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The Mishcon Innovations Series
Hosted by Bauer Media · EN
Starting a new business? Find out how some of the most successful founders in the innovation space began. Presented by Managing Associate Lydia Kellett and produced by Jazz FM, in each episode The Mishcon Innovations Series looks at founders from a range of cutting-edge industries. With insights and inspiring conversations they reveal what worked, what didn't, the risks they managed and the opportunities they spotted. Perfect for budding entrepreneurs and businesspeople looking to learn from those who have started their own business. In association with Jazz Shapers and Mishcon de Reya.
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Peter Crane: Co-founder and CEO of Entelo Bio
Sep 100:21:20Tap to summarizePeter Crane is the co-founder and CEO of Entelo Bio, a gene sequencing company combining cutting edge chemistry with machine learning to unlock transformative therapies for patients with chronic diseases. With a career spanning lab automation, biomanufacturing and cancer proteomics (and as an invester in hard science Start-ups), it was his frustration with existing genomic methods that drove Peter and his 3 academic co-founders to spin Entelo Bio out of Oxford University in 2023. Hungry to look at biology in a new way, their isoform sequencing platform aims to reduce the error rate and cost of long read single cell sequencing.
Transcribe →Ethan Fraenkel: Co-founder and CEO of Prograd
Aug 1600:21:02Tap to summarizeEthan Fraenkel is the co-founder and CEO of Prograd, a fast-growing UK fintech platform empowering Gen Z to earn side income and improve their financial future. Born in Antwerp, Belgium, Ethan moved to Tel Aviv at the age of 18, where he was first immersed in the world of tech and startups. At 20, he relocated to London, where he studied Law and Politics at Queen Mary University of London, before going on to complete a Master’s in Computer Science at University College London (UCL). This unique blend of legal, political, and technical expertise laid the foundation for his entrepreneurial journey. He spent three years at Cutover, a London and New York-based tech startup, where he gained hands-on experience being a software and cloud engineer in a high-growth environment. Ethan later co-founded Prograd to solve a problem he witnessed firsthand: helping young people earn more, gain financial independence, and build a stronger financial foundation. Today, Prograd serves over 1 millions users, driven by Ethan’s mission to close the opportunity gap for the next generation.
Transcribe →Bianca Rangecroft: Founder and CEO of Whering
Jul 2700:31:56Tap to summarizeBianca is the founder and CEO of Whering, the fashion app that allows you to digitise your wardrobe, see and style what you own. She is on a mission to upend the ‘buy, use, dispose’ model and use AI to help us make the most of the clothes we already own. Since Jan 2022, Bianca has grown Whering’s user base to over 8m users, raised >£4m and has been featured in Vogue, Harper’s, Forbes etc. She is fluent in five European languages and holds a first class Bachelor’s degree in History and Politics from SOAS & LSE as well as a Master’s degree in Management (Merit) from Imperial College Business School. Bianca spent the first 4.5 years of her career in Banking, first at Barclays Investment Management and then in Goldman Sachs’ consumer division in London. She is a board member of Imperial College’s Alumni Advisory board, the London Chapter President for Unite2030 and an UNLEASH 2019 & 2020 Global Talent. She is also a frequent TV, podcast and radio guest, recently appearing on Dragon’s Den, BBC radio etc. She’s been awarded the Women in the City award and Drapers30u30 and shortlisted for Tech innovator of the year (Drapers) and the Great British Entrepreneur awards.
Transcribe →Max Munford: Founder and CEO at OSSTEC
Jul 2100:29:19Tap to summarizeMax Munford is the Founder and CEO at OSSTEC, the MedTech company on a mission to transform orthopaedic surgery through cutting-edge 3D printing technology. His role focuses on company vision, strategy and growing OSSTEC's team. Max has a passion for learning, growing the bounds of technology and for delivering impact across MedTech. He completed his PhD at Imperial College London, developing biomimetic 3D printing for use in orthopaedics. His work building OSSTEC earned him a place on the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2025 and his research has won awards across the field including places on some of Europe's best venture accelerator programs and executive education programs at Harvard Business School.
