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Colin Van Ostern: Why Alumni Ventures Is Betting on UK Venture Capital
In this episode, Colin Van Ostern, incoming head of Alumni Ventures' UK operations, discusses the firm’s network‑powered, diversified venture model and its expansion into the UK to tap a growing European startup ecosystem. He shares his unconventional path from politics and a competency‑based online college venture to venture operations, emphasizing the importance of focusing on the "jobs to be done" for both founders and the firm’s high‑net‑worth investors. Van Ostern explains Alumni Ventures’ strategy of co‑investing without leading rounds, maintaining a broad, sector‑agnostic portfolio of over 1,400 companies, and why the firm believes the next wave of category‑defining startups will emerge outside Silicon Valley. The conversation also highlights cultural differences between US and European VC, noting a more de‑risking approach in Europe versus the US focus on asymmetric returns.
The 1% Mission: Why Europe’s Climate Tech Future Runs Through Industrial Giants, Not Consumer Apps
In this episode, host Tom Britton talks with Michael Langguth, founding partner of Carbon 13, about why Europe’s climate‑tech breakthroughs will come from large industrial players rather than consumer‑focused apps. Langguth explains the “green discount” – the cost advantage of deep‑tech...
The Startup Building Edible Insulation to Tackle a 1.4 Gigaton CO2 Problem
In this episode, host Tom Britton talks with Theresa Hoffmann, founder of Nanoplume, about their bio‑aerogel insulation that is three times more effective and 60% thinner than conventional materials, a non‑toxic product so safe she even eats it during demos....
Temperate: The Tech Beaming Heat Into Space to Disrupt the Trillion-Dollar Cooling Market | Angel Insights
The episode spotlights several deep‑tech and angel‑investment stories, beginning with Charlie of Temperate who converts heat to light and beams it into space, offering a refrigerant‑free cooling system up to 20× more efficient for data‑centers and HVAC markets. It then...