Ventures

Carolina Lopez (Caro), technical recruiter at Vercel, explains the complexities of hiring cloud infrastructure engineers for a 650-person company building the future of web development. Based in New York and recruiting globally across SF, NYC, Berlin, London, and Amsterdam, she breaks down Vercel's values-based interview process and the importance of understanding both technical depth and stra...

Kenneth Thomas, principal at Back Future VC and co-host of "The Mergers" podcast, dials in from New York to discuss early-stage B2B SaaS investing and the upcoming SaaStock Dublin conference featuring a £1M winner-take-all pitch competition. Having moved from banking to FinTech to venture capital, he explains his fund's solo GP structure advantages and thesis on founder-market fit, w...

Tim Zaal, Video Lead at VEED transitioning to Corum AI, reveals the "SaaS content mafia" playbook that built Veed Studio to 150K subscribers. In this breaking news segment, he announces his move to a hardware-software AI company focused on home security, bringing his content expertise to a new vertical. He breaks down the difference between YouTube's intentional viewing versus TikTok...

Wenmiao Yu, Cofounder & Director of Business Development at Quantum Dice and host of "Low to Grow" podcast, discusses building quantum random number generation technology as one of five co-founders in this Oxford spinout. With a chemistry background and £2M pre-seed funding, she explains why their DISC (Device Independent Self Certification) protocol is crucial as quantum computing a...

Ash Turner, Influencer Marketing Manager at Synthesia, breaks down the company's creator strategy across LinkedIn's evolving B2B landscape. Having transitioned from LinkedIn's creator development team, he reveals how Synthesia builds long-term partnerships with niche creators rather than one-off campaigns, moving creators through funnel stages while leveraging their "Around the Gl...

TODAY ON VENTURES5 hours of StreamingBringing you the latest on what is happening in the landscape of technology. Jump in the chatFeed us your thoughts & questions - It's LIVE. 12:00: Ash Turner, Influencer Marketing Manager - Synthesia12:30: Wenmiao Yu, Cofounder & Dir. Business Development - Quantum Dice, Host - Low to Grow13:00: David Spickett, Founder & Ceo - TheCarCrowd13:30:...

Chris J Smith, director at Gold Studios, provides creator economy insights as YouTube surpasses traditional TV among under-25s per fresh Ofcom data. Managing talent while expanding into new WeWork office, he discusses format innovations like Bryson DeChambeau's "Break 50" with Adam Sandler, explains taking digital content to live events, and argues brands must develop entertainment channels over t...

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...

Brian Da Silva - Head of Social & Influencer, VEED.IO, has revolutionised tech marketing by building authentic creator relationships and pioneering the "Clip Shop" campaign - a physical activation generating 115K video views and astronomical revenue impact. He's developed a three-pillar social thesis emphasising cut-through over volume and original content over hype-jacking. In the conversatio...

We had Alex on VENTURES, where the founder of Problem Kit and neuroscientist-turned-entrepreneur tackles what he calls the most dangerous trend in modern entrepreneurship: founders solving problems they haven't personally experienced. With background spanning GSK Pharmaceuticals and Zinc VC, he's developed "problem mining" methodology to combat cognitive biases. In the conversation, he reveals res...

We had Duarte and Antonio (Co-founders at Dojo AI) on VENTURES to break down why most marketing technology is broken and how AI can fix the entire function. "Marketers have been held hostage by all of this technology that actually made their jobs much harder, much more overwhelming, and much less effective.""Marketing technology just wasn't fit for Challenger brands—most were enterprise solutions,...

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...