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A.M. Edition for Feb. 2. Earnings reports this week have cast a spotlight on the tech behemoths that continue to leave the rest of the S&P 500 in their dust. Eileen Burbidge, the founder of Passion Capital, explains whether investors can still find upside among the world's most valuable companies. Plus, Intel delays construction of its $20 billion Ohio chip plant. And Barbie-maker Mattel attracts an activist investor eager to shake up the toy company. Luke Vargas hosts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“I think 2024 is a great opportunity to back fantastic people and get more attention on things that are undervalued or don't get enough attention to invest in.”  Described as the ‘Queen of British VC' by Fortune magazine, we are kicking off our new VC feature series with the brilliant Eileen Burbidge MBE. Eileen is a Founding Partner at Passion Capital, the pre-eminent early-stage technology venture fund based in London, where she backed some of the most successful Tech businesses, including Monzo Bank, Marshmallow, and many more. She is currently also Director at Fertifa, the UK and Europe's leading reproductive benefits provider.  Outside of Passion and Fertifa, Eileen has also served as the UK Treasurer's Special Envoy for FinTech for 8 years, was Tech Ambassador for the Mayor of London's office and served on the former UK Prime Minister David Cameron's Business Advisory Group.  Eileen has extensive operational and investment experience, from roles at Tech giants including Yahoo!, Skype and Apple, so there is plenty to dive into in today's episode. Episode Chapters: ➡️ Her proudest moment of backing Monzo Bank [2:11] ➡️ Busting the biggest myths in VC [4:33] ➡️ Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago & her perception of ‘diversity' [7:59] ➡️ Falling in love with Tech and working at Apple [11:33] ➡️ Shazam V Skype: A Tech standoff [15:24] ➡️ Being one of the first employees at Skype & reflections on being fired [17:04] ➡️ Leadership lessons from Niklas Zennström [20:31] ➡️ Journey from Operator to VC [24:00] ➡️ Her early stage investment thesis & focusing on people [27:56] ➡️ Indexing on integrity & trust when assessing Founders [30:59] ➡️ Stepping into interim CEO roles [34:46] ➡️ Why she feels like the board let Tom Blomfield down & succession plans [38:04] ➡️ Stepping back into an executive role at Fertifa [42:26] ➡️ Hiring advice for Founders [47:15] ➡️ Taking a hard look at ourselves to improve DE&I [49:21] ➡️ What to look forward to in 2024 [51:59] ⛳ Helpful links: ➡️ Connect with Eileen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eileenburbidge/  ➡️ Find out more about Passion Capital: https://www.linkedin.com/company/passion-capital/ ➡️ Explore the work of Fertifa: https://www.fertifa.com/ ⭐Enjoyed this episode?⭐️ Keep up to date with all our latest episodes, by hitting the subscribe button on your favourite podcast platform. And for any feedback on what you enjoy the most and ideas on what we can do to make 40 Minute Mentor even better, please leave us a review on https://ratethispodcast.com/40mm

Hedda Båverud Olsson is the co-founder and CEO of Lassie, a pet health app and insurance provider. Lassie has now raised €36.5 million from Balderton Capital, Felix Capital, Inventure, Passion Capital, and Philian. Since Lassie's successful launch in Sweden, over 2.5 years ago, and 60,000 customers later, the company recently launched in Germany. Where to find Hedda Båverud Olsson:• Website: Djurförsäkring – Din digitala djurförsäkring | Lassie• LinkedIn (6) Hedda Båverud Olsson | LinkedInWhere to find Hadi Radwan:• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedInIf you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe and support us on your favorite podcast players. We also would appreciate your feedback and rating to reach more people.We recently launched our new newsletter, Principles Friday, where I share one principle that can help you in your life or business, one thought-provoking question, and one call to action toward that principle. Please subscribe Here.It is Free and Short (2min).

In der Rubrik “Investments & Exits” begrüßen wir heute Mathias Ockenfels, General Partner bei Speedinvest. Mathias bespricht die Finanzierungsrunde von Lassie und Soplaya sowie die Übernahme von Bergfreunde und Adevinta. Lassie, eine App für Haustiergesundheit und Versicherungen, sammelt in einer Series-B-Finanzierungsrunde unter der Leitung von Balderton Capital 23 Millionen Euro ein. Bestehende Investoren wie Felix Capital, Inventure, Passion Capital und Philian (H&M Chair Karl-John Persson) haben sich ebenfalls beteiligt. Die Finanzierung soll dazu genutzt werden, das Team und die Produkte von Lassie zu erweitern, darunter der Verkauf von Gesundheitsprodukten für Haustiere innerhalb der App und die Expansion über die Kernmärkte Deutschland und Schweden hinaus. Die App bietet auch Online-Kurse und präventive Gesundheitsinformationen für Haustiere, belohnt Besitzer mit niedrigeren Prämien und Treuepunkten für den Online-Shop, wenn sie diese Kurse abschließen.Das FoodTech Soplaya aus Mailand konnte sich unter der Leitung von Sinergia Venture Fund (Alkemia Capital) 12,5 Millionen Euro sichern, um die Restaurant-Zulieferindustrie zu revolutionieren. Bestehende Investoren wie P101, Azimut and CDP Venture Capital haben sich ebenfalls beteiligt. Mit einem Fokus auf Transparenz, Effizienz und Nachhaltigkeit in der Lieferkette für Restaurants will das Unternehmen mittels Technologie und Automatisierung gleiche Chancen für unabhängige Restaurants und kleine bis mittelgroße Ketten schaffen. Durch eine umfassende Plattform, die Einkaufsdaten verwaltet, sollen Kosten- und Zeitersparnisse sowie eine bessere Kontrolle über Bestellungen und Lieferungen ermöglicht werden. Soplaya plant, nach Konsolidierung auf dem italienischen Markt in neue Regionen zu expandieren, während sie KI verstärkt einsetzen wollen, um die Betriebsabläufe und die Vorhersage der Nachfrage zu optimieren.Der Mutterkonzern von Kleinanzeigen und Mobile.de, Adevinta, steht kurz vor einer Übernahme durch die Finanzinvestoren Blackstone und Permira. Die beiden Beteiligungsgesellschaften haben ein Übernahmeangebot über 141 Milliarden Norwegische Kronen (ca. 12,1 Milliarden Euro) vorgelegt und halten bereits 72 Prozent der Anteile. Das Angebot liegt acht Prozent über dem Börsenkurs und wurde von Adevinta, Ebay und dem norwegischen Verlagskonzern Schibsted bereits im September bestätigt. Der Aufsichtsrat könnte jedoch das Angebot ablehnen, falls es als zu niedrig eingestuft wird.Decathlon hat Bergfreunde, einen aufstrebenden deutschen Online-Outdoorhändler, von der US-Mutter Backcountry übernommen. Bergfreunde wird als eigenständiges Unternehmen innerhalb von Decathlon agieren, wobei die aktuellen Geschäftsführer an Bord bleiben und das Unternehmen weiterhin profitabel wächst, allerdings langsamer als zuvor. Der Verkauf signalisiert Decathlons Interesse an der Stärkung seines globalen Outdoorportfolios durch die Ergänzung mit einer Premiummarke und zielt auf Wachstum in Europa, insbesondere auf dem deutschen Markt. 

