The Exploratory Journey

In this episode Annalisa speaks about her journey from Law student to interning in venture capital, how she ended up angel investing and what her day-to-day looks like as a trainee commercial lawyer. Annalisa touches, on failure, the need to be open to new opportunities and constantly learning, and what the future of the legal industry looks like with the impact of technology in the sector. 

Sophie is the co-founder and co-CEO of Roleshare.com. She's building the world’s best-shared skills platform to enable a sustainable, diverse, and happy workforce, which matches professionals looking for part-time work together for full-time roles, and helps businesses find untapped talent for their roles and reduce turnover.

In this episode, Sophie discusses her move to the UK and what it was like to build a startup whilst raising children.

Leo is a co-founder and partner at Form Ventures, an early-stage VC focused on markets shaped by public policy and regulation.

In this episode, Leo touches on his experience setting up a fund, and working at the intersection of policy, technology and innovation. 

Tanya is an LSE student, the founder of Championing Youth Minds, and a diversity and mental health advocate.

In this episode, Tanya speaks about looking after ones mental wellbeing as a student, developing diversity in the workplace, and what it was like to start a non-profit as a student.

Ben is the founder of Crafty Counsel, a business media company focusing on legal, producing content, managing community events, creating insights, and working with partners via their agency, Crafty Counsel Studios. They have a special focus on in-house counsel and other corporate legal department professionals.

Prior to setting up Crafty Counsel, Ben worked as the Group Corporate Counsel at Global Fashion Group and spent 6+ years as a corporate finance lawyer at Clifford Chance. 

In this episode, Ben discusses his career journey and touches on the future of legal careers. He also discusses the evolving nature of technology and its impact on the legal profession.

Nikita is a former LinkedIn strategist and Oxford graduate turned edupreneur. She is on a mission to democratise education as a way to mobilise people around the problems that matter. Nikita went from being a linguist to working as a startup scout and VC analyst in Latin America's startup ecosystem for a year before founding her own startup, Unbox, during COVID-19, which connected students to opportunities in the startup space. She then kickstarted her career in tech by joining LinkedIn as a strategy analyst. Today, Nikita creates content at the intersection of education and the future of work and is focused on changing the way people think about lifelong learning.

Peter is Partner at Social Impact Capital. Covering the West Coast and Europe, Peter is the ‘Head of Network’, in charge of the acquisition, development, and management of all key external relationships pivotal to the firm and funds’ performance.

Prior to joining Social Impact Capital, Peter was Head of Business Development at RCI, an investment technology and alternative lending platform backed by 8VC and Soros Fund Management. Before that, Peter created both an early-stage AI venture capital firm focused on investing in companies using machine learning in high-impact areas of application, along with a specialist strategy and management consultancy for institutional investors.

In this episode, Peter discusses his career journey and how he went from an English student to a VC. He speaks about the long-term positive benefits the venture capital industry can have in the world, alongside providing some incredible advice for the next generation of investors. 

Mike is a startup & social enterprise lawyer and a Senior Associate at London Law Collective. He believes that mission-led business should be business as usual, and helps founders navigate funding rounds and everyday company issues. His clients range in size from day one up incorporations to Series B. He also previously trained at the international law firm, Hogan Lovells. 

In this episode Mike discusses his career journey and how he ended up in social enterprise law, he also speaks about the future of social enterprise and provides an insight into some of the legal mistakes early-stage founders make.

Andrew is a Founding Partner of 7percent Ventures. He has over 20 years of expereince in technology, and has founded 6 startups; he's also been an investor since 2014. 

Some of his past investments include Oculus VR (sold to Facebook), Source DNA (Apple), Magic Pony (Twitter) and Blue Vision Labs (Lyft). He loves investing early in startup teams with transformative ideas and moonshot ambition.

In this episode, Andrew talks about his career journey and transitioning into venture capital. He speaks about what it was like setting up a VC fund, and provides some valuable advice for founders when fundraising.

Adele is a barrister with a wide range of advocacy and investigations experience and is currently a Managing Associate in Orrick's Data Privacy, Cyber Security & Investigations practice based in London. 

Before joining Orrick, Adele worked for two years on a global investigation into allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption, resulting in settlements with the UK Serious Fraud Office, French Parquet National Financier, U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of State. Prior to her work in private practice, Adele practiced at the independent Bar for five years. She has experience in prosecuting and defending in a wide range of criminal law cases and has developed a practice focusing on fraud, white-collar crime and regulatory law. Adele has conducted secondments with the Serious Fraud Office and Crown Prosecution Service on high profile banking fraud cases, as well as internships with the International Criminal Court and the New York State Division of Human Rights.

In this episode, Adele discusses her career journey and what prompted her to transfer from the criminal bar to private practice. She also speaks about the future of Data Protection & Cyber Security, whilst also providing some valuable advice for aspiring lawyers, trying to figure out where to take their careers.