Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology

Riding Unicorns

Meet the people building the future.Hosted by investors James Pringle and Hector Mason, Riding Unicorns goes inside the companies, ideas and decisions shaping the future of technology. Each episode features candid conversations with leading founders, operators and investors about what it really takes to build and back category-defining companies. From finding product-market fit and raising capital to hiring exceptional teams, scaling globally and navigating the moments that can make or break a company, we explore the lessons you rarely find in the playbooks. Whether you're building, investing or simply interested in how great technology companies are created, Riding Unicorns...

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Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology

Episodes (251)

Wednesday Powering the AI Era: Karl Bach, CEO of Axle Energy on Virtual Power Plants and Building in the Physical World
Sep 30th Building the Data Brain for AI Agents: Toby Mather, Co-Founder of Rig, on Data Infrastructure, Enterprise Sales and the Agentic Future
Sep 23rd Building AI Workers for the Physical Economy: Robin Van Aeken, CEO of Magentic, on Agents, Manufacturing and Supply Chains

Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology

Oct 7, 2026
31 minutes
21 MB

AI is creating extraordinary new demand for electricity. But what happens when the grid can't keep up? In this episode of Riding Unicorns, James and Hector sit down with Karl Bach, Co-Founder & CEO of Axle Energy, the energy technology company building a virtual power plant from hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles, batteries and heat pumps. Rather than relying solely on large power stations to balance electricity supply and demand, Axle connects distributed devices across homes and businesses and intelligently shifts when they consume energy. Today, the company manages more than two...

Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology

Powering the AI Era: Karl Bach, CEO of Axle Energy on Virtual Power Plants and Building in the Physical World

Riding Unicorns

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