Die Themen im heutigen Versicherungsfunk Update sind: Bundesregierung setzt Aktienrente in den Wartestand Am Montag beschloss die Bundesregierung im schriftlichen Umlaufverfahren einen Nachtragshaushalt für das aktuelle Haushaltsjahr. Im Rahmen dessen wurde auch die ursprünglich vorgesehene Darlehensvergabe von 10 Milliarden Euro an das Generationenkapital gestrichen. Diese Änderung beruhe darauf, dass es noch keine gesetzliche Grundlage für das Generationenkapital gibt, so die Bundesregierung. Laut FDP werde die Aktienrente trotzdem noch umgesetzt. die Bayerische erhöht Überschussbeteiligung Im kommenden Jahr soll die laufende Verzinsung sowohl bei der Bayerischen Beamten Lebensversicherung als auch der operativen Lebensversicherungs-Tochter BL die Bayerische Lebensversicherung von 2,7 auf 3,0 Prozent steigen. Die Gesamtverzinsung bei der BL erreicht demnach bis zu 3,75 Prozent. Sie setzt sich zusammen aus der laufenden Verzinsung von 3,0 Prozent, dem Schlussgewinnanteil von 0,35 bis 0,6 Prozent sowie der Mindestbeteiligung von 0,15 Prozent an den Bewertungsreserven. Die Gesamtverzinsung der Bayerische Beamten Leben wird für auf 3,55 Prozent angehoben. Neben der laufenden Verzinsung ist ein Schlussgewinnanteil von 0,25 Prozent sowie die Mindestbeteiligung an den Bewertungsreserven von 0,3 Prozent enthalten. Betriebliche Krankenversicherung besitzt deutliches Potenzial Derzeit denkt jeder vierte Entscheider in Firmen ohne eine betriebliche Krankenversicherung (bKV) über eine Einführung nach, weitere 13 Prozent haben sich bereits für eine Einführung entschieden. Von Letzteren wollen wiederum 58 Prozent die Einführung bis Ende 2024 abschließen. Andererseits ist 12 Prozent der Unternehmer ohne bKV ein solches Angebot als Mitarbeiter-Benefit noch völlig unbekannt, was durch verstärkte Information und Ansprache zusätzliches Potenzial birgt. Das geht aus einer Yougov-Umfrage im Auftrag der Arag hervor. Bundesregierung will Grundfreibetrag und Kinderfreibetrag stärker anheben Die Bundesregierung plant den steuerlichen Grundfreibetrag und Kinderfreibetrag für das Jahr 2024 stärker anzuheben als es ursprünglich vorgesehen war. Darauf habe sich die Bundesregierung intern verständigt. Darüber berichtet das "Handelsblatt" und beruft sich auf Regierungs- und Koalitionskreise. Demnach solle der Grundfreibetrag von 10.908 auf 11.784 Euro steigen. Der Kinderfreibetrag solle von 6.024 auf 6.612 Euro angehoben werden. Im Inflationsausgleichsgesetz waren für den Steuergrund- und Kinderfreibetrag noch Anpassung auf 11.604 Euro sowie 6384 Euro vorgesehen. HDI erweitert das Vorstandsteam Jens Köwing (46) übernimmt das neu geschaffene IT-Ressort im Vorstand der HDI Deutschland AG und wird für IT-Grundsatzfragen und die übergreifende Anwendungsentwicklung verantwortlich sein. Sein bisheriges Mandat als IT-Vorstand der HDI AG für das Ressort Querschnitt & Service Operation führt er bis auf weiteres fort. Insurtech sammelt 23 Millionen Euro ein Das Insurtech Lassie hat in einer Series B-Runde 23 Millionen Euro eingesammelt. Das schwedische Unternehmen bietet eine Haustierversicherung an, die auf Prävention setzt. Der Risikokapitalgeber Balderton Capital fungierte dabei als Lead Investor, Bestandsinvestoren, wie Felix Capital, Inventure, Passion Capital und Philian (H&M Chair Karl-John Persson) haben sich ebenfalls beteiligt.

