FUNDstars & FOUNDstars from NOTWICS

In our last ever FOUNDstar and FUNDstar Vod/Pod we talk to Dominic Vergine of leading Electric Motor Scale Up, Monumo. Dominic is a true visionary who heralds from the hotbed of UK Tech, Cambridge and is another legend of the ARM stable of leading Technologists. In terms of Monumo, Dominic highlights how he and the team at Monumo are working to:# Create a new wave of sustainably d

Priya is an impressive Venture Capitalist, who established Goddess Gaia Ventures <GGV> to assist with Women's Health and Wellness. She established GGV on the back of personal circumstances and wanted to fix many of the problems facing Female Founders the Healthcare and Wellness industry. In terms of nuggets:===> Priya explains what she is looking for in terms of fema

In our first FUNDstar Vod/pod of 2024, we sit down with leading VC, Sam Nasrolahi at InMotion Ventures, the Corporate VC arm of Jaguar Land Rover. She's a super intelligent and very direct investor and she certainly knows mobility from a very strong background at BP. I certainly learn't a lot in this 26 minute Podcast Sam conducted with Anthony and I, pre Xmas 2023. In te

King of Scandi Tech takes time out of his hectic schedule, to share his perspectives on scaling amazing consumer businesses, ranging from smart headphones (Marshall, Adidas, Urban Ears) with Zound Industries to more recently creating the "Tesla of the Seas", X Shore Konrad continues to grow his consumer portfolio and is now looking at Natural Chemicals, in the world of

After an extended summer break, due to personal reasons, its nice to be back broadcasting and publishing season 6 of FUNDstars and FOUNDstars, where our guest was Rob Desborough, the CEO of Seraphim Space Accelerator, and a partner in the Seraphim Space Fund. There is no disguising Space is hot and Rob provides an array of opinions on several hot topics: # How Seraphim is the la

Ben is the Director of the University of Southampton's Futureworlds, a business that takes the best bits of accelerators / University innovation and Technological excellence, providing opportunities for students at the University to commercialise and scale. Ben provides an array of opinions on several hot topics: #How the Futureworlds model works and the businesses being cre

In this episode our Europe 2023 Roadshow, landed in Berlin, where we meet Robin Rohm, a leader in the world of Federated Learning, which helps solve the problem of securely analysing data across boundaries and regulated industries. He took a bit of time out from his Rocketship... Apheris who are early market leaders in this "machine learning on steriods" to talk with us i

In this episode we have a great insight into La French Tech, a term widely associated with Mr Macron and his Digital based ascendancy in France, but in this episode, it's from Clement Aglietta, the founder of leading Fintech, Edda, one of the poster-boys (children) of the current French Tech Revolution. Clement provides some lovely insights on the business, their approach and also

First up for 2023 is our interesting catch - up with leading Amsterdam based Seed and Series A VC - Kompas. In this episode we talk with founding partner, Sebastian Peck, when he's in transit between meetings in Munich. Sebastian covers a vast array of topics in this insightful 33 minutes conversation with Anthony and I. Kompas is a leading Digital Transformation / Net Zero focuse

We had an awesome time catching up with Sarah, the CEO of Jenson Funding Partners, one of the UK's largest and most successful SEIS investors. Sarah was particularly keen to tell us about their new £60m Aurora fund, for pre-seed to Series A companies helping the transition to Net Zero. Chris first met Sarah in his Bloomberg days in 2013, when she highlighted the early intentions