The Raise Podcast
A weekly newsletter showing the steps taken to make a start-up great, while small.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2024
Ep 9: Lessons from Juniver's pre-seed round
Emilie’s Fundraising Journey
Emilie Faure is the Co-Founder of Juniver, a platform that provides science-based recovery programs for disordered eating, to help people reduce urges and get back to livi…
Ep 8: Lessons from Vendoir's Pre-Seed Round
Oshoma Zekiri is the co-Founder of Vendoir, an event planning platform that aims to make event planning stress-free, sustainable and inclusive. Since starting the company in 2020 (just before lockdow…
Ep 7: Lessons from Bloomful's Seed Round
Dupe’s Fundraising Journey
Dr. Dupe Burgess is the Founder of Bloomful, a platform that delivers digital, holistic and therapeutic support for women’s gynaecology conditions. Since starting the compan…
Ep 6: Lessons from TECH1M's Pre-Seed Round
Tommie’s Fundraising Journey
Tommie Edwards is the Co-Founder of TECH1M, a recruitment automation and skills assessment platform that helps businesses attract, evaluate and hire quality candidates, al…
Ep 5: Lessons from Finalrentals £370k Pre-Seed Round
Ammar’s Fundraising Journey
Ammar Akhtar is the Founder and CEO of Finalrentals, based in Cardiff, UK. A car rental brand and a digital eco system, currently operating in 32 countries and expanding qu…
Ep 4: Lessons from a Stealth mode pre-seed round
Tom’s Fundraising JourneyTom is a data scientist with a decade of building companies under his belt (in travel tech and ed tech), and has spent a great deal of time building AI models for high risk e…
Ep 3: Lessons from Yoxly's bridge round
Danae’s Fundraising Journey With almost a decade of experience as a Medical Doctor, Danae and her co-Founder, Judson, launched Yoxly just over four years ago to tackle some of the stigmas surrounding…
Ep 2: Lessons from Motley's pre-seed funding round & winding down
Cecily's fundraising journeyCecily is a second time entrepreneur. Her first company was VC backed B2C Jewellery company Motley London. Motley was known for fine jewellery at insider prices. Built on …
Ep 1: Lessons from Yesterday's pre-seed round
Millie Marconi & Kat Suy’s Raise Journey
Both Millie & Kat have been in the start-up space for the last 5+ years, they both applied to a Antler’s VC start-up accelerator program with very little expec…
Introducing The Raise
Welcome to the very first episode of The Raise!
Every fortnight, I’ll interview pre-seed and seed stage Founders who have closed a funding round in the past 12 months to uncover actionable advice to h…