#32 - Florian Reister - Founder & CEO of Aampere, on Building Europe’s Marketplace for Used EVs
Can you sell a used electric car across Europe without the buyer ever seeing it?
Our new episode with Florian Reister, Founder & CEO of Aampere, is out.
Aampere is building a European marketplace for used electric cars, connecting private sellers with dealers across borders. Since starting in 2022, the company has grown to several thousand cars sold per year and recently raised €4.2m.
We talked about how you actually price a used EV, why battery data matters and why a car sitting in Germany might be worth significantly more to a dealer somewhere else in Europe.
We also got into Aampere’s early days, including selling €50k worth of cars per month through WhatsApp before they had a proper platform, how Florian thinks about competing with players like AUTO1, mobile.de and AutoScout24, and why he believes technical moats are disappearing in the age of AI.
Thanks a lot Florian for joining us!!
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9 Sept 2026
#31 Jacob Houlberg - Co-Founder of Evertrace on Data-Driven Venture Capital & the Future of Deal Sourcing
What if every VC had access to the same deals? Evertrace is building the infrastructure to make that increasingly close to reality.
For episode 31 we sat down with Jacob Houlberg, Co-Founder of Evertrace, the Copenhagen-based startup helping early-stage investors detect founders and companies before they show up in traditional startup databases.
Evertrace monitors signals across trade registries, GitHub, patents, research grants, domains and more to identify potentially VC-backable companies as early as possible. Today, more than 250 VC funds use the platform.
But the conversation went far beyond sourcing.
We talked about:
> Why Jacob believes sourcing should not be a competitive advantage in VC and what happens when access to deals becomes table stakes
> How Evertrace processes thousands of signals every week to find companies before they become obvious
> Why company formation remains one of the strongest signals of founder intentionality
> Building Evertrace with a team of just three, while acquiring and integrating multiple competitors along the way
> Why fully automated VC investing is much harder than quant investing in public markets
> Media, data or track record: what actually gets a fund into the best pre-seed rounds?
– Why Evertrace is increasingly moving toward APIs and MCP and why Jacob would be perfectly happy if nobody used their interface in a few years
> What systematically tracking stealth founders taught him after moving from investor to operator
A conversation about what happens when finding companies becomes infrastructure, and VCs are forced to compete on what comes next: judgment, reputation and actually helping founders.
Thanks a lot, Jacob, for joining us!
27 Aug 2026
#30 - Philipp Baumanns, Co-Founder & COO at Telli on Reinventing How Companies Talk to Customers
In EP 30, we sit down with Philipp Baumanns, Co-Founder & COO at Telli, the YC-backed company rethinking how businesses run customer-facing operations.
The idea started from a very practical problem. While helping build Enpal’s heat pump business, Philipp and his co-founder saw teams repeat the same qualification, booking, and follow-up calls thousands of times. Most of the surrounding workflow had already been digitized. The actual customer conversation had not.
We discuss how Telli went from a few early pilot customers to serving large enterprises, why the team initially focused on outbound use cases, and what it takes to build infrastructure that can handle thousands of calls at scale.
Philipp also explains where Telli sees its real moat beyond the underlying voice models, why time-to-value matters as much as model quality, and why the long-term opportunity goes far beyond phone calls. The bigger ambition is to become the layer through which companies manage customer interactions across voice, WhatsApp, SMS, and eventually even personal agents.
We also talk about Telli’s internal tech stack, why coding tools are becoming a major cost line next to engineering salaries, how the company thinks about outcome-based pricing, what high-agency hiring actually looks like, and which conversations Philipp still believes should remain human.
A conversation about building from lived pain, scaling into a crowded market, and how the interface between companies and consumers may change over the next few years.
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