8 Oct · 22 min

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

Singular is a Paris and London based venture firm backing some of Europe's most exciting early stage companies, from Basecamp Research to Aikido. 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's now growing its team in London to find more of them. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/ Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk Lovable: https://lovable.dev/ Parloa: https://www.parloa.com/ Conveo: https://conveo.ai/ NatWest: https://www.natwest.com/ WWT: https://www.wwt.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:19 Backing Basecamp Research 3:17 Europe's edge in AI and science 4:58 Helping researchers become founders 9:11 Why Singular is betting on London 11:33 Vibe's sale to Walmart 13:27 What an early win means for Singular 14:29 Thinking about a third fund 15:57 Staying open to any industry 18:08 Running their own firm 19:27 Competing with bigger funds