{"podcast":{"title":"Scaling Europe","slug":"scaling-europe-7780754","podcast_index_feed_id":7780754,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/108a8a74c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scaling-europe","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/44302379/44302379-1756114015030-846dc0246eba9.jpg","author":"Sebastian Johnson","episode_count":223,"summary":"Every week Seb Johnson sits down with 5 of Europe's best builders and investors to talk about what's going on in European Tech. Prior guests include the founders of Lovable, Cleo, Voi an Zilch, as well as top VCs from 20VC, Index, Balderton and Creandum.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T22:17:10.818712+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-europe-7780754"},"episode":{"title":"Issie James, Co-founder at Onstage: BREAKING: Onstage has been acquired by Sifted","slug":"issie-james-co-founder-at-onstage-breaking-onstage-has-been-acquired-by-sifted","published_at":"2026-07-23T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-europe-7780754/issie-james-co-founder-at-onstage-breaking-onstage-has-been-acquired-by-sifted","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-europe-7780754","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scaling-europe/episodes/Issie-James--Co-founder-at-Onstage-BREAKING-Onstage-has-been-acquired-by-Sifted-e3mdbid","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/108a8a74c/podcast/play/123169805/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-22%2F428412286-44100-2-f6dfe4316b1f3.mp3","summary":"Onstage has just been acquired by Sifted. The company runs Demo Day, an early-stage pitch event that connects founders with VCs, backed by a network of 350 venture capital partners who select the finalists. Issie James is Co-founder at Onstage. Onstage's strategy has always been to build an audience its founders and VC partners can use to reach more customers, and joining Sifted was the natural next step for that. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: Chargebee: https://www.chargebee.com/events/beelieve/london/2026 SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/ Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk?utm_source=other&utm_medium=partner_referral&utm_campaign=v01_emea_multi_ib_dg_prtmk_mofu_scalingeurope Lovable: https://lovable.dev/ Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:17 - Onstage's acquisition by Sifted 1:36 - What changes and what stays the same 4:10 - What the acquisition means for Issie 6:03 - What happens to Deploy 6:52 - Issie's career journey at Onstage 11:51 - What makes a great event 13:16 - What success looks like after the acquisition 14:27 - Lessons from thousands of startup pitches","meta_description":"Onstage has just been acquired by Sifted. The company runs Demo Day, an early-stage pitch event that connects founders with VCs, backed by a network of 35…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1080,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/scaling-europe-7780754/episodes/issie-james-co-founder-at-onstage-breaking-onstage-has-been-acquired-by-sifted/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-europe-7780754/issie-james-co-founder-at-onstage-breaking-onstage-has-been-acquired-by-sifted.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}