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Good GrowingEp. 232 The Cranberry Story: Native Roots and Modern Agriculture | #Good GrowingDiscover the fascinating world of cranberries in this episode of Good Growing. Horticulture educators Chris Enroth and Ken Johnson explore the history, science, and cultivation of one of North America’s few commercially grown native fruits. Learn how cranberries evolved from wild bog plants to a global industry, why they float during wet harvest, and the unique challenges growers face in managing seasonal demand. From Indigenous traditions to modern farming techniques, this episode dives deep into cranberry botany, sustainability, and the economics behind your favorite holiday berry. Skip to what you want to know:00:39 Hey Ken! Ken...
2025-11-1455 min
MorbidThe Enfield PoltergeistIn the summer of 1977, single mother Margaret Hodgson called the police to her council estate apartment in Enfield, London to report that she and her two daughters, Janet and Peggy, had seen furniture move in the apartment and were hearing strange noises coming from within the walls. That simple albeit unusual call set in motion a chain of events that would thrust the unassuming Hodgson family into the center of a debate about the existence of the supernatural and forever associate them with one of England’s most notorious paranormal cases, the Enfield poltergeist.Over the course of...
2025-09-151h 12
What Lies Beyond PodcastContact with the Future | Jon TaylorShow NotesSeason 2 Episode 3 ‘Contact with the Future’Today’s podcast is the second of a trilogy on consciousness and time. Jon Taylor is an interdisciplinary scientist dedicated to the study of anomalous phenomena related to cognition. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MA in Natural Sciences. A long-time enthusiast of parapsychology, Taylor returned to Spain in 1992 to embark on a 25-year investigation into the physical and biological principles underlying precognition. In August 2024, a revised edition of his book Contact with the Future: The Astonishing Power of Intuition and Precognition, featuring a forewo...
2025-03-131h 22
Minding Her BusinessLove of the Game: Chris PlayfairSend us a textFor this special Valentine’s edition of Minding Her Business, we’re switching things up with Minding HIS Business! In this episode, I sit down with my boyfriend, Chris, to dive into his journey as a student-athlete, entrepreneur, and founder of Prolific Hockey.Chris spent four years playing in the OHL, balancing the intense demands of hockey while also preparing for life beyond the game. Now, as a business owner and student, he’s building something bigger—helping the next generation of athletes develop their skills on and off the ice.We...
2025-02-1852 min
Skräckfilmcirkeln PodcastEpisode 174 - Kortfilmcirkeln - Into The Night (2021)För att uppfylla önskemål har kommit från flera av våra trognaste lyssnarna om att släppa avsnitt varje vecka, så kommer det framöver bli ett matinéavsnitt varannan söndag där vi pratar om kortfilmer och framför allt erbjuder er veckans tips på film eller serie!Du hittar filmen här: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPtLa-EYNR8A man who flees from the scene of a fatal bicycle accident soon finds that he is being haunted by more than just his own guilt. Copyright 2021...
2024-07-0727 min
BVCA PodcastS2 EP6: The Mindful VCTo coincide with this year's Mental Health Awareness Week, between 13-19 May 2024, the BVCA has produced a new podcast, The Mindful VC. Hosted by Chris Elphick, Head of Venture Capital at the BVCA, with guests including Daniel Waterhouse, Partner at Balderton, Hayley Hand, Investment Director at Better Society Capital and Henrik Wetter Sanchez, General Partner at Playfair Capital, the podcast explores approaches to mental health for founders and investors.The guests discuss the practical steps that VCs can take in supporting founders, how LPs consider mental health in the funds they invest in, and the impact of...
2024-05-1739 min
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/AccChris Smith - The state of Pre-seed investing, Fundraising process, Intuition VS Investment Memo, The importance of hard workChris Smith - Managing Partner of Playfair. (brought to you by Seedrs)
Playfair is a generalist fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making 6-8 investments a year and preserving time, capital and resources to help companies post-investment.
