An award-winning designer and MIT alum, Christine is the CEO of Everydae , the world's smartest digital tutor. Previously she was the Chief Product Officer at Veritas Prep (sold in 2018) where she incubated and launched the adaptive learning platform, ORION (33% MoM growth). Prior to this, she led the product and design team at DogVacay (sold to Rover.com) and the innovation department at Deutsch. She also invented the electric bike, the Copenhagen Wheel, a TIME Magazine Best Invention. Everydae...
Sep 02, 2020•51 min
Thomas is Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Prevu , a customer-focused digital home buying platform delivering industry-leading efficiency and savings. Frustrated over the lack of control and transparency he experienced throughout the home-buying process, he launched Prevu in 2017 with his good friend, Chase Marsh, to establish a smarter way to transact. Before Prevu, Thomas spent 12 years working at highly established asset management firms in both the US and Europe, where he gained valuable experience ...
Sep 01, 2020•48 min
René Graham is the founder and CEO of Renzoe Box , the next-generation makeup platform and first makeup storage & pod system designed to replace your entire makeup bag. Renzoe Box is a customizable beauty kit combining your favorite brands' makeup products into one sustainable compact. A native of Texas, René Graham holds a Master in Architecture from the Rice University School of Architecture, where she completed her thesis work with Eva Franch Gilabert, Director of the Architectural Associ...
Aug 31, 2020•51 min
Zubin Bhettay is the co-founder and CEO of Fuzzy Pet Health . Zubin strives to make better pet health care accessible to dogs and cats of all ages. He gets excited about leveraging technology, better working practices and new business models to make the world a better place. Zubin thrives working with high-performing teams towards a common goal on things that seem improbable until they've made it happen. Fuzzy is a subscription-based pet health company with a mission to make veterinary care more...
Aug 30, 2020•44 min
Guy Friedman is the co-founder and CEO of SteadyMD , a technology company and healthcare provider that enables members and doctors to pair up, collaborate, and develop long-term personal relationships, completely online. The SteadyMD Matching Engine evaluates each new member and doctor across hundreds of medical, fitness, and lifestyle attributes to help spark a connection and pair them up successfully. The company offers services for Primary Care, Functional Medicine, Pediatric Care, and Employ...
Aug 29, 2020•48 min
Will Houghteling is the founder and CEO of Strive , helping emerging leaders reach their full potential through personalized and practical management training. Strive's mission is to empower working professionals to find meaning, belonging and opportunity at work. Strive was founded on the belief that transforming managers into leaders is an essential first step to building the more just, inclusive, equitable workplace and world we hope to inhabit. Will is an analytical and conscientious leader ...
Aug 28, 2020•58 min
Alex Wheldon the Co-Founder of Rho Business Banking Alex is a 3x time entrepreneur and was the founder and CEO of Kanary, Europe’s first DMP/DSP, which was acquired in 2014. Alex was previously CPO at Lyst, a fashion marketplace with over 65 million customers, and CPO at Smarkets, a betting platform that he helped grow to over $2 billion in transactions per year in less than 12 months. Alex’s ventures have raised over $100m in venture capital from firms like Draper Esprit, LVMH, Accel, Oxford Ca...
Aug 27, 2020•45 min
Ennie Lim is a social entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of HoneyBee , the result of her journey through personal financial challenges. The majority of employees HoneyBee serves are women, people of color, or both. They are providing support for issues that disproportionately affect these marginalized groups. Systemic barriers to financial health exist all around us. It’s up to employers to acknowledge this and take a step towards equality. Ennie is passionate about diversity and inclusion ...
Aug 26, 2020•36 min
Amanda Greenberg is the co-founder and CEO of Balloon , which she founded with her partner Noah in 2015. Balloon is the world's first insight mobility platform. Balloon brings behavioral science and technology expertise together to unlock the true value of collaboration by removing cognitive bias, group dynamics, and fears. Organizations are able to share and vote on input anonymously, which eliminates costly biases, increases thought diversity, and amplifies the strongest insights from their te...
Aug 25, 2020•54 min
Akash Magoon is the co-founder and CTO of Nayya , an AI platform that simplifies insurance decisions for business leaders and benefits managers--and improves the healthcare experience for individual employees. Nayya uses AI and data science to personalize the way that employees choose and use their benefits. Nayya helps employees promote their health and wellbeing, while maximizing financial wellness. Nayya is backed by Social Leverage, Guardian Strategic Ventures, Cameron Ventures, and Soma Cap...
