A podcast for people working on startup ideas. We have 15-minute tactical episodes and occasional interviews with people who did the early things exceptionally well. We've helped launch hundreds of startups worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and these are the building blocks. "This is, without a doubt, the best podcast for people trying to build startups out there." "If you aren't listening to this podcast and you're considering building a business (or you're already building one), what ...
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Can innovation, entrepreneurship and investment make the planet happier and healthier? Entrepreneur and investor Abigail Carroll thinks so. Through conversations with founders, investors, and thought leaders, in over a dozen countries and counting, Abigail shares this thought-provoking and hope-promoting world with her audience. And always with a little humour.
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Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who's raising, who's exiting, who's changing the world.
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Join host Justin Reinert as he sits down with founders who’ve navigated the jump from do-it-all entrepreneur to strategic CEO. Each episode uncovers the key milestones, hard-won insights, and practical tactics you need to build a high-performing leadership team, overcome decision fatigue, and scale your business with confidence. Tune in weekly for quick, actionable conversations designed to accelerate your path to CEO mastery.
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Tech for Non-Techies helps Business Leaders have great careers in the Digital Age, with episodes on innovation, digital transformation, start-ups and how technology is changing business. Learn tech concepts, apply them to business strategy, and get practical advice on how to succeed as a Digital Leader today. Learn how to work with tech clients, transition career, succeed in digital transformation and start a company as a non-technical founder. Tech for Non-Techies is for: - Leaders in corpo ...
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MassChallenge is the largest-ever startup accelerator and competition, and the first to support high-impact, early-stage entrepreneurs with no strings attached.
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Demo Day is the podcast for founders, venture capitalists, and anyone who wants to learn more about the top accelerator, incubator, and VC programs across the country. Come hear the top venture capitalists and founders in the game discuss what it takes to go from seed to exit.
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BRAVE SOULS WANTED. Failure almost certain. Attempting is unwise. Far east adventure. Success is changing the world. Join us on the Unsensible podcast where we talk to the Asian startups and their ecosystem partners who are intent on changing the world.
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Tech Uncensored, Crucial Analysis in Tech, is a bi-weekly podcast brought to you by Altitude Accelerator. Hosted by Hessie Jones, we explore emerging news, and relevant topics that startups care about. We speak to subject matter experts, founders and advisors in Investment: Venture Capital, Equity Crowdfunding, and across Industry: Clean Tech, Biotech, Generative AI, Blockchain, Web3, Privacy, Security etc. who weigh in on the challenges that startup founders face today, as well as the profo ...
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This podcast is brought to you by Angelneers, a community of startup builders. Listen to seasoned founders, operators, and technologists sharing their learnings and insights about how to make better decisions around product, engineering, and growth. To learn more about Angelneers look us up on our social media or write to [email protected].
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Accel launched SeedToScale in August 2020 to remove information asymmetry in the startup ecosystem and make a founder's path to success as frictionless as possible. We aim to achieve this by providing the best source of knowledge and actionable insights for company building. In the three years since, we have created over 300 knowledge pieces covering all stages of building a company. We collaborated with 80+ industry experts, successful founders, and mentors to create thematic series, report ...
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Hinwin presents - FundBMC. BMC is an acronym for Builders, Makers, & Creators. We have real conversations about the real life struggles of starting a real business from nothing. We want to share stories from people who really went through the grinder, to encourage more founders to find their own path, and to help you make your own contribution to the world. So, let's get some more BMCs funded. Or watch us on YouTube (https://hin.win/bmc/yt)
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MedTech Leaders Changing Lives for a Better World
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The World of Hardware Startups Podcast provides unique insights into hardware startups seeking to change our lives. We want to know what they’re doing, how they’re doing it, and what we can learn from their experiences. Listeners will enjoy tips and recommendations from founders, investors, prototypers, accelerators, and experts. The show is featured by the ANSYS Hardware Startup Program providing Hardware and IOT startups access to the World's leading software simulation tools at http://ans ...
