Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology

Startup Spotlight with Blair Hawthorne , CEO & Founder at LoopFX . They've just come out of stealth mode to improve the efficiency of high level foreign exchange trades. LoopFX have secured funding from some of the best finance angels in the country with participation from Portfolio Ventures. Don't forget to like, subscribe and follow The Riding Unicorns Podcast on our socials and yo...

Our guest this week is Believe in Science Founder & CEO Anthony Fletcher . The  Believe in Science mission is to prove people can indulge responsibly, helping consumers make better decisions when it comes to food, starting with The Urban Legend Doughnut - the ultimate treat food, sticky, sweet, delicious yet never high in fat, sugar or calories. Anthony joins James Pringle and Hector Mason to...

Alan Chang is the CEO of Fuse .  As former Revolut-er #5, Alan was involved in the disruption and innovation in banking, and now, he is bringing that same energy and passion to Fuse. Fuse was founded to generate affordable renewable power and solve climate change. Their mission is to build a Terawatt of renewable capacity to power the world. They have raised $78m from top tier investors like Balde...

Our guest this week is Fearless Adventures Founding Partner David Newns . Fearless Adventures invest in and support entrepreneur-led businesses with their expertise in growth strategy and support building great teams. Their founding team have built and scaled their own businesses from scratch to multi-million-pound exits and are now looking to use that capital and expertise to help new founders on...

Our guest this week is Left Lane Capital Principal Magnus Karnehm . Left Lane is a global venture capital and growth equity firm investing in high-growth internet and consumer technology companies that are fundamental to the lives of customers. The foundation of Left Lane’s strategy is built on four main elements: specialization in internet-first businesses, proprietary sourcing at every level, de...

Our guest this week is Georgi Ganev, CEO of Kinnevik . Kinnevik’s ambition is to be Europe’s leading listed growth investor, they back the best digital companies for a reimagined every day and to deliver significant returns. They have a strong and expanding portfolio in ClimateTech, HealthTech, consumer services, food tech, and fintech. Kinnevik’s shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm’s list for l...

Our guest this week is George Richardson, Co-Founder & CEO of AeroCloud . AeroCloud’s modular intelligent airport management platform is built on leading-edge technology & uses predictive AI & machine learning. Combined with common-use passenger processing & self-service solutions, they deliver an innovative answer to the complex operational challenges experienced by airports acros...

Startup Spotlight with Kadence. They've just announced a $10M Seed funding round led by Kickstart Fund with participation from Portfolio Ventures, Manta Ray, Hambro Perks and Vectr7 as well as Shadow Ventures and Forward VC.

Our guest this week is Jamie Beaumont, Founder of Playter. Playter helps fund the global community of startups and scaleups by helping them convert any invoice into Buy Now, Pay Later . Playter is the growth platform that helps businesses scale quicker, reduce their burn rate, increase their runway and take control of all payment terms regardless of the supplier. Jamie joins James Pringle and Hect...

Our guest this week is Gordon Midwood, CEO of Anything World. Anything World is an innovative platform that combines AI, voice computing and 3D rendering with layers of behavioural intelligence. They enable users to request and play with any object imaginable. It’s the easiest and fastest way for developers to create AI-driven 3D experiences powered by voice. The Anything World Mission is to simpl...

Our guest this week is Dr. Ben Maruthappu, Co-founder & CEO of multi-award-winning technology company Cera . Cera is a digital-first home healthcare company, delivering cat nursing telehealth and repeat prescriptions. In less than five years, we’ve grown from scratch to a team of almost 10,000 professionals, providing over 40,000+ in-person healthcare visits in homes throughout the UK every da...

Our guest this week is Jacob Waern, Founder & CEO of eduMe . eduMe g ives your deskless workforce seamless, passwordless access to embedded onboarding & training with native integrations into software such as Microsoft Teams, Fountain, Braze, and Beekeeper. eduMe is the leading mobile-based training platform for the frontline workforce used by modern companies in more than 60 countries wor...

