Venture Capital Episodes

March 13, 2020

078: Money Talks #9: David Chreng - Blockchain & Sustainability

David Chreng from LeadBlock Partners joins the show to talk about how his time as an energy equity analyst influenced his view of the world, investing in blockchain and distributed ledger technologies for sustainability-themed ventures, the development of blockchain and …

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Feb. 7, 2020

074: Crossover - Rudi Falat and the Voice of Fintech

Rudi Falat from the Voice of Fintech podcast joins Pete Townsend to riff on crossing over from the corporate world into the startup ecosystem, learning by doing, startup and corporate collaboration....and flipping the table with the final question on every …

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Jan. 31, 2020

073: Positivity - Ivailo Jordanov and 7Percent Ventures

Ivailo Jordanov from 7Percent Ventures joins Pete Townsend to share his story of powering the search engine pioneers of the dotcom era, his incurable optimism, becoming an early-stage tech investor....and being yet another person on the show admitting to not …

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Jan. 24, 2020

072: Money Talks #8: Blockchain Predictions 2020 - Part II

This is Part II of a two-part series featuring Matthew LeMerle from Blockchain Coinvestors and Pete Townsend talking through Matthew's predictions for how blockchain will impact the world in 2020, focusing on pro traders embracing sophisticated exchanges, momentum with enterprise …

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Jan. 17, 2020

071: Money Talks #7: Blockchain Predictions 2020 - Part I

Matthew LeMerle from Blockchain Coinvestors joins Pete Townsend for a two-part series on his predictions for how blockchain will impact the world in 2020, with Part I focusing on central bank issued digital currencies, embracing bitcoin in developing nations, and …

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Dec. 19, 2019

069: Technologic - Lambert Despaux and Schema Capital

Lambert Despaux, partner at Schema Capital, talks to Pete Townsend about empowering entrepreneurs building in the distributed ledger technology space, the startup ecosystem in Israel, societal impacts of DLT....and his love of electronic music!

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Dec. 13, 2019

068: Money Talks #6 | The Seed 2.0 | Pete Townsend on Seed Investing

"Pete Townsend goes solo" would have been a better headline in the '70's, but our Pete takes the mic in this episode to unpack the realities and economics of funding pre-seed and seed-stage startups through the lens of Finn Murphy …

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Oct. 3, 2019

060: Money Talks #2: Startup Marketing and Raising Capital from VCs

We continue this week with our second edition of Money Talks - Rachel Kenny from HubSpot covers the basics of startup marketing and Bernadette Wijnings from Blanco tells her story about digital asset management and raising capital from VCs.

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Sept. 20, 2019

058: Talk Up | Jo van de Velde and Pete Townsend | Working with Your …

In an excerpt from Flagship Marketing's webinar "How to Survive and Thrive with Your Investor", Jo van de Velde from Euroclear and our own Pete Townsend talk about how important it is to communicate with your investor to maximize the …

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June 20, 2019

050: Money in the Middle - Pascal Bouvier and MiddleGame Ventures

Pascal Bouvier of MiddleGame Ventures joins Eoin Fitzgerald on stage at a Nadifin Accelerator event in Ireland to talk about fintech today, the future and how results of upcoming elections can drive Transatlantic moves!

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May 24, 2019

047: Book Of Rhymes | Matthew Le Merle

Matthew Le Merle joins us on the show to talk about angel investing, venture investing and why he's written a few books!

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Feb. 6, 2019

034: DNA | Pete Townsend and Working with Startups

Pete Townsend gets into the hotseat to talk about working with startups, how being helpful is in his DNA....and his love of baseball and statistics!

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Jan. 23, 2019

032: Starting Over | Rich Corbett and TheStartup.com

Rich Corbett from TheStartUp.com joins us on the show today to discuss supporting start-ups, lessons learned...and his new-found love of hurling!!

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Dec. 28, 2018

031: The Best of Season 1 | Eoin and Pete Pick Their Favorites

We've pulled together some of the best soundbites from the first 30 episodes of Money Never Sleeps into a bonus year-end episode...enjoy!

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Dec. 11, 2018

030: Here Comes The Hotstepper | Martin Cass

Martin Cass from Barclays joins us on the show to talk about banking, working with startups...and his one foray into the boxing ring!

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