Riding Unicorns Podcast
1) Building, Backing & Scaling in an AI-Native World with Kenneth Auchenberg, Partner @ AlleyCorp
In this episode we are joined by Kenneth Auchenberg, Partner at AlleyCorp — one of New York’s most prolific early-stage funds known for incubating companies like MongoDB, Business Insider, and Radical...Show More
2) Inside the Quantum Infrastructure Revolution with Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, Founder & CEO @ Nu Quantum
This week on Riding Unicorns, we’re joined by Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, co-founder and CEO of Nu Quantum, a pioneering company building the networking layer for the quantum computing era. Carmen’s j...Show More
3) Building the "Lovable of Marketing" with Patrick Haede, Co-Founder & CEO @ Superscale AI
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 p...Show More
4) Scaling from startup to £70M+ funding in 16 months with Paul Anthony, Co-founder of Primer & Colossal
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, Bal...Show More
5) Simone Maini, CEO @ Elliptic, on Leading Through Crypto Winters and Building Elliptic into a Blockchain Analytics Leader
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 — ...Show More
6) Pattern recognition and backing Europe's next unicorns with Andrei Brasoveanu, Partner @ Accel
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 a...Show More
7) Building Europe’s Investment Rails with Martin Kassing, Founder & CEO @ Upvest
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...Show More
8) 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 ...Show More
9) From Founder Failure to Building a €100M+ European VC Fund with Apostolos Apostolakis, Managing Partner @ VentureFriends
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, B...Show More
10) Investing as a multi-stage fund into Europe's top startups with Deepka Rana, Principal @ Northzone
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 ph...Show More