Runway

About Runway

Runway is a podcast started by Black Unicorn PR co-founders Julija Jegorova and Mauro Battellini to help startup founders, company builders and business leaders with insights, tools and advice from specialists in sales, marketing, PR and more. Black Unicorn PR is a London-based tech PR agency focused on startups, scaleups and VC. For more information visit: https://www.blackunicornpr.com/

Publisher

Julija Jegorova & Mauro Battellini

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Jul 2024

Latest episode

1 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

42 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Jun 2026

   #42 Sten Õitspuu, Head of Marketing at Karma Ventures: Marketing & Comms in VC: the Karma Method [Live at Latitude59]

   What is VC marketing? And how what is the 'Karma Method'? Sten Õitspuu once recorded two fully-produced podcast episodes for Karma Ventures, then decided not to release a single one. That instinct, knowing when to walk away from your own work, sits at the heart of how he thinks about marketing for venture capital. Sten is Head of Marketing at Karma Ventures, the Tallinn-based fund backing European deep-tech software startups at late seed and Series A. He came to VC the long way round: with ex...

2. 

   12 May 2026

   #41 - Sam Marchant, Partner at Inaugural & Founder of Forward Pursuit: MENA Startups Overview, Building AI Camels and the Power of VC Media

   Sam Marchant builds AI companies designed to exit at $20 to $100 million, and thinks the industry has been chasing the wrong animal. Sam is a partner at Inaugural, an AI venture studio that has built eight revenue-generating companies in 24 months, and the founder of Forward Pursuit, a Dubai-based family office. He also hosts the Now We Build podcast and runs Scaling MENA, the weekly newsletter for anyone paying attention to the Gulf and broader Middle East ecosystem. Before Dubai, he founded...

3. 

   5 May 2026

   #40 - Arthur Renard: Lessons and Stories From 20+ Years Building a Career as a Freelance Football Journalist

   Arthur Renard is a freelance football journalist who built his career hustling interviews as a teenager. Today, you can read him in publications in 20+ countries and languages, and see him on TV. We sat down to hear his story. Arthur Renard moved from the Netherlands to London at 18 with a few bags and no detailed plan. Within nine months he was in the Chelsea canteen interviewing José Mourinho. Today he's the BBC's go-to voice on Dutch football, a regular on Sky Sports and TNT, and has bylin...

Who has been a guest on Runway

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Parker Olson
• Frederik Barsøe
• Julieta Varsano
• Bojan Stojkovski
• Nick Huber

Podcast Authority Score: 39 / 100

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Quality

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Social presence

0

YouTube

0

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