20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 19 features Anthony Danon, Founder of Rerail, the latest Solo GP Fund to enter the European ecosytem. Anthony has spent 10 years in fintech as an operator, VC and angel, having done 35+ investments, with a portfolio including, Primer, TrueLayer, Wayflyer and many more. And on Monday 14th October, he announced Rerail I, an angel fund backed and supported by founders and operators. He invests $200k-$500k chec...
Oct 17, 2024•47 min•Season 2Ep. 6
20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 18 features Reece Chowdhry, Founder of Concept Ventures, now the UK’s largest dedicated pre-seed fund. Together, Reece and Concept Ventures have invested in over 100 startups, including some of the UK’s fastest-growing companies, such as unicorn Elevenlabs, Treefera, and VSim. The format for 20Angel is consistent across show, with questions including: What are some of the non-obvious things they look for wh...
Oct 09, 2024•42 min•Season 2Ep. 5
20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 17 features Philipp Moehring, Co-Founder of Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company (Tiny), One of Europe's most active pre-Seed investor with 350+ investments. His portfolio includes companies such as Sorare, Synthesia, 11x.ai, Amie, Wayve and many more . Previous to starting Tiny in 2017, Philipp was an investor at Seedcamp and AngelList. The format for 20Angel is consistent across show, with questions incl...
May 02, 2024•38 min•Season 2Ep. 4
20Europe is a new series profiling European ecosystems. Each episode is a roundtable format featuring investors based in countries including Germany, France, UK, Sweden and more. Half of the show will focus on how these local ecosystems operate, with the other half focused the tech and venture landscape. For Episode 3, we profile the UK. I was joined by Julien Bek, Partner @ Sequoia Capital, Georgia Stevenson, Partner @ Index Ventures & Finn Murphy, GP @ Nebular.
Apr 17, 2024•39 min•Season 2Ep. 3
20Europe is a new series profiling European ecosystems. Each episode is a roundtable format featuring investors based in countries including Germany, France, UK, Sweden and more. Half of the show will focus on how these local ecosystems operate, with the other half focused the tech and venture landscape. For Episode 2, we profile France. I was joined by Roxanne Varza, Director of Station F, Jonathan Userovici, Partner at Headline & Reza Malekzadeh, Partner at Partech.
Mar 15, 2024•36 min•Season 2Ep. 2
20Europe is a new series profiling European ecosystems. Each episode is a roundtable format featuring investors based in countries including Germany, France, UK, Sweden and more. Half of the show will focus on how these local ecosystems operate, with the other half focused more generally on the tech and venture landscape. For Episode 1, we profile Germany. I was joined by Filip Dames, Co-Founder of Cherry Ventures and Dom Wilhelm, Headline Ventures most recently announced Partner. The format for...
Feb 20, 2024•38 min•Season 2Ep. 1
20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 16 features Joakim Achren, angel investor & co-founder of Next Games, acquired by Netflix in 2022. Joakim also built Elite Game Developers, an online resource that helps entrepreneurs in starting their first games company. The newsletter and podcast have a combined number of over 10,000 subscribers. He is also an angel investor with a portfolio including Audiomob, Funcraft, Resolution Games, Lightheart ...
Nov 23, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 16
20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 15 features Paul Forster, angel investor & co-founder and former CEO of Indeed, the #1 job search and recruitment service worldwide, now with 12k employees and $7bn in revenue. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and Master’s degrees from Cambridge & Oxford Universities. He is also one of the UKs most prolific angel investors, with 80+ portfolio companies including Gocardless, Monzo, Lightdash, Habito and m...
Oct 27, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 15
20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 14 features Finn Murphy, angel investor & previously a Partner at Frontline Ventures, where he made 24 fund investments and 8 angel investments in his 4 and half year tenure. In that time, he has seen 3 companies through to exit with Workvivo selling to Zoom, Overwatch to Benchling and Modulz to WorkOS. He’s also backed companies including Localyze, Conduktor, Unleash, Thursday and Qualio. Today’s episo...
Sep 20, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 14
20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 13 features Marc McCabe, angel investor & solo GP of Nomad Capital, a seed stage fund focused on B2B software and marketplaces. Prior to starting Nomad, Marc worked at Google, SV Angel and was an early employee at Airbnb where he led numerous projects including Airbnb for Business and Samara. Marc has also been an active angel as a Sequoia scout and micro-fund manager, investing in the seed rounds of In...
Aug 30, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 13
20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 12 features Steve O'Hear, CEO and Founder of strategic communications agency, O'Hear & Co, and an executive at Zapp. Previously, Steve spent over 15 years as a technology and business journalist, including more than 10 years reporting for TechCrunch, covering European startups and venture capital. He was also a startup founder himself, as CEO of social question & answer platform Beepl, before it exi...