In der Mittagsfolge sprechen wir heute mit Christoph Hohenberger, Co-CEO und Co-Founder von Retorio, über die erfolgreich abgeschlossene Series-A-Finanzierungsrunde in Höhe von 9 Millionen Euro.Retorio hat ein videobasiertes KI-Coaching entwickelt. Dieses verbindet künstliche Intelligenz mit Erkenntnissen aus der modernen Verhaltensforschung. Die Technologie erkennt Erfolgsmuster und hilft Unternehmen dabei, die Leistung ihrer Mitarbeitenden skalierbar und kosteneffizient zu steigern. Das Kernelement ist der KI-Coach, mit dem Angestellte herausfordernde und realitätsnahe Gesprächssituationen in einem virtuellen Raum nachhaltig trainieren können. 5 der 10 umsatzstärksten DAX-Unternehmen setzen Retorio bereits ein, um die Fähigkeiten ihrer Mitarbeitenden effektiv, skalierbar und kosteneffizient zu steigern, indem die proprietäre Behavioral Intelligence die erfolgreichen Verhaltensweisen von Vertriebs-, Service- und Führungspersonal per Videoanalyse erkennt und trainiert. Neben den deutschen Großkonzernen zählen auch amerikanische, britische oder asiatische Unternehmen zu den Kunden des KI-Startups. Darunter zählen führende Automobil-, Versicherungs-, Telekommunikations- und Logistikkonzerne. Der KI-Coach lässt sich nahtlos und bedarfsgerecht in den Workflow der Mitarbeitenden integrieren. Dazu löst zum Beispiel ein CRM-System eine virtuelle Trainingseinheit aus, in der sich Vertriebsmitarbeitende zielgerichtet auf ein Kundengespräch am nächsten Tag vorbereiten können. Retorio wurde im Jahr 2018 als Spin-off der TU München von Abdurrahman Namli, Christoph Hohenberger und Patrick Oehler gegründet. Ursprünglich ist das Startup als KI-Recruiting-Plattform in den Markt eingetreten.Nun hat die Münchner KI-Schmiede in einer Series A 9 Millionen Euro unter der Führung von Square One eingesammelt. Zu den weiteren Kapitalgebern zählen  Porsche Ventures, Storm Ventures sowie die Bestandsinvestoren, wie u.a. Basinghall Partners, Passion Capital, Sofia Angels Ventures und die Family-Offices mehrerer DAX-Vorstände und Unternehmenden. Mit dem frischen Kapital möchte das Startup seine KI-Lösung weiterentwickeln, um in noch mehr Unternehmen Transformationsprozesse voranzutreiben und möglichst vielen Menschen Zugang zu individualisierter Weiterbildung zu ermöglichen.

Eileen Burbidge, partner at Passion Capital, discusses the lessons she learned working in Silicon Valley before and during the dot-com crash, explains how luck plays a big role in success, examines the differences between the UK and US tech sectors, and shares how reproductive health support is the new frontier for employee benefits.   Burbidge, a British-American venture capitalist, moved to London from Silicon Valley in 2004. During her early career, Burbidge held roles at Apple, Sun Microsystems and Skype. She is a founding partner of Passion Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm that has invested in 96 startup since 2011, including Monzo, Go Cardless and Tide. Burbidge is also the director of Fertifa, a reproductive healthcare startup. In 2015, Burbidge received an MBE for services to entrepreneurship. 

We're back with another longer form interview and this week we're joined by Eileen Burbidge, cofounder of London-based, early-stage VC firm Passion Capital and director at reproductive healthcare company Fertifa. She came into the studio to reflect on the differences between Silicon Valley and London, her time at Monzo and how she wants to fix reproductive healthcare in Europe.

Our guest this week is Eileen Burbidge, Partner @ Passion Capital and Director @ FertifaEileen has worked for some of the biggest tech companies in the world such as Skype, Apple and Yahoo. She founded venture firm Passion Capital in 2011 and has backed incredible companies such as Tide, Monzo, Tray.io and others from pre-seed stage. Eileen joins James Pringle and Hector Mason to discuss what it's like being an interim CEO, the excitement of investing, the importance of quick decisions & so much more.Don't forget to like, subscribe and follow The Riding Unicorns Podcast on our socials and your chosen podcast platform to stay up to date!

An excerpt from out 30th November episode with Eileen Burbidge Listen fo the full conversation hereEileen is a founding partner at Passion Capital, having had an impressive early career in Silicon Valley at Apple, Yahoo, Sun Microsystems and Skype. She was also awarded an MBE for services to entrepreneurship in 2015.

Episode 18: From an impressive early career in Silicon Valley through Apple, Yahoo and Skype to founding partner at Passion Capital, this weeks' guest Eileen Burbidge has experienced an incredible journey in tech. In this conversation with Jay and Rupy, Eileen shares her secrets on becoming a successful venture capitalist, whilst staying a decent, humble and kind person. They also have a laugh at a few stories from her past.03:00 Early days in Silicon Valley04:46 Thoughts on Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison & Elon Musk09:29 Starting out investing15:26 Jay receiving venture funding he didn't want17:56 Treating all founders equally20:49 Managing family and business time26:20 Fertifa and other new venturesLinks:Passion Capital's website: https://www.passioncapital.com/Fertifa's website: https://www.fertifa.comEileen's Twitter: https://twitter.com/eileentsoPrevious guests include: Reece Chowdhry & Poppy JamieDownload Jay's free E-book: 5 Crucial Lessons From Building Startups Worth $500mFollow Jay: TwitterFollow Rupy: TwitterThis podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions

Eileen Burbidge is the founding partner of Passion Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund  that has backed FinTech giants including the likes of Monzo, Tide and GoCardless among  others. As part of Mana Search's event presenting their State of Diversity report, Eileen joins  Lloyd to walk through the homogeneity and inequality within the current Tech and Venture  Capital industries. From the intrinsic gendering of children's toys, to how to build a team, to the astronomic rise but also war stories with Monzo, and even to fashion trends within VC, this episode has it all. 00:00 - An Introduction to Eileen & to Mana Search's Diversity Report 1:43 - Marquee investments made by Eileen 4:23 - How to build a diverse team 5:35 - What more recent trends are we seeing within diversity 9:20 - Heroes and role models for young people 13:38 - Monzo and Startup CEOs vs Bank Executives 16:39 - Regulatory scrutiny whilst maintaining creativity 18:20 - Eileen's background 20:15 - Eileen's Mana 22:41 - Influences on Eileen's career 25:38 - Sexist Cultures and historic workplace misogyny 27:40 - Gendered children's clothes & ingrained societal sexism 32:53 - Diversity within Crypto & Blockchain 37:15 - Clothing trends and homogeneity within VC 40:55 - Eileen's heroes and dream guest

