VENTURES

By Viraj Acharya

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VENTURES Live Show - Streaming live on X, Youtube & Linkedin every Tuesday & Thursday.

Episode Date
Tech Sovereignty, Energy Bottleneck, & Why Poland Has the World’s Best Math Talent: Jarek Pilarczyk
Apr 15, 2026
Why You’re Burnt Out on Dating Apps: Mio Fagerhäll, eve
Apr 15, 2026
Software is Eating the World, Boris Paskalev is Making it Stable with Logicstar AI
Apr 15, 2026
Why 2100 Ventures is Betting Big on Italy, Andrea Gennarini
Apr 15, 2026
Inside the Fund Decoding Nature with AI: George Darrah, Systemiq Capital
Apr 14, 2026
The $107M Bet on Shared Value:: Jon Coker, Eka Ventures
Apr 14, 2026
EKA $107M Fund II, No1 Swedish Dating app, Jon Coker, George Darrah, Andrea Gennarini, Boris Paskalev, Mio Fagerhäll and Jarek Pilarczyk join the show
Apr 14, 2026
Serial Entrepreneur, Bobby Healy on How To Build Companies That Win
Apr 02, 2026
Healthmaxxing with Maxime Berthelot
Apr 02, 2026
Sebastian Hunte on Compute, Vertical integration & World Models
Apr 02, 2026
50 Years of Apple
Apr 02, 2026
OpenAI Secures $122B, Artemis Liftoff, Legora $100m ARR, Manna raises $50M
Apr 02, 2026
How to win an IPO bake off with Luke Pappas, NEA
Mar 31, 2026
Never Have a Supply Chain Problem Again: Matt Francis, Rama
Mar 31, 2026
Indian founders are the scrappiest with Ankit Anand, Riceberg Ventures
Mar 31, 2026
Full Interview with Noel Hurley, We Don't Need Bigger CPUs
Mar 31, 2026
GOOGLE RED ALERT - Quantum Crypto Timelines
Mar 31, 2026
Starcloud Unicorn, Mistral Raises $830M, Openclaw in Claude Code, Uber acquires Blacklane
Mar 31, 2026
How Credit Risk Works: Tom Powell, BondAval
Mar 27, 2026
Full Interview with Mirko Novakovic, Dash0: $110M Series B, IBM sale, Observability, Getting into Founder Mode
Mar 26, 2026
Full Interview with Samuel Beek on Quitting Veed, Hardware Love and Gtm for Schematik
Mar 26, 2026
The Kings of Context - Granola
Mar 26, 2026
Granola's $1.5bn valuation, ARM Chips, European Deep Tech, Sam Beek joins & Dash0 Crashes the show
Mar 26, 2026
Luana David, Supernode Global on: Hormona, Fmr Balderton partner insights, Consumer & Sifted Article
Mar 25, 2026
Full Interview with Joe McDonald, tem: Electrons, Compute, Stripe play, LOTR, Tourist states + $75M Series B
Mar 24, 2026
Revolut's 2025 Profit, Rise of the Neobank and the Sifted piece on techbros
Mar 24, 2026
Revolut Profits, Airstreet's Epoch 3, Sifted Chaos, Mass Drivers, Lovable M&A, & tem on the show
Mar 24, 2026
Dr Max Werner, Hades Mining on Lasers, European Sovereignty and Raising €20.5M
Mar 20, 2026
Full Interview with Tano CTO Sagar Shah on: Agents, Harnesses, Full Stack Agencies and Brands
Mar 20, 2026
A Short History Of The EU’s European Company (EU-INC)
Mar 19, 2026
EU INC progress, METAverse's Rollback, HADES Laser Drill and Claude Dispatch Released
Mar 19, 2026
How Planet A invests with Sam Baker
Mar 19, 2026
Alchemy for High-performance Materials: Assia Kasdi, Milvus Advanced
Mar 18, 2026