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The Texas VC Podcast hosted by @texasvc interviewing the leaders of the Texas entrepreneurial community.
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A podcast about the people and technology that are transforming one Ontario town. Innisfil is a town that is constantly pushing the boundaries. From using Uber as public transit to partnering with the world's top start-up accelerator. Hear the stories of the innovators building the future. The entrepreneurs working with the DMZ Innisfil program. These are the disrupters looking to change the gig economy, local food production, AI and self-driving cars.
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Interviews with world-class entrepreneurs and creators to uncover concrete, actionable, and tactical advice to help you build, launch, and grow your startup.
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The Innovators & Investors Podcast: Connecting the Startup Ecosystem. We are on a mission to bridge the gap between founders, investors, and industry leaders across the early-stage ecosystem. By bringing together visionaries from cutting-edge startups, venture capitalists, family offices, angel investors, accelerators, and studios, we offer a platform for sharing invaluable insights, market trends, and first-hand experiences. Whether you’re an entrepreneur navigating the challenges of buildi ...
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Join us as we delve into the journeys of entrepreneurs, exploring the strategies, challenges, and resources that fuel startup growth.
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This is Founder Real Talk, where we get real about the challenges that founders and startup executives face, and how they've grown from tough experiences. Hosted by Managing Partner Glenn Solomon.
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The Dalton Innovation Accelerator (DIA) is Northwest Georgia’s premier startup accelerator and incubator, located at the historic Landmark Building in Dalton. This podcast captures the incredible stories of our local entrepreneurs and explores topics relevant to the here and now.
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This is Startup Island TAIWAN Podcast, everything about Taiwan in cutting-edge technology, startup unicorns, and connections to the world. SUBSCRIBE NOW! 👉More news of Taiwan startups: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4jhd5u 👉Follow us on LinkedIn: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4hhbhg Produced by Meet Global, Business Next Media *Special Thanks: Powered by Startup Island TAIWAN Directed by National Development Council Powered by Firstory Hosting
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A show where we talk to innovators, creators and thinkers doing some of the most interesting things in Asia. We dive into their journeys, learn how they think and uncover why they are doing what they’re doing. We hope to provide you the inspiration, and insights you need to forge your own journey.
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Listen, and make magic happen. We like music, and we like startups - trying to mix the two. Let's see what happens...
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Beyond the Prompt dives deep into the world of AI and its expanding impact on business and daily work. Hosted by Jeremy Utley of Stanford's d.school, alongside Henrik Werdelin, an entrepreneur known for starting BarkBox, prehype and other startups, each episode features conversations with innovators and leaders to uncover pragmatic stories of how organizations leverage AI to accelerate success. Learn creative strategies and actionable tactics you can apply right away as AI capabilities advan ...
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Created by a group of founders, funders, and entrepreneurs who believe you can create a startup ecosystem in any city in the world. So, they started one in theirs, Redding, CA.
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The Longcut breaks down the illusion of the overnight success by sharing the stories of those who have successfully created, launched, and grown software businesses to solve a problem. In the fiercely competitive world of SaaS, Ryan introduces you to the brilliant minds behind the businesses we admire. You’ll hear perils and pitfalls, stories of staggering success, candid conversations, and what drives these owners, entrepreneurs, and innovators forward. Key themes we’ll explore include prod ...
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The Asia Startup Pulse Podcast, previously known as China Startup Pulse Podcast, is an original weekly podcast for anyone interested in understanding the innovation, business, and tech landscape in Asia. We bring the best of the Asian startup ecosystem, showcasing entrepreneurial stories, insights from thought leaders, and dissecting the strategies employed by tech giants. Backed by SOSV, Chinaccelerator, and Mobile Only Accelerator (MOX), we understand firsthand what it’s like to be an entr ...
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This is a Podcast dedicated to bringing entrepreneurs, founders, start ups together with angels, investors and venture capitalists. Anyone who is interested in watching the economy grow in a magnificent way!
