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Seed Money is where everyday people learn how to raise capital and get the funding you need to FINALLY get your startup to the next level! If you’re struggling to get people to believe in your vision (and you don’t need a billion-dollar deal in Silicon Valley), Seed Money will unlock the answers you’ve been looking for! Hosted by Jayla Siciliano, Shark Tank Entrepreneur, MBA, real estate investor, and experienced founder/investor in markets from consumer products to short-term rentals. In th ...
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This Much I Know is the podcast from Seedcamp, Europe’s seed fund. Tune into hear the inside story from startup founders, investors and leading tech voices: the people who’ve built businesses, scaled globally, failed fantastically and learnt massively. Seedcamp invests early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. Seedcamp provides the infrastructure to fast-track a founder’s vision and create value through immediate access to smart ...
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Learn from angel and seed investors bold enough to write the first check. How do they decide which startups to invest in? How do they gain conviction in founders and ideas? How do they add value to their companies? Shaherose Charania and Aamir Virani are operators turned investors. They chat with their friends investing in early-stage technology startups and learn about their strategies to fund the best founders and startup companies. If you are an angel investor or seed investor, you'll hea ...
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Greenhouse Grower to Grower is a podcast where we talk to growers from across the greenhouse industry about market trends, innovation, their biggest challenges and opportunities, and more.
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Startuprad.io™ brings you fast, actionable, English-language coverage of the most important startup and tech news from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland — the DACH region and GSA tech ecosystems. 📈 Our monthly podcast delivers high-density insights in under 30 minutes, giving you the edge on: 🚀 Startup trends, venture capital movements, and unicorn builders 💸 Major funding rounds, pre-seed investments, strategic acquisitions, and IPO pipelines 🔍 Deep tech breakthroughs, AI-powered ventures, ...
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Successful business owners and coaches are invited to speak as guests on the podcast. They will share their experiences and provide advice on topics such as obtaining funding, assembling a team, developing a business plan, and overcoming expansion obstacles. The Montreal Entrepreneur Podcast will also discuss the various phases of a company's development, such as the early stages, scaling up, and exit.
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This show delves deep into the authentic journey of launching a startup, going beyond just numbers and strategies. It highlights the passion, perseverance, and challenges that fuel the entrepreneurial spirit. Each episode brings to life the real stories of founders, their struggles, triumphs, and the lessons they've learned along the way. What makes this show unique? It doesn’t just talk about startups—it actively helps launch them, turning bold ideas into reality, live on the show. Tune in ...
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This podcast is for ocean entrepreneurs and innovators who want to grow and succeed in the blue economy. Through interviews with industry leaders, founders, and subject matter experts, I will share their stories, unpack their most important lessons, and extract actionable insights and best practices.
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The Pre-Money Show is a podcast for startup investors and founders. Host Ruchit Sutaria interviews the founders of early-stage companies that are raising funds. In each episode, you'll hear the founder's story, their challenges, and their opportunities. You'll also get to see Ruchit challenge the founder on their assumptions, risks, and plans. And at the end of each episode, Ruchit gives his honest and objective analysis of the company based on his quantitative investment framework. startup ...
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The Early Stage Podcast is devoted to interviewing top entrepreneurs at the Seed and Series A stages of their startups. This project is a deep dive into the initial challenges and breakthroughs driven innovators endure as they build their MVP, launch, raise funding, grow their teams, and find product-market fit. Early Stage is hosted by John Valentine, Manager of Technology Identification and Communications at Thales, a worldwide leader in aerospace, space, defense, transportation, and secur ...
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Science VC explores the intersection of deeptech startups and venture capital. Each episode features conversations with startup founders, venture capitalists, and industry experts. Discover their stories, lessons learned, and predictions for the future. Learn more about the challenges and opportunities of fundraising for venture-backed startups innovating in agtech, biotech, energy, foodtech, healthtech, and sustainability.
