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Fundraising & investors
Founders on raising seed and venture capital, pitching investors and surviving the round.
47 episodes · showing the 47 most recent
Season 12
The AI Control Loop: The Enterprise AI Accountability Moment – with Shayne Higdon of Wallarm
The AI Control Loop: The Enterprise AI Accountability Moment – with Shayne Higdon of Wallarm
Jul 15, 2026 · 27 min
Season 12 · Episode 24
S12 E24 P2: Why Off-the-Shelf APIs Fail Complex Web Workflows and the Blueprint for High-Velocity Product Engineering with Volodymyr & Vitalii Sydorenko, Co-Founders of Gearheart
The Creation Story (and Expansion) of Gearhart
Jun 25, 2026 · 15 min
Season 12 · Episode 24
S12 E24 P1: Why Off-the-Shelf APIs Fail Complex Web Workflows and the Blueprint for High-Velocity Product Engineering with Volodymyr & Vitalii Sydorenko, Co-Founders of Gearheart
The Creation Story (and Expansion) of Gearheart
Jun 23, 2026 · 23 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: Skillset Mismatch: Fusing Labor Market Signals with Program Catalogs to Build a Real-Time Economic Intelligence Layer with Sushma Vadlamannati, Founder & CEO of zScale
The Intelligence Layer of the Job Economy
Jun 11, 2026 · 22 min
Season 12 · Episode 6
S12 E6: Moving Beyond Simple Chatbots to Run end-to-end B2C Support and Operations via Agentic AI Layers with Michael Fester, Co-Founder of 14.ai
The Customer Support OS
Feb 17, 2026 · 22 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: The Accountability Economy: Why "Buying Developer Capacity" is a Scam and the Blueprint for 400% Faster Engineering Velocity with Prashanth Tondapu, Founder & CEO of Innostax
Creating the founders execution engine
Feb 12, 2026 · 17 min
Season 12 · Episode 5
S12 E5: The Flying Drone Fallacy: Why Forklift Computer Vision Beats Full Automation and the Rise of the Autonomous Warehouse AI Agent with Marc Gyöngyösi, Founder & CEO of OneTrack
Bringing physical operations to the digital world with AI
Feb 10, 2026 · 25 min
Season 12
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas
Feb 5, 2026 · 37 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: Stripping Away Platitudes, Defining Clear Categories, and Storytelling for AI-Search Discovery with Marlena Sarunac, Co-Founder & Fractional CMO at The Company Advice
Advising your your healthcare startup
Feb 4, 2026 · 24 min
Season 12 · Episode 4
S12 E4: The Accent-Biased Workplace: Shifting from Extractive Transcripts to Local, On-Device "Listener-Side" Phoneme Translation with Arto Minasyan, Co-Founder & President of Krisp.ai
Cleaning up audio for conferencing and beyond
Feb 3, 2026 · 19 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: Why Staff Augmentation is Quietly Starving Your Product Innovation: Dmytro Ovcharenko, Founder & CEO of Alcor
Crushing it for the talent and the businesses
Jan 29, 2026 · 17 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: Dismantling Legacy HR Silos to Automate Onboarding, Scheduling, and Compliance for the Deskless Economy with Arjun Vora & Tito Goldstein, Co-Founders of Teambridge
Bringing fast pay and flexibility to the masses
Jan 28, 2026 · 40 min
Season 12 · Episode 3
S12 E3: Overhauling Enterprise Deal-Making via Real-Time Dynamic Deal Rooms and Autonomous Investor Analytics with Arsham Ghahramani, Founder & CEO of Ribbon
AI Interviewing, better the recruiter... AND the candidate.
Jan 27, 2026 · 27 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: Overcoming Broken Right-Sizing Models to Automate Real-Time, Non-Disruptive Cloud Cost Optimization with Sharad Kumar & Harshit Omar, Co-Founders of FluidCloud
Removing Cloud lock from your platform and enterprise
Jan 22, 2026 · 37 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: Decoupling Compute and Storage to Solve the Petabyte-Scale Log Cost Crisis and Power Real-Time AI SRE Engines with David Sztykman, Chief Architect & VP of Product at Hydrolix
Data streaming observability, at the speed of insight
Jan 21, 2026 · 30 min
Season 12 · Episode 2
S12 E2: Why Pure AI Automation Fails Enterprise Procurement and How "Customer Assurance" Unlocks Hidden Deal Velocity with Pukar Hamal, Founder & CEO of SecurityPal AI
Helping you fill out those pesky security questionnaires
Jan 20, 2026 · 26 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: Why Your Favorite Luxury Hotel Is Quietly Replacing Front-Desk Forms with AI Agents with Harman Singh Narula, Co-Founder & CEO of Canary Technologies
Building the customer facing operating system for hotels
Jan 15, 2026 · 20 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: The Death of the Black Box POS: Solving the Menu API Nightmare and Scaling Unified Commerce Across 2,000+ Locations with Niko Papademetriou, Co-Founder & EVP of Qu
Connecting POS systems to the rest of the world digitally
Jan 14, 2026 · 34 min
Season 12 · Episode 1
S12 E1: The Blast Radius Nightmare: Shifting from Blind Static Terraform Plans to Real-Time Predictive Change Intelligence with Dylan Ratcliffe, Founder & CEO of Overmind
Discovering all your dependencies... BEFORE you press the button.
Jan 13, 2026 · 33 min
Season 11
A Startup Field Guide in the Age of Robots & AI - with Oliver Mitchell
A Startup Field Guide in the Age of Robots and AI
Oct 9, 2025 · 28 min
Season 11
What Founders Need to Know - with Dan Eyman of Meld Valuation
The things founders need to know... about valuations.