Aug 24, 2020•51 min
Susanne Mitschke is the co-founder and CEO of Citruslabs, an end-to-end solution for patient recruitment and retention. 86% of clinical trials don't meet their patient targets on time, despite spending billions on ads every year. Citruslabs is fixing this broken industry through a patient-first approach by streamlining patient recruitment and retention in order to change the future of medical research for the better. Citruslabs’ three founders met at graduate school in Glasgow, Scotland and foun...
Aug 23, 2020•43 min
Cenk Sidar is the co-founder and CEO of GlobalWonks , a technology-enabled marketplace that connects private and public enterprises, from Fortune 100 companies to leading universities, with experts who understand the world. GlobalWonks does this through three core products: a one hour call, a deep-dive report, and a real-time expert sourced Q&A tool, Network Pulse™. Their vision is to fundamentally change the way investors and decision-makers gain global knowledge by providing a responsive a...
Aug 22, 2020•53 min
Sean Mitchell is the co-founder and CEO of REZI . REZI is a rapidly growing & diverse company with the mission of revolutionizing the rental experience. Renting has always been an expensive and inconvenient process for tenants and time-consuming and uncertain for landlords. Technology companies hadn’t moved the needle in solving these key problems – until REZI. REZI’s proprietary technology has transformed the way tenants and landlords rent apartments. REZI is the only rental marketplace whe...
Aug 21, 2020•50 min
Madeline Fraser is the founder and CEO of Gemist . She is a serial entrepreneur and big thinker who loves creating consumer facing technology that solves a big problem. Over the past five years she has created and grown multiple start-ups. Raising millions in funding for ideas she believes will make our world so much easier. She started her first company while attending George Washington University in 2013, called Zoom Interiors. It was the first online interior design company that let you work ...
Aug 20, 2020•56 min
Ira Green is the founder and CEO of Freedom , a natural deodorant company. When Ira's 3 friends were diagnosed with breast cancer and were told to switch to natural products, Ira had the hardest time finding a natural deodorant that worked, smelled good or even looked good. So she created one that did all three! Freedom luxury natural deodorant can now be found in 300+ spas nationwide, including the Four Seasons Spas and Canyon Ranch Spas. Connect with Ira Green Freedom Instagram Facebook Twitte...
Aug 19, 2020•52 min
Prasanna Krishnamoorthy is a co-founder and partner at Upekkha , a Value SaaS Accelerator working with B2B SaaS startups to get through the valley of death, to a place with predictable, scalable, profitable growth. Whether you want to build a $10M revenue business or the next $1B SaaS unicorn, Upekkha helps you accelerate. Prasanna previously worked intensely with 120+ startups to make them LARGE at Microsoft Accelerator India and picked the right startups for Investors & Microsoft. As a fou...
Aug 18, 2020•54 min
Sean Salas is the CEO and Co-Founder of Camino Financial , a FinTech platform pioneering access to affordable credit to underbanked Latinx businesses. He is often featured as a commentator discussing FinTech and Latino entrepreneurship, including appearances on Univision, CNN, and Discovery Channel. Sean also sits on the board of two non-profit organizations, the US-Mexico Foundation and the Harvard Business School Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA). Sean co-founded Camino Financial with his twi...
Aug 17, 2020•58 min
John Fagan is co-founder and CEO of Doorkee , making NYC apartment seeking easier and cheaper for everyone. After a challenging experience with moving, John and his co-founder Jordan Franklin began building Doorkee in 2017. Doorkee is a New York based startup aimed at solving one of urban living's biggest hassles--apartment hunting. They're creating a peer-to-peer marketplace to reshape how and when apartment renting happens. Doorkee helps landlords increase their revenues by decreasing vacancy ...
Aug 16, 2020•54 min
Lillian Rafson, founder and CEO of Pack Up + Go , launched the business in January 2016 at 23 years old. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, and a graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School with a major in Consumer Culture, Lillian has always had a passion for travel and supporting small businesses. Without raising a dollar, Lillian has grown Pack Up + Go to a multi-million-dollar business with 10 full-time employees. She has been honored as a member of the inaugural Pittsburgh Business Times...
Aug 15, 2020•54 min
Javier Laval, founder of FutureStream , is the ultimate creative director and entrepreneur. If you have attended one of his infamous JL Events in Hollywood entertaining top celebrities, athletes, and trendsetters then you will realize quickly that he is connected to the key influencers in music, fashion, sports, and entertainment. Truestar Media, his marketing company, has worked on major creative campaigns for companies such as Nike, Boost Mobile, Pony, Nooka, and many more. Javier’s background...
