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Invested

Maven Capital Partners

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The Invested Podcast interviews CEOs and founders at the helm of some of the UK’s fastest growing businesses. Join Laura Boyd, Television and Entertainment Reporter, as she chats to these entrepreneurs about the successes and the inevitable struggles they have faced when growing their business.
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The show that interviews entrepreneurs, uncovering the moments of fear and doubt that even the most successful founders face. On Founders Uncut, you'll hear how they deal with these moments. If you're an early stage startup founder and the going is tough, listen in. You are not alone - being a founder is just hard! Host Maria Palma, General Partner at Kindred, an early stage venture capital fund, is here to shine a light on the parts of the startup scaling journey that often go untold and ne ...
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The Medium Rules: Long-Term Trends in Media and Technology

Alan Baldachin, and produced by HBA Studios

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Conversations with founders, investors and thought leaders in the orbit of HBA's tech and media ecosystem and beyond. How are media and technology companies conceived, how do they scale, and how do they interact with the broader social, economic and political culture we live in today and that we will inhabit in the future. This is a show about innovation and its effects on our lives, hosted by HBA's managing partner and head of media and technology, Alan Baldachin. Hosted on Acast. See acast ...
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In the seventh episode of the Invested Podcast, Laura sat down with Tom Eggleston, Co-founder and CEO of ProofID, an award winning provider of Identity and Access Management solutions, operating at the forefront of global cyber security and utilised across multiple markets. Tom's passion for leveraging technology to solve real-world problems has be…
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In the sixth episode of the Invested Podcast, we interview Federico Charosky, the founding CEO of Quorum Cyber, an award-winning cyber security business which has developed advanced solutions to protect organisations against security attacks and breaches. Federico's journey into the world of computing began in his early teens, fuelled by his passio…
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In the fifth episode of the Invested podcast, we sit down with CEO Virraj Jatania of Pockit, a fintech platform on a mission to revolutionise financial inclusion. Born into an entrepreneurial family, Virraj’s passion for business was cultivated from a young age. It was his time spent growing up in India, Russia, & the Middle East, and witnessing fi…
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In the fourth episode of the Invested Podcast, we interviewed Tom Dunlop, the founding CEO of Summize, a software specialist transforming contract management for the legal industry. Tom shares his journey from teenage sports star to accomplished commercial and technology lawyer, establishing a revolutionary software business. From badminton courts …
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In the third episode of the Invested Podcast, we sit down with Luke Parteger, the founding CEO of iAM Compliant, a revolutionary web-based compliance tool for schools. Luke shares his entertaining journey into the world of entrepreneurship, which began when he was just five years old, and how he went from working in facilities management to creatin…
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In the second episode of Invested we caught up with Liz Ashall-Payne, founding CEO of (ORCHA), a global leader in health app accreditation and distribution. Liz is now at the forefront of healthcare transformation programs in the NHS, Europe, and North America, but starting from more humble beginnings she set out with an admirable aim to help peopl…
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Invested interviews business leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators who are at the helm of some of the UK’s fastest growing companies. Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur so we explore what motivates and drives them, and how they have got to where they are today. We will hear their inspirational stories in honest accounts of their struggle…
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Welcome to our new podcast, Invested, by Maven Capital Partners, where we interview CEOs and founders from our portfolio companies to share their experiences in honest accounts of struggle and success when growing their business. Guests will provide real insight into the advantages and encounters of working with a private equity investor and the im…
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I’m here with Kate Ryder CEO of Maven Clinic. Maven have raised over $300M and is one of the only unicorn startups in women’s healthcare. Prior to founding Maven, Kate was a successful VC and a journalist. Hear more from her on: Building the plane while flying Why companies are only as good as their people Giving people a place to grow Founder life…
