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The Business Leadership PodcastInvesting in Innovation: A Conversation with Tamara SteffensIn this episode of the Business Leadership Podcast, host Edwin Frondozo interviews Tamara Steffens, managing director of Thomson Reuters Ventures, live from Web Summit Vancouver 2025. Steffens discusses her role in leading a $100 million strategic fund investing in early-stage companies, her extensive experience with successful tech startups, and her approach to venture investing. The conversation highlights Thomson Reuters' investment strategies, her personal insights on startup success, and advice for founders on simplifying their message to attract investors. Steffens also touches on the ever-evolving landscape of enterprise tech and the importance of clear storytelling in driving innovation.00:00 I...
2025-09-3017 min
Alles außer Toplisten66 Ausruf der ÜberraschungInterviewfolge mit Tamara Dietzen von Huch!
Wir dürfen mit Tammy über ihre Aufgaben im Social Media Marketing des Spieleverlags Huch! reden.
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In Alles außer Toplisten reden Jäidie und Oli mit Personen aus der Brettspielwelt - natürlich über Spiele. Dabei schenken wir unseren Gästen immer das Recht, sich das Thema auszusuchen und lassen uns dabei selbst überraschen, wohin die Reise geht.
Ach ja, und Toplisten können wir nicht, dafür aber eine Playlist.
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Und wenn euch gefällt, was wir machen, sagt es weiter.
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2025-05-0547 min
ImpacTVTamara Steffens on TR Ventures' strategies, legal tech AI, and mission-driven investments | E32Tamara Steffens joins Jack Crawford to discuss her professional journey and venture capital insights, focusing on legal tech AI adoption. They delve into the government market segment, exploring investment strategies and TR Ventures' approach to investment stages and value addition. The conversation highlights TR Ventures' evergreen fund structure and its strategic deployment, alongside AI adoption in the legal sector and deal flow sourcing. They address the balance between financial, strategic, and mission-driven returns, and traits that capture investor attention. Future industry sectors of interest are identified, followed by rapid-fire questions. The episode wraps up with Tamara's personal favorites in blogs...
2025-04-2934 min
AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and AcademicsTamara Steffens, MD at Thomas Reuters Ventures, Explains How Corporate VC WorksTamara Steffens is a seasoned tech executive with a remarkable track record in scaling teams, infrastructures, and products. She has contributed significantly to early mobile and SaaS pioneers, including Boingo, Software.com, Fusion One, and Color. Tamara has held executive roles at Microsoft and Openwave, leading large teams and driving innovation. Her tech career began at Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics, where she architected partnerships that defined entire industries. Tamara holds a BS in finance from Michigan State University and is actively involved in shaping the future of business and innovation as a board member at the Broad Business...
2024-06-1733 min
Fintech TakesKilling It! –Fintech’s Biggest Disrupters on Startups, Success, and All the Hard Lessons In BetweenThings in life rarely go as planned. But things in fintech? Well… They almost never go as planned. So how do you put yourself and your ideas into the fintech world when failure is almost certainly inevitable? What happens when grinding isn’t enough to keep your company afloat? And how do you cope with the potential loss of the idea (and identity) you loved so dearly?In this special crossover series with Breaking Banks’ Jason Henrichs, he and Fintech Takes’ Alex Johnson sit down with fintech’s biggest innovators, disrupters, and industry changers to...
2024-02-2235 min
Honestquo Venture PodcastTamara Steffens of Thomas Reuters Ventures (Managing Director), Ex-Microsoft Venture Fund (M12)Insights on Thomson Reuters Ventures, a $100 million venture capital fund
2024-02-1623 min
Breaking BanksEpisode 530: Killing It & Investing in the Next FrontierIn This Episode
Drumroll...it's a new series from Breaking Banks, Killing It, candid discussions with entrepreneurs sharing lessons, failures, successes and some of the tough decisions they had to make. From VCs to unicorns, it's a high stakes game with high rates of failure. Not everything goes up and to the right, and success looks different for everyone -- you can grind away and do all you are supposed to do, and get to the point that you have to deliver terrible news to your cofounder and employees who believed in you. There are lots of stories from awesome...
2024-02-0850 min
Finovate PodcastEP 198: Tamara Steffens, TR VenturesWelcome to 2024! Tamara joins us to share her perspective on what’s on tap for fintech and the funding ecosystem this year.
2024-01-0317 min
Open Innovation TalksEp. 19 - Diving into Corporate Venture Capital in the news and media industryTamara Steffens, managing partner of Thompson Reuters Ventures, brings a wealth of experience and a unique perspective to the world of investing. With over two decades of expertise, she has been instrumental in driving growth and facilitating successful exits for early-stage consumer and enterprise startups.In this Mind the Chat,together with our CEO Marco Marinucci, she delves deep into the realm of CVC, discussing how the landscape of innovation - in particular in the changing news and media industry - has evolved and welcoming a surge of diversity, with an increasing number of female participants.
