

Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology
Meet the people building the future. Hosted by investors James Pringle and Hector Mason, Riding Unicorns goes inside the companies, ideas and decisions shaping the future of technology. Each episode features candid conversations with leading founders, operators and investors about what it really takes to build and back category-defining companies. From finding product-market fit and raising capital to hiring exceptional teams, scaling globally and navigating the moments that can make or break a company, we explore the lessons you rarely find in the playbooks. Whether you're building, investing or simply interested in how great technology companies are created, Riding Unicorns gives you a front-row seat to the people doing it.
Episodes


Growth Equity, VCTs and Exits with Rupert West, Managing Director @ Puma Growth Partners

Building Outreach to a $4bn unicorn and helping AI agents get paid with Paid.ai - Manny Medina, Co-Founder & CEO @ Paid.ai

Building, Backing & Scaling in an AI-Native World with Kenneth Auchenberg, Partner @ AlleyCorp

Inside the Quantum Infrastructure Revolution with Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, Founder & CEO @ Nu Quantum

Building the "Lovable of Marketing" with Patrick Haede, Co-Founder & CEO @ Superscale AI

Scaling from startup to £70M+ funding in 16 months with Paul Anthony, Co-founder of Primer & Colossal

Simone Maini, CEO @ Elliptic, on Leading Through Crypto Winters and Building Elliptic into a Blockchain Analytics Leader

Pattern recognition and backing Europe's next unicorns with Andrei Brasoveanu, Partner @ Accel

Building Europe’s Investment Rails with Martin Kassing, Founder & CEO @ Upvest

RU Summit 2025 with Yoann Pavy and Oana Jinga, in Partnership with Cooley LLP

From Founder Failure to Building a €100M+ European VC Fund with Apostolos Apostolakis, Managing Partner @ VentureFriends

Investing as a multi-stage fund into Europe's top startups with Deepka Rana, Principal @ Northzone

Building voice-AI infrastructure and scaling go-to-market globally with Carles Reina, GTM @ ElevenLabs & Angel Investor

Building the universal integration layer for modern products and raising a Series A from GV with Romain Sestier & Guillaume Lebedel, Co-Founders @ StackOne

Capsule Scale-Up 50 Panel with Poly AI, Flo Health, Carmoola, & Xampla

Building the Future of Marketing with Raffi Salama, CEO & Co-Founder @ Passionfruit

Building the premium venture studio and fund for consumer brands with Mike Jones, Founding Partner @ Science

Investing in the future of KidsTech, Gaming and Media with Dylan Collins, Founder @ SuperAwesome (acq. Epic Games)

Investing in the B2B Fintech sector with Mark Beeston, Founder @ Illuminate Financial
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