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Which companies are on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence? What’s the next major breakthrough in healthcare? How do iconic brands reinvent themselves to appeal to the next generation? Most Innovative Companies is where tech, business, and innovation convene. Join hosts Yasmin Gagne and Josh Christensen as they bring you the latest innovations transforming business and society—and highlights the companies that are reshaping industries and culture.
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Where startup founders raise millions and listeners can invest. Host Josh Muccio takes listeners behind closed-doors and into the room where deals are made. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Technology's daily show (formerly the Technology Brothers Podcast). Streaming live on X and YouTube from 11 - 2 PM PST Monday - Friday. Available on X, Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.
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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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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman. If you would like to see more of The Twenty Minute VC (20VC), head to www.20vc.com for more information on the podcast, show note ...
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The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified
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The podcast dedicated to demystifying Venture Capital. Nick Moran and Nate Pierotti interview VC's & Startup Founders and on how they build great technology startups.
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Pioneers of AI is your guide to the latest technological frontier. Each week, host Rana el Kaliouby (AI scientist, investor, author, co-founder of Affectiva) is joined by the leading creators, critics, and thinkers behind mind-blowing technology and asks the important questions about how artificial intelligence is changing the way we live. As we venture together into the unknown, Pioneers is your tool to understanding and anticipating what comes next.
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The tech media loves a splashy funding announcement - millions of dollars injected into a hot startup primed to become a unicorn. But what about the work behind those headlines? Host Jason Yeh, a former VC and venture-backed startup founder, talks with entrepreneurs about how they raised the capital to launch world-changing startups. Their conversations uncover incredible stories including cautionary tales, inspirational memories, and even some insightful tips. Keep up with us on social @fun ...
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Hosted by a General Partner (GP) and a Limited Partner (LP), Origins dives into the venture capital ecosystem to learn how the people behind the money make decisions: How LPs choose VC funds to invest in, what drives performance in venture, the dos and don'ts of fundraising, what founders/entrepreneurs/CEOs need to do to raise a Seed, Series A and beyond, what it takes to go from emerging manager to franchise VC, and the latest private market trends and dynamics shaping the investment ecosys ...
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StartUp Health NOW celebrates the innovators, industry leaders, and entrepreneurs who are reimagining health and wellness.
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Angel Insights takes you deep into the world of angel investing and what makes some of the most successful angel investors tick. Join our host Tom Britton in conversations with the world's most successful investors, and some of their portfolio company entrepreneurs, to understand their investment strategy, approach to due diligence, and tips that can dramatically improve your own approach to investing. Angel Insights is created by SyndicateRoom: https://www.syndicateroom.com
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Visa To Venture is where bold ideas cross borders. Hosted by leading immigration attorney Jacob J. Sapochnick, this podcast uncovers the inspiring journeys of entrepreneurs, innovators, and changemakers building their ventures while navigating the complexities of the U.S. immigration system. Each episode features raw, insightful conversations with founders, investors, and visionaries who turned their immigration story into a startup success. Whether you're on a visa, need a visa, or simply w ...
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Voice of Growth: Unlock Lessons from Investors, Domain Experts, and Founders Shaping the Future. Behind every ambitious startup lies a transparent ownership structure. Listen to how we break down why a precise cap table and thoughtful equity incentives are crucial for raising capital, engaging team members, and scaling effectively. Unlock your cap table management and set your company up for long-term success.
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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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The 1st podcast dedicated to demystifying Venture Capital (est. May 2014). Nick Moran interviews the VC and Angel investor experts on how they find, evaluate and select the next great technology startups.
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Blockchain Germany is your deep-dive into the future of Web3, crypto startups, and blockchain venture capital—straight from the heart of Europe’s innovation hubs. As part of the Startuprad.io™ network, our show brings you high-impact interviews, founder stories, and insider investment insights from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (GSA/DACH). 🎙️ Hosted in English for a global audience, this podcast is trusted by thousands of investors, founders, and blockchain builders looking to stay ahead ...
