• [01:53] What convinced you to begin yet another online fraud prevention company?
• [4:52] How did you structure your product, your team, and other aspects of your company to get quick time-to-value, your core promise to customers?
• [11:59] Could you tell us more about your hybrid model of sales? 
• [15:15] How easy is it to start a tech company in Hungary? And what are the biggest challenges of setting up a company and running it from Hungary?
• [17:26] Beyond product and unit economics, what else do you think a startup needs to do for a successful fundraise? 
• [19:52] Could you share your insights on some of the latest fraud trends?
• [24:34] Rapid round: Favourite book, productivity tool, city and quote

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Company: Seon

Book: 48 laws of power

• [2:10] - What was the initial concept with which you started Glovo?
• [7:44] - How has the tapering down of the pandemic affected your business?
• [10:17] - How do you deliver groceries in 10 minutes?  
• [17:36] - How profitable is your q-commerce business?
• [20:50] - How do you build loyalty in this business?
• [23:23] - What is justifying the huge amounts of capital being invested in this space?  What will determine who wins in this market?
• [25:49] - How do you as a management team and company keep your focus in this hyper-competitive market which has a lot of movement?
• [33:21] - What are some mistakes you made in building Glovo and what did you learn from it?

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Glovo

Healthtech and Healx

• [1:53] What inspired you to start focusing on rare diseases?
• [3:28] Could you define what rare disease means?
• [3:43] Why has what you’re doing never been done before? And how is your approach to drug discovery different from others?
• [5:53] What are the trends you’re seeing in this space? And what do you think is accelerating this high amount of investment in health tech?

Startup to Scaleup

• [8:16] Why did you bootstrap your company in the early stages and how did you execute with minimal resources?
• [10:18] Why did the inventor of Viagra - Dr. David Brown join Healx?
• [12:09] - What are some mistakes you made and what would you do differently now?
• [13:10] What should founders keep in mind while selecting investors for their startups?
• [14:57] Why did you raise series B so quickly after series A? Why did not just raise a larger Series A?
• [16:41] What adjustments did you have to make and how did you think about operating the company after going from bootstrapping to raising $ 70 million?
• [20:18] What has been the hardest thing about scaling?
• [21:46] How do you deal with making decisions in areas where you don’t have experience? And how do you manage the stress?
• [23:56] What are the future plans for Healx?

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Company: Healx

Book: The subtle art of not giving a fuck

• [1:42] How did you go from scuba instructor to insect farming?
• [4:24] I don’t see insect protein based food in the market, why so much funding in this space?
• [7:17] How do you actually do insect farming? What is the process of farming black soldier flies and creating proteins out of them?
• [10:31] With the recent Covid pandemic, do you think the perception against meat has shifted? What does this mean for the future of insect-based proteins? 
• [13:30] What does it take to be successful in this market?
• [18:09] Funding journey: How does funding for deep tech ventures differ from SaaS funding?
• [21:24] Advice for other entrepreneurs

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Entocycle

• [2:05] From where does your fascination for business and entrepreneurship stem from?
• [3:21] When you met Angela (co-founder), what fascinated you about her work and what made you think that this had commercial opportunities?
• [7:42] How did you determine which application to develop first? 
• [10:42] If you had to redo the phase of trying to find your first application, how would you do it differently? And how would you go about looking for a market for your product?
• [11:45] Once you identified the skincare industry, what did you do next to deliver what was needed for that industry?
• [13:29] How did you balance your personal and business life? 
• [19:23] Could you tell us about your hiring philosophy? What are some of the things that you have done well and what are some things that you would do differently?
• [22:14] What did you do to find the right investors in your early stages?
• [26:12] What stage are you in right now and what challenges are you working through?
• [27:10] - Where did you determine where to build your facility?
• [29:54] What is next for the Swedish Algae Factory? 

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Swedish Algae Factory

• [1:59] How did you come to focus on women-led businesses?
• [3:20] What do you think Europe has done to encourage women-led businesses and what more can be done?
• [5:06] What are the main barriers women face in attracting investments?
• [7:32] From an investor perspective, how do you balance the business objectives of revenues and scale when the founder is considering starting or expanding their family?
• [9:08] Do you see more women-led businesses coming out of specific parts of Europe?
• [12:27] What do women founders and companies looking for VC money have to do differently in the current environment? What are you looking for as an investor?
• [15:38] Tell me about a case where you missed investing in something - what happened and what did you learn from it?
• [17:07] When should women look for angel investors? 
• [20:36] How do you find angels who know your space?
• [23:01] How long does the due diligence stage take? 
• [23:50] Do you feel angel investing for small ticket amounts and really early stages has decreased?

• [2:18] How did you come to joining Bramble as employee #1?
• [6:12] How did you organize yourselves with three founders, in terms of responsibilities, in the beginning, and how that has evolved now?
• [8:16] What is the right time for ideas coming out of research institutions and universities to spin out on their own?
• [11:01] What is the funding journey for deep tech look like? What are some lessons learned? 
• [13:17] How did you operationalize your plans once the funding arrived?
• [17:50] Of all the things that you have accomplished with Bramble, what are you most proud of?
• [19:28] What did you do to build culture in your company that you are proud of?
• [20:06] On hiring
• [22:41] Are there things that happened as you grew Bramble that were challenging and now in hindsight you would handle them differently?
• [24:25] What’s next for Bramble?

Bramble

• [2:14] What does ESG really mean and where are we today?
• [10:27] What can startups do for ESG?
• [13:11] What triggered you to start Net Purpose?
• [20:11] How do you ensure businesses don’t make false claims about their environmental policies or make token gestures but have very little impact? How much can the data be trusted?
• [23:47] How did you figure out product-market fit?
• [33:39] How did you fund your initial journey?
• [38:06] What’s next for Net Purpose?

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Net Purpose

• [1:21] Your journey from VC to accelerator head
• [3:02] What stage does Malmo focus on?
• [3:59] What trends are you seeing in the fundraising landscape - on what’s working and what is not?
• [12:36] The problem of pre-seed funding in Europe and what can be done to fix it
• [25:58] How can people find the right angels if they don't have the network?

• [2:02] What inspired you to start CLUBZERØ?
• [6:42] How did you determine the market opportunity and feasibility?
• [10:37] How has your background in architecture helped you become an entrepreneur?
• [15:16] How did you prioritize what to do in the early days?
• [24:35] In 2018 and 2019 you were raising money, but had also had a baby. How was that experience and what would you say to other women entrepreneurs?
• [30:38] I’ve heard you say that confidence is your superpower. Where do you get your confidence from?

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