Ewan Blair
20 May 2026Leopold’s 13F, Kled Founder Joins, Not Liable, Demis is an Angel, EQT €5B Fund, Disco Balls
Ewan Blair: Europe's AI Adoption Layer, StackFuel & New Round
Ewan Blair discusses his company's newly announced funding round (around $70 million) to scale what he calls Europe's adoption layer for AI, arguing the bottleneck is getting AI into organizations' workforces—a shift he says Anthropic and OpenAI's investments in deployment firms also signal. He emphasizes apprenticeships, frontline-worker buy-in and social consent for AI, an NHS example of automating patient hotel-room bookings, and how retrained workers over 50 become some of AI's strongest advocates. He covers the StackFuel acquisition in Germany as a template for further European acquisitions (France, Spain, Italy, Ireland), government incentives for workforce investment, and serving both enterprises and SMEs, before the hosts close out the show.