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Building a company is hard. We share real, grounded conversations with people doing just that. From solo devs to venture-backed founders. Hosted by Dave Berner (co-founder of Kinde), this podcast skips the playbook talk and gets into what building actually looks like day to day.
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The Startup CEO Show hosted by coach and advisor Mark MacLeod, brings you veteran CEOs each week who have collectively had had billion dollar valuations, 9 figure exits, and millions in revenue each week. Subscribe to join the leading podcast produced exclusively for the CEOs of high-growth startups and the VCs who back them. This podcast offers concise, yet deep dives into specific themes within each episode, focusing on providing actionable insights for busy leaders. The format includes in ...
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Less than 1 in 100 Startups manage to achieve funding beyond Series D or an exit. Investors typically expect 8 out of 10 of the businesses they invest in to fail. It’s time to make building a business less depressing and scale more wisely. Tune into Making The Grade to hear first-hand experiences of venture-backed software companies in their journeys from Seed to Series B funding. Every week, we’ll be joined by Founders, Investors and senior Go-To-Market Leaders to explore the factors drivin ...
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🚀 Welcome to The CFO Edge, the podcast for founders and business owners who want to master their finances and scale with confidence! Hosted by Carol Baghdadi, a seasoned CPA and fractional CFO, we break down complex financial concepts into actionable strategies you can use right away. Learn how to optimize cash flow, raise capital, and make smarter financial decisions, without the overwhelm. 🎧 Subscribe now to gain the financial clarity you need to grow and sustain a thriving business. Let’s ...
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Uncovering the entrepreneurial journey's of up and coming startup founders, over coffee
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Powered by Startuprad.io™ | Global Top 20 Entrepreneurship Podcast Security Sutra is your tactical briefing on the frontline of cybersecurity innovation. As a sub-podcast of Startuprad.io™, this show explores how startups defend themselves, scale securely, and lead the charge against global cyber threats—with a special focus on Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH/GSA region). 🎙️ Hosted in English for a global audience, Security Sutra brings together cybersecurity founders, ethical hacker ...
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Andrew Romans, General Partner of 7BC Venture Capital, 3x author, and university professor, talks to VCs, founders and other VC-startup ecosystem players about all things venture capital, startups, entrepreneurship, technology, CVC, and big corporate tech titans.
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The team at Stanford eCorner believes in the powerful combination of evidence and imagination. We share original stories from informed leaders in academia and industry that focus on innovation, startups, culture, and strategy. The goal: empower you to bring bold ideas to life. Stanford eCorner is led by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center in Stanford University’s School of Engineering.
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Hosted by Devin Mathews and Jim Milbery, partners at ParkerGale Capital, a middle-market private equity group. This bi-weekly show is a lively discussion of the uses of technology to improve business operations for companies with less than $100 million in revenue.
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Accounting, Finance & Tax for Venture Backed Startups
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The Entrepreneur's Logbook brings you inside the minds of today's most successful business leaders to uncover the strategies, decisions, and frameworks driving extraordinary growth. Each episode features founders and CEOs sharing their proven approaches to scaling teams, expanding market share, and building thriving companies. Our guests - from bootstrapped success stories to venture-backed innovators - break down the exact systems, processes, and strategies you can use to grow your company. ...
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A weekly podcast show about Indian startups, entrepreneurs, and more! Hosted by Neil Patel & Friends
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Bad Startup Advice is a parody of the ego-bloated founder-worshiping world of venture-backed tech startups. Each episode begins with authoritatively phrased (but ironically bad) advice on difficult & nuanced issues every founder struggles with. After the jokes, we put our serious hats on and discuss the topic more honestly. Your host is Paul Koullick, founder at Keeper. Guest appearances on every episode of other venture-backed tech founders.
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Consumer VC: Venture Capital I B2C Startups I Commerce | Early-Stage Investing I Brands | Technology
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Consumer VC takes a look into early-stage consumer investing and venture capital. If you are interested in learning about consumer trends, have a b2c business and interested in learning about the fundraising process at the early stage, you have come to the right place. Mike interviews some of the top venture capitalists in the world that focus on B2C and consumer type companies or have a deep track record investing in these categories such as marketplaces, SaaS, social, CPG and non-tech subs ...
