Raffi Kamber, General Partner & Co-Founder at Singular: Europe has unique talent for building AI and science companies

<p>Singular is a Paris and London based venture firm backing some of Europe&#39;s most exciting early stage companies, from Basecamp Research to Aikido.</p><p><br></p><p>Raffi Kamber is General Partner and Co-Founder at Singular. Europe is especially strong at combining AI and science, and a new generation of researchers is now starting companies of their own. Singular has made this one of its biggest bets and helps turn the research into businesses, and it&#39;s now growing its team in London to find more of them.</p><p><br></p><p>The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk</p><p><br></p><p>Sponsors:</p><p><br></p><p>SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/</p><p><br></p><p>Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk</p><p><br></p><p>Lovable: https://lovable.dev/</p><p><br></p><p>Parloa: https://www.parloa.com/</p><p><br></p><p>Conveo: https://conveo.ai/</p><p><br></p><p>NatWest: https://www.natwest.com/</p><p><br></p><p>WWT: https://www.wwt.com/</p><p><br></p><p>Timestamps:</p><p><br></p><p>0:00 Introduction</p><p>0:19 Backing Basecamp Research</p><p>3:17 Europe&#39;s edge in AI and science</p><p>4:58 Helping researchers become founders</p><p>9:11 Why Singular is betting on London</p><p>11:33 Vibe&#39;s sale to Walmart</p><p>13:27 What an early win means for Singular</p><p>14:29 Thinking about a third fund</p><p>15:57 Staying open to any industry</p><p>18:08 Running their own firm</p><p>19:27 Competing with bigger funds</p>