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The Silicon Dreams is for startups and entrepreneurs, and streams live on Radio Zindagi 1170 AM (Bay Area Bollywood Radio Station) on Mondays from 3.30 to 4 pm. The Hinglish episodes that are broadcast by the radio station are hosted on a separate podcast. Visit https://rjshara.biz for episodes, transcripts and blogs related to startups, entrepreneurs and investments On this podcast we will host English versions of the show or a new English episode every week for those listeners who don't sp ...
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We live in a world that never stops moving, where society depends on the constant flow of goods and people. This is all made possible by the marvels of our modern infrastructure, but who are the pioneers that bring order, processes and systems to keep us moving, and what can we learn from their insights? In Infrastructure Momentum Makers, host and strategy advisor Ratna Amin speaks with the movers and shakers at the intersection of the public, private, and civic sectors about the latest brea ...
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We're not looking to poach researchers from other labs," says Anthropic's European boss
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27:34In this Tech.eu podcast, Guillaume Princen talks about Anthropic's European ambitions.By Tech.eu
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Miro’s CEO Andrey Khusid on navigating explosive growth
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43:29In an in-depth conversation with our Managing Partner, Carlos Eduardo Espinal, Miro’s co-founder and CEO, Andrey Khusid shares his incredible founder journey, from starting Realtime Board, his simple idea of bringing whiteboards into browsers, to Miro, now a global organization valued at nearly $20 billion. He reflects on the company’s explosive gr…
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Full-Time Entrepreneurship vs. Side Hustle: Paying the Bills While You Pitch
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14:43There’s nothing that crushes your confidence quite like staring at your bank balance and realizing you might not make your bills in a few months. Your savings are dwindling, you’ve got a life to pay for, and there’s still no funding in sight. At the same time, you still have to step up, sell your vision, and pitch your startup like everything’s fin…
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#32: Linzi Hawkin – Impact Strategy Expert On Building Purpose-Driven Ocean Businesses That Make Real Impact And Real Money
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1:24:33Send us a text Linzi Hawkin is a creative strategist passionate about protecting the ocean through the power of strategy, storytelling, and education. She is the co-founder of Protect Blue - an ocean-focused organisation built around two core pathways: a creative agency that partners with NGOs, governments, and brands to drive tangible impact, and …
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June 2025: Helsing, Luma, and EU Billions: DACH Startup Funding 2025 Unleashed
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38:05What happens when Germany creates its second decacorn and the EU drops €10B to scale startups? This month’s news episode breaks it all down — from funding explosions in deep tech to the future of biotech, fintech innovation, and defense AI. The DACH startup scene has never been this hot. What You'll Learn Why Helsing dethroned Celonis to become Ger…
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Ep. 54 - A Preview of (and Why You Should Attend) the 2025 Plant Trialing Conference
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29:20After a 10-year absence, the International Plant Trialing Conference is coming back. The event will be held in Minneapolis in mid-October and is organized by All-America Selections and the National Garden Bureau. In this episode, I talk to Diane Blazek, Executive Director of All-America Selections, about why the time was right to bring back the con…
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Some of the best AI solutions are coming from Europe”, says OpenAI's EMEA startup boss
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27:39In the Tech.eu podcast, Laura Modiano talks about how OpenAI is working with startups across Europe.By Tech.eu
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Building Your Startup Community: From Zero to Funded w/ Neil Bloom
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38:07If you're in the early-stage and struggling to find the right investors and feeling lost in the startup maze, we totally get it, we’ve been there. It's no easy task to leave that comfortable job with big dreams but zero roadmap. When I first started my entrepreneurial journey, I had no clue how to network, who to talk to, or where to even begin bui…
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Ep.53 - Bringing a Safety-First Mindset to Your Greenhouse
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22:51Safety in the greenhouse, whether it’s safe handling of crop protection materials or preventing slips and falls, is an important but sometimes overlooked concept. During Cultivate’25, a group of growers will come together for a panel discussion on why adopting a safety-first mindset is essential to protecting employees and ensuring smooth, producti…
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Swedish AI legaltech founder: Most big law firms “not like to leverage Chinese models”
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25:21In the Tech.eu podcast, Legora CEO Max Junestrand talks about which LLMs the startup is leveraging and how widespread AI has become within the startup.By Tech.eu
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How To Build Investor Relationships Before Asking For Money w/Jay Kriner
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46:35Listen as Jay reveals the strategic approach he took that led to a successful pre-seed funding round in just 4 weeks! Jay Kriner, a Shark Tank alum turned tech entrepreneur, shares his methodical 9-month strategy for building investor relationships before ever making an ask. His approach centers on authentic networking, professional preparation, an…
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Ep.52 - A California Spring Trials Recap From a First-Time Attendee
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24:47Greenhouse Grower Editor Brian Sparks attended California Spring Trials for the first time this year. In this episode, he shares insights on some of his favorite new plants and series, how breeders continue to innovate, and more.By Greenhouse Grower
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#31: Olly Hicks – World Record Ocean Explorer Turned Aquaculture Entrepreneur, the Expedition Mindset Every Ocean Entrepreneur Needs to Succeed, Nutrient Credits and Securing Funding for Ocean Projects ...
