About Peter Cowley

NBN Episodes hosted by Peter:

Deep Pockets and Lengthy Timescales

September 6, 2021

Deep Pockets and Lengthy Timescales

Mark Frost
Hosted by Peter Cowley

Martin Frost, CEO and co-founder of CMR Surgical, joins us this week. Martin is passionate about supporting technology based start-ups that make a dif…

Being Tenacious and Walking Through Walls

August 30, 2021

Being Tenacious and Walking Through Walls

Jonathan Milner
Hosted by Peter Cowley

Jonathan Milner's second Invested Investor podcast details his experience as Cambridge Angel. Since he began in 2002 he has invested in forty differen…

From a Bucket of Ice to a World Leading Life Sciences Innovator

August 23, 2021

From a Bucket of Ice to a World Leading Life Sciences Innovator

Jonathan Milner
Hosted by Peter Cowley

Jonathan Milner was working as a postdoc in a Cambridge oncology lab when he was struck by an 'entrepreneurial seizure'. Inspired by his father, an en…

Disappearing, Angel Investing, Frog Capital, and What Shirin Dehghan Has Learned Along the Way

August 16, 2021

Disappearing, Angel Investing, Frog Capital, and What Shirin Dehghan Has Learned Along the Way

Hosted by Peter Cowley

Shirin Dehghan is a hugely successful entrepreneur, having built Arieso and sold it to JDSU. In part 2 of her podcast, we hear how she decided to take…

Priya Lakhani: Changing the World through A Premium Food Brand and An AI Platform for Education

August 9, 2021

Changing the World through A Premium Food Brand and An AI Platform for Education

Priya Lakhani
Hosted by Peter Cowley

Priya Lakhani is an entrepreneurial adrenaline junkie. She has founded two successful companies, won numerous business awards, and acted as an advisor…

Active Hotels, via Booking.com, to Angel Investing: A Discussion with Andy Phillipps (Part 2)

July 26, 2021

Active Hotels, via Booking.com, to Angel Investing

Andy Phillipps
Hosted by Peter Cowley

Following on from Andy Phillipps first podcast, we are pleased to bring you part two. In part one, Andy described how he co-founded Active Hotels, sel…

Active Hotels, via Booking.com, to Angel Investing: A Discussion with Andy Phillipps

July 19, 2021

Active Hotels, via Booking.com, to Angel Investing

Andy Phillipps
Hosted by Peter Cowley

Excitingly, Invested Investor Andy Phillipps joined Peter Cowley for a two part podcast. In part one, Andy explains how he established the hotel booki…

Targeting Big Impact Deep Tech: A Discussion with William Tundstall-Pedoe (Part 2)

July 12, 2021

Targeting Big Impact Deep Tech

William Tundstall-Pedoe
Hosted by Peter Cowley

In part two we continue William Tunstall-Pedoe’s journey. William discusses his exit from Amazon, his involvement with Toronto based incubator, Creati…

Alexa, Add Champagne to My Shopping List: A Discussion with William Tunstall-Pedoe

July 5, 2021

Alexa, Add Champagne to My Shopping List

William Tunstall-Pedoe
Hosted by Peter Cowley

In part one we are fascinated to learn how the hugely successful, artificial intelligence entrepreneur, William Tunstall-Pedoe developed anagram-gener…

Investing in the Future: A Conversation with Hermann Hauser

June 28, 2021

Investing in the Future

Hermann Hauser
Hosted by Peter Cowley

In part two of Hermann Hauser’s podcast he brings us up to date by discussing his role within Amadeus Capital. Giving us an understanding of his inves…

Building the UK's IT Legacy: A Conversation Hermann Hauser

June 21, 2021

Building the UK's IT Legacy

Hermann Hauser
Hosted by Peter Cowley

Hermann Hauser of the legendary Acorn computers is our distinguished guest this week. In part one of Hermann’s podcast, he talks to us about his long …

Conversation with the Cowley's

December 18, 2019

Conversation with the Cowley's

Peter and Alan Cowley
Hosted by Peter Cowley

We have an exciting end to series 4 of the Invested Investor podcasts. This week we are proud to have our founders Peter and Alan Cowley talking about…

The Millennial Angel Investor

December 11, 2019

The Millennial Angel Investor

Reece Chowdhry
Hosted by Peter Cowley

Reece Chowdhry, the dynamic founder of RLC Ventures joins us this week. Reece has been investing since the age of 13 and now has over 40 investments…

Build Your Appetite for Risk

December 4, 2019

Build Your Appetite for Risk

Zoe Peden
Hosted by Peter Cowley

Zoe Peden, investor and award-winning educational technology entrepreneur joins us to talk about her journey. Founder of FutureWorldVC and MyChoicePad…

Passing on Wisdom and Legacy

November 27, 2019

Passing on Wisdom and Legacy

Joel Solomon
Hosted by Peter Cowley

Joel Solomon joins us this week, he is the founding partner of Renewal Funds, the Canadian based mission venture capital firm and author of “The Cle…

For the Greater Good of Society

November 20, 2019

For the Greater Good of Society

Simon Bond
Hosted by Peter Cowley

Simon Bond is the innovation director for Set-Squared, a partnership of universities that support early stage technology companies helping them to rai…

Take a Pass on Plastic

November 13, 2019

Take a Pass on Plastic

Kath Austin
Hosted by Peter Cowley

Kath Austin founder and CEO of Bee Bee Wraps and SME Entrepreneur of the year joins us for this week’s podcast. Kath explains why she left her charity…

Meditation for Clarity of Thought

November 6, 2019

Meditation for Clarity of Thought

Firdaus Nagree
Hosted by Peter Cowley

Firdaus Nagree, angel investor, founder and CEO of FCI London’s largest design showroom for high-end furniture and interiors with offices in India, UA…

Keeping Your Trade Secrets

October 30, 2019

Keeping Your Trade Secrets

Chris Smith
Hosted by Peter Cowley

Chris Smith, Managing Partner at Playfair Capital, angel investor and previous Head of Product Development at plan.com, where under his watch the comp…

Building an Evergreen Business

October 23, 2019

Building an Evergreen Business

Ronan Perceval
Hosted by Peter Cowley

Ronan Perceval CEO and founder of Phorest, a global software provider focusing on the salon space. Ronan tells us how entrepreneurship had always been…

A Social Entrepreneur Helping Social Entrepreneurs

October 16, 2019

A Social Entrepreneur Helping Social Entrepreneurs

Craig Dearden-Philips
Hosted by Peter Cowley

Craig Dearden-Philips MBE, social entrepreneur, angel investor, writer and academic joins us this week. Craig tells his inspirational journey from his…

Entrepreneur First, Investor Second

October 9, 2019

Entrepreneur First, Investor Second

Chris Mairs
Hosted by Peter Cowley

Professor Chris Mairs CBE, angel investor, entrepreneur, Venture Partner at Entrepreneur First, patron of Fight For Sight and a fellow of The Royal …

Integrity, Tenacity and Motivation

October 2, 2019

Integrity, Tenacity and Motivation

Christopher Mirabile
Hosted by Peter Cowley

Christopher Mirabile the Boston based Chair of the Angel Capital Association, co-founder of Seraf and Managing Director of Launchpad Venture Group j…

Changing the World One Mind at a Time

July 24, 2019

Changing the World One Mind at a Time

Keiron Sparrowhawk
Hosted by Peter Cowley

Keiron Sparrowhawk MedTech expert, founder and CEO of MyCognition joins us this week. He explains his personal connection to his early work within p…