FULL INTERVIEW with Renato Circi & Rafaël Michali on Glucose, Living longer, Building in Stealth
Mar 18, 2026
SpeedRunning The Intel Playbook (Nvidia GTC 2026 Breakdown)
Mar 18, 2026
GTC 2026, UK/EU Tie Deepens, €25M FIRSTPICK Fund, Milvus's alchemy & SAVA Founders join the show
Mar 18, 2026
FULL INTERVIEW: Sara Rywe on byFounders, New Nordics Investing, Generational VC firm building
Mar 14, 2026
EF's $200m Series D explained Jonny Clifford, Entrepreneurs First
Mar 14, 2026
The Cost of Ambition
Mar 12, 2026
EF's $200M Raise, Revolut is a Bank, Perplexities PC & GRITCULT joins the show
Mar 12, 2026
London Maxxing £500M SOV/AI Fund, Isembard's $50M Series A and Europes largest seed ever
Mar 10, 2026
23/09/25
Sep 23, 2025
EUROPEAN DEFENSE: Benjamin Wolba, EDTH
Sep 09, 2025
Usecase of Google's Nano Banana with Ben Kaluza
Sep 08, 2025
What CMOs should be doing with Marketing, SEO & AI: Aengus Boyle, VP, VaynerMedia EMEA | VENTURES
Sep 08, 2025
Europe centres on aristocratic legacy systems: Rowan Aldean
Sep 05, 2025
Devin for Devops: Matt Clarke, Cofounder, Leapfrog
Sep 05, 2025
Neural networks, Gradient descent, Code Modernisation: Jannes Klaas, Principal at QuantumBlack
Sep 05, 2025
The Internet's Immune System: Oliver Quie, Tom Ryan & Oscar Hayek, Innerworks | VENTURES
Sep 05, 2025
The Fastest Exited Founder in EUROPE: David Gelberg
Sep 05, 2025
Saving Plugged 86 days left: Josh Tulloch
Sep 05, 2025
VENTURES | 2/9/25
Sep 03, 2025
Are the Nordics really Silicon Valhalla: Johannes Korpela - VC, Wave Ventures
Aug 30, 2025
Pivoting a Startup: Aaron Morris- Co-Founder, Bigged
Aug 30, 2025
EU AI Act Breakdown with Alexandru Voica - Head of Corporate Affairs & Policy, Synthesia
Aug 30, 2025
Building bridges between Europe & China: Louise Maunoir - Director Europe, Sigma Squared
Aug 30, 2025
The world's best private spaces are now YOUR spaces: Melissa Dewar, Founder, The Modernists
Aug 30, 2025
UK is great at '0 - Billion': Katie Saddleton, Royal Academy of Engineering
Aug 30, 2025
The World Is Designed For Humanoids: Brian Walker, Founder @ REVEL
Aug 29, 2025
VENTURES | 26/8/25
Aug 28, 2025
The UK’s first AI-native insurance broker: Mark Costello - CEO, Meshed
Aug 21, 2025
Algorithmic biases are baked into LLMs: Linda Hong Cheng - Founder, Infrajoy Labs
Aug 21, 2025
The Best Founder Community in London: Josh Tulloch 🔌 (JT) - Founder/ Curator, PLUGGED
Aug 21, 2025
Building the Payment OS for Fractional Work: Greg Cooke - Co-Founder, Rafiki
Aug 21, 2025
Building the Anti-Social Media for Lonely Humans: Alina Croitoru - Founder, inner on: alive
Aug 21, 2025
Consumer Tech IS BACK: Tania Ladanova, CEO, TRMNL4
Aug 21, 2025
How to win a Hackathon: Matthias Rossini - Co-founder, Avlana
Aug 21, 2025
Giving AI Faces & Ears: Aaron Jones - CEO, Yepic AI
Aug 21, 2025
Why Your Startup Needs to Think Beyond Its Borders: Dec McLaughlin, Founding Partner of Foras Ventures,
Aug 21, 2025
VENTURES | 19/8/25
Aug 20, 2025
The Wendy Rhodes of Venture Capital: Sasha Cayward - MSc.
