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Episode 123: Sam Marchant of Hambro Perks Pt 2 discusses Investment stage, Climate and AI investing

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Andrew Gaule (linkedin.com/in/andrew-gaule-aimava) discusses with Sam Marchant, Early-stage Investor at Hambro Perks, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-marchant), in Part Two we discuss the stages from Angel, Seed to Series A onwards. We also discuss the status of investing in climate change ventures and artificial intelligence AI. In Part One we discussed the attributes of entrepreneurs, angel investors and the stages of scaling ventures. For a book on corporate innovation and venturing see "Purpose to Performance - Innovative New Value Chains" by Andrew Gaule. ( shorturl.at/dfDTW ) - Includes a chapter on China from the years of travelling in China and taking leading corporates. You can listen to this interview as a podcast on Gaule's Question Time on Apple, Spotify, Google and many other podcast channels. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/gaulesqt Subscribe for future interviews. See this and other video content at Aimava Purpose to Performance Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV9o-htFNIk9Yt7jp2XcdWw

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