SET Impact

Prior to the pandemic we spoke to Devika Thapar, Partner at Wilbe, who apply a holistic approach to science commercialisation through education, support and investment in science entrepreneurs solving some of the world’s hardest problems at scale.

During this conversation we will uncover : 

The process and attribute required to commercialise research We will be cover emerging applications and uses in climate change, Agritech, blockchain

And much much more

Our sponsors are

The Open Journal - A London video marketing agency that have assisted many Venture backed startups in London, - They have worked with previous guest of our include Zuzzane from sixfold bioscience and the did a fantastic job with Rayna and Georgina the founders of Vine Health and created a great video for their product launch.

if you want fair priced, world class video asset to assist your Marking/sales efforts, Recruitment videos, or even capture company events . -

Reach out to The Open Journal and speak to Priyesh who’s the founder, to explore how video can assist you in meeting your companies objectives on www.theopenjournal.co.uk

In today episode we spoke to Jeremy Dalton the Head of AR/VR at PWC, in this episode we discuss:

A link to PwC's Seeing Is Believing report - https://www.pwc.com/seeingisbelieving

Todays Sponser

The Open Journal - A London Video Agency that have assisted many Venture backed startups in London . They did a great job assisting a previous guest of ours Rayna Patel, CEO of Vine Health and did a fantastic job on their Product Launch . (As well as the Video version of our podcast) 

If you want fair priced, world class video asset to assist your Marking/sales efforts, Recruitment videos, Company Podcast and Events. Reach out to The Open Journal speak to Priyesh who’s the founder, to explore how video can assist you in meeting your companies objectives on www.theopenjournal.co.uk

In today episode we spoke to Hussein Kanji, capitalist, who runs Hoxton Ventures. He’s invested and sat on the boards of some amazing startups including Darktrace, Babylon Health, Deliveroo and many many more

In this episode we discuss

Todays Sponser

The Open Journal - A London video  agency that have assisted many Venture backed startups in London, if you want fair priced, world class video asset to assist your Marking/sales efforts, Recruitment videos, or even capture company events .

They did a great job on the video version of our podcast podcast, worked with our previous guest Rayna Patel CEO of Vine Health and assisted on their product launch and did a fantastic job.

Reach out to The Open Journal and speak to Priyesh who’s the founder, to explore how video can assist you in meeting your companies objectives on www.theopenjournal.co.uk

Advanced Ultrasound Diagnosis in the Palm of Your Hand.\  ThinkSono enable any healthcare worker worldwide to diagnose the deadly condition 'deep vein thrombosis'​ (DVT) at the point of care.  

In this conversation we talk about DVT and how well the company is doing, and also Fouad journey and what he's learnt

Alex Dundson is a SaatchInvest Partner, Bakery Co-Founder and investor in Farewill, Metomic, Citymapper, Kyra to name a few. 

In this podcast with Alex Dunsdon, we discuss: 

- His new venture 

- 'Potential' 

- The game of VC

  - What founders need to look out for. 

 - The pitfalls of scaling too early 

- Why he invested in the founders of Citymapper and Farewill

.Chris is Managing Partner at Playfair Capital.  He focuses his investing activities on seed (and pre-seed) deals in the UK and Israel. 

Chris is particularly interested in autonomous transportation, business and industrial automation (especially through AI, ML and computer vision), HealthTech (except diagnostics and therapeutics) and B2B SaaS. He loves finding companies operating in unloved/overlooked sectors that are ripe for disruption.  

Prior to joining Playfair, Chris held senior roles at plan.com including Sales Director, Head of Tech/BI and Head of Product Development. He was the 8th member of the team and over a 4 year period built an award winning sales team, introduced new products (organically and through acquisition) and lead the roll out of version 4 of the platform. Revenues grew to £50m in 2018 and the company ranked #1 in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100.  

In addition to his roles at plan.com, Chris worked on the re-launch/re-branding of Vannin Capital (another Bramden Investments' portfolio company which was acquired by Fortress Investment Group LLC in September 2019).  Chris has executed over a dozen angel investments across the UK and US in the past 10 years with three notable exits to date - Nearbuy Systems (acquired by RetailNext), MoPowered (LON:MPM) and Bidstack (LON:BIDS). He is passionate about investing in tech companies and supporting founders using his extensive operational and legal experience.  

In his previous life, Chris spent nearly a decade in the City as a transactional lawyer in the private equity team at Weil and the corporate team at Olswang. He has worked with some of the world’s leading private equity and venture capital funds on predominately international acquisitions, disposals and restructurings. At Weil, he spent time on secondment to the Silicon Valley office’s patent litigation team, UK-based food manufacturer Premier Foods and the Asset Protection Agency.  

He also setup a telecoms business offering discounted international calling from 14 countries in 2001 which he partially exited via an MBO in 2005.

AccuRx, are on a mission to change lives by bringing patients and their healthcare teams together.  Thay have built a world-leading healthcare communication platform

Their mission is simple - to change lives by bringing healthcare professionals and patients together. Their technology is revolutionising the industry and transforming how healthcare is delivered.  

Established in 2016 and now with £9m in Series A funding, accuRx is one of the UK's fastest-growing tech start ups. In our first year, we grew from only a few healthcare practices using our product to over 33% of the market. 

Today, over 50% of GP practices rely on Accurx. They are on a mission is to be the sole communication platform powering the NHS.

nPlan are building the worlds first system to understand construction project planning. They make use of heavy use of machine learning and deep learning to automate project management in the construction sector. 

Investor in nPlan include LocalGlobe, Pentech Ventures, Founders Collective

We cover the following: 

- What was the germ of the idea

- Project Management, the two trillion dollar problem 

- What product mistake he made, and how NPlan overcome them 

- Lesson he's learnt through his entrepreneurial journey 

Novoic is a London-based digital biotech startup using speech and language data to predict and understand brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

We delve into the following : 

- What Novoic are building

- His views on the healthcare sector 

- His experience of going through 'Entrepreneur First' accelerator programme