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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 startup.

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 efficient than Nvidia's GPUs.

“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 consolidation.

“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 opportunities it faces today.

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 tech hub.

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 challenges and opportunities in the market.

“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 episode, Cohen addresses recent criticism about its corporate culture and discusses startup trends in Europe and beyond in 2024.

“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 overlooked and under-represented VCs, discussed the VC diversity issue in this week's Tech.eu podcast.

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 university spinouts.

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 plans.

“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 Europe and Africa. Rotilu discusses-The the birth of Openseed, The benefits of being a solo general partner, What type of investments Openseed is interested in, Why startups should partner up with Openseed, and The investment landscape in Europe and Africa.

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 dynamic line rating and digital twins to help utilities get more out of their existing infrastructure.

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 the energy transition, without increasing the cost to the environment or to customers. https://www.altris.se/

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 Woamy, which develops biodegradable plastic-free biofoam for protective packaging to replace harmful plastic foams. https://www.woamy.com/ Dr. Andreas Bittner is the winner of the Public Award winner from HiQ-CARB, a team that produces sustainable and resource-efficient nanomaterials for high-performance batteries. These materials enable faster-charging electric vehicles, ...

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 fintechs pitching Breega, a European VC which backs UK savings and investment app Moneybox and UK card-consolidator Curve, are AI-first startups, Breega partner Benjamin Deplus said: “I guess in fintech, it. Is still pretty low.“I mean you have AI involved but it’s mostly for workflow automation. It's not the heart of the product.“I think that is the opportunity for t...

“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 Finland’s biggest fintech. Monika Liikamaa, co-CEO & co-founder of Enfuce, was speaking along with Michaela Berglund, CEO and founder of Feminvest, an events and education platform for women which has also launched an €8.8 million fund to invest in Nordic startups which are majority owned by women. The pair discussed the dearth of female founder...

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 much influence from the larger organisation”. In the Tech.eu podcast, Yorick Naeff, BUX CEO, gives us the background to ABN AMRO’s purchase of BUX , announced in December last year. The Dutch giant was an early stage investor in BUX- most famous for offering commission-free trading to European investors- and the pair are also tech partners. “We st...

“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: “I don’t think it is in your DNA. But certainly, your upbringing and the role models you have around you do make a big difference.” Wise gives us the full skinny on his new book, Start-Up Nation , which offers a fresh look at the rise in entrepreneurship and startups and how they are changing the world of work as well as what the changing economy means...

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 to Jaidev Janardana, CEO of UK fintech lender Zopa. The CEO pointed out that the Middle East was where the world gets a lot of its oil from. Janardana said: “What happens in the Middle East? It’s hard to predict. I am assuming there will be concerns about the conflict spreading and thus putting pressure on oil prices again, driving a new potential ...

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 London and Amsterdam. The two executives discuss the virtues of their international fintechs having European headquarters and why they chose the cities they are located in. Sandhofer says: “London is proving to be one of the best ecosystems for fintechs overall.” Lambert says: “The two top priorities for us are, one, being very, very close to our custom...