Playfair has backed more than 70 companies across two funds including Thought Machine, Andela, Mapillary, Recycleye and Orca AI among others.
During this episode we discuss how they asses investment opportunities at such an early stage, the number one mista...
2023-12-1436 min
The European VCEUVC #241: Investing in Robotics with Fady Saad, Founding GP of Cybernetix VenturesToday we have Fady Saad with us. Fady is a Founding GP at Cybernetix Ventures, a 50m$ pre-seed, seed and Series A venture fund in Boston to back North American and European companies within manufacturing, logistics, construction, and healthcare.Cybernetix are investing out of Fund 1 with a total 50m$ AUM and an established portfolio of 13 companies and notable investments including Realtime Robotics, AirWorks, Bionomous, and Kewazo.Listen on Spotify or Apple 🎧Chapters00:00:00 - Intro00:01:42 - New Beginnings in Venture00:03:44 - Overcoming Challenges and Achieving Success00:05:51 - The Impact and Expectations of Gen...
2023-11-0846 min
The Sick Podcast - Raw Knuckles with Chris Nilan#81: Larry Playfair Interview: The Raw Knuckles PodcastChris and Tim are joined by Larry Playfair to talk all things tough guys, injuries, and Stanley Cups!
Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
2:20 Family/Growing Up
9:30 Early Career
12:30 Chris Injures Larry
15:00 Buffalo
19:55 Salaries
23:00 Stanley Cup Talk
28:00 Lindy Ruff
33:00 Clint Malarchuk
36:15 Jim Playfair
39:28 Toughest Fight
47:47 Getting Traded
53:00 Biggest Thrill
57:00 Dave Semenko
1:01:30 Current Career
1:04:00 Closing
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2023-11-021h 12
EUVCEUVC #212 Chris Smith, Playfair CapitalToday we have Chris Smith with us, a repeat offender here at the EUVC podcast. If you’re a loyal long time listener you may recall Chris from our episode #14. Chris is a Managing Partner at Playfair, a generalist VC fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing.Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making 6-8 investments a year and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Playfair is investing out of their $70m Fund 3 and has an established portfolio of **100+ companies across tw...
2023-09-0439 min
Venture PassportS1E4: George Richardson, Founder @ AeroCloud <> Chris Smith, Partner @ PlayfairIn this episode, Jack Richardson, Richard Armstrong, George Richards, and Chris Smith explore the venture capital and startup worlds. Chris shares insights from Playfair Capital, stressing operational experience. George discusses his journey to entrepreneurship and AeroCloud's unique story. They cover pandemic challenges, customer feedback, and founder qualities. The conversation includes adding value before term sheets, hiring, and company culture. They also touch on M&A strategies, integration challenges, and founder-investor dynamics, ending with traits of successful founders and advice for seeking VC investment.
(0:00) Welcome and Introduction to pro rata
(0:29) Guest introduction: Chris Smith from Playfair Capital
(1:29) Interview with George Richards...
2023-05-0155 min
The Guys ReviewLetterkenny Live at the Fox TheatreLetterkenny Live at the Fox Theatre, Atlanta Welcome to The Guys Review, where we review media, products and experiences. **READ APPLE REVIEWS/Fan Mail**Mention Twitter DM group - like pinned tweet @The_GuysReviewRead emails theguysreviewpod@gmail.comTwitter Poll Fox Theatre The 4,665 seat theatre was built in 1929 as part of a as part of a large Shrine Temple, but was ultimately developed into a lavish movie theatre. The principal architect of the project was Olivie...
2022-04-111h 23
A Barque, a Brig and a Schooner...Walk into a Bar"Pretty much, we just go sailing": On board St. Lawrence II with Captain Chris ChafeShout out to Railton, Ontario! This week, Erin gets the unredacted scoop on Captain Chris Chafe. Captain Chafe is the executive director at Tall Ship Expeditions Canada (T.S.E.C.) - Brigantine Incorporated (www.tallshipexpeditions.com) and captain of St. Lawrence II out of Kingston, Ontario. Chris and Erin realize they have strong feelings about tides. We talk about how, sometimes, the right ship to do the job is the smallest ship to do the job , how you should never judge a captain by his red Converse, and, how their peer-led youth sail training program has e...
