Best Basis Set Ventures Podcasts (2025)

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“Business Sets the Course, Tech Brings the Thrust: How Innovo Group Is Building the Future with AI and Digital Twins.” - Roger Wahl - Executive Series #9 21:22

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Roger Wahl is the Global Chief Technology Officer at Innovo Group. Innovo Group is an industry leader in construction and innovation across the built environment. Innovo Group delivers major real estate and infrastructure projects across four continents through cutting-edge design, engineering, construction, development, and financing. Roger Wahl h…

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“Focus on engagement and transparency. That is how you build a strong foundation for transformation.” - Richard Corbridge - Executive Series #8 20:55

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Richard Corbridge is SEGRO plc’s first ever Chief Information Officer. SEGRO is a UK Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), and a leading owner, asset manager and developer of modern warehousing and industrial property, with a portfolio of 10.3 million square metres valued at £20.3 billion. Richard has over 25 years of experience in digital and techn…

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“Start building the basis for your long-term over-performance and operational efficiency today.” - Benjamin Günther - Founder Series #7 31:34

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Benjamin Günther is the CEO and Founder of Alasco. Alasco is the only integrated solution for financial and sustainability management tailored to real estate asset managers, owners, and developers—empowering over 300 leading firms like Hines, Invesco, and Patrizia to plan and execute high-impact sustainability strategies, optimize CapEx, and drive …

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“Focus on making your customers money, leveraging change as a catalyst for a profitable, sustainable transformation in real estate.” - Matt Ellis - Founder Series #6 36:03

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Matt Ellis is the CEO and Co-Founder of Measurabl. Measurabl is the world’s most widely adopted sustainability data management platform for commercial real estate, which tracks performance for over 18 billion square feet of property representing more than $3 trillion AUM (USD) across 93 countries. Prior to founding Measurabl, Matt led CBRE’s Sustai…

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“We need a coalition of the willing. Asset owners need to prioritise collaboration.” - Melanie Leech - Executive Series #7 36:18

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Melanie Leech is the Chief Executive Officer at the British Property Federation, a leading representative body for the UK real estate sector, advocating for a diverse, sustainable, and successful industry that contributes £110 billion annually to the UK economy and supports 2.5 million jobs through policy engagement, industry collaboration, and sup…

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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast - Why digital transformation is about more than just choosing the right tech” - Emily Hamilton - Executive Series #6 28:51

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Emily Hamilton is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Savills Investment Management, a leading real estate and real-estate debt specialist with over 30 years of experience, managing €26.1bn across 15 global locations, offering flexible strategies across office, logistics & industrial, retail, living, and debt sectors to meet diverse investor needs.…

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“Our ‘Internet moment’ for the physical world” - Alain Waha - Executive Series #5 1:20:55

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Alain Waha is the Chief Technology Officer at Buro Happold, a global engineering and consultancy firm with a portfolio of 15,000 projects across 190 countries, including iconic landmarks such as the Museum of the Future in Dubai, Battersea Powerstation renewal, and the London 2012 Olympic Stadium. In his role as CTO and co-Chair of the Global Techn…

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“Don’t waste a good crisis. It’s in those moments of challenge that you have to take steps to improve—and often, that’s when the best opportunities arise.” - Duncan Garrood - Executive Series #4 1:19:24

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Duncan Garrood, Chief Executive Officer at Empiric Student Property plc. Empiric Student Property, a £1 Billion+ FTSE 250 portfolio and owner of Hello Student, manages over 80 purpose-built student accommodation buildings in 28 UK cities, housing 8,000+ students and providing a community-focused living experience. Duncan Garrood is an experienced e…

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“Digital transformation is not (just) about tech - It’s mainly about new business models”- Peter Mikulic - Executive Series #3 34:49

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Peter Mikulic is the Chief Digital Transformation Officer at Stena Fastigheter, one of Sweden's largest privately owned real estate companies, owning and managing a total of ~2.1 million square meters. Peter Mikulic is an experienced C-level executive specializing in digital transformation and aligning technology with business goals. With a backgro…

