Advertise on podcast: Focus Point

For our second episode,  we sat down with Asif Ghafoor, co-founder of Iduna, which earlier this year carried out a £4 million debt raise in under a week through a crowdfunding platform to finance its EV charging network in Manchester - an interesting way to go about it in a market where banks are still hesitant to jump in. In our conversation, Asif talks about its charging network, the crowdfunding process, as well as the wider financing landscape for charging assets. We also talk about Iduna’s wider vision and how it is engaged in other sectors like energy and telecommunications.

Introducing Focus Point, the newest podcast from inspiratia. Focus Point will - as its name suggests - zoom in on specific deals, fundraises and other initiatives in the infrastructure and renewables energy spaces, with a view to understand what makes them special and where they fit into the larger sector. For this inaugural episode, inspiratia's Head of Deal Flow Fernando Moncada speaks to Cordiant Capital's co-CEO Benn Mikula about Cordiant Digital Infrastructure Limited, the first ever diversified, pure-play digital infrastructure fund listed on the London Stock Exchange.  In  a sector growing as quickly as digital infrastructure, it has taken a while for a fund of its kind to go public,  and in the episode Benn talks about the rationale behind going the public route, what it's been like to be the first to list this specific kind of vehicle, the fund's mid-market strategy, data security and more.  For any comments or suggestions, please do reach out to [email protected].