2023-11-0931 min
AI Chat: ChatGPT & AI News, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Machine LearningTamara Steffens of Thomson Reuters Ventures on Investing in AI StartupsIn this episode, we delve into the insights of Tamara Steffens, the
Managing Director at Thompson Reuters Ventures, about what it takes to invest in AI startups successfully. We unpack her strategies, criteria, and how she navigates the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence in business.
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2023-10-0321 min
The Leadership Tales Podcast with Colin HunterBuilding Successful Startups with Tamara SteffensTo all the startup founders reading this: You don’t want to miss today’s guest on the Leadership Tales Podcast!Tamara Steffens is an early-stage venture investor with over 20 years of experience working with startups. Throughout her career, Tamara has helped grow numerous enterprises by lending her skills and expertise to founders. She accomplishes this not only through financial support, but also by connecting them with the resources they need to be successful.You’ll hear what Tamara’s journey is like from first contact to launching new technologies. She also shares h...
2023-05-2241 min
The Journey with Christian D EvansManaging Director @ TR Ventures Tamara Steffens talks Early Stage Investing & Growth Strategies🎁 Gift for All Podcast Listeners Below 👇 | Tamara is an early stage venture investor with over 20 years of experience driving growth and successful exits for early-stage consumer and enterprise startups.
She has a proven ability to successfully initiate, structure, negotiate, and close strategic partnerships, capital markets, and merger and acquisition transactions and has deep industry expertise across mobile technology, financial services, telecom, and education.
Tamara led investing and VC partnerships in North America and India for M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, and was the executive sponsor of the fund’s Female Founders Competition. Before that, she led business...
2023-01-0244 minThe Journey with Christian D EvansManaging Director @ TR Ventures Tamara Steffens talks Early Stage Investing & Growth Strategies🎁 Gift for All Podcast Listeners Below 👇 | Tamara is an early stage venture investor with over 20 years of experience driving growth and successful exits for early-stage consumer and enterprise startups. She has a proven ability to successfully initiate, structure, negotiate, and close strategic partnerships, capital markets, and merger and acquisition transactions and has deep industry expertise across mobile technology, financial services, telecom, and education.
Tamara led investing and VC partnerships in North America and India for M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, and was the executive sponsor of the fund’s Female Founders Competition. Before that, she led business development...
2022-12-1944 min
How I Raised It - The podcast where we interview startup founders who raised capital.Ep. 183 How I Raised It With Tamara Steffens Of M12 VenturesProduced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Tamara Steffens of M12.vc, which is the venture capital arm of Microsoft.
In this episode, Tamara talks about some of the advantages of taking corporate venture capital (as compared to "traditional" VC), what M12 and Microsoft is looking to invest in, tips for contacting and pitching CVCs, lessons learned from being on both sides of the table, and much more.
M12 invests around $250 million per year into startups, with a preference for B2B and SaaS...
2021-02-1942 min
TechUnited On TapGood Sense Makes Good Cents Female Funded Companies Perform Better Episode #35Speakers:
Lori Wachs, Partner, Springboard Growth Capital
Tamara Steffens, GM/Managing Director, M12
Jenifer Smith, Partner, DLA Piper
2020-11-0931 min
The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing DemystifiedInvestor Stories 155: Why I Passed (Klaff, Steffens, Polovets, Deeter)On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Oren Klaff Tamara Steffens Leo Polovets Byron Deeter Each investor highlights a situation where they decided not to invest, why they passed, and how it played out.
2020-08-2912 min
The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified235. Why Corporate VC Gets a Bad Wrap; Microsoft's Fresh Approach to CVC; and Key Insights to Acquire Mass Users (Tamara Steffens)Tamara Steffens of M12 joins Nick on a special Crisis Coverage installment to discuss Why Corporate VC Gets a Bad Wrap; Microsoft's Fresh Approach to CVC; and Key Insights to Acquire Mass Users. In this episode, we cover: Background and path to venture. Overview of the thesis at M12. Investments since COVID? Changes in strategy, markets of interest. CVC has the reputation of being very slow, not leading deals, imposing restrictive terms, and thinking only about broader success of their parent company— what's different about M12? What's your approach to sourcing? You are known as a user acquisition ex...
2020-06-2550 min
Freedom with NicoleCOMING SOON!! Podcast Re-Launch & SNEAK PEAK of what's to come from the 18th of November....All brand new episodes, a brand new message & brand new guests!
Ramp up to bring in your 2020 with the Re-Launched version of this Podcast.
We introduce to you, from the 18th of November, Freedom with Nicole - Episode 1!!!
We interview Sophie Grace, Becky Lamb, The Fit Pharmacist (Holly Louise), Ellie Kate, Tamara Northam, Bek Strachan and many many more interesting people!
All to inspire & empower you to create FREEDOM in all areas of your life!!
2019-11-1302 min