{"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":"Seltz raised $12.5M seed: Antonio Mallia, CEO at Seltz","slug":"seltz-raised-12-5m-seed-antonio-mallia-ceo-at-seltz","published_at":"2026-06-24T11:00:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-europe-7780754/seltz-raised-12-5m-seed-antonio-mallia-ceo-at-seltz","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-europe-7780754","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scaling-europe/episodes/Seltz-raised-12-5M-seed-Antonio-Mallia--CEO-at-Seltz-e3l7a70","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/108a8a74c/podcast/play/121923232/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-24%2F426734976-44100-2-a5bca6cebb1b5.mp3","summary":"Seltz just raised a $12.5m Seed as it launches its first product and looks to build a new generation of web infrastructure for AI. Antonio Mallia is Founder and CEO at Seltz. The company is building for a world where AI agents become a new type of web user, requiring a completely different way to access information online. Instead of returning a list of links, Seltz is rebuilding the entire search stack so agents can access trustworthy, citable information and run hundreds of queries in parallel to complete tasks independently. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: Mishcon: https://www.mishcon.com/pop-ups/scaling-europe 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 0:25 - $12.5m Seed announcement 1:15 - Why AI needs a different type of web search 3:20 - Why Seltz rebuilt the entire stack 5:00 - Why investors backed the company 7:20 - Building a research-heavy team 11:50 - Early traction and customer use cases 15:40 - The next 12 months 16:25 - Rethinking retrieval for AI agents 18:30 - Running hundreds of queries in parallel","meta_description":"Seltz just raised a $12.5m Seed as it launches its first product and looks to build a new generation of web infrastructure for AI. Antonio Mallia is Found…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1177,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/scaling-europe-7780754/episodes/seltz-raised-12-5m-seed-antonio-mallia-ceo-at-seltz/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/seltz-raised-12-5m-seed-antonio-mallia-ceo-at-seltz.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}