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“Tenant - Landlord partnerships. That is the new winning model.” - Matus Liptak - Executive Series #2 24:44

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Matus Liptak is COO at HB Reavis, an international commercial real estate developer and asset manager currently managing 640.000 square meters of workspaces valued at 3 billion EUR. Matus Liptak transitioned from a global role at IBM to shaping the future of commercial real estate at HB Reavis, where he harnesses technology to drive digital transfo…

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"The idea is the easy part. Execution is what matters" - Dan Drogman - Founder Series #5 30:51

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Dan Drogman is the Founder & CEO at Smart Spaces. Smart Spaces is a pioneering smart building operating system deployed across 85 million square feet in 26 countries. With a background in technology and graphic design, Dan Drogman initially honed his skills through various tech ventures. In 2009, Dan joined forces with his brother Tom to build a bu…

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"A call for collaboration to handle RE transformation" - Anja Rath - Investor Series #4 37:01

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Anja Rath is the Managing Partner & Co-Founder at PT1. Anja has been an entrepreneur for over 20 years. Thoughout her years of cross-industry experience, Anja was always focussed on digitalisation. The opportunity to start PT1 came about when Anja was looking for the next industry to digitalise. Together with her long-term business partner Nikolas …

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"It's more about process innovation than tech innovation" - Natasha Terinova - Investor Series #3 21:56

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Natasha Terinova is a Partner at REACH UK. Natasha has been on both sides of the table. From selling and promoting Lloyd’s tech platform back when InsurTech wasn’t a word, to founding an emobility company and now investing and mentoring PropTech firms, Natasha has a strong track record of being at the forefront of digital transformation. REACH UK i…

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“It’s all about speed and engagement” - Wouter Merkestein - Founder Series #4 22:57

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Wouter Merkestein is Co-Founder & CEO at laiout. Wouter met his co-founder in a covid quarantine hotel. After two years of intensive R&D and product development, Laiout is now tackling the long-standing bottleneck in the early-stage design phase: delivering high quality floor plans within mere seconds. Having successfully completed projects in 28 c…

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“Stop selling the feature functions and sell the so what.” - Joe White - Executive Series #1 27:22

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Joe White is the Global Technology Solutions and Client Care Lead at Cushman & Wakefield. If real estate is from Venus and PropTech is from Mars, Joe has made a career “being in the spaceship between the two”. With 15 years of experience in Commercial Real Estate, Joe is passionate about working with clients to digitally transform their strategies …

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"Never allow anyone to tell you that you can't get it done" - Michael Brown - Founder Series #3 32:14

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Michael Brown is currently leading Skyline Robotics as the company’s chairman and CEO. Michael's journey is nothing short of extraordinary. Since the age of 12, Michael followed his father’s business closely by helping with invoicing and attending board meetings. From working with Al Gore straight after his degree in Information Technology, to capi…

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"These are the times when the best startups are founded and funded" - Luke Graham - Investor Series #2 25:52

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Luke Graham is the Head of Research at Pi Labs, the first ever VC to target early-stage strategic investments in the built environment in Europe and currently the most active VC in the PropTech space. Luke’s relationship with the built environment started “as quite a romantic one”. Luke first invested in property while focussing on the field of eng…

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"Our philosophy is to innovate through evolution, not through revolution." - Valentina Shegoyan - Investor Series #1 18:59

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Valentina is the Managing Partner at REACH UK, the real estate technology scale up program created by Second Century Ventures. Valentina is a strong believer that “changes are always scary, but through change we evolve”, and this principle guided her professional trajectory that got her to where she is today. With 15 years of experience in the Real…

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"We are helping the world decarbonize by making it profitable" - Mauro Cozzi - Founder Series #2 18:14

