The oura ring is a wearable device created by a group of finnish entrepreneurs. It is one of the most incredible wearable devices developed up until this day and has more than one million users world wide. Leading CEOs, athletes, founders or biohackers are using the oura ring to track sleep and recovery. It is widely considered to be the best sleep tracker available. On this episode we are talking with Petteri Lahtela who is one of the Co-Founders and the founding CEO of Oura Health, the company...
Feb 27, 2022•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 96
Julian is an amazing young entrepreneur out of the Netherlands who invented a sleep robot to help his mother with her insomnia, eventually turning it into a leading start-up within the sleep tech space. Together with Julian we talk about the science of sleep and the global scale of sleep problems as well as the building of his company somnox and the way they collect different types of data to analyze sleep and behavior. This episode is a special one as we had to reschedule last minute because Ju...
Feb 04, 2022•58 min•Ep. 95
Sophie is the CEO and Founder of Qunomedical. On this episode Sophie shares her story from being trained as a doctor in Austria to joining McKinsey and later a Digital Health start-up in New York. We dive deep into the business model of Qunomedical and the underlying problems of healthcare systems. Sophie is an incredible woman who balances the life of a founder and mother.
Jan 26, 2022•40 min•Ep. 94
Ignas Survila is a Lithuanian entrepreneur and the Co-Founder of Tyler Health. Tyler uses a Continuous Glucose Monitor to provide biometric data on how your body reacts to different foods and activities. (00:00) - Ignas talking about his first venture in Switzerland (21:53) - The case for continuous glucose monitoring (46:55) - Scaling wearables into society (57:00) - Tyler Health's user and market focus (01:12:10) - Hardware Innovation is hard (01:20:18) - Lithuania and Eastern Europe Start-Up ...
Jan 23, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 93
Robin is the co-founder and Managing Director of delphai, a software company that has developed an AI-based B2B search engine. In addition, Dr. Tech is a member of the economic advisory board of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party and senior researcher at the Hasso Plattner Institute and MIT, with a focus on complex systems and financial models. Together with Robin we talked about his path towards becoming a founder as well as the fundamentals behind the B2B SaaS product he and his team are buildi...
Jan 19, 2022•28 min•Ep. 92
Allon Bloch is a serial entrepreneur. Joining the early founding team of WIX as Co-CEO back in 2008 he went on to co-founding Vroom (IPOed in 2020) and KHealth his latest venture, the latter having raised over $200 million to date. Allon is a great guy who has lots of experience to share from building incredible businesses. Our conversation mostly evolved around the complexity of medicine and what it means to build an intelligence layer on top of it, which at times went pretty philosophical. Med...
Jan 16, 2022•36 min•Ep. 91
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are launching our new format "InsideSCR". For this format Jonathan and Rajarshi (Raj) Chakraborty are sitting down bi-weekly to discuss: - News, trends and topics they care about in business, tech and beyond. - Unlocking great ideas, stories, facts and data basically providing you with great research at your fingertips. EPISODE OUTLINE: (00:00) - 2021 Review (22:28) - Plans and Upcoming Guests for SPEED CHANGE REPEAT (55:08) - EU VC Landscape...
Jan 14, 2022•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 90
Marlon is an incredible individual with an amazing story from being a founder to running a €125 million venture capital fund and building up a foundation focused on wildlife preservation in Africa. Together with Marlon we are talking about his story on getting into venture capital as well as diving into the insights behind the Elevat3 fund as they keep themselves mostly under the radar. We also touch upon start-up trends and Marlon's recent investment interests such as alternative proteins or co...
Jan 12, 2022•52 min•Ep. 89
Marek Sacha describes himself as a geek, however his track record in building ventures underlines the great entrepreneur he is. S tarting his first business in high school and studying mathematics and AI set him up to build businesses in different industries, which have been incredible successes such as Rohlik Group and Cera Care. Together with Marek we touch on different topics taking advantage of his great expertise from building and scaling ventures in the e-commerce, digital health and indus...
Jan 08, 2022•50 min•Ep. 88
Eugene has spent more than two decades in the healthcare industry taking on different shoes by both driving digital health in pharma, consulting and being an entrepreneur. Among the many things he has been involved in, he used to be the global head of Bayer's digital health partnership and investment arm G4A. Being a US citizen he had the opportunity to live in multiple countries, which allowed him to see similarities and differences in the developments of the digital health space from a geograp...
