This Much I Know - The Seedcamp Podcast

Your team is the single biggest determining factor for your startup’s success. Building a great product, unlocking market potential, and attracting loyal customers require expertise and hustle from within. And, no, we do not just mean from within the founding team. Individuals across departments and seniority levels determine whether your company rises to stardom or flops miserably. To attract and...

Your team is the single biggest determining factor for your startup’s success. Building a great product, unlocking market potential, and attracting loyal customers require expertise and hustle from within. And, no, we do not just mean from within the founding team. Individuals across departments and seniority levels determine whether your company rises to stardom or flops miserably. To attract and...

Seedcamp Fund V is here. It’s our strongest fund to-date and we're thrilled that so many friends and founders have put their faith in us to continue backing Europe’s finest entrepreneurs. We don’t believe in draping fund announcements in a vague veil of splendour, so we want to give you the inside scoop of Fund V: the who, what, when, why, and how. In addition to publishing our fundraising pitch d...

The gap between academic research and business is shrinking. Notable scientific technologies are shifting from receiving grants to venture capital funding. From massive frauds (*cough* Theranos) to incredible successes like Moderna, deep science is gaining traction amongst the world’s top investors. According to Statista research published in early 2020, the value of venture capital invested in th...

Accel partner Harry Nelis knows what it’s like to be in the founder seat. After graduating with a PhD in Electrical Engineering, Harry moved to Silicon Valley to work as an Engineer at Hewlett Packard before founding his own venture-backed software company. His experience as a founder showed him just how difficult it is to build a long-lasting company and develop a sticky customer base. It has als...

On the afternoons of 17th & 24th of September, we brought early-stage marketers from the Seedcamp Nation together for one of our favourite events of the year - the Seedcamp Marketing Summit. Attended by over 80 people we delved into the hottest topics cropping up across our portfolio companies' marketing teams: from building a demand generation machine to PR for startups and whether or not PR agen...

On the 17th & 24th of September, we brought early-stage marketers from the Seedcamp Nation together for our first ever online edition of the Marketing Summit. We delved into the hottest topics cropping up across our portfolio companies' marketing teams: from building a demand generation machine to PR for startups and whether or not PR agencies provide any benefits at an early stage - it was a jam-...

On the 17th & 24th of September, we brought early-stage marketers from the Seedcamp Nation together for our first ever online edition of the Marketing Summit. We delved into the hottest topics cropping up across our portfolio companies' marketing teams: from building a demand generation machine to PR for startups and whether or not PR agencies provide any benefits at an early stage - it was a jam-...

On the 17th & 24th of September, we brought early-stage marketers from the Seedcamp Nation together for our first ever online edition of the Marketing Summit. We delved into the hottest topics cropping up across our portfolio companies' marketing teams: from building a demand generation machine to PR for startups and whether or not PR agencies provide any benefits at an early stage - it was a jam-...

On the 17th & 24th of September, we brought early-stage marketers from the Seedcamp Nation together for our first ever online edition of the Marketing Summit. We delved into the hottest topics cropping up across our portfolio companies' marketing teams: from building a demand generation machine to PR for startups and whether or not PR agencies provide any benefits at an early stage - it was a jam-...

On the 17th & 24th of September, we brought early-stage marketers from the Seedcamp Nation together for our first ever online edition of the Marketing Summit. We delved into the hottest topics cropping up across our portfolio companies' marketing teams: from building a demand generation machine to PR for startups and whether or not PR agencies provide any benefits at an early stage - it was a jam-...

On the 17th & 24th of September, we brought early-stage marketers from the Seedcamp Nation together for our first ever online edition of the Marketing Summit. We delved into the hottest topics cropping up across our portfolio companies' marketing teams: from building a demand generation machine to PR for startups and whether or not PR agencies provide any benefits at an early stage - it was a jam-...

On the 17th & 24th of September, we brought early-stage marketers from the Seedcamp Nation together for our first ever online edition of the Marketing Summit. We delved into the hottest topics cropping up across our portfolio companies' marketing teams: from building a demand generation machine to PR for startups and whether or not PR agencies provide any benefits at an early stage - it was a jam-...

