Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology

Building the AI Super Connector with Andrew D’Souza, Founder of Boardy and Clearco

Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology

2928Dec 3, 2025

Andrew D’Souza is the Founder of Boardy, the Creandum backed AI super connector reshaping how founders and investors meet and build trust. Before Boardy, Andrew co-founded Clearco, one of the first revenue based financing companies. Clearco deployed over $5bn to thousands of businesses, scaled to six hundred employees, and passed one hundred million dollars in revenue. Andrew is one of the few founders who has built a nine figure company before starting again.

Simone Maini, CEO @ Elliptic, on Leading Through Crypto Winters and Building Elliptic into a Blockchain Analytics Leader

Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology

2234Aug 6, 2025

In this episode of Riding Unicorns, James and Hector sit down with Simone Maini, CEO of Elliptic, the world’s leading blockchain analytics company. Simone’s career path is anything but conventional — from a history degree and Deutsche Bank to leading a $100M+ funded crypto intelligence powerhouse. 🧠 After 8 years in banking and a stint in anti-money laundering consulting, Simone joined Elliptic as Head of Product.