Dr Fiona Pathiraja - From Medicine to Venture Capital and The World of HealthTech
Fiona is Managing Partner at Crista Galli Ventures, a pan-European healthtech fund investing across 3 core pillars: deeptech, digital health & personalised medicine.
Outside her fund, Fiona is an active angel investor with over 100 angel investments, several of which are backed by Y Combinator. Fiona angel invests in startups building in female health, financial literacy, community + better representation for women.
Fiona is an Ex-NHS physician (consultant attending radiologist), and is dual board certified in clinical radiology & public health. In this episode, she speaks about her transition from medicine into VC, and explores the world of HealthTech.
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Kieran John - Social Ventures & Charities Law, Impact, Innovation and ESG
Kieran is a dedicated lawyer who is passionate about impact, innovation, and early-stage social ventures.
His experience with charities and social ventures spans across the full life cycle, from start-up, to operations and to wind-up. He's passionate about supporting impact-driven clients. In this episode delves into his work, how he ended up specialising in this exciting area of law, and touches on impact, innovation and ESG.
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Zara Zaman - EdTech, The Student Startup Ecosystem & The Platform Role in VC
Zara is the Head of Platform at Emerge Education, the European seed fund investing in founders solving the $8.5tn skills gap. The only fund backed by the world’s foremost education entrepreneurs, Emerge provides founders with unrivalled education sector insights.
She's also Co-founder and Director of Edventure, the first pan-European university venture builder, focused on PhD spinouts. Led deep tech programmes in collaboration with Cancer Research UK and students from over 20 universities across Europe. Organised the largest university entrepreneurship conference, Edventure Emerge 2021, for students and researchers across the globe.
In this episode Zara delves into the EdTech landscape, the UK Student Startup Ecosystem and what her role as Head of Platform actually involves.
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Tzvete Doncheva - From Journalism to VC & The Future of PropTech
Tzvete is a former journalist and the current International Investor Relations Lead at PropTech1. In. this episode she speaks about her journey into venture, where the future of PropTech is heading, and what advice she has for the next generation of VCs.
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Law School 2.0 - Nathan Corr, Amy Conroy & Annabel Pemberton
Law School 2.0 provides practical experiences to expand on your legal education, and teach you what you've wished you'd learnt in law school.
Nathan, Amy and Annabel designed a modern curriculum meant to provide a platform for students and lawyers to become a lawyer of tomorrow. Our priority is ensuring lawyers, future lawyers, and legal professionals are equipped with the tools they need to design innovative solutions for problems they face in the workplace.
In this episode, they discuss the future of legal education and technology and its interaction with the law.
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