’s OpenAI or Anthropic, taking a leaf out of the Chinese playbook, or is it building something potentially much more defensible in the long term?To unpack the round, the valuation, and what it means for the future, Paul Murphy, Mistral’s earliest investor at Lightspeed, spoke to Pathfounders Editor, Mike Butcher. P.S. Apply now to join the Pathfounders Network of vetted founders, investors and key players in Europe, plus first access to exclusive content. Launching soon!https://pathfounders.com/network

  6. 8 Sept

    The Ground A laser — A drone game-changer?

    Nine-month old German defence-tech startup Ground A has raised a €9.1 million pre-seed round to for its laser-based counter-drone system. Pathfounders editor Mike Butcher speaks to co-founder and CEO Dr Tobias Brune about how this device could change the battlefield.

    The Ground A laser — A drone game-changer?

  7. 29 Jul

    Can we engineer Critical Minerals?

    The energy transition depends on scarce critical minerals used in batteries, hydrogen electrolysers, solar panels and electronics. Oxford, UK-based startup Milvus Advanced believes there is another option besides digging more mines: engineering abundant nano-scale materials that can mimic critical minerals such as platinum, iridium and indium. Pathfounders editor Mike Butcher speaks to founder and CEO Dr Assia Kasdi about the science behind Milvus, its move from laboratory experiments to kilogram-scale production, and whether engineered replacements could reduce the West’s dependence on fragile global supply chains.

    Can we engineer Critical Minerals?

  8. 24 Jul

    That OpenAI / Hugging Face Incident. What now?

    What happens when an AI model is told to solve a cybersecurity test and decides the easiest route is to escape its sandbox, reach the open internet and hack another company?In this episode of the Pathfounders podcast, Mike Butcher is joined by Meryem Arik, co-founder and CEO of Doubleword; Rory Blundell, CEO of Gravitee.io; and Ivan Burazin, co-founder and CEO of Daytona, to examine the extraordinary OpenAI–Hugging Face security incident which occurred recently. Did the models genuinely go rogue or simply follow their instructions too effectively? Why did sandboxing and conventional enterprise security fail? Are frontier AI companies increasingly using stories about their powerful models as "danger porn" to hype their capabilities?The podcast explored the growing security risks created by autonomous agents, why agents should never inherit a human user’s identity and permissions, and how businesses can protect themselves through isolated environments, tighter authorisation and stronger governance.Subscribe to Pathfounders for conversations on AI, startups, venture capital and geopolitics.

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Pathfounders, with Mike Butcher, covers the tech startup and venture ecosystem.

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  • Creator
    Mike Butcher
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    55
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    © Mike Butcher
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