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Earlier this month, we hosted drinks in Warsaw together with our friends at Inovo.vc, bringing together founders and operators building in Poland 🇵🇱 The ecosystem's recent wins have given Warsaw real momentum. Companies born here are proving they can compete globally, and a generation of builders is watching it happen up close. What came through in the conversations: less celebration of what's already been achieved, more focus on what comes next: the companies still to be started, the talent choosing to stay and build, and the ambition to turn a few breakout stories into a lasting pattern. Thank you to Karol Lasota and Inovo for co-hosting, and to everyone who joined us. Until next time. Jonathan Becker Kiran Modi Adeyinka Okuwoga

This one comes in stealth, so here's what we can share: Maximilian Bittner built Lazada into Southeast Asia's largest e-commerce platform, sold it to Alibaba, and spent the years since running Vestiaire Collective. Few founders in Europe carry the reputation he does. Now he's teaming up with Lisa Sorg, who has known him since her internship at Lazada and who left Atomico to build this with him from day one. Together, they're going after the consumer opportunity at the intersection of fintech and AI in wealth management. We led their round of about €12M, alongside Atomico, Rerail, and Global Founders Capital, plus a group of angels that includes Alexandre Berriche, Arthur Waller, Ilkka Paananen, Miki Kuusi, and Robert Gentz. We back founders before the world catches up to them. Win, Bigger. Christian Miele Jonathan Userovici

After selling Stocard to Klarna, Björn Goß took internships at tax advisory firms. He wanted to understand the job from the inside. What he found was an industry running out of people. Over 30% of German tax advisors are already past 61. 74% of firms can't take on new clients anymore. In the US, more than 300,000 accountants have left the profession in three years. Pointing better software at that problem doesn't solve it. So Björn didn't build software for those firms. He built a new one: Skalar, a fully licensed tax and accounting firm built around AI from the start. In the areas they've already automated, one expert handles 100 clients. At a traditional firm, that number is roughly 20. Three months after going live, they had over 1,000 client requests. Proud to be backing Björn and his co-founders Niklas Wagener, Florian Lang 🏄🏻, Martin Gugel, and Christian Poetter, leading their seed round alongside futurepresent, QED Investors, Repeat Ventures, MS&AD Ventures, Foreword Fund, and a group of prominent angels. Jonathan Becker Kiran Modi Adeyinka Okuwoga

We gave 100 European AI companies an animal. The animal is a new classification for the AI era: a memory system where each animal's biology maps to how that breed makes money, builds its moat, and scales. A Whale doesn't compete the same way a Cheetah does. A Beaver's moat builds differently than an Octopus's. Six breeds: Frontier Labs, Velocity Racers, System Builders, Outcome Engines, Stack Enablers, Intelligent Hardware. The 2026 AI Europe 100 is live. 100 AI-native companies across Europe. Find yours in the image below. Which breed are you? Full list + methodology in the comments.

One framework. Six animals. None of them are decoration. Each one is a different business model: different economics, a different north star, a different way to fail. We mapped 100 European AI companies against them. The full list is on stage at RAISE Summit this Thursday. July 9 · 5pm · Carrousel du Louvre, Paris Jonathan Userovici Astrid Moullé-Berteaux Cyprien Benoist Christian Leybold Christian Miele Jonathan Becker Dominic R. Wilhelm Christian Eggert Michael Kent Kiran Modi Isabel Wrubel Valentin Kremer Adeyinka Okuwoga

This year, Headline's AI Europe 100 goes on stage. At the RAISE Summit. Thursday, July 9 · Carrousel du Louvre, Paris · 5pm 100 of Europe's fastest-growing AI-native companies. Every market map is sorted by sector. We built one test instead: what does this company sell, and what does it replace? Six families. Each with its own economics, its own dynamics, and its own totem animal. On stage first. See you at the Louvre. Jonathan Userovici Astrid Moullé-Berteaux Cyprien Benoist

Last week, we hosted a small dinner in Amsterdam for a group of founders and operators we admire 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱 No agenda, no panels. Just a long table, good food, and honest conversation about what's working, what's hard, and what's next. Amsterdam has a certain quality: direct, international, unusually candid. That came through at the table. Evenings like this are a reminder of why we like being up close, in the cities where founders are building. Thank you to everyone who joined us. Until the next one. Jonathan Becker Kiran Modi Adeyinka Okuwoga Michael Kent

Some weeks earn their exhaustion. We hosted the Headline Gipfelgespraeche with Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy Katherina Reiche, René Obermann, Stefan Wintels, Max Wirsching, Verena Pausder, Michael Bröcker, Philipp Schröder, Sebastian Schall, Patrick Huke, and a room full of institutional investors and operators who came ready to push forward. The question on the table: why invest in Germany right now? The answers were more optimistic than expected, and less nostalgic. The room was not relitigating the past. It was building the case for what comes next. That same day, together with 23 other leading VC and growth funds, we launched the German Venture and Growth Forum and published the German Venture & Growth Playbook. One direct argument: Germany allocates under 0.2% of GDP to venture capital. The US: 0.8%. That €30 billion gap is not structural. It is a choice. Capital is sovereignty, and the capital exists. The Playbook maps exactly what closing it looks like: with numbers, and with concrete entry points for pension funds, insurers, and professional pension schemes. For the rest of the week, our pop-up on Budapester Strasse stayed full: three days of back-to-back meetings with LPs from across the world. We closed on Wednesday evening at the Berlin Zoo with our friends from Top Tier Capital Partners for the fourth Topline edition. A few hours away from the agenda, with the people who define this ecosystem. A week worth having. Thank you for being part of it — see you next year.