Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology
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Laura Modiano, Head of Founder Experience @ OpenAI on Building in the AI Era, and Why Anyone Can Now Create a Company
Jun 24, 2026
26m 54s
How Cleo Reached $400M ARR: Barney Hussey-Yeo on AI, Growth, and Building a Consumer Fintech Unicorn
Jun 17, 2026
25m 03s
The Future of Finance is AI-Native: Jonathan Sanders, CEO of Light, on Organic Software, AI Agents, and Rebuilding Business Finance
Jun 10, 2026
28m 48s
Steve Domin, Founder & CEO @ Duffel – Rebuilding Travel Infrastructure, Surviving COVID, and the Future of API-First Companies
May 20, 2026
25m 51s
Building the backbone of AI with Mahdi Yahya, Co-Founder @ Radiant on Compute, Power and the Future of Infrastructure
May 13, 2026
26m 43s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/24/26 |  Laura Modiano, Head of Founder Experience @ OpenAI on Building in the AI Era, and Why Anyone Can Now Create a Company | Laura Modiano leads Founder Experience at OpenAI, a newly created function designed to help startups build, grow, and scale on the world's leading AI platform. Having previously worked with startups at AWS and now at OpenAI, Laura sits at the intersection of founders, technology, and the future of company building. In this episode, Laura shares how AI is fundamentally changing the startup journey, why founders can now build companies faster than ever before, and what OpenAI is doing to suppor... | 26m 54s | ||||||
| 6/17/26 |  How Cleo Reached $400M ARR: Barney Hussey-Yeo on AI, Growth, and Building a Consumer Fintech Unicorn | What does it take to build an AI company a decade before the world realises AI is the future? In this episode of Riding Unicorns, James and Hector sit down with Barney Hussey-Yeo, Founder & CEO of Cleo, the AI financial assistant helping millions of consumers make smarter money decisions. Barney started building Cleo years before ChatGPT brought AI into the mainstream. Today, Cleo has grown into one of the UK's leading fintech success stories, reaching $400M ARR and becoming a category-de... | 25m 03s | ||||||
| 6/10/26 |  The Future of Finance is AI-Native: Jonathan Sanders, CEO of Light, on Organic Software, AI Agents, and Rebuilding Business Finance✨ | AI in financebusiness software+3 | Jonathan Sanders | LightPleo+1 | — | AI-native financebusiness management+3 | — | 28m 48s | |
| 5/20/26 |  Steve Domin, Founder & CEO @ Duffel – Rebuilding Travel Infrastructure, Surviving COVID, and the Future of API-First Companies✨ | travel infrastructureAPI-first companies+3 | Steve Domin | DuffelIndex Ventures+1 | globaltravel industry | Duffeltravel industry+5 | — | 25m 51s | |
| 5/13/26 |  Building the backbone of AI with Mahdi Yahya, Co-Founder @ Radiant on Compute, Power and the Future of Infrastructure✨ | AI infrastructuretechnology shifts+3 | Mahdi Yahya | RadiantBrookfield+1 | — | AI infrastructureMahdi Yahya+6 | — | 26m 43s | |
| 5/6/26 |  Charlotte Palmer, VP of Venture Capital at Integra Global Advisors on Backing Emerging Managers, Access, and Venture Fundraising✨ | venture capitalemerging managers+3 | Charlotte Palmer | Integra Global Advisors | — | venture capitalLPs+3 | — | 30m 13s | |
| 4/29/26 |  Inside Fuse Energy: Alan Chang on Building a $5B Energy Giant and Chasing £1B ARR✨ | energyentrepreneurship+3 | Alan Chang | Fuse Energy | UK | energy companyvaluation+3 | — | 21m 26s | |
| 4/22/26 |  What Makes a Top VC Fund Today? Dave Neumann at Schroders Capital on LP Thinking, DPI and Venture Returns✨ | venture capitallimited partners+3 | Dave Neumann | Schroders Capital | — | VC fundLP thinking+5 | — | 28m 15s | |
| 4/15/26 |  Tony Jamous & Hadi Moussa at Oyster HR on leadership transition, CEO succession and unlocking global talent✨ | leadership transitionCEO succession+3 | Tony JamousHadi Moussa | Oyster HRRiding Unicorns+1 | — | leadershipCEO+5 | — | 40m 43s | |
| 3/25/26 |  Nikola Mrkšić, Co-Founder & CEO at PolyAI on Building One of the World’s Leading Voice AI Companies✨ | voice AIcustomer service automation+3 | Nikola Mrkšić | SiriPolyAI | — | voice AIPolyAI+4 | — | 38m 13s | |
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| 3/11/26 |  Matt Wilson, Co-Founder & CEO at Jack and Jill, on AI Career Agents, Talent Density, and Building the Next Network-Effect Marketplace✨ | AI Career AgentsTalent Density+4 | Matt Wilson | Jack and JillOmnipresent+1 | — | AIjob hunting+5 | — | 35m 58s | |
| 3/4/26 |  Nicolò Frisiani, Co-Founder & CEO at Lupa, on Building the AI Operating System for Vets, Enterprise Sales, and Scaling at Speed✨ | AI operating systemveterinary technology+3 | Nicolò Frisiani | LupaSingular+1 | — | AIveterinary clinics+5 | — | 30m 00s | |
| 2/25/26 |  George Davis, Founder & CEO at Lorum on Rebuilding Global Clearing, Why Dollars Are Broken, and Building a Payments Only Bank✨ | paymentsglobal clearing+3 | George Davis | LorumTrueLayer+2 | — | paymentsglobal clearing+6 | — | 26m 33s | |
| 2/18/26 |  David von Rosen, Founder of Lottoland on Majority Stake Investing, Loving Risk, Dubai’s Energy, and the Steve Jobs Turtleneck Story✨ | majority stake investingrisk management+4 | David von Rosen | Lottoland25 Degrees+1 | Dubai | majority stakerisk+5 | — | 40m 33s | |
| 2/11/26 |  Harrison Rose, Co-Founder at GoodFit on Mapping Your Market, Modern Go To Market, and Lessons from Building Paddle✨ | go to marketB2B billing+4 | Harrison Rose | GoodFitPaddle | UK | Harrison RoseGoodFit+6 | — | 32m 54s | |
