Our Latest Podcast Episodes
Featuring organizational strategy experts Sam McAfee and Boris Grinkot, we discuss how startup founders and leaders can foster a culture of innovation and open communication, and encourage continuous learning as a long-term competitive advantage.
In this episode, I invite Fulya Tuncer, Co-founder & CEO of The Revivas, a sustainable fashion platform, to share her journey from a remarkable career in investment banking, as an executive at Goldman Sachs, to becoming an entrepreneur in the sustainable fashion industry. She also touches on the challenges and nuances of being a female founder and mother in the startup world.
We unpack the entrepreneurial journey, including the definition of success, cofounder dynamics, and the power of love, kindness and having a clear vision. Our guest, Andrew Humphries is a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits, and has an extensive and distinguished career spanning corporate innovation, sales, marketing, and venture building, significantly shaping the tech ecosystem.
Welcome to the Beyond42 podcast: A series on navigating the uncharted territories of success and leadership beyond the product. We explore how entrepreneurs thrive, especially in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Out & About
Last week, we attended the Tech London Advocates event: A New Tech Manifesto for London. Just days before a mayoral election, the event was positioned to set out its plans for London to remain on course as a global innovation leader.
We launched The Beyond42 Podcast with a fun, celebratory breakfast, coming together with our wonderful and supportive community of founders, investors and experts in the tech ecosystem!
ChangeNOW is an annual 3-day conference and exhibition that gathers leading changemakers and innovative solutions approaching our planet’s challenges to take action together. The event creates opportunities in an inspiring and action-oriented event.
We had a great session focused on the skills founders need to develop to lead their teams and companies beyond the product, and were blown away by the thoughtfulness of the questions posed by the participants of the Baslangic Noktasi: Be Node Akademi program.
Client Announcements
VINCI’s platform dedicated to innovation and foresight. Leonard detects and investigates the trends and changes at work in the construction, mobility and energy sectors.
The Milken–Motsepe Innovation Prize program is a series of multiyear, multimillion-dollar innovation competitions for technological solutions that accelerate progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
We’re delighted to work with ACTAI GLOBAL for their Web3 Competition which seeks to find the best companies in this space that have the highest potential for growth and success.
We’re delighted to collaborate with the Akbank Labs team and GOOINN to launch Turkey's first full-time in-house entrepreneurship program: Akbank+
Delivering Value
We had a great session focused on the skills founders need to develop to lead their teams and companies beyond the product, and were blown away by the thoughtfulness of the questions posed by the participants of the Baslangic Noktasi: Be Node Akademi program.
At the end of another rigorous 16-week process, startup finalists, presented their ideas to Akbank’s Investment Committee of Executive VPs and two startups, Voltla and WasteLog, received $500K each in funding.
For this prize competition, GIC designed a customized iX Innovation Execution Online curriculum to include top agritech experts and players from the African innovation ecosystem for the prize competition finalists.
GG worked closely with the founders of the top six companies. She coached them prior to the finals presented their pitch live onstage in El Nido, Philippines in front of world-renowned venture capitalists, investors, tech founders, and tech leaders.