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How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator Jul 24, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 8:08 Olivier Pomel You had VCs in New York, VCs in the Bay Area, uh, not much going on in Europe.
  • ▶ 27:00 unnamed speaker So, uh, most of the people here are not necessarily Paris, but at least Europe. 2 times in the scene

Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm · Y Combinator May 13, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 4:56 Paul Graham Investors in Silicon Valley, have any of you tried to raise funding from investors in Europe? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:24 Paul Graham Um, you could make it the Silicon Valley of Europe. 2 times in the scene

AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator Mar 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:16 Mukund Jha Yeah, so they're all, global audience, 80%, um, 70, 80% are in US, Europe, over one 90 countries right now.

The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator Mar 9, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:43 Max Hodak And so, yeah, I mean, there, there's a big clinical trial in Europe across 17 sites, and there's a huge effect.
  • ▶ 23:54 unnamed speaker Pitfalls it could run into along the way, and then we also, um, just surveyed the world to see what was the state of the art for the best out there in, um, in electrical stimulation, and there was this technology that had been invented at…

How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator Aug 26, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 3:12 Max Junestrand And the first product was really quite simple, especially building for Europe. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:52 Max Junestrand We're now going to scale across every market in Europe, and we're going to start scaling towards the US.
  • ▶ 44:49 Max Junestrand And another really big piece is we're hiring all over Europe.

The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street · Y Combinator Jul 31, 2025 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 18:00 Arne Englander Uh, so our model was a little bit different to a DoorDash or an Instacart, so we were what's called a vertically integrated model, which means we had our own warehouses, we held the stock ourselves, and this was relatively new in Europe. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:36 Chas Englander You know, I think us being from Europe working seven days a week, it's very unusual to say the least, and there's not many people that we can call on.
  • ▶ 42:00 unnamed speaker and then I was in Zurich on a trip recently, and I was in London, I saw you guys, uh, I was in London, um, a year, year and a few months ago, is from European founders is where they should be based and where they should be building their… 6 times in the scene

Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator Jul 11, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:51 unnamed speaker Uh, you know, with your recent partnership with NVIDIA to ship AI models across Europe, um, there's been talks about perplexity being installed on, um, all Samsung phones or pre-installed, um, and that could lift your valuation towards…

Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware · Y Combinator Jun 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:57 Sam Altman I've never been to one of those degrowth or conferences in Europe or whatever.

DoorDash CEO: Customer Obsession, Surviving Startup Death & Creating A New Market · Y Combinator Mar 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:12 Tony Xu I remember very specifically my classmates or some of our classmates, you know, planning their exotic vacations to Europe or other, um, interesting areas for, for the summer.

The Truth About Y Combinator · Y Combinator Oct 28, 2022 · 1 mention

Diego Saez Gil - How Pachama Uses Tech to Solve Climate Change · Y Combinator Jan 28, 2020 · 1 mention

Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator Dec 18, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:49 Amber Atherton And, uh, I kind of kept it more on the back then also because we were out here and not in Europe.

Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator Jun 26, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 47:00 Gustaf Alströmer It wasn't super useful to buy these keywords in San Francisco, but if you're in Europe, or in Asia, or in, or in Russia, or somewhere, it certainly was very important to kickstart those market.

Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator Feb 15, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:20 Ryan Hoover In Europe, he, he won maker of the year, and this is a younger guy who learned to code a few years ago, uh, launched in his first product a couple years ago on Product Hunt after learning about 30 or 60 days.

Andrew Kortina of Venmo and Fin on Technological Determinism and Work's Relationship to Dignity · Y Combinator Nov 20, 2018 · 1 mention

A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator Oct 18, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 19:48 Elad Gil So for example, TomTom, the European GPS company that ended up for a while being one of the most valuable companies in Europe, I think it was literally four people in a room for like six years iterating through different ideas until they… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:35 Elad Gil So I traveled on a very similar service throughout Europe.

Cannabis Startup Founders David Hua and Vincent Ning on Legalization, Banking, and Industry Trends · Y Combinator Oct 11, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:51 Craig Cannon Cause I actually don't know, like internationally in Europe, for instance, you know, if you buy cannabis somewhere, where, where are they growing?

Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator Aug 30, 2018 · 1 mention

Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator Jul 27, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:29 Elad Gil So with Facebook, that was email scrapers, and it was, you know, they were literally running ads against people's names in Europe to try and acquire European users, for example.

Mathematical Approaches to Image Processing with Carola Schönlieb · Y Combinator May 9, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:37 Carola Schönlieb So it was just, so actually, you know, a lot of applied mathematics on the continent, which is everything else in the UK, basically here in Europe, um, is, uh, applied mathematics very much means that you're, what you're doing is inspired…

Crypto Investors - Linda Xie and Avichal Garg · Y Combinator May 2, 2018 · 1 mention

A.I. Policy and Public Perception - Miles Brundage and Tim Hwang · Y Combinator Apr 25, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 11:14 Tim Hwang Will, like, the US and Canada and Europe sort of stay ahead in this game?
  • ▶ 20:00 Tim Hwang Because I think, and this actually stems from some really interesting things about, like, how the US thinks about privacy and how Europe thinks about privacy. 2 times in the scene

Researching Psilocybin's Effects on Depression - Dr. Rosalind Watts · Y Combinator Mar 15, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:02 Dr. Rosalind Watts The only legal way of, of having this experience is, there's, there's a couple of places where mushrooms are legal, are legal, and they're retreats, but they're very far away on the other side of the world, and there are places in Europe

Andy Bromberg - Startup Investor School Day 4 · Y Combinator Mar 9, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 45:01 Andy Bromberg Uh, the, right now, it is a very global phenomenon, so about as much money has been raised by ICOs based in Europe as based in the United States, um, which is How much was raised in ICOs in 2017? 2 times in the scene

Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator Feb 23, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:15 Sam Altman You know, like I, it had, like, flown over from Europe, and it was in this big crate, and it, I got it out, and it was stunning.

Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator Oct 4, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:06 Ryan Hoover He then recruited a lot of the early engineers who were based in Europe, because that's where a lot of his network at the time was.

Your Whole Goal Is to Not Quit - Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers · Y Combinator Sep 25, 2017 · 2 mentions

The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator Sep 8, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:51 Tikhon Bernstam Uh, lived in Europe for a while, um, did a lot of speaking at conferences, um, that, that sort of, and I, I tried to learn more about the international startup scene.

IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator Jul 1, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:53 Juan Benet Um, I think in 2013 and 14, a lot of the blockchain tech was being built in New York and Europe and far ahead of Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene

At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator Jun 16, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:40 Tim Hwang So, one of the most interesting aspects of the GDPR, which is a new privacy regulation in Europe, is, uh, the potential for this, what they call kind of a right to explanation.
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