Episodes

[2:15] From Classical Music to Tech Startup Annu discusses her transition from a classical musician to founding a technology company, highlighting the unexpected path from arts to entrepreneurship. [12:25] Understanding the U...

2:16 - Path from operator to angel investor to Atomico scout 19:09 - Advice on early stage marketing Marketing focus by stage of growth How do you balance performance marketing and brand/organic marketing? How do you balance ...

Guerson Meyer, Co-Founder & Technology Officer of Sophiq Properties, a PropTech company talks about how he uses no-code solutions at Sophiq Properties to locate, evaluate and validate properties in real-time, adapting to the ...

Why all SaaS companies should implement usage-based pricing and How to run a successful design partner program with your customers to build your early MVP

[1:49] - Why not having domain expertise can sometimes help entrepreneurs [5:45] - Defining your ICP [8:31] - Determining your MVP [13:06] - Funding your seed and lessons learnt from raising too early. [22:48] - GTM [30:11] -...

[2:16] - 20 years and starting a company in Estonia [5:08] - Angel investing and what to look for? [10:01] - First CIO of Estonia [16:59] - Koos - what is it and why is it important [29:04] - Advice …

[2:00] - How the SVB crisis unfolded at Payhawk [6:23] - The 3 most important ingredients for building a successful unicorn [16:19] - Validating your company idea [18:19] - 60 rejections. How Payhawk overcame the biggest obje...

[2:24] - Journey to starting Seedstars [5:31] - Investing and not being local [10:27] - Seedstars programs [13:28] - Investor returns from emerging markets [19:06] - Challenges [25:12] - Advice for entrepreneurs [27:16] - Adv...

HedgeFlows almost closed on their first VC funding and decided to not do it. Why and was it the right decision?

Erik Martinson, CEO, and co-founder of Svea Solar – one of the fastest-growing cleantech companies in Europe – talks about the economics of solar energy, why the time is ripe for solar and some of the lessons learned building the …

The 3 steps Creandum advises its portfolio company to go through for every fundraising: planning, preparation and active process. And advice for startups on current market conditions and Peter’s views on FTX blowup.

Nurasyl bootstrapped the company to 7-digit revenues with five employees and then went on to close a $14M seed round, one of the largest in the UK. How did he do it?

Sapphire ventures, Series B investing, and her journey to becoming a VC at 29. Annalise is a Partner at Sapphire Ventures where she focuses on investments primarily in Europe and Israel.

With 8 rounds of fundraising under his belt, David Simonarson, founder and CEO of Smitten, shares his secret for doing successful fundraising. He also talks about his previous four failed startups and what he learned from each one of them.

Does investing in refugee entrepreneurs make sense? Charlie is co-founder and Partnerships Director at TERN, The Entrepreneurship Refugee Network, an ambitious social enterprise that believes you can empower refugees to thrive through the power of thei

Heini Zachariassen grew Vivino into the largest wine community in the world (56 million users) and raised $221 million in funding. In this podcast, Heini shares his secrets (competition, fundraising, partnerships, and more) for how he built Vivino from a

My guest today is Patrick Walsh, the founder of Dogpatch Labs, one of Ireland's leading startup hubs and Crunchbase's top 10 incubators in the world. Patrick is also the youngest member of Ireland’s National Competitiveness Council and is a strong …

My guest today is Andre Turville, Founder -CEO of Arx Alliance. Arx Alliance is a company dedicated to addressing supply chain cyber resilience. Listen to Andre’s experience bootstrapping his company successfully to now closing their seed round.

Gemma Bloemen, Principal at Creandum, on why she moved from an operator role at Uber and Elder to a VC.

Sammy Rubin, co-founder, and CEO of YuLife, the fastest and one of the most exciting insurtech in the UK. Last summer, Yulife raised $70 million in one of the largest Series Bs raised by an insurtech startup in Europe. Sammy …

Itxaso del Palacio, Partner at Notion Capital, shares tips on how to build a go-to-market engine for scale with examples from the 100s of successful SaaS and Cloud companies Notion Capital has backed over the years including Tradeshift, CurrencyCloud, GoC

Louisa Murray, COO of Railsbank. Louisa joined Railsbank as the fourth employee in 2017, and built the sales function from scratch. In this episode, we will talk about the rise of embedded finance, making the fintech industry more accessible to …

Krijn De Nood - CEO & Co-founder at Meatable talks about his journey from Mckinsey to Meatable, why alternative proteins are key to solving some of the world’s biggest problems and the strategies they have adopted to succeed in this …

Ranjan Singh, co-founder, and CEO of HealthHero talks about his growth and strategy of serving multiple markets and multiple business markets through acquisitions.