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Mauro Cozzi is the CEO and Co-founder of Emitwise, a company focussed on a combination of people, planet, and profit. With his co-founders Ben Peddie and Eduardo Gomez, Mauro founded their ‘brainchild’ Emitwise. Their mission is to future-proof businesses as they accelerate the transition to a net-zero carbon world. The company has worked with clie…

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"I want to build Google for Real Estate" - Nils Henning - Founder Series #1 31:21

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Nils Henning is the Founder & Co-CEO of Casafari, as well as a remarkable serial entrepreneur with 15 years of experience in investing and launching ventures. Nils built successful ventures with valuations ranging between EUR 100m - 1bn across verticals spanning from the realm of video games, to pioneering one of Germany's first FinTechs and trailb…

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The infrastructure underpinning the next commerce unicorns 35:58

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The commerce ecosystem is massive, so massive that the sector can sustain entire infrastructure unicorns building nothing but tools and services enabling commerce businesses.In this conversation between Catherine Stewart, Board Partner at Basis Set and fmr COO of Shippo, and BSV investor John Mannes, we discuss the new APIs, customs automation and …

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Shopify with Morgan Brown 38:41

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As the VP of Growth at Shopify, Morgan Brown has helped to spearhead a revolution in commerce by empowering merchants to own their business from end to end. He has also written one of the seminal books on growth and provided a framework for some of the hottest companies to power their own hypergrowth journeys. In this episode, you'll hear more abou…

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Hopin with Javier Ortega Estrada 27:04

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Javier Ortega Estrada has had a front row seat to some of the most iconic companies in tech. Today he is the VP of global sales at Hopin, where he oversees the sales and solution engineering organizations. Prior to that, Javi was a Head of NA Sales and GM at Dropbox, where he worked for over 7 years — including stints overseeing Europe, the middle …

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Unlocking Convenience for Everyone ft. 7 Eleven 21:24

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It's clear that offering convenience at-scale means serving large and incredibly diverse arrays of populations. And while it's true that many innovations in convenience, like delivery, started in dense urban centers. Founders would benefit from considering the challenges that companies like 7 Eleven face on a daily basis, getting fresh food to the …

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The Multi-Billion Dollar Climate Tech Investor that Doesn’t Want Equity 19:11

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The proposed $2 trillion dollar U.S. infrastructure package will create major incentives for the adoption of climate technology and offer startups many pathways to secure growth funding. In this conversation between Mona Sheth, Senior Director of Federal Government Relations for Schneider Electric, two policy experts from DC-based government affair…

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Learn from a Customer: Designing the Future of Procurement in Manufacturing 25:01

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In this conversation with Paul Hanna, Head of Procurement at a 150 person manufacturing company, we discuss how the next generation of hardware design tools in manufacturing will be even more tightly connected to the purchasing process, with greater intelligence — increasing collaboration between engineering and procurement teams.…

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Miro with Zhenya Loginov 34:58

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Zhenya Loginov has been the driver of growth and revenue at some of the most successful companies, including Dropbox, Segment, and Miro. As the COO at Segment, Zhenya led the revenue and operations teams as the company scaled from SMB to Enterprise and expanded their product categories. Today as the CRO at Miro, he is responsible for all revenue an…

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Kevin Lee - founder at immi 42:22

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Kevin is the founder of immi, a company that is making healthy nutritious instant ramen. Prior to this, Kevin was a venture capitalist at Pear and a product manager at AltSchool + Kabam. In this episode, Kevin talks about his journey to founding immi. Some highlights being: - Gaming and learning how to meet strangers online - Shifting his focus fro…

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Karan Talati - CEO of First Resonance 30:54

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In this episode, Nikunj chats with Karan Talati. Karan is the CEO of First Resonance, a company that is developing the next-generation manufacturing software platform for modern manufacturers . Prior to this, Karan was the first engineer at Sense360 and before that an engineer at SpaceX. In this episode, Karan talks about his journey to founding Fi…

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Cristina Cordova - Platform & Partnerships at Notion 44:23