Transcribe →Lindsay Edwards: CTO and Head of Platform at Relation Therapeutics
Jun 1700:32:41Tap to summarize Lydia Kellett is joined by Lindsay Edwards, CTO and Head of Platform at Relation Therapeutics. Previously, Lindsay was VP and Head of AI for Respiratory and Immunology at AstraZeneca. Originally a specialist in systems biology, he joined GlaxoSmithKline in 2014 from the Physiology faculty at King’s College London. He started GSK’s first Data Science group, was Head of Respiratory Data Sciences, Global Head of Respiratory Digital, Data and Analytics, and then VP and Head of AI/ML for the UK and Europe before becoming VP of AI/ML Engineering. He holds a DPhil in Physiology from Oxford, is a scientific advisor to the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Centre at MIT, and has published more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Transcribe →Paul Beastall: CEO of HutanBio
Jun 600:27:22Tap to summarizeLydia Kellett is joined by Paul Beastall the CEO of HutanBio, a technology company on a mission to decouple long distance transportation from fossil fuels, with HBx, their zero carbon biofuel. After a decade of research and development, running the biggest screening of marine algae in history, Dr John Archer, Dr Noor Azlin Mokhtar and Suhaiza Jamhor founded HutanBio in 2019, aiming to harness the power of a 2-billion-year-old ancient organism (a new-to-science marine microalgae). Hutanbio are (as Paul says) a smart agriculture business, but rather than growing food, they're growing fuel. And fuel that can work with existing infrastructure to provide immediate carbon savings for the marine, aviation and heavy land transport sectors.
Transcribe →Robert Elding: Founder and CEO of MyStoryboarder
May 3000:25:39Tap to summarizeLydia Kellett is joined by Robert Elding, the founder and CEO of MyStoryboarder, an AI-powered platform aiming to revolutionise visual storytelling for businesses, creatives, and marketers. With over 20 years’ experience founding and scaling innovative technology businesses across AI, and digital, Robert was often asked to create storyboards to visualise product development ideas. Sketching storyboards by hand was time-consuming and the advent of generative AI led Robert to explore if storyboards could be created in a faster, automated way. MyStoryboarder was launched in 2023, enabling you to turn ideas into visuals in minutes —without any design skills. Already trusted by major companies such as Google, IBM, and BP, Robert is currently developing the business in the AdTech space with the backing of Amazon AWS.
Transcribe →Tariq Rauf: Founder and CEO of Qatalog
Oct 26, 202400:20:36Tap to summarizeTariq Rauf is the founder and CEO of Qatalog. An architect by training and mentored under renowned architect, Charles Correa. He worked on prestigious global projects, from Champalimaud Centre in Lisbon, Ismaili Centre in Toronto, Mahindra Research Valley in Chennai and the masterplan for the city of Goa. The experience was transformative, but his first passion was always software - beginning coding at the age of 6 and starting a software consultancy aged 16. In 2011, Tariq returned to his tech roots, eventually working with startups, scale-ups, and large tech companies, such as Wise and Amazon. Throughout these experiences he saw how disjointed work had become and built a deep desire to architect an entirely new category of software that made knowledge accessible, in a single, seamlessly connected platform. In 2019, he left Amazon to found Qatalog.
Transcribe →Oli Cook: Co-Founder and CEO of ekko
Jul 18, 202400:24:38Tap to summarizeOli Cook is the Co-Founder and CEO of ekko, a climate fintech on a mission to make positive planetary impact through financial transactions. A visionary leader in the financial services space with over 15 years of experience, Oli truly believes that the time for financial institutions to take action towards their sustainability goals is now, working with a variety of impact providers such as Tusk, Prevented Ocean Plastic, and Conservation International to do this. Oli co-founded ekko on the belief that finance can be a force for good, and ekko provides the tools to allow this belief to become a reality - building the bridge between economic and ecological well-being.
Transcribe →Christopher Kahler: Co-founder and CEO of Kinnu
Jun 12, 202400:27:19Tap to summarizeChristopher Kahler is the co-founder and CEO of Kinnu, a gamified learning app, designed to increase the rate of knowledge acquisition. Having sold his second business 'Qriously' (which used mobile apps to measure location-based public sentiment ) Chris and co-founder Abraham Müller were drawn again to their fascination with learning. Researching the science and stunned by the inefficiencies of current learning practices, they launched Kinnu in 2021, with 3rd co-founder Hanna Celina, aiming to create a next-generation learning experience combining cognitive science, neuroscience and deep gamification.
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