Editor’s note: This interview has been recorded and published as part of a content project in collaboration with the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). With more than 10 years of history and over €1 billion raised across its funds, Seedcamp is one of the most well-known seed-stage VC firms in Europe. At the TechBBQ conference in […]
We tend to focus on the ‘plumbing’ – where technology plays a role in optimising existing processes and data flows but doesn’t necessarily add a magical ‘black box’ interpretation of the data. We’re really excited about the fact that today the cost of launching a SaaS business is very low because you have all the […]
About two weeks ago, I attended the Paris Fintech Forum in, well, Paris, where I met up with Christian Faes. An affable yet opinionated Australia-born entrepreneur, Faes co-founded LendInvest and recently stepped down as CEO of the UK-based fintech scale-up, which has secured a fortune in equity and debt funding as it steadily grew into […]
“Simply put, it’s a good time to be an entrepreneur (as well as a venture investor looking to back the best teams with the best ideas).” — MiddleGame’s Pascal Bouvier, Michael Meyer and Patrick Pinschmidt The above passage reads from a blog post by the founders of MiddleGame Ventures and adequately captures the firm’s optimism […]
The only solution was to start all over somewhere in the world where we could build up something new without the system pressure… and so we tossed a coin to choose between UK and Denmark… and the country of Vikings and Little Mermaid became our new home. It took 3 months from deciding to close […]
“We love tech.” Emphasized in yellow text, this is the first line that greets you upon arrival at Dawn‘s website, and it is an outlook that permeates the firm’s entire business philosophy. Dawn was founded by Norman Fiore and Haakon Overli in 2007. In the years since the firm has sought to identify and support […]
“Goodiebox is not a beauty company. Goodiebox is a happiness company powered by beauty. We are a people-to-people company with a clear ambition to help make our members happy. ” — Rasmus Schmiegelow, CEO and Co-founder of Goodiebox In 2012, Rasmus Schmiegelow and Nikolaj Leonhard-Hjorth founded Goodiebox, a company focused on spreading joy. The founders […]