Ragnarson Invest Podcast

Throughout this episode, we encourage you to think big and explore opportunities when becoming a partner. Kasia shared her personal story so you can find out the background of this decision, the deal’s organization, and all things you should take into consideration. Never mind if you want to become a partner or thinking about someone else joining the partnership – after listening you will have some things to study and a lot of noted tips!

Maybe your journey of becoming a partner in a company begins just here!

Scaling a business comes with its own set of challenges. In this episode, we discuss the difficulties that arise when a company grows, based on our own experience. We focus especially on:

- communication issues,

- new roles and the meaning of HR nowadays,

- company culture and how to make people understand it.

Tune in to learn more about it! We don’t give you ready-made solutions, but this uplifting feeling that you’re not alone in this. Even if in other companies everything looks great on social media. Trust it – it’s just social media.

When you have your own company or are deeply devoted to your work, it’s easy to become a workaholic. In this episode, you will learn how to avoid this way but stay highly performed at the same time.

As an entrepreneur or founder, running a business can often feel like a never-ending battle. That's why it's crucial to have a routine and healthy habits in place to help you stay productive and focused. Kasia and Maciek share with you their everyday must-haves, which support their careers. It’s all about this famous work-life balance, but we’re way more specific. If you are a newbie in the business world or just become an entrepreneur, you can’t miss it.

Tune in to episode #51 and discover the reality of being an entrepreneur, practical tips for managing your stress levels, and strategies for achieving a healthy work-life balance. Start improving not only your work life but your overall well-being too. Now!

The founder's perspective is our daily reality. An accelerator's perspective brings new insights into the start-up market, which we share with you through a talk with Gabriel from Elemental Excelerator. They have developed a mentoring program that takes a personalized approach to help founders reach their goals and achieve success. And of course, they’re climate-focused!

In this episode, we explore their unique approach to mentoring, the process of selecting companies for the program, and the values that both parties receive and contribute. It's a very people-based approach, focusing not only on numbers but all contexts and the desire to grow together.

What can work against greenwashing look like? Quality carbon credits are the answer. BeZero Carbon focuses on quality carbon rating, helping companies become transparent and have a positive impact.

In this episode, we talk with Tommy about his personal career which led him to BeZero Carbon, some industry insights, the importance of the quality in this sector, and non-voluntary options as well.

We also make some space for advice aimed at newbies, who don’t know how to focus just on one part of their sector. Of course, you will find out something more than “follow your heart” ;)

Are you a founder who's successfully convinced investors to trust in your startup?

Congratulations, you've taken a significant step towards fulfilling your dreams! However, the hard work doesn't stop there. Once you've secured the funding, you'll need to learn how to manage your investors effectively to ensure a successful business relationship.

Svenja Tegtmeier, from Saiz, had to learn this the hard way. Investor relations turned out to be more challenging than she anticipated. Managing multiple viewpoints and interests while making effective use of your time is no small task.

As investors in Saiz, we can attest to the importance of effective investor management. We're excited to share our experience and learnings with you. In our latest episode, Svenja opens up about the challenges and surprises she faced after closing their first round of funding.

Providing regular updates and creating space for feedback is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to effective investor management. Tune in to our latest episode to find out more.

You can often hear complaints about how the impact investing scene could be better. But that depends on your perspective. The state of impact investing looks a lot different when you’re the first one on the scene. That’s exactly the wide point of view that Wojciech Majewski has.

Dealing with investors and founders from Poland and the CE region, Wojciech has seen impact investing evolve and mature over the years. At first it was a struggle to get any funding and having to explain time and time again what impact investing is. Now he and his company see a lot more interested founders and organizations who are more aware that generating impact can help them scale their business.

That’s a whole lot of good news!

Tune into our podcast with Wojciech Majewski from Simpact to learn more about how the impact ecosystem has changed and expert advice on how to sell impact.

For companies that work in software development, diving right in to build a complete software product seems like a natural course of action. That’s exactly what Jamie Dujardin and his team at Altruistiq did. Until they learned the hard way that sometimes the best way to move forward in the tech world is to go analog.

Because what’s the point of investing tons of time and energy in software features that then turn out to be unnecessary to most users and clients? Why not instead manually provide features for specific clients, giving the builder time to implement feedback?

Because feedback doesn’t need to come from surveys after a product launch. It can come from real time collaboration while using the product that’s still in the works. Transparency with the client is key. If they know they’re working with a beta stage product they can be both more willing to provide feedback as well as suggest ideas of their own for more features.

Tune in to our podcast to learn more about why sometimes the best way to build software is to not build it at all.

When you think of carbon credits, companies reactively and unconsciously buying up credits to offset carbon emissions might come to mind. Thankfully, those days are becoming a thing of the past.

That’s not only thanks to a shift in mindset and evolving regulations. It’s also thanks to companies like goodcarbon that are paving the way for a new way of looking at carbon credits. By building a technical, Web 3-based platform, they cut out the middleman and allow project owners and companies to connect directly. Project owners can tap into the funding that they need to get their projects off the ground and companies can benefit from taking long-term climate actions.

And these aren’t just any projects. As companies lean in more to understand the impact they have and communities are increasingly concerned with biodiversity, goodcarbon has an astounding 170 criteria that it looks at before judging a project to be of appropriate quality. If that’s not an example of taking climate action seriously, we don’t know what is.

If you want to learn more about how it’s not just about planting trees, but more about planting a forest, tune in to our interview with founder Jerome Cochet.

ESG is a framework that helps companies to manage risks and opportunities related to environmental, social, and governance criteria. This aspect is increasingly important among investors during startup evaluation and due diligence processes.

One of the primary responsibilities of both parties is to align what ESG means in the context of a particular startup. For example, environmental risks would be more relevant to a startup focused on mining various ores than building new accounting software.

Tune in to our podcast with Hannah Leach from VentureESG to learn more about how to talk with investors about ESG and what the reporting looks like after the investment.