Building And Growing

Tom is a Principal at Fuel Ventures, an early-stage software fund investing in SaaS, Marketplaces and Platforms. In this video, he walks us through his learnings and experience as a founder, B2B sales operator and VC, alongside some useful tips for early-stage founders and those looking to get into VC.

Dan Day discusses his story of bootstrapping Invisible Artists out of Sydney, its global expansion and overcoming the pandemic. Invisible Artists design, animation & visual effects to collaborate with clients, from concept to delivery, producing work that stands out, is elegant and different.

Michael is co-founder and CEO of Aurem, a workplace savings platform that’s changing how expatriates in the UAE achieve their financial goals from their first job to retirement.

Ayelen Denovitzer, co-founder and CEO of Solvo, walks us through her years at Revolut, her start up journey and the crypto market. Solvo brings a solution to the crypto curious keeping simplicity, transparency and trust at its core.

Cyrus Tchahardehi is co-founder and CEO of Sleepyhead Program a start-up that retrains people suffering from long-term insomnia to sleep. With a rare direct to consumer position in the digital therapeutics space, Sleepyhead Program has already helped treat over 2,000 sufferers in the 18-months since they started.

Snackr is the mobile ordering platform for sports and entertainment venues. Snackr was founded in 2019 by Perth-based entrepreneur and massive sport fan, Matt Lim. The idea came to Matt after missing Optus Stadium’s first streaker while waiting in line for drinks. Snackr increases revenue, smooths the demand curve, improves staff utilisation and provides bespoke marketing opportunities - all in th...

Matt Barrie discusses how Quiver is disrupting the e-commerce delivery market.  Quiver's technology enables merchants to offer instant, emissionless deliveries to online shoppers - meaning that a customer can shop online and receive their goods within the hour, while also maintaining their customer preferences across different merchants. 

Andy Mosson discusses his views on institutional crypto infrastructure and adoption as Head of Sales at Bitpanda Pro, a European digital asset exchange made for experienced traders, finance professionals and institutions that offers exchange and OTC product offerings.  Prior to Bitpanda Pro, Andy spent close to a decade at JP Morgan in both product management and sales roles within their elec...

Daniel Sawko discusses how Ship Shape's free investor search engine opens up access to founders, and the journey to date.  Shipshape.vc is an investor search engine that indexes investors and their investments like Google indexes websites.

Jon Ostler, UK CEO of the personal finance comparison site, finder.com , shares his thoughts on the current fintech landscape, how he grew Finder to be the UK's fastest growing comparison site and some top tips about running a successful business that he has learned throughout his career.

Matt Hicks, VP of Global Sales at Vertice, discusses the challenges that businesses managing multiple SaaS contracts face; from unused licenses, to businesses paying hefty premiums relative to their competitors, and the lack of price transparency in the SaaS world.   

Juan Andrade discusses Rebank's cross-channel marketing strategy, driven completely by non-marketers and their innovative experiments such as calculators, advice sessions, communities. 

Joe David discusses the Nephos Group and how accountants provide strategic advice to clients during times of economic uncertainty.  

James Ruthven & Sach Vara discuss the M&A Deal Platform and how it helps business owners optimise their multiples while exiting their businesses.

Daniel Cronin discusses how Integrated Finance makes key banking infrastructure available to fast growing startups.    

Dennis Helderman discusses easyHire's story, growth opportunities during times of economic uncertainty and the benefits of scaling via a franchise model. 

James Campbell from the Walmer Group discusses changes to R&D tax relief, innovation funding in the UK and provides tips for founders to raise investment during difficult market conditions.

Juan Andrade discusses how Rebank's data led banking layer unlocks key metrics such as cash balance, runway spending analytics and automated spend categories.  

Mintus launched in April 2022 as an alternative investments platform, democratising access to assets such as blue chip fine art.  Dr. Vedat Mizrahi discusses building and growing Mintus and alternative assets in our first episode.