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How tech
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Founders on the decisions behind their companies. Experts on the forces shaping European tech.
Founder conversations
The choices, challenges and turning points behind the companies.

Maurits Kaptein from Kyvvu: when should an AI agent ask permission?
In this episode, Bart & Raphaël sat down with Maurits Kaptein, co-founder and CTO of Kyvvu and full professor at TU Eindhoven, to unpack how you stop an…
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Fixing fashion's coordination problem
With Heidi Van Dyck from Athena Studio
A fashion collection takes shape across spreadsheets, Miro boards, emails and product lifecycle management systems, with hundreds of people trying to keep…
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Getting your brand recommended by AI
With Gilles Praet from Visiblie
Bart and Raphaël sit down with Gilles Praet, co-founder of Belgian startup Visiblie, to talk about getting brands recommended by ChatGPT, Claude and other…
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Selling AI to companies that don't care about AI
With Lennard Kooy from Lleverage
Charlotte Verhamme joins the show as a new co-host, bringing an EU policy lens to the founder interviews, and we start with Lennard Kooy, CEO and…
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Building the AI workforce for finance & strategy
With Séverine Nolf
In this episode, Bart and Raphaël sit down with Séverine Nolf, co-founder and CEO of PleaseFix.ai, the Belgian-American startup building the AI workforce…
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2501.ai and autonomous agents for enterprise IT
With Alexandre Pereira
In this episode, Bart and Murilo sit down with Alexandre Pereira, co-founder & CEO of 2501.ai — the Paris- and NY-based startup building autonomous AI…
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A closer look at what it takes to build in Europe.

Belgium’s AI strategy meets the EU AI Act
With Charlotte Verhamme
In this episode, we sit down with Charlotte Verhamme, Attaché Digital Affairs, to unpack what actually happens inside the EU “digital dossiers” machine:…
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Should Startups Bet on Microsoft Fabric? - Fabric Data Days Edition
With Sam Debruyn
Thanks a lot for listening ❤️ Links 🔗: FabCon Atlanta: https://fabriccon.com/ FabCon Barcelona:…
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