2022-04-0847 min
The Scale Up PlaybookCASH - episode 1Ask any Founder and they’ll tell you that raising money to grow your business is hard work. There are urban myths about it being easier to pitch for a million than for five thousand. So whether you’re scaling up or even starting up, which funding approach should you take? And why? In this episode we find out by speaking to the people who've done it: Snaffling Pig’s Udhi Silva; Will McDowell from Tastily; Direct To Consumer Expert Mike Stevens; Scott Simpkin from Seedrs; Chris Smith from Playfair Capital; and Nick Telson from Horseplay Ventures. Mark and Harry and their...
2022-03-0837 min
Nothing VenturedNothing Ventured - Chris SmithIn conversation with Chris Smith, the Managing Partner at Playfair Capital. Chris talks about his journey from the law, via the Isle of Man to his current role at Playfair.For more episodes of Nothing Ventured follow us here:SpotifyAppleWebsiteFollow EmergeONE:TwitterLinkedinFollow Chris:LinkedinTwitter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
2021-12-2226 min
Understanding VCUVC: Chris Smith from Playfair Capital on his transition from law to venture capital, the 2Bs of an ideal pitch deck, and ways VCs can harm startupsIn this episode, you will learn:What are the pivots that propelled Chris’s successful transition into a VC?What are the three crucial stages of fundraising that Chris deems indispensable?What are the 2 Bs that every founder should keep in mind while creating their pitch deck?Story of how the founder of Continuum Industries reached out to Chris and chased him during a conference to pitch him and raise fundingIs fundraising really as easy as people make it out to be?How should VCs allocate their time investment to their two customers - LPs, and founders? How doe...
2021-11-2338 min
Pitch Deck#24 GoCaptain - Fintech helping Gen Z to learn to drivePlease Note: The brand name has changed since recording from Captain Compare to GoCaptainI'm joined by Chris Smith, Managing Partner at Playfair Capital. He focuses his investing activities on seed (and pre-seed) deals in the UK and Israel. Chris is particularly interested in autonomous transportation, business and industrial automation, HealthTech and B2B SaaS. He loves finding companies operating in unloved/overlooked sectors that are ripe for disruption.Prior to joining Playfair, Chris held senior roles at plan.com including Sales Director, Head of Tech/BI and Head of Product Development. Revenues P...
2021-06-3043 min
EUVC#16 Chris Smith, Playfair Capital, pt 2Chris Smith is the managing partner at Playfair Capital investing in seed & pre-seed in the UK, Europe and Israel. This is the second part of a two-part episode with Chris. If you haven’t done it yet, we strongly recommend you go back and listen to episode 14 with Chris on being a single-LP firm, post-Covid market dynamics . In this episode we dive deep on deal flow, founder profiles, and Playfair’s value add strategies.In this episode you’ll learn:– Ways to get privileged access to stellar first-time founders.– How Playfair’s value add strategy goes way beyond t...
2021-06-2220 min
The European VC#16 Chris Smith, Playfair Capital, pt 2Chris Smith is the managing partner at Playfair Capital investing in seed & pre-seed in the UK, Europe and Israel. This is the second part of a two-part episode with Chris. If you haven’t done it yet, we strongly recommend you go back and listen to episode 14 with Chris on being a single-LP firm, post-Covid market dynamics . In this episode we dive deep on deal flow, founder profiles, and Playfair’s value add strategies.In this episode you’ll learn:– Ways to get privileged access to stellar first-time founders.– How Playfair’s value add strategy goes way beyond t...