Aug 14, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Drew Sterrett is the co-founder and CEO of LEX , a commercial real estate securities marketplace for all investors and real estate owners. Drew and his co-founders, Dean Sterrett and Jesse Daugherty, began LEX in 2017. With LEX, you can diversify into commercial real estate properties with the potential to earn passive income and build wealth $100 at a time. LEX makes real estate investing simple by providing investors the freedom to purchase into individual commercial real estate properties thr...
Aug 13, 2020•46 min
David Potter is the co-founder and CEO of Curu . Curu’s mission is to flip the entire credit system upside down and help the people that need credit the most reach their goals. Curu helps lenders expand their total available market, reduce their customer acquisition costs and fund more loans by building their applicant’s eligibility. David Potter, a Bill Gates Scholar, and Abb Kapoor were randomly assigned freshman year roommates at the University of Maryland. When they applied for off-campus ho...
Aug 12, 2020•54 min
Jesse Horwitz is co-founder and co-CEO at Hubble , one of America’s fastest-growing direct-to-consumer e-commerce companies. Horwitz and co-founder Ben Cogan earned spots on Forbes ’s 30 Under 30 list in 2016 and over the past two years have extended Hubble’s footprint around the world. Horwitz wrote and published Selling Naked, a how-to and guidance book on direct-to-consumer marketing. Horwitz is also co-founder at Mockingbird, a baby stroller brand, and BZR, a one-stop shop DTC platform, as w...
Aug 11, 2020•45 min
Nancy is the CEO and Founder of PathMatch , a platform that matches students to in-demand careers, helps them prepare, and then connects them to top employers. She’s also a Talent Partner at Hypothesis Ventures, a Venture Capital firm, where she advises high-growth companies on hiring. Prior to this, she was former CEO of FILD , a recruiting firm that connects top talent to some of the most well-respected companies around the country. After spending two decades helping companies hire, she notice...
Aug 10, 2020•53 min
Cole Zucker is the Co-Founder and former Co-CEO of Green Creative , a company that offers a comprehensive line of high-performance LED lighting solutions that have been widely adopted by some of the largest companies in the world. After graduating from college, Cole moved to Shanghai, China where he met his business partner, Guillaume Vidal. In 6 years, they took the company from $0 to $60 million in revenue and eventually decided to sell the business. Cole and his wife Katie have since started ...
Aug 09, 2020•52 min
Micah Green is the Founder, President and CEO of Maidbot , an industrial automation company on a mission to bridge the gap between robots and humans - starting with Rosie - the world's very first housekeeping robot for hotels and commercial buildings. Like a self-driving car, Rosie navigates intelligently through the space while cleaning floors and collecting invaluable operational and environmental data. Maidbot's automated systems deliver unprecedented value to hotel operators, room attendants...
Aug 08, 2020•48 min
Kristi Ebong is the Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy for Orbita , the leading conversational AI platform for healthcare. Orbita’s award-winning, HIPAA-compliant conversational AI platform powers voice and chat solutions for healthcare and life sciences organizations that improve patient engagement, increase clinical efficiency, and improve outcomes. Customers include innovative organizations like Mass General Brigham, Mayo Clinic, Amwell, Yale New Haven Hospital, Cancer Treatment Cent...
Aug 07, 2020•36 min
Zuleyka Strasner is the Founder and CEO of Zero , providing zero-waste groceries delivered fast, all to fit with their mission of removing single-use plastics from the food system. They architected a way to save the oceans while eating cleaner, healthier, and cheaper than ever before, and are leading the zero-plastic movement, one pantry at a time. Zero is fighting against the notion that convenience and environmentalism don't go together, and is proving that you can have what you want, when you...
Aug 06, 2020•57 min
Eric Martell is a founder at Pear Commerce , which simplifies retail marketing by connecting CPG advertisements directly with retailers. Their mission is to provide complete transparency from the click of an ad to the purchase of a product. Eric is also a Venture Partner at Gener8tor , and was Managing Director of Gener8tor Minnesota until September 2018. Gener8tor is a nationally ranked accelerator, with 76 investments to date. Before Gener8tor, he co-founded EatStreet , a startup that powers t...
Aug 05, 2020•54 min
Ish Jindal is the co-founder and CEO of Tars , a company that helps marketers increase their PPC and paid ad conversion rate by 50-200% using chatbots and conversational landing pages. On a Conversational Landing Page, visitors are greeted with an automated chatbot which starts a more human-like conversation on text, gives them only the relevant information about your product/service and asks them for their contact information at the right time. With this approach users don't get overwhelmed by ...
Aug 04, 2020•48 min