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UnicornPrn is the only podcast that peels back the glossy veneer of startup life and roasts it over a flaming pile of pitch decks 🔥 Hosted by Melissa Kwan and Lloyed Lobo, two founder friends who’ve seen the startup world from the inside out, upside down, and fully on fire. This show dives into what it’s actually like to build a company (spoiler: it’s not all oat milk lattes and billion-dollar exits). We riff about all the things you wish you could say out loud but can’t (or won’t) — like in ...
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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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One of the top startup coaches in the world, Alisa Cohn, talks to founders, creators, advisors, investors and builders of all kinds about their insights and experiences in growing from Start-up to Grown-up.
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Founders First explores how founders got started, what they did before starting their startups, and how you can go from an idea to a venture-backed company.
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Billion Dollar Moves™ with Sarah Chen-Spellings | Global Venture Capital
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Lead, build, and invest better. Join us as we hit the streets globally to uncover billion dollar ventures of unicorn founders & funders. In venture, every move can make—or break—a billion-dollar outcome. Hosted by Sarah Chen-Spellings, award-winning entrepreneur, investor, and venture insider, Billion Dollar Moves pulls back the curtain on the strategies, stumbles, and breakout moments that define the world’s most iconic companies. From boardroom power plays to investor backchannels, you’ll ...
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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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WSJ’s Bold Names brings you conversations with the leaders of the bold-named companies featured in the pages of The Wall Street Journal. Hosts Tim Higgins and Christopher Mims speak to CEOs and business leaders in interviews that challenge conventional wisdom and take you inside the decisions being made in the C-suite and beyond.
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Entrepreneurship isn’t just a career—it’s a relentless, all-consuming way of life. Welcome to Founder2Founder a raw and unfiltered podcast where host Aaron Spivak pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to build something from the ground up. No sugarcoating, no overnight success stories—just deep, honest conversations with some of the most driven, underrated, and game-changing founders of our time. From brutal setbacks to game-changing mindset shifts, Aaron goes beyond the polished su ...
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The Startup Fridays Podcast is a weekly podcast series where Forbes India's Technology Editor Harichandan Arakali brings you conversations with startup entrepreneurs who are finding opportunities in solving problems in multiple areas. From agriculture and satellite imagery to digital finance and cryptocurrencies, venture capital investors, and more, meet the change agents on this podcast, out every Friday
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Saj & Jack discuss Tech, Entrepreneurship and Startups. Venture Hustles Podcast embarks on a journey every week to explore what it takes to start and grow a company in the 21st century. No matter the industry, service, or product, there is always a formula to the steps that need to be taken in order to grow and scale a business. Find out the tricks of the trade for your industry by listening in every week as Venture Hustles brings on new guests that are industry experts and disruptors.
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Grow.fm interviews Founders and Growth executives of B2B SaaS and venture-backed companies. We break down the hidden strategies, tactics, and AI-driven playbooks they use to scale. We dive deep into customer acquisition, marketing channels, and the creative growth plays that helped them overcome the hardest part of scaling a business: growth.
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On this podcast, I sit down with venture capital funds to learn how they support their founders after writing them the check. This show is brought to you by HireCMO.io, where fractional CMOs grow your VC-backed portfolio startups.
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Reinvent•ability is our dynamic ability to grow through change and expand into our full potential. Join me as I talk with inspiring guests and share my own insights about reinvention, growth, and breaking through inner limits that keep us from working and living with greater purpose and joy. And here's a bit about me: Nataly Kogan is a reinvention catalyst, keynote speaker, 2x best-selling author, 3x entrepreneur, self-taught artist, and world-class mindset mentor to impact makers. Nataly's ...