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Tactics, strategies, and stories of world-class founders and investors. Hosted by Justin Gordon.
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Hosted by Fort Worth-based startup attorney Andrew Kussmaul, Liquidation Preference is the podcast that discusses everything founders need to know about startup law and venture capital over a beverage of their choice.
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Welcome to Cloudbreak, where breakthrough innovation meets breakthrough growth. In this podcast hosted by early stage VC firm Trilogy Equity Partners, we sit down with the brilliant minds and leaders building early stage startups to discuss the pivotal stories, insights, and hard-won lessons they've learned from the driver's seat of breaking innovation, company building, and scaling. They'll share what's working, what isn't, and what they'd wish they'd known earlier.
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Riding Unicorns is the go-to podcast for anyone interested in venture capital and high-growth startups. Hosted by VCs James Pringle and Hector Mason, the show explores what it takes to build and back successful tech unicorns. Each episode features candid conversations with top founders, operators, and investors—unpacking the strategies, challenges, and insights behind scaling category-defining companies. From fundraising and product-market fit to hiring, growth, and beyond, no topic is off-l ...
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A show about women who kick ass and are using the internet to get ahead.
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Making artificial intelligence practical, productive & accessible to everyone. Practical AI is a show in which technology professionals, business people, students, enthusiasts, and expert guests engage in lively discussions about Artificial Intelligence and related topics (Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, GANs, MLOps, AIOps, LLMs & more). The focus is on productive implementations and real-world scenarios that are accessible to everyone. If you want to keep up with the lates ...
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The Business of Biotech is the pod dedicated to leaders of emerging biopharma firms. SUBSCRIBE to our new newsletter at www.bioprocessonline.com/bob. We bring you insight into organizational, finance and funding, HR, clinical, manufacturing, regulatory, and commercial challenges you’ll face as you navigate your company from an idea to success in the clinic and beyond. Each episode features guest commentary and best practices from accomplished founders and biopharma industry luminaries. The B ...
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Stories of impactful change by scientists and researchers. Change that begins with the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation, but continues to expand above any limits, industry rules, groups of people or even countries.
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Learn from the top European start-up founders, entrepreneurs and start up experts. Every week I invite another guest who is literally on fire, sharing fresh knowledge, insights and actionable advice from their own personal successes and failures. Simply listen and learn the lean, mean tips & tricks that will help you turn your idea into a business, get funding and grow it in Europe.
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Searching for the next great tech startups, we interview startup founders, venture capital investors, growth hackers, product specialists, technologists, legal experts, and others. Website: https://www.nextunicornpodcast.com/
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A weekly podcast about Youth Entrepreneurship. We've featured YC founders, GPs at 500 startups, Amazon bestsellers, startups with $15M+ in funding, and others. We talk about the founders' stories, the challenges they've faced, and everything around it. Wifimilk is democratizing youth entrepreneurship on wifimilk.com. Join us in this journey!
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Come join the CXNation and listen the CXChronicles Podcast! Each week we discuss all things related to customer experience, customer service, customer success & inside sales for today's world. Listen on your favorite podcast player today! CXCP hosts amazing customer focused business leaders and dives into customer experience weekly updates, ideas for growing your business and team, CX SaaS news and industry updates and provides tons of value-first insights from industry leaders. CXC is const ...
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Global Trial Accelerators™: Fast-Tracking First-in-Human Trials, Anywhere
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Hosted by bioaccess® CEO, Julio G. Martinez-Clark, the Global Trial Accelerators™ podcast delivers actionable insights for Medtech, Biopharma, and Radiopharma innovators battling lengthy timelines and costly delays. Each episode features candid conversations with clinical trial pioneers, regulatory strategists, and startup founders who’ve slashed 6–12 months off approvals by leveraging emerging regions like Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Australia. What You’ll Learn: Speed Secrets: How t ...
