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At the Three Point Zero podcast you will hear stories from female entrepreneurs, investors, builders and innovators building the Web 3.0 future.
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This week, I spoke with Sara Larsson from a Swedish startup Freshsound who recently raised a €2m Seed round led by Zenith Venture Capital and Aligned for its self-service platform to license commercial music. (see: Week 69).
In the episode, we talk about how the music industry works and why having a straight mind when innovating is necessary, how to get the best out of your investors and your board and how to keep your investors in the loop.
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This week, I spoke with Yvonne Nagawa from London-based Black Seed, a London-based emerging VC fund focused on investing in black founders, who recently announced the first close of its target £10m fund.
In the episode, we talk about why investing in black founders matters, the meaning of the Black Seed community, how to form relationships with LPs and how to deal with their "No"s, and about how Black Seed evaluated founders.
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This week, I spoke with Melody Lang from London-based MPA, a syndicate with the mission to back purpose-driven companies focused on the future of learning & work.
In the episode, we talk about the meaning behind investing with impact, why investing in the future of learning and work matters, what are the current trends driving the investment opportunities in those spaces, including the impact of ChatGPT on learning, and the strategies for sourcing investors for syndicates.
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This week, I spoke with Liz Beatty from Paris-based Inato who recently raised a $25m Series A round from Cathay Innovation to scale her global clinical trial platform that brings research to patients where they live. (see: Week 64).
In the episode, In the episode, we talk about building marketplaces, metrics for proving user engagement, how to facilitate an efficient Series A due diligence process, thinking big, and why the future of medtech innovation will be powered by clinical trial data.
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This week, I spoke with Amanda Maiwald from Berlin-based Codary who in September last year raised a €3.5m Seed round from Speedinvest, FJ Labs, Educapital, and Sparkmind.vc for her platform that teaches kids 21st century skills through gamified and adaptive coding content (see: Week 36).
In the episode, we talk about why teaching kids coding is a future-proof business opportunity, how to manage customer acquisition when your paying customer is not your user, how Codary decided to approach their international expansion, and leveraged university grants, angel investments, and its focus on unit economics to close the latest €3.5m Seed round.
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This week, I spoke with Sara Stephens from Rest Less who recently raised a €6.8 million Series A round from Moneta Venture Capital for it’s platform empowering over 50’s to live their best lives (see: Week 51).
In the episode, we talk about business opportunities driven by the aging population, why networks matter in the fundraising process, how to strike a balance between meeting investor expectations and delivering impact as a business with a social focus, and how to overcome fears of starting a family while building a business.
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This week, I spoke with Zuzanna Stamirowska and Claire Nouet from Pathway, who recently raised a €4.5m Pre-Seed round from Inovo and Market One to help companies better handle streaming data (see: Week 49). In the episode, we talk about how an economics internship led to the business idea behind Pathway, building products for maximising value from data, current challenges for AI adoption, how to build technical teams with commercial mindset, what's exciting in the data science development beyond Chat GPT and why ability to forget can prove crucial for decision making.
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Connect with Zuzanna here and Claire here .
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This week, I spoke with Natasha Ratanshi-Stein from Surfboard, who recently raised a €4.8m Seed round from Speedinvest alongside Fly Ventures and Seedcamp (see: Week 47) to make planning of customer service teams more collaborative. In the episode, we talk about what it means to be a solo-founder and a VC investor-turned founder, why building relationships with investors ahead of fundraising matters, hiring tips, and why team planning comes with many problems to solve.
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Connect with Natasha here.
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This week, I spoke with Esther Richardot Reynal de Saint-Michel, the General Partner of Thena Capital. Before becoming a General Partner at Thena and raising her fund, Esther spent years advising startups and investing in them as an angel investor. In this episode, we talk about various aspects of raising a new VC fund as an emerging manager, strategies for managing the key challenges, medtech-specific evaluation criteria for founders, and why medtech is a hot investment category.