2021-06-2220 min
The European VC#14 Chris Smith, Playfair Capital, pt 1Chris Smith is the managing partner at Playfair Capital where he focuses on seed (and pre-seed) deals in the UK, Europe and Israel. Chris is particularly interested in autonomous transportation, business and industrial automation (especially through AI, ML and computer vision), HealthTech (except diagnostics and therapeutics) and B2B SaaS. But what gets Chris truly excited is when he can find companies operating in unloved/overlooked sectors that are ripe for disruption.In this episode you’ll learn:•The impact of being a 1-LP fund & how Playfair brings their heart with them into VC.•Strategies for VCs an...
2021-06-1023 min
EUVC#14 Chris Smith, Playfair Capital, pt 1Chris Smith is the managing partner at Playfair Capital where he focuses on seed (and pre-seed) deals in the UK, Europe and Israel. Chris is particularly interested in autonomous transportation, business and industrial automation (especially through AI, ML and computer vision), HealthTech (except diagnostics and therapeutics) and B2B SaaS. But what gets Chris truly excited is when he can find companies operating in unloved/overlooked sectors that are ripe for disruption.In this episode you’ll learn:•The impact of being a 1-LP fund & how Playfair brings their heart with them into VC.•Strategies for VCs an...
2021-06-1023 min
Inside the BarnChris PlayfairChris Playfair spent four seasons with the Windsor Spitfires winning the Memorial Cup in his first season and serving as an assistant captain in the last two. While the pandemic cut his time in Windsor short, Chris has committed to Ryerson University where he'll continue his career in the fall.
For more information about Prolific Hockey, the hockey school Chris is a part of, visit prolifichockey.ca or follow them on Instagram @prolifichockey
2021-04-2734 min
ParlayMeEpisode 15 - Playfair Capital - ParlayMe Power PlayersPlayfair have been helping ambitious and exceptional entrepreneurs build brilliant technology businesses since 2013. They've backed the founders of more than 60 companies including Mapillary (acq. Facebook), CryptoFacilities (acq. Kraken), Omnipresent, Orca AI, Ravelin, sprout.ai, Thought Machine, Trouva and Vinehealth.
The were founded by an angel and these values drive everything that they do.
Listen as we talk to Managing Partner Chris Smith and Associate Henrik-Wetter Sanchez
2021-02-1654 min
Pitch Deck#18 The Bunch - From professional rugby player to shared accommodation softwareI'm joined by Chris Smith, Managing Partner at Playfair Capital who focus on pre-seed and seed investments in UK and Israel. Chris is specifically interested in autonomous transportation, business automation, health tech and B2B SaaS. Chris is also an angel investor with 14 deals and 4 exits to date, previously an operator at plan.com and a corporate lawyer. We listened to the pitch from Elliott Herrod - Taylor, founder of The Bunch - looking to reimagine how tenants manage the process of shared accommodation. Elliott had a professional rugby contract with Bath but got bitten by a s...
2021-01-1243 min
ComiCultureEp. 45: Dylan Playfair, Jack Mulhern, Chris Ball and Noah Kentis!.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
2020-09-271h 33
The Scale Up PlaybookFinancing start-ups and scale ups with Chris Smith of Playfair Capital and personal finance for millennials with Andrew Rummer of FinimizeIn this episode Mark and Paul are joined by Chris Smith, Managing Partner of Playfair Capital, seed stage investors who specialise in technology businesses; and Andrew Rummer, Entrepreneur In Residence at Finimize, an app providing easily digestible investment news and education to a global audience of close to a million. +++++ Talk to us podcast@wearewaxon.com +++++ Leave us your review on iTunes. And please subscribe. +++++ www.wearewaxon.com +++++ KEEP WELL AND STAY SAFE
2020-08-0948 min
Entrepreneur Talks by STATION FImpact and Opportunities of COVID-19 on StartupsOn June 4th, STATION F and 120 partner VC funds released a comprehensive study on the impact and opportunities of COVID-19 on startups. We knew from the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis that there would be a huge impact on startups. Some businesses have come to a standstill while others have taken off. Many talk about new trends like remote fundraising or remote work. For startups, the impact has not been uniform and it was important for us to dig deeper.We surveyed over 950 startups from various industries, at various stages of development, and across 5 primary geographies...