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From Garage Startup to Celebrity-Backed Brand ft. Jake Bullock
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Glimpse is the all-in-one, AI-powered deductions management platform for CPG brands—automating deduction capture, classification, disputes, and accounting. Recover more revenue while saving time – https://www.tryglimpse.com What if cannabis could become a true social beverage—an alternative to alcohol that delivers the buzz without the hangover? T…
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Investor Stories 424. The Unique Traits of Visionary Founders Backed by Gigascale, Heavybit & York IE (Schroepfer, Ruscio, York)
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On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Mike Schroepfer Joseph Ruscio Kyle York We asked guests to discuss the most visionary founder that they've worked with and what makes them so special. The host of The Full Ratchet is Nick Moran of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in f…
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Supercharging Alzheimer’s Research: Gates Ventures Backs a Million-Dollar AI Initiative
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Unlocking Innovation: The Alzheimer’s Insights AI Prize and Its Impact on Healthcare There are currently more than 55 million people worldwide living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Recent breakthroughs in new treatments and diagnostics provide hope, but there is potential to accelerate the pace of discovery and development. Last ye…
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Nvidia eyes $500M investment into self-driving tech startup Wayve, also, UK fintech Tide becomes a TPG-backed unicorn
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang descended on the United Kingdom this week, armed with a pledge to invest $2.6 billion to supercharge the country’s AI startup ecosystem. Wayve, the U.K.-based self-driving tech startup, could be one of those to receive funds from Nvidia’s AI investment commitment. Also, U.K.-based fintech Tide has entered the unicorn club wi…
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20VC: General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja on The Future of Venture Capital: Chanel vs Walmart | Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM | Investing $5BN+ Into Stripe Over 14 Rounds | Investing Hundreds of Millions ...
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Hemant Taneja is the CEO and leader of General Catalyst, the firm he has scaled over the last decade into one of the largest with over $40BN in AUM. He has been one of the most influential investors of the past two decades, leading early bets in Stripe, Snap, Gusto, Samsara, Grammarly, and Canva. He also played a pivotal role in Livongo’s $18.5B me…
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Healthcare Innovation and Venture Capital with Brian Armstrong of Ensemble Innovation Ventures
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In this episode of The Innovators & Investors Podcast, host Kristian Marquez sits down with Brian Armstrong, Managing Director of Ensemble Innovation Ventures, to explore the dynamic world of healthcare venture capital. Brian shares how Ensemble focuses on investments in health tech and tech-enabled services that enhance both patient care and backe…
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EP 135: INTEL AND NVIDIA!! Meta Connect and Ray Ban Display, Watch Huawei/China
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On this week’s episode of The Circuit, Ben Bajarin and Jay Goldberg break down the surprising new partnership between NVIDIA and Intel, including a $5B investment and plans for co-developed CPU–GPU systems for data centers and PCs. They explore what this means for x86 in AI racks, AMD’s competitive position, and why Intel’s silence on Foundry raise…
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xAI’s Colossus 2 Reactions, Sam Ross & Aaron Slodov LIVE in The Ultradome | Pippa Lamb, Ariana Thacker, Will Hurd
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(01:21) - xAI Unveils Colossus 2 Datacenter (30:20) - Pippa Lamb, a partner at Sweet Capital, discusses the recent U.S. state visit to the UK, highlighting significant tech investments from companies like Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia, and emphasizing the UK's ambition to become an AI superpower. She also provides insights into Prime Minister Keir …
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Indian fintech Jar turns profitable by enabling millions to save in gold
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Jar, an Indian fintech startup that allows users to invest in gold, has turned profitable by helping millions of first-time savers use its app to build digital gold holdings. While many consumer fintechs focus on affluent urban users or credit products, Jar has gained traction by offering a culturally familiar asset — gold — as a low-barrier entry …
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How the U.S. Stacks Up to China’s ‘Engineering State’
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The relationship between the U.S. and China is typically framed as competitive and even adversarial. Each superpower brings strengths and weaknesses to how it approaches its society, business and growth. In his new book "Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future," author and China expert Dan Wang, frames the key differences between the two su…
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How AI startups are fueling Google’s booming cloud business, also, Numeral raises $35M to automate sales tax with AI
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On Thursday, Google Cloud announced it added fast-rising AI coding startups Lovable and Windsurf to its roster of customers. Both companies have chosen Google Cloud as their primary cloud computing provider, the latest sign of Google’s rising prominence against larger rivals AWS and Microsoft Azure. Also, Sam Ross, the co-founder and CEO of Numeral…
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20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War ...
