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Attio just launched a new version of its CRM built for a world where AI agents do more and more of the work. Attio now handles 1.6 billion API calls a month, with usage growing 50% every month. Nicolas Sharp is Founder and CEO of Attio. Agents now handle the busy work, from routing leads to prepping calls, while sales teams spend more of their time with customers. In its first year on Attio, the typical customer sees 2.5 times more deals without adding to the team. 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 Introduction0:13 Attio's new version built for agents1:17 How fast agent use is growing1:52 What the agents are actually doing4:12 Software turning into infrastructure5:52 Paying for all that computing power7:56 What changes for sales teams10:45 Using Attio inside other apps13:17 What will keep Attio ahead15:40 Making it easy for anyone to set up17:44 Building from London

Singular is a Paris and London based venture firm backing some of Europe's most exciting early stage companies, from Basecamp Research to Aikido. Raffi Kamber is General Partner and Co-Founder at Singular. Europe is especially strong at combining AI and science, and a new generation of researchers is now starting companies of their own. Singular has made this one of its biggest bets and helps turn the research into businesses, and it's now growing its team in London to find more of them. 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 0:19 Backing Basecamp Research 3:17 Europe's edge in AI and science 4:58 Helping researchers become founders 9:11 Why Singular is betting on London 11:33 Vibe's sale to Walmart 13:27 What an early win means for Singular 14:29 Thinking about a third fund 15:57 Staying open to any industry 18:08 Running their own firm 19:27 Competing with bigger funds

Atomico is one of Europe's best known venture firms, backing tech companies from their early days all the way to going public. Europe now produces as many new tech companies as the US, and a lot of them will need big funding rounds as they grow. Laura Connell is a Managing Partner at Atomico, where she works with founders at the growth stage. More investors from the US, Asia and the Middle East are now backing these companies, while Europe's own growth funds are still too small to take a big share of the biggest rounds. 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 Introduction0:08 Laura's role at Atomico0:45 How Europe's growth stage has changed4:03 Why outcomes are getting bigger6:06 What growth investing means now9:46 Backing The Exploration Company11:37 Investors from outside Europe14:10 Why Europe needs bigger growth funds15:17 Her article on AI infrastructure17:46 What she looks for in founders20:10 From brain research to investing

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

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 Introduction0:13 What Zenithon AI does0:46 Leaving a PhD to start a company3:19 Working with fusion companies5:24 A million times faster6:40 Where the product is today9:01 What won investors over10:28 Where the money goes12:18 From researcher to founder16:13 What's next17:06 Using it for chipmaking18:33 The bigger mission

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

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

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

Complir just raised an $11m Seed led by General Catalyst, with new and existing investors joining the round, just eight to nine months after its pre-seed round. They are growing rapidly and the revenue has grown 40% month over month for the last six months. Gustav Bang is Co-founder and CEO of Complir. It helps retailers and brands sell physical products anywhere in the world, handling the compliance work that would otherwise fall on the retailer itself. 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 Introduction0:07 The $11m Seed round and what Complir does1:14 Building the product inside Flying Tiger's offices4:00 Quadrupling revenue at YC6:43 Lessons from Legora and picking bold bets8:53 Why General Catalyst led the round11:10 Becoming the compliance layer for global commerce12:37 Expanding into the UK and Germany14:14 The pivot to enterprise and the path to a Series A

Jack and Jill just raised a $40m Series A led by Air Street Capital with Madrona joining the round, and participation from existing investors. This brings total funding to $60m, just ten months after their $20m Seed. Revenue has grown 40x since the seed round. Matt Wilson is Co-Founder and CEO of Jack & Jill. They are two AI agents, where Jack works for the person looking for the next step in their career, while Jill works for the company hiring. When they agree it's a good match, the candidate is introduced directly to the decision maker instead of filling in an application. The new funding will go toward growing the business further across the US. 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 Jack and Jill actually do 2:37 The new $40m Series A and who's backing it 4:03 Expanding into San Francisco and New York 7:24 A founder success story from Entrepreneurs First 8:53 Why Nathan Benaich joined the cap table 11:14 Raising engineer pay to £360,000 14:14 Balancing high pay with mission-driven hires 15:50 How US pay is reshaping London hiring 18:13 What makes ex-founders great engineers 20:12 What's next for Jack and Jill

