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Seb Johnson

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Seb Johnson

@SebJohnsonUK

Talking about UK and European Tech. Subscribe to my newsletter to keep up to date.

Joined February 2025

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@SebJohnsonUK
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The UK has already minted 18 unicorns already in 2026 The total for 2025 was 20 so we are going to surpass it soon. UK tech is on track to have its strongest year since 2021, and its not just AI companies that are performing well. Consumer companies, fintechs, hardware,
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Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUK
Nov 11, 2025
It's official - @Lovable is well and truly DEAD. It has ONLY grown from 2.3 million users in July to 8 millions users today. RIP to the fastest growing company of all time and Europe's greatest chance of a trillion dollar company. @antonosika - you a had a good run, but it is
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Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUK
Nov 13, 2025
Without a doubt @Revolut is Europe's best shot at a $1tn dollar company. In 10 years it's achieved: > $75bn valuation > $1bn profit > 65m users It's backed by @balderton, @IndexVentures, @lakestarvc and many other great European firms. I made this video to celebrate the
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Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUK
Nov 13, 2025
The UK exit tax has been officially RULED OUT @Dom_Hallas and the team at @StartupCltn have confirmed that the UK exit tax will not be in the upcoming budget. This is the result of over 1500+ founders, investors and builders who signed the letter to the government. The whole
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Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUK
Nov 10, 2025
It's amazing the way UK tech has rallied together to oppose the wealth tax: > @HarryStebbings is in The Times this morning describing the move as “the final nail in the coffin” for UK entrepreneurs > @Dom_Hallas organised the letter signed by 150 startup leaders opposing the
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Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUK
Oct 20, 2025
Based on @RevolutApp's $75bn valuation crowdfund investors are now sitting on a 645x return. The average @Crowdcube investor bought £2k worth of shares in 2016 when @RevolutApp did a crowdfund on @RevolutApp. That's now worth £1.4m. Those 433 investors genuinely have a better
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Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUK
Oct 24, 2025
Last week @HarryStebbings did a post on LinkedIn for a company which directly led to $3.5m in ARR for them. That is WILD. I don't how other VCs can compete with that. And it doesn't seem that most VCs are even trying to. @a16z are building this level of media distribution
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Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUK
Nov 16, 2025
This is so dumb. There’s literally a dozen American cities where you’re more than FIVE TIMES more likely to get stabbed to death than London.
nizzy
@nizzyabi
Nov 12, 2025
just landed in london and im about to go out, wish me luck!
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Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUK
Oct 17, 2025
What value does @HarryStebbings bring as an investor? One of the challenges of raising in San Fransisco as a British company is that none of the VCs will have heard of you. When Harry invested into @fyxerai at their Series A he promised that this wouldn't be the case for
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Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUK
Oct 13, 2025
I just subscribed to @Revolut Metal for a third of the price of my @FinancialTimes subscription. The plan includes a @FinancialTimes subscription plus like 20 other things. Insane value-add. Not sure what's in it for the FT.
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Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUK
Nov 11, 2025
Replying to @SebJohnsonUK @Lovable and @antonosika
I'm shocked by how many people don't realise this is sarcasm. I'm a huge fan of @Lovable and, in fact, here's a picture of me interviewing @antonosika at the @ProjectEurope_ hackathon. If you want to stay up to date with European Tech check out my newsletter here:
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Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUK
Oct 16, 2025
The fact @RevolutApp has just bought $200m of its own shares from its VCs is actually crazy. This is like a whole new type of liquidity open to the best of the best. VCs cashed out at $45bn. Revolut is valued at $75bn. Win win for both
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Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUK
Oct 15, 2025
The team at @attio are on track to 4X ARR this year. It already has an insane 5,000 customers including the likes of @lovable, @meetgranola, @modal, @replicate, @Railway, and @public. This will truly be one of Europe’s generational companies. What @nicolasosharp and the
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Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUK
Nov 11, 2025
It's not every day that a company comes out of stealth with 20,000 paying customers and $4m of ARR But that's just what French AI startup @withbeside has done. As well as announcing $32m raised from @IndexVentures and @eqtventures. The company has built an AI receptionist for
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