Scouting for Growth
Over 170,000 FinTech ventures are out there, including FinTechs, InsurTechs, HealthTechs, and WealthTechs. And the number keeps on changing every month. One statistic remains the same: 25% of these ventures have received investment and support from the financing world. 75% of these businesses still seek financing support from institutional and corporate investors alongside value-creating commercial partnership opportunities with Global Fortune 500 companies. Through this podcast series, I would like to demystify the world of corporate venturing, including how corporations collaborate with growth ventures, how venture capitalists and corporate venture capitalists make investment and collaboration choices in ventures and give tech founders and entrepreneurs, the strategies, tactics, tools, and techniques to build, grow and scale their business by understanding how those with financing power think. So, listen in, share and comment as you see fit.
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Dr Melissa Sassi: From BigTech To Building Vent...
On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Dr Melissa Sassi, CEO and Co-Founder of Skills Hustle, a pre-seed edtech company committed to closing the skills gap and transforming learners into earners.
52 min
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Brenden Kumarasamy: Delivering effective board ...
On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Brenden Kumarasamy, founder of Master Talk, a platform dedicated to nurturing top tier communicators in diverse industries. Breneden has honed his craft coaching executives and entrepreneurs helping them ascend into the top 1% of communicators in their fields.
38 min
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Brandon Leibowitz: Free Your Outreach With An S...
39 min
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Clemens Behrend: Web3, Bitcoin and Cryptocurren...
38 min
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Per Axberg: AI Driven Legal Contracts
37 min
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Cyrille Godinot: Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxu...
On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Cyrille Godinot, an industry titan whose career spans over 32 years across Marketing, Sales, Business Development, and Service Operations.
34 min
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Stephen Lathrope: Using Geospatial Data To Driv...
42 min
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Gary Garth: The Zero to 100 Million Sales Bluep...
36 min
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Amy Buchan Siegfried: Last Night’s Game
On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Amy Buchan Siegfried, an experienced founder, CEO, entrepreneur, investor, and speaker. Amy is the Co-Founder of Last Night’s Game, a platform that breaks down sports in an easy-to-understand way, through email and weekly podcasts. She also serves as the “on-air talent” and face for the company.
42 min
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Chris Hutchinson: Delivering Financial Rental R...
51 min
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Sean Boyce: From scaling SaaS products to enabl...
29 min
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Jay Weintraub: Connecting Complex Industries Wi...
43 min
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Nathan Stuck: What it Takes to Become a ‘B Corp’
On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Nathan Stuck, an award-winning leader in the B Corp community and the Founder & CEO of Profitable Purpose Consulting, a culture and impact consultancy that helps companies certify as B Corporations. He also founded and chairs B Local Georgia, a non-profit dedicated to growing the number of purpose-driven businesses in the Peach State.
46 min
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Tunde Salako: InsurTech Africa
On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Tunde Salako, an active entrepreneur within the Africa FinTech, HealthTech and InsurTech scene. Tunde wants to connect the dots between inclusion, insurance and technology In Africa.
39 min
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Pablo Duarte & Hilario Itriago: InsurTech LATAM
On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Pablo Duarte and Hilario Itriago, founders of InsurLab LATAM, a fast-growing insurance technology accelerator for startups wanting to enter the Latam market via Miami.
42 min
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Tim Lovett & Jeff Shi: Solving for small commer...
It’s not easy for small and medium size businesses to find the right protection, despite the fact that there are so many more small business opportunities that have emerged since the pandemic.
54 min
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Aaron Jones: Why considering Generative AI with...
On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Aaron Jones, an award-winning entrepreneur working in Artificial Intelligence. Aaron co-founded Yepic AI, a company in the generative AI space whose flagship product “vidvoice.ai” is a state-of-the-art video translation technology that dubs your lips in real-time.
40 min
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Tristan Pelloux: 1-0-1 on Scaling FinTechs
On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Tristan Pelloux, An expert who is passionate about FinTech and Innovation. After several years in Corporate Strategy and Finance at Virgin Money, Tristan decided to launch Strategwhy, an independent management consultancy. He is also the Chief Pencil Officer at Fintech Review, online media on the Fintech industry.
42 min
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Michael Doyle: Raising $5Bn of capital for grow...
On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Michael Doyle, a brand and capital raise Guru who founded Brand Iron 20 years ago. Michael combines his branding and market making experience with his investment reporting analyst strengths to shape a company dedicated to creating congruent brands supported by strong financial and investment stories. With this approach Michael helped companies he supported over the years raise over $5 billion of capital.
31 min
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Axel Thibon: Wizest... Investing Made Easy
On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine talks to Axel Thibon, creator of Wizest, the next generation of investment trading platforms. With his team, Axel aims to make personal investing more accessible, more engaging, and more consistent with today's digital platforms and changing consumer behaviour. Today, people think that investing is complicated and intimidating. What if there was a platform to pair novice investors with financial experts?
37 min
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Dennis Kelly: Digitizing direct mail with Posta...
On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Dennis Kelly, CEO and co-founder of Postalytics, a fast-growing software company that automates direct mail marketing, measures the results from direct mailing activity and connects such campaign to CRM and marketing automation systems to accelerate the way online marketing connects with offline marketing.
40 min
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James Marshall: Spinning Fox the product-led de...
On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to James Marshall, managing director of Spinning Fox, a product led design agency focused on helping large and small businesses solve problems more creatively. James has 11 years of delivery experience and a proven ability to manage super large global accounts having worked for companies including HSBC, Nike, Unilever, PepsiCo, Adidas, Dyson, Samsung, Barclays and Ford. He has a huge passion for creating tech and operational solutions to solve business and consumer problems and drive opportunities much faster than traditional approaches. On the podcast, the pair discuss: James’ journey into the design thinking and user experience world, why operational efficiency is so hot right now, the power of taking an outside in perspective, and good problem solving requires for us all to take calculated risk.
43 min
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Guillaume Bonnissent: Achieving digital underwr...
On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Guillaume Bonnissent, CEO and co-fonder of Quotech, a data provider and technology platform which aims to give access to the very best data to insurance practitioners - from executive decision-makers, brokers, underwriters, actuaries and even data scientists.
53 min
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Sara Simeone: 101 on NFTs With Niftyz
On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Sara Simeone, CEO and Co-Founder of Niftyz (formerly Digital Oracles), and Co-Chair of Start-up Working Group, Crypto Valley. Sara is a strategist with a commercial mind, she was one of the first to publish a paper in 2018 on how machine learning and blockchain will have an impact on the future of digital marketing. Sara worked with a portfolio of leading global accelerators, incubators and VC professionals to tackle company maturity and co-develop programmes that both nurture potential and offer innovative capabilities to early stage ventures. During the course of the podcast they address the metaverse, NFTs and Web 3.0, why Sara launched and developed NFTs and where the market for NFTs is going, and what are the investment challenges and opportunities to deliver for the immersive internet in the right way.
47 min
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Previsico's CEO + co-founder on predicting and ...
On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Dr. Avi Baruch, co-founder and COO of Previsico, and Jonathan Jackson, co-founder and CEO of Previsico. Previsico is a surface water flood forecasting specialist, enabling people and organisations to minimise the impact of flooding.
38 min