A podcast interview with the president of Robinhood UK. In the podcast, we discuss how the UK app is performing, the growth of the UK team, and future plans.

“This is the first of many of minority funds,” says Europe’s first black solo GP

May 30th, 2024 24m 22s

Interview with Maria Rotilu, founder and general partner, Openseed, a fund which is raising $10m to invest in startups at the earliest stages in Europe and Africa.Rotilu discusses-The the birth of Openseed, The benefits of being a solo general

An interview with Manuel Lemos from Enline

Apr 8th, 2024 13m 46s

Enline is the winner of the EIT Venture Award for their vegetation and landslide predictive forecast programme. The company develops tech such as dynamic line rating and digital twins to help utilities get more out of their existing infrastruc

An interview with Christer Bergquist from Altris AB

Apr 8th, 2024 8m 59s

Altris AB is the winner of the EIT Innovation Team Award for their sodium-ion batteries. The batteries enable high performance batteries to accelerate the energy transition, without increasing the cost to the environment or to customers. https:

An interview with the founders of HiQ-CARB and Woamy, winners of the recent EIT 2024 awards

Apr 8th, 2024 14m 15s

We talked with Mohamed Elamir and Dr. Andreas Bittner.Mohammad is the winner of the EIT Changemaker Award and co-founder of Woamy, which develops biodegradable plastic-free biofoam for protective packaging to replace harmful plastic foams. htt

25 per cent of fintechs pitching top VC are AI-first startups

Feb 20th, 2024 33m 55s

Around 25 per cent of fintechs pitching a top VC for funding are AI-first startups, according to a top VC.Asked what per cent of fintechs pitching Breega, a European VC which backs UK savings and investment app Moneybox and UK card-consolidator

“Never too late and never too early” to launch a startup, says founder of one of Finland’s biggest fintech

Feb 13th, 2024 32m 37s

“It’s never too late and it’s never too early” to launch a startup, according to the co-founder and co-CEO of Enfuce, the payment startup and one of Finland’s biggest fintech.Monika Liikamaa, co-CEO & co-founder of Enfuce, was speaking along wi

BUX CEO says he wants to protect neobroker from “too much" ABN AMRO influence

Jan 12th, 2024 34m 11s

The CEO of a European neobroker startup recently acquired by Dutch financial services giant ABN AMRO says it’s his job to keep BUX protected from “too much influence from the larger organisation”.In the Tech.eu podcast, Yorick Naeff, BUX CEO, g

“There is no entrepreneurial gene”, says top VC and author of Start-up Century

Nov 29th, 2023 28m 12s

“There is no entrepreneurial gene, I don’t think,” says James Wise, partner at VC firm Balderton Capital and author of Start-Up-Century.He adds:“I don’t think it is in your DNA. But certainly, your upbringing and the role models you have around

Middle East conflict is “horrible” and could drive a new inflation scare, says Zopa boss

Oct 17th, 2023 27m 51s

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is “horrible” and will “continue to create concerns” across the world, including the investment community, according to Jaidev Janardana, CEO of UK fintech lender Zopa.The CEO pointed out that the Middle East wa

London a fintech “behemoth”, says Plaid leader

Oct 10th, 2023 30m 34s

Last month, Singapore-based Nium announced that it had chosen London as its European HQ while US fintech Plaid has dual European headquarters in London and Amsterdam.The two executives discuss the virtues of their international fintechs having

Ten years ago VC funds in Sand Hill Road wouldn’t “even fly to Los Angeles”

Sep 5th, 2023 24m 28s

Lucas Timberlake, general partner at Fintech Ventures Fund, the US VC that has a focus on fintech and insurtech, and Ricardo Schäfer,early-stage investor and partner at Revolut backer Target Global, discuss the differences between European VC a

Scandinavian tech giants like Spotify and Klarna "have fostered a new generation of entrepreneurs”

Aug 23rd, 2023 19m 13s

Scandinavia is home to some of the most celebrated tech companies in recent years: Skype, Spotify, and Klarna. Cities like Stockholm and Copenhagen are also home to a new generation of startups creating waves across Europe.In this podcast, we t

“No one should be a denied a bank account”, says Politically Exposed Persons expert amid Farage bank account row

