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Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology — 237 episodes
Building the backbone of AI with Mahdi Yahya, Co-Founder @ Radiant on Compute, Power and the Future of Infrastructure
Charlotte Palmer, VP of Venture Capital at Integra Global Advisors on Backing Emerging Managers, Access, and Venture Fundraising
Inside Fuse Energy: Alan Chang on Building a $5B Energy Giant and Chasing £1B ARR
What Makes a Top VC Fund Today? Dave Neumann at Schroders Capital on LP Thinking, DPI and Venture Returns
Tony Jamous & Hadi Moussa at Oyster HR on leadership transition, CEO succession and unlocking global talent
Nikola Mrkšić, Co-Founder & CEO at PolyAI on Building One of the World’s Leading Voice AI Companies
Matt Wilson, Co-Founder & CEO at Jack and Jill, on AI Career Agents, Talent Density, and Building the Next Network-Effect Marketplace
Nicolò Frisiani, Co-Founder & CEO at Lupa, on Building the AI Operating System for Vets, Enterprise Sales, and Scaling at Speed
George Davis, Founder & CEO at Lorum on Rebuilding Global Clearing, Why Dollars Are Broken, and Building a Payments Only Bank
David von Rosen, Founder of Lottoland on Majority Stake Investing, Loving Risk, Dubai’s Energy, and the Steve Jobs Turtleneck Story
Harrison Rose, Co-Founder at GoodFit on Mapping Your Market, Modern Go To Market, and Lessons from Building Paddle
Ben Freeman, Co-Founder & CEO at Omnea on Building an AI Native Procurement Platform, Talent Density, and Founder Paranoia
Why "AI Visibility" is critical for your brand with James Cadwallader, Co-Founder & CEO at Profound
From Formula 3 to AI Accountants: Ariel Harmoko, Co-Founder & CEO @ Artifact
Building the AI Super Connector with Andrew D’Souza, Founder of Boardy and Clearco
Inside SVB's dramatic acquisition and the Future of UK Venture with Erin Platts, CEO of Octopus Ventures
How SuperAwesome Built the World’s Biggest Kid Tech Platform with Co-founder Lee Veitch
Pioneering the AI-rollup model in the property management space with Dan Lifshits, Co-Founder @ Dwelly
Building the "Spotify of Textbooks" with Gauthier Van Malderen, Founder @ Perlego
Building the capital operating system for fast-growing tech companies with Paul Becker, Co-Founder & CEO of re:cap
What happened to Babylon Health after reaching $1bn+ revenue? And how Ali Parsa is continuing his mission to fix healthcare for all with AI startup Quadrivia.
The future of Social Commerce with Sam Jacobs, Co-Founder @ Go Places
AI, Infra vs Apps & Spotting Red Herrings with Akash Bajwa, Principal @ Earlybird
Investing in Africa's Digital Future, Lexi Novitske, GP @ Norrsken22
Growth Equity, VCTs and Exits with Rupert West, Managing Director @ Puma Growth Partners
Building Outreach to a $4bn unicorn and helping AI agents get paid with Paid.ai - Manny Medina, Co-Founder & CEO @ Paid.ai
Building, Backing & Scaling in an AI-Native World with Kenneth Auchenberg, Partner @ AlleyCorp
Inside the Quantum Infrastructure Revolution with Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, Founder & CEO @ Nu Quantum
Building the "Lovable of Marketing" with Patrick Haede, Co-Founder & CEO @ Superscale AI
Scaling from startup to £70M+ funding in 16 months with Paul Anthony, Co-founder of Primer & Colossal
Simone Maini, CEO @ Elliptic, on Leading Through Crypto Winters and Building Elliptic into a Blockchain Analytics Leader