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Who is it For? Founders of CPG start-ups. What is It? Zero B.S. perspective on running your start-up well, understanding the biases of industry stakeholders and getting the industry to work for you, not the other way around. When? Every month. Your Host: Dr. James F. Richardson of Premium Growth Solutions, LLC www.premiumgrowthsolutions.com If you want to take my founder's Quiz to see if you are ready for exponential growth, please visit : www.premiumgrowthsolutions.com/founder_resources and ...
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Gain unparalleled access to the minds of industry-leading CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs. Enjoy episodes filled with expert insights, inspiring stories, and trend analysis, all brought to you by the people shaping the future of technology. Whether you're an IT professional, aspiring tech leader, or general tech enthusiast, IT Visionaries has something for everyone. Don't miss out on the chance to learn from the best – subscribe now! Produced by the team at Mission.org and brought to you by Brightspot.
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Change is happening exponentially around us, and the successful companies and leaders of today and tomorrow must embrace open innovation to help shape our future. Reinventing the Future by HP Tech Ventures talks to start-up founders and entrepreneurs defining tomorrow’s world and experiences to inspire you to tap into your inner innovator. About HP Tech Ventures As the venture capital arm of HP Inc., HP Tech Ventures fosters an ecosystem of innovation and reinvention by pursuing strategic in ...
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Heidi Health raises $65M Series B; also, Sugar Free Capital raises $32M inaugural fund
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Heidi Health raised a $65 million Series B led by Steven Cohen’s Point72. Also, Sugar Free Capital raises $32M inaugural fund to invest in MIT early-staged founders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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The Real Reason Jeff Crusey Walked Away from Brazil’s Solar Boom
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How do top VCs really pick winners, and what’s the “fine print” every founder misses? In this Demo Day episode, we go deep inside the investing mind of Jeff Crusey, EVP at Blacklake Group—one of the most unique and active voices in deep tech, defense, and venture capital. Jeff Crusey’s journey moves from building batteries in his garage to becoming…
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Build & Deploy AI Support Agents In Minutes | Valerie Li
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Hey CX Nation, In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #269, we welcomed Valerie Li, Co-Founder & CEO of Duckie.ai based in San Francisco, CA. Duckie. ai is a no-code platform for customer support teams to build their own AI agents to deflect tickets and automate repetitive processes. In this episode, Valerie and Adrian chat through the …
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EP3-5 | Washington’s Shutdown to Taiwan’s New Alliance and the AI Workforce Shift
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This week, we track three pivotal forces shaping the global innovation narrative. Washington’s Shutdown has paralyzed U.S. federal agencies, disrupting capital markets and research while costing the economy up to $15 billion a week, underscoring how fragile high-tech growth becomes when governance stalls. Taiwan–U.S. High-Tech Partnership is emergi…
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Re-thinking The Urban Planet with 25K Leaders: A Conversation with City Age CEO Miro Cernetig
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The quest for genuine human connection has never been more challenging—or more valuable—than in today's AI-dominated business landscape. Miro Cernetig, founder of CityAge, brings this paradox into sharp focus as he shares his journey from foreign correspondent to innovative business leader on this illuminating episode. Drawing from his background i…
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BoB In South Florida: Raquel Cabo, Miami Biotech Collective
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We love to hear from our listeners. Send us a message. The Business of Biotech is on location in Miami this week! For the first episode in this four-part series on the biotech scene in South Florida, Raquel Cabo, Founder and President of the Miami Biotech Collective, talks about her experiences as a member of the founding team at Ovid Therapeutics,…
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Event startup Partiful wasn’t stripping GPS locations from user-uploaded photos; plus, If you’re not an AI startup, good luck raising money from VCs
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Social event planning app Partiful, which calls itself “Facebook events for hot people,” has firmly replaced Facebook as the go-to platform for sending party invitations. But what Partiful also has in common with Facebook is that it’s collecting a tsunami of user data, and Partiful could have done better at keeping that data secure. Learn more abou…