Aug 15, 2025
Why Your Marketing Needs More Brain Rot: Luke Nelmes, CMO, BIGGED
Aug 15, 2025
Why We Built an Assistant That Never Sleeps: Jakub Nowacki, CTO, Nusmark
Aug 15, 2025
The Consulting-to-Product AI Playbook: Harvey Pitt, CTO, Alive Industries
Aug 15, 2025
I'm Building a Brain for Your Business: Dana Aleff, CEO, Circonomit
Aug 15, 2025
Moneyball for Fine Wine: Callum Woodcock, CEO - Winefi
Aug 15, 2025
Finding Alpha in Silicon Valhalla: Ugne Musneckyte - VC, Byfounders
Aug 15, 2025
How Good Omen Won The Project Europe x Lovable Hackathon
Aug 15, 2025
The Stockholm Talent Paradox Why Local Investors Need to Step Up
Aug 15, 2025
VENTURES | 13/8/25
Aug 14, 2025
How to Invest in Multi-Million-Dollar Supercars: David Spikett, CEO - Carcrowd
Aug 09, 2025
Building the Colleague Hardware Engineers Actually Need: Martin Bielick - CEO, BENCH
Aug 09, 2025
Inside Number 10's DOGE Project: Harry Moy, Labour Digital
Aug 09, 2025
Building a Performance Marketing OS: Zara Paul, CEO, Bigged
Aug 09, 2025
How To Hire For The Hardest Tech Role: Carolina Lopez, Engineering Talent, Vercel
Aug 08, 2025
European founders Need to Learn to Storytell: Kenneth Thomas, Principal Backfuture VC
Aug 08, 2025
How to build a Brand Saas/ Tech Youtube Channel: Tim Zaal
Aug 08, 2025
Building Quantum Security From True Randomness: Wenmiao Yu Cofounder & Dir. Biz Dev - Quantum Dice
Aug 08, 2025
Building Creator Partnerships That Actually Work: Ash Turner, Synthesia
Aug 07, 2025
VENTURES | 6/8/25
Aug 07, 2025
The Creator Economy Is Your Distribution Lifeline: Chris J Smith, Gold Studios
Aug 06, 2025
Building Google Maps for Surgeons: Moises Barbera Ramos - Founder, Drill Surgeries
Aug 05, 2025
The Secret Sauce to Social Media Cut-Through: Brian Da Silva - Head of Social & Influencer, VEED.IO
Aug 04, 2025
Why You Should Solve Your Own Problems First - Alex Revill: Founder, Problem Kit
Aug 03, 2025
Building a Marketing OS: Duarte & Antonio - Cofounders DOJO AI
Aug 02, 2025
AI Can Build The Pieces, But Humans Tell The Story - Kyle Odefey, Synthesia
Aug 01, 2025
Mariam Amed - CTO, Menza: The AI Employee That Does Your Data Work For You
Aug 01, 2025
VENTURES | 30/6/25
Aug 01, 2025
Wail Ghazaleh, Co-director at Kickstart Global: The UK is Completely Underserved
Jul 29, 2025
Founders, Project OS: The Problem With EdTech Isn't Accessibility
Jul 28, 2025
Ben Kaluza: CF ninesixteen studios: I make videos that look like ads, so brands pay me to make videos that don't look like ads
Jul 26, 2025
Harrison Hide: Cofounder, Long Lane - Hospitality Has a Wellness Problem
Jul 25, 2025
Georgia Gibson: CF, TBC - Social Media Is Sexy, But I'm Building Tech For Real Life
Jul 25, 2025
VENTURES | 23/7/25
Jul 24, 2025
Leon Sandner, Founder @ publyc: Learn How To StoryTell
Jul 23, 2025
Issy Chambury, Founder @ BE CONTENT: Creator Marketing, Mia Zello, Evolution of Advertising
Jul 20, 2025
AFGP: Why Your Pricing Model Is Killing Your Business
Jul 18, 2025
Tom Charman, Co-founder @ blok: How We're Predicting User Behaviour Before Writing Code
Jul 18, 2025
Founders @ CLIQ: This is what Facebook Groups should have been
Jul 17, 2025
Raffi Salama, CEO @ Passionfruit: Distribution is Required for Success
Jul 14, 2025
Dan Bolland CCO @ Nudj: What we call loyalty in marketing is just transactional reward
Jul 14, 2025
Yunsu Tang, CEO @ Syncro : Great products enhance, not disrupt.