Pattern recognition and backing Europe's next unicorns with Andrei Brasoveanu, Partner @ Accel
Building Europe’s Investment Rails with Martin Kassing, Founder & CEO @ Upvest
RU Summit 2025 with Yoann Pavy and Oana Jinga, in Partnership with Cooley LLP
From Founder Failure to Building a €100M+ European VC Fund with Apostolos Apostolakis, Managing Partner @ VentureFriends
Investing as a multi-stage fund into Europe's top startups with Deepka Rana, Principal @ Northzone
Building voice-AI infrastructure and scaling go-to-market globally with Carles Reina, GTM @ ElevenLabs & Angel Investor
Building the universal integration layer for modern products and raising a Series A from GV with Romain Sestier & Guillaume Lebedel, Co-Founders @ StackOne
Capsule Scale-Up 50 Panel with Poly AI, Flo Health, Carmoola, & Xampla
Building the Future of Marketing with Raffi Salama, CEO & Co-Founder @ Passionfruit
Building the premium venture studio and fund for consumer brands with Mike Jones, Founding Partner @ Science
Investing in the future of KidsTech, Gaming and Media with Dylan Collins, Founder @ SuperAwesome (acq. Epic Games)
Investing in the B2B Fintech sector with Mark Beeston, Founder @ Illuminate Financial
The firm with a 1-in-6 unicorn investment rate. Staffan Helgesson, General Partner @ Creandum
Doing data driven VC differently with Joseph Pizzolato, Managing Partner @ Defiant VC
The future of car finance with Aidan Rushby, Co-founder & CEO @ Carmoola
What is Corporate Venture Capital and how to do it well with Mike Smeed, Managing Director @ InMotion Ventures
Scooter regulation, supporting Lando to be a F1 driver, going all-in and reinventing Pensions with Adam Norris, Founder & CEO @ Pure Electric
The next wave of Open Banking and what it means for customers with Stefano Vaccino, Founder and CEO @ Yapily
Markeplaces, hard truths and angel investing with Mandeep Singh, ex-Founder @ Trouva (acq by Made.com).
The operational side of building a credit card rocketship with Tim Chong, Co-Founder & CEO @ Yonder
Going Public, democratising Pensions and scaling to the USA with Romi Savova, Founder & CEO @ PensionBee
Implementing change for startups and talent at a the government level with Dom Hallas, Executive Director @ Startup Coalition
The USA's most active investor with Ron Levin, Managing Partner @ Alumni Ventures
The talent flywheel, product management and more with Martin Sokk, Co-Founder & CEO @ Lightyear
Matt Chandler, Principal @ Octopus Ventures
Sasha Kaletsky, Managing Partner @ Creator Ventures
Marketing Icon: Rory Sutherland (audio only)
Vidu Shanmugarajah, Partner @ GV
Edwina Johnson, GM @ MoneyGram International
Paul Yacoubian, Founder & CEO @ Copy.ai
Charles Wells, Founder & CEO @ HelloSelf
Simon Mellin, Founder & CEO @ The Modern Milkman
David Jarvis, CEO @ Griffin
Mike Soutar, Co-Founder of Shortlist Media
George Henry, General Partner @ LocalGlobe & Latitude
Richard Anton, General Partner @ Oxx
Tim Creswick, CEO @ Vorboss
Oana Jinga, Co-Founder @ Dexory
Gareth Jefferies, Partner @ RTP Global
Akshat Goenka, Partner @ Moonfire
Sam Ettelaie, Co-Founder & CIO @ Thema
Callum Taylor, Head of ITV AdVentures Ignite @ ITV
Johannes Weber, Founding Partner @ Ananda Impact Ventures
Meri Beckwith, Co-Founder @ Lindus Health
Leila Zegna & Chrys Chrysanthou @ Kindred Capital
Suranga Chandratillake, General Partner @ Balderton Capital
Dinika Mahtani, Partner @ Cherry Ventures
Amon Ghaiumy, Co-Founder & CEO @ Ophelos
James Evans, Founder & CEO @ CommandBar
Christian Gabriel, CEO & Co-Founder @ Capdesk (Acquired by Carta)
David Bateman, Managing Partner @ Claret Capital Partners
Agate Freimane, General Partner @ Norrsken VC
Christian Noske, Partner @ NGP Capital
Lopo Champalimaud & Raphael Thiolon @ Verlinvest
Audrey Handem, VC @ Speedinvest
Jay Radia, Managing Partner @ Blissgrowth
Roger Wade, Chairman @ Boxfund VC
Sir Martin Sorrell, Executive Chairman @ S4 Capital (Follow Up Episode)
Athlete investing with Chris Smalling, Professional Footballer @ AS Roma & Co-Founder @ The Player's Fund
Niccolo Perra, Co-Founder @ Pleo
Jimmy Fussing Nielsen, Managing Partner @ Heartcore Capital
Babs Ogundeyi, Founder & CEO @ Kuda
Kirsty Grant, Managing Director @ Seedrs
Henry Irish & Donald Gillies, Co-Founders @ Passfort (acquired by Moody's)
Saif Hameed, Founder & CEO @ Altrusitiq
Jack Durling, Co-Founder @ Lockdown Liquor
Alex Macdonald, Co-Founder @ Velocity Black (acquired by Capital One) & Co-Founder @ sequel
Saasha Celestial-One, Co-Founder @ Olio
Cristina Vila Vives, Founder & CEO @ Cledara
Dr Andre Retterath, Partner @ Earlybird VC
Jenny von Podewils & Kajetan von Armansperg, Co-founders @ Leapsome
Peter Specht, Partner @ Creandum
Riya Grover, Co-Founder & CEO @ Sequence
Henrik Wetter Sanchez, Partner @ Playfair
Paddy Ryan & Mary Lin, Co-founders @ Odin
Startup Spotlight: Orbital Witness
Sammy Rubin, Founder & CEO @ YuLife
Startup Spotlight: Connect Earth
Tristan Thomas, CEO & Co-Founder @ Packfleet
Mark Chaffey, Co-Founder & CEO @ hackajob
Maulik Sailor, Founder & CEO @ Codemonk
Sam Franklin, Co-Founder & CEO @ Otta
Eileen Burbidge - Partner @ Passion Capital and Director @ Fertifa
Thomas Wynne, Co-Founder & CEO at Capsule
Startup Spotlight: Light Garden
Yann Sarfati, Co-Founder & CEO @ Userled
Startup Spotlight: Zelt
Tony Jamous, Founder & CEO @ Oyster
Mayowa Ogunremi, Investment Principal @ Form Ventures
Matt Cooper, Co-CEO @ Crowdcube
Startup Spotlight: LoopFX
Anthony Fletcher, Founder & CEO @ Believe In Science
Alan Chang, Founder & CEO @ Fuse (formerly Tesseract Energy)
David Newns, Founding Partner @ Fearless Adventures
Magnus Karnehm, Principal @ Left Lane Capital
Georgi Ganev, CEO @ Kinnevik
George Richardson, Co-Founder & CEO @ AeroCloud
Startup Spotlight: Kadence
Jamie Beaumont, Founder & CEO @ Playter
Gordon Midwood, CEO @ Anything World
Dr Ben Maruthappu, Co-founder & CEO @ Cera
Jacob Waern, Founder & CEO @ eduMe
Startup Spotlight: 5Mins
Victor Trokoudes, Co-Founder & CEO @ Plum
RU LIVE 2022 - Paul Forster, Co-Founder of Indeed.com
Startup Spotlight: Kuai Commerce
Justina Tartilaite, Co-Founder @ Adsum
Startup Spotlight: Monet
Pietro Bezza, Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures
Startup Spotlight: Deployed
Joe Curtis, Co-Founder @ 11 Investments
Startup Spotlight: Inveztor
Yoko Spirig, Co-Founder & CEO @ Ledgy
Startup Spotlight: Awabah
Matthew Wilson, Co-CEO & Co-Founder @ Omnipresent
Startup Spotlight: Passionfruit
Ben Kaminski, Partner @ Target Global
Tom Wilson, Partner @ Seedcamp
Francesco Simoneschi, Co-Founder & CEO @ Truelayer
Haakon Overli, General Partner & Founder @ Dawn Capital
Aidan Corbett, Co-Founder & CEO @ Wayflyer
Martin Bysh, Co-Founder & CEO @ Huboo
Charles Delingpole, Founder & CEO @ ComplyAdvantage
Tom Goodwin, Founder @ ALL WE HAVE IS NOW
Katie Marrache, Partner @ JamJar Investments
