Nothing Ventured

Today I'm super excited to have with me. Eleanor Kaye. Eleanor is the Executive Director at Newton Venture Program, a JV between London Business School and Local Globe, with a mission to level the playing field for typically and structurally overlooked and underestimated backgrounds. In today's episode, we talked about the Newton Venture Program, the importance of partners like LBS and Local Globe...

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Welcome to this episode of Nothing Ventured With Me Arish Shah. Today I'm really excited to have Reece Chowdhry and Chris Mansfield with me. We are gonna be talking about raising in a bear market, how to be capital efficient and not spend the money the VCs give you the VC founder relationship and the fact that it lasts longer than the average UK marriage. Their advice for founders who are trying t...

In this Primer episode we talk to Reece Chowdhry, Founding Partner at Concept Ventures and get a quick background on his background as an operator and investor as well as the stage, sector and geographies he's targeting at Concept - a fund that launched in the Summer of 2022. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data...

This is the Primer. A new concept for Nothing Ventured. We're getting the overview from founders and investors in advance. In doing so we're primed with the basic information before we get into the main event later in the week. In this Nothing Ventured Primer Episode we talk to Chris Mansfield, Co-Founder of GoodCourse, a Y-Combinator backed venture that is building the new age micro-learning plat...

On the podcast this week we welcome Shir Chorev. Shir is a passionate and experienced Data Scientist, skilled in Machine Learning and algorithmic research. Co-Founder and CTO of Deepchecks a MLOps start-up, developing a platform that incorporates an innovative algorithmic approach to help organizations automatically detect and prevent costly AI system failures. As ever Nothing Ventured brings an h...

On the podcast this week we welcome Venetia Archer. Venetia is Founder and CEO of Ruuby, the UK’s leading on-demand beauty & wellness services platform. One of the Forbes 30 Under 30, she launched the business in 2015. As ever Nothing Ventured brings an honest take on investors, operators, and the start-up ecosystem, bringing founders the insight they need to navigate this crazy world. For more ep...

On the podcast this week we welcome Nathan Beckord. Nathan is the CEO of Foundersuite.com a venture-backed company that makes the leading “funding stack” (Investor Database, CRM, Pitch Deck Hosting, Bulk Email, Virtual Data Room and Investor Update tools) for startups raising capital. Since launching in 2016, users have raised over $3 Bln in seed and venture capital.  Prior to starting Foundersuit...

On the podcast this week we welcome Leo Ringer. Leo is the Founding Partner at Form Ventures an early-stage VC focused on markets shaped by public policy and regulation. As ever Nothing Ventured brings an honest take on investors, operators, and the start-up ecosystem, bringing founders the insight they need to navigate this crazy world. For more episodes of Nothing Ventured listen here: Spotify A...

On the podcast this week we welcome Andrew Scott. Andrew is the Founding Partner of 7percent Ventures and the Co-Founder of Allocate the European GP/LP event for tech venture capital funds and those who invest in them. He's an exited founder, board advisor and has a host of entrepreneur in-residence and advisory roles to his name. As ever Nothing Ventured brings an honest take on investors, operat...

In a podcast double header this week we welcome back Moaz Hamid for Pt. 2 of his discussion with Aarish. The Founding and Managing Partner of mvmt ventures - a venture studio and fund focused on accessible first technology. In the past twenty years, Moaz has worked as a DJ, spent eight years at Palm Inc., over half a decade working at HTC, and five years as General Manager and Partner at Microsoft...

On the podcast this week we welcome Moaz Hamid. The Founding and Managing Partner of mvmt ventures - a venture studio and fund focused on accessible first technology. In the past twenty years, Moaz has worked as a DJ, spent eight years at Palm Inc., over half a decade working at HTC, and five years as General Manager and Partner at Microsoft, followed by eight years at Google.  As ever Nothing Ven...

On the podcast this week we welcome  Founder, writer, and TEDx speaker Alec Maslov, Alec is the Founder of Thunderhead Interglobal, a consulting company that provides communication, fundraising, and business development services.   As ever Nothing Ventured brings an honest take on investors, operators, and the start-up ecosystem, bringing founders the insight they need to navigate this crazy world...

