Aron D'Souza is the co-founder of Enhanced Games, a planned international sports event where the athletes will not be subject to drug testing. Enhanced Games is a vision of the future Olympics where athletes use safe and legal enhancements to improve their performance. Backed by top venture capitalists, including Peter Thiel, it aims to create a better version of the Olympic Games. In contrast to traditional drug testing, the Enhanced Games will not subject athletes to such tests. Instead, ...
Mar 28, 2024•19 min•Season 3Ep. 53
Bartosz Skwarczek is the Founder of G2A, the world’s largest digital marketplace for digital entertainment such as games, gift cards, subscriptions, and software. Bartosz is also a serial entrepreneur, Forbes Technology Council member, public speaker, and a huge proponent of Web3’s integration with digital marketplaces. G2A has scaled rapidly since its launch in 2012 -- it's available in 180 countries and supports 200+ payment methods. Where to find Bartosz Skwarczek: • Website: https://www...
Mar 25, 2024•34 min•Season 3Ep. 52
Hamdi Tabbaa is the co-founder of the Jordan-based online learning platform Abwaab, which is the MENA and Pakistan region that encompasses more than 160 million students. Abwaab has raised $27 million from investors such as BECO Capital (UAE), 4DX Ventures (USA), GSV Ventures (USA), Water Partners (KSA), and others. Founded in late 2019, the startup expanded from Jordan to Egypt and Pakistan. Where to find Hamdi Tabbaa: • Website: أبواب - بيئة تعليمية متكاملة (abwaab.com) • LinkedIn Hamdi Tabbaa...
Mar 19, 2024•30 min•Season 3Ep. 51
George Moringer is one of founder of Tapouts, which is a s an online program that coaches children to practice social and emotional skills. The mental health startup just raised a $3.2 million seed round at a $20 million valuation. The children's mental health market is booming as part of a larger cultural shift toward transparency around mental health and well-being. Where to find George Moringer: • Website: Home - tapouts • LinkedIn (8) George Moringer | LinkedIn Where to find Hadi Radwan...
Mar 16, 2024•23 min•Season 3Ep. 50
Bob Moore is the founder of Crossbeam, which is a platform-led ecosystem that helps companies build sales partnerships by understanding their overlapping accounts using a process called account mapping. There is a vast network effect as customers attract other partners to the network. The Company raised $117 million from notable investors such as Andreessen Horowitz led the round, with participation from prior round lead investors Redpoint Ventures, FirstMark Capital, First Round Capital and Unc...
Mar 11, 2024•45 min•Season 3Ep. 49
Chris Slater is the co-founder and CEO of Oka, a Carbon Insurance company that is de-risking the voluntary carbon market (VCM) for buyers and sellers of carbon credits. Its first-of-its-kind carbon insurance solution provides buyers with financial compensation for unforeseeable and unavoidable post-issuance risks, including reversal and invalidation. Oka has now raised $7 million since its inception from Aquiline Technology Growth. The voluntary carbon market (VCM) is experiencing significant gr...
Feb 26, 2024•28 min•Season 3Ep. 48
Bobby Touran is the co-founder of Rainbow, which is an insurance reinventing the way restaurants buy insurance. Essentially, Rainbow is a digitally enabled managing general underwriter building tailored small business insurance products. Rainbow has now raised $12 million since its inception from Caffeinated Capital, Altai Ventures, Zigg Capital, 8VC, Buckley Ventures, Habitat Partners, and Arch Capital Group Ltd. The company’s flagship program, an admitted business owner’s policy (BOP) product ...
Feb 26, 2024•25 min•Season 