Kyle Hanslovan is the Founder of Huntress, a software company whose mission is to help Managed Service Providers (MSPs) quickly detect advanced cyber threats. With your endpoint agent and cloud-based analysis engine, you discover breaches before they cause downtime, costly cleanup, and damaged reputations. Huntress software deploys within seconds through the customers’ existing Remote Monitoring and Management software, hunts down infections that slip past their firewalls/antivirus, and creates ...
Nov 01, 2023•33 min•Season 3Ep. 24
James Evans is the Co-Founder of CommandBar, a software company that allows users to add a command bar to their app with one line of code, making it easy for them to learn and navigate their GUI. Commandbar has raised $23.8 million to date from Insight Partners with participation from existing investors Thrive Capital and BoxGroup. Where to find James Evans: • Website: CommandBar | AI-powered user assistance • LinkedIn: (2) James Evans | LinkedIn Where to find Hadi Radwan: • Newsletter: Principl...
Oct 30, 2023•31 min•Season 3Ep. 23
Travis Hedge is the co-founder of Vouch Insurance a provider of business insurance to startups and high-growth companies. In under 10 minutes, founders and finance teams can apply for coverage customized for their startup and industry vertical. Vouch offers 10+ lines of proprietary coverage, from General Liability, EPL, and D&O, to Cyber policies. As the underwriter of these insurance policies, Vouch removes any hidden third-party fees and handles all of the paperwork from start to finish. S...
Oct 27, 2023•26 min•Season 3Ep. 22
My guest today is Artem Harutyunyan the cofounder of Bardeen.ai, an AI workflow automation startup. Bardeen has raised to date $ 18.8 million from notable investors such as Insight Partners, 468 Capital, and FirstMark Capital. According to recent public data, Bardeen has close to 200k installations. Where to find Artem Harutyunyan: • Website: https://www.bardeen.ai/ • LinkedIn: Artem Harutyunyan | LinkedIn Where to find Hadi Radwan: • Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack • Link...
Oct 25, 2023•25 min•Season 3Ep. 21
Antton Pena, the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Flock Insurance, a UK Insurtech on a mission to make the world quantifiably safer with connected fleet insurance that enables and incentivizes safer driving. Flock started providing drone insurance, then commercial vehicle insurance. Essentially the company uses the telematics of cars so that the vehicle only triggers insurance cover when it’s moving, not when it’s sitting on the lot, incapable of causing any accidents. Flock has raised t...
Oct 19, 2023•26 min•Season 3Ep. 20
My guest today is Miguel Fernandez Larrea, the CEO and Co-founder of New York-based CapChase, a funding platform that offers founders nondilutive financing alternatives. Capchase offers a variety of tools on its platforms that give founders non-dilutive financing tools to fund their startups. It has two products—Capchase Grow—which enables recurring-revenue companies to access future capital upfront, and Capchase Pay, which is a buy now, pay later solution for B2B SaaS. Capchase has raised $120 ...
Oct 16, 2023•23 min•Season 3Ep. 19
My guest today is Gerald Kierce Iturrioz who founded Trustible with his Co-founder & CTO Andrew Gamin-Cheong. The company is an AI governance management platform that enables data science and compliance teams to manage and mitigate AI risk, build trust, comply with AI regulations and accelerate Responsible AI development. The company has raised over $1.8m from Harlem Capital, Vamos Ventures and angel investors. You can find Gerald on: (3) Gerald Kierce Iturrioz | LinkedIn You can find Trusti...
Oct 11, 2023•17 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Mohit Kumar is the Founder and CEO of Ultrahuman, which is helping health-conscious individuals achieve optimal metabolic health through a blood sugar sensor and a ring. Ultrahuman has raised to date $30 million. If you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe and support us on your favorite podcast players. We also would appreciate your feedback and rating to reach more people. We recently launched our new newsletter, Principles Friday , where I share one principle that can help ...
Oct 05, 2023•32 min•Season 3Ep. 17
My guest today is Jiaqi Pan, the CEO and Co-founder of Barcelona-based Landbot, a “no-code” chatbot builder, which has raised more than $10.2 million led by Swanlaab, alongside support from Spain’s innovation-focused public agency, CDTI. Previous investors Nauta Capital, Encomenda, and Bankinter also participated in the round. According to recent public data, it has grown to ~3,500 paying customers, with some 70,000 individuals now using its tool (across both free and paid accounts). You can fin...
Oct 03, 2023•27 min•Season 3Ep. 16
My guest today is Alex Leonardi, the CEO and Co-founder of VectorShift, a Developer of a no-code platform intended to help developers build and deploy generative AI workflows. The company's platform empowers businesses to easily create custom generative AI workflows that can be used for a variety of purposes, such as responding to requests for proposals (RFP), writing proposals, and generating customer support chatbots, enabling businesses to automate tasks, improve productivity, and better...