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For this episode, Nikunj chats with Cristina (@cjc). Cristina currently leads the platform and partnerships team at Notion. Prior to this, Cristina was at Stripe where she joined as the first business development hire and the 28th employee. Over her seven years there, she ended up growing her team, leading partnerships overall, and also leading eff…

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Figma with Kyle Parrish 41:04

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Kyle Parrish had a front row seat to sales at Dropbox, which gave him the background and a knack for building sales teams at the best product led growth companies. Today, he runs sales at Figma, and has built a sales engine that sits on top of one of the best user and product led growth companies that are changing the face of collaboration today. ‍…

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Nish Bhat - Cofounder of Color Genomics 50:45

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For this episode, Nikunj chats with Nish Bhat (@nterminus). Nish was most recently working at Color Genomics where he was one of four cofounders. Prior to that, Nish worked as a software engineer at Lookout. In this episode, Nish talks about his journey to founding Color Genomics. Some highlights being: Love for entomology and biology growing up Wa…

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Notion with Camille Ricketts 31:48

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Camille Ricketts is a true expert on building communities and creating a top notch content strategy. From her early days as a journalist for the Wall Street Journal and Venture Beat to her stint managing the content strategy at First Round Capital, she’s seen the best and the brightest people and companies, and been at the forefront of content and …

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Sheila Vashee - VC at Basis Set Ventures 23:26

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For today's episode, we chat with Sheila Vashee (@sheilavashee). Sheila works as a partner and venture capitalist at Basis Set Ventures. Prior to this, she was the vice president of Growth at Opendoor and the second marketing hire at Dropbox. In this episode, Sheila talks about her incredible journey. Some highlights being: Starting a brownie compa…

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Ep. #23, Counseling Founders with Jonathan Heiliger of Vertex Ventures 45:25

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In episode 23 of Venture Confidential, Heavybit’s Jesse Robbins interviews Jonathan Heiliger of Vertex Ventures on counseling founders and making big infrastructure bets. The post appeared first on Heavybit.By Heavybit

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Building for the global deskless workforce: lessons from one of Turkey’s largest conglomerates 14:56

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While Covid-19 has pushed technology deeper into the deskless workforce, it’s also elucidating shortcomings of existing tools not optimized for the unique challenges of specific industries and regions of the world. In this conversation between Kris Kemeny, Managing Director of the venture arm for Tekfen, one of Turkey’s largest industrial conglomer…

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Wes Donohoe - VP of Product at One Medical 36:39

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For today's episode, we chat with Wes Donohoe (@wesperience). Wes recently transitioned to working on special projects at One Medical after serving as their Vice President of Product for four years. Prior to this, he was the head of product at Shyp and previously head of product at Live Nation Labs. In this episode, Wes talks about all his incredib…

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Making the Business Case for Emissions Reduction 25:05

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While most industries have had enough to manage with Covid-19, the oil and gas sector has had to manage the pandemic, along with a fierce price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia and broader existential questions about its identity in the face of the energy transition. In this conversation between Iain Cooper, a nearly 30 year veteran of multinati…

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Quantifying Covid’s F500 Supply Chain Impact ft. Chairman of Resilience360 (DHL + Columbia Cap) 24:57

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73% of companies surveyed in a new report, identify as having encountered major issues in their supply chains as a result of Covid-19. The disruption has been so significant, that major brands are reconsidering once sacred supply chain doctrine. Companies are considering moving operations out of China, holding more inventory in stock and collaborat…

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Farmers Facing Covid Consolidation Must Differentiate, ft. Head of VC Investing, Penny Newman Grain 17:09

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The history of American agriculture is a story of technology improving the efficiency of production. But the volatile global economy of the last decade is showing the industry that efficiency is not everything. Changing consumer taste coupled with increasing pressures of commoditization are forcing farmers to embrace technology as a lever for much …