On the 17th & 24th of September, we brought early-stage marketers from the Seedcamp Nation together for our first ever online edition of the Marketing Summit. We delved into the hottest topics cropping up across our portfolio companies' marketing teams: from building a demand generation machine to PR for startups and whether or not PR agencies provide any benefits at an early stage - it was a jam-...

On the 17th & 24th of September, we brought early-stage marketers from the Seedcamp Nation together for our first ever online edition of the Marketing Summit. We delved into the hottest topics cropping up across our portfolio companies' marketing teams: from building a demand generation machine to PR for startups and whether or not PR agencies provide any benefits at an early stage - it was a jam-...

On the 17th & 24th of September, we brought early-stage marketers from the Seedcamp Nation together for our first ever online edition of the Marketing Summit. We delved into the hottest topics cropping up across our portfolio companies' marketing teams: from building a demand generation machine to PR for startups and whether or not PR agencies provide any benefits at an early stage - it was a jam-...

On the 17th & 24th of September, we brought early-stage marketers from the Seedcamp Nation together for our first ever online edition of the Marketing Summit. We delved into the hottest topics cropping up across our portfolio companies' marketing teams: from building a demand generation machine to PR for startups and whether or not PR agencies provide any benefits at an early stage - it was a jam-...

Financial fraud is everywhere: in action movies, history books, and, yes, in our day-to-day lives in companies small and large. According to a 2020 PwC study, 56% of companies in the UK surveyed had experienced fraud, corruption, or economic crime in the past 24 months. This is well above the global finding of 47%. At Seedcamp, we are lucky to have two companies in our portfolio tackling this impo...

In 2012, super-angel investor Chris Sacca launched Lowercase Capital, a new fund focused on the intersection of media and technology. To ensure its success, he hired one of the best-networked business development executives in the LA area: Matt Mazzeo. Within just a few months, Matt proved his tremendous aptitude for venture investing. Over the next four years, Matt and the Lowercase team invested...

On this third episode of the Seedcamp Legal Hour, Tom and Carlos are joined by Anthony Rose, Co-founder and CEO of SeedLegals, the world's first legal automation platform for startup funding and a proud Seedcamp portfolio company. Besides being a serial entrepreneur, Anthony’s career has also seen him take on huge feats such as managing the launch of BBC iPlayer, for which Wired UK named him "the...

Tom and Carlos are back with another episode of the Legal Hour podcast where they’ll walk you through the standard terms for term sheets, advisory agreements, and founder collaboration agreements and why founders shouldn’t blindly just use templates available without proper diligence. The term ‘standard documents’ came along not only from wanting to absorb the lessons learned, but also to introduc...

We talk frequently about the future of health on this podcast and feature myriad guests to help cover the various facets involved in improving health care services the world over. The World Health Organisation has long been warning of an impending health sector crisis and, with the arrival of Covid-19, the urgency for better health care infrastructures is finally at the forefront of people’s mind....

In this week’s episode of This Much I Know, Carlos is joined by David Helgason, co-founder and former CEO of Unity Technologies, a Danish-American video game software development company best known for the development of Unity, the world’s leading real-time 3D development platform and last valued at $6bn. Originally from Iceland, at the age of ten David moved with his accomplished journalist mothe...

Open source software is having a moment – the number of projects are growing, as are the developers working on them. Importantly too, there has also been an evolution of business models in the space. Gone are the days when only Red Hat stood as an example of successful commercialisation; now, 40+ companies relying on open source technology at their core have reached $100M+ revenue, with high-profi...

In this special Deep Dive, Carlos delves into a topic we’re particularly passionate about at Seedcamp, ‘The future of health’, alongside the founders of Sano Genetics and Humanity, both proud portfolio companies. Covering everything from the future of genomics to how to slow the ageing process and reduce the possibility of disease, Sano Genetics and Humanity are at the forefront of some of the mos...