Jul 14, 2025
Ivan Suhinin, CTO @ Wcards: The Spanish Startup Ecosystem
Jul 14, 2025
Erifili Gounari, CEO @ Z-Link: Gen-Z Marketing 101
Jul 14, 2025
Rami Habib CEO @ Querio: Ranking in AI Search, Obligation of Fundraising
Jul 14, 2025
Becky Lee-Roche, Talent @ ElevenLabs: Why AI Fluency Is Now Baseline for Every Hire
Jul 10, 2025
Tuesday, 8th July
Jul 09, 2025
Building Google Maps for Surgeons: Moises Barbera Ramos - Founder, Drill Surgeries
Jul 05, 2025
Wednesday, July 2nd
Jul 04, 2025
Rami Abi Habib, CEO @ Querio: Saas Has Never Been A Technological Marvel
Jul 03, 2025
AFGP: The Marketing Playbook Has To Evolve
Jun 30, 2025
Jo Johnstone, CS @ Microsoft: How the Fortune 500 are transitioning to AI-powered workflows
Jun 26, 2025
AFGP: Every Solution Creates a New Problem
Jun 23, 2025
Chloe McCullough, Youtube Channel Lead @ JD Sports: How To Build a Brand Youtube Channel
Jun 19, 2025
AFGP: Pricing Psychology, AI Agents, and the Future of Business Strategy
Jun 16, 2025
Jonny Davies, Creators Are the New Businesses: Why Distribution Is Everything
Jun 12, 2025
Assen Plevneliev, Chief of Staff @ SigmaSquared: What Makes An Incredible Founder
Jun 09, 2025
Jonny Inglis, Co-Founder ‪@winedropsclub‬: Scaling to $20M ARR in 3 Years
Jun 05, 2025
Sammy Parker, Partnerships ⁨@ Calfreezy⁩ : The YouTube Partnership Playbook
May 29, 2025
AFGP: Why Tech Companies Build What No One Uses
May 27, 2025
Chris Smith, Talent Director @ The Gold Studios: Brands need Youtube
May 21, 2025
AFGP: Product Management Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint
May 20, 2025
Cory Johnson, Email Marketing @ Synthesia: The 14 Million Email Man
May 15, 2025
AFGP: Why Tech Products Die (And How To Kill Them Properly)
May 13, 2025
Elaf Deyab, co-founder @ Caspa AI: AI Images Will Sell Your Products Better Than Real Ones
May 07, 2025
AFGP: Why Your Marketing Needs a Service Catalog in the AI Age
May 06, 2025
Jay Singh CEO @ Casper Studios - Making Creators Software
Apr 30, 2025
AFGP: Why People-Pleasing Is Killing Your Business
Apr 23, 2025
AVLANA: Why We're Building in Public While Everyone Else Hides
Apr 16, 2025
This New NotebookLM Feature Creates Your OWN Podcast [PROVEN]
Apr 05, 2025
GPT-4o's Image Generation — Its REALLY GOOD
Mar 31, 2025
Solving a $353.1 Billion problem - terrible marketing briefs
Mar 19, 2025
AI + Linkedin = Growhub
Feb 19, 2025
3 startup ideas soloprenuers can build today
Feb 11, 2025
Ana Pricop: Dropping Out Of Her Masters, Raising $2.5 Million In 3 days, Meeting Richard Branson | E08
May 23, 2024
Tom Charman: Fundraising Lessons From a 4 Time Founder & Why the US is a Better Place To Build | E07
May 16, 2024
Haz Hubble: How We Solve The Human Connection Problem | EP06
May 01, 2024
Harjas Singh: The 3 Most Important Lessons Scaling Wealth @ Revolut | Ep05
Apr 24, 2024
Warren Hutchinson: How do we design more career highlights for our customers | Ep04
Apr 17, 2024
Daljit Singh: Your Customers Define What Your Brand Is About | Ep03
Apr 10, 2024
Dan Bolland: Scaling a Series B Startup - Can I build a 48 Story Tower on these Foundations | Ep02
Apr 03, 2024
Ahana Banerjee: Lessons from Raising Money in YC - Women are Under-represented in Startups | Ep01
Mar 27, 2024
The Journal: Being an Entrepreneur, Dating/ Relationships, Reflections on a day in the life
Mar 20, 2024
The Journal - The struggle of WFH, Family disruptions & Not doing enough.