As it's International Women's Day, I wanted to do something a little different and hand the episode over to some of the amazing women I have had on the show and I will link to each of their original episodes in the notes below.Today, we have Shellye Archambeau, Rana el Kaliouby, Sherrell Dorsey, Soraya Darabi, Eileen Burbidge, Yodit Stanton, Donna Auguste, Megan Smith and Dr Catherine Breslin and what follows is the one piece of advice they'd offer their younger selves.First up is Dr Catherine Breslin - an AI and Machine Learning Scientist who managed the Cambridge-based AI Alexa team that, among other things, worked on technology that enabled the automatic speech recognition and natural language understanding behind Amazon's Alexa. Full episode here.The next guest is Donna Auguste from episode 16. Donna was the first African-American to enter the PhD program at Carnegie Mellon researching AI before she went on to lead the Newton engineering team at Apple. She then cofounded and sold her own software business for $147 million. In this clip, Donna offers some advice to a Donna in her twenties. Full episode here.Then there is Eileen Burbidge from episode 20 – Eileen is an esteemed early-stage VC, co-founder and Partner at Passion Capital and was awarded an MBE from the Queen in 2015 for services to business. Eileen also was an advisor to both our Prime Minister and London Mayor. In this clip, Eileen revisits the traits instilled in her from a young age. Full episode here.Next up is Megan Smith – an award-winning entrepreneur, engineer, and tech evangelist who has been at the forefront of pioneering tech for all of her career from General Magic, Google, and as CTO to President Obama. She is currently founder and CEO of Shift7. In episode 13 Megan talks about learning from history and how we can change the structures to allow for a more inclusive and equal world. Full episode here.And then there is Rana el Kaliouby co-founder and CEO of Affectiva - a software company which builds AI to understand human emotions and cognitive states by analyzing facial and vocal expressions. The company was spun out of the MIT Media Lab and was recently sold for over $70 million. In episode 10, Rana and I discuss how to deal with doubt and the importance of believing in yourself as a founder. Full episode here. Buy Rana's book Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology here.Next up is Shellye Archambeau from episode 4. Shelly's career includes a Silicon Valley CEO, Fortune 500 Board Member, Advisor and Author. She was one of Silicon Valley's first African American female CEO's and pioneered a path in tech for others to follow. In this clip, she shares some great advice on how to put yourself first. Full episode here. Buy Shellye's book, Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms here.Then there is Sherrell Dorsey from episode 31. Sherrell is founder and CEO of The Plug – an online news and insights platform covering black tech founders, companies and ecosystems and in this clip, she tells her younger self to relax a little and not be so focused on climbing that ladder we all find ourselves on. Full episode here. Buy Sherrell's book, Upper Hand: The Future of Work for The Rest of Us here.Next up is Soraya Darabi –entrepreneur and investor. Soraya is co-founder and General Partner at TMV – a venture fund which focuses on investing in purposeful startups reimagining the future. And in episode 26, she shared her startup journey before becoming an investor and how having a chip on your shoulder isn't always a bad thing as a founder. Full episode here.And the final clip is from Yodit Stanton – co-founder and CEO of OpenSensors which is a technology company that provides advanced data-based solutions for workplace optimisation. In this final clip from episode 24, Yodit summarises what I have heard a lot of successful founders say which is the importance of savouring the moment in the crazy, wild ride, of your startup journey. Too many of us are rushing to get to the finish line, wherever that is, without really taking in what we have achieved and why it's important. A great lesson for us all really. Full episode here. Finally, I wanted to leave you with a quote from Admiral Grace Hopper, a pioneer in computer programming as well as United States Navy admiral – it's an amended version of a quote by John A Shedd in his 1928 book, Salt from My Attic.Hopper's version reads, “A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for.”I think it sums up the entrepreneurial spirit so well. Founders refuse to stay in their comfort zones – they go out and they build, despite the barriers and despite the naysayers and that's why they inspire me so.Happy International Women's Day!This special episode was hosted by me Danielle Twitter / Instagram / Newsletter  and edited by my long-time editor and project collaborator Jolin Cheng.  

To end Series 3, my guest today is Yodit Stanton, co-founder and CEO of OpenSensors which is a technology company that provides advanced data-based solutions for workplace optimisation. It essentially uses internet of things data points to learn how your office building is being utilised and how that usage could be better optimised - something which is especially useful in the time of Covid where workplaces are doing their best to keep their staff safe.In this interview, Yodit and I talk about her background and growing up on a cargo ship, what it was like to be at Lehman Brothers when it collapsed, how she became excited about big data, and how her daughter's asthma led to the birth of OpenSensors.Yodit is an Ethiopian founder who spends her work days helping businesses to optimise their space for health and wealth whilst a chunk of her time at the weekend is spent dedicated to helping black and brown founders with their startups.I couldn't think of a more inspiring woman to close Series 3.As it is the end of the series, I would like to thank my incredible guests - Alvy Ray Smith of Pixar, John Couch of Apple, Guy Kawasaki, Eileen Burbidge of Passion Capital, Nicolas Cary of Blockchain.com, serial entrepreneur Clarence Wooten, historian of Innovation Dr Anton Howes, and of course, the fantastic Yodit Stanton.I will be taking a short break before I return in the new year with a whole new series of incredibly inspiring guests.In the meantime, you can revisit some of the previous 24 episodes and let me know which are your favourites. I can be found on Twitter @daniellenewnham.Until then, have a wonderful remainder of the year and I look forward to sharing 2022 with you.-----As it's the end of the first year of this podcast,  please do let me know what you think of it and what you want to hear more of in 2022 by reviewing the podcast - it also means the world to me and will help others to find it too.-----Yodit on Twitter @yoditstanton and LinkedIn Yodit Stantonhttps://www.opensensors.com/Danielle on Twitter @daniellenewnham and  Instagram @daniellenewnham-----This episode was hosted by me - Danielle Newnham, a recovering founder, author and writer who has been interviewing tech founders and innovators for ten years - and produced by Jolin Cheng.  

In episode 19 of PEP Talk, Simon interviews Jack Tang. Jack is the co-founder and CEO of Urban (formerly known as Urban Massage), the on-demand app on a mission to empower people through wellness. Founded in 2014, it is now the leading at-home massage, fitness and wellness platform. They have built a network of over 2,500 wellness professionals offering at-home massage, physiotherapy, osteopathy and beauty treatments. What started as a way to book wellness online become much more. Jack and co-founder Giles Williams discovered an industry that was broken: practitioners typically took home only 20% of booking revenue and worked long hours to make ends meet. Meanwhile, customers had little other than a salon's reputation to go off of before making a booking with a specific practitioner. Since then, the duo envisioned a platform that would benefit practitioners and customers alike. On Urban, practitioners take home 72% of bookings. And customers are able to choose between trusted, pre-vetted practitioners, thanks to detailed profiles with personal bios, ratings and reviews. To date, Urban has enabled the delivery of 300,000+ treatments generating economic value of more than £25M. Urban currently operates in London, Paris, Birmingham and Manchester, and is backed by London's leading VC funds including Felix Capital, Passion Capital and LCIF. Jack is a Forbes 30 under 30 honouree and co-founded Urban in 2014 following the successful sale of his first start-up which became the UK's largest student job portal.

I'm joined by legendary investor and Forbes acclaimed, "Queen of UK VC", Eileen Burbidge. Eileen is a Partner at Passion Capital, the legendary early-stage tech venture fund with the likes of Monzo, Tide, Nested, Butternut Box & Marshmallow under their belts and is actually a Board Director with Monzo as well as being super involved with a lot of the other portfolio companies too. Eileen started her career in Silicon Valley, working for the likes of Apple, Yahoo!, and Sun Microsystems. In 2004 she moved to London to become one of Skype's earliest employees. In 2011, Eileen became founding partner of Passion. She is also a member of the board of Dixons Carphone, and awarded an MBE in 2015 for services to Business. We listened to the pitch from Amber Perng, founder of Salmo - looking to digitise, speed up and make cheaper the visa application process, of which there are 1.5m a year in the UK. Based on her own experience having to get a visa after studying in the UK, Amber realised lawyers were charging £4K to fill out forms on your behalf and not much else...it could be better. We really dug on the tech importance of a business such as this, the genuine TAM, reaching that target market, the potential to sell more products to the visa customers and whether they are the team to execute. It also brought up an interesting parallel between Eileen (VC) and my (Angel) take on the investment prospects. Brought to you by my Startup Playground, Horseplay Ventures - https://horseplay.ventures/ Salmo - https://www.salmo.uk/ Playfair Capital - https://www.passioncapital.com/

Today we have one of the pioneers of the European tech ecosystem on to discuss how the European early-stage VC landscape has changed since its early days – and how their fund, Passion Capital, has unlocked access to investors with their latest fundraise.Eileen Burbidge, a Founding Partner of Passion Capital, and I had a fascinating conversation about all things VC, opening up access to the asset class to individual investors, what it means for the future of venture capital, and Eileen's love of Arsenal and why she's not a fan of the European Super League.Eileen has built a reputation as the go-to VC for seed stage companies in the UK and Europe – and for good reason.Her aptly named fund, Passion Capital, has built a name for itself as one of the top early-stage funds in the UK because of her passion for rolling up her sleeves, much like she did in her days as an operator at Skype, Apple, Yahoo!, and Sun Microsystems.I won't forget when we met last year at her office – she had just stepped out of non-stop meetings with one of her growth-stage companies, where she was helping them figure out team and talent questions.Not every seed stage VC has the ability to stay involved as their companies grow nor does this type of work, but that's what separates Passion from the pack.Eileen is just as much at home in her office, which doubles as a co-working space for Passion portfolio companies, as she is in 10 Downing Street, where she has been named the UK Treasury's Special Envoy for FinTech, has been appointed by the Chancellor as the Chair of Tech Nation, and was awarded an MBE in the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honors for her services to businesses.So maybe it's no surprise why she's been described as “The Queen of British VCs” by Fortune Magazine.She's certainly backed many of the British startup royalty at early-stage, being a Seed investor in Monzo Bank, where she still serves on the board, Tide Bank, GoCardless, Digital Shadows, Marshmallow, Butternut Box, and a number of others.Eileen has also had an illustrious career as an operator, working for Apple, Yahoo, and Sun Microsystems in the early days of the internet before moving to London in 2004 to become one of Skype's earliest employees and Head of Product. She then founded Passion in 2011 as one of the first Seed funds in London, serving a critical market need for the entrepreneurial ecosystem in London. She's now trailblazing once again by being one of the first funds to open up their LP base to the crowd, where they have partnered with Seedrs to allow individuals to invest into Passion's latest fund.She's also an independent non-executive board director at Dixons Carphone, a 10B pound revenue electrical and telecoms retailer and on the Transformation & Innovation Advisory Board at UniCredit.Thanks Eileen for being a pioneer in the European VC ecosystem and bringing innovative structures in venture capital to LPs.I hope you enjoy.

Finimize is building the world's largest and most engaged finance community, with over one million subscribers across their app. Max Rofagha, its co-founder and CEO sits down with Stefan Ciecierski to outline how they help casual investors become smarter investors through bitesize content and engaged community.In this chat, Max tells us why neo-brokers democratising access to the stock market has opened a major opportunity to empower retail investors with new forms of information, and how Finimize is helping retail investors make informed investment decisions. Plus, he lays out how he attracts talent from top tier investment banks to work at Finimize full-time, and why it’s important that Finimize content is written by ex-Goldman Sachs or Fidelity analysts.Follow Mana Search on TwitterFollow Mana Search on LinkedInEpisode Highlights02:15: Empowering retail investors to make informed investment decisions11:00: Max’s journey as an entrepreneur14:30: The power of snowball effect and serendipity leading to Passion Capital’s investment18:55: Lessons from being a founder21:40: Why company culture and priorities matter?27:45: Creating premium content from ex-Goldman Sachs or Fidelity analysts42:13: New opportunities on the market43:58: Max’s Mana

Fronted, the new London-based startup aiming to make life easier for renters, including lending the cash needed for a deposit, has picked up seed investment from Passion Capital. The investment showed up in a recent regulatory filing for the company. The exact cheque size isn't yet disclosed, but what we do know is that Passion […]

Eileen Burbidge is a Partner at Passion Capital, the pre-eminent early-stage technology venture fund based in London. She brings extensive operational experience to her investment activities gleaned from business and product roles at Yahoo!, Skype, Apple and elsewhere. On behalf of Passion, Eileen has served as non-executive director on a number of fast growing SMEs including Monzo Bank, Digital Shadows, Tide, Butternut Box, Prowler.io and Focal Point Positioning, among others.  In addition to Passion Capital, Eileen was until 2020 the Chair of Tech City UK, which is the British government-backed organisation supporting the digital economy across the UK. She is also the UK Treasury’s Special Envoy for FinTech appointed by the Chancellor; Tech Ambassador for the Mayor of London’s office and served on former UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s Business Advisory Group. 

