The European Startup Show Anita Moorthy

[2:00] - How the SVB crisis unfolded at Payhawk
[6:23] - The 3 most important ingredients for building a successful unicorn
[16:19] - Validating your company idea
[18:19] - 60 rejections. How Payhawk overcame the biggest objection from VCs
[28:35] - Leading through crisis
[31:54] - Competition - Use data not marketing to assess competition
[36:18] - Trends in Fintech: the payment gap

Company link:
Payhawk

Book recommendation:
Proving Ground: The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Boat Race

[2:24] - Journey to starting Seedstars
[5:31] - Investing and not being local
[10:27] - Seedstars programs
[13:28] - Investor returns from emerging markets
[19:06] - Challenges
[25:12] - Advice for entrepreneurs 
[27:16] - Advice for investors

Links
Seedstars

Book: Where the crawdads sing

HedgeFlows almost closed on their first VC funding and decided to not do it. Why and was it the right decision?

Erik Martinson, CEO, and co-founder of Svea Solar – one of the fastest-growing cleantech companies in Europe – talks about the economics of solar energy, why the time is ripe for solar and some of the lessons learned building the company.

The 3 steps Creandum advises its portfolio company to go through for every fundraising: planning, preparation and active process. And advice for startups on current market conditions and Peter’s views on FTX blowup.

Nurasyl bootstrapped the company to 7-digit revenues with five employees and then went on to close a $14M seed round, one of the largest in the UK. How did he do it?