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Jesse Zhang is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Decagon, the conversational AI platform for customer experience. As one of the fastest growing companies in the valley, they have raised over $230M at a last round price of $1.5BN. Prior to Decagon, Jesse founded Lowkey (acquired by Niantic), studied CS at Harvard, and worked at places like Google, HRT, Citad…
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Transforming Due Diligence with AI: Wokelo’s Automation of Private Market Research and Risk Analysis
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In this episode of The Innovators & Investors Podcast, host Kristian Marquez sits down with Sid Masson, co-founder and CEO of Wokelo AI, to explore how their platform is transforming due diligence and research workflows in private equity, venture capital, consulting, and banking. Sid shares the origins of Wokelo AI, born from firsthand experience w…
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On today's episode, cohosts Yasmin Gagne and Josh Christensen are at Fast Company's 2025 Innovation Festival to discuss the latest business news and the event's festivities. Topics include the TikTok deal “framework” with new investors, California lawmakers passing an AI safety bill, Apollo Global Management considering the sale of AOL, and the top…
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Meta Connect Recap, 𝕏 Timeline Reactions | Louis Mosley, Brendan Foody, Darren Mowry, Kayvon Beykpour, Mukund Jha, Noah Löfquist, Dan Lahav, Ben Milne
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(00:30) - Meta Connect Reactions (05:25) - The Timeline Reacts to Meta Connect (40:13) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (47:51) - Louis Mosley, head of Palantir's UK and European operations, discusses the company's first billion-dollar deal outside the U.S. with the UK Ministry of Defense, marking a significant milestone. He highlights Palantir's $2 billion …
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Airbuds is the music social network Apple and Spotify wish they had built
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Airbuds, a music social app aimed at Gen Z, raises $5M as the app reaches 5 million monthly users. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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In this episode of The Back Channel, Jason Yeh explores the power of building a network rooted in small, genuine acts of helpfulness. Jason breaks down why simply being a helpful person is both fulfilling in the short term and a powerful foundation for future fundraising success.
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Investor Stories 428. Trust and Integrity with LPs, What Churn Reveals About Founders, and Building True Differentiation (Ralston, Abel, Shen)
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On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Rusty Ralston of Swell VC Godard Abel of G2 Han Shen of iFly.vc We asked guests to share the best question they've ever been asked by an allocator. The host of The Full Ratchet is Nick Moran of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in foun…
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Investor Stories 428. Trust and Integrity with LPs, What Churn Reveals About Founders, and Building True Differentiation (Ralston, Abel, Shen)
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On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Rusty Ralston of Swell VC Godard Abel of G2 Han Shen of iFly.vc We asked guests to share the best question they've ever been asked by an allocator. The host of The Full Ratchet is Nick Moran of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in foun…
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20VC: Opendoor's CEO on The Greatest Turnaround in Tech | OpenAI and Oracle: How Can Either Afford to Do This | How Anthropic Could Lose 50% of Their Revenue Overnight | Replit Raises at $3BN | Figure ...