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A new search engine raises $1.1M to let obsessive fans dive down internet rabbit holes; also, New deep tech fund Wave Function Ventures raises $15 million
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Zehra Naqvi grew up as an obsessive fan girl in the 2010s and recently started Lore, a search platform for people to research and discover internet obsessions. The company has already raised $1.1 million in pre-seed funding. It is set to emerge from stealth on October 6th. Also, when Jamie Gull graduated from Stanford University in 2007 with a mast…
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Sara Aswegan | Strategic Advisor | Rare Disease Advocacy, Patient-Centric Solutions, & Global Collaboration
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Sarah Aswegan, a seasoned biopharma leader and strategic advisor for global rare disease solutions, shares her journey from sales in pharma to her consulting work today. She discusses her experience in transitioning biopharma companies from clinical to commercial success, the evolution of medtech in diagnosing and managing rare diseases, and the co…
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Building Legacy and Trust in Entrepreneurship: Scott Conine's Journey
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What does it take to grow a business from $10,000 to a $100 million exit without venture capital? Scott Conine's entrepreneurial journey reveals powerful lessons about leadership, talent, and trust that any business leader can apply. Scott opens up about co-founding Rise Interactive and the innovative approach they took to hiring. Recognizing that …
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How startups could be affected by a prolonged government shutdown, plus Oneleet raises $33M to shake up the world of security compliance
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The U.S. government shutdown could stifle deal flow, freeze visa processing for workers, and cause other problems for startups and the broader tech sector, especially if it lasts longer than a week, according to experts who spoke to TechCrunch. Also, Bryan Onel’s father was a locksmith. As for Onel, he described himself as the digital equivalent. E…
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An SOP for Testing a Startup Idea (ITS top 1%)
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Today, we'll help you build an SOP for testing startup ideas. We'll use an example from a listener - a startup in the homeschooling space - as a guinea pig. The best way to have a great startup idea this time next year is to test out a bunch of ideas in the interim. This SOP will help you do it, and scale the process. Tacklebox 00:00 Tacklebox 00:3…
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CXWeekly Update | Lessons From 5 Years Building CXChronicles
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Hey CX Nation, Here's the first CXWeekly Update from CXC in a long time! This week's episode I walk through some ideas, goals & CTAs that I've learned from the 5 years of building CXC. Don't worry we have a ton of amazing guest interviews coming down the pipeline over the next couple of weeks. Part of our goal at CXC is to create more customer focu…
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Kevin Hart’s VC firm led $35M Series B for weight-loss app Simple, also, Electroflow promises to make LFP material for 40% less than Chinese producers
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Simple is an AI-powered health coaching app that helps people lose weight. Electroflow drew inspiration from batteries themselves to develop a new way of producing LFP material for EVs. The process could undercut today's lowest price sources in China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Momentum Series: Revolutionizing the Hourly / Shift Workplace with GAGE Founder Justin Henshaw
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In this episode of the Innovators & Investors Podcast, host Kristian Marquez speaks with the Founder and CEO of GAGE, Justin Henshaw. Justin shares his entrepreneurial journey, highlighting his military background and transition into business. He discusses the inspiration behind GAGE, a platform designed to recognize and score the contributions of …
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Composite gets backing from NFDG for its cross-browser agent tool
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The startup was started earlier this year by Yang Fan Yun and Charlie Deane. Yun is a former product manager at Uber, while Deane founded a company selling server proxies. When he was at Uber, he realized that a lot of people around him were doing grunt work in their browsers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Entrepreneurial Journey and HR Insights with Daniel Ordaz | Scale Like a CEO
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What if we've been focusing on the wrong problem in HR technology? While most solutions concentrate on finding new talent, Daniel Ordaz believes the real challenge lies in keeping the people we already have. As a third-time founder at age 60, Daniel brings decades of perspective to the "Scale Like a CEO" podcast, sharing how his company Sendos is r…
