Podcast European VC

Oleh Gonz Sanchez

Oleh Gonz Sanchez

Hey everyone, this is your host Gonz, and welcome to another episode of the Seedtable podcast, where we try to make sense of what is going on in European technology. My guest today is James Clark. James is a London-based marketer with a somewhat unorthodox job: marketing director for a publicly traded VC fund, Draper Esprit. Before joining Draper, …

Hey everyone, this is your host Gonz, and welcome to another episode of the Seedtable podcast, where we try to make sense of what is going on in European technology. My guest today is Pietro Invernizzi. Pietro is an investor at Stride, the London-based venture capital firm, investing first checks in pre-seed alongside Fred Destin and Harry Stebbing…

My guest today is Philippe Botteri. Philippe is a partner at the venture capital firm Accel, and a co-creator of one of my favorite yearly reports on European tech, the Euroscape. Philippe’s career as an investor is nothing short of breathtaking. From hits like Ui Path to Doctolib, he is one of the most renowned investors in Europe today, so it was…

My guest today is Erika Batista. Erika is the Head of EMEA at On Deck, previously founding team & Director The Family, an incredible connector and one of the kindest humans I know. I’ve been meaning to get Erika on the podcast for a while and I finally found an excuse. Today we’re doing something different – we’re jamming for an hour on Atomico’s S…

My guest today is Matt Helt. Matt is a Growth & Development Coach who works with startup founders and other leaders to help them navigate their way back to what really matters, both in their life and their work. Before that, he was the program director of Techstars Startup Week, where he helped catalyze startup ecosystems in cities and countries ar…

My guest today is Natalie Novick, a sociologist and quantitative social scientist working on research to understand the social aspects of a startup community. For the past five years, she has been conducting fieldwork with entrepreneurs and community builders, starting in Santiago, Chile in 2015. Since then, she has lived and worked in 27 different…

Hey everyone, this is your host Gonz, and welcome to another episode of the Seedtable podcast, where we try to make sense of what is going on in European technology. Today I’m doing things a bit different and bringing you two guests instead of one: Fabrizio Rinaldi and Francesco Di Lorenzo, founders of Mailbrew; a Milan-based company that compiles …

Hey everyone, this is your host Gonz, and welcome to another episode of the Seedtable podcast, where we try to make sense of what is going on in european technology. My guest today is Julian Lehr. Julian is a friend, a writer and a thinker, currently working as a Startup Partnership Lead at Stripe. For the past few years, he has been writing incred…

My guest today is Chris Yiu. Chris is the Executive Director of the Technology and Public Policy team at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Chris was previously a general manager at Uber and has held senior roles at a number of public, private and third-sector organisations. His work focuses on improving the dialogue between technology, an…

My guest today is Anirudh Pai, host of the Conservative Curious podcast and founder of Dreams of Electric Sheep, a newsletter that covers the intersection of tech, history, and economics. I'm warning you – this conversation with Ani is anything but typical: Ani’s unorthodox career progression. How being a child of immigrants shaped Ani’s views Why …

My guest today is Nicholas Mills. Nick is operator and early-stage investor, currently General Manager for EMEA at CircleCI, where he leads the new London HQ. Before joining CircleCI, Nick was the Head of Revenue for UK & Ireland at Stripe, and the Head of Sales for EMEA at Facebook so he has an incredible amount of experience to share with us. Nic…

Today's guest is Patrick Samy, co-founder and CEO of Span, a London-based early-stage startup that helps people address lifestyle-related symptoms and conditions such as anxiety, fatigue, and diabetes without medication. Health and health tech is one of my favorite topics so having Patrick on the podcast was a blast. In today's chat we discuss: the…

My guest today is Daniel Metzler. Daniel is the co-founder and CEO of Isar Aerospace, a Munich-based company that develops next generation rockets for sustainable access to space. Isar Aerospace was founded in 2018 and has been moving extremely fast since then: the debut of Spectrum, their launch vehicle, is scheduled for late 2021. That's a short …

My guest today is Avi Meir, co-founder and CEO of TravelPerk, a Barcelona-based business travel platform that revolutionizes the way that organizations budget, book, and manage business travels. Avi's story is fascinating: after doing an MBA in Barcelona he started Hotel Ninja – a hotel management software company – that he then sold to Booking.com…

My guest today is Ian Hathaway. Ian is an analyst, strategic advisor, writer, and entrepreneur, and currently leads product development for ecosystem advisory at Techstars, where he works with founders and community leaders around the world to support their path towards building better tech ecosystems. He is also the co-author of The Startup Commun…

