This Much I Know - The Seedcamp Podcast

After the success of our first Legal Hour podcast in which Tom and Carlos discussed commercial legal terms and what founders should look out for, they’re back again; this time with a detailed look at how to structure your round and legal terms to be aware of. The purpose of this episode is to arm all founders with valuable information to help you make the most knowledgeable decisions, as no founde...

Can you translate the entrepreneurial concept of ownership in the VC landscape? How can you really spot passion in a founder? These are just a few of the questions that Carlos and Carmen Alfonso Rico cover in this week’s podcast, as they discuss the learnings from shifting from being a VC to a founder, and then back again to a VC. After graduating with the best grades in the country and being scou...

Why are people put off by the term impact and yet, at the same time, they want to promote the very things that the term encapsulates? How can we fix this dichotomy between the negative bias towards social impact against the very need that social impact drives for? These are some of the questions underlying this week’s podcast as Carlos discusses with Check Warner, co-founder of Ada Ventures, her j...

14% of the global GDP goes from government to businesses every year. But how does the public procurement office run this global economy and how can companies trying to sell to government navigate its inner-workings? The rather opaque admin of the process is exactly what drove three university students to decide to build Stotles, specifically addressing the murky waters of government contracting an...

In this week’s recorded video podcast Seedcamp partners, Carlos and Tom, join forces to discuss some of the key terms startup founders should keep in mind when considering a term sheet from investors. Carlos and Tom first met when Tom, in his previous life, was one of the lawyers working on helping to set Seedcamp up as a fund. Fast forward six years later and Tom - now one of our investment partn...

This week Carlos is joined, remotely, by Dominic Hallas, Executive Director at The Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec), to discuss his work liaising between policymakers and the tech community, and the role Codec is playing in helping startups navigate these uncertain times. After entering local politics at a young age in Leeds, and running a project in Delhi for the Bloomberg Foundation, Dom...

In this week’s podcast, Carlos is joined by Russ Shaw, Founder of Tech London Advocates, and Asher Ismail, Co-founder of Seedcamp-backed company, Uncapped, Europe’s first revenue-based finance provider, as they discuss the need - now more than ever - alternative financing mechanisms to support founders. If you are currently raising or trying to determine how to navigate this current climate, liste...

As the future sets to become fully digital in the next few months, what are the fundamentals required to enable the offline event market to successfully move online? Joining Carlos to discuss the topic this week is Johnny Boufarhat, founder of our portfolio company Hopin, the first all-in-one live online events platform who recently announced their $6m seed round, led by Accel, and Devin Hunt, our...

Recorded live at our Seedcamp People Summit, Marin Jankovski recalls the beginnings of GitLab and how the company grew to become one of the largest distributed workforce, with 67 locations around the world and not a single office space for their 1200 people. In the session, featuring an inspiring introduction by Ben Gateley CEO and cofounder of our portfolio company CharlieHR, Marin explains the t...

This week Carlos is joined by our brand new lead on all things talent and people, Marina Gorey, who we are incredibly excited to have join us to support our portfolio companies in helping them think about how they shape the most critical part of their organisations: their people. Prior to joining us at Seedcamp, Marina co-founded and was Chief People Officer at pioneering Kidtech company, SuperAwe...

This week Carlos is joined by Daniel Burka, Director of Design at Resolve to Save Lives, which he joined nearly two years ago to support the mission of saving 100 million lives from cardiovascular disease and to prevent epidemics. In conversation with Carlos, Daniel walks through his journey from the early age of seventeen when he founded his first company Silverorange which this year celebrated i...

This week Carlos is joined by Simon Beckerman, founder of Depop, the leading app for Gen Z shoppers boasting 16 million users, nearly 20 million items listed on the platform, and around one million active users per day. Depop is where the world's creatives come to buy, sell and discover the most inspiring and unique things. In conversation with Carlos, Simon shares what sparked the business idea a...

Last month we launched 'Breakthrough' an interactive event showcasing a cross-section of companies gearing up to raise their Series A in front of a packed room of growth stage investors. As well as hearing from select companies across everything from distributed computing to using advanced scanning technology for early-cancer detection, Carlos also hosted a number of panels to dive deeper into sec...