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1:11:02Send us a text Olly Hicks is a world record-breaking British ocean explorer, motivational speaker, and ocean entrepreneur. Known for his minimalistic, human-powered expeditions, Hicks is the first and currently only person to have rowed solo from America to England, completing this feat in 2005 at the age of 23, making him the youngest person to ro…
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Europe in danger of being geopolitical “sitting duck” unless embraces defence tech, says Alpine Eagle founder
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25:04In this Tech.eu podcast, Alpine Eagle co-founder Jan-Hendrik Boelens talks defence tech and the opportunity it presents for Europe.By Tech.eu
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Want to know the hard truth? Today we have Shaun Gold, a polymath and entrepreneur with extensive experience in pitch decks and fundraising (oh and bonus, he’s hilarious). He shares killer insights on the common pitfalls you’ll face when making pitch decks and pitching investors to raise seed money. With plenty of humor, he talks about the importan…
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May 2025: AI Unicorns, Mega VC Funds, and Regulation Shakeups in DACH
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31:18Startups in the DACH region are heating up — from AI unicorns to VC mega-funds. In this monthly startup news roundup, we unpack the most important trends in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland’s tech ecosystem. Learn how Parloa became Germany’s second unicorn of the year, how Quantum Systems secured €160M to dominate aerial AI, and how the EIB’s €70B…
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S2E03: Atoms over bits: Investing in hardware and innovative founders to solve climate challenges - Sundeep Ahuja, Climate Capital
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41:30We’ve welcomed investors with unique backgrounds to First Funders before, but Sundeep Ahuja is our first operator-turned-actor-turned-investor. Sundeep is all in on all things climate tech. He’s backing founders leading the way in cleaning up our water, purifying our air, and keeping our planet the way it should be: livable. Today, his micro fund a…
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How to Build a Community Around Your Startup w/ Ash Lonare
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1:06:30In a competitive fundraising environment, traction is everything. Investors want to see proof that people care about what you’re building, and few signals are stronger than an active, engaged community. When customers gather around your product, share ideas, support each other, and drive word-of-mouth growth, you’re not just building a loyal user b…
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Ep.51 - American Floral Endowment’s Laura Barth on Research Funding, and How You Can Support AFE
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15:52Laura Barth is the research coordinator at American Floral Endowment (AFE), which has been monitoring the impacts of federal funding cuts on horticulture research. In this episode, I talk to Laura about the uncertainties being felt at many institutions, how American Floral Endowment can be a funding resource for research, how the AFE endowment work…
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Why Europe’s Venture Capital Needs a Mindset Reboot | Andy Goldstein
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40:05🎧 Opening: Why do Europe’s startups scale slower than their U.S. counterparts? In this raw, revealing episode, Andy Goldstein uncovers what’s really holding back the European venture capital scene—and what we can do about it. 💡 What You'll Learn: How investor education can radically improve VC decision-making Why German founders hesitate to interna…
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What is a CPA, What Do They Do & Why every Business Needs One? I Blanchette & Gallucci Inc
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46:47In this podcast episode, join Cathy Bernard and Ann Blanchette, a seasoned CPA Auditeur at Blanchette & Gallucci Inc., as she shares insights from her 15 years in accounting. Ann emphasizes the value of obtaining a CPA title, discusses her firm's specialization in financial statements and tax returns for small and medium businesses, and sheds light…
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A Founder’s Guide to IP Protection: How to Use Patents, Trademarks, Copyright and More w/ Raymond DiPerna
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1:01:50Patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights: if you’re building a startup, these aren’t “nice to haves,” they’re mission-critical. Locking down your intellectual property protects your ideas, your company, your product. And it makes your startup more attractive to investors. Whether it’s your brand name, your technology, or your trade secret…
