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Fred Jordan of FinalSpark (Switserland) and his team are building a revolutionary new kind of computer, out of human stem cells. The human brain is several orders of magnitude more energy efficient than silicon based computer, and Fred's team hopes to unlock those efficiencies for out-of-brain computation. They have opened up their platform up to research universities, and to the public, and we've pasted the link below. After having financed FinalSpark from the proceeds of his other business for years, Fred is currently raising EUR 50m to accelerate realising their vision.

Listen to this episode for lots of insights on

• Why the human brain is such an incredible processing machine
• How Fred and his team have been working towards replicating a human brain in a lab
• What it would mean if they manage to build a working and lasting biocomputer
• Why Fred is fundraising and what he expects to be able to achieve with it
• How Fred has built his other business AlpVision, and his lessons learned
• How Fred's journey as an entrepreneur has changed him, and his advice to others
• And please find a link to FinalSpark's biocomputing platform here: https://finalspark.com/live/

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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others.

Pit Janssen of MedApp has exited his prescription medicine adherence and delivery company to the biggest, stock exchange listed, EUR 2.0bn market cap online pharmacy company in Europe. MedApp launched as a medication adherence app, and rolled out an integrated pharmacy with a delivery function in 2020. They bootstrapped the company with a students loans and IT consultancy work until 2017, at which point angels came in. After raising money from Tablomonto Ventures, M3 Ventures and Health Innovations, they were acquired by Shop Apotheke Europe (ETR: RDC) in 2021.

Listen to this episode for lots of insights on

• Innovation in the pharmacy business
• How oldschool pharma fought back
• How to bootstrap your company
• Finding hidden funding (!)
• The importance of a great co-founder
• What to look for in a co-founder
• How to exit your business to a multinational
• How life changed for Pit and this team after the acquisition
• Pit’s background, drive and values
• Parenting tactics for nurturing killer entrepreneurs

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Joel co-founded London-based Trubrics, which helps product teams track what’s happening inside LLM models. He and his co-founder founded the company when they saw companies investing heavily in LLM models but remaining in the dark on what is going on inside. They’ve just closed a pre-seed round, did their first hire and are about to launch their first version of the product to customers.

Amongst many other things we talked about

• Trubric’s pre-seed round
• LLMs and LLM applications
• His evolution from engineer to sales to CEO
• When to seek advice and when to ignore it
• The sales tactics Joel mastered
• Joels drive and values
• Joels first companies at age 13 (!)
• How Joel manages his confidence

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Meet one of Europe’s most driven impact entrepreneurs: Kees Aarts, founder of Protix. Protix is an insect protein company founded to radically reduce the environmental footprint of our food system and help stop the loss of biodiversity in our seas. Kees and his team started out 14 years ago, and today they are the world leader in insect ingredients, running the largest insect farm ever built. Their mission is to bring the food system back into balance with nature. There were many gems in this conversation, amongst many other things we discussed:

• Kees trigger to start Protix
• Kees first year as a founder
• Kees philosophy for success: Evolve every single day
• Key moments of evolution in his personal and professional life
• Kees analysis of why wealth can make a country less innovative
• Kees thoughts on the business climate in the Netherlands
• Kees thoughts on artificial intelligence and the future of our species

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Kim Durand hails from Paris and moved to Mexico City to start Cheaf, which reduces food waste by offering high quality food that is close to the expiry date at steep discounts. Started less than 4 years ago, the company now employs 30 FTE.

Kim was born and raised in France and has worked at incubator Nova Founders Capital and Uber, before starting Cheaf.

Amongst many other things, we discussed

• Kim's business journey spanning from France to Malaysia to the Netherlands to Mexico
• Kim's development from numbers guy to becoming founder and CEO of Cheaf
• The reality versus the perception of starting a company
• Kim's routines to stay fit and deal with stress
• Kim's plans for the future

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Sophia Hummelman Co-Founded ReCarbn, which is working on reversing climate change, by direct air capture of CO2.

Sophia was born and raised in the Netherlands and has working in finance at JPMorgan and iFund, in London, Paris and Amsterdam, before starting ReCarbn.

Amongst many other things, we discussed

• How direct air capture of CO2 works
• What you do with the CO2
• Recent developments at ReCarbn
• ReCarbns businessmodel
• Sophia’s own journey, all the way from her upbringing to her role at ReCarbn

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Listen to our talk with Harpreet Singh! Harpreet Co-Founded Peckish, and is building a new backend operating system for restaurants to drastically reduce food waste and increase profitability for restaurants.

Harpreet was born and raised in Sydney, Australia and now works and lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Before Peckish, he has founded The Turban Shop and worked at Uber as an operations manager.

Amongst many other things, we spoke about

• Harpreets journey from Sydney to Amsterdam
• Stress and how he deals with it
• Sikhism and what it means for Harpreet in daily life
• The importance of finding a great co-founder

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Tune in to our latest conversation with Yorick Bruins! Yorick is Co-Founder and CEO of Wakuli, a Netherlands based Direct-to-Consumer subscription coffee brand, thats has also started opening coffee shops at a high pace.

Wakuli is all about changing the system of coffee production and distribution, and by cutting out a lot of the middle men, succeeds in paying farmers ±5x times what they'd get from others. Their coffee tastes amazing, too.

Yorick has founded Wakuli about 5 years ago, and has been working on higher quality food and a fairer system his entire career.

In this episode, Yorick speaks about:

• Where his passion for food emerged
• The challenges he's faced along the way
• How he learns from others
• Advice to those aspiring to start a business themselves

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