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AGENDA: 00:00 Opendoor's Potential and Market Valuation 03:32 Why Did Kaz Leave $300M on the Table to Join Opendoor 04:44 Why Does Kaz Believe OPEN Can Be a Good Business When the Market Doesn’t 06:34 How does Kaz Feel About OPEN Becoming a Meme Stock? 17:25 Kaz’s $0 Salary but $1BN Stock Based Compensation 23:41 Oracle and OpenAI Partnership: WTF …
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Scaling Lean in a $500B Market: Ed Bartlett on going from zero to one & transitioning out of the CEO seat
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In the start-up ecosystem, there are a few truths that never change - scaling is harder than it looks, over-hiring can kill momentum, and knowing when to hand over the CEO reins might be the hardest call of all. In this episode,Ed Barltett, Founder & CEO of Hicomply, unpacks how to successfully scale with a lean team and build a GTM engine that act…
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LIVE from Meta | Zuck, Boz, James Cameron, Alex Wang & more
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(00:00) - Live from Meta Connect (01:26:51) - Chris Cox, Meta's Chief Product Officer, leads the development of core applications like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads, as well as overseeing the company's AI and privacy initiatives. (01:38:16) - Adam Mosseri, the Head of Instagram, discusses the platform's evolution from simple…
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Agentic AI for SaaS: Multi-Agent Playbooks, Pricing Agents & EU AI Act Trust
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Dashboards don’t decide. Agents do. In this episode of Startuprad.io, we sit down with Jennifer Grün, Senior Specialist for Generative AI & ML at AWS, to explore how agentic AI is rewriting the rules of SaaS. Instead of static dashboards and brittle automations, SaaS is moving toward agents that reason, plan, and act—delivering outcomes like churn …
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Agentic AI for SaaS: Multi-Agent Playbooks, Pricing Agents & EU AI Act Trust
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Dashboards don’t decide. Agents do. In this episode of Startuprad.io, we sit down with Jennifer Grün, Senior Specialist for Generative AI & ML at AWS, to explore how agentic AI is rewriting the rules of SaaS. Instead of static dashboards and brittle automations, SaaS is moving toward agents that reason, plan, and act—delivering outcomes like churn …
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Google Ventures doubles down on dev tool startup Blacksmith just 4 months after its seed round; also, Icarus raises $6.1M to take on space’s “warehouse work” with embodied-AI robots
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As speed becomes the defining currency in an AI-driven software world, Blacksmith has raised another round led by Google Ventures — just four months after its initial seed round — to accelerate how code gets shipped. Icarus Robotics cofounders Ethan Barajas and Jamie Palmer spent hours interviewing astronauts about what it was like working in space…
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The GPS Method: How Aya Kikimova's LeapEngine Determines Marketing Readiness in 15 Minutes | #27
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In this episode of The Entrepreneur's Logbook, host Zachary Bernard sits down with Aya Kikimova, founder of LeapEngine, a digital marketing agency that brings Fortune 500-level strategies to startups and small businesses at a fraction of the cost. Aya shares her remarkable journey from immigrating to the US from Kazakhstan at 16, not knowing how to…
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The Hidden Leak That's Costing You Customers
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Every founder knows the pain of losing customers but few truly measure the cost of churn. In this episode, I unpack why retention is often more powerful than acquisition, how churn erodes your growth story, and the CFO-level strategies that can help you build sticky, high-quality revenue. If your startup is growing on paper but struggling to keep c…
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#167 Levee: Cleaning Up Hotels' Dirty Secret
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Knock, knock! AI wants to inspect your room. Al Lagunas grew up watching his mom clean hotel rooms. Now he’s building Levee, an AI-powered app to make her job easier—and keep the staff from getting yelled at. But with just one hotel customer and a $10M+ valuation, will the investors check in… or check out? This is The Pitch for Levee. Featuring inv…
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Same-day delivery comes to space, as Impulse promises satellite transport in hours, not months, and more
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Amazon made same-day delivery the benchmark on Earth. Impulse Space is pitching a similar concept for satellites bound for geostationary orbit about 22,000 miles above Earth, compressing what is typically a months-long transit into a matter of hours. Also, CodeRabbit is helping companies like Chegg, Groupon, and Mercury, along with over 8,000 other…
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Responsible AI is more than a buzzword, it’s a guiding principle at Microsoft. Sarah Bird, Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI, leads the company’s efforts to build and deploy AI products with responsibility at the core. She and her team bring standards across the company’s AI efforts, and have played a central role in building Microsoft Copilo…
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Uncomfortable Either Way: Why Growth Requires Choosing the Hard Path with Brett Eaton
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In this episode of Founder2Founder, Aaron Spivak sits down with Brett Eaton, keynote speaker, high performance coach, and author of Uncomfortable Either Way. After a life-changing back injury and the loss of his father at 16, Brett discovered a powerful truth: life is going to be uncomfortable no matter what, so choose the version that leads to gro…
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Revolutionizing Publishing: How AI Empowers Authors and Scales Global Storytelling with Yehuda Niv
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In this episode of The Innovators & Investors Podcast, host Kristian Marquez sits down with Yehuda Niv, founder and CEO of Spines, an AI-powered publishing platform transforming the traditional book publishing industry. Yehuda shares how Spines drastically reduces publishing time from months to weeks and cuts costs significantly, making book publis…
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Building Outreach to a $4bn unicorn and helping AI agents get paid with Paid.ai - Manny Medina, Co-Founder & CEO @ Paid.ai
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This week on Riding Unicorns, we’re joined by Manny Medina, the visionary founder behind Outreach — the $4B sales engagement unicorn — and now co-founder & CEO of Paid.ai, a startup pioneering how AI agents get priced, paid, and scaled. We dive into Manny’s remarkable journey from zero to $250M+ ARR with Outreach, the gritty early days of selling d…
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Left school at 14, now he's bootstrapping enterprise software!