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What Investors Really Look For w/ Mike Sherbakov
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48:50Many founders have a killer product, a passionate team, and traction, but they don’t realize that investors are really betting on THEM. The truth is, your projections don’t need to be perfect, your deck doesn’t need to be perfect. But you need to do the things that most people won’t do to stand out. You need to show that you are strategic, thoughtf…
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Ep.50 - Top Insights and Leading Voices From Our First 50 Episodes
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50:05This is the 50th episode of the Greenhouse Grower to Grower podcast, and in recognition of that milestone, we want to share some of our favorite insights and perspectives from the conversations we’ve had since launching this podcast.By Greenhouse Grower
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Green Tech Startups: VC Insights & ESG Scaling Strategies from DACH
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51:17Sponsor This episode is brought to you by Vanta. Automate your startup’s security and compliance for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and more. 🔗 Learn more at vanta.com/startupradio Opening: What does it really take for a green tech startup to secure venture funding in 2025? In this episode, we uncover what makes VCs say yes—and what founders consistently get wr…
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Why Handshake Deals in Business Go Bad with Devan Gonzalez
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49:30Why do handshake deals in business go bad? I get it, it starts with good intentions, you're grinding to raise money, and when a friend or family member shows interest, it feels like a lifeline. So you say yes. Sometimes that verbal commitment feels rock solid. And then a surprise cash injection seems too good to question. But this is exactly why ha…
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We are sprinting towards implementation of our first chip”, says UK startup in AI inference race
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33:46In the Tech.eu podcast, Fractile founder Walter Goodwin discusses Fractile's AI inference chips which he claims can run LLMs faster and more energy efficient than Nvidia's GPUs.By Tech.eu
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€1.3B Raised, 1 Fintech Crashes: April 2025 DACH Startup News Breakdown
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41:52In April 2025, DACH startups raised over €1.3 billion—while one of Europe’s top fintechs spiraled into crisis. This isn’t just another news roundup. This is your investor-grade, startup-founder-relevant, executive-level briefing from the DACH region’s leading podcast. 🚀 This episode is brought to you by Vanta. Automate your SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GD…
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Common Mistakes In Seeking Funding: Traction vs. Capital w/ Josh Payne
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50:35If you ask seasoned investors what the common mistakes in seeking funding are, chances are you're making at least one of them — maybe without even realizing it. That mistake? Being so focused on raising capital that you forget to keep building traction in your business. Yes, it's easy to do when you "feel" like you need the funding to get to the ne…
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Germany’s 2025 Startup Vision: Bold Promises, Budget Caveats, and Missed Opportunities
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16:37🚀 This episode is brought to you by Vanta. Automate your security and compliance — and save $1,000 when you sign up at vanta.com/startupradio. Did Germany just promise an innovation revolution — while forgetting its startups? In today’s episode, we break down the 2025 SPD-CDU Coalition Agreement and its real implications for founders, investors, an…
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Ep.49 - A Preview of the 2025 Southern Garden Tour
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31:01This year’s Southern Garden Tour takes place June 3-5, and features plant trials at Young’s Plant Farm in Alabama, the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, and Metrolina Greenhouses’ North Carolina facilities. This past week, I had a great conversation with the trial managers at each location: Dr. Mark Yelanich, Director of R&D at Metrolina, P…
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S2E02: Before Clay Was a Unicorn: The First Check, the Thesis, and the Long Game - Andre Charoo, Maple VC