2020-06-1729 min
The Back Yourself Show with Tom FaireyChris Smith - Playfair CapitalChris Smith, Managing Partner of Playfair Capital, joins Tom Fairey on this week's episode and shares his views on who you should hire, his route to success and what annoys him in pitches!
2020-05-1955 min
The Healthtech PodcastEpisode 85: The Story of Playfair Capital 🟢We're obviously still in the midst of COVID-19 and if you're anything like us at HS., you'll be locked away, thinking, strategising, and coming up with new ideas, new innovations, even new businesses... When we all emerge, you may well be looking for investment and so this episode is a conversation I had a few weeks back with Chris Smith, Managing Partner at Playfair Capital. Chris focuses his investing activities on seed (and pre-seed) deals in the UK and Israel and has a particular interest in HealthTech having gone in for uMed, who you might recognise from a very...
2020-04-0943 min
SET ImpactEpisode 4: Investing in Regulated Markets - General Partner of Playfair Capital - Chris Smith.Chris is Managing Partner at Playfair Capital. He focuses his investing activities on seed (and pre-seed) deals in the UK and Israel.
Chris is particularly interested in autonomous transportation, business and industrial automation (especially through AI, ML and computer vision), HealthTech (except diagnostics and therapeutics) and B2B SaaS. He loves finding companies operating in unloved/overlooked sectors that are ripe for disruption.
Prior to joining Playfair, Chris held senior roles at plan.com including Sales Director, Head of Tech/BI and Head of Product Development. He was the 8th member of the team and ove...
2020-03-0135 min
The Invested InvestorKeeping your trade secretsChris Smith, Managing Partner at Playfair Capital, angel investor and previous Head of Product Development at plan.com, where under his watch the company ranked #1 in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100. Chris is passionate about investing and supporting tech companies where he is able to use his extensive operational and legal experience to best advantage. Chris takes us through his career from London Lawyer to investment manager and entrepreneur. Chris offers some particularly insightful advice including his take on the protection of unique methodology or trade secrets.
2019-10-3037 min
Real Good Show151 - Roussel Madness (with Jackson Playfair)This week on the show that knows car and cat are only separated by one letter (isn't that neat?), Dalhousie Tigers forward and former WHL beauty JACKSON PLAYFAIR returns to the show for an in-studio hockey spectacular. John is over the moon with the Leafs signing John Tavares, while Stefan wallows in self-pity and Justin finds glimmers of hope in the Canucks' discouraging free agent crop. PLUS: Our Auston Insider reveals what the Leafs moves mean for Matthews, forecasts his dad's future in the game, and goes deep on the one feud that may have ended with Playfair jerseys...
2018-07-061h 48
JustinMorisReal Good Show - 151 - Roussel Madness (with Jackson Playfair)This week on the show that knows car and cat are only separated by one letter (isn't that neat?), Dalhousie Tigers forward and former WHL beauty JACKSON PLAYFAIR returns to the show for an in-studio hockey spectacular. John is over the moon with the Leafs signing John Tavares, while Stefan wallows in self-pity and Justin finds glimmers of hope in the Canucks' discouraging free agent crop. PLUS: Our Auston Insider reveals what the Leafs moves mean for Matthews, forecasts his dad's future in the game, and goes deep on the one feud that may have ended with Playfair jerseys in...
2018-07-061h 48
PodcastPDApp Smashing with Chris AvilesApp Smashing is the process of using multiple apps to create projects or complete tasks. Chris Aviles shares how he inspires student learning.Stacey also recaps her EdCampHAT experience! AJ took his boys to PlayFair NYC!Featured ContentChris Aviles is the 21st Century Skills, Technology, and Innovation Coordinator for the Fair Haven school district in Fair Haven, New Jersey. As the leader of the Fair Haven Innovates program, his students combine social entrepreneurship and design thinking to sell real products and solve real problems as they run real businesses that turn real profi...
2017-11-1549 min