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Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science, plus, Whoop opens blood-testing service to what it says is a 350,000-person waitlist
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Periodic Labs was founded by Ekin Dogus Cubuk and Liam Fedus. Cubuk led the materials and chemistry team at Google Brain and DeepMind, where one of his projects was, for instance, an AI tool called GNoME. Researchers say that tool discovered over 2 million new crystals in 2023, materials that could one day be used to power new generations of techno…
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Send us a text Every day we see more devastating news coming out of on the wars in Gaza and the Ukraine. We see photos of cities and towns turned into piles of rubble and people who have lost their loved ones, their homes and their livelihoods. But there are other insidious ramifications of these wars that we seldom discuss. And those are the effec…
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272: Why This Is the Best Time to Be a Non-Technical Founder
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For years, non-technical founders were second class citizens in tech. Not anymore. In this episode, Sophia Matveeva shares five reasons why today is the best time in history to start a tech venture without being a coder — and why, in some cases, non-technical founders actually have the advantage. You’ll learn: Why investors are backing non-technica…
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Episode 151 - Rising Stars Series: Yoni Reisman of Tip Top Cocktails
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This episode launches a new series I’m calling Rising Stars - Founders new to CPG who have defied the odds, built growing eight-figure businesses without the interference of premature institutional money. This is part one of my interview with Yoni Reisman, Co-Founder, Chairman, and former Chief Executive Officer of Atlanta-based Tip Top Proper Cock…
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Investing in Africa's Digital Future, Lexi Novitske, GP @ Norrsken22
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Lexi Novitske, General Partner at Norrsken22, a $205m growth-stage fund backing transformative tech companies across Africa. Lexi has spent over a decade living and investing in Nigeria, backing breakout African startups like Paystack, Flutterwave, and Smile Identity. As one of the continent’s most respected VCs, she shares how her team is building…
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How Do You Strategize in the AI Era? – with Martin Reeves, Head of BCG’s Think Tank
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Martin Reeves has spent decades advising CEOs on how to think about strategy. As head of BCG’s Henderson Institute, he has built a career challenging leaders to balance efficiency with imagination and to prepare for the next disruptive shift. In this conversation, Martin tells Henrik and Jeremy why AI alone will not give companies an edge and might…
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CommanderAI building Salesforce for the waste management industry, also, a year after filing to IPO, still-private Cerebras Systems raises $1.1B
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CommanderAI launched in early 2024 as a customer relationship manager and sales prospecting platform built for waste management — and other industrial services like dumpster rentals and industrial recyclers – to fill that gap. Also, Silicon Valley-based Cerebras announced it raised a $1.1 billion Series G round on Tuesday that valued the AI hardwar…
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Vibe-coding startup Anything nabs a $100M valuation after hitting $2M ARR in its first two weeks; also, AI recruiter Alex raises $17M to automate initial job interviews
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It’s no secret that vibe coding — using AI-powered coding tools to build apps and websites via natural language prompts — is exploding in popularity. In July, Swedish vibe coding startup Lovable hit $100 million in annual recurring revenue just eight months after launch, plans to close the year at $250 million ARR and thinks it will hit $1 billion …
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Disrupting Property Management: How DAISY Uses AI and Technology to Revolutionize HOAs
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In this episode of The Innovators & Investors Podcast, host Kristian Marquez sits down with Yotam Cohen, co-founder and CEO of Daisy, a technology-driven property management company focused on transforming homeowners associations (HOAs). Yotam shares how a personal frustration with outdated property management inspired him to create an end-to-end p…
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Longtime friend of the show Rajiv Shah returns to unpack lessons from a year of building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and reasoning models integrations. We dive into why so many AI pilots stumble, why evaluation and error analysis remain essential data science skills, and why not every enterprise challenge calls for a large langua…
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The startup behind open source tool Polars raises $21M from Accel; plus, ComplexChaos thinks AI can help people find common ground