“Innovation is not a repeatable formula. Innovation is this messy thing that depends on the culture of the organisation; its heritage and its values.” In this week’s podcast, Carlos is joined by David Rowan, Founding Editor-in-chief of WIRED UK as he walks through the professional journey that fueled the creation of his new book: “Non-Bullshit Innovation: Radical Ideas from the World’s Smartest Mi...

Freddy joined HelloFresh as employee number 5 and left as Marketing Director, managing budgets to the tune of £25M. Tune in as Freddy shares the journey with Natasha and dives into the importance of hiring, keeping teams motivated and channel diversification along with key lessons learned and applied to his new business, Wild. Links: Natasha: https://twitter.com/Natashalytton Freddy: https://www.l...

In this fireside chat recorded live at the Seedcamp Marketing Summit, Sam Grant focuses on how cognitive biases affect decision making and why brand loyalty really matters. Sam shares his learnings from leading marketing efforts at Coca-Cola to developing a brand and channel strategy at Samsung. Tune in to hear why Sam is a strong believer in building an emotional relationship between the brand an...

In this talk recorded live at the Seedcamp Marketing Summit our own EiR, Andy Young walks us through the seven tried-and-tested growth lessons he learned from Silicon Valley. Andy dives into the importance of having the right mindset and following the appropriate process in order to figure out how you can grow. Some of the materials Andy refers to: - 10,000 feet view exercise: http://bit.ly/10kftv...

What3words, recently described by the BBC as “the app that can save your life”, was recently catapulted to the top of the app and play store, thanks largely to a clearly defined b2b2c strategy. Tune in as CMO, Giles Rhys Jones, shares how they made it happen, from building an in-house creative team and using content to remove the barriers between their supporters and decision-makers in large organ...

Recorded live at the Seedcamp Marketing Summit, Hannah Craik discusses one of the most pressing issues facing marketers today: how to balance short-term spikes vs. long-term penetration. From her roles at digital media agencies to ASOS and now Heist studios, Hannah shares practical insights on how to generate sales today while also keeping one eye on future cashflow. She also depicts the importanc...

The transition from dealing directly with a product to becoming a manager of people can be a challenging one for many founders. In this week’s episode of This Much I Know, Carlos is joined by Emily Brooke - Co-founder of Beryl - the company on a mission to get more people cycling and to transform cities. Listen in as Emily uncovers how that mission has evolved over time and her own transition from...

“It’s very difficult to spot an outlier in the early days. At series A, outliers are not obvious. If you go towards group decision making, you can miss some of these outliers.” In this week’s episode of This Much I Know, Carlos is joined by Luciana Lixandru, Partner at Accel, the top-tier US fund with a strong presence on the ground in Europe. Prior to joining the firm in 2011, Luciana worked at M...

Carlos is joined this week in the studio by Daniel Korski, co-founder and CEO of PUBLIC, a London-based VC fund that invests in tech startups transforming the way public services are run and delivered. Daniel is also the Chairman of the GovTech Summit, the largest global event for the Govtech sector hosted annually with French President Emmanuel Macron, and has 20 years of experience in senior pos...

Nilan is the VP of Growth at TransferWise, which he joined 7 years ago. Previously Nilan was VP Growth at HouseTrip, in charge of scaling the company’s growth in the European market. He’s also worked as Chief Marketing Technology Officer at Holiday Extras, where he was responsible for all areas of technology, marketing and customer acquisition. Nilan also advises a number of early stage startups o...

Sally is the Chief Innovation Officer of Photobox and a commercial Product Director with over 20 years of tech and digital experience. She is currently leading product innovation at Photobox where she is responsible for new revenue lines and leads an end-to-end team who develop and launch new products. Links: Sally Foote - twitter.com/sallyfoote Devin Hunt - twitter.com/hailpixel Seedcamp - seedca...

Earlier this year Stripe hired Google veteran Matt Henderson to head its newly expanded Dublin engineering hub. Before joining Stripe Matt led Google’s strategy for scaling the Google Play app store. In prior he led Amazon’s marketplace strategy in Europe and founded shopping platform Rangespan, which was acquired by Google in 2014. Links: Matt Henderson - twitter.com/_matt_henderson Devin Hunt -...