Benevolent Disruptors

In this episode of the Benevolent Disruptors Interview Series, we welcome Jack Zhang,  CEO and Co-Founder of Airwallex, the global financial infrastructure company processing $60B+ in annualised transaction volume across 200,000 businesses in over 200 countries, built not from Silicon Valley, but from a Melbourne coffee shop. Jack turned down a billion-dollar acquisition offer from Stripe, survive...

In this episode of the Benevolent Disruptors Interview Series, we welcome Michiel Scheffer, President of the Board at the European Innovation Council (EIC). The EIC is the European Union's flagship innovation body, deploying a €1.4 billion annual budget across the continent's most daring technology investments, from quantum computing and AI to biorefinery and fusion.  A founder, innovation investo...

In this episode of the Benevolent Disruptors Interview Series, we welcome David Clark, CIO of VenCap International plc. Founded in 1987, VenCap is one of the longest-standing and most successful fund-of-funds investment firms in Venture Capital.      Having committed over $3 billion across 500+ VC funds, David reflects on how VenCap evolved from a traditional LP into a data-driven, conviction-led...

In this episode, Chris speaks with Sam Atkinson, CEO and Co-Founder of Swap: one of BNVT Capital's earliest investments and now a global agentic e-commerce platform powering over 1,000 brands like Paul Smith, Cubitts and Sirplus. Sam reflects on building Swap from a small London team focused on returns management into a full operating system for cross-border commerce, and why the company's boldest...

In this episode, Rory Mounsey-Heysham speaks with Nigel Morris , Managing Partner at QED Investors and co-founder of Capital One. Nigel reflects on four decades in financial services, his ambition to impact over one billion people through fintech, and why he believes innovation in finance is still in its early innings. The conversation explores how Capital One democratized credit through risk-base...

In this episode, Rory speaks with Andrew L. Cohen , Executive Chairman of J.P. Morgan’s Global Private Bank and leader of 23 Wall , J.P. Morgan’s Institutional Wealth Management practice serving many of the world’s most influential families and institutions. Drawing on insights from J.P. Morgan’s Principals Report and decades at the heart of global finance, Andrew offers a rare perspective on how...

In this episode, Chris Corbishley speaks with Jodok Betschart , co-founder and CEO of Cloover , one of BNVT Capital’s earliest investments. Cloover has announced a $1.2B financing commitment to scale a new kind of software-led renewable energy infrastructure across Europe. The conversation covers Cloover’s breakout year, including around 8x revenue growth while remaining profitable , and why energ...

In this episode, Chris Corbishley speaks with Thomas Wolf , co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face , the open-source AI platform now powering millions of models and researchers worldwide. Thomas shares the unlikely origins of the company from a teen chatbot to the central hub of the global machine learning community sparked by a research codebase for BERT and GPT-2 that unexpectedly...

In this episode, Rory Mounsey-Heysham speaks with Colin le Duc , Co-Founder and Partner at Generation Investment Management ,  the sustainability-focused investment firm created alongside former US Vice President Al Gore and David Blood of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Generation was founded on a bold premise: that sustainability and long-term financial performance reinforce each other rather th...

In this episode, Chris Corbishley speaks with Matt Oppenheimer , Co-Founder and CEO of Remitly - the global payments company reshaping how money moves across borders. Matt shares how his time in Kenya sparked the idea for Remitly and how the company grew from a small startup in Seattle into a platform now trusted by millions. What began as a response to an unfair, outdated system of money transfer...

To open this conversation, Rory Mounsey-Heysham sits down with Greg Jackson - founder and CEO of Octopus Energy - one of Europe’s most successful tech companies and a driving force in the energy transition. Greg shares how Octopus grew from humble beginnings into a global energy and technology leader, serving millions of customers and managing billions in renewable assets. From challenging incumbe...

To open the series, Rory Mounsey-Heysham and Chris Corbishley are joined by Harley Finkelstein, President of Shopify . Shopify is often seen as an e-commerce platform, but Harley describes it as something bigger: an entrepreneurship company . By lowering the barriers to starting and scaling a business, Shopify has helped millions of people turn ambition into independence. In this conversation, Har...

In this short teaser, hear the vision behind Benevolent Disruptors - a new podcast from BNVT Capital exploring how solving the world’s biggest problems can also deliver the biggest financial returns. Hosted by managing partners Rory Mounsey-Heysham and Chris Corbishley, the series features candid conversations with founders, executives, and investors from leading companies, funds, and endowments....