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This week, I spoke with Jas Schembri and Jo Goodall, the Co-Founders of Luna, an app helping female teenagers face the challenges that come with transitioning to puberty. Jas and Jo met during their MBA program and that's where Luna was born. Jas and Jo talk about their mission to break taboos, raising capital from angels, and developing early MVPs to learn from users and prove traction to attract capital.
Connect with Jas here and Jo here.
Check out Luna here.
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This week, I spoke with Iris ten Teije, the co-founder of Mava, a customer support platform for web3 organizations. Mava was born out of a pivot from a fractional ownership platform linking NFTs to physical assets, which received backing from investors such as Seedcamp.
In the episode, we talk about successfully managing pivots, building thriving communities, and incorporating customer feedback.
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Check out Mava here.
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Steph Bowker is a co-founder of Ourspace, the collaborative team design platform. Together with her co-founders Megan and Mark, Steph recently raised a €2.5m Pre-Seed round to build out the product and grow the business. The round was covered in the Female Foundry Newsletter Week 43.
Previously, Steph worked as a product marketer at Gusto and led the marketing team at Spendesk.
In this episode, Steph shares her story of how she co-founded Ourspace, why collaborative team design is important and her vision for the future of Ourspace. She also gives tips on how to efficiently raise capital with VCs and why building relationships with investors early in the process matters. She also shares her views on how to build products efficiently, how her previous experience has helped her to become an effective founder and what she believes is the best way to find great talent.
Connect with Steph here.
Check out Ourspace here.
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Helena Torras is a Partner at PaoCapital, a Venture Partner at Romulus and a Supporting Partner at Calm/Storm VC. Helena is a seasoned CEO and an Investor, connecting the dots between the startup ecosystem and a Corporate startup Investor promoting the innovative tech startup mindset to society. Now she mainly invests in the Spanish startups. Helena also belongs to the governing board of BarcelonaTechCity, the Ambassadors Council of The Collider (TechTransf - the initiative from the Mobile World Capital), she is also an Ambassador of Barcelona Health Hub and serves as an Independent Board Director on several startup boards. Among her recognitions, she has been considered one of the TOP 100: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space, one of the 30 people to follow on Twitter in the tech ecosystem, one of the Top100 women leaders in Spain, one of the top 100 leaders of digitalisation in Spain and a EUTOP50 investor.
In this episode, Helena gives an overview of her experience as a founder and a CEO, and advice on how to build and efficiently run a startup board. She also shares her views on developing successful relationships with investors and her tips on successful fundraising in the current bear market conditions.
Connect with Helena here.
If you are fundraising, submit your deck on Helena's website: paocapital.com/investments
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Radhika Rajpal is a Co-Founder of Beyond Equity, a London-based startup developing a new option for startups to raise capital.
In this episode, Radhika gives an overview of Beyond Equity's approach to bringing more capital to founders and shares her tips on taking unsolicited feedback, finding the right Co-Founder and finding resilience as a female entrepreneur. Tune in!
Connect with Radhika here.
More on Beyond Equity: https://www.beyondequity.co/
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Tess Cosad is a Co-Founder of Bea Fertility, a London-based startup developing a clinical-grade fertility treatments to use at home.
In this episode, Tess shares her tips on applying to grants, building products in the highly-regulated space, finding the right business partners and attracting talent to a pre-product startup. Tune in!
Connect with Tess here.
More on Bea Fertility: https://beafertility.com/
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Chiara Brughera is a Managing Director of SheTech Italy, a community platform with a purpose of bringing more women into the tech ecosystem.
In this episode, Chiara explains the role SheTech plays in diversifying the Italian tech ecosystem and talks about the platform's initiatives that address women of all ages and backgrounds.
Connect with Chiara here.
More on SheTech: www.shetechitaly.org
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Ieva Dvilinskiene is a Co-Founder of FlowSpace, a London-based startup building the future of work by connecting people with a network of local spaces and services that will empower them to reclaim their life from work.
In this episode, Ieva shares her story on fundraising with angel investors, finding co-founders through the Antler accelerator programme and tips on building successful partnerships.
Connect with Ieva here.
More on FlowSpace: flowspace.co
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