Afleveringen
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The co-founder of Pockit talks about the fintech's future plans, the acquisition of Monese, and why he thinks the fintech sector is ripe for consolidation.
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Hristo Borisov, CEO and co-founder of Payhawk, was speaking on the Tech.eu podcast, talking about the history of Payhawk and the challenges and opportunities it faces today.
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Speaking on the Tech.eu podcast, Payal Dalal, MasterCard, discusses the MasterCard Strive EU Innovation Fund.
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Joakim Bruchmann, CEO & co-founder, Pluto.markets, and Ken Villum Klausen, the founder and CEO of Danish challenger bank Lunar, discuss Denmark as a tech hub.
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Zoe Peden, partner, Ananda Impact Ventures, an impact VC fund and Eleanor Kaye, managing director, Newton Venture Progam, an education scheme for overlooked and under-represented VCs, discussed the VC diversity issue in this week's Tech.eu podcast.
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Doctor Peter Garraghan, co-founder and CEO, Mindgard and Kevin Berghoff, co-founder of Quantum Diamonds, discuss the virtues and challenges of university spinouts.
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An interview with Agate Freimane, general partner, Norrsken VC and Pablo Pederjon, partner at Madrid-based impact VC fund Seaya about impact investing.
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A podcast interview with the president of Robinhood UK. In the podcast, we discuss how the UK app is performing, the growth of the UK team, and future plans.
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Interview with Maria Rotilu, founder and general partner, Openseed, a fund which is raising $10m to invest in startups at the earliest stages in Europe and Africa.
Rotilu discusses-The the birth of Openseed, The benefits of being a solo general partner, What type of investments Openseed is interested in, Why startups should partner up with Openseed, and The investment landscape in Europe and Africa.
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Enline is the winner of the EIT Venture Award for their vegetation and landslide predictive forecast programme. The company develops tech such as dynamic line rating and digital twins to help utilities get more out of their existing infrastructure.
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Altris AB is the winner of the EIT Innovation Team Award for their sodium-ion batteries. The batteries enable high performance batteries to accelerate the energy transition, without increasing the cost to the environment or to customers. https://www.altris.se/
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We talked with Mohamed Elamir and Dr. Andreas Bittner.
Mohammad is the winner of the EIT Changemaker Award and co-founder of Woamy, which develops biodegradable plastic-free biofoam for protective packaging to replace harmful plastic foams. https://www.woamy.com/
Dr. Andreas Bittner is the winner of the Public Award winner from HiQ-CARB, a team that produces sustainable and resource-efficient nanomaterials for high-performance batteries. These materials enable faster-charging electric vehicles, extended battery life spans for mobile phones, and enhanced safety and longevity for battery-powered devices. https://www.greener-carbons.eu/
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Around 25 per cent of fintechs pitching a top VC for funding are AI-first startups, according to a top VC.
âI guess in fintech, it. Is still pretty low.âI mean you have AI involved but itâs mostly for workflow automation. It's not the heart of the product.âI think that is the opportunity for the next years. In fintech, AI-first companies, they are, from what I see, maybe 25 per cent of the companies have AI-first.â
Asked what per cent of fintechs pitching Breega, a European VC which backs UK savings and investment app Moneybox and UK card-consolidator Curve, are AI-first startups, Breega partner Benjamin Deplus said:Deplus was speaking on the Tech.eu fintech podcast with Florian Reichert, partner and managing director at Picus Capital, the early-stage tech investment firm, which backs Dutch payment processing tech firm Silverflow and French BNPL firm Alma.
The pair discussed an array of subjects focused on fintech and VC trends in 2024.
On hot investment fintech sectors in 2024, two of those cited by the pair were CFO stack fintechs and payment infrastructure fintechs.Reichert said:
âWe have seen a lot of promising early-stage funding for infrastructure plays when it comes to fintech and especially payments.âAll of these have a bit longer time to market because you have much more product to build.âA lot of them will now this year and next year move into very interesting stages of scale to make them very attractive for growth capital.âDeplus said:
âThere is still a lot to do in the CFO stack, from enterprise to SMB. Actually, with this AI wave, there is a lot to be done in the financial planning space.â -
âItâs never too late and itâs never too earlyâ to launch a startup, according to the co-founder and co-CEO of Enfuce, the payment startup and one of Finlandâs biggest fintech.
Monika Liikamaa, co-CEO & co-founder of Enfuce, was speaking along with Michaela Berglund, CEO and founder of Feminvest, an events and education platform for women which has also launched an âŹ8.8 million fund to invest in Nordic startups which are majority owned by women.
The pair discussed the dearth of female founders, female CEOs and females working in VCs- and its impact on the industry.
Asked her thoughts on seeing headlines in the media denoting gender such as âfemale founder raises .... â and ââŠâŠ appoints first female CEOâ, Liikamaa says she found the headlines âempoweringâ-as it shows women were achieving feats.
âIs it something that I would like it to be? No, it kind of alludes to a founder is a male. But that is the world we are living in and we need to change it. I hope, a couple of generations later, that would be seen as ridiculous."
That said, Liikamaa added:Liikamaa pointed to data showing companies with female directors outperforming those with male directors.
She said women were partially to blame for the lack of female founders, as they hadnât explained well enough that women can be founders and have families as well.
In the UK, Anne Boden, founder, Starling Bank; PensionBee founder and CEO Romi Savova; and Lisa Jacobs, CEO of Funding Circle, are examples of high-profile female leaders.
âWhat we need to teach the younger generation is that itâs ok to want to achieve, itâs ok to work your ass off. And itâs never too late and itâs never too early to found something and be passionate about it.â
Liikamaa added:Talking about Feminvestâs VC fund, Berglund said:
âThe response has been incredible. The interest has been super high.âI have been approached by women and men across Europe saying âwow finally, thank you for taking the bet'." - Laat meer zien
