Silicon Real

WATCH: https://londonrealacademy.com/episodes/alex-macpherson-octopus-ventures/Alex Macpherson - Octopus Ventures.Silicon Real - Entrepreneurs In Tech.Octopus Ventures has a clear mission: to be the preferred venture capital house of the most talented entrepreneurs.Octopus Ventures on Twitter: http://twitter.com/OctopusVenturesIn their own words:"We back teams with the potential to build big businesses. Our focus is on identifying entrepreneurs and fast-growth companies that can scale explosively to create, transform or dominate an industry. We partner with entrepreneurs, we don’t just invest in them, and we work tirelessly to make them as successful as they can be. We have a proven track record of helping build exceptional global businesses, including graze.com, Secret Escapes, SwiftKey, and Zoopla Property Group."Octopus Ventures: http://octopusventures.comSUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE: http://bit.ly/SiliconRealMore Silicon Real:http://www.siliconreal.comhttp://www.twitter.com/SiliconRealhttp://www.facebook.com/SiliconRealhttp://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/silicon-real/id668705287?mt=2

WATCH: https://londonrealacademy.com/episodes/jeff-lynn-seedrs/Silicon Real - Entrepreneurs In Tech.Seedrs makes it simple to buy into the businesses you believe in and share in their success.In their own words:"We let all types of investors invest in businesses they believe in and share in their success. We let all types of growth-focused businesses raise capital and business community in the process.We do all of this through a simple, highly professional, online process that protects and empowers investors while helping businesses grow and generate returns.We are equity crowdfunding done properly."---------------------------------Seedrs: https://www.seedrs.com/---------------------------------Jeff Lynn on Twitter: http://twitter.com/JeffSeedrsSeedrs on Twitter: http://twitter.com/SeedrsSUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE: http://bit.ly/SiliconRealMore Silicon Real:http://LondonRealAcademy.com/silicon-realhttp://www.twitter.com/SiliconRealhttp://www.facebook.com/SiliconRealhttp://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/silicon-real/id668705287?mt=2

WATCH: http://londonrealacademy.com/episodes/alice-bentinck-entrepreneur-first/Alice Bentinck is the co-founder of Entrepreneur First, the leading pre-seed investment programme for Europe’s best technical founders.After McKinsey & Co, Alice turned down an offer from Google to found Entrepreneur First. Alice taught herself to code, and founded Code First: Girls in 2013 to help more women get into tech.Alice sits on the board of Sherry Coutu‘s Founders4Schools, is on Imperial College London’s Department of Computing Industrial Liaison Board, and acted as the Prime Minister’s expert on startups at the Northern Future Forum.Alice has been recognised in Management Today’s 35 under 35 and the Evening Standard’s Top 1000 most influential Londoners.Alice Bentinck on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AliceBentinckEntrepreneur First on Twitter: http://twitter.com/efLDNWATCH MORE SILICON REAL EPISODES:http://londonrealacademy.com/silicon-real/

BLAST FROM THE PAST: Kevin Hartz - Founder & CEO of EventbriteVideo:http://www.siliconreal.com/episodes/2015/5/13/blast-from-the-past-kevin-hartz-founder-ceo-of-eventbriteSUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE:http://bit.ly/SiliconRealVIP EMAIL LIST:http://bit.ly/SiliconRealVIPThis week on Silicon Real we're digging into the archives to bring back one of our most popular guests ever - Kevin Hartz, the Founder & CEO of Eventbrite.Kevin's episode originally aired back in July 2014 and was an instant hit. As the Founder and CEO of Eventbrite, Kevin Hartz has quite an impressive C.V.  Not only does he run the world's leading self-service ticketing platform with $200 million of investment that has processed over 200 million tickets worth over $2.5 billion, he has also personally invested early in PayPal, AirBnB and Pinterest among others.But Kevin isn't your typical Silicon Valley CEO.  He is introspective and philosophical noting that Eventbrite has been fortunate over the years to ride the waves of other successful technologies like Google search and SEO.  He is also aware that in our ultra-connected social media world, us humans ultimately crave real, in-person interactions and events.Those that watched or listened to it the first time round will know it's well worth revisting, but for those of you that are new to the show, strap in and prepare for a fascinating episode with the head of one of Silicon Valley's true success stories.https://www.eventbrite.co.ukMore Silicon Real:http://www.siliconreal.comhttp://www.twitter.com/SiliconRealhttp://www.facebook.com/SiliconRealhttp://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/silicon-real/id668705287?mt=2

Alex Stephany - CEO of Just ParkFULL EPISODE: http://www.siliconreal.com/episodes/2015/4/28/alex-stephany-ceo-of-just-parkAlex Stephany is the CEO of a startup called JustPark. They're a small team (28 people by February 2015) and have managed to attract some of the foremost talent in the London tech scene as well as investors like BMW and Index Ventures. They are laser-focused on fixing parking: one of the most dysfunctional aspects of city life.

Sarah Drinkwater is the head of Campus London, Google's first physical hub for startups, providing work and event space, mentorship and education programs, as well as access to a vibrant startup community.Prior to Campus, Sarah led a global team of community managers around Google Maps, inspiring local experts to contribute their knowledge to the review platform, while also launching Campus for Mums in the UK as a volunteer project. Before Google, she ran the UK wing of European review site Qype, consulted on social media for household name brands and was a features journalist for UK magazines and newspapers.Sarah mentors social impact entrepreneurs through Bethnal Green Ventures and female founders through Entrepreneur Academy.