Jan 04, 2022•40 min•Ep. 87
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT podcast we dove deep into the massive industry of semiconductors. Andreas Schumacher ist the executive vice president responsible for strategy and the M&A activities at Infineon Technologies, which is one of the top ten companies globally for semiconductors. We unfold the scale at which the industry impacts the global economy and its implications for the future. Together with Andreas we tackled the industry talking about its set-up, challenges and m...
Dec 06, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 86
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are happy to host Mike Granoff who has been involved at the intersection of technology and transportation since the early 2000s. In 2015 Mike started the venture capital firm Maniv Mobility out of Tel Aviv with the mission to back founders who are changing the way people and goods move. Since then Mike and his team have invested into over thirty companies spanning five continents. Together with Mike we dove right into all the hot topics aroun...
Nov 17, 2021•48 min•Ep. 85
Ernesto is an amazing serial entrepreneur we had the chance to host on the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT podcast. Ernesto started his first venture disrupting the music industry when he was 27 in the dotcom era and went on to found multiple ventures through out the years. Two of his ventures were acquired by Snapchat and Twitter. It was an honor to have him on the show as his experience in being a founder and working with countless founding teams is incredible. Together with his co-founder Ernesto establi...
Nov 07, 2021•47 min•Ep. 84
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are hosting Beena Ammanath who has an impressive track record working in Tech within the Bay Area, non-traditionally for some of the biggest corproates in this world. Before joining Deloitte's AI institute she oversaw Data Science and Innovation at companies such as Bank of America, GE and HP. Beyond that she is the founder of the NGO "Humans for AI", which aims to increase the number of women and under-represented minorities in AI with educa...
Oct 28, 2021•41 min•Ep. 83
On this episode we had the pleasure to speak with Jeanne Shen, assistant professor of pathology at Stanford University. Jeanne started to engage in doing AI research within pathology after being introduced to Andrew Ng. Her initial motivation to start with AI as she claims, was getting more efficiency out of her work within pathology. Together with Jeanne we are diving deeper into the wider spectrum of pathology and GI research and the massive potential for applying AI. Jeanne also shares her pe...
Oct 16, 2021•32 min•Ep. 82
Yet another amazing founder story on the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast as we host Naftali Harris. Naftali was the first Data Scientist brought in by Max Levchin at Affirm and has some amazing stories to tell. Together with one of his colleagues at Affirm he went on to start SentiLink with the goal to stop synthetic fraud. Tune in as we talk with Naftali about his experiences and incredible story from working in data science to becoming a founder!
Oct 08, 2021•31 min•Ep. 81
Today we are talking with Daniel Grubbs who is the managing director of the Pepsi Group's Venture Fund. We are covering the investment areas of the fund and major trends within the nutrition and health space such as cube based food for pure nutrition focused intake. Daniel is sharing his opinion on the shifts within food & beverages as we tackle D2C and the long term opportunities for influencer brands. Lastly we touch upon the changing work flows when it comes to investing into startups in ...
Sep 20, 2021•36 min•Ep. 80
In this episode of the SCR Podcast we are talking with serial entrepreneur and robotics expert Paolo Pirjanian. Paolo has had an incredible journey throughout his career starting at NASA after obtaining a PhD in Robotics in Denmark and going on to work on a startup, which eventually got acquired by iRobot and led him to become CTO at iRobot before starting Embodied. Together with Paolo we dive deep into his personal journey and his experience building robotics start ups as well as the opportunit...
Sep 01, 2021•47 min•Ep. 79
After our summer break we are starting with a super interesting guest who is the Co-Founder and Global Head of the the BIOME, which is the innovation lab of biotech and Pharma giant Novartis. Jacob LaPorte started his career with a PhD in Biochemistry at Harvard University working on the optimization of drug discovery. In this episode we are talking about Jacob's journey and the story behind Novartis approach on building and pushing innovation capabilities. We cover the challenges of acceleratin...
Aug 08, 2021•47 min•Ep. 78
We recorded this episode a while ago together with Daniele and talked with him about his journey in leading the digital transformation at the Swedish multinational with close to a 100.000 employees and an annual turnover of around 45 billion Euro. The Volvo Group is a massive manufacturing company with products, which bear massive opportunities for the application of digital technologies. Together with Daniele we talked about the digital strategy of the company and the most important projects. W...