Kevin Diestel, Partner @ Sapphire Ventures
Freddy Ward, Co-Founder & CEO @ Wild
James Routledge, Founder @ Sanctus
Paul Murphy, Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
Julie Chen, Founder & CEO @ The Cheeky Panda
Adnan Ebrahim, Co-Founder & CEO @ MindLabs
Rania Lamprou, Co-Founder & CEO @ Simpler
Hussein Kanji, Partner @ Hoxton Ventures
Dom McGregor, Founding Partner @ Fearless Adventures
Brad Coffey, Chief Customer Officer @ Pipe
Taymoor Atighetchi, Founder & CEO @ Papier
Larry Gadea, Founder & CEO @ Envoy
Jimmy Williams, Co-Founder & CEO @ Urban Jungle
Tom Leathes, Co-Founder & CEO @ Motorway
Guy Podjarny, Founder @ Snyk
Gordon Sanghera, Co-Founder & CEO @ Oxford Nanopore
Ray Chohan, Co-Founder @ PatSnap
Giles Andrews, Co-Founder @ Zopa
Philip Belamant, Founder & CEO @ Zilch
Michelle Kennedy, Founder & CEO @ Peanut
Jonathan Anguelov, Co-Founder & GM @ Aircall
Sacha Michaud, Co-Founder @ Glovo
Nigel Verdon, Founder @ Railsr
Ali Parsa, Founder & CEO @ Babylon
Felix Ohswald, Founder @ GoStudent
Steven Mendel, Co-Founder & CEO @ ManyPets
Aron Gelbard - Co-Founder & CEO @ Bloom & Wild
Andy Shovel, co-founder & co-CEO @ THIS™
Alex Chesterman OBE, Founder & CEO @ Cazoo
Season 2 Round-Up & Season 3 Schedule.
Jon Coker, Founding Partner @ Eka Ventures
Rémy Astié, Founder & CEO @ Vauban
Steve Tigar, Founder @ loveelectric
Irina Scarlat, Chief Growth Officer @ Bitpanda
Mark Smukler, Founder @ Flow
RU Bitesize: Sir Martin Sorrell
Jos White, Partner @ Notion Capital
Jonny Plein, Co-Founder @ Pouch (acquired in 2018).
RU Monthly Round Up: September 2021
George Robson, Partner @ Sequoia Capital
Darren Tenkorang, Founder & CEO @ TRIM-IT
Jeremy King, Founder & CEO @ Attest
RU Monthly Round Up: August 2021
Georgia Stewart, Co-Founder @ Tumelo
Alice Bentinck, Co-Founder @ Entrepreneur First
Amy Lewin, Deputy Editor @ Sifted
Sitar Teli, Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures
Simon Franks, ex-Founder @ LOVEFiLM, Partner @ Redbus Ventures
RU Monthly Round Up: July 2021
David Semmens, Chief Investment Officer @ Wealthify
James Hind, Founder & CEO @ carwow
Eamonn Carey, Managing Director @ Techstars
Harry Franks, Co-Founder @ Zego
RU Monthly Round Up: June 2021
Jean Nehme, Founder & CEO @ Touch Surgery
Matthew Ford, Partner @ Mouro Capital
Laurence Krieger, CEO @ Tide UK
Sam Louis, Investor @ AIV Capital
Juliette Souliman, VC Investor @ MMC Ventures
Rachel Carrell, Founder & CEO @ Koru Kids
Riding Unicorns - Season 2 Trailer
Hector McNeil, Founder & Co-CEO @ HANetf
Chad West, Director of Global Marketing & Communications @ Revolut
Carlos Eduardo Espinal, Managing Partner @ Seedcamp
Roisin Levine, Head of Banks @ Flux
David Wascha @ Zoopla & Kindred Capital
Jasper Martens, Chief Marketing Officer @ PensionBee
Harry Hugo, Co-founder @ The Goat Agency
Rikke Rosenlund, Founder & CEO @ Borrow My Doggy
Natasha Thomas, co-founder @ Lockdown Liquor
Lucas London, co-founder & CEO @ Lick Home
Mustafa Khanbhai, Venture Partner @ Seamlessly, ex-Uber
Sam Hodges, Growth Director @ Numan
Paul Lindley OBE, Founder @ Ella's Kitchen
Hector Mason, Investor @ Episode 1 Ventures
Jeff Kelisky, CEO @ Seedrs
Vlad Tropko, Partner @ Digital Horizon
Jonathan Keeling, VP Commercial @ Crowdcube
Hamish Grierson, co-founder & CEO @ Thriva
Andrew Scott, Founding Partner @ 7 Percent Ventures
Launch Episode: Sir Martin Sorrell, Founder & Executive Chairman @ S4 Capital