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 […]
“We see it as our responsibility to encourage female founders, and founders from other minority groups, to feel confident enough to reach out to us, and other investors, to access the tools they need to level the playing field and build a more equitable tomorrow.” — Isabelle O’Keeffe, Principal at Sure Valley Ventures Sure Valley […]
“When companies say, “we are trying to solve our diversity problem”, we have said “why don’t you build and invest in a pipeline of diverse talent?” — Sophie Adelman, Co-Founder of WhiteHat In the United Kingdom, just over 50% of school leavers go on to university. While government administrations have long sought to increase the […]