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Antonia is COO and Co-founder of Kontempo. Kontempo is a leading payments and credit platform for Mexico’s industrial sector. Started in 2021, but with previous experience in the sector, they’ve executed with laser focus. In 2024 they 10x-ed their business are are now expanding the team and preparing for the next phase of growth. Antonia shares everything from Kontempo’s business and their first year, to her own development and a lot of wisdom for future founders and tech operators.
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Tinashe is CEO and Co-founder of Flexclub. Flexclub is piloting an Uber-like car-network for long term rentals, and for other brands to build on top of. Started in 2018, they’ve gone to multiple iterations of their product, while navigating radically changing circumstances for mobility companies: COVID and the end of ZIRP. Tinashe opens up on Flexclub’s rollercoaster, his personal journey, and his learnings along the way.
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Yoram is CEO and founder of Dealroom. Dealroom is a Bloomberg for early stage private companies: It provides data on the companies, their founders, their funding rounds and valuations, and many other aspects of the business. Dealroom’s data is used by investors, corporates and governments in equal parts. In 11 years, the company has grown from just Yoram to over 90 FTE in 2024.
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Karun is part of the founding team and Chief Growth Officer of GetVantage. GetVantage invests between $25k - $2.5m in emerging business in India across certain sectors, like eCommerce, SaaS, gaming, cleantech. Karun is also an investor and advisor in GajiGesa, who’s founder Vidit was on this podcast earlier. Karun has a PR and comms background and has 15 yoe at both corporates and scale-ups like Uber and Rolls Royce, before starting GetVantage.
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Vidit Agrawal is the founder of GajiGesa (Indonesia), which manages employee finances in South-East Asia, and has amassed 350k users in just under 4 years. With GajiGesa, employees have early access to their wages and no longer need predatory lending, and employers save thousands of hours on administration. Before GajiGesa, Vidit has spent time at several iconic companies: UBS, Uber, and Stripe, and he explains what their cultures were like, and what parts he incorporated.
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Fred Jordan of FinalSpark (Switserland) and his team are building a revolutionary new kind of computer, out of human stem cells. The human brain is several orders of magnitude more energy efficient than silicon based computer, and Fred's team hopes to unlock those efficiencies for out-of-brain computation. They have opened up their platform up to research universities, and to the public, and we've pasted the link below. After having financed FinalSpark from the proceeds of his other business for years, Fred is currently raising EUR 50m to accelerate realising their vision.
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Pit Janssen of MedApp has exited his prescription medicine adherence and delivery company to the biggest, stock exchange listed, EUR 2.0bn market cap online pharmacy company in Europe. MedApp launched as a medication adherence app, and rolled out an integrated pharmacy with a delivery function in 2020. They bootstrapped the company with a students loans and IT consultancy work until 2017, at which point angels came in. After raising money from Tablomonto Ventures, M3 Ventures and Health Innovations, they were acquired by Shop Apotheke Europe (ETR: RDC) in 2021.
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Joel co-founded London-based Trubrics, which helps product teams track what’s happening inside LLM models. He and his co-founder founded the company when they saw companies investing heavily in LLM models but remaining in the dark on what is going on inside. They’ve just closed a pre-seed round, did their first hire and are about to launch their first version of the product to customers.
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Meet one of Europe’s most driven impact entrepreneurs: Kees Aarts, founder of Protix. Protix is an insect protein company founded to radically reduce the environmental footprint of our food system and help stop the loss of biodiversity in our seas. Kees and his team started out 14 years ago, and today they are the world leader in insect ingredients, running the largest insect farm ever built. Their mission is to bring the food system back into balance with nature. There were many gems in this conversation, amongst many other things we discussed:
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Kim Durand hails from Paris and moved to Mexico City to start Cheaf, which reduces food waste by offering high quality food that is close to the expiry date at steep discounts. Started less than 4 years ago, the company now employs 30 FTE.
Kim was born and raised in France and has worked at incubator Nova Founders Capital and Uber, before starting Cheaf.
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Sophia Hummelman Co-Founded ReCarbn, which is working on reversing climate change, by direct air capture of CO2.
Sophia was born and raised in the Netherlands and has working in finance at JPMorgan and iFund, in London, Paris and Amsterdam, before starting ReCarbn.
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Listen to our talk with Harpreet Singh! Harpreet Co-Founded Peckish, and is building a new backend operating system for restaurants to drastically reduce food waste and increase profitability for restaurants.
Harpreet was born and raised in Sydney, Australia and now works and lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Before Peckish, he has founded The Turban Shop and worked at Uber as an operations manager.
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Tune in to our latest conversation with Yorick Bruins! Yorick is Co-Founder and CEO of Wakuli, a Netherlands based Direct-to-Consumer subscription coffee brand, thats has also started opening coffee shops at a high pace.
Wakuli is all about changing the system of coffee production and distribution, and by cutting out a lot of the middle men, succeeds in paying farmers ±5x times what they'd get from others. Their coffee tastes amazing, too.
Yorick has founded Wakuli about 5 years ago, and has been working on higher quality food and a fairer system his entire career.
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Mikael Rautanen is Co-Founder and CEO of Inderes, a Finland based equity research and investor relations company. Inderes is changing the investing industry, from a focus on the 1%, to a world where every retail investor has full access to company information and insights. Mikael attributes a lot of Inderes success to the unique company culture.
Mikael has been at the helm of Inderes for over 15 years, and tells us about
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Niko is the founder of Rite Studios, a boutique sports chain from Belgium. He's started his career at Unilever and has held Strategy and General Manager roles at Uber in India, the Middle East and Europe.
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This episode we have Mark Hulshof of Triggre. Mark has been building Triggre, a nocode automation platform for SMEs, for over 10 years. He's now experiencing a strong acceleration in his business, and is getting ready for expansion.
Mark is very open about his ambitions, struggles and learning experiences along the way. We touch on a wide range of topics, including
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This episode we talk to Jacqueline van den Ende of Carbon Equity. Jacqueline and her co-founders started Carbon Equity 3 years ago in order to combat climate change. Carbon Equity enables consumers to invest in innovative technology companies, leading to direct climate impact and attractive financial returns. The company has just announced its Series A, and saw its number of users and assets under management grow with 100% and 300% respectively since its previous capital raise.
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