Daniel Murray Founder & Chief Marketing Officer of GrabbleDaniel Murray Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Grabble which provides “instant, shoppable fashion content that can be bought on the go, by users, in just a couple of swipes.” also known as “Tinder for fashion”They host products from 1,500 brands such as Topshop, and Zara.Since launching the app in August, 80,000 users have signed up, grabbing more than 500,000 items, and generating £100,000 in tracked transactions.Currently the Number 1 ranking fashion app in the UK (during London Fashion WeekThey just raised £1.2m from a consortium of high-profile angel investors like Skimlinks chairman Alex Hoye and Marc Boyen which backed Pinterest and Jamal Edwards’ SBTVhttps://www.grabble.com/

Stephen Rapoport, Founder of Pact Coffee which delivers freshly-roasted, speciality coffee to customers across the UK.He's secured over £2.5m in investment from the likes of Taavet Hinrikus (TransferWise), Ian Hogarth (Songkick) and Robin Klein (Index Ventures)He now sells over 10 tonnes of coffee per month, with revenue growth of 20% month on month.Formerly he built and sold the apartment-sharing site Crashpadder to Airbnbhttps://www.pactcoffee.com/

Alicia Navarro, the CEO & Co-founder of Skimlinks which helps publishers earn revenues and gain insights from their commerce-related content.They automates the affiliate marketing process turning product links into revenue-generating affiliate links.Skimlinks works with 1.5M sites around the world, and drive annual e-commerce sales of $625M through our platform. They have 80+ people in London, San Francisco and NYC, and work with publishers such as the Independent, Hearst, and Gawker MediaShe are the child of Spanish migrants to Sydney, Australia, where she grew up and got her computer science degree.

Nic Brisbourne who is the Founder of Forward Partners, an investment business which works with e-commerce companies from raw idea through to Series A, offering a package of investment, proven methodologies & office space.He has 15 years experience in the venture capital industry investing in over 25 companies in London & Silicon Valley as a Partner at the venture capital firm DFJ Esprit (Simon Cook)He also author Europe's most popular VC blog: The Equity Kicker.

ALEX TORRES, who recently joined public transit app company Moovit as its vice president of global product marketing.Prior to this he worked at Google for more than 9 years launching Google Site Search, Working under Marissa Mayer (CEO OF YAHOO- FOR NOW) for Google Local and starting product marketing operations in Japan and Latin America for Google Enterprise (now Google for Work).$50million of funding from Nokia, BMW and Sequoia. Israeli Startup

Daniel Glazer who leads the Technology practice at the global law firm Fried FrankSince 2012 he's split his time 50/50 between London & NYC advising companies from early-stage start-ups to the Fortune 100He has a particular focus on helping London and UK-based high-growth startups and scale-ups with US expansion, US investment and US commercial matters, and helping US VCs and corporates better access and engage with the London tech community.

Philippe Botteri from Accel Partners, a leading venture capital and growth equity firm with $2 Billion under management in Europe and Israel and $6 Billion Globally.Philippe focuses on investments in security, cloud computing and digital services which includes the companies BlaBlaCar (board member), Docusign, and HailoAccel has offices in Palo Alto, New York City, London and Bangalore where you have helped build over 300 companies including Dropbox, Facebook, Groupon, Spotify, Squarespace, and Wonga.Phillipe before Accel worked in Silicon Valley for Bessemer Venture Partners, McKinsey&Co and before that the French Navy.

The Trampery is a London-based social enterprise that designs and operates spaces for entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation. They create beautiful working environments and help our members achieve impossible things. They cultivate strong multi-disciplinary communities that are rich in support and ideas.http://www.thetrampery.comThe Trampery started life in 2009 when it opened the first shared workspace in Shoreditch, the heart of London’s “Tech City”. Their founder is the sociologist and entrepreneur Charles Armstrong.

Suranga Chandratillake founded blinkx, the intelligent search engine for video and audio content in San Francisco and Cambridge in 2004.In 2012, Suranga stepped back from day-to-day management of blinkx to become the company’s first Chief Strategy Officer, an advisory role with a focus on strategy and technology development. He continues to perform this role and is a non-executive director on the company’s Board. Before founding blinkx, Suranga was the US Chief Technology Officer of Autonomy Corporation, responsible for growing Autonomy's research and development division in the United States.Suranga has a MA in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge. He also holds patents in the area of video discovery and online video advertising and was a 2012 recipient of the Royal Academy of Engineering's Silver Medal.Suranga joined Balderton Capital in January 2014 as a general partner.

Anastasia Emmanuel leads Indiegogo's Hardware, Design and technology for the UK encouraging crowdfunding growth for the largest global corwdfunding platform.

Matt Barrie is the Chief Executive of Freelancer.com, the world's largest freelancing marketplace Primarily connecting small businesses and individuals from the western world with freelancers in the developing world.He is an  adjunct associate professor at the University of Sydney and was picked by LinkedIn as one of the world’s most influential business thinkers.   (masters from Stanford in EE)

Nicolas Brusson is the co-founder and the COO of BlablaCar,  a company which connects drivers with empty seats to people looking for a ride.BlablaCar is the most active ride sharing community in Europe with over 10m members and growing at 2mm per quarter.Recently raised $100mm round led by Index Ventures with existing investor Accel PartnersPrior to BlaBlaCar he was a venture capitalist and also witnessed the 1999 tech bubble from a front row seat in Silicon Valley

Tom Valentine, Managing Director & Co-Founder at Secret Escapes which curates exclusive, members-only offers for 4 and 5 STAR hotels and holidays.More than £14m of INVESTMENT from angel investors and VC, such as Index Ventures and Octopus Investments.

Sam Shank is the Co- Founder & CEO of HotelTonight, the world's leading hotel booking app with 10mm downloads featuring over 10,000 hotels in 450 cities and 27 countries.