Podcast Episodes

Building the "Lovable of Marketing" with Patrick Haede, Co-Founder & CEO @ Superscale AI

Season 9 Episode 4

In this episode, we're joined by Patrick Haede, the founder of Superscale AI, a breakout new startup transforming how digital products are marketed. 🚀

Inspired by Lovable’s success in democratising pr…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Scaling from startup to £70M+ funding in 16 months with Paul Anthony, Co-founder of Primer & Colossal

Season 9 Episode 3

Paul Anthony is the co-founder of Primer, a rapidly growing payment orchestration platform with over 200 employees and more than £70 million in funding from top-tier investors including Seed Camp, Ba…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Simone Maini, CEO @ Elliptic, on Leading Through Crypto Winters and Building Elliptic into a Blockchain Analytics Leader

Season 9 Episode 2

In this episode of Riding Unicorns, James and Hector sit down with Simone Maini, CEO of Elliptic, the world’s leading blockchain analytics company. Simone’s career path is anything but conventional —…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Pattern recognition and backing Europe's next unicorns with Andrei Brasoveanu, Partner @ Accel

Season 9 Episode 1

From international math olympiads to high-frequency trading to leading deals at Accel, Andrei Brasoveanu has carved one of the most impressive careers in European tech. After a decade on Wall Street …

Published on 3 months ago

Building Europe’s Investment Rails with Martin Kassing, Founder & CEO @ Upvest

Season 8 Episode 29

This week on Riding Unicorns, we're joined by Martin Kassing, founder and CEO of Upvest, one of Europe’s fastest-growing fintech infrastructure companies.

Martin’s journey spans private equity, Rocket…

Published on 4 months ago

RU Summit 2025 with Yoann Pavy and Oana Jinga, in Partnership with Cooley LLP

In this special Riding Unicorns episode, recorded live during London Tech Week and hosted at Cooley’s London HQ, we bring you two candid conversations from the frontline of startup building.

🚀 First u…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

From Founder Failure to Building a €100M+ European VC Fund with Apostolos Apostolakis, Managing Partner @ VentureFriends

Season 8 Episode 28

In this episode, we’re joined by Apostolos Apostolakis, the founder-turned-VC behind VentureFriends, a pan-European pre-seed and seed fund known for backing consumer and fintech breakouts like Plum, …

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Investing as a multi-stage fund into Europe's top startups with Deepka Rana, Principal @ Northzone

Season 8 Episode 27

In this episode, we’re joined by Deepka Rana, Principal at leading venture fund Northzone, early backers of Klarna, Truelayer, Spotify, iZettle, Kahoot, and Personio. Deepka shares her journey from p…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Building voice-AI infrastructure and scaling go-to-market globally with Carles Reina, GTM @ ElevenLabs & Angel Investor

Season 8 Episode 26

In this episode of Riding Unicorns, we’re joined by Carles Reina, Go-to-Market Lead at ElevenLabs, an AI Audio research and deployment company that tripled it's valuation to $3.3BN in January, after …

Published on 5 months ago

Building the universal integration layer for modern products and raising a Series A from GV with Romain Sestier & Guillaume Lebedel, Co-Founders @ StackOne

Season 8 Episode 25

In this episode of Riding Unicorns, we're joined by Romain Sestier and Guillaume Lebedel, the co-founders of StackOne, a rapidly growing startup that’s building the universal integration layer for mo…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago