etn. — the European Technology Network — is Europe's daily live technology show. It broadcasts three hours a day from a studio in King's Cross, London, covering European startups, frontier AI labs and technology policy, and streams free on X and YouTube.

etn. is hosted by its co-founders, Luke Knight and Ronan Chambers, who started the show in October 2025.

etn. is live every weekday, Monday to Friday, from 12:00 to 15:00 UK time, followed by long-form guest interviews.

Where can I watch etn.?

etn. streams live on X and YouTube, and full episodes are published as a podcast on Spotify. Watching is free and requires no subscription.

Who has appeared on etn.?

Guests have included former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the UK's first AI minister Kanishka Narayan, Sequoia partner George Robson, and founders from Synthesia, Legora and Granola.

etn. raised a $1.6 million seed round announced in July 2026, backed by Powerhouse Capital, Axel Springer SE, a co-founder of LADbible, and angel investors from OpenAI and Google DeepMind.

Andre de Haes

1 episode · 1 moment · last on 22 Nov 2025

22 Nov 2025Intercom, BackedVC $100M, Beside $30M, TabPFN-2.5, Alex Karp, Molly O’Shea, Bryan Johnson

3:5819 min

Andre de Haes: Backed VC's $100M Fund III

Andre de Haes walks through Backed VC's 2016 origins as a founder community and events platform, and how the flywheel of early-stage founders becoming LPs and getting re-backed at much faster scale (Zero Gravity, Esker, CoMind) culminates in the $100M Fund III announced that morning on Sifted. He covers what gets easier (trust, sourcing, spotting 'generational founders') versus harder (managing 80 LPs, competing with Sequoia and Lightspeed on deals while defending a 97% win rate), plus his philosophy on stress and doing right by founders when companies fail. He also reacts to the YC-backed 'brain rot' coding-tool controversy, saying Backed only backs fundamental breakthroughs in healthcare, manufacturing, or finance with the ambition of building Europe's first trillion-dollar company.