Work in Progress | A start-up.ro podcast

Can investors and founders become friends? What kind of a relationship do they enter once the deal is signed? What do each side of the table expect from the other one? For this episode of the Work in Progress podcast we’ve searched for answers on the dynamics of the founder/investor relationship beyond just a transactional part. Pavlos Pavlakis, a principal for VentureFriends investment fund, gave...

Raya Yunakova is a principal for LAUNCHub, a venture capital firm in Bulgaria. She started working in venture capital after creating her own startup and working for tech corporations such as Microsoft. She feels comfortable in the tech space and one of the reasons might be the fact that this passion for tech comes from her mother, a software developer herself. For the Work in Progress podcast we’v...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution from both outdoor and indoor sources represents the single largest environmental risk to health globally and causes 7 million deaths a year, worldwide. In this context, Romanian born startup Airvolt brings to the market a solution that can cleanse and raise the air quality, at the same time involving businesses, public authorities and...

Matei Dumitrescu is one of the well-known Romanian angel investors and mentors. He is the founder of the acceleration program Commons Accel. For our first green episode of the Work in Progress podcast we’ve discussed at length with Matei about impact investments and founders that want to make the world a better place for all of us to live in. The  Work in Progress podcast  is a Green Start-Up and...

Pete Benedetto is the Head of EMEA for Endeavor Catalyst, the venture capital arm of the Endeavor global network. He was our second guest on the Work in Progress podcast and we learned more about the power of networks and referrals, about how to track unicorns and building businesses on the model of families. Endeavor   is a 26 year-old organization that is leading the global movement to drive lon...

”It's not all party, good times, celebrations, and then ringing the bell at NASDAQ. It's not all that. Most of it is a bit of misery and sadness and impostor syndrome and doubts”, tells us Ondrej Bartos, our first guest for the Work in Progress podcast. Ondrej Bartos is the co-founder and general partner of Czech venture capital firm Credo Ventures, one of the largest VCs active in Central...

We've started thinking about doing a podcast with the relevant actors in entrepreneurship, venture capital and green startup world for a couple of months, gathered some interesting interviews and here we are, ready to release the first episode of our Work in Progress series. We've centered the Work in progress podcast around two major themes, and were going to split the episodes into the Blue podc...