Scaling Europe

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.

Scaling Europe is a business podcast hosted by Sebastian Johnson, with 244 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Sebastian Johnson hosts Scaling Europe, a business show with 244 episodes published.

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  Siadhal Magos, Co-founder & CEO at Metaview: BREAKING: Metaview Raised $60M Series C

  Sep 30, 202622 min

  Metaview just raised a $60m Series C led by Insight Partners, only a year after their previous round, bringing total funding to $110 million. Siadhal Magos is Co-founder and CEO of Metaview, which has grown from a tool for making sense of hiring conversations into a full set of AI agents for recruiting. They just launched their newest agent, fillmore, which finds and reaches out to candidates and books them into meetings. It takes on the time-consuming parts of hiring, so recruiters can focus on the people they want to hire. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/ Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk Lovable: https://lovable.dev/ Parloa: https://www.parloa.com/ Conveo: https://conveo.ai/ NatWest: https://www.natwest.com/ WWT: https://www.wwt.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction0:09 The new $60m Series C0:29 What changed since the Series B2:27 Millions of hiring conversations4:33 Plans for the new funding6:37 Launching fillmore9:38 Could AI make 10x recruiters12:08 Why recruiting is high stakes15:06 Early results from fillmore17:40 How to tell if hiring is going well20:31 How fast Metaview hires

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  Alex Higginbottom, Founder at Zenithon AI: BREAKING: Zenithon AI raised $10m

  Sep 30, 202620 min

  Zenithon AI just raised $10m from Backed, Lunar, Seraphim, MMC, SOSV and others. It's building AI that runs complex physics simulations a million times faster than today's tools, so engineers can test far more designs before building anything. Alex Higginbottom is Founder at Zenithon AI. With the new funding, his team is training larger AI models and getting them into the hands of their first customers in fusion and chipmaking. Both fields have trillions of possible designs to explore, which is where that speed matters most. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/ Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk Lovable: https://lovable.dev/ Parloa: https://www.parloa.com/ Conveo: https://conveo.ai/ NatWest: https://www.natwest.com/ WWT: https://www.wwt.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:13 What Zenithon AI does 0:46 Leaving a PhD to start a company 3:19 Working with fusion companies 5:24 A million times faster 6:40 Where the product is today 9:01 What won investors over 10:28 Where the money goes 12:18 From researcher to founder 16:13 What's next 17:06 Using it for chipmaking 18:33 The bigger mission

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  Oliver Vince, Co-Founder at Basecamp Research: BREAKING: Basecamp Research raised $140m Series C

  Sep 23, 202623 min

  Basecamp Research just raised a $140m Series C led by S32. It's teaching AI to read and write DNA, using huge amounts of genetic data it collects all over the world. It has been working with NVIDIA and Anthropic on its models, and both have now come in as investors too. Oliver Vince is Co-Founder at Basecamp Research, which is using this AI to design new medicines for cancer, rare genetic diseases and infections. The next step is getting the first ones to patients, which he expects within the next couple of years. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/ Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk Lovable: https://lovable.dev/ Parloa: https://www.parloa.com/ Conveo: https://conveo.ai/ NatWest: https://www.natwest.com/ WWT: https://www.wwt.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:21 What Basecamp Research does 1:17 The new $140m Series C 1:57 The Eden models and the Trillion Gene Atlas 4:13 Why NVIDIA and Anthropic invested 5:35 Why they want investors who are realistic and optimistic 7:56 Which diseases it could help first 10:10 How close they are to treating patients 14:03 Drug company or pharma partner 15:19 A different approach from other AI biology companies 19:46 What could make it fail 21:42 Scepticism from traditional pharma

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  Hugo da Silva, CEO at Morphotonics: Morphotonics raised over €40m Series B

  Sep 23, 202618 min

  Morphotonics just raised over €40m Series B to build the machinery behind AI smart glasses and data center optics. Hugo da Silva is CEO of Morphotonics, and they make equipment that imprints microscopic displays onto AI smart glasses, combining high precision with mass manufacturing scale. The new funding will go toward delivering their next-gen equipment and growing across Asia. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/ Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk Lovable: https://lovable.dev/ Parloa: https://www.parloa.com/ Conveo: https://conveo.ai/ NatWest: https://www.natwest.com/ WWT: https://www.wwt.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:21 What Morphotonics actually do 1:38 The new €40m Series B 4:31 Moving into AI data centers 7:50 Building local teams in Asia 10:22 Shipping fast vs spending 10 years on perfection 12:25 Why they are turning away new customers 13:58 When will 500 million people wear smart glasses 15:57 Main bottlenecks to mass scale

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  Neil Daly, CEO of Skin Analytics: Helping detect skin cancer using a phone

  Sep 21, 202618 min

  Skin Analytics has built AI technology that can spot skin cancer from a photo, and health systems use it to check patients faster and catch more cases early. Earlier this year, it got approval across Europe to check for skin cancer using just a smartphone camera, with no doctor needed to review each case. It has already found more than 25,000 cancers across the NHS. Neil Daly is Founder and CEO of Skin Analytics. His goal is to make sure no one dies from skin cancer, because caught early enough, it's almost always curable. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/ Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk Lovable: https://lovable.dev/ Parloa: https://www.parloa.com/ Conveo: https://conveo.ai/ NatWest: https://www.natwest.com/ WWT: https://www.wwt.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:15 What Skin Analytics actually does 1:00 How Neil started the business in 2012 2:21 How the AI boom changed adoption 4:04 The smartphone-only breakthrough and European clearance 8:11 What the smartphone clearance unlocks 11:24 How patients and clinicians have reacted 12:54 The mission and the numbers behind it 16:35 What's next for Skin Analytics Skin Analytics helps detect skin cancer using a phone

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