Ventures

We had Kyle Odefey (Video Editor at Synthesia) on Ventures to break down how AI video companies can create compelling content without losing the human element. "AI can only do so much. You can only have the puzzle pieces and you actually have to be the person that builds the puzzle together overall." "You go into this like $5 million studio and you're like, wow, this is super cool... Everyone want...

We had Mariam Amed (CTO & Co-founder at Menza) on the show to discuss how AI is transforming data analytics for consumer brands. "We like to say our product is like having someone who works for you who has way too much time on their hands." "A lot of these companies have often very fragmented data... we try to centralise that data, make it structured, clean it up." "I genuinely am so bullish o...

HERE WE GO: We have one mother of a stacked docket today for the showAs cracked as a 1000x engineer12:00: Duarte Garrido & Antonio Alegria - Co-founders, DOJO AI12:30: Brian Da Silva - Head of Social & Influencer, VEED.IO13:00: Alex Revill- Founder, ProblemKit13:30: Kyle Odefey - Video Editor, Synthesia14:00: Mariam Ahmed - Co-founder, Menza14:30: Chris J. Smith - Director, The Gold Studio...

We had Wail Abu Ghazaleh (Co-director at Kickstart Global) on Ventures to break down why UK startup talent remains underserved despite world-class universities. "Students is a big underserved market, especially in Europe - here they're kind of overlooked and people say they don't have experience." "We have the best universities in the world and we should be shooting out comp...

We had Marius Manolachi & Amir Isaac (Founders at projectOS) on Ventures to discuss revolutionising education through project-based learning. "Courses are not the way to go - most startups in edtech had failed because they tackled accessibility, but content is accessible everywhere nowadays." "Everything in the world is constructed by people - it's just not reality, it's...

We had Ben Kaluza (Co-founder at NineSixteen Studios) on Ventures to explore the evolution of content marketing for tech startups. "I make videos that look like ads, so brands pay me to make videos that don't look like ads." "As soon as you put a product or service in there, an ad, it just misaligns with your whole feed and people can sniff it from a mile away." "How c...

We had Harrison Hide (Co-founder at Long Lane) on Ventures to break down his vision for wellness-first hospitality experiences. "I was constantly having to sacrifice my mental and physical wellbeing to satisfy my social wellbeing." "Think Soho Farmhouse, but if wellbeing was at the genesis of the idea." "We see this as they haven't really evolved with what the modern d...

We had Georgia Gibson (Co-founder at TBC) on Ventures to discuss building technology that gets people offline and into real-world experiences. "Social media is really fucking sexy and it's really hard not to live out your social life on a screen right now." "If all AI tools are built to help you save time, we're built to help you spend your time better." "All event attendance is built on social pr...

🎯 On the Docket: 00:00:00 – Intro and News Segment 00:05:02 – Tech News Roundup: Lovable's $200M Series A, OpenAI UK Expansion & AI Infrastructure 00:29:36 – Georgia Gibson, co-founder of Youni, is building technology to get people offline through their campus app that filters events by social connections. An Oxford graduate who avoided social media during her teens, she's pivoting Yo...

We had Leon Sandner (Founder at publyc) on Ventures to break down building AI agents from Taiwan while rejecting Silicon Valley's playbook."The building part is not the moat anymore. The distribution part is the moat.""In San Francisco, no matter where you are, you hear people talking about term sheets and AI models in every corner - you can't escape it." "I'm not a fan of Grok. It's too shady for...

We had Issy Chambury (Founder at BE CONTENT) on Ventures to break down how her year-old agency is beating industry giants at their own game. "We achieved the highest organic reach for a campaign L'Oreal had ever achieved to date - and we're competing against agencies much larger than us." "Everyone is so different, but it is just having an eye for content and understanding w...

We had Andrew Radley and Kieron McCann (Partners at A Few Good People) on Ventures to expose the hidden crisis destroying agency profitability. "What came back from the research was they were buying 'not getting fired' - the downside risk was large enough that important people would get fired." "We increased margins from 62-65% to about 82% by doing exactly the same work but...

We had Tom Charman (Co-founder at blok) on Ventures to reveal how they're predicting human behaviour better than humans predict themselves. "Nine in ten experiments fail, and we can simulate customer behaviour in hours instead of 4-6 weeks." "We identified a vulnerability in code that immediately increased conversion by 15% - worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a month."...

