A London-founded livestream built to mirror America's buzzy tech talk shows has grown fast enough that founders, investors, and even a former prime minister are now lining up for a seat on set.

The show launched last October as a modest twice-weekly livestream covering tech news and trends, broadcast on X and YouTube by its two co-founders. In the months since, it has pulled in more than five million views and built a reputation as one of the liveliest voices covering Europe's fast-moving startup scene.

That momentum has now translated into real capital. The network just closed a seed round worth $1.6 million, with backing from a media-focused venture firm, a major European publisher that also owns well-known business and political news outlets, a popular youth media brand, and individual investors connected to two leading AI labs. The founders say the new funding is fueling the biggest expansion the show has attempted yet.

With the new capital in hand, the team is relocating into a larger studio space in one of London's hottest tech neighborhoods, growing its small eight-person staff, launching a companion newsletter, and — starting immediately — shifting from two live broadcasts a week to five. Upcoming guests are expected to include a well-known venture partner and a former UK prime minister who now advises major AI companies.

The founders say the show has already become a favored stop on the European press circuit, hosting founders and executives from several buzzy AI and productivity startups, plus the UK's first dedicated AI minister. Visiting American investors have even swung by the studio while passing through London.

The founders are open about drawing inspiration from a well-known American business talk show that recently sold to a major AI lab for what's rumored to be a nine-figure sum. That show's format — friendly, fast-paced conversations where founders announce products, hires, and funding news directly to camera — is the same rhythm the London-based team is trying to replicate for a European audience, reasoning that if national broadcasters can exist, a regional tech-focused equivalent should too.

Beyond the studio, the hosts also travel to major European tech conferences to broadcast live, having already reported from events in Athens and Paris. They see themselves less as journalists and more as industry insiders documenting a moment, and say they intend to work alongside — not replace — the traditional outlets they still rely on for sourcing stories.

Revenue for the show comes primarily from advertising, with sponsors already including a prediction market platform, a blockchain company, and a leading AI audio startup. The hosts frame their bigger mission as cultural as much as commercial: showcasing homegrown European success stories to convince the next generation that founding a startup is a more exciting path than heading straight into banking or consulting after university.