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Fresh from a Kickstarter campaign where Beeline raised c$700k (£500k) taking total fundraising to over $1.3m (£1m), Tom, who founded Beeline with good friend and co-founder Mark Jenner in 2015 talks to us about his journey and the trajectory this firm is on.

Having had enough of getting lost on their bikes in London, the two former McKinsey employees decided to set up Beeline.

Simply put, Beeline offers smart navigation devices for cyclists and bikers. The company helps people have great j...

Jobandtalent has raised over $100m, according to Crunchbase this tech firm was the first on-demand staffing agency that integrates the full process of selecting, hiring and managing within a mobile app.

Giuseppe Mozzillo is the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and he joins us to explore the journey this firm is on. He was one of the key members of the team in the company’s shift towards the staffing model and nowadays he is responsible for managing the sales and marketing operations worldwide....

After receiving $1.5m of funding as recently as June 2018, Laka who offers straightforward bicycle insurance powered by the community, is onto a flyer.In this episode, Tobias talks about his vision of building the mutual insurer of the future and his life as a founder in an emerging InsurTech sector. Tobias founded Laka in 2017, as he states himself "Laka offers an alternative to the existing insurance model. A model where both customer and company wins, aligning interest for the first time" ...

Founded in 2015, David, as Co-Founder of Avvoka stepped into the world of LegalTech after a successful legal career - admittedly through blissful naivety, but also with a passion for disrupting the legal market with contract automation negotiation solutions. The landscape was emerging in the UK around LegalTech and David describes his experiences of making "that" move, and what lessons have been learned when he formed Avvoka. Avvoka is a digital platform enabling businesses to automatically c...

Alex Stephany is the Founder and CEO of Beam. Previously, he was the CEO of JustPark where he led what was the largest equity crowdfunding round for a tech startup in history, and is a Board Advisor at JustPark and crowdfunding platform, Spacehive. Alex is the author of the leading business on the sharing economy, The Business of Sharing. Alex was inspired to build Beam after meeting and getting to know Richard, an illiterate homeless man who wanted to learn to read. He asked himself: "Would...

Cosmin Mihaiu noticed that injured patients hated physical therapy — and often took longer to recover because of it — he dedicated himself to making the dreaded process more engaging, or even fun. In 2011 he and his colleagues founded MIRA Rehab, where they develop software that lets patients play interactive, therapeutic games.As MIRA’s CEO and a TED fellow, Mihaiu now focuses on building relationships with medical institutions around the US and the UK, showing them how video games can make ...