Silicon Real

Samad Masood is the Programme Director of the FinTech Innovation Lab London, an annual mentorship programme to help entrepreneurs and early-stage companies that are developing cutting-edge technologies for the financial services sector.

Simon Cook is the CEO of DFJ Esprit, the European arm of Draper Fisher Jurvetson of Silicon Valley, the largest venture capital network in the world with 140 investment professionals and 600 portfolio companies including SpaceX, Tesla, and Skype.

Jeff Lynn is the co-founder and CEO of Seedrs, an equity "crowd funding" platform for discovering and investing in seed-stage startups which allows you to invest as little as £10 to raise up to £150,000 from friends, family, and independent investors.

Taavet Hinrikus is the co-founder of Transferwise, a peer-to-peer international money transfer business.  He was the very first employee of Skype and their Director of Strategy until 2008.

Bindi Karia is the Vice President of the Accelerator program at Silicon Valley Bank in London which offers a variety of financial services to companies in Technology, Life Sciences, and Wine.

Raj Ramanandi is the CEO of #1seed, Silicon Roundabout's only dedicated seed investors in early stage technology.

Tomi Davies is the CEO of TechnoVision Communications which runs TVCLabs, a technology business incubation company based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Courtney Boyd Myers began her career writing for Forbes Magazine and the Huffington Post and is now a member of the Number 10 Downing Street and Tech City's Advisory board

John Collison is the co-founder of Stripe, a company that "makes it easy to start accepting credit cards on the web today."

Deputy CEO of Tech City UK Benjamin Southworth gives his first interview since announcing his departure and explains the startling differences between working for the government and the private sector.