In our latest episode we have the pleasure of speaking to Claire Smith, a vegan entrepreneur and impact investor who after 20 years has been able to merge her passion, ethics and career, into a business. Claire shares how she is on a mission to accelerate the transition to a sustainable ethical economy through her new online platform, Beyond Animal, which connects a wide pool of investors to a range of vegan companies, events and resources.

Do you want to learn how to grow a brand based around community? How to scale-up a start-up? How picking a Co-Founder has similar qualities to a marriage?

Then Join us for Episode 3 of our Sustainable Tech Series, in which we are joined by the co-founder of OLIO, Tessa Clarke.

OLIO is a hybrid of a marketplace and a community app, that alerts neighbours of unwanted food in their area, connecting like-minded individuals wanting to fight food waste, and in turn the climate crisis.

In this episode, we speak to Jules Buker one of the Founders of the tree planting app, Treeapp. Jules shows his real understanding of sustainable reforestation and explains how they have made it accessible to the masses.

We are kicking off this series with the CEO of KOMMA, Griffin Peddicord. KOMMA is striving to create a society way beyond ‘normal’ by providing real world tech based solutions, designed to deliver a better quality of movement and improve the urban landscape for a sustainable future.

In our final episode we were lucky enough to speak to the brains and driving force behind Blooming Founders, Lu Li.

Lu has been changing the narrative for female founders through challenging the need for diversity and using her acclaimed brand and company to help early stage female founders succeed. Prior to the pandemic, Blooming Founders produced popular business events and ran an award-winning co-working space in London.

In the penultimate episode of our first series of Zanda Talks, we interview telehealth innovator and host of “Digital Health Entrepreneurship Daily” Laurence Girard

In episode 8 of Zanda Talks we had the pleasure of speaking to Managing Director at Smedvig Capital, Jon Lerner. Since 1996 Smedvig Capital has partnered with and helped scale over 70 companies in the UK and Nordics.

In this episode we get an insight into how SaaS Co-Founder turned Quake Capital Investor Sumay Parikh is helping their portfolio navigate through this confusing time and Sumay shares his views on shifting focus, mentorship, thriving industries and using this time to build trust not capital.

In this remotely recorded episode we are joined by Sabrina Castiglione, the CFO of the multi award winning cybersecurity business Tessian. We discuss the challenges faced as Tessian evolved from a pre-seed startup to a series B scaleup, the current impact of Covid 19, and learn how the imbalances in gender equality throughout the STEM industries sparked the initiative to help startups with diversity and inclusion.

In this episode, Mars Shah shares his advice on Covid-19 and how to continue business, whether you are scaling back or seeking investment. We cover a range of topics from; how you can still look appealing to investors, beta testing new ideas, reducing expenses, and forward looking trends that may evolve as a result of COVID-19.

In this episode we were joined by Jamie Beaumont, Partner at LEGO Ventures, to discuss the “Two Sides of Fundraising”. Jamie discusses his transition to the other side of the pitching table and how time as a CFO has massively helped him as an investor & advisor. He also highlights some helpful tips to navigate the challenges of scaling up and how start-ups can steer their efforts, to hook the interest of VC’s.

In this episode, we're joined by speech and communication expert James Bryce who shares his knowledge on speech intelligence and how he believes it's the next big thing in human productivity.It was James’ fascination with this aspect of human behaviour that inspired him to develop AI tool, Gweek.

We caught up with Lise Pape, the Founder of Walk With Path who provided a fascinating insight into a “founder’s life” and how the challenges she overcame shaped an idea and business that has always kept the user at the forefront of their mind.

Philip has a wealth of knowledge from working closely with Founders and VC's on strategy, creative cognition and high pressure decision making. During this episode we discuss some of the personal and business issues facing Start-up / Scale-up Founders.