Sep 27, 2023•23 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Sterling Snow is the former Chief Revenue Officer at Divvy, which raised €380m to date from Andreessen Horowitz and Insight Partners. He is now a Venture Partner at Pelion Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm bent on exceeding the expectations of unapologetic entrepreneurs. This episode is sponsored by Gemography Are you struggling to find top developers in a competitive market? Gemography connects you with top-tier remote tech talent from untapped regions, all pre-vetted and in...
Sep 24, 2023•23 min•Season 3Ep. 14
My guest today is David Wiesen, the co-founder of Nextdoor, which operates a hyperlocal social networking service for neighborhoods. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California, by Nirav Tolia, Sarah Leary, Prakash Janakiraman, and David Wiesen. Nextdoor has built a platform that facilitates healthy neighborhood connections and conversations. Nextdoor has ~36 Million weekly active users or neighbors on the platform. With 63 Million users and over 280,000 neighborhoo...
Sep 20, 2023•46 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Blair Cohen is the Founder and President of AuthenticID , a disruptive and transformational AI-driven fraud prevention and identity company that has changed the identity-proofing process as we know it. AuthenticID, founded in 2001, provides 100% automated identity proofing and fraud detection solutions that are leveraged by companies and industries around the world, including top telecom/wireless, banking, fintech, background screening, identity, gig, retail, e-commerce, government, healthcare a...
Sep 15, 2023•26 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Avinash Sukhwani is the Co-founder of Payflow, a Spain-based salary-advance fintech with ambitions to evolve into an employee benefits company. The startup sells a salary-advance service to employers to offer their staff — charging companies a commission for the tech rather than levying a fee on users to withdraw a portion of their salary early. Payflow has raised $14 million from a mix of national and international funds, including Spain’s Seaya Ventures, a new backer of Payflow and Cathay Inno...
Sep 08, 2023•23 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Meeri Savolainen, the CEO, and co-founder of INZMO, Berlin-headquartered InsurTech, and a standout player in the insurtech field, specializing in embedded insurance solutions designed to cater to the needs of residential renters across Europe. Inzmo offers a variety of insurance products, including renters, electronics, liability, and home contents insurance, all delivered in a 100% digital format. Inzmo raised to date $7.9 million. If you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe ...
Sep 02, 2023•21 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Jacob Jolibois is the co-founder and Chief of Product at Check, an early-stage SaaS company helping home service operators streamline and automate their business. Check was founded 4+ years ago and has more than 15k users. You can find Jacob: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jolibois/ Newsletter: https://www.makingproductsense.com/ Website: https://www.hellocheck.co/ If you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe and support us on your favorite podcast players. We also would appreciat...
Aug 31, 2023•21 min•Season 3Ep. 9
My guest is Jimmy Soni, an American author, and former The Huffington Post managing editor. He is best known for A Mind at Play, his biography of Claude Shannon, and The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley. This is a masterclass episode on the skills, mentality, and stories of the greatest team ever built, The Paypal Mafia. You will learn on this episode: - Why it took Jimmy 6 years to write this amazing story - What is Peter Thiel's exceptional ski...
Aug 24, 2023•54 min•Season 3Ep. 8
My guest today is Chris Barton, the co-founder of Shazam, which was created due to Chris’ frustration with being unable to identify a song he heard while at a club in San Francisco in 1999. Shazam Entertainment has raised $143.5M. In 2018, Apple bought the music recognition startup and app Shazam for about $400 million. I doubt anyone who doesn’t like music hasn’t used Shazam. Chris Barton founded the app Shazam twenty years ago, in 2002, years before the iPod and iTunes had even been created. I...
Aug 21, 2023•39 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Waseem Daher is the CEO and co-founder of Pilot, specializing in bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for high-growth technology startups. He is a three-time entrepreneur with two successful exits: His first company, Ksplice, was acquired by Oracle in 2011, and his second, Zulip, was acquired by Dropbox in 2014. Pilot has raised $161.3M from 24 investors, including Empede Capital and Akkadian Ventures. You can find Waseem and Pilot at: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wdaher/ Newsletter: http...
Aug 19, 2023•31 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Tony Beltramelli is CEO and co-founder of Uizard, an easy-to-use drag-and-drop editor, and its AI features help users design and prototype user interfaces for web and mobile applications. Although commonly deployed as a UI design solution, Uizard's powerful AI capabilities can assist with a wide range of tasks, from heatmap prediction to text generation and UI theme creation. Uizard's AI features allow users to generate UI designs from text prompts, convert hand-drawn sketches into wir...
