Scaling Europe

Sebastian Johnson
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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. Prior guests include the founders of Lovable, Cleo, Voi an Zilch, as well as top VCs from 20VC, Index, Balderton and Creandum.

  1. 3 GG FA

    Philipp Schröder, Co-founder and CEO at 1KOMMA5°: Delivering the cheapest and cleanest electricity in the world

    1KOMMA5° is working to deliver the cheapest and cleanest electricity in the world, at a time when energy is becoming one of the biggest questions behind the AI boom. Philipp Schröder, Co-founder and CEO at 1KOMMA5°, has grown the company from home electrification into one of Europe’s most important energy players. It is already managing one gigawatt of capacity, with a much larger ambition: making millions of homes part of the energy infrastructure Europe now needs. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel - check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: Mishcon: https://www.mishcon.com/pop-ups/scaling-europe 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 Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:28 - 1KOMMA5° 2:27 - Business model 5:30 - Subscription model 13:11 - Virtual power plant 16:27 - One gigawatt of managed capacity 21:11 - IPO plans 24:38 - Energy and AI 27:21 - Europe vs NASDAQ 29:32 - International expansion 33:25 - Building from Germany 36:03 - Entrepreneurs and politics 39:08 - Taking pushback 41:24 - Energy abundance in Europe 43:41 - What governments are missing 47:38 - Lessons from Tesla 48:54 - The future of energy companies

    50 min

  2. 5 GG FA

    Jonathan Low, CEO at Scope: BREAKING: Scope raised $20m

    Scope is building AI for the people who inspect the physical world, from factories and industrial equipment to the assets companies rely on every day. Jonathan Low is CEO at Scope, and the company has just raised $20m led by Index Ventures after growing more than 10x since relaunching last year. Much of this work still runs on pen, paper, Word and Excel, and Scope is turning inspection work into usable data about the physical world. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel - check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: Mishcon: https://www.mishcon.com/pop-ups/scaling-europe 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 Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:25 - The inspection industry 1:34 - How Scope works 2:20 - Scope’s $20m round 3:08 - Growing more than 10x 5:08 - Scaling to $15m ARR 8:14 - Why inspection is ready for AI 10:06 - Building close to customers 13:13 - International expansion 18:48 - Hiring talent in London

    20 min

  3. 5 GG FA

    Manuel Silva Martinez, GP at Mouro Capital: BREAKING: Mouro Capital closed $400m fund

    Mouro Capital is a fintech-focused venture firm investing at the intersection of financial services and technology. Manuel Silva Martinez is a GP at Mouro Capital, and they just announced a new $400m fund backed by Banco Santander, giving the firm more capital to back fintech entrepreneurs across the US, Europe and Latin America. Mouro’s thesis has stayed close to financial services, but the opportunity now looks much broader as AI pulls more horizontal companies into the category. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel - check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: Mishcon: https://www.mishcon.com/pop-ups/scaling-europe 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 Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:28 - Mouro Capital’s new $400m fund 0:52 - The history of Mouro Capital 2:33 - How AI fits into fintech 4:04 - Raising from Banco Santander 5:55 - Liquidity and exits 8:15 - Creating liquidity in Europe 11:00 - Growth in fintech 13:10 - InsurTech 15:55 - New markets in financial services 17:49 - The next generation of fintech founders 19:18 - Mouro Capital’s portfolio

    20 min

  4. 12 MAG

    Martin Mignot, Partner at Index Ventures: How founders are building and leading companies in the AI era

    European founders are still going to the US earlier than ever, but AI is now changing how the companies they build actually operate. Martin Mignot, Partner at Index Ventures, looks at this shift from inside a global firm working with founders on both sides of the Atlantic. For founders and CEOs, AI is becoming much bigger than a tooling question. The challenge is to rethink how the company works before the old structure slows them down. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel - check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: Mishcon: https://www.mishcon.com/pop-ups/scaling-europe 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 Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:32 - European founders going global earlier 2:12 - How AI is changing company building 3:02 - CEOs learning from San Francisco 4:39 - Founder mode and AI leadership 7:20 - How Index helps founders through the shift 9:48 - Why Index invested in Anthropic 13:04 - Index’s AI strategy 17:17 - Assessing AI founders 21:07 - Explore vs exploit in AI 22:19 - Index’s AI portfolio 24:27 - Why Index operates as one global team 27:24 - The trade-offs of a global partnership

