FUNDstars & FOUNDstars from NOTWICS

Ed zooms in from cosy West London, where, from his leading position as one of the best and friendliest UK VC investors, he tells us the over-riding good news, that the UK Series A scene is hot to trot.  He also divulges and treats us to snippets about life during lockdown, things are moving more quickly, the magic of Albion and what’s driving their exciting start to 2021 and continuation of their...

Martina takes time out of her busy, command control centre in the Suffolk countryside to tell us about life at Featurespace, a leading UK Cybersecurity player, who recently was ranked as the 8th most important AI company in the UK, by Beauhurst. Featurespace is a great company that is one of the pioneers of Machine Learning in the UK and their Fraud solution, born by some superb professors at Camb...

Kjartan calls in from his Summerhouse in the wilds of Denmark, where we caught up with him on a Friday afternoon in late January. Naturally, Kjartan, or the “the white-haired wizard” of VC, was full of new year optimism, emphasising clearly on this Vodcast, that now more than ever is the best time to take the plunge and build a Tech company. He touches upon how he and his partner Dennis built Conc...

We chat to the wonderful Prask, by his fire, in his very cold, 800 years old, horsehair house in the wilds of the Sussex countryside, where Prask has hunkered down in with his lovely family, but continued to lead and grow his super Scale-Up, Wi5 during the pandemic. Prask is an excellent founder, growing his business to become a significant Scale-Up in the mobile payments “order and pay” space in...

Richard is one of NOTWICS most revered and favourite founders, a classic entrepreneur and leading businessman, which has seen SafeToNet power into the top 20 AI Scale-Ups in the UK. Richard clearly shows his passion and energy about setting up SafeToNet and the strong social purpose he feels about protecting Children-on-line. One of the world’s biggest problems is wanting to be liked online and as...

Kathy talks about Bloomberg, her time at Microsoft, and her employer Downing Ventures, where she is fast becoming one of the up and coming stars of the UK VC scene. In this episode we touch on many interesting areas such as: # How does Downing work / Invest / interact with Founders / verticals and current focus.. it’s a big cahoona 76 investments and 140 people fund, looking at 5 companies a day....

Chris Lowe of NOTWICS and Anthony Lyall of Lyall Ventures bring you the FUNDstar and FOUNDstar podcast. In this quick episode, we explain a little bit about ourselves, and what you can expect from the podcast.