Social media is dead. The future belongs to community-first platforms that actually solve real problems. While Instagram and TikTok optimise for addiction and endless scrolling, a new breed of social apps is building authentic connections that translate into real-world meetups and sustainable businesses. Nicola and Jason, the co-founders of Cliq, have cracked the code on viral growth without spend...

Raffi Salama, CEO and co-founder of Passionfruit, is building the AI operating system for marketing departments while launching their second product focused on combating marketer information overload. A believer in the compound company model inspired by Rippling, he discusses how distribution now equals 50% of business success versus the previous 10%, arguing that taste—knowing what "the blob...

Dan Bolland, (CCO of Nudj), reveals why traditional loyalty programs are dying and how AI will automate purchase decisions, forcing brands to compete for attention in micro-moments. A 25-year financial services veteran turned startup advisor, he explains Nudj's "material between the tentpoles" philosophy—filling engagement gaps with 30-90 second hyper-casual interactions that create...

Yunsu (鄧潤雪) Tang, CEO of Synchro, is building a stakeholder intelligence platform that synchronizes data from policy announcements, news, and social media to generate actionable insights. A two-time founder and TEDx speaker who moved from Hong Kong's growth-obsessed startup culture to London's detail-oriented product focus, she discusses how her background in financial communications at...

Ivan Suhinin, CTO of wcard & malagastartups, has assembled the largest English-speaking tech community in Andalusia with 1,400+ members while organising 110+ events annually. Originally from Belarus with 20 years in IT, he's working with co-founder Dan Marquez to transform Spain's Costa del Sol into a startup hub by connecting Malaga's talent pool with Marbella's capital and go...

They'll watch anything that provides value from the start - whether it's street interviews or Wimbledon mic'd up content. What they won't tolerate is the same boring corporate ads everyone else is making. Erifili, founder and CEO of The Z-Link, operates a global Gen Z-focused agency with 30,000 members across 50+ countries, helping brands from Pepsi to IKEA authentically connect wi...

Rami, co-founder and CEO of Querio, has developed an AI data analytics SaaS that enables teams to query databases without SQL knowledge while pioneering breakthrough strategies in AI Engine Optimization (AEO). Lebanese-born and London-based, he recently gained ChatGPT recommendations for his platform through systematic manipulation of search algorithms, understanding that different AI models prefe...

Becky is part of the talent function @ ElevenLabs, one of the UK's leading frontier AI companies, where she's building world-class teams at the forefront of voice AI innovation. With extensive experience scaling talent functions from Facebook's structured corporate environment to high-growth AI startups. She's passionate about transforming traditional hiring practices through syste...

🎯 On the Docket: 00:00 – Breaking News & Analysis 01:22 – Meta's Billion-Dollar AI Talent Raid and Zuck's Leadership Crucible 06:00 – The Soham Parekh Scandal: Serial Engineer Moonlights for Multiple YC Startups 11:00 – UK Innovation Surge: AI Drives 30% of Venture Capital to Record Highs 13:00 – Wimbledon's AI Controversy and OpenAI's Security Crackdown 28:43 – Yunsu (鄧潤雪)...

Moises Barbera, founder of Drill Surgeries and theoretical physicist, builds "Google Maps for the operating room" solving 80-year-old broken bone surgery problems. Growing up in OR lobbies while his father sold medical equipment, he used ML software & mixed reality for 87% drilling time reduction. He reveals the personal toll of 200+ doctor interviews while sleeping in train stations...

🎯 On the Docket:00:00:00 – Breaking News & Analysis00:02:00 – Lovable's Record $2B Valuation and the AI Coding Revolution00:08:00 – Apple's AI Strategy: Why Claude Might Power Siri00:12:00 – Grammarly Acquires Superhuman in Billion-Dollar Productivity Play00:16:00 – Anthropic's Failed Experiment: Can Claude Run a Business?00:23:00 – UK Policy News: EU Blocks Britain's Trade Bloc Attempts00:38...

Most SaaS products aren't technological marvels. The real moat isn't in the code It's in solving problems well in ways that are hard to replicate. Don't confuse vibe coding with actual engineering. In this episode, we sit down with Rami, co-founder of Querio, for an in-depth exploration of AI-native data analytics, the future of business intelligence, and the surprising journey from Amazon warehou...