Aug 27, 2025 · 25 min
Season 11
S11 Bonus: The Forgotten Password Paradox: Why Service Accounts, NTLM Flaws, and Over-Privileged AI Agents Are the Real Ground Zero for Nation-State Breaches with Tim Eades, Co-Founder & CEO of Anetac
Solving the issue of identity vulnerability
Jun 19, 2025 · 18 min
Season 10
Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Imad Gharazeddine, CEO of Mamo
Minting Unicorns - Dubai & Mamo
Feb 12, 2025 · 16 min
Season 10
Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Mohammad Albalooshi, CEO, DIFC Innovation Hub
Minting Unicorns - Dubai & the DIFC Innovation Center
Feb 5, 2025 · 23 min
Season 10
Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Dr. Marwan Al Zarouni, CEO of AI
Minting Unicorns - Dubai & Dr. Marwan, CEO of AI
Jan 29, 2025 · 25 min
Season 10
S10 Bonus: The Data-Driven GTM Engine: Transitioning from Traditional Sales to Product-Led Growth and Agentic Analytics with Thomas Hansen, President of Amplitude
Using AI & Analytics to make business decisions
Jan 16, 2025 · 24 min
Season 10
Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Sonia Gokhale, VentureSouq
Minting Unicorns - Dubai & VentureSouq
Dec 11, 2024 · 19 min
Season 10
Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Raakin Iqbal, Nucleus AI
Minting Unicorns - Dubai & Nucleus AI
Dec 4, 2024 · 27 min
Season 9
S9 Bonus: The Bootstrapped ALM Blueprint: Reaching $20M ARR With Zero Venture Capital and Automating Risk-Aware Quality Assurance with Adam Sandman, Founder & CEO of Inflectra
Next generation QA tooling
May 9, 2024 · 39 min
Season 9 · Episode 20
S9 E20: Investor Attraction Blueprint: Overthrowing Legacy Outreach and Engineering Founder-First Public Relations Engine with Michael Hummel, Co-Founder & CEO of Establish
Getting funding for your startup, based on foundational PR
Apr 16, 2024 · 24 min
Season 8
S8 Bonus: Financing Secondary-City Tech and Weaponizing Vertical AI for Under-Ventured Industries with Somak Chattopadhyay, Founder & Managing Partner of Armory Square Ventures
Venture Capital centered around outside regions
Oct 25, 2023 · 31 min
Season 8
S8 Bonus: Shattering MVP Pitfalls: Engineering Disciplined, Scalable Architectures for Early-Stage Startups with Max Walker, Co-Founder of Piton Labs
Your early stage product partner
Jul 26, 2023 · 32 min
Season 7 · Episode 29
S7 E29: Engineering Virtual Power Plants: Scaling AI-Driven Supply Chain Cooling with Manik Suri & Lucas Tepman of Therma
Refrigeration AI to improve the planet
Mar 28, 2023 · 33 min
Season 7
S7 Bonus: From Commodore 128 Self-Taught Coder to Building an AI Map Engine with Juan Soberanis of Beacon
Secure way to find your people's location
Nov 23, 2022 · 21 min
Season 6
Notifications North Star - Troy Goode, Courier
Notifications North Star - Troy Goode, Courier
Jun 22, 2022 · 11 min
Season 6
S6 Bonus: The Algorithmic Rebalancer: Engineering Deep Learning Ensembles and Automated Downside Protection with Stephen Mathai-Davis of Q.ai
Institutional investing for the every day investor
May 4, 2022 · 25 min
Season 6 · Episode 14
S6 E14: The Real-Time Ledger: How Banked Scaled Global Account-to-Account Infrastructure with Joe Pettersson
Payments built on modern banking rails
Apr 19, 2022 · 34 min
Season 6
Mentorcam March - Edvard Engeseath
Mentorcam - Angel Investing
Mar 23, 2022 · 13 min
Season 6
Mentorcam March - Max Samuel
How VC's view Startups
Mar 9, 2022 · 13 min
Season 6
Mentorcam March - Rune Hauge
Mentorcam - 1 on 1 expert advice
Mar 2, 2022 · 10 min
Season 6
Mentorcam March!
Talk with otherwise inaccessible mentors
Feb 23, 2022 · 1 min
Season 6 · Episode 5
S6 E5: Cracking Government Compliance: How Aceable Productized State-Mandated Learning with Blake Garrett
Required learning, with the ease of mobile
Feb 15, 2022 · 36 min
Season 5 · Episode 21
S5 E21: From Microsoft Technical Fellow to Startup Zero-to-One with Laura Butler of Uplift
Surfacing details of HOA's... pre-offer
Nov 2, 2021 · 47 min
Season 5
S5 Bonus: Engineering an Infinite Runway: Anthony Castrio on Bootstrapping Indie Worldwide
Online community for indie builders
Oct 29, 2021 · 21 min
Season 5
S5 Bonus: How to Architect Trustworthy, Multi-Modal AI Systems with Seekar’s Kordel France
AI around Explainability, Mobility & Ethics
Oct 21, 2021 · 35 min
Season 3
S3 Bonus: The Robinhood for Pop Culture: How Mythic Markets Engineered Fractional Investing with Joe + Tony
Turning Geeky Assets into Publicly Traded Companies
Nov 17, 2020 · 24 min
Season 3 · Episode 1
S3 E1: Building the IMDb of Podcasts: Solving Audio Discovery with Cole Raven of Podchaser
The IMDB for Podcasts
Jul 21, 2020 · 32 min
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