The Edventure Brief

Tune in to this inspiring #EdventureEmerge episode with Leesa Soulodre (R3I Ventures) and Rosaline Chow Koo (CXA Group), hosted by Kajol Patel (Deloitte). These incredible women dive into a range of topics, sharing wisdom and advice from why it’s never too late for a career pivot to why you should always speak to the person next to you on a plane. Rosaline and Leesa share their non-linear paths into entrepreneurship, discuss the challenges they faced as female founders and explore how we can get more women to be managers of capital.  

Read more about R3I Ventures here: https://www.r3iventures.com/ 

Read more about CXA here: https://www.cxagroup.com/

Want to enter the world of startups but unsure how to get there? Join Oliver and Ali in an exciting conversation where they discuss how to take initiative, find your path to entrepreneurship, and unlock new opportunities through networking. An LSE law graduate, Ali did not take the usual path of his peers. Instead, he joined Apex Airspace, the startup using modular construction to build units of housing on top of existing buildings in London. He shares his journey and the struggles he faced along the way from visa issues to university regulations – not to mention having no experience in real estate. Finally, he stresses the importance of long-term thinking and sincerely investing in your relationships.

Read more about Apex Airspace here: https://www.apexairspace.co.uk/

What is the future of EdTech? In this Edventure Emerge Panel, we try to answer exactly this question.  Raya Bidshahri (School of Humanity), James Lo (Mana), Taras Polischuk (Dorm), and Kourosh Ghaffari (Waves) walk us through their EdTech ventures while elaborating on which problems and gaps within the sphere of education their startups are tackling. We talk about the lack of engagement and enthusiasm in high-schoolers, disillusionment, and disappointment of students about the lack of preparation for "real life" jobs by universities, whose fees are on an upward trajectory. Our four guests then propose steps to reverse these trends and how their idiosyncratic approaches may do exactly that. 

Find out more about Edventure and Edventure emerge here: edventure.vc

Connect with Raya Bidshahri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rayabidshahri/

Find out more about School of Humanity: https://sofhumanity.com/

Find out more about mana: https://mana.live/

Connect with Taras Polischuk: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taraspolischuk/

Find out more about dorm: https://joindorm.com/

Connect with Kourosh Ghaffari: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kourosh-ghaffari/

Find out more about Waves: https://meetwaves.com/

Join Zara as she sits down with Robin Wauters, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Tech.eu, to discuss his path to journalism, why he founded Tech.eu, and the European tech ecosystem.

When he started eight years ago, people told him he couldn't build a publication about European tech. "It's too small", they said. Now, there are multiple publications covering European tech and Europe has 321 unicorns, increasing year on year. Yet, as Robin mentions, there is still a way to go for Europeans to reach the moxie and ambition of their American counterparts. Robin challenges the notion of creating mini Silicon Valleys around the world - arguing that we should think bigger. Rather than replicating Silicon Valley, Europe must forge its own legacy, building an ecosystem that plays to its unique strengths.  

Read more from Robin here: https://tech.eu/author/robin/

Join us for our most spontaneous talk from Edventure Emerge 2021, Europe's biggest conference for student founders and researchers. In this episode, we were joined by Fifty Years Venture Fellow Alejandra Borda, who bravely stepped in at a moment's notice for an impromptu discussion after a speaker no-show! We discussed a wide range of topics including women's health, the use of psychedelics to treat neuropsychiatric diseases such as PTSD and depression as well as for enhancement, and how novel startups in the sphere of biotech and health tech such as OURA, levels or Viome help people better understand their biology, both in health and disease. 

Find out more about edventure here: edventure.vc

Connect with Alejandra: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandra-borda/

Find out more about Fifty Years: https://fiftyyears.com/

In this episode, Grace Vella walks us through her journey of founding Miss Kick, the UK's largest community of female footballers. Grace elaborates on the importance of building a strong community around your brand and the benefits of having such a community both for marketing and awareness but also for shaping the brand of your e-commerce. She also discusses some of the challenges of building a e-commerce around a sport that is so male-dominated. Lastly, she shows us what a day in the life of a successful e-commerce CEO looks like. 

Connect with Grace here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gracevella/#

Find out more about MISSK KICK here: https://www.misskick.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA2sqOBhCGARIsAPuPK0jzGlwUoEIZDOm9K9CQjB0x1LIAVpJwuMUqfNl1Icuw02PcWWeqPO8aAo6gEALw_wcB 

Felix Eichler, CTO and Co-founder of Userlane, shares how entrepreneurship changed his life.  The talk is full of actionable advice on finding the right balance when running a startup, to avoid burn out and maximise for impact. He talks candidly about fear and uncertainty as a founder, and how to deal with them. He also shares his advice in four key areas (sleep, diet, sport and distractions) to improve your quality of life, energy levels and productivity - so that you have more time to pursue what you love! 

Forbes on Userlane: "Munich-based Userlane wants to make sure that if AI is going to replace human roles, people should be retrained and kept in work. To do that, it has built automated onboarding and training software created to assist people to understand any software instantly. It's raised more than $16 million to date from Five Elms Capital, amongst others." 

 Check out Userlane here: https://www.userlane.com/

Join for a discussion on remote hiring with Akshaya Dinesh, Phoebe Yao and Michael Ng. They discuss the advantages and disadvantages of hiring your first remote team, something that the COVID pandemic has made necessary but that is also likely to become common over the next few years. They also explore the importance of creating a company culture and what steps need to be taken to ensure this culture is maintained and fostered by all members of the team.  

Akshaya Dinesh is the founder of Spellbound, a startup reinventing the way businesses communicate. Find out more here: https://akshayadinesh.carrd.co/

Phoebe Yao is a Thiel Fellow and the founder of Pareto, helping professionals unlock targeted data on-demand. Find out more here: https://hellopareto.com/

Michael Ng is Co-founder and CEO of Stealth Startup. Find out more here: http://stealthstartup.com

Are you a purple cow? Because THAT is news. Tune in to Mike Butcher, editor-at-large of Techcrunch, as he shares how to cultivate a genuine and enduring relationship with the tech media and get your startup noticed. He breaks down the importance of who you contact, how to get their attention and what is actually considered as newsworthy (rather than a PR attempt).

In this episode, we're joined by technology evangelist, A.I. expert, and futurist, Tannya Jajal, as she explores and envisions a post-automation world. We live in an era of accelerating change. Experts say that we're now entering what will be known as the Imagination Era. Some of the most pertinent questions of our time are: what will the future of work look like in a post-A.I., post-automation world? What will the role of human beings be in a world where most of what can be outsourced to A.I., will be outsourced? What will creativity and innovation mean when humans co-exist with machines?

Read more of Tannya's thoughts at: https://www.tannyajajal.com/