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Stephen Dale was handed a "fire warden jacket" and a broken spreadsheet at a UAE startup, tasked with managing vendors spending nearly $1 million annually. Instead of accepting expensive enterprise solutions, he built his own and discovered the massive gap between what startups need and what the market offers. Stephen is the co-founder of Vendor Ap…
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Elon Doubles Down, 𝕏 Timeline Reactions | Andrew Yang, Ishan Mukherjee, Tony Holdstock, Tomer London, Andrei Serban, Tim Higgins
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(00:30) - TBPN in the WSJ (21:13) - "Daddy is very much home" says Elon (01:29:33) - Ishan Mukherjee, co-founder of Pixie Labs and former Senior Vice President of Growth at New Relic, discusses the launch of Rocks2GA, achieving $25 million in revenue, and securing major clients like Saudi Aramco. He highlights their focus on delivering ROI within 9…
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MicroFactory built a tabletop manufacturing kit the size of a s dog crate; also, Nothing closes $200M Series C led by Tiger Global
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While many robotics companies are building human-sized robots, or working to automate entire factories, MicroFactory is instead trying to think big by building small. Also, Smartphone startup Nothing announced today that it closed its Series C round of $200 million, which was led by the investment firm Tiger Global. With this round, the consumer el…
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Robinhood plans to launch a startups fund open to all retail investors
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Robinhood announced Monday it has filed an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to launch a new publicly traded fund that will hold shares of startups. The idea behind the “Robinhood Ventures Fund I” is to allow every retail investor access to make money on the hottest startups before they go public. Also, Rodatherm Energy, …
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Fundraising as a Fund of Funds with Alex Edelson
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Alex Edelson’s Slipstream is a fund of funds that focuses on firms that are “difficult to find, evaluate and access.” Together with Beezer Clarkson, Partner at Sapphire Partners, and Nick Chirls, Partner at Asylum Ventures, Alex unpacks his strategy of investing in funds he believes can outperform, how to raise capital as an LP, and how to remain c…
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WNBA Star Jewell Loyd Is on the Road to a New Black Wall Street
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Las Vegas Aces star Jewell Loyd has amassed a stack of staggering accolades: garnering two WNBA championships, two Olympic gold medals, and six WNBA All-Star nods, not to mention being anointed as the "Gold Mamba” from the late great Kobe Bryant himself. But Loyd’s impact goes beyond the court. In 2015, she and her brother launched Loyd & Co., a fi…
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#3: INVESTOR: The Smart Fundraising: Equity, Timing, and Hidden Risks || Helga Valfells
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Founders keep getting it wrong about fundraising, pitch decks, and cap tables. Helga Valfells, founding partner at Crowberry Capital, shares the biggest mistakes startup founders make when trying to raise seed funding in today’s competitive landscape. With hard-won lessons from backing over 50 early-stage startups across the Nordics, she revealed w…
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