Jul 28th, 2023 20m 11s

This week the seldom talked about world of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) came into the spotlight after Nigel Farage claimed the banks did not want him as a customer due to him being a PEP.The row between Farage and NatWest bank has already

A decade in, what's next for UK-born digital identity verification software scale-up Onfido? CEO Mike Tuchen spills the beans

Jul 26th, 2023 26m 52s

Founded in London back in 2012, Onfido has become one of the global leaders in the digital identity verification and authentication services.We caught up with Mike Tuchen, who joined the company almost three years ago after stints as CEO of com

Dronamics CEO Svilen Rangelov on building the first cargo drone airline in the world (out of Bulgaria)

Jul 20th, 2023 21m 57s

Bulgarian cargo drone manufacturer Dronamics today extended its pre-Series A funding round to raise €2 million euro from private investors exclusively via SeedBlink, the Romania-based crowdfunding platform.A few months back, the company raised

Big moves in AI, Getir exits Spain, how US companies fare in Europe, and Henry Philipson from ESG_VC

Jun 30th, 2023 19m 44s

Up this week:The AI wars are heating up: During London Tech Week Prime Minister Rishi Sunak set the goal of establishing the UK as the global home of artificial intelligence. This week OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, announced that it would op

Bolt 🩷's Starship, a Code Red, an iron fist at the EIB, AI a-plenty, Tech City, and it's Pollen season

Jun 23rd, 2023 39m 52s

Shhhh. Can you hear it? Listen in. Very carefully. Yes, yes, that's the unmistakable sound of an ecosystem that's staring down a summer full of iced tea and days by the lake. Or, is that just me?Either way, due to popular demand stemming from h

Argentinian tech giant Globant plans to double down on Europe: A chat with Fernando Matzkin, who's leading the charge

Jun 20th, 2023 24m 53s

Founded two decades ago, Argentinia-born Globant has become a technology partner for some of the world's leading organisations. Increasingly, it's looking at Europe to expand its business and grow its now 28,000-strong workforce.Globant may not

🎙️ The global startup ecosystem report, fun times for fintech, one big seed round, the EU votes to regulate AI, a16z opens up shop in The Big Smoke

Jun 16th, 2023 34m 40s

In case you weren't paying attention, a whole boatload of activity happened across the European tech scene this week. So much so that we had trouble whittling down what to discuss and what to let slide. In discussion:- The Global Startup Ecosys

From 'body leasing' to 'friendshoring': Romania's Accesa demonstrates the value-add in IT partnerships

Jun 15th, 2023 27m 38s

Acquired by Germany-based Ratiodata in November 2020, Romania-born tech solutions giant Accesa is a perfect example of how 'IT outsourcing' has evolved in the last 20 years. Accesa CEO Andrea Marliere explains.Accesa is a leading technology ser

🎙️Generative AI is an “absolute game-changer” and will be as revolutionary as email, say experts, but they caution it will take time for firms to reap the benefits

Jun 13th, 2023 34m 41s

The fintech industry- and the business world- is grappling with generative AI, which experts say has the potential to revolutionise financial services. Spearheaded by the rival of ChatGPT, fintechs are being wooed by generative AI’s potential t

Checking in with 'climate fintech' scale-up Doconomy: An interview with CEO Mathias Wikström

Jun 12th, 2023 22m 35s

We caught up with Mathias Wikström, CEO of Sweden's Doconomy, to learn more about its platform to measure climate and social impact in the financial services industry.The Stockholm-based scale-up, which recently acquired fellow Swedish financia

🎙️Moving at angel speed without the traditional VC formality: Solo GP Sarah Drinkwater and her new £10 million fund

Jun 9th, 2023 26m 12s

On this Drive at Five editione speziale the omnipresent community builder/angel investor/and now Solo GP, Sarah Drinkwater sits in to discuss her newly announced fund, Common Magic.Tune in, turn it up, and start taking notes, because this week

🎙️ Sex, Money, Creative Equity, Travel, AI, and Jeff - the Drive at Five - Episode 35

Jun 2nd, 2023 39m 34s

With the team finally recovered from anything and everything that was the Tech.eu Summit, we're back guns a-blazin'.This week we're talkin':- Sex tech - it's not what people think it is.- Quinky is a company that's developing an app providing s