AI roll-ups: The upsides and challenges

In this Tech.eu podcast, three founders of AI roll-ups discuss the upsides and challenges of AI roll-ups.

Investors don't understand AI, says founder of OpenAI safety adviser

In this Tech.eu podcast, Faculty AI founder Marc Warner talks AI and the work undertaken by Faculty AI.

Europe has a "swarm" of global-scale AI firms, says VC

In the Tech.eu podcast, Ziv Riechert, partner at LocalGlobe, and Bobby Jackle, partner, Visionaries Club, talk AI.

We're not looking to poach researchers from other labs," says Anthropic's European boss

 In this Tech.eu podcast, Guillaume Princen talks about Anthropic's European ambitions.

Some of the best AI solutions are coming from Europe”, says OpenAI's EMEA startup boss

In the Tech.eu podcast, Laura Modiano talks about how OpenAI is working with startups across Europe.

Swedish AI legaltech founder: Most big law firms “not like to leverage Chinese models”

In the Tech.eu podcast,  Legora CEO Max  Junestrand talks about which LLMs the startup is leveraging and how widespread AI has become within the start...

Europe in danger of being geopolitical “sitting duck” unless embraces defence tech, says Alpine Eagle founder

In this Tech.eu podcast, Alpine Eagle co-founder Jan-Hendrik Boelens talks defence tech and the opportunity it presents for Europe.

We are sprinting towards implementation of our first chip”, says UK startup in AI inference race

In the Tech.eu podcast, Fractile founder Walter Goodwin discusses Fractile's AI inference chips which he claims can run LLMs faster and more energy ef...

“Lot of work to be done” to achieve open banking success, says Volt CEO

In this episode, the co-founder and interim CEO of Volt, talks about Volt and open banking.

London’s fintech crown “under threat”, says Pockit CEO

The co-founder of Pockit talks about the fintech's future plans, the acquisition of Monese, and why he thinks the fintech sector is ripe for consolida...

“There is still a lack of investment opportunities in Slovakia,” says Slovak fintech founder

Two Slovakia-based startup executives discuss the pros and cons of being located in the country.

Our future is predominantly American”, says founder of Nvidia-backed London startup PolyAI

Nikola Mrkšić talks PolyAI, the future of AI-powered voices, and the impact of AI on the workforce.

We will [still] be a unicorn today”, says CEO of Bulgaria’s first-ever $1bn startup

Hristo Borisov, CEO and co-founder of Payhawk, was speaking on the Tech.eu podcast, talking about the history of Payhawk and the challenges and opport...

AI grant applicants like "sizzle without the steak"

Speaking on the Tech.eu podcast, Payal Dalal, MasterCard, discusses the MasterCard Strive EU Innovation Fund.

“We see the Pluto, Lunar dynamic like N26 and Trade Republic”, says Pluto boss

Joakim Bruchmann, CEO & co-founder, Pluto.markets, and Ken Villum Klausen, the founder and CEO of Danish challenger bank Lunar, discuss Denmark as a t...

Banking-as-a-Service will provide plumbing for half of future banking activity, says NatWest boss

Speaking on the Tech.eu podcast, George Toumbev, chief commercial officer, NatWest Boxed,  talks about NatWest’s BaaS offering and some of the challen...

“Maybe some things got a little wobbly,” says Techstars CEO addressing criticism about its corporate culture

A podcast interview with David Cohen, the co-founder and CEO of Techstars, the startup accelerator, which has backed thousands of startups. In the epi...

“Dead man’s shoes. Older VCs need to move to the side,” says top VC

Zoe Peden, partner, Ananda Impact Ventures, an impact VC fund and Eleanor Kaye, managing director, Newton Venture Progam, an education scheme for over...

University spinout numbers on the up after universities “drop” stakes

Doctor Peter Garraghan, co-founder and CEO, Mindgard and  Kevin Berghoff,  co-founder of Quantum Diamonds, discuss the virtues and challenges of unive...

Northvolt VC backer "optimistic" about its future, despite laying off 1,600 workers.

An interview with Agate Freimane, general partner, Norrsken VC and Pablo Pederjon, partner at Madrid-based impact VC fund Seaya about impact investing...