Mar 19, 2024
The Journal: Sacrifice, Work / Life Balance, Patience
Mar 19, 2024
The Journal: Successes of the Week, Time, Concept of work
Mar 09, 2024
The Last Year
Mar 02, 2024
#52 - Ocean Bellamy: The Baháʼí Faith, Hypnotherapy & Mental health
Aug 20, 2021
#51 - Tina Sharma - Whats its really like being an actress, The fine balance of Hustle culture and inspiring others
Aug 12, 2021
#50 - Teresa: The Self, The impact of the ordinary person & Ego
Jun 29, 2021
#49 - The Note Cook: Living with an auto immune condition, High end home cooking & Cultivating a strong mind
Jun 15, 2021
#48 - Kunal Makwana: Fitness, Transformations & Athlete inspiration
Jun 01, 2021
#47 - Tanvi Jain: Success, Perspective & Self Work
May 04, 2021
#46 - Uncle Pri: Fulfilment, Coaching & Balding
Apr 27, 2021
#45 - Muhsin Yesilada: Life changing experiences, BLM & MISINFORMATION
Apr 20, 2021
#44 - Shivani Pau: Benefits of Confrontation, Self-development & A Millennial Mind
Apr 13, 2021
#43 - Dominic Streete-Bharath: Hustler, The Founder Experience & Giving back
Apr 06, 2021
#42 - Shivani Somaiya: Strong Independent Woman
Mar 30, 2021
#41 - Preeti Kaur: Trust the process (Podcasting & Bhangra)
Mar 23, 2021
#40 - Katie Taylor: The Uni Experience, Depression & PTSD, Social Media
Mar 16, 2021
#39 - Kajol Patel: Management, Youtube & being South Asian. Just keep on swimming.
Mar 06, 2021
#38 - Faraaz Kaskar: Changing the world, Social entrepreneurship & Nuggets of wisdom
Feb 25, 2021
#37 - Nishma Acharya: The adventures of a stay-at-home-mum
Feb 05, 2021
#36 - Sunil Acharya : Raising a Single income Family, Leaving us all behind & Doing what needs to be done
Jan 30, 2021
#35 - REAL TALK with V ep2
Jan 23, 2021
#34 - REAL TALK with V
Jan 16, 2021
#33 - Madina Zaynudinova: Style, University & Mental health
Jan 09, 2021
#32 - Khadija Faye & Muhsin Yesilada: Her past, IG Dm's, Strawberries, The origins of language
Jan 02, 2021
#31 - Niam Patel: The Covid-19 schooling experience, Embracing his past & Growing up in a single parent family.
Dec 26, 2020
#30 - KUMA : The creative process, the rap industry and making the world a better place.
Dec 19, 2020
007 - A university reflection
Dec 14, 2020
006 - University Year 3
Dec 14, 2020
#29 - Peter Udida: Growing up, Life at University, Relationships & being in his worst slump
Dec 12, 2020
#28 - Muhsin Yesilada: TikTok, PhD, Family
Dec 07, 2020
#27 - Samu Acharya, the first guest!
Nov 21, 2020
#26 - Easing into quarantine, Thought, Hinge
Nov 14, 2020
#25 - An interesting week but not too interesting
Nov 02, 2020
#24 - Reflections on ‘Falling Apart’
Oct 26, 2020
#23 - Falling apart
Oct 19, 2020
#22 - Learnings from a year in solitude
Oct 12, 2020
021 | I'm Back!
Oct 05, 2020
020 | Frustration
Dec 20, 2019
019 | My Brother and I
Dec 16, 2019
018 - Startup Social
Dec 15, 2019
017 - Loneliness, Home & Dealing with India
Dec 12, 2019
016 - Business Venture
Nov 21, 2019
015 - A Mellow Day
Nov 20, 2019
014 - Birthday Reflection
Nov 19, 2019
013 - Being ill
Nov 12, 2019
012 - University Reflection 2
Nov 08, 2019
011 - Initial thoughts on India
Nov 07, 2019
010 - End of summer / Start of India
Nov 06, 2019
009 - Euro road trip
Nov 05, 2019
008 - Summer vibing
Oct 24, 2019
005 - University Year 2
Oct 21, 2019
004 - University Year 1
Oct 20, 2019
003 - My sixth form experience
Oct 19, 2019
002 - My Childhood
Oct 17, 2019
001 - An intro into why I want to do this
Oct 16, 2019