Welcome back to our latest Startup Spotlight, our mini-series, which will provide insight into an early-stage company that we are very excited about. This week's spotlight shines on 5mins. 5Mins.ai is the TikTok of L&D. With 13,000+ bite-sized lessons tailored to each role . Live in 80+ countries with leading tech brands such as SmartPension, Perkbox, Spenmo etc - our customers find that...

Welcome to Season 5 🥳 Our first guest for the new season is Victor Trokoudes, Co-Founder & CEO of Plum . Plum is an app that empowers you to put your money into action, wherever you are on your financial journey. You can save, spend, earn and invest, in one app with ease. Using AI-powered saving tools and investment features which make building and diversifying your portfolio seamless, Plum h...

This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at The Oval in Vauxhall as part of our first live event. Guests and friends of the show gathered to celebrate 2 years of Riding Unicorns. 

Welcome back to our latest Startup Spotlight, our mini-series, which will provide you with an insight into an early-stage company that we are very excited about. This week's spotlight shines on Kuai Commerce , a startup focused on helping western brands sell Direct to consumers in the Chinese market. James sat down with co-founder Jonny Plein to discuss the opportunity the Chinese market pres...

Justina Tartilaite is the Co-Founder of Adsum, tax credit specialists. Adsum is pioneering innovation in tax-based financing and is at the forefront of leveraging modern technology in order to provide businesses with much-needed tax credits in real-time. Prior to launching Adsum, Justina worked as a Director at Deutsche Bank and in various capital markets roles for ABN AMRO Bank.  Justina joined u...

Welcome back to our latest Startup Spotlight, our mini-series, which will provide you with an insight into an early-stage company that we are very excited about.  On this weeks episode we will be discussing Monet, an embedded fintech for the creator economy - enabling platforms and agencies to offer borderless credit and payments.  Make sure to like and subscribe to the Riding Unicorns podcast to...

Pietro Bezza is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of thesis-led venture capital firm, Connect Ventures. Specialising in investing in seed companies, Connect was the first to invest in unicorns such as TrueLayer, Typeform and Oyster.  Long-time listeners will be aware that this is not the first time we have had a member of the Connect Ventures team on the show. In fact, in Season 2 we invited Sit...

Welcome back to our latest Startup Spotlight, an entirely new series, which will provide you with an insight into a company that we are very excited about.  On this weeks episode we will be discussing Deployed, which is looking to help simplify the way we write and build effective dialogue.  Make sure to like and subscribe to the Riding Unicorns podcast to never miss an episode. Also don't fo...

Joe Curtis is the Director and Co-Founder of 11 Investments, a seed-stage investment and accelerator program for recruitment businesses. Not content with one running one recruitment business Joe also works as a Director at Recruiter Labs, a recruitment consultancy business that he also co-founded and as if that wasn't enough he also finds time for a third role, that of Director at 3Search. Al...

Welcome back to our latest Startup Spotlight, an entirely new series, which will provide you with an insight into a company that we are very excited about.  This weeks episode features the co-founders of Inveztor, Katee Hunter-Sharpe and Alastair Sharpe. Inveztor is developing a simple, efficient and collaborative digital platform for issuing and maintaining European debt securities.  Make sure to...

Yoko Spirig is the co-founder & CEO of Ledgy, an equity management and investor relations platform for startups and high-growth companies. Yoko comes from a Physics background and such was her proclivity for the subject as a student that she was invited to become the project lead of Swissloop, an initiative which was looking to build the first Hyperloop pod in Switzerland. Upon graduating Yoko...

Welcome back to our latest Startup Spotlight, an entirely new series, which will provide you with an insight into a company that we are very excited about.  This weeks episode features Awabah, a digital pension platform for self-employed Africans. The co-founder & CEO Tunji Andrews joins us to explain exactly what the business does and how be plans to achieve his big vision.  Make sure to like...

Matthew Wilson is the Co-CEO and Co-founder of Omnipresent, one of the leading global HR providers. Matthew is an experienced entrepreneur and in fact had, prior to Omnipresent, already founded and run a number of businesses including an enterprise software business. Matthew launched Omnipresent alongside his fellow co-founder, Guenther Eisinger, in the hope of solving many of the challenges compa...