Ginmon provides automated and personal online wealth management We build a platform, that totally automizes the wealth management process. Lars Reiner, CEO and Founder of Ginmon The founderJoe from Startuprad.io talks to Lars (https://www.linkedin.com/in/larsreiner/), the CEO and Founder of the Frankfurt-based rob advisor Ginmon (https://www.ginmon.de/en/). Lars started out as a management consultant inside of Deutsche Bank, in their unit called in-house-consulting, focusing on their retail business. Our clients are wealthy, but not wealthy enough to qualify for traditional wealth management. Lars Reiner, CEO and Founder of Ginmon PatreonYou can now support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=35246148 if you like what you see and hear consider to support us, so we can keep bringing you great content. There was no one at my company interested in what is today robo advisors, so I started my own and do not regret it until this day. Lars Reiner, CEO and Founder of Ginmon Affiliate LinksIs your startup in need of a bank account in Germany? Try our partner affiliate Penta http://bit.ly/3bdHX3dLooking to open a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Try our partner Bitwala with this affiliate link here http://bit.ly/2w01Zye The StartupGinmon (https://www.ginmon.de/en/, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ginmon-gmbh) is a Robo Advisor, catering to the mass affluent. They are wealthy enough to have money to invest, but in Germany, the normal threshold to enter the wealth management services of large banks is 2 million Euros, and they do not qualify yet. Ginmon wants to be the online financial advisor for this clientele. Therefore, they became fully licensed as a wealth manager in 2017, by German financial services oversight body BaFin. They now have an investment volume of more than 100 mn Euros for approx. 5.000 clients, according to their website. According to Lars, they have approx. 15% of the share of wallet of their clients, which they aim to increase. After our business model has been proven with a couple of hundred customers on our platform, we raised our first funding with Passion Capital from London, known for their investments e.g. in Monzo Lars Reiner, CEO and Founder of Ginmon Video Interview (available on June 11th 19.00 Frankfurt, 1 pm New York, 18.00 London) The Audio Podcast will go live on June 16thThe Audio Podcast will be published next week. Subscribe to our podcasts here Six Million Venture Capital FinancingGinmon published (at the day of the recording) a Series A funding worth 6 mn Euros, including old investors and a new investor from Russia. During the interview, we talk about what the new investor did right https://www.ginmon.de/presse/robo-advisor-ginmon-schliesst-weitere-finanzierungsrunde-ab/ Further Readings / Additional ResourcesRobo Advisor Talk (hosted by Joe, in German from October 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akCaXmFfgMQETF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange-traded_fundStock Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market_indexModern Portfolio Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_portfolio_theoryGerman Government Retirement System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensions_in_Germany In Germany we still have a lot of commission based financial advice. Lars Reiner, CEO and Founder of Ginmon Feedback Reach out to us, here is our audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA

Ginmon provides automated and personal online wealth management We build a platform, that totally automizes the wealth management process. Lars Reiner, CEO and Founder of Ginmon The founderJoe from Startuprad.io talks to Lars (https://www.linkedin.com/in/larsreiner/), the CEO and Founder of the Frankfurt-based rob advisor Ginmon (https://www.ginmon.de/en/). Lars started out as a management consultant inside of Deutsche Bank, in their unit called in-house-consulting, focusing on their retail business. Our clients are wealthy, but not wealthy enough to qualify for traditional wealth management. Lars Reiner, CEO and Founder of Ginmon PatreonYou can now support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=35246148 if you like what you see and hear consider to support us, so we can keep bringing you great content. There was no one at my company interested in what is today robo advisors, so I started my own and do not regret it until this day. Lars Reiner, CEO and Founder of Ginmon Affiliate LinksIs your startup in need of a bank account in Germany? Try our partner affiliate Penta http://bit.ly/3bdHX3dLooking to open a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Try our partner Bitwala with this affiliate link here http://bit.ly/2w01Zye The StartupGinmon (https://www.ginmon.de/en/, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ginmon-gmbh) is a Robo Advisor, catering to the mass affluent. They are wealthy enough to have money to invest, but in Germany, the normal threshold to enter the wealth management services of large banks is 2 million Euros, and they do not qualify yet. Ginmon wants to be the online financial advisor for this clientele. Therefore, they became fully licensed as a wealth manager in 2017, by German financial services oversight body BaFin. They now have an investment volume of more than 100 mn Euros for approx. 5.000 clients, according to their website. According to Lars, they have approx. 15% of the share of wallet of their clients, which they aim to increase. After our business model has been proven with a couple of hundred customers on our platform, we raised our first funding with Passion Capital from London, known for their investments e.g. in Monzo Lars Reiner, CEO and Founder of Ginmon Video Interview (available on June 11th 19.00 Frankfurt, 1 pm New York, 18.00 London) The Audio Podcast will go live on June 16thThe Audio Podcast will be published next week. Subscribe to our podcasts here Six Million Venture Capital FinancingGinmon published (at the day of the recording) a Series A funding worth 6 mn Euros, including old investors and a new investor from Russia. During the interview, we talk about what the new investor did right https://www.ginmon.de/presse/robo-advisor-ginmon-schliesst-weitere-finanzierungsrunde-ab/ Further Readings / Additional ResourcesRobo Advisor Talk (hosted by Joe, in German from October 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akCaXmFfgMQETF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange-traded_fundStock Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market_indexModern Portfolio Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_portfolio_theoryGerman Government Retirement System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensions_in_Germany In Germany we still have a lot of commission based financial advice. Lars Reiner, CEO and Founder of Ginmon Feedback Reach out to us, here is our audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA Folge direkt herunterladen

Paul Alofs is an award-winning innovator and author of Passion Capital, pulling from his experiences leading companies such as the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation, The Disney Stores, BMG Music and HMV Canada. Follow Paul on:Twitter - @AlofsInstagram - @paulalofs Follow me on:Twitter - @thatwindsorshowInstagram - @bordercitynetworkFacebook - Straight Outta Windsor  This episode is powered by The Vanguard Team at Manor Real Estate - visit them at thevanguardteam.com 

This mini-podcast was recorded in front of a live audience during the Barclays New Frontiers conference, so there is a lot of background noise, and the sound quality is not always great. In this special mini-podcast, Andy chats with Eileen Burbidge MBE,  Founding partner of Passion Capital. In a fascinating chat, Eileen talks about how she got into FinTech, gives her views on London overtaking New York in FinTech funding, is Brexit impacting FinTech funding in the UK, and her highlight of the year so far - maybe. If you’ve enjoyed this podcast, subscribe to our Rise FinTech Podcast channel via your favourite podcast app, and be the first to know about new episodes.  

