Leap Takers

Episode 21: Christmas Giveaway & Best Startup Books

Episode  |  December 25th, 2020  |  14 mins 28 secs

books, christmas, entrepreneurship, giveaway, investing

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄 I'm introducing you to 5 of my personal and my podcast guests favorite business & startup books. This gives you a crowd-sourced reading list from some of Europe's top up-and-coming entrepreneurs and VCs. I'm also doing a little giveaway and will send to some lucky winner a book of his or her choice from this list.

Episode 18: Heidi Lindvall - From documentary filmmaker to investing in ClimateTech startups with Pale Blue Dot VC

Episode  |  September 11th, 2020  |  38 mins 33 secs

career, climatetech, entrepreneurship, europe, investing, startups, sweden, venture capital

Heidi Lindvall is one of the founders and a general partner at Pale Blue Dot. Pale Blue Dot is a seed stage ClimateTech Venture Capital firm investing in reducing and reversing the effects of climate change and preparing for a new world.

Episode 16: Ville Vesterinen - Lessons from a nordic serial entrepreneur - Slush, Grey Area, Swappie - becoming an Atomico angel investor & more

Episode  |  June 24th, 2020  |  36 mins 42 secs

entrepreneurship, europe, gaming, investing, nordics, podcast, startups, venture capital

Ville Vesterinen (@vesterinen) is a serial entrepreneur from Finland. He is one of the original founders of Slush - one of the world’s leading startup & tech conferences. Ville also founded Grey Area, a gaming company that was backed by Index Ventures, serves as the chairman of Swappie, a startup selling refurbished mobile phones, and he is an angel investor for Atomico.

Episode 14: Christian Jantzen - Path to becoming one of the youngest VCs in Europe, starting an eSports team, and Futuristic VC

Episode  |  April 7th, 2020  |  41 mins 47 secs

entrepreneurship, esports, europe, fundraising, investing, micro vc, startups, venture capital

Christian (@chrjantzen) is the founder of Futuristic.vc, a micro-fund investing in Nordic pre-seed companies. He has invested in +20 companies across the entire region and helped founders secure follow-on funding from some of the strongest investors in Europe. Christian is viewed as one of the youngest VCs in Europe.

Episode 9: Alisée de Tonnac - Leaving the corporate world to travel the globe and run startup competitions in emerging markets

Episode  |  October 16th, 2019  |  29 mins 54 secs

emerging markets, entrepreneurship, forbes 30 under 30, investing, startups, switzerland, travel, venture capital

Episode 6: Stefano Bernardi - Taking the leap to Silicon Valley & How crypto governs organizations of the future

Episode  |  July 26th, 2019  |  35 mins 22 secs

atomico, crypto, entrepreneurship, investing, san francisco, venture capital

Episode 4: David Lu - Learnings from starting a venture fund

Episode  |  July 2nd, 2019  |  42 mins 41 secs

crypto, investing, singapore, student fund, venture capital