{"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":"Jon Steinback, Co-Founder and CEO at Marker: BREAKING: Marker raised $13m Seed","slug":"jon-steinback-co-founder-and-ceo-at-marker-breaking-marker-raised-13m-seed","published_at":"2026-07-09T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-europe-7780754/jon-steinback-co-founder-and-ceo-at-marker-breaking-marker-raised-13m-seed","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-europe-7780754","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scaling-europe/episodes/Jon-Steinback--Co-Founder-and-CEO-at-Marker-BREAKING-Marker-raised-13m-Seed-e3lqfep","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/108a8a74c/podcast/play/122551193/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-8%2F427578312-44100-2-156bdd8d62079.mp3","summary":"Marker just came out of stealth and raised a $13m Seed led by Index Ventures. Marker is an AI editor built to help writers develop their ideas and get feedback throughout the writing process. Jon Steinback is Co-Founder and CEO of Marker. He and co-founder Ryan Bowman built it to support the whole writing process, from thinking through drafting to editing. The result is a modern word processor made for people who believe in the craft of writing. 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 Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:20 - Marker's seed round and coming out of stealth 0:57 - What Marker actually is 1:41 - Who Marker is built for 3:33 - How Marker's product took shape 4:39 - Finding the balance between AI and human writing 6:52 - Why these investors backed Marker 9:20 - Jon's time at DeepMind 10:52 - How Marker will use the funding 13:04 - The goal behind coming out of stealth 14:33 - Marker's long-term vision","meta_description":"Marker just came out of stealth and raised a $13m Seed led by Index Ventures. Marker is an AI editor built to help writers develop their ideas and get fee…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":945,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/scaling-europe-7780754/episodes/jon-steinback-co-founder-and-ceo-at-marker-breaking-marker-raised-13m-seed/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/jon-steinback-co-founder-and-ceo-at-marker-breaking-marker-raised-13m-seed.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}