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Polars, the Amsterdam-based company behind the popular open source project of the same name, has raised about $21 million in a Series A round led by Accel, with participation from Bain Capital Partners and angel investors. But while raising this kind of money is the dream of many developers, its creator Ritchie Vink didn’t set out to do so. Also, m…
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EP3-4 | Innovation Across the Pacific: Taiwan and San Francisco Tech Weeks 2025
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This week, we take a closer look at two stories shaping the global innovation narrative from opposite sides of the Pacific. Taiwan Tech Week 2025: From Semiconductor Island to Innovation Island Taiwan brought more than 120 startups and 3,500 professionals to Silicon Valley in its boldest overseas showcase yet. The Taiwan Tech Summit at Santa Clara …
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Scaling Businesses with Noelle Curtis: Insights on Pricing and Growth | Scale Like a CEO
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Pricing structures make or break businesses, yet they're often the most overlooked aspect of entrepreneurship. Noelle Curtis, founder and CEO of Busy Boulevard, is changing that reality with a platform that helps entrepreneurs establish proper pricing foundations to ensure sustainable growth. During our conversation, Noelle unpacks the critical dis…
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The Business Case For Health Economics And Outcomes Research With ISPOR's Rob Abbott
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We love to hear from our listeners. Send us a message. On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, Rob Abbott, CEO of ISPOR, explains how startup and early-stage clinical drug development companies benefit from conducting health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), and not just with patients and commercial payers. HEOR, viewed as a strate…
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Paid, the AI agent ‘results-based billing’ startup, raised huge $21M seed; former Microsoft execs launch AI agents to end Excel-led finance
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Paid just closed an oversubscribed $21.6 million seed round led by Lightspeed. With the €10 million pre-seed round it raised in March, London-based Paid has already raised $33.3 million and hasn’t even hit its Series A yet. A source familiar with the deal says the startup’s valuation is over $100 million. Also, despite millions spent on financial s…
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Scaling AI Governance: A Conversation with Andrew Becker, CEO of Policy AI
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Ever wondered what happens when AI chatbots go rogue? Just ask Andrew Becker, who shares a story about a chatbot that agreed to sell a Silverado truck for one penny because someone told it "no takesie backsies." As CEO of InPolicy AI and CTO of the Anchor Group, Andrew is tackling the wild west of artificial intelligence head-on. "We're building Gr…
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In this episode, we welcome Nicholas Kadysh, CEO of PharmAla Biotech, the company pioneering GMP MDMA production and named the top-performing stock on the Canadian capital markets in 2023 by The Market Herald. As Chair of Psychedelics Canada, Nicholas has been instrumental in advancing legal and ethical standards, building strong relationships with…
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Steph Curry’s VC firm just backed an AI startup that wants to fix food supply chains, also Doorstep raises $8M seed to help find missing food deliveries
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A Y Combinator startup called Burnt thinks AI agents — software that can automatically handle tasks typically done by humans — can succeed where traditional enterprise software hasn’t in the trillion-dollar U.S. food market. Doorstep integrates into existing delivery apps and then, using phone sensors, tracks when a driver has entered a building, g…
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Bridging the IT Channel: Building Community, Scaling Marketplaces, and Harnessing AI for Growth
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In this episode of The Innovators & Investors Podcast, host Kristian Marquez sits down with Kevin Lancaster, founder and CEO of Channel Program, to explore the challenges and opportunities within the fragmented IT channel marketplace. Kevin shares his entrepreneurial journey from founding a government contracting firm to building and exiting a cybe…
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Starpath bets on mass-produced, space-rated solar
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Starpath’s new space-rated solar panel business kicked off sales in the U.S. on Thursday with an eyebrow-raising pitch. The company says its solar panels, called “Starlight,” are priced around 10 times cheaper than typical industry pricing of $72.50 per watt, roughly a 90% cost reduction versus the status quo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi…
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