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19:00–20:30 2026 · London time
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Scalable Capital started out as a new company asking people to trust it with their savings. It has since grown to over a million customers and more than €30bn on its platform.
Join its co-founder and former CEO, Adam French, now a Partner at Antler, for a conversation about the calls that were hard to make at the time, and what he looks for today before backing a company to scale.
Firsthand is Antidote’s series of conversations with people who have built and backed technology companies. This evening is for London founders and technology leaders whose customers are starting to depend on what they’ve built.
The conversation
Earn the first customer. What made Scalable’s first customers trust a new company with their money? How do you tell real willingness to pay from polite enthusiasm?
Earn their trust. Which parts of the product are too important to get wrong? When shipping fast and staying reliable pull in different directions, who should win?
Earn the right to scale. When does raising money speed up something that works, and when does it make the broken parts bigger? As an investor now, what tells Adam a product is ready to go beyond its early adopters?
Expect a candid conversation, then audience Q&A and time to meet founders and engineering leaders working through the same decisions. Bring a real question from your own company.
About Adam French
Adam French is a co-founder and former CEO of Scalable Capital, the European investment platform backed by investors including BlackRock, Tencent and Balderton Capital. The company had raised more than €470m by June 2025, including a €155m round that month, and at that point reported over a million customers and more than €30bn on its platform.
Today, Adam is a Partner at Antler, co-leading its UK fund. He is also a founding partner and chair of Houghton Street Ventures and a non-executive director at Innovate Finance. Earlier in his career, he was an Executive Director of Trading at Goldman Sachs.
Who it’s for
London founders, technical co-founders, CTOs, and senior product and engineering leaders building and scaling technology companies.
Request a place. Places are approved individually, with priority for founders and technology leaders who have a live product and an engineering team in place.
Location: London. You’ll see the full address when you register.
Hosted by Antidote. We help software teams test the user flows their business depends on, from sign-up and login to checkout, because that’s where customers decide whether to trust you.
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