Digital Spaceship

Tune in as we chat with Hannah Leonard - Head of Marketing and Communications and Stephen Brittain - Co-Founder at Insurtech Gateway.

Insurtech Gateway is the only FCA authorised independent incubator + fund. It is the fastest place to build and launch an insurtech idea.

Hannah spent several years working at Insurance Post and Insurance Age Magazines, producing content for insurtech conferences and building a digital insurance community. Inspired by the potential of insurtech, she joined the Gateway team in early 2018 to head up Marketing and Communications. When she isn’t luring founders into the ocean for photoshoots, she is teaching yoga in Balham!

Stephen is an experienced innovation consultant with a deep understanding of startups, design, strategic innovation and translating this to investors. As Hambro Perks first Creative Director, he supported their growing portfolio (including Sipsmiths, Laundrapp, Takumi, TheDots) through early stage development and testing. Stephen is now focused on supporting insurtechs that can deliver high value customer experience.

We discuss:

Funding in the Insurtech space

Investment pitches

Innovation

Insurtech

What's on the roadmap

And much more…

This podcast is hosted by bluedropstudio.com a Digital Marketing and Creative Content Agency based in London, UK

Tune in as we chat with Sara Green - Co-founder and CEO at Canaree.

Sara is a serial entrepreneur, having launched her first company when she was just 16. Since then she started a number of companies as well as community organisations focused on entrepreneurship and innovation.

Danish of origin, she earned her M.Sc. from IT University of Copenhagen and has since worked in both San Francisco and London firstly as a management consultant and later as an innovative entrepreneur.

As an international public speaker, she enjoys sharing her passion about all things entrepreneurship and startups. She is actively involved in London’s startup and technology scene, and is passionate about inspiring diversity in the startup ecosystem.

Not one to shy away from a challenge, her latest venture is as CEO for Canaree, which aims to simplify the world of finance by creating financial models, forecasts and much more for pre CFO startups.

Canaree is a software platform helping early stage companies understand their future finances better, ultimately helping more entrepreneurs succeed.

We discuss:

Hiring Head of Growth

The journey to becoming a CEO

Ditching spreadsheets

What's on the roadmap

And much more…

P.S. We're not affiliated with these guys in any way, but they've been kind enough to drop our audience a 30% discount on their product by using the code: "spaceship". Honestly, an incredible product from what we can see, so definitely worth checking out if you're thinking financial planning and forecasting!

This podcast is hosted by bluedropstudio.com a Digital Marketing and Creative Content Agency based in London, UK

Tune in as we chat with Steve Jackson - Entrepreneur and Co-founder at Xoomworks.

Steve is an entrepreneur and business strategist, and has over 20 years experience starting, building and selling companies. His businesses have spanned consulting, outsourcing, recruitment technology and on-line games.

Steve is currently Co-Founder and Group COO of Xoomworks - a niche technology consulting and outsourcing business based in the UK, France, Germany, Romania and Bulgaria. Xoomworks works with high growth, tech driven companies and FTSE 100 businesses, to create competition-beating technology and implement core digital systems.

Prior to setting up his first company, Steve worked as a strategy consultant and IT project manager. Steve holds an MBA from INSEAD and a degree in Applied Physics from Durham University. He is an Honorary Professor of Entrepreneurship at Durham University; a Fellow of the Global Sourcing Association and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors.

Steve is a regular speaker on business and entrepreneurship at several European universities and business schools.

We discuss:

Ideation

Branding

Making critical decisions

What's on the roadmap

And much more…

This podcast is hosted by bluedropstudio.com a Digital Marketing and Creative Content Agency based in London, UK

Tune in as we chat with Adrian Maseda - Co-founder at Cheerfy.

Cheerfy is the customer engagement platform for restaurants, pubs and coffee shops. Cheerfy offers CRM, Loyalty, Online Ordering, Feedback and automatic digital engagement through personalised messages.

Adrian is Co-founder @Cheerfy, a Techstars company. He’s worked at various Sales and Exec roles at Telco corporations. Studied at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Exec Ed @HarvardHBS.

We discuss:

Pivoting and understanding what customers want

Co-founder dynamics

MVPs

Working pre-launch

What's on the roadmap

And much more…

This podcast is hosted by bluedropstudio.com a Digital Marketing and Creative Content Agency based in London, UK

Tune in as we chat with Ashleigh Cornelius - Founder and CEO at Localise.

