99% of AI investors will lose money -and that's expected. Oli Hammond, Fuel Ventures
Could the first wave of AI turn out to be a capital destruction event? On today's episode we're joined by Oli Hammond, Partner at Fuel Ventu...
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Angel Insights takes you inside the world of angel investing, startup funding and equity crowdfunding. Join our host Harry Stebbings as he interviews the world's most successful angel invest...
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The Google Maps of Heat Loss with Lucy Lyons, Co-founder & CEO of Kestrix
The UK is set to spend ~£15bn upgrading 5 million homes by 2030 — but much of the insulation we've already paid for is failing, and the way...
From Pig Farmer to Top 1% Angel Investor: Alister Esam's Framework for Backing Winners
How does someone go from Pig Farmer, to Actuary, to successfully exited Entrepreneur, and now top 1% Angel Investor? I sat down with Alister...
The £237 Billion Repayment Gap: Revolutionising Debt with Hannah Baynham (haboo money)
While the last decade of FinTech made accessing credit as easy as a single swipe, the technology behind repaying that debt remained stuck in...
Colin Van Ostern: Why Alumni Ventures is Betting on UK Venture Capital
In this episode, SyndicateRoom Co-founder Tom Britton sits down with Colin Van Ostern , the incoming Head of UK and EMEA for Alumni Ventures...
The 1% mission: why Europe’s climate tech future runs through industrial giants, not consumer apps
“We are looking for one thing: people who want to start a business in climate, and want to start it now .” In this episode of Angel Insights...
Profitability, Pivots, and Why AI Needs Trustworthy Data with Jessi Baker MBE
Join Tom Britton and Jessi Baker, MBE (Founder & Chair of Provenance), as they break down the brutal choices founders must make to build a r...
The Startup Building Edible Insulation to Tackle a 1.4 Gigaton CO2 Problem
Heating and cooling drive 40% of all energy-related CO2 emissions, yet 60% of that energy is wasted by bad insulation. Is there a better way...
Temperate: The Tech Beaming Heat Into Space to Disrupt the Trillion-Dollar Cooling Market | Angel Insights
Temperate: The startups building tech that beams heat into space and aims to disrupt the trillion-dollar cooling market Air conditioning con...
An angel’s prescription: Pam Garside’s guide to spotting winning health tech founders
Join us for a fascinating conversation with Pam Garside, a leading angel investor in the health tech sector and the first female chair of Ca...
Backing resilient founders from the CEO who turned Avon around during Covid
Angela Cretu spent 25 years at Avon, rising from area manager to Global CEO, where she led one of the most remarkable corporate turnarounds...
The wandering professional's discovery: how Jodie O'Keeffe turned three careers into angel investing mastery
In this episode, we explore Jodie O'Keeffe's fascinating journey from IT contractor in 1990s Australia to becoming one of Angel Academe's mo...
From late-night copy machine frustration to corporate revolution: how deployed tackles the billions spent on enterprise procurement
Standing at a copy machine at HSBC late one night, reviewing 50 statements of work that needed urgent attention, Kayleigh Kuptz had her ligh...
From Empty Planes to Full Pints: How Days Brewing is Redefining Beer for the Health-Conscious Generation
The last flight out of London carried just two passengers on that fateful March day in 2020. As Boris Johnson announced the UK's first lockd...
25 years of angel investing: hard-won lessons from Simon Blakey
How a biochemist turned management consultant became one of the UK's most experienced angel investors — and what new angels can learn from h...
SEIS or EIS? It shouldn’t be a question of one over the other..
On today's episode, we are joined by Aled Phillips, Co-Managing Director at Niche Private Clients, who helps us take an in-depth look at the...
How Deep Blue Biotech is reprogramming bacteria to produce chemicals and eat CO2
In a world searching for sustainable alternatives to fossil fuel-derived products, Deep Blue Biotech – a graduate of climate-tech-focused fu...
Moth Drinks: How a single litre of Chai Masala Old Fashioned turned into a global premium ready-to-drink brand.
In the latest episode of Angel Insights, we sat down with Rob Wallis, co-founder of Moth Drinks, a SyndicateRoom portfolio company revolutio...
Methane: the super warmer gas that everyone's overlooked —and the startup turning it into clean energy
While carbon dioxide (CO2) often dominates climate discussions, methane plays a disproportionately large role in global warming. "Methane is...
How Cocoon is tackling 7% of global carbon emissions
Cocoon was formed through the Carbon13 venture building programme with the desire to tackle the emissions produced by the world's secon...