Exein just raised $270m at a $1.7bn valuation. The round was led by Headline, with participation from Sofina, Goldman Sachs, European Investment Bank Group ETCI, KfW Capital and T.Capital, with involvement from previous investors. Gianni Cuozzo is Founder and CEO of Exein. It builds on-device security software for connected systems, running on everything from coffee machines to satellites. The company has grown 400% year on year for the past three years, and it's now become one of Europe's most valuable private cyber security companies. 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 Introduction0:37 Announcing the $270m round0:51 Why Exein is moving into physical AI3:57 Running on 2 billion devices5:27 The growth behind the new valuation5:53 The trends driving that growth8:56 Who backed the round11:49 Expanding into San Francisco14:14 Why physical AI is the next battlefield17:50 Building a global business from Rome

Tandem Health just raised a $100m Series B led by the Scale-up Europe Fund, managed by EQT. Its AI medical assistant handles clinical documentation and admin work for doctors, from transcribing patient visits and drafting medical notes to handling referrals, coding, and prescriptions. Lukas Saari is Co-founder and CEO of Tandem Health. The company has grown from three co-founders to about 230 people in three years, and now works with over 10,000 care organisations across 14 European countries. With the new funding, they'll deepen their work with care providers and build a full AI-native operating system for clinics. 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 Intro and the new $100m Series B0:38 Where the round came from and what it unlocks2:04 Selling AI tools into Europe's biggest healthcare providers3:51 Why clinicians are actually pushing for this5:27 A day in the life with Tandem's AI7:32 The four levels of clinic automation9:59 Growing from 3 founders to 230 people in 3 years13:01 Why Europe's fragmented healthcare system is a strength16:34 Why no US competitor has come to Europe17:55 What the $100m will fund next18:47 Stockholm's founder community and momentum

Antler just released a new report recently on the state of European tech. It shows the biggest companies scaling faster and raising more money than ever, while funding for new companies at the earliest stages keeps shrinking. Christoph Klink is General Partner at Antler, an early stage venture firm. To him, the funding gap is one of the best opportunities in venture right now. Plenty of good companies can't get funded, and that's exactly where new investors could step in. 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 - Introduction0:42 - Two sides of European tech right now1:54 - Europe's early stage funding gap3:43 - Why new early stage investors have dropped6:14 - Rocket ships reaching unicorn status in under 3 years7:04 - Jets and juggernauts explained9:54 - How juggernauts raise much bigger rounds13:11 - Why investors are backing Europe's deep tech bets15:00 - London's growing share of Europe's biggest companies16:13 - Europe's startup hubs spreading beyond the biggest cities18:03 - Why Europe's funding gap is also its biggest opportunity

EU-INC is a grassroots initiative pushing to establish a unified corporate law framework across Europe. By creating a virtual "28th regime," the movement aims to eliminate fragmented national bureaucracy and simplify how tech startups are founded, scaled, and funded. Simon Schaefer is a co-initiator of EU-INC who has been driving the movement from the ground up. They just launched a new campaign to get its policy passed within the next 100 days. It's pushing for a single European legal structure that would let startups incorporate and scale across the EU without dealing with 27 different national systems. 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 - Introduction0:19 - Where EU Inc stands today0:57 - How the EU process for passing this works1:44 - Why the original proposal got watered down3:44 - What's still up for negotiation5:03 - Why EU Inc wants one shared company registry7:06 - Pushback from notaries and trade unions9:53 - Germany's resistance and the fight over insolvency rules13:28 - Working with EU officials and politicians16:16 - The moment EU Inc got its name from Brussels17:44 - How people can help in the next 100 days

HelmGuard just raised a $7.3m Seed round led by Infinity Ventures and Frontline. Its AI agents handle a company's security and compliance work automatically, checking everything all the time instead of relying on manual paperwork and periodic reviews. John Daley and Jack Miller are HelmGuard's co-founders, John as CEO and Jack as CTO. It took them just nine months to hit a million dollars in run rate with a three-person team. 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 0:20 - HelmGuard's $7.3m seed round 0:45 - What HelmGuard's platform does 1:15 - John's eight years at Palantir 2:24 - Jack's background in AI research 5:48 - How HelmGuard reacts to new model releases 8:45 - HelmGuard's work with Callosum 12:27 - HelmGuard's plans for the new funding 14:12 - Why legacy security platforms can't keep up 15:54 - What the OpenAI incident means for AI oversight 20:57 - How the OpenAI incident changed HelmGuard's thinking