Aug 16, 2023•23 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Will Nitze is the Founder of IQbar, plant protein bars, IQMIX® hydration sticks, and IQJOE® instant coffees packed with functional compounds to help you win your day. What stands out about your brand is its bright, fun, and youthful colors. You launched the company in 2017 and have raised $10 million to date. If you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe and support us on your favorite podcast players. We also would appreciate your feedback and rating to reach more people. We re...
Aug 10, 2023•27 min•Season 3Ep. 4
David Dodson is an author, successful serial entrepreneur, a board member of more than 40 companies, a former McKinsey & Company consultant, and an active investor in over 100 businesses. He is on Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business faculty, where he draws on his real-world experience to guide students in tactical execution. He is a recent recipient of the MSx Teaching Excellence Award, and co-founder of Sanku, which has improved the health of over 5 million people across rural...
Aug 06, 2023•27 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Tony Jamous is the CEO and Co-founder of Oyster, a distributed HR platform that empowers companies to hire, pay, and care for talented teammates regardless of location. Oyster is on a mission to create a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere. Oyster has raised to date $225 million, and last year surpassed a $1 billion valuation after closing a $150 million Series C round led by Georgian. If you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscr...
Aug 03, 2023•28 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Roy Wellner is the co-founder of Augment, an alternative MBA program taught by very notable founders such as the Founder of Wikipedia, Shazam, and Lime, to name a few. Augment has raised $2.7 million to date. If you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe and support us on your favorite podcast players. We also would appreciate your feedback and rating to reach more people. We recently launched our new newsletter, Principles Friday , where I share one principle that can help you ...
Jul 31, 2023•18 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Lilit Davtyan is the CEO of Phonexa, a software company that provides brand marketing all-in-one solutions for calls, leads, clicks, email SMS, and more. Your company is fully bootstrapped and has reached more than $200 million in annual revenue. If you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe and support us on your favorite podcast players. We also would appreciate your feedback and rating to reach more people. We recently launched our new newsletter, Principles Friday , where I ...
Jul 27, 2023•20 min•Season 2Ep. 50
Rootd founder Ania Wysocka shares the secrets of how she managed to take her panic attack and anxiety relief app to over 2.5 million downloads with no outside capital and without hiring a single employee. You can find Ania Wysock: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ania-wys/ Rootd: https://www.rootd.io/ If you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe and support us on your favorite podcast players. We also would appreciate your feedback and rating to reach more people. We recently launch...
Jul 25, 2023•16 min•Season 2Ep. 49
Amol Sarva is a serial entrepreneur, advisor, and mentor at 70+ companies; He has co-founded several startups, including Virgin Mobile USA, Peek, Halo Neuroscience, Knotable, Knotel, and he has developed and taught the course "Venturing to Change the World" at Columbia University. He entered the Museum of Failure with a crazy gadget called Peek. Now he spends his time with amazing new things like Aikito and CornerUp, investing in climate and longevity through LifeX ventures. He has rai...
Jul 20, 2023•42 min•Season 2Ep. 48
Rabih Ataya is the CEO and founder of Bayt.com, which is the Middle East's #1 job site, connecting job seekers with employers for the past 22 years. Bayt, which raised $3 million (Dh11m) in 2000, was the only funding round – and the company has been profitable since then. Rabea started Bayt.com 23 years ago, and the company employs 650 people with +15 offices across the region and serves more than 35 million professionals and 40,000 employers. If you like our podcast, please don't forg...
Jul 18, 2023•28 min•Season 2Ep. 47
Roei Ganzarski is the CEO of Alitheon, an Optical AI technology company designed to trace the lifecycle of goods without labels, markings, or packaging to solve the $3 trillion counterfeiting market. Alitheon has developed FeaturePrint® technology which digitizes physical objects for irrefutable identification, authentication, and tracing and eliminates misidentification and misuse of items. Alitheon has raised Raising a $30 million Series A round with BMW as the lead investor. Roei is a force o...
Jul 13, 2023•29 min•Season 2Ep. 46
Alex Levin, the CEO, and co-founder of New York City-based Regal.io, a tech stack for powering calls and messages that might provide customers — as well as sales and marketing teams — a better outbound calling experience. Regal has raised $42.1 million with Emergence Capital leading and Founder Collective, Homebrew, Flex Capital, Inspired Capital, and Operator Collective. Regal.io was founded in 2020 to help brands drive more conversations with consumers and hit their growth goals way faster. Th...
Jul 10, 2023•27 min•Season 2Ep. 45