    50 min

  5. 8 MAG

    James Regan, CEO of Oriole Networks: Building radically faster networks for AI

    AI data centres are running into a network bottleneck as models demand more bandwidth, more connected processors and dramatically more power. James Regan, CEO of Oriole Networks, thinks the industry is still trying to scale architectures that fundamentally do not work at the size AI is heading towards. Oriole’s approach replaces electrical packet switches with photonic switching technology designed to move data optically across the data centre, with the long-term goal of connecting a million XPUs in a single hop while cutting power consumption at the same time. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel - check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: Mishcon: https://www.mishcon.com/pop-ups/scaling-europe 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 Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:27 - What Oriole Networks is building 1:48 - Why optical switching matters for AI 4:50 - The network bottleneck problem 7:22 - Prism Ultra and scaling AI infrastructure 10:24 - Industry reaction to Prism Ultra 12:49 - US vs European deep tech investors 16:07 - What James does differently as a repeat founder 20:27 - Spinning companies out of universities 24:15 - Why founders should avoid weak early deals 25:53 - Recognising bad VC deals as a repeat founder

    27 min

  6. 7 MAG

    Kevin Smith, CEO at Venture Comet: Helping founders unlock equity earlier in their startup journey

    Founders can spend years building valuable companies while paying themselves almost nothing, with all of the upside locked away until an exit that may still be years off. Kevin Smith, CEO at Venture Comet, is building a platform that helps founders release a small amount of equity earlier in the journey instead of waiting for a single make-or-break outcome at the end. One of the biggest shifts he points to is how much investor attitudes around founder secondaries have changed, with far more acceptance that giving founders some financial breathing room can actually help companies last longer and build bigger outcomes. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel - check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: Mishcon: https://www.mishcon.com/pop-ups/scaling-europe 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 Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:07 - What Venture Comet does 2:20 - Why founders struggle in years 3-5 4:52 - When founders should consider secondaries 6:24 - Why Kevin started the company 8:36 - The rise of founder secondaries 11:17 - How Venture Comet works with investors 13:48 - The future of Venture Comet 16:38 - Building differently the second time around 19:23 - Staying focused as a second-time founder

    22 min

  7. 6 MAG

    June Angelides MBE, Founder of the Portfolio Method and Venture Partner at Samos Investments: Building a platform to manage multiple roles and income streams

    Most people running multiple roles have no clear way to price their work or decide what is actually worth their time. June Angelides MBE, Founder of the Portfolio Method and Venture Partner at Samos Investments, is building a product around that problem after seeing it play out in her first workshop, where most participants realised they were underpricing themselves once they broke everything down. What started as a single session is already turning into a product with early users, as she builds it in real time and tests how a portfolio career can actually be structured instead of just managed informally. Find out more about the Portfolio Method and get a free audit here: https://theportfolio-method.com/. Most people running multiple roles have no clear way to price their work or decide what is actually worth their time.June Angelides MBE, Founder of the Portfolio Method and Venture Partner at Samos Investments, is building a product around that problem after seeing it play out in her first workshop, where most participants realised they were underpricing themselves once they broke everything down. What started as a single session is already turning into a product with early users, as she builds it in real time and tests how a portfolio career can actually be structured instead of just managed informally.Find out more about the Portfolio Method and get a free audit here: https://theportfolio-method.com/. An anonymous benchmarking survey for portfolio careers is also now live, check it out here: https://tally.so/r/eqxrQq. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel - check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: Mishcon: https://www.mishcon.com/pop-ups/scaling-europe 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 Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:25 - Why she started the Portfolio Method 2:36 - The cost of context switching 3:27 - Underpricing and workshop insight 4:02 - Going back into build mode 6:24 - Product vision and early users 11:38 - Investing in African startups 13:13 - African tech ecosystem 15:01 - Balancing a portfolio career

    18 min

  8. 4 MAG

    Andre Retterath, General Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital: Earlybird’s €360m fund and the future of European deep tech

    Earlybird raised a €360 million early-stage fund, its largest yet, after extending the hard cap during the raise to bring in an additional institutional LP. Andre Retterath, General Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital, talks about how that number is decided before the fund is even raised, with ownership targets and follow-on reserves shaping the size more than anything else in a market where liquidity has been tight. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel - check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: Mishcon: https://www.mishcon.com/pop-ups/scaling-europe 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 Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:19 - €360m fund announcement 0:55 - Fund size and portfolio strategy 2:29 - Fundraising in today’s LP market 3:54 - IPOs and liquidity returning 5:39 - Deep tech focus 8:13 - What founders look for in investors 10:03 - Aleph Alpha and Cohere 12:24 - Sovereignty in Europe 15:39 - Ownership structure and long-term setup 20:14 - Advice for getting into VC

    23 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. Prior guests include the founders of Lovable, Cleo, Voi an Zilch, as well as top VCs from 20VC, Index, Balderton and Creandum.

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  • Creatore
    Sebastian Johnson
  • Anni di attività
    2K
  • Puntate
    194
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    © Sebastian Johnson
  • Sito web del podcast
    Scaling Europe

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