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It's our 13th video, and the third interview with an investor. We talk to Matthew Ford, a Partner at Mouro Capital, a $400M fintech venture capital arm of Santander, the 16th-largest banking institution in the world.

The full structured transcript and video - https://datafounders.io/contributors/mouro-capital

The fund invested in iZettle (acquired by PayPal for $2.2B), Socure ($96M raised), TrueLayer ($71M raised), and others.
Matthew joined the fund after founding/working at startups that applied data science to consumer finance. A money management app Pariti, co-founded by Matthew, was acquired by Tandem, a digital bank.

Among other things, we talk about:
- Fintech landscape
- Ways to identify a problem that a data sciences startup may solve
- Choosing between end-to-end and a software business models
- Prioritising investments in data science and finding product market fit

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We've published another interview, talked to Fabian Blaicher, a Co-Founder and the CTO at Shipamax, an AI-powered data entry software for the shipping & logistics industry. Shipamax raised $9.5M from Mosaic Ventures, Crane Venture Partners, Y Combinator and others.

We covered various topics, but probably the most relevant are:

- hiring and integration of new employees, especially to a tech team;
- fundraising, angels vs funds, US vs Europe, value of Y Combinator;
- relationships within the founding team, a role that a technical co-founder may play. I liked a bit where Fabian explains why a tech person needs also to do some sales/commercial work.

There are timecodes to the video and chapters to the text, so you could browse easily.

The full structured transcript and video - https://datafounders.io/contributors/shipamax

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We are back with 11th video, and the third interview with an open source startup.

The full structured transcript and video - https://datafounders.io/contributors/grakn

We talk to Tomás Sabat, Co-Founder and the COO at Grakn Labs. Grakn builds a database to organise complex networks of data and make it queryable. The company has raised over £6M from Animatrix, Beacon Capital, Newable Ventures, Chicago Booth Angels, and others.

Grakn is used by Roche, Cisco, AT&T, Flipkart, AstraZeneca, and other enterprises across industries.

Among other things, we talk about: ideation, finding a co-founder, sharing responsibilities within a founding team, and open source business models.

Tomás also provides some actionable advice and benchmarks on getting initial sales traction.

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