Europe’s TBPN-style tech show raises $1.6M

Europe’s answer to TBPN is expanding from a twice-weekly stream into a five-day live show, backed by a $1.6 million seed round and a growing list of high-profile guests.

Luke Knight and Ronan Chambers launched the London-based European Technology Network (ETN) last October. The show currently streams on X and YouTube and has accumulated more than 5 million views. ETN says the five-day schedule starts June 27; the announcement also describes the shift as beginning “today.”

ETN’s expansion and guest lineup

The new funding comes from Powerhouse Capital, Axel Springer SE—which owns Business Insider and Politico—LadBible, and angel investors from OpenAI and DeepMind.

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ETN plans to use the money to:

• Move into a larger studio in King’s Cross
• Expand its current team of eight
• Launch a newsletter
• Run a live show five days a week

The format will remain close to the existing program: a three-hour live broadcast from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. UK time focused on trending stories, followed by two hours of guest interviews. ETN also plans to add debates, roundtables, and a Shark Tank-style pitching session.

Upcoming guests are expected to include George Robson, a partner at Sequoia, and Rishi Sunak, the former UK prime minister and senior advisor to Anthropic and Microsoft. ETN has already hosted the founder of Synthesia, the CFO of Legora, the founder of Granola, and Kanishka Narayan, the UK’s first AI minister. American investors, including one from Andreessen Horowitz, have also appeared while visiting London.

“ETN was born out of a gaping hole in the industry. It’s centered around pace.”

A European tech media network

Chambers told TechCrunch that ETN was receiving about 70 guest pitches a week. The team had been trying to fit 12 interviews into two hours, twice a week, prompting the move to a daily schedule.

“We needed an outlet that could move at the pace of that.”

The show earns revenue from advertising. Its sponsors include prediction market Polymarket, blockchain company Base, and AI audio company ElevenLabs.

Knight and Chambers cite TBPN founders John Coogan and Jordi Hays as pioneers of the format. TBPN recently sold to OpenAI for what some say was a nine-figure sum. Chambers said ETN aims to provide a regional equivalent for Europe, while remaining open to founders from anywhere.

Europe’s scale presents a challenge: more than 40 countries and over 200 languages, including 24 recognized by the European Union. Although ETN broadcasts from London, its team says it is recruiting guests from across the continent and traveling to major technology events. It has already broadcast from the Panathenaea Conference in Athens and from the Louvre in Paris during the RAISE AI Summit.

“We are globally optimistic. We are pushing global prosperity from Europe.”

The founders say they do not intend to replace traditional media. Instead, they describe themselves as technology insiders who use established publications for much of the news they discuss. Their broader goal is to document the rise of companies from ElevenLabs in London to Lovable in Stockholm—and make startups a more attractive path for Europe’s next generation.