Let's talk about the business of wellness…   Jack Tang is the Co-Founder & CEO of Urban (formerly known as Urban Massage). An app on a mission to empower people through wellness.    Founded in 2014. Jack and his team have built a network of 2500 wellness professionals, offering at home massage physiotherapy, osteopathy, beauty treatments and very soon personal training too. To date Urban has enabled the delivery of more than 300,000 treatments, generating an economic value of £25 million+. Urban currently operates in London, Paris, Birmingham, Manchester, and is backed by leading VC funds Felix Capital, Passion Capital, and LCIF.    In this episode, Jack shares why his greatest learning at school was dropping out to launch his first business, why they chose to launch Urban at a time when wellness as an industry was still very unknown, and why building trust is integral to the business. Jack also dives into the mindset behind building a successful brand, why there is “no worse failure than not actually trying”, and how three questions keep him on the rollercoaster ride of entrepreneurship: ‘Am I still enjoying it? Am I still learning? Do I still have the same intent and purpose (to make a positive impact?'   Do you want to stay ahead of the trends driving the growth of the $4.5 trillion wellness industry? Subscribe to this podcast and receive 10% off all Welltodo Trends Reports. Use code: PODCAST10   Thank you to our sponsors: The go-to legal firm supporting the wellness industry Bird & Bird. Software booking experts, MINDBODY. Creative agency for all your wellness business needs, Skipper & Skipper.   To find out how Welltodo can help you grow your business and support your career objectives, head to welltodoglobal.com today.

Eileen Burbidge, partner at early-stage venture capital firm Passion Capital – which has invested in many UK fintech startups including GoCardless and Monzo – talks about balancing work and family life, men failing up, and diversity as a profit-driver. See the full interview on Yahoo Finance UK: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/live/changeagents/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Open Banking, Fintech Innovation, Brexit and The Regulatory Landscape in Britain   Rt Hon George Osborne CH   Moderator: Eileen Burbidge , Passion Capital

First rule of talking to VC’s — Show metrics that support the story you’re telling. We talked with two of the most successful VC firms in Spain — this is what they think of the future. They’ll share what kind of metrics they look at for startups, and how they got started as VC’s. How they raised funding for their own funds, and how startups raise funding from them. They’ll talk about what kind of verticals they like, and they’ll also mention what other investors they think are good. Names like Nine Point Capital from Berlin get mentioned alongside Passion Capital and Notion Capital both from London. Video: youtu.be/uzVtPOggjvU

Hiroki Takeuchi is the Founder and CEO of GoCardless, a London-based fintech that simplifies recurring payment collection for businesses.   GoCardless has raised $47m to date and is backed by the likes of Balderton, Accel Partners, Passion Capital and Notion Capital. Hiroki and his co-founders, including Tom Blomfield, now of Monzo, who joined us on the podcast way back in episode 17, went through Y Combinator in early on and have some interesting stories about that experience.   Today's conversation covers a number of topics, some of which are quite challenging. I'd highly encourage you to listen through to the end. Hiroki is an exceptional entrepreneur with a powerful story.   Check out the show notes at www.bankingthefuture.com for links to the articles mentioned in today's conversation.   If you enjoy today's episode, please subscribe on iTunes, or your podcast platform of choice.   Thank you very much for joining us today. Please welcome Hiroki Takeuchi.

Shirin Dehghan was the Founder CEO at Arieso and is currently Chairwoman at OpenSignal. Arieso provided subscriber experience geo-location and network optimization solutions for wireless operators and service providers. Funded by Qualcomm Ventures and Oxford Capital Partners, Arieso expanded across EMEA, Asia Pacific and The Americas before being acquired by JDSU for $85m in 2013. Shirin now Chairs the board at OpenSignal, Funded by Passion Capital, O'Reilly AlphaTech and Qualcomm Ventures. OpenSignal crowd-source data on the performance and coverage of wireless networks around the world and use that data to produce independent and unbiased coverage maps for any network around the world.  Since launch, their mobile app has been downloaded over 20 million times and billions of data points have been collected in over 200 countries. In this week's episode we're focusing on the importance of sales and marketing for technical founders and the challenges of international expansion for startups and scaleups. You will learn: The lesson that all technical founders must learn – sometimes the hard way - about the importance of creating a strong sales and marketing machine About a blueprint for international expansion for enterprise software ventures How Shirin resurrected her start-up from “near death” to achieve a 6x exit just a few years later About the need to treat VCs like customers when you're approaching them for funding For more insights into OpenSignal check out https://opensignal.com and for advice on successfully scaling your software venture head over to http://alpinasearch.com

GeekGirl Loves Eileen. We just HAD to interview her, and we just HAD to make it a live recording. Thanks to our pals at Stripe's London HQ we hosted a live GeekGirlMeets for the first time ever - and Eileen Burbidge, a woman of many titles and talents, was our wonderful woman in tech for the occasion. Amazing advice and insight in this podcast. From Eileen's views on work-life balance, her career moving from engineering side to VC and her work with the UK government, we cover a lot in this interview, with loads of advice to you! Enjoy! Eileen Burbidge (@eileentso) is a Partner at Passion Capital, the pre-eminent early-stage VC fund based in London. She brings extensive operational experience to her investment activities gleaned from business and product roles at Yahoo!, Skype, Apple and elsewhere. In addition to Passion Capital, Eileen is also Chair of Tech City UK, the government-backed organisation supporting digital business across Britain. She also serves on the Prime Minister David Cameron’s Business Advisory Group; as HM Treasury’s Special Envoy for FinTech, appointed by the Chancellor George Osborne; and Tech Ambassador for the Mayor of London Boris Johnson. She was made an MBE for services to Business in June 2015 and holds a BSc Engineering degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

We've got a great episode today with Tom Blomfield (@t_blom), co-founder and CEO of Monzo (@monzo), a new, digital-only challenger bank in the UK.   Monzo is seeking to fundamentally change the way banking is done and challenge a lot of assumptions about the way people want to interact with their money.   Tom is a serial entrepreneur, he founded an e-commerce platform for students called boso.com while he was in college and later launched GoCardless, a B2B payments company that raised funding from the likes of Accel, Balderton and Passion Capital and went through Y Combinator in 2011.   In 2013, Tom and his GoCardless (@GoCardless) co-founders were named among the top 5 entrepreneurs by the European Commission. Tom got involved in the digital, challenger bank space in the UK relatively early, at the bank now known as Starling before moving on to found Monzo which plans to launch in early 2017.   Monzo has generated a phenomenal following and has a live beta with thousands of active users and an extremely long waiting list.   As a special treat for Rebank listeners and a profound thank you for your support through our first 17 episodes, Tom is offering up a Monzo card giving immediate access to the highly sought after beta for one lucky listener.   To participate, send an email with your name and the title of your favorite Rebank episode so far to rebank@bankingthefuture.com. We'll draw a winner at 5pm GMT on Friday, December 9th, so get your submissions in.   As always, connect with us on Twitter @rebankpodcast or with Will directly @will_beeson.    If you like the show, subscribe on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or one of the numerous other platforms where we're distributed.   Thanks, and enjoy today's episode with Tom Blomfield.

This week we have a super-clear dive into Fintech Payments companies with Hiroki Takeuchi CEO and co-founder of GoCardless.  GoCardless, founded in 2011, are experts in recurring payments (where they process over $1bn per annum (via the direct debit "pipes"). Their clients range from gyms and scout groups include the UK Government, Tripadvisor, Virgin, the Financial Times and Funding Circle – so clearly they have had their tires kicked and found rock-solid by some high profile names. They are backed by some very blue-chip VCs including Balderton Capital, Accel partners, Passion Capital and Y combinatory.  Their Series A in 2013 raised just over $3m, Series B $7m in January '14 & a large Series C is rumoured to be in the works. Their nice, simple strapline is “GoCardless is the quickest and easiest way to take one-off and recurring payments online”. They currently take payments from bank accounts in the UK, Sweden and the Eurozone. Topics discussed on the show include: - running businesses and getting married - Hiroki's journey; especially around entrepreneurship; Silicon valley, Y Combinator - where the entrepreneurial meme in young folks life comes from - from next to non-existent at Oxbridge 305yrs ago to having entrepreneurial societies there these days - the importance of cultural context be it films or communities online in promoting entrepreneurialism - "a lot more awareness of what's possible" - Hiroki's main lesson from his time in the US - the advantage of US culture in this context - Payments divide into three main mechanisms in any given country (some have more); "cards" (Visa/Mastercard/etc), "push" (in the UK FPS,  BACS), "pull" (UK: Direct Debit, US: ACH, Europe: SEPA) - only cards are currently "global"; the other systems are fragmented and vary across country/region [pull and push systems often run on the same underlying mechanism] - the importance of "schemes" - the set of rules that sit on top of the "pipes" that carry the payments - GC's strength is in connecting push-mechanisms seamlessly together to enable simpler bank-to-bank payments for businesses - one for a future podcast - opening up access to lower levels of the payments systems rather than "sitting on top" - innovations in payments in the past 10yrs have been at a fairly superficial level on top of the underlying infrastructures - the biggest payments innovation in the UK in recent times is FPS (which is a purely banking system) - BACS basically doesn't exist anymore in the UK as FPS is a much faster "push" payment system - the challenge for a payments company is that they are in essence "Person C" setting up/initiating payments between "Person A" and "Person B" (and historically the whole system has been designed that only Banks are "Person C"s) - at present this can only be done via GC having relationships with banks - a practical example of the benefits if the LFP set up some recurring payments scheme via GC; (1) it couldn't be done for a small number of payments; (2) the process is simpler and smoother; (3) transnational is a pain (at best - in practice via a card system is the only practical way) - Paypal build on top of various payments systems but act like a credit card provider (hence the level of their fees) - credit cards as poor ways of handling recurring payments; the average life of a credit card is 18mts, so every month about 1/18 of your payments will fail - current payments systems don't suit the web; you would never design systems from scratch as they exist today - GC's vision is to create a global bank-to-bank coherent payment mechanism - at present they use SEPA/Direct Debit/Sweden's syst...

First in the series of monthly podcasts from Transformation Insights. Faith Forster interviews Eileen Burbidge on the subject of digital disruption in financial services

Stefan Glaenzer is Founding Partner at Passion Capital an early stage VC fund who have invested in the likes of DueDil, GoCardless and CarThrottle. He is also Co-Founder of White Bear Yard, a co-working space in London's East End. Prior to Passion, Stefan was Chairman of Last.fm, an early investor in Wahanda and remains an active member of their board and founder of Ricardo, which went public in 1999. Items Mentioned in Todays Show: Passion Capital: The First Two Years Lendable Smava What you will learn in today's episode: How Stefan got into the technology industry and later pivoted into the VC world? What is Stefan's preferred stage to enter into an investment and what is the standard amount invested in a startup? How much equity Stefan would look for in an investment? What interaction is typical for VCs following investing in a startup? How individuals should pitch their idea to Stefan? How many startups does Passion typically invest in on an annual basis? Does Stefan encounter the fear on missing out on a startup? What is it about the Peer to Peer lending sector that excites Stefan so much? Does Peer to Peer have a brighter future than Crowdfunding? What sector is Stefan most excited about and why? How can an entrepreneur show their enthusiasm and make an awesome pitch? Is there a formula for making a successful pitch? What are Stefan's red flags when a startup pitches to him? As the interview concludes we ask Stefan some quick fire questions where we hear his thoughts on the hardest decision of his life? The best piece of advice Stefan has been given and his most recent investment and why he said yes? For all the resources mentioned in today's show head on over to www.thetwentyminutevc.com Likewise, if you have a suggestion for a VC that you would like us to interview please do let me know by emailing harry@thetwentyminutevc.com