Amadeus and Friends

Historically an opaque and disparate system, global trade is often built on relationships and trusting that goods are what they say on the tin.

But as the world moves further into globalisation, companies need to illuminate their global supply chains to detect risks, reduce operational burdens, and build trusted trade networks.

Off the back of their recent $100m fundraise, Nick Kingsbury sits down with Tom Morrison, Director of Business Development at Altana, to discuss how they have developed a shared source of truth by mapping the global supply chain. Tom discloses some of the discoveries customers have made by using the Altana Atlas, including illegal drugs and weapons, and shares the positive social impacts of the technology.
Globalization 2.0 Manifesto:
https://www.altana.ai/globalization-2.0-manifesto

Breaking into the world of VC can be tough. In an industry where starter roles are highly sought after, securing a seat at the table means you need to stand out.

In this episode we hear from Ana Bernardo-Gancedo, James Baker and Ben Balmforth, all Analysts and Associates at Amadeus Capital Partners, as they share their experiences landing a VC job and offer advice to those hoping to do the same.

With a background in academia and then consulting, Ana explains why deep tech VC was the perfect fit, combining her passions of science and investment. While James and Ben, both chartered accountants, were driven by an interest in identifying exciting companies in their very early stages and supporting them through their growth lifecycle.

The demand for autonomous and spatially aware machines is increasing, with the market expected to exceed $100 billion by 2030.

But complex mapping and navigation challenges make developing this technology a lengthy and expensive process for companies.

In this episode, Nick Kingsbury is joined by Owen Nicholson, CEO and co-founder of SLAMcore, the startup using novel algorithms to help robots and drones understand where they are and what’s around them. They deliver highly reliable positioning and mapping intelligence on low power, cost-effective hardware.

Owen takes us back to the beginning and shares SLAMcore’s formation story, details how the pioneering technology works and shares its uses from vacuum cleaners to VR headsets.

Once your machine learning models are set up there’s nothing else to do, right? Wrong, with new tools and trends emerging every year in data science, machine learning is constantly evolving.

In this episode, Manjari Chandran-Ramesh sits down with CEOs from not one but two Amadeus-backed start-ups to discuss the best ways for companies to scale their ML architecture.

Alex Housley, CEO at Seldon, the startup that has developed an open-source machine learning deployment platform and Alberto Rizzoli, CEO at V7, a platform which enables automated labelling, training, and building of AI.

Alex and Alberto consider when to start thinking about scaling ML architecture, explain why moving from a model-centric view of ML to a data-centric one is important and reveal why failures along the way are crucial.

From CCTV and body cams to drone footage, in today’s world the lens of a camera is near impossible to escape.

With an inconceivable amount of data being captured every day, how do companies manage this safely? Scale, coupled with an explosion of regulations and policies governing how companies can legally store and manage this data, makes for a data protection minefield.

In this first episode of podcast Amadeus & Friends, our Nick Kingsbury chats to Simon Randall, CEO and co-founder at Pimloc.

Pimloc’s deep learning platform allows businesses to extract useful data in images and video whilst protecting privacy and helping organisations to adhere to regulation.

Simon and Nick discuss the challenges of anonymising parts of images and video, the real-life use cases of Pimloc’s technology, consider the future of security and what’s next for Pimloc.