Localise is on a mission to build a better future of the high street. It’s an Award winning Mobile App and ecosystem, controlled by Small Business Owners and powered by Shoppers.

We discuss:

Branding

Shifting vertices

Pivoting during Covid

What's on the roadmap

And much more…

This podcast is hosted by bluedropstudio.com a Digital Marketing and Creative Content Agency based in London, UK

Tune in as we chat with Sabba Keynejad - Co-founder at VEED.

Sabba is an award-winning Interactive designer turned entrepreneur who has trained at St Saint Martins, King's College and Y-Combinator.

VEED is a simple yet powerful online video editor, designed to make producing short-form video content simple and easy.

We discuss:

Being customer-centric

Listening to your customers

Building a brand internally and externally

Transitioning from creative to leader

What's on the roadmap

And much more…

This podcast is hosted by bluedropstudio.com a Digital Marketing and Creative Content Agency based in London, UK

Tune in as we chat with Alison Murdock - Founder and Chief Marketer at Trusted CMO.

Trusted CMO is a firm that offers global marketing teams the resources, experience, and talent to make a greater impact on their businesses.

Alison Murdock is a growth-focused, marketing executive with 25 years of experience building and scaling global marketing teams with an emphasis on establishing category leadership and product differentiation. Alison founded Trusted CMO in 2020 to help early-stage and growing startups fill gaps in their go-to-market initiatives

We discuss:

Remote working

Forming unique strategies

Branding and creative content

What's on the roadmap

And much more…

This podcast is hosted by bluedropstudio.com a Digital Marketing and Creative Content Agency based in London, UK

Tune in as we chat with Angela Conroy - Co-founder at Notarum.

Notarum conducts better due diligence checks faster at a fraction of the cost.

Angela is Co-founder and CEO of Notarum, a compliance workflow platform helping companies meet their regulatory requirements and protect their brand.

Originally a private equity lawyer she made the move into tech to resolve the frustrations she was having with an antiquated, manual system.

We discuss:

Pre seed Investment

Initial hiring

Co-founding

Entrepreneur programmes

What's on the roadmap

And much more…

This podcast is hosted by bluedropstudio.com a Digital Marketing and Creative Content Agency based in London, UK

Tune in as we chat with Nicolas Blier-Silvestri - Co-founder at Platypus.

Platypus empowers HR to uncover your organization's true culture. It’s the HR tech solution that helps you measure what people value at every stage of the talent lifecycle, from attraction to management to retention.

Over the course of his career, Nico has hired over 1500 people.

Both tactical and strategic he leads by example and considers himself a builder having worked in some great organisations under some amazing leaders (Yahoo!, Informatica, Trustpilot, Unity, Revolut etc..)

Nico has been a Speaker at Linkedin Talent Connect London, Login Vilnius, Unite Amsterdam and Nordic Recruitment Day Copenhagen among other events to discuss recruitment philosophies, company culture and other "people" subjects.

In January 2019 Nico had an epiphany moment and decided to start Platypus.io and bring a new angle to a data-driven approach to organisation culture. No more gut feeling, clear information about organisations values and the potential to impact every aspect of the talent lifecycle (attraction, management, retention).

Over the past 15 years Nico has lived and worked in France, The Netherlands, India, Ireland, the US, the UK and I am now settled in Denmark.

On the personal side he is a father of 4, and when time allows he is deep into rugby, cooking, gaming, gardening, lego and working on his house.

We discuss:

Building the right culture

From ideation to MVP

bringing data into the cultural aspect of organisations

Tech and HR

What's on the roadmap

And much more…

This podcast is hosted by bluedropstudio.com a Digital Marketing and Creative Content Agency based in London, UK

Tune in as we chat with Josephine Piplits - Founder and CEO at TripDoodler.

TripDoodler is a community-based travel planning tool designed to enable travellers to create cool adventures based on more sustainable travel choices

Josephine is a passionate traveller on a mission to create a more sustainable world of travel.

We discuss:

Crowdfunding

Building a sustainable travel platform

MVPs

Launches

What's on the roadmap

And much more…

This podcast is hosted by bluedropstudio.com a Digital Marketing and Creative Content Agency based in London, UK