On this episode, I interview Sam Whitaker, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Mural Health. Mural Health is a clinical trials technology company that is dedicated to making it easy to be a participant in clinical trials. Mural Health’s technology platform, Mural Link, is a patient-first technology that is primarily designed to benefit the study participant but also improves site operations and drives critical strategic value to study sponsors. Prior to Mural Health, Sam founded Greenphire, a leading pro...
Jul 11, 2023•53 min
On this episode, I interview Dave Becker, Co-Founder & CEO of CampusESP. CampusESP is your all-in-one solution for college parent engagement. CampusESP turns parents into partners and is focused on student success. CampusESP makes it easy to keep the most important influencers of students informed, their families. From impacting enrollment, to student success, to annual giving, keeping parents effectively engaged has proven to be critical for colleges and universities looking to better suppo...
Jun 27, 2023•44 min
On this episode, I interview Co-Founders T.J. Colaiezzi and Jemma Barbarise-Kelley of LifeBrand. LifeBrand is the world leader in AI social media detection. LifeBrand’s mission is to empower all social media users to reach their full potential by maintaining a meaningful digital presence. Their AI powered software and user dashboard makes it simple to curate a powerful personal brand by bringing potentially unprofessional or harmful posts to users' attention. With ease, users can keep, edit or d...
Jun 13, 2023•48 min
On this episode, I interview Mikal Harden, Co-Founder of Juno Search Partners. Juno Search Partners is a women-founded and women-led talent solutions firm working every day to connect the right people with the right kind of place. Juno is a team of experienced sourcers and recruiters specializing in assisting growing companies to build out their workforce through custom-built recruitment solutions. As the "Ultimate Connectors", Juno values the ability to bring many different perspectives to the ...
May 31, 2023•38 min
On this episode, I interview Jess Podgajny, Co-Founder & CEO of LLUNA. LLUNA is building the new operating system for hybrid and remote teams. The company's Team Operating System (TeamOS) is designed to deliver real-time insights through comprehensive Team Boards powered by personal operating profiles (POPs). By showcasing team dynamics, TeamOS helps leaders more effectively manage and empowers teams to optimize their ways of working. With LLUNA, teams can accelerate belonging and trust for ...
May 16, 2023•43 min
On this episode, I interview Nick Martin, Co-Founder & COO at Carbon Reform. Carbon Reform is designing the Carbon Capsule, a modular carbon dioxide capture device that helps building owners reduce CO2 and contaminant levels internally, while saving energy on heating and cooling. The Carbon Capsule goes into a building's return air duct and as air moves through the building, it diverts part of it into the capsule. The CO2 that is captured is then sequestered permanently onsite into calcium c...
May 02, 2023•39 min
On this episode, I interview Bruce Marable, Co-Founder & CEO at Employee Cycle. Employee Cycle combines disconnected workforce data from different HR systems into one user-friendly HR dashboard, empowering HR leaders to view, track, and analyze all their people data in one place. Employee Cycle’s approach to HR data management offers a cloud-based solution that automates end-to-end HR reporting and enables seamless communication between HR and leadership teams. With Employee Cycle, you don’t...
Apr 18, 2023•40 min
On this episode, I interview Michael Beauchamp, Founder and CEO of GO. GO is a cheaper and easier alternative to traditional car ownership. GO created a better business model that allows them to provide drivers the best car for the lowest payment. GO is the best parts of a lease, a rental, and a subscription. They removed all the things that add cost and frustration to traditional car buying. By combining technology, data science and fleet management, GO is able to increase efficiency and reduce...
Apr 03, 2023•34 min
On this episode, I interview Abe Kwon, Startup & VC Partner at Goodwin. Goodwin is a global law firm serving the innovators and the investors in a rapidly changing, technology-driven economy. Goodwin's Philadelphia office focuses on the life sciences, healthcare, and private equity industries, including where they converge with other sectors such as technology. Goodwin announced earlier this year that a team of 14 partners have joined the firm in its Life Sciences, Healthcare, Private Equity...
Mar 21, 2023•47 min
On this episode, I interview Catherine Griffin, Founder of ImpactableX. ImpactableX helps social entrepreneurs to quantify and forecast their social & environmental impact and drive capital towards the greatest good. ImpactableX is impact modeling for founders & funders. A digital suite of products that use the power of AI to define, quantify, forecast and report on social and environmental impact and direct capital towards the solutions that build a better world. The ImpactableX framewo...
Mar 06, 2023•44 min
On this episode, I interview Adit Gupta, Co-founder & CEO of Lula Convenience. Lula Convenience is a software company that enables delivery from convenience stores. They are building the operating system for the convenience industry with the goal to empower retailers to modernize and thrive. Today, Lula is giving stores the specialized technology, data, and customer success merchants need to serve customers. Lula enables independents and chains to compete with major corporations as the natio...
Feb 21, 2023•35 min
On this episode, I interview Ted Mann, Co-Founder and CEO of CollX. CollX (pronounced "collects") is the fastest way to find out what your trading cards are worth. Snap a pic and instantly get the current market price. Add them to your collection to track your overall portfolio, and buy, sell, and trade your cards with other collectors. CollX helps answer one of the most basic questions that any collector has: “What’s this worth?” The mobile app enables users to take a picture of a collectible, ...