On the podcast this week we welcome Brom Rector. Brom Rector is the founder and GP of Empath Ventures, a VC fund that invests in psychedelic medicine startups.  Prior to founding Empath, Brom spent 7 years as a portfolio manager and quantitative researcher - most recently managing a global macro portfolio for Crabel Capital Management - a Los Angeles-based hedge fund with $9B AUM. After leaving Cr...

On the podcast this week we welcome Nancy Fechnay. Nancy has been a part of the investment and startup world for nearly 15 years. She co-founded three tech companies, resulting in one small exit and one seed stage ‘future of work’ company (backed by Atomico Angels and Outlier in Europe). Nancy also founded a non-profit, The Inspire Movement, in London alongside Google to promote mental health for...

On the podcast this week we welcome Matt Penneycard, Partner at Ada Ventures - an early-stage, pre-seed fund. As ever Nothing Ventured brings an honest take on investors, operators, and the start-up ecosystem, bringing founders the insight they need to navigate this crazy world. For more episodes of Nothing Ventured listen here: Spotify Apple Don't forget to sign-up for the newsletter to keep up t...

On the podcast this week we welcome Kerry Sharp, Director, Entrepreneurship, and Investment at Scottish Enterprise. With a background in corporate banking followed by four years as Portfolio Manager in 3i Group, Kerry has managed a broad portfolio of equity investments in SMEs.  As ever Nothing Ventured brings an honest take on investors, operators, and the start-up ecosystem, bringing founders th...

On the podcast this week we welcome Sarah Nadav, best-selling author, strategist, founder, mentor and Expert Network Behavioural Economist to the World Economic Forum. As ever Nothing Ventured brings an honest take on investors, operators, and the start-up ecosystem, bringing founders the insight they need to navigate this crazy world. For more episodes of Nothing Ventured listen here: Spotify App...

On the podcast this week we welcome Siddhi Mital. Siddhi is co-founder of yhangry - a venture delivering chefs to your doorstep since 2019, set up with Heinin Zhang. Siddhi is also a professional Bollywood dancer and successfully navigated Dragons’ Den. As ever Nothing Ventured brings an honest take on investors, operators, and the start-up ecosystem, bringing founders the insight they need to nav...

On the podcast this week we welcome Remy Astie. Remy is the co-founder and co-CEO of Vauban - a company creating the infrastructure needed to deploy capital and make start-up investing faster, easier, and more accessible.  *Since recording this episode we're delighted to announce that Vauban has been acquired by Carta. As ever Nothing Ventured brings an honest take on investors, operators, and the...

On the podcast this week we welcome Priya Oberoi. Priya is the Founding General Partner of Goddess Gaia Ventures - a pre-series A fund focused on ventures innovating in women's health, wellness, and femtech. As ever Nothing Ventured brings an honest take on investors, operators, and the start-up ecosystem, bringing founders the insight they need to navigate this crazy world. For more episodes of N...

On the podcast this week we welcome Nick Telson. Nick is a Co-Founder at trumpet, podcast host at Pitch Deck and an Investor at Horseplay Ventures. Nick successfully exited his business Design My Night in 2019, many of you may know them if you've booked a restaurant or bar in London.   As ever Nothing Ventured brings an honest take on investors, operators, and the start-up ecosystem, bringing foun...

On the podcast this week we welcome Brent Murri. Brent is a Principal at M13 where he leads early-stage investments in consumer technology companies. Brent joined M13 from Battery Ventures where he focused on growth-stage enterprise software investments. Prior to Battery, he worked in strategy & business development for Samsung NEXT, where he developed and executed strategies around Samsung’s cons...

On the podcast this week we welcome Suki Fuller. Suki is a Founder of Miribure, Co-Founder & Senior Vice President of DC Analytics and Storyteller for Group of Humans. She is a fierce supporter of intelligence, ethical tech, #SafetyTech, Security, Privacy and Surveillance. Her eclectic 19-year career within strategic intelligence and technology has taken her from the US Department of Defense to te...

On the podcast this week we welcome Alex Macdonald. Alex is a serial entrepreneur and Angel Investor. He is the Co-Founder of Velocity Black, a concierge reimagined for the digital age, which has raised over $30m in venture capital. He has been angel investing at pre-seed and seed stage for 8 years in the UK and US, and runs a syndicate. Alex recently founded his second business.   As ever Nothing...