Quantum computing will have its “ChatGPT moment” in the next 18 months, says UK boss

No tech firm can say “software is never going to fail”, says ethical hacker, amid CrowdStrike fallout

An interview with two experts on the CrowdStrike fallout and how businesses can limit impact of outage or cyber attack.

One-third of trading on Robinhood’s UK app outside market hours, says UK boss

A podcast interview with the president of Robinhood UK. In the podcast, we discuss how the UK app is performing, the growth of the UK team, and future...

“This is the first of many of minority funds,” says Europe’s first black solo GP

Interview with Maria Rotilu, founder and general partner, Openseed, a fund which is raising $10m to invest in startups at the earliest stages in Europ...

An interview with Manuel Lemos from Enline

Enline is the winner of the EIT Venture Award for their vegetation and landslide predictive forecast programme. The company develops tech such as  dyn...

An interview with Christer Bergquist from Altris AB

Altris AB is the winner of the EIT Innovation Team Award for their sodium-ion batteries. The batteries enable high performance batteries to accelerate...

An interview with the founders of HiQ-CARB and Woamy, winners of the recent EIT 2024 awards

We talked with Mohamed Elamir and  Dr. Andreas Bittner.


Mohammad is the winner of the EIT Changemaker Award and co-founder of Woam...

25 per cent of fintechs pitching top VC are AI-first startups

Around 25 per cent of fintechs pitching a top VC for funding are AI-first startups, according to a top VC.

Asked what per cent of fintech...

“Never too late and never too early” to launch a startup, says founder of one of Finland’s biggest fintech

“It’s never too late and it’s never too early” to launch a startup, according to the co-founder and co-CEO of Enfuce, the payment startup and one of F...

BUX CEO says he wants to protect neobroker from “too much" ABN AMRO influence

The CEO of a European neobroker startup recently acquired by Dutch financial services giant ABN AMRO says it’s his job to keep BUX protected from “too...

“There is no entrepreneurial gene”, says top VC and author of Start-up Century

“There is no entrepreneurial gene, I don’t think,” says James Wise, partner at VC firm Balderton Capital and author of Start-Up-Century.
He adds...

Middle East conflict is “horrible” and could drive a new inflation scare, says Zopa boss

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is “horrible” and will “continue to create concerns” across the world, including the investment community, according...

London a fintech “behemoth”, says Plaid leader

Last month, Singapore-based Nium announced that it had chosen London as its European HQ while US fintech Plaid has dual European headquarters in Londo...

Ten years ago VC funds in Sand Hill Road wouldn’t “even fly to Los Angeles”

Lucas Timberlake, general partner at Fintech Ventures Fund, the US VC that has a focus on fintech and insurtech, and Ricardo Schäfer,
early-stag...

Scandinavian tech giants like Spotify and Klarna "have fostered a new generation of entrepreneurs”

Scandinavia is home to some of the most celebrated tech companies in recent years: Skype, Spotify, and Klarna. Cities like Stockholm and Copenhagen ar...

“No one should be a denied a bank account”, says Politically Exposed Persons expert amid Farage bank account row

This week the seldom talked about world of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) came into the spotlight after Nigel Farage claimed the banks did not wan...

A decade in, what's next for UK-born digital identity verification software scale-up Onfido? CEO Mike Tuchen spills the beans

Founded in London back in 2012, Onfido has become one of the global leaders in the digital identity verification and authentication services.

Dronamics CEO Svilen Rangelov on building the first cargo drone airline in the world (out of Bulgaria)

Bulgarian cargo drone manufacturer Dronamics today extended its pre-Series A funding round to raise €2 million euro from private investors exclusively...

Big moves in AI, Getir exits Spain, how US companies fare in Europe, and Henry Philipson from ESG_VC

Up this week:
The AI wars are heating up: During London Tech Week Prime Minister Rishi Sunak set the goal of establishing the UK as the global h...

Bolt 🩷's Starship, a Code Red, an iron fist at the EIB, AI a-plenty, Tech City, and it's Pollen season

Shhhh. Can you hear it? Listen in. Very carefully. Yes, yes, that's the unmistakable sound of an ecosystem that's staring down a summer full of iced t...