Jun 26, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 77
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are talking with Jeff Kaditz who is a serial entrepreneur and currently is building his latest start-up Q Bio. Jeff is a super motivational guy who is taking us along his entrepreneurial journey. On this episode we are talking about his early days after grad school and are getting philosophical about what it means to be an entrepreneur besides the glorification in todays world. Together with Jeff we are diving into the early days of founding ...
Jun 05, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 76
This is a great conversation we recorded with Oren Etzioni who serves as the CEO at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, which was founded in 2014 by Paul G. Allen who is known for being a Co-Founder of Microsoft, investor and philanthropist. The AI2 was founded with the mission of conducting high-impact AI research and engineering in service of the common good. Headquartered in Seattle on the shores of Lake Union, AI2 employs over 150 of the world’s best scientific and engineering t...
May 17, 2021•47 min•Ep. 75
Michael Snyder is one of the leading genetics professors in the world based at Stanford University. Together with Michael we had the chance to discuss topics around personalized medicine. We are diving deep into the promises and hype that has evolved around the term through out the past years and tackle the status quo and recent work that Michael and his lab have covered in the past years. Beyond that we are also diving deeper into the challenges of discovering digital biomarkers and data collec...
May 02, 2021•38 min•Ep. 74
Among many other topics, for the past year we have extremely focused on looking at the Health Tech space and were looking at the intersection of different fields such as the natural sciences and activities happening in the deep tech space. On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are happy to talk with Christian Weiss who is the Managing Partner at Heal Capital, a €100m fund with the goal to invest into the next European technology-enabled healthcare champions. Together with Chris w...
Apr 16, 2021•35 min•Ep. 73
One of the few episodes we have done in person in the last few months. We were fortunate enough to visit the global innovation center/hub of DHL in Germany and got an insight into the different activities and initiatives pushed by the global logistics corporate. Together with Matthias we talked about the strategic approach his team is using to go from proof of concept into production and setting up deep tech projects with different customers. Obviously we talked about resilience and how DHL mana...
Apr 04, 2021•51 min•Ep. 72
We are happy to have Dirk Hoke on the show who is the CEO of Airbus Defence & Space. Together with Dirk we are talking about the different innovation projects his company is pursuing in order to stay at the forefront. We also extensively get an understanding of Dirk's view on digital initiatives and corporate digitalization strategies. We are also covering the journey of UP42 a geospatial data marketplace and analytics platform, which started out as a spin off from the corporate. Beyond that...
Mar 26, 2021•44 min•Ep. 71
Super happy to host JJ on this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast who at the time of the recording of this episode is the AFWERX Chief Technology and Innovation Officer. She serves as the military representative for technology outreach and engagement, bridging the gap between government and various technology communities to improve collaboration and communications, foster a culture of innovation, identify smart solutions to wicked problems and guide the development of future technologies...
Mar 05, 2021•57 min•Ep. 70
On this episode we are talking about the global space race with Frank Salzgeber who is the head of innovation & ventures office at the European Space Agency (ESA). We are talking about the increasing importance of the space sector on a global level, the start up scene in Europe and the strengths and weaknesses of the ecosystem compared to the US and China. Tune ind and subscribe to the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast for new weekly episodes!
Feb 26, 2021•36 min•Ep. 69
On this episode we are talking with Jim Adler who is the Founding Managing Director of Toyota's early stage fund, Toyota AI Ventures. It was great having Jim on the show as we previously covered a lot of topics on the application of AI within mobility. Together with Jim we talked about the VC industry and the idea behind Toyota AI Ventures. We are covering topics around corporate innovation tools and corporate venture capital. Tune in and subscribe to the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast for a new ep...
Feb 19, 2021•54 min•Ep. 68
This is a wonderful conversation we had with Xihong Lin back in the end of November for the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast. Xihong is a biostatistics professor at Harvard who since the outbreak of Covid-19 has done some amazing research with her team, which resulted in critical insights when it comes to the spreading of the virus as well as intervention procedures. Together with her team she partnered up in the early days of the virus to study its effects and the measures that were taken in China. ...
Feb 09, 2021•51 min•Ep. 67
