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The Invested Investor

by New Books Network

A series of entrepreneurial podcasts, aimed at anyone who wants to create or is interested in successful start ups by learning from expertise, experience and war stories.

Episodes

Badge yourself founder not CEO

33m · Published 26 Jun 11:01

Emily Mackay, head of AI and data strategy at Congenica, Eco-entrepreneur and innovator in machine learning and data technologies, joins us this week. Emily tells us how her desire for order and efficiency led her to the world of data and how researching renewable energy sources led her to found Microgenius, a digital, community funding platform. Emily discusses her steep learning curve as the founder of Microgenius and Crowdsurfer. Continuing on to a difficult end to her working at TAB and then her prosperous new role at Congenica.

Innovation within core business disciplines

32m · Published 19 Jun 11:01

Simon Calver, chair of the UK Business Angels Association, founding partner and Head of Investments at BGF Ventures and Chair at NED Moo joins the Invested Investor podcast this week.

Simon expresses his story from his early days with large multinationals, his strategy for LoveFilm, the acquisition by Amazon and his time transforming MotherCare. Simon brings us up to-date in his engaging journey by sharing his insights into angel investing and his portfolio of companies.

Empires are built on trust

39m · Published 12 Jun 11:05

We are delighted to welcome Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea CBE DL to our podcast this week. Karan entertains us with his journey from a young entrepreneur of school age importing hockey sticks into the Uk from Calcutta, he gives us his insight into who influenced him to think like an entrepreneur and how that led him to found the Cobra empire. Karan goes on to explain why and how he has ended up bringing real world experience into parliament, he shares with us his tips on dealing with start-up growing pains and the biggest challenges he faced growing the Cobra brand.

Why 5G is the future

29m · Published 05 Jun 11:03

Telecommunications expert Rosalind Singleton joins the Invested Investor podcast this week. In her podcast she divulges that her accreditation was gained through experience and tenacity, which has compelled her to openly communicate her own expertise with others. Ros is the Chair of the UK5G Innovation Network Advisory Board, the Managing Director of UK Broadband and works closely with the department for Digital, Cultural, Media and Sport. She is also an active mentor and angel investor, concentrating on female led tech companies with Angel Academe.

"Icon of the year"

35m · Published 29 May 11:03

David Cleevely continues his vibrant story in part two of his Invested Investor podcast. David begins by discussing his reasons for setting up Cambridge Angels in 2001 and why his main focus now lies with his impressive investment portfolio. David co-founded Cambridge Wireless in 2001 and 3Way Networks acquired by Airvana in 2007, in the same year he co-founded and became Chairman of CRFS. David has a wealth of experience and insight to share including his links with the Centre for Science and Policy, the Cambridge Science Centre and the Raspberry Pi foundation before entertaining us with his take on the restaurant business and his successes, Bocca di Lupo and Gelupo. David has recently been recognised as “Icon of the Year” a Barclays award which celebrates the positive ways that entrepreneurs can change an industry, the economy and society.

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The original digitial architect

24m · Published 22 May 11:03

David Cleevely, Chair of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and co-founder of Cambridge Angels joins the Invested Investor podcast this week with an impressive story. David shares his early career highlights with us in part one of his fascinating journey. In the mid 70’s, David tells us he “cut his teeth” within PostOffice Telecommunications and how this experience taught him to think ahead, which influenced his subject choice for his phD at Cambridge during the 80’s. He also shares with us his time at the Economist newspaper group within the intelligence unit. David recalls how he went on to found Analysys which became the “go to” telecommunications consultancy of the time and his work with the European Commission. David talks about co-founding Cambridge Network, Cambridge Wireless and the biotech company Abcam, before finishing by touching on his consultancy for communications within the Department of Defence.

Changing the world through generosity of spirit

26m · Published 15 May 11:05

Suse Reynolds is welcomed to the Invested Investor for this week’s podcast. Suse shares with us her childhood dream of wanting to change the world and what lead her from a career in diplomacy to immerse herself in New Zealand’s angel investing space with the sole aim of creating world changing businesses. Suse founded and is the Executive Director of the Angel Association of New Zealand (AANZ), sits on the board of Creative HQ, co-founded Angel HQ and is a member of VicLinks momentum Investment Committee.

Overcoming the global identification challenge

22m · Published 08 May 11:05

Toby Norman is our notably inspirational guest this week. Toby is a social entrepreneur, passionate about empowering the global health community with high impact, cutting edge biometric technology in order to overcome the difficult lack of identification challenge faced by many developing countries. Toby is the co-founder and CEO of Simprints, the Cambridge based, non-profit technology company responsible for developing fingerprint recognition biometrics that are 98-100% accurate. Simprints is currently reaching 2.1 million mothers and children across 10 countries, the next challenge facing the company is to provide concrete evidence that the Simprint biometric is a frontline tool that positively impacts people lives.

From inventor to invested investor

27m · Published 01 May 11:04

Dr Ronjon Nag entertains us further this week with part two of his compelling podcast. Ronjon discusses his transition into angel investing and his preference for Cambridge and Silicon Valley based companies, his conversation highlights his good nature, creative thinking and openness to new ideas. He offers us his tips for angels, non-more important than ‘never follow, use your own mind’, and how he is a firm believer in serendipity. Ronjon has since become a fellow at Stanford University Distinguished Careers Institute, he enthusiastically promotes the benefits of returning to university later in life.

A bona fide pioneer of the mobile ecosystem

27m · Published 24 Apr 11:03

Dr Ronjon Nag inventor and serial entrepreneur is our prominent guest this week. In part one, Ronjon shares the fascinating start-up journey for his first three mobile technology companies selling out to Motorola and Blackberry. A pioneer of speech recognition and neural networks in the mid 1980’s, to the development of handwriting recognition AI and predictive text, Ronjon’s first company Lexicus was acquired by Motorola in the early 1990’s. His second company Cellmania concentrated on further mobile developments including a mobile search engine and the first App store in 1999, he sold to Blackberry in 2010\. A truly gripping listen with more to come next week, in part two.

The Invested Investor has 86 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 45:58:13. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 21st 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 6th, 2024 21:42.