Nothing Ventured

Hello and welcome to this week's Nothing Ventured Episode with Aarish Shah. Today I am really excited to have with me Kelvin Au. Kelvin has over 17 years of experience in technology investment banking, VC and managing high-growth operations. Previously a Principal at Molten Ventures(formerly Draper Esprit) and headed up investments at Founders Factory, Kelvin worked closely with founders on produc...

Hello and welcome to this week's Nothing Ventured Episode with Aarish Shah. Today I am really excited to have with me Kelvin Au. Kelvin has over 17 years of experience in technology investment banking, VC and managing high-growth operations. Previously a Principal at Molten Ventures(formerly Draper Esprit) and headed up investments at Founders Factory, Kelvin worked closely with founders on produc...

Hello and welcome to this week's Nothing Ventured Episode with Aarish Shah. Today I am really excited to have with me Amardeep Parmar. Amardeep is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of The BAE HQ, where he inspires, connects and guides the next generation of British Asian entrepreneurs. He has a podcast, news, social content, and in-depth toolkits to level up underrepresented founders. Hosted by Simplecast...

Hello and welcome to this week's Nothing Ventured Episode with Aarish Shah. Today I am really excited to have with me Amardeep Parmar. Amardeep is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of The BAE HQ, where he inspires, connects and guides the next generation of British Asian entrepreneurs. He has a podcast, news, social content, and in-depth toolkits to level up underrepresented founders. Hosted by Simplecast...

Today I am really excited to have with me Brett Martin. Brett is an entrepreneur, angel investor, pragmatist, and optimist. Having spent most of his career in the startup trenches, he now focuses on supporting other entrepreneurs as Managing Partner of a small seed-stage venture fund: Charge Ventures. Charge is a NYC-based pre-seed/seed stage venture fund. We invest 200-500k at the earliest stages...

Hello and welcome to this week's Nothing Ventured Primer with Aarish Shah. Today I am really excited to have with me Brett Martin. Brett is an entrepreneur, angel investor, pragmatist, and optimist. Having spent most of his career in the startup trenches, he now focuses on supporting other entrepreneurs as Managing Partner of a small seed-stage venture fund: Charge Ventures. Charge is a NYC-based...

In today's episode, Aarish speaks to Emmy Faust about her journey as an angel investor, why female founders are still getting less than 2% of venture funding, why she decided not to raise a VC fund and why it's massively important to think about wellness and mental health. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data fo...

Hello and welcome to this week's Nothing Ventured Primer with Aarish Shah. Today I am really excited to have with me Emmie Faust. Emmy is a three times executive founder, angel investor, and founder of Female Founders Rise. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week we speak to Adam Besvinick, founder of Looking Glass Capital a pre seed and seed stage firm investing in health, climate and empowerment. Listen to our Primer episode to listen to Adam's journey through finance and venture including cutting his teeth at Chris Sacca's Lowercase Capital and more. NV Main Show S4e3 - Adam Besvinick Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.c...

This week we speak to Adam Besvinick, founder of Looking Glass Capital a pre seed and seed stage firm investing in health, climate and empowerment. Listen to our Primer episode to listen to Adam's journey through finance and venture including cutting his teeth at Chris Sacca's Lowercase Capital and more. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collec...

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...