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Sean Mullaney on Seapoint's Seed Round and AI-Native Finance
Sean Mullaney, founder and CEO of Seapoint, a financial operations platform for startups, discusses his seed round of £7.5 million led by 13books, following a pre-seed led by Frontline Ventures. He explains the problem of founders stitching together fragmented banking, FX, and spend management tools, and how Seapoint builds an AI-native finance stack with 80 design partners from a Stripe-alumni team. He also touches on why agents shouldn't move money autonomously yet, his go-to-market strategy, and upcoming MCP support for live financial data in LLMs.
Louis Mosley on Palantir, the NHS, and Responding to Zack Polanski
Louis Mosley, EVP at Palantir running the UK and Europe business, walks through the chronology of Palantir's NHS work from COVID response through the £330 million Federated Data Platform contract. He responds to Green Party leader Zack Polanski's viral video calling for Palantir to be kicked out of the NHS, citing 110,000 operations enabled by the software, and praises the UK government's AI action plan. He also discusses Palantir's UK engineering talent base and the new Palantir degree program recruiting 18-year-olds directly from school.