Today I have with me Moritz Müller-Freitag, COO and co-founder of TwentyBN and let me tell you something: today's conversation was a blast. TwentyBN, which stands for Twenty Billion Neurons, is a company building human-centric AI technology and bringing seeing and sociable digital assistants to life. We start by talking about the company's origin s…

This is your host Gonz, and today I'm with Federico Travella, CEO and founder of NoviCap, a company that helps business unlock cash stuck in outstanding invoices and improve their cash flow. NoviCap has offices in Spain, The Netherlands and the UK and they are on track to finance over one billion euros by the end of 2021. Federico is a geologist by…

My guest today is Eze Vidra, co-founder and managing partner of Remagine Ventures, an early stage fund investing in ambitious entrepreneurs at the intersection of tech, media, data and commerce. Previously, he was a General Partner at Google Ventures (GV) Europe and led the fund’s first investment outside of the USand led the fund’s first investmen…

My guest today is Jacob Haddad, CEO of AccuRx, a London-based company working on a platform that brings patients and healthcare teams together. AccuRx started in 2016, raised a $9m Series A from Atomico and LocalGlobe in 2019 and has grown tremendously since then. I had Jacob on an earlier episode of the podcast but today's conversation is complete…

My guest today is Ferdinand Metzler, co-founder and CEO of Meepl, a Zurich-based company that develops accurate 3D virtual bodies & clothing models. Ferdinand's story is fascinating. After spending a semester in Hong Kong where he discovered the issues plaguing the fashion industry; he returned home united a small team of engineers and started the …

Welcome to the Seedtable podcast. Today we are not trying to make sense of what's going on in European tech, as we usually do. Today we are doing something much more entertaining – I'm joined by three fantastic newsletter writers – Brett Bivens from Venture Desktop, Packy McCormick from Not Boring and Sid Jha from Sunday Snapshots – to play fantasy…

🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts 🎙️ Listen on Spotify My guest today is Matt Clifford, co-founder and CEO of Entrepreneur First, which he started with Alice Bentinck back in 2011. Entrepreneur First is what is known as a Talent Investor – they help extraordinary individuals find a co-founder, develop and idea and raise money from the world's best invest…

🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts 🎙️ Listen on Spotify My guest today is Michael Sackler, founder and managing partner at Rooks Nest Ventures, a London-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests at the intersection of technology, media and entertainment. Before Rooks Nest Ventures, Mike founded and led Rooks Nest Entertainment, a successful prod…

🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts 🎙️ Listen on Spotify My guest today is James Wise, partner at Balderton, one of Europe's most prolific venture capital firms. James joined Balderton in 2013, where he focuses on health, productivity and security. Since then has led investments in companies like Sophia Genetics, Detectify and Kaia Health. James is also a …

🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts 🎙️ Listen on Spotify For this episode I'm talking with Brett Bivens. Brett is a venture investor at TechNexus, a Chicago-based venture capital firm. He focuses on Europe and operates out of Paris. On top of that, he writes Venture Desktop, a weekly newsletter that he describes as "an ongoing exploration of the ideas and …

🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts 🎙️ Listen on Spotify My guest today is Jacob Haddad, CEO of accuRx, a London-based company working on a platform that brings patients and healthcare teams together. The accuRx story is fascinating. After struggling with their initial idea right out of Entrepreneur First, they pivoted, captured over 90% of the primary car…

🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts 🎙️ Listen on Spotify Today's episode is a fascinating conversation with Nicolas Colin. Nicolas is a co-founder and Director of The Family, an investment firm whose mission is to support purpose-driven creators in their efforts to bring value to society. He also publishes European Straits, a weekly newsletter analyzing Eu…

🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts 🎙️ Listen on Spotify Today I'm talking with journalist, entrepreneur and investor Turi Munthe. After selling Demotix to Corbis Corporation and spending a few years as a Venture Partner at North Base Media he launched Parlia, the encyclopedia of opinion. Parlia is one of the most exciting and important projects today. The…

🎙️Listen on Apple Podcasts 🎙️Listen on Spotify Today I'm talking with Marie Outtier, co-founder and CEO at Aiden.ai a platform that helps marketers optimize their campaigns using artificial intelligence. Marie started in Aiden in June 2016, raised a total of €2.4 million and 1219 days later sold it to Twitter. In today's episode we cover: The simil…

🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts 🎙️ Listen on Spotify My guest today is Marcin Szeląg, partner at Innovation Nest, a Krakow-based early-stage seed fund focusing on B2B software companies. I met Marcin a couple of months ago when we jumped on a Zoom call and proceeded to talk about technology for almost an hour and a half. This podcast tries to be an ext…