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Real Estate Bets on Tech to Keep Homes Selling During Covid ft. VP of Growth & Marketing at Opendoor 23:57

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The 2008 financial crisis catalyzed the most ambitious real estate technology startups ever founded. Airbnb changed the way homeowners conceptualize home value, Opendoor simplified real estate transactions in a way the industry never thought possible and Compass redefined the role technology plays in agent workflows. As we wade deeper into the Covi…

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Covid Offers Rare Chance to Reimagine Supply Chains: ft. Managing Director of Reefknot Investments 22:02

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Factories that used to make tee shirts are now making PPE. Products we used to be able to ship to ourselves same day are now on back order for weeks. Much of this is the result of supply chains buckling under the weight of Covid-19. As the dust settles, enterprises will have the opportunity to go back to the drawing board for the first time in year…

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Covid Creates New Normal For Security & Trade: ft. Fmr. Head of US Customs (CBP) Innovation Team 24:40

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Covid-19 is disrupting global flows of goods and people at an unprecedented scale. During the War on Terror, the government invested in technology to keep borders open and trade flowing. Our current pandemic requires a similar investment in a new generation of data infrastructure. If we can stitch together the right data, we can put an end to conve…

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Keeping Truck Drivers Safe During Covid: ft. Owner & VP of Digital for Trimac Transportation 22:57

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Trucking is one of the most essential industries in the global economy — food, masks and pharmaceuticals are of little value if we can’t get them to those who need them. As Covid19 continues to spread, millions of aging truck drivers remain on the road — ensuring critical goods can get from point A to point B. Moving forward, new technologies will …

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Leveraging Your Personal Brand to Build a Powerful Network - Casey Adams 12:24

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Casey Adams is an 18 year old Best Selling Author, Entrepreneur, and Public Speaker who has been able to turn his negative situation into a positive outcome. After almost becoming paralyzed during a football injury, Casey was able to start his journey by looking at ways to leverage social media & build a personal brand. Casey runs a top 50 business…

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How to Pitch VC's and Raise Funds From Silicon Valley Investors - Arie van Gemeren, Rising Tide VC 16:17

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Arie is a Principal at Rising Tide VC, an early stage investments firm with a focus on early-stage technology and healthcare. Arie is focused on big ideas in FinTech, InsurTech, real estate and blockchain technology, and also on delivering value-add work for the Firm's current portfolio of promising companies as well as the Firm's tremendous group …

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How to Think Like an Investor and Raise Funds - Osayi Igharo, Africa's Top Investor Ripple VC 20:19

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Ripple VC works with highly technical, capital efficient companies to expand market opportunities and scale product-market fit. Ripple VC provides seed capital and focuses energies on helping with Fortune 500 relationships: helping them become customers, investors, and acquirers. The mission is to become the go-to firm for the best seed deep tech c…

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Fundraising Strategies for Early-Stage Founders: Raising Your First Round - Matt Cole, Investible 19:42

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Investible is a new-breed scalable angel investor and business generator bringing together the skills of early stage VC investors with the scalability enabled by our world-class experiential business building program. Investible produces a formidable pipeline of investible businesses and startup ready talent.…

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How to Get Investors to Reach Out to You About Your Startup - John Mannes, Basis Set Ventures 14:04

6y ago14:04

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John Mannes is an investor at Basis Set Ventures, a $136 million early stage venture capital fund focused on supporting startups using machine learning to address big problems across industries. Prior to Basis Set Ventures, John was a TechCrunch writer covering machine intelligence startups, machine learning research and major AI initiatives from b…

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Applying Brain Science to Digital Marketing for Business Owners - Jonathan Hawkins 20:11

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Jonathan Hawkins is the CEO of The Hashtag Agent, a social media training and consulting firm for the real estate industry. Most recently, Jonathan was ranked in the top 1% of real estate brokers in the country. He is a sought after keynote speaker and has been featured in top media publications such as Inc., Wall Street Journal, Inman, Forbes, Ent…