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1:14:00Canadians have been the lifeblood behind some of the biggest unicorn startups of the past few years (think Open AI, Uber, Slack, Instacart, Notion, Databricks, CloudFlare, Roblox, Ethereum, Moderna Health, and Clay to name a few), and yet no one talks about them, except for Andre Charoo. And he’s not just talking – he’s putting his money behind Can…
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Red Flags in Investor Deals: Watch Out For This Before You Say Yes
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21:02Finding an investor and getting the funding you need is a huge win, BUT it’s not the whole story. There can be red flags in investor deals that founders need to watch for and navigate. The truth is: not every investor is right for you, and not every deal will favor you. Some investors might do more harm than good and even screw you over in the end.…
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DACH Unicorn Tracker Spring 2025: Germany, Austria & Switzerland Startups
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29:34Are you a founder, investor, scaleup exec, or tech enthusiast looking to decode Europe's billion-euro startup engines? You’ve landed in the right place. Startuprad.io brings you the ultimate Unicorn Tracker for Spring 2025, offering you front-row insight into the most dynamic startups and scaleups across the DACH region—Germany, Austria, and Switze…
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Why Not All Traction Is Equal | Aligning Latam’s Agtech Innovation with Industry Needs | The Role of LPs in Early VC Investing | Long-Term Thinking in Fundraising, with Galit Flasterstein, Managing Partner ...
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54:46Biodiversity as an Advantage Galit is a Managing Partner at Danta Fund, a VC firm that backs early-stage agritech startups in Latin America. Danta Fund has the mission of filling three main voids in Latin America: funding in early-stage agri-tech startups, mentorship to guide their founders, and connection with larger markets to help them grow. Top…
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Avoid These 2 Mistakes- Straight From The White Lotus
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13:16As much as I avoid real life drama with all my might, I’ve been guilty of falling into some of these White Lotus character traps in business. Yes it’s a show about people who are conflicted and struggle through their emotions and relationships (among other many things), but it actually has some solid lessons that can be valuable in the startup/fund…
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Path to Market: Adapting Sales Strategies for Startups and Enterprise with Fanny Talagrand of Stripe
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40:39In the latest episode of “Path to Market,” Natasha and Micah are joined by Fanny Talagrand, Head of EMEA sales for startups and SMBs at Stripe to discuss key sales strategies from startups to enterprises. Drawing from her extensive experience in global tech companies like Google Cloud and Stripe, Fanny emphasizes the importance of understanding use…
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Ep.48 - Why N.G. Heimos’ Recent Acquisition Offers Promise for the Future
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24:12Earlier this month, we learned that the Hoffmann Family of Companies, a family-owned private equity firm, was acquiring N.G. Heimos Greenhouses, a family-run growing operation based in Illinois and one of the nation’s largest poinsettia growers. I caught up with Bernie Heimos, President of N.G. Heimos, and David Hoffmann, Founder and Chairman of HF…
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Unlocking Unsung Potential | LATAM Biotech’s Global Path | What Investors Really Look For | Avoiding Unforced Errors | Why Tulsa? | Building Cross-Border Deeptech Startups, with Michael Basch, GP and CEO ...
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52:53Why not Tulsa? Michael is the Founder, CEO, and General Partner of Atento Capital, a pre-seed and seed-stage VC firm focused on partnering with founders to build technology around healthcare, climate-tech, and business services. Topics in this episode 0:00 Intro 1:13 Michael’s Career Journey: From Founder to VC 4:07 The Origin Story of Atento Capit…
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🎧 The AI Revolution in Banking: Paolo Sironi on What’s Coming in 2025
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40:48Discover how AI is transforming the financial services industry! In this episode, fintech futurist Paolo Sironi, IBM’s Global Research Leader for Banking and Capital Markets, joins Startuprad.io to unpack how artificial intelligence is evolving from back-end automation to full-scale transformation—reshaping retail, SME, and investment banking. 🔥 Wh…
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