46% of entrepreneurs say access to capital is the biggest headache for their startups and yet while overall capital invested in European tech has increased even from last year ($41B, 130% increase from the year before), the interesting statistic is …
Today I am talking to Safia Quereish - founder of CLUBZERØ. Safia went from being an architect to founding a company that reimagines how to create a zero-waste, circular economy by making it really easy for consumers and businesses to …
Can you really sell friendship as a value proposition to businesses? How do you successfully displace incumbent, well established solutions? How do you balance moving to a new category while maintaining your position in the old category? These are the
My guest today is Kaarel Kotkas, Founder & CEO of Veriff. Kaarel is a 25-year-old Estonian entrepreneur, whose online identity verification start-up Veriff is set to be the next tech ‘unicorn’ or billion-dollar company coming out of Estonia. Today’s sho
Did you know that only 14% of what we put in recycling bins actually gets recycled? Well, my guest today is Mikela Druckman Founder & CEO of Greyparrot whose mission is to improve recycling efficiency using AI. Founded in 2019, …
Do we really need yet another marketing tool given the overcrowded Martech (marketing tech) space? That was the big question on my mind when I sat down to talk to Andrus Purde about his latest startup, Outfunnel. Andrus was head …
My guest today is Dan Garrett, the CEO, and co-founder of Farewill. Farewill is UK’s largest Will writer, accounting for 1 in every 10 Wills written. How did Dan, someone with a design background end up re-inventing the death industry? …
When you are thinking about your go-to-market strategy, when should you go direct and when should you build a partner strategy? My guest today is Malhar Kamdar, the Chief Ecosystem Officer at Celonis who sat down with me to talk …
My guest today is Andy Young. Andy is a man of many talents or as he says “startups Swiss army knife”. Andy launched the UK and Ireland operations for Stripe and grew it from a handful of customers to major …
Joyce provides early-stage companies with strategic and operational CFO services to prepare the companies for predictable growth, fundraising, and global go-to-market success. Prior to Pegafund, Joyce was an advisor, investor, and board member of Europea
In this episode, I sit down with April Dunford who is a globally recognized expert in positioning and author of the best seller book on positioning, Obviously Awesome: How to nail positioning so your customers get it, buy it and …
Rav has held a number of executive positions in various Enterprise Software companies over the last 20 years, most recently at Slack where he founded the global Customer Success team. In this episode we discuss how to structure, incent and …
Chris has become a mini-marketing-celebrity on Linkedin and is using the playbook he advocates for as the way to generate high quality demand gen: Share valuable content consistently and when buyers are ready they will come to you. In this …
This is the last in my March Women’s Series and I am delighted to finish the series with Sujata Bhatia, Chief Operating Officer of neobank, Monzo. Few people need an introduction to Monzo, which was an early market leader in …
In this episode, I sat down (virtually) with Marie Outtier who is the director of product management at Twitter and prior to Twitter, co-founded Aiden, an AI-Powered marketing analytics platform that she sold to Twitter within 3 years of founding …
I had such a good time interviewing Solveiga Pakštaitė and learning about her revolutionary food label that tells you when food has actually gone bad. Everything from how visually impaired people figure out the color of their clothes, to why …
My guest today is Dr. Olivia Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Planera which makes the only certified flushable and 100% bio-degradable sanitary pad. Not quite in a garage, Olivia founded Planera in her flat as she was finishing her degree …
Welcome to the first episode of the march women’s series! In this episode, I sat down with Caroline Noublanche, Co-Founder and CEO of the world’s first virtual fertility startup called Apricity. Caroline is an experienced entrepreneur, who before launc
In today’s episode, I talk to Daniel Murphy, who is considered one of the top 50 experts in the product marketing domain, and get his help to demystify product marketing and answer the most important questions for entrepreneurs - how …
Kair and Martin were leaders in Pipedrive, the most recent unicorn from Estonia. (Kair headed product marketing and Martin was head of customer success). Based in Tallinn, Klaus has raised money from Creandum of Sweden and most recently from Global …
In this episode I sit down with Daniel Epstein to find out more about how Unreasonable supports growth-equity entrepreneurs scale and what criteria they look for in the entprepreneurs they select. The Unreasonable group has a unique model of bringing …
I sat down this week with Tim Sadler, co-founder & CEO of Tessian, a venture-backed cybersecurity company that stops threats, by securing the human layer. In this episode, I get his thoughts on creating a new category and becoming a …
Tim Kraska is an MIT professor who is now the CEO of Einblick, a next-generation data analytics company based on research he and a team developed at MIT and Brown University. I sat down with Tim to learn more about …
A region with 6 million people, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania is home to 2,577 startups including 6 unicorns - Skype, TransferWise, Bolt, Vinted, Pipedrive, and Playtech. I sat down with Zane Bojare, Head of Marketing at Startup Wise Guys to …