Aug 16, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 12
20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 11 features Mark Cummins, a 2x exited founder and long-time angel investor. He was the CEO and Co-Founder of computer vision company Plink, which became Google's first ever UK acquisition back in 2010. He then went on to co-found Pointy, a retail search company, which was also recently acquired by Google. Mark has also been angel investing for over a decade, with investments in 35 companies to date, includi...
Aug 09, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 11
20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 10 features Jens Lapinski, one Europe's most active angel investors. He is the Founding Partner of Angel Invest, an angel fund which has invested in 100+ companies. Formally, he was an MD at Techstars, Partner at Forward Labs (now Forward Partners) and co-founded aiHit, which was acquired in 2015. Some of his angel portfolio includes Lemon Markets, Everphone, Impala, Ivy & Index Health. The format for 2...
Aug 02, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 10
20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 9 features Roxanne Varza, Director of Station F, the world's largest startup campus, located in Paris. She is also an angel investor, Sequoia Scout and previously had roles at Techcrunch and Microsoft. Some of her angel investments include Figures, Claap, Folk and many more. The format for 20Angel is consistent across show, with questions including: What are some of the non-obvious things they look for when...
Jul 14, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 9
20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 8 features Johan Brand, Co-Founder of Kahoot!, a Norwegian online game-based learning platform that has raised over $500m, and as of July '23, is valued over $1.3bn. Johan is also the Co-Founder of We Are Human, which builds and invests in technology enabled companies creating a better world. He is also an angel investor with a portfolio including Playpulse, Nomono, Perlegom Shifter, Skyfri and many more. T...
Jul 07, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 8
20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 7 features Sarah Drinkwater, angel investor and Founder of Common Magic, an early stage fund backing products built with community at their core. Previously, she spent 15 years as an operator and angel investor in the European ecosystem with a focus on community building, including leading Google's physical space for startups in London. Her angel investments include Briefly Bio, NearSt, Otterspace, Progress...
Jun 30, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 7
20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 6 features Andy Ayim MBE, angel investor and co-founder of The Angel Investing School, which has a vision to empower a new generation of angel investors. He has personally invested in over 12 startups such as Farmlend, Ava Estell and Whering. He is also an Atomico Angel. The format for 20Angel is consistent across show, with questions including: What are some of the non-obvious things they look for when inv...
Jun 21, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 6
20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 5 features Matt Robinson, Co-Founder of Fintech Unicorn, GoCardless, and Co-Founder of Nested. He is also one of Europe's most prolific angel investors with over 200 investments. Some of the companies he’s backed include Permutive, Cleo, Codat, Hopin, Incident.io, Lokalise, Pento, SoRare, Yapily, and many more. The format for 20Angel is consistent across show, with questions including: What are some of the ...
Jun 14, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 5
20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 4 features Joe Cross, Angel Investor and ex Head of Marketing & Comms at Wise (Transferwise). Joe is also part of the Atomico Angel Programme and his angel portfolio includes Bonnet, Lightyear, Gaia, Alloy, Julienne Bruno and many more. The format for 20Angel is consistent across show, with questions including: What are some of the non-obvious things they look for when investing in a company? How they w...
Jun 07, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 4
20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 3 features Carmen Alfonso Rico, Angel Investor and Co-Founder of Cocoa Ventures, a European micro VC that invests $250k-$500k checks at pre-Seed & Seed. Cocoa positions itself as an entrepreneur’s in house VC, helping their founders hack the system from the inside, with independent & unfiltered investor insights. Their portfolio includes Hopin, Tesseract, Speckle, Atlar, Sidequest and more. The form...
Jun 02, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 3
20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 2 features Andreas Klinger, Founder of Remote Capital, a small fund by remote founders, operators and early investors, investing in the next generation of global work opportunities. Investments include Mainstreet, Remote.com, Hopin, Microacquire and many more. Andreas has also worked for a lot of startups that you will recognise, including AngelList, Product Hunt, OnDeck and Coinlist... startups that enable...
May 30, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 2
20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 1 features Henry de Zoete, Founder of YC backed Look After My Bills, which became the largest auto-switching service in the UK, saving families money on their gas and electricity. It was acquired by GoCo Group PLC (owners of GoCompare) in July 2019. Look After My Bills also secured the best ever deal on Dragons Den. Henry has invested in over 100 startups, including ZBiotics, Zen Educate, Devyce, Organise, ...
May 29, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 1