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Every year, Bloom & Wild send 6 million deliveries of plants and flowers to several million customers across 8 countries in Europe. To date they have raised over $100M with CEO & Co-Founder Aron Gelbard at the helm. Hear more from him on: Merging cultures when you make acquisitions The value of founder forums Setting up your technology for scale fr…
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I’m here with Wemimo Abbey from Esusu. Esusu raised over $140M and the company is valued at $1BN today, as a unicorn company. Their partnerships with real estate owners and operators represent 2.5 million units across 50 different states and they are helping people improve their credit score with the rent that they pay. They are leveraging data to …
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With me today is James Lochrie, Co-founder of Wave, which sold to H&R Block. He now runs a venture firm called Thin Air Labs. Hear from him on: The Language Founders Use Should You Lie to Yourself? Taking Control of Your Board An Inevitably Better Future Find out more at KindredCapital.VC/FoundersUncut This podcast was produced by Fascinate Product…
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With me today is Hugo Renaudin, Co-founder & CEO of P00ls. This is his third business and he sold a prior business $250M. He also completed the largest ICO in France raising $20M in under 10 hours. Hear from him on: Building Team in a Post Pandemic World Empowering Your Team Why Following Your Team on Instagram is Better than Zoom Happy Hour Gettin…
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With me today is Jamie Hale, CEO & Co-founder of Ladder, which has issued over $50BN in life insurance and raised over $100 million. Hear from him on: The Founding Journey Jamie’s Recurring Nightmare as a Founder Feeling Alone Even if you Aren’t Who is Your Cheerleader? Shock Absorber for the Company Mindset of Getting Better Everyday The Feedback …
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With me today is Natasha Vernier, CEO & Co-founder of Cable. Natasha was on the Monzo scale up journey as employee number 17 to over 2000 people, on their journey from 100 to over 4.5 million customers. She has now founded her own company - Cable. Building a Company as You Build Your Family Decision to Found the Company IVF and Term Sheets The Ment…
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With me today is Raj De Datta, CEO & Co-founder of Bloomreach and bestselling author. Bloomreach has over $100M in ARR, powers $400BN of ecommerce sales and has raised over $400M. But these are just the headlines. Listen to the real story on Founders Uncut. In this episode, you will hear more from him on: Near Death Experiences When 25M ARR Just Is…
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With me today is Charlie Delingpole, Founder and CEO of Comply Advantage - the world's leading data technology company transforming financial crime detection Comply Advantage has raised over 100M, has over 1.5k clients and is 440 people today. Charlie is also an active angel investor and recently a new dad. Hear more from him on: The early days of …
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With me today is Damian Kimmelman, Co-founder of https://batelle.com/ (Batelle.com), https://www.rho.co/ (Rho.co) and Founders Pledge. Batelle trains parents how to put their children to bed in under 5 minutes and sleep through the night within 2 weeks, guaranteed... Hear more from him on: 1) Decision Making in Startups Driving to Consensus Versus …
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With me today is Yury Yakubchyk, the founder of Elemy, one of the fastest growing startups over the past few years. They grew from $0 to $20M+ run rate in year one and reached unicorn status in 14 months. He has founded two startups prior and is also an active angel investor, advisor and also runs his own venture studio. Today, hear about: 1) The A…
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With me today is Sean Black from Knock. Prior to Knock, Sean was the co-founder of Trulia. He and the team at Knock have raised hundreds of million of dollars in both venture and debt for Knock’s journey to help people buy their new home and sell their existing home. As Knock’s business grew incredibly well across all key metrics in a one year peri…
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With me today is Jason from Ori Biotech. Ori has raised $140M and is helping to enable widespread patient access to life saving cancer therapies. Jason also sits on the board of 5 other healthcare startups and has been a part of 3 healthcare scale up journeys prior to Ori. In this episode: 1) Jason’s Path to Ori Startup Blowup in the Dot Com Bust S…
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With me today is a man who needs no introduction, especially in the European startup scene - Matt Robinson. Matt founded two incredible companies - Nested and GoCardless and is a prolific founder and angel in the ecosystem. Today, you'll hear about: 1) The Path to Being a Successful Serial Founder How did Matt Get There? What Type of Training is He…
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With me today is Mike Quinn, the founder of Zoona, one of Africa’s startup darlings for a period of time. He and three other cofounders built Zoona, a money transfer and remittance business, to over 3000 agents transactacting $2.5Bn across two African markets - Zambia and Malawi. They earned $86 million in revenue along the journey. He was one of t…
