Start It Up AccelerateME

In this episode, we speak with Michelangelo Pagliara about his journey into entrepreneurship and venture capital while still only being an undergraduate student. He cracks down on the fantasy of becoming an overnight success and highlights the nuances of the struggles, challenges, and hard work required to build your own business while being a student. He recently left Samsung NEXT as a venture capital analyst to become a venture developer at Back, a high-growth startup in Berlin, and have founded the blog Venture Insider and the clothing brand Trop Origins. 

In this episode, we speak with Jamie Gotz about his leap into starting his own company, venturing into the unknown and leaving behind the comfort of knowing what the next years would bring. He is the co-founder and CEO of Shepherd, a startup on a mission to enhance the future of work by making meetings more efficient. Jamie was previously an entrepreneur in residence at Antler, the world’s largest tech startup generator and an early-stage venture capital firm.

Welcome to the new podcast hosted by AccelerateME, a student-led accelerator programme for student startups from the universities in Manchester, UK. To date, our portfolio includes 54 diverse startups, we have created over 60 jobs and our businesses have gone on to raise over £2.9 Million in Seed and Series A funding.

This podcast will be your hub for everything you need to know about entrepreneurship. Come here to get inspired, empowered, and propelled to realise your startup dreams and unleash the relentless potential within you.