The Invested Investor

Dr Elin Haf Davies is both tenacious and personable. In this week’s podcast she shares her professional journey and her love of extreme physical adventures. Elin’s career began as a paediatric nurse at Great Ormond Street hospital. After 20 years of clinical, research experience and gaining her PhD she founded Aparito.  The company provides a solution to the ever changing challenges of bringing innovative drugs to market by offering a patient-centric design of wearable long term monitoring devices. Aparito’s data collection is key to monitoring patients, allowing to feed into care plans and treatment pathways. Whilst their wearable devices enable the delivery of an effective and personalised treatment.

Jon Bradford has been described as the ‘godfather of European accelerators’ for good reason. Jon is one of Europe’s most experienced early stage investors with many accomplishments under his belt, including recently being honoured at The Europas Awards. This week on the invested investor we gain an insightful look at Jon’s journey from founding the Difference Engine through to his more recent achievements. As co-founder of F6S, Jon has established the social network as one of the worlds largest platforms for entrepreneurs, as well as co-founding Tech.eu which has risen to become Europe’s premier tech news site.

Katy Tuncer, serial founder and leadership coach is this week's guest on the Investor Invested podcast we are delighted to welcome her back. As the founder of Horizon37, Katy explains her philosophy and approach to leadership coaching and talks us through her vision. Horizon37 offers leadership coaching, board facilitation, strategic consultancy, bespoke workshops and courses for high impact, senior leaders, entrepreneurs, angels, founders, and Invested Investors. Katy is a recognised inspiration, having gained the Prime Ministers’ Point of Light award in 2016 and, in 2014 being listed in the BBC top 100 women list.

Tomi Davies is our welcome guest this week. Tomi discusses his awareness of a strong social responsibility and how he feels this is knitted together with his commercial and technological talents. The President of the African Business Angel Network (ABAN) and co-founder of the Lagos Angel Network (LAN), he sits on the board at MBO Capital and TextNigeria. Tomi has outstanding experience building large-scale, technology enabled systems projects in the US, Europe and Africa, which was gained from a variety of executive leadership roles with influential global brands including Ernst & Young, Marks & Spencer, Elf Aquitaine, Sapient and the One Laptop Per Child project. Tomi’s personal goal is to help "drive the development of Africa through entrepreneurship that is creating social and economic value using technology”.

Max Bautin connects with the  Invested Investor podcast this week. Co-founder and partner in IQ Capital, a Cambridge based deep tech, seed and early stage VC fund, focusing on a portfolio of start-ups, within the UK. Max offers us an insightful glimpse into his world, a compelling listen. Max is a seasoned member of the Cambridge Angels syndicate, a council member of Invest Europe, the governing body for the association of European VC’s and a board member of Thought Machine, to name just a few of his undertakings.

Inger Anson shares her commercial perspective on legal counsel in business and early-stage investing in this weeks’ acutely insightful and useful podcast. Inger is a partner and the gregarious, head of the Cambridge office of Harrison Clark Rickerbys Ltd which is well located to meet the needs of the Cambridge scientific and biotech ecosystem. Along with the highest levels of integrity, Inger offers a level of transparency and trust that simplifies and eases the legal process, and enables clients to gain confidence in her.

In this edition of the Invested Investor podcast, we immerse ourselves in the world of IP.  We talk with the acutely, insightful Zeev Fisher, founder of Pekama, a Cambridge based IP company. Zeev saw the need for innovation and has since, initiated change within the IP space, for both IP owners and attorneys. Bringing the international IP community together, sharing work and offering both simplicity and clarity to IP management, Zeev shares valuable advise and offers his top tips for entrepreneurs and invested investors.

In this weeks Invested Investor, podcast, we are pleased to introduce, former scientist, Luke Hakes. An accomplished deep technologies investor with numerous successes under his belt, including Magic Pony and Eve Sleep, to name just a couple. Luke is happy to talk to us about some of the failures he has experienced too, and gives us his practical advise on people, timing and gaining the right investors.  Luke is a talented, Invested investor and partner in Octopus Ventures, Chairman of the University of Manchester’s commercialisation company, UMI3, Director of The University of Manchester Global Leadership Board and an angel investor specialising in the AI and Genetics space.

This week on the Invested Investor podcast we are pleased to bring you the enthusiastic and determined, iconoclast, Gemma Milne. A creative, innovation strategist and freelance tech and science writer. Gemma gives us an insight into her deep passion for all things tech and how she has been driven by the desire to support new innovation and science start-ups. She co-founded Science:Disrupt, a platform which offers investment pitching advise to science start-ups and helps invested investors track down new talent. Gemma also sits as an expert advisor on the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 panel, which judges applications for funding from science and deep technological start-ups and gives us her measured perspective on the effects of Brexit.

This week at the Invested Investor podcast, we are pleased to be joined by the personable, Ofri Ben-Porat.  Co founder and CEO of the highly successful and innovative, London based, SaaS data analytical and personalised marketing company, Pixoneye. He shares his varied journey from college campus to his current success and lets us in on his top three, valuable tips; think big and raise big, hold onto your tech, keep it in-house and share the burden with a valued co founder. We hope you enjoy listening to Ofri as much as we have.