Feb 07, 2023•37 min
On this episode, I interview Scott Nissenbaum, President and CEO of Ben Franklin Tech Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Ben Franklin Tech Partners is among the nation’s leading technology-based economic development programs. Covering the entire Commonwealth through four regional centers, BFTP accelerates the growth of technology-based industries in Pennsylvania. Ben Franklin Technology Partners operates as a 501 C-3 Corporation, using the tools and best practices of venture investment and t...
Jan 24, 2023•42 min
On this episode, I interview Justin Rosenberg, Founder & CEO of honeygrow. honeygrow is a Philadelphia-based fast casual restaurant chain that specializes in stir-fry, salads and honeybars (a delicious fruit-based treat). Made with only the highest quality ingredients, honeygrow's stir-fry, salads and honeybars offer the perfect combination of quick and healthy flavors to satisfy whatever you're craving for lunch, dinner, or a mid-day snack. Did you know honeygrow is a play on the phrase “ho...
Jan 10, 2023•38 min
On this episode, I interview Nathan Buchbinder, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Proscia. Proscia is a software company that is accelerating pathology’s transformation toward a data-driven discipline. Their digital pathology platform and powerful AI applications are unlocking new insights that accelerate discovery, improve patient outcomes, and fulfill the promise of precision care. Digital pathology is giving today’s forward-thinking pathology organizations the means to overcome our co...
Dec 15, 2022•41 min
On this episode, I interview Tracey Welson-Rossman, Founder and CEO of Journal My Health. Journal My Health helps people with chronic conditions tell their health stories to their health providers, for better health outcomes. Tracey brings her years of experience in the technology and entrepreneurial space, along with her own healthcare journey, to create Journal My Health for patients. Tracey has played an integral role in strengthening the Philadelphia startup and technology communities during...
Dec 01, 2022•32 min
On this episode, I interview Keith Leaphart, Founder of Philanthropi. Philanthropi is leading the next generation of philanthropy through its innovative giving platform, which democratizes giving for everyone and amplifies its impact. They foster new levels of engagement by tapping into the largest donor segment – the everyday philanthropist. Listen to Keith share his career journey from medical school to the entrepreneur he is today, how meeting his mentor Gerry Lenfest shaped his career, and h...
Nov 17, 2022•38 min
On this episode, I sit down with Ali Bonar, CEO & Co-Founder of Oat Haus. Oat Haus has created the world's first oat-based spread — Granola Butter. Granola Butter has the texture of a nut butter & tastes like liquid oatmeal cookies. Plus — it's nut-free, gluten-free, organic & vegan. Listen to Ali share her story creating Oat Haus, her determination that got them into Whole Foods early on, her experience being on Shark Tank and how she managed the company through a rebrand. Try it yo...
Nov 03, 2022•51 min
On this episode, I interview Mike Petrakis, Founder and CEO of Bach. BACH is the leading group travel platform for bachelor and bachelorette experiences. Their focus is on inspiring adventure while reducing the inherent pain points of group travel related to accommodations, activities, nightlife, payments, logistics, and beyond. Listen to Mike share his journey of being an entrepreneur, how planning surf trips with his friends sparked the idea for Bach, and how he plans on disrupting the group t...
Oct 20, 2022•35 min
On this episode, I interview Carolyn Mooney, Co-founder and CEO of Nextmv. Nextmv is a developer platform for automating and optimizing decisions from vehicle routing to workforce scheduling and beyond — allowing you to make better decisions with the time and resources you have. Nextmv is the first real-time, end to end decision automation platform. It makes it easier to build, test, deploy, and operate custom decision services for any use case. Listen to Carolyn share her experience from her ea...
Oct 06, 2022•44 min
On this episode, I interview Adam Pardes, Co-founder and COO of NeuroFlow. NeuroFlow is a digital health company combining workflow automation, patient engagement solutions and services, and applied AI to promote behavioral health integration in all care settings. With NeuroFlow, health care organizations can finally bridge the gap between mental and physical health in order to improve outcomes and reduce the cost of care. Listen to Adam share his journey building NeuroFlow, how he navigated sev...
Sep 22, 2022•43 min
On this episode, I talk with Alex Kane, CEO and Founder of Sporttrade. Sporttrade is a Philadelphia-based sports betting and trading company poised to disrupt the sports betting industry with the first legal sports betting exchange in United States history. Their mission is to elevate the sports betting industry, and provide a truly inclusive platform designed for all sports bettors. Built just like a financial exchange, their platform allows customers to trade on sports outcomes by buying and s...
Sep 08, 2022•39 min
On this episode, I sit down with Co-founders Josh Mastromatto and Brandon Castagna of Rego. Rego is a hassle-free marketplace to sell, donate, and responsibly dispose of second-hand furniture. Their mission is to build cleaner communities across the world by first reducing the amount of furniture that ends up in landfills or dumped on the street. Listen to Josh and Brandon share their story about how they met, the importance of diversity of thought and how they turned local Philly clean up group...
Aug 25, 2022•39 min
On this episode, I interview Carl Starkey, CEO and Co-founder of AWSM Sauce. AWSM Sauce is on a mission to change the sauce game forever. Listen to Carl's career journey from Minnesota to Philadelphia, how a lacrosse career led him to meeting his future Co-founder and their experience getting chosen for Techstars and Fox's Billion Dollar Idea. AWSM Sauce is a food-based sustainability company focused on eliminating single use plastic bottles from the kitchen - this is a critical problem for our ...
Aug 11, 2022•39 min