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Here with me today is Clara Odero, who has been an employee at three unicorn companies, Flutterwave, Rapyd and Neum and is now founding her own company Credrails, doing open banking in Africa. Here more about her learnings and specifically: 1) Fundraising as a Minority Statistic How do you Mentally Prepare for a Fundraise? What does it Feel like to…
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Here with me today, is Michael Rangel, Co-Founder and CEO of Novo, a challenger bank focused on small businesses. It’s currently valued at $700 million, and serves over 150,000 small businesses. Novo had kicked off their Series A fundraise in late February 2020, just as the COVID pandemic was hitting everywhere. The situation was very dynamic and N…
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George Bevis, founder and former CEO of Tide Bank. As many of you may know, Tide delivers better business banking for small to medium sized businesses. It’s currently valued at $650 million, serves over 400,000 businesses, and has tens of millions in revenue. George is now running his own venture studio, Can Do. In 2015, in Tide’s early days, an em…
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After BlockFi had raised their Series D in 2021, the state of New Jersey issued a cease and desist order to shut down its interest bearing product. The management team had to navigate regulatory uncertainty in the crypto world and also manage a team through a time of great uncertainty in their business. Today - Flori Marquez, the co-founder and SVP…
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On the outside, it probably seemed that Tom was living the founder dream life, but the reality was that towards the end of Tom’s time at Monzo, the emotional journey of being a founder was taking its toll - he was under a lot of pressure with many sleepless nights and wasn’t sure he wanted to continue the journey. Tom grew Monzo from 0 to over 2,00…
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The show that interviews entrepreneurs to discover the moments of vulnerability and doubt that even the most successful founders face. On Founders Uncut you'll hear how they deal with these moments. If you're an early stage startup founder, listen in. You are not alone. Host Maria Palma, General Partner at Kindred Capital is here to remind you that…
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On this episode of The Medium Rules, I sit down with James Heckman to discuss his business philosophy animating Maven, as well as a look back at James’ career to date. Maven styles itself as a technology solution for publishers, centralizing and optimizing virtually all functions of a publishing business, from sales and marketing all the way throug…
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For this episode of The Medium Rules, the first of 2020, we decided to delve into the headlines and take an in-depth look at the impeachment trial of President Trump in the US Senate from a trial lawyer’s perspective. For this discussion I’m joined by two of my HBA colleagues: our head of litigation, Adam Michaels, and Partner Mike Norton, a former…
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Sometimes the biggest startup ideas are sitting right under our noses until somebody decides to just pick up and build the company. This is the case with Carta, which took an obvious pain point, the management of private company capitalization tables, and built a unicorn business. On the final episode of The Medium Rules for 2019, I sat down with T…
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How do you crack the code on effectively messaging political advocacy on social media? What is the right tone, what are the right platforms, and what is the right targeting? One organization that seems to be nailing this challenge is the progressive, grassroots political advocacy organization, Swing Left. Swing Left was founded in the wake of the 2…
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The explosion of so-called programmatic advertising over the past decade is one of those technological phenomena that has had so many and so varied a set of seismic second-order effects that we almost take it for granted that the world of interactive advertising was always so. Not the case. Consider this quote, which now reads as charmingly quaint,…
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With the explosion of podcasts and podcasting in recent years (there are 700,000 podcasts and counting, according to The New York Times), podcasting has become big business. In addition, there has been a recent spate of headline-grabbing podcast M&A activity, signaling that this new, highly intimate form of media is still in its early stages. Howev…
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The past 15 years have seen the cooking show move from niche, daytime and educational “good for you” programming to the center of mainstream American entertainment. This has fueled the rise of the celebrity chef and, it’s cousin, the rise of the TV chef. The beating heart of this explosion is the food competition show, principally among them “Top C…
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Last November, after an extended RFP bidding process involving initially 280 cities, narrowed down to twenty “finalists”, Amazon announced Long Island City in Queens, New York as its “HQ2” winner. New York’s agreements with Amazon guaranteed $27 billion in revenue for New York with $3 billion returned to Amazon in tax credits. In February of this y…
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The twin challenges of both monetizing content and managing the transition from a print-dominated world to a digital-dominated world are not for the faint of heart. For some, the scale and scope of this challenge would be at best daunting and, at worst, induce a level of anxiety and paralysis that would make many if not most media executives sprint…
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If there was one area of the consumer economy that you may have thought might be impervious to the “direct-to-consumer” disruption of the past several years, good chance it would have been the home renovation market. Yet this high degree of difficulty also creates opportunity. On this episode of The Medium Rules, I sit down with JasperMalcolmson, c…
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One of the more intractable problems with cryptocurrency is also one of the most basic: how do you keep digital assets on the blockchain secure? This is an issue of hacks and honeypots. But, as evidenced by the recent news that the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX may have lost $140 million in cryptocurrency when its founder died in Dece…
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If you stop and think about it, the category of home furnishings and home design is one of the most daunting to take online. As much as we have come to take the success of companies like Wayfair and One King’s Lane for granted, think of the logistics involved in a digitally native business that sells sofas, dining room tables and beds. And what abo…
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What exactly is a security token? How is it expressed on the blockchain? How is it traded? Why is a security token better than an electronic share? What are the downsides? And, beyond all that, what are the limits of tokenization? And what are the political and philosophical implications? On this episode of The Medium Rules, Alan is joined in the H…
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How can we define and identify seismic-grade disruption? Is this recognizable contemporaneously, or only with the benefit of hindsight? And if there is some kind of taxonomy of disruption, some kind of map or workflow template we can apply, can we convert these insights into actionable mandates across both investing, startups and organizational beh…
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Kim Kardashian was recently featured on the cover of Business of Fashion with the headline “The Age of Influence.” “Truer” words may never have appeared in print. Indeed, the influencer economy on Instagram alone is worth an estimated $1 billion and rising with a bullet. While deals with the top influencers can be worth millions of dollars, there i…
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On this episode of The Medium Rules, host Alan Baldachin is joined in the HBA Podcast Studio by Oliver Mitchell, Founding Partner at Autonomy Ventures, to discuss all things automation. Alan asks "The Robot Rabbi" to predict the timeline in which fully autonomous vehicles will roam our streets, whether batteries are to blame for the seemingly "slow…
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With technology disrupting all sectors of the economy and culture, it should come as no surprise that this reality also extends to how we play. On this episode of The Medium Rules, host Alan Baldachin speaks with Walid Fattah, the CEO and Co-founder of the tennis-court booking app, Kourts, Inc. Alan and Walid cover the Kourts platform and functiona…
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It is axiomatic that the big three “over the top” (OTT) streaming services—Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime—dominate what and how we watch television. But how has this revolution in long-form video consumption affected the creative process? How has the new media paradigm altered the way media properties find and build an audience? And what are the so…
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As blockchain technology evolves, more and more blockchain networks are adopting a “proof of stake” concept with respect to operation and governance as opposed to a “proof of work” concept. But what does this mean, and why is this important? And, further, how should we think about these two modalities in terms of the broader blockchain ecosystem wh…
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“Alignment: Accelerating Funded Startups and the Agency of the Future” With the proliferation of funded e-commerce startups focused on the direct-to-consumer, how is brand created and how can startups adapt to the changing tastes and trends to reach consumers and drive sales? Further, what are some models for agencies to reinvent themselves to not …
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Notwithstanding the accelerating advance of technology, or possibly because of it, humanity seems to be an “Intertidal” moment whereby the norms, institutions and in many cases the leaders we have long since trusted are in turbulence. There are many reasons for this anxiety, co-existing as it does with mind-boggling technological, economic, and soc…
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