Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology Podcast

Inside SVB's dramatic acquisition and the Future of UK Venture with Erin Platts, CEO of Octopus Ventures	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	44:38
How SuperAwesome Built the World’s Biggest Kid Tech Platform with Co-founder Lee Veitch	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	43:51
Pioneering the AI-rollup model in the property management space with Dan Lifshits, Co-Founder @ Dwelly	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	45:57
Building the "Spotify of Textbooks" with Gauthier Van Malderen, Founder @ Perlego	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	44:56
Building the capital operating system for fast-growing tech companies with Paul Becker, Co-Founder & CEO of re:cap	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	52:19
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.	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	44:24
The future of Social Commerce with Sam Jacobs, Co-Founder @ Go Places	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	43:44
AI, Infra vs Apps & Spotting Red Herrings with Akash Bajwa, Principal @ Earlybird	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	47:24
Investing in Africa's Digital Future, Lexi Novitske, GP @ Norrsken22	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	44:00
Growth Equity, VCTs and Exits with Rupert West, Managing Director @ Puma Growth Partners	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	43:26
Building Outreach to a $4bn unicorn and helping AI agents get paid with Paid.ai - Manny Medina, Co-Founder & CEO @ Paid.ai	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	50:47
Building, Backing & Scaling in an AI-Native World with Kenneth Auchenberg, Partner @ AlleyCorp	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	47:35
Inside the Quantum Infrastructure Revolution with Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, Founder & CEO @ Nu Quantum	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	43:42
Building the "Lovable of Marketing" with Patrick Haede, Co-Founder & CEO @ Superscale AI	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	56:40
Scaling from startup to £70M+ funding in 16 months with Paul Anthony, Co-founder of Primer & Colossal	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	56:07
Simone Maini, CEO @ Elliptic, on Leading Through Crypto Winters and Building Elliptic into a Blockchain Analytics Leader	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	37:14
Pattern recognition and backing Europe's next unicorns with Andrei Brasoveanu, Partner @ Accel	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	39:42
Building Europe’s Investment Rails with Martin Kassing, Founder & CEO @ Upvest	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	40:21
RU Summit 2025 with Yoann Pavy and Oana Jinga, in Partnership with Cooley LLP	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	33:52
From Founder Failure to Building a €100M+ European VC Fund with Apostolos Apostolakis, Managing Partner @ VentureFriends	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	35:30
Investing as a multi-stage fund into Europe's top startups with Deepka Rana, Principal @ Northzone	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	35:09
Building voice-AI infrastructure and scaling go-to-market globally with Carles Reina, GTM @ ElevenLabs & Angel Investor	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	48:29
Building the universal integration layer for modern products and raising a Series A from GV with Romain Sestier & Guillaume Lebedel, Co-Founders @ StackOne	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	47:52
Capsule Scale-Up 50 Panel with Poly AI, Flo Health, Carmoola, & Xampla	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	46:55
Building the Future of Marketing with Raffi Salama, CEO & Co-Founder @ Passionfruit	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	51:50
Building the premium venture studio and fund for consumer brands with Mike Jones, Founding Partner @ Science	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	51:27
Investing in the future of KidsTech, Gaming and Media with Dylan Collins, Founder @ SuperAwesome (acq. Epic Games)	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	43:56
Investing in the B2B Fintech sector with Mark Beeston, Founder @ Illuminate Financial	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	41:18
The firm with a 1-in-6 unicorn investment rate. Staffan Helgesson, General Partner @ Creandum	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	47:57
Doing data driven VC differently with Joseph Pizzolato, Managing Partner @ Defiant VC	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	42:25
The future of car finance with Aidan Rushby, Co-founder & CEO @ Carmoola	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	48:37
What is Corporate Venture Capital and how to do it well with Mike Smeed, Managing Director @ InMotion Ventures	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	54:37
Scooter regulation, supporting Lando to be a F1 driver, going all-in and reinventing Pensions with Adam Norris, Founder & CEO @ Pure Electric	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	49:44
The next wave of Open Banking and what it means for customers with Stefano Vaccino, Founder and CEO @ Yapily	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	38:05
Markeplaces, hard truths and angel investing with Mandeep Singh, ex-Founder @ Trouva (acq by Made.com).	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	47:00
The operational side of building a credit card rocketship with Tim Chong, Co-Founder & CEO @ Yonder	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	47:52
Going Public, democratising Pensions and scaling to the USA with Romi Savova, Founder & CEO @ PensionBee	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	38:27
Implementing change for startups and talent at a the government level with Dom Hallas, Executive Director @ Startup Coalition	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	53:39
The USA's most active investor with Ron Levin, Managing Partner @ Alumni Ventures	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	43:09
The talent flywheel, product management and more with Martin Sokk, Co-Founder & CEO @ Lightyear	Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital \| Entrepreneurship \| Technology	45:08

Inside SVB's dramatic acquisition and the Future of UK Venture with Erin Platts, CEO of Octopus Ventures

Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology

44:38

How SuperAwesome Built the World’s Biggest Kid Tech Platform with Co-founder Lee Veitch

Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology

43:51

Pioneering the AI-rollup model in the property management space with Dan Lifshits, Co-Founder @ Dwelly

Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology

45:57

Building the "Spotify of Textbooks" with Gauthier Van Malderen, Founder @ Perlego

Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology

44:56