| 1/28/26 |  Ben Freeman, Co-Founder & CEO at Omnea on Building an AI Native Procurement Platform, Talent Density, and Founder Paranoia✨ | AIprocurement+4 | Ben Freeman | OmneaSynthesia+7 | — | AI procurementsupplier management+5 | — | 39m 55s | |
| 12/17/25 |  Why "AI Visibility" is critical for your brand with James Cadwallader, Co-Founder & CEO at Profound✨ | AI Visibilitybranding+3 | James Cadwallader | Profound | — | AIbranding+5 | — | 50m 53s | |
| 12/10/25 |  From Formula 3 to AI Accountants: Ariel Harmoko, Co-Founder & CEO @ Artifact | Ariel Harmoko is the Co Founder and CEO of Artifact AI. Ariel joined James and Hector for a conversation that moves from race tracks to reconciliation engines. Ariel grew up in Jakarta, was thrown into Go Karts at eight, and went on to race professionally all the way to Formula 3 alongside the likes of Lando Norris and George Russell. That early immersion in high performance teams, engineering and discipline shaped how he now operates as a founder. He shares how a love of maths and science to... | 36m 03s | ||||||
| 12/3/25 |  Building the AI Super Connector with Andrew D’Souza, Founder of Boardy and Clearco | Andrew D’Souza is the Founder of Boardy, the Creandum backed AI super connector reshaping how founders and investors meet and build trust. Before Boardy, Andrew co-founded Clearco, one of the first revenue based financing companies. Clearco deployed over $5bn to thousands of businesses, scaled to six hundred employees, and passed one hundred million dollars in revenue. Andrew is one of the few founders who has built a nine figure company before starting again. Clearco’s early AI work and Andr... | 47m 29s | ||||||
| 11/26/25 |  Inside SVB's dramatic acquisition and the Future of UK Venture with Erin Platts, CEO of Octopus Ventures | Erin Platts is the CEO of Octopus Ventures and former CEO of Silicon Valley Bank UK & Europe — one of the most pivotal figures in the UK tech ecosystem. In this conversation, Erin opens up in remarkable detail about her personal journey from two decades inside SVB to leading one of Europe’s most active venture firms. She shares the inside story of the SVB collapse — the all-nighters, the adrenaline, the leadership decisions made under extreme pressure, and what it was really like to shoul... | 43m 20s | ||||||
| 11/19/25 |  How SuperAwesome Built the World’s Biggest Kid Tech Platform with Co-founder Lee Veitch | Lee Veitch is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of SuperAwesome, the world’s leading kid-tech and youth marketing platform. SuperAwesome powers billions of kid-safe digital transactions every month — helping brands like LEGO, Disney, and Nickelodeon connect with young audiences responsibly and safely. Lee takes us behind the scenes of a remarkable 13-year journey — from the early days of fear, frustration, and opportunity, to scaling globally, being acquired by Epic Games, and then buying ... | 42m 32s | ||||||
| 11/12/25 |  Pioneering the AI-rollup model in the property management space with Dan Lifshits, Co-Founder @ Dwelly | The AI rollup transforming property management This week on Riding Unicorns, we sit down with Dan Lifshits, Co-Founder & COO of Dwelly — the AI-first lettings and property management platform reinventing how landlords, tenants, and agents interact. Dwelly is on a mission to modernise the UK rental market by acquiring traditional letting agencies and rebuilding them with technology at their core. The business is growing fast, backed by General Catalyst and other leading investors, combinin... | 44m 39s | ||||||
| 11/5/25 |  Building the "Spotify of Textbooks" with Gauthier Van Malderen, Founder @ Perlego | Hector is joined by Gauthier van Malderen, Founder and CEO of Perlego, the “Spotify for textbooks” and one of Europe’s leading edtech scale-ups. Gauthier shares the remarkable journey of building Perlego from a personal frustration with expensive university textbooks into a global subscription platform transforming access to educational content. He reflects on early failures, the turning points that led to success, and how COVID accelerated the company’s growth. The discussion dives deep into... | 43m 37s | ||||||
| 10/29/25 |  Building the capital operating system for fast-growing tech companies with Paul Becker, Co-Founder & CEO of re:cap | This week on Riding Unicorns, we’re joined by Paul Becker, Co-Founder & CEO of re:cap, a fintech platform helping digital businesses unlock capital and understand their financial position through intelligent forecasting, real-time data insights, and flexible financing. In this wide-ranging conversation, Paul walks us through re:cap’s journey from an idea for automated due diligence software to becoming one of Europe’s fastest-growing capital platforms, recently securing over €125M in debt... | 51m 00s | ||||||
| 10/22/25 |  What happened to Babylon Health after reaching $1bn+ revenue? And how Ali Parsa is continuing his mission to fix healthcare for all with AI startup Quadrivia. | Ali first joined us in January 2022, when Babylon was still one of the most ambitious healthtech companies in the world. Today, he returns with a new mission, building Quadrivia and its clinical AI assistant, “Qu”, designed to automate millions of repetitive healthcare workflows and rebalance the global shortage of clinical labour. In this episode, Ali reflects candidly on the rise and fall of Babylon, the structural challenges behind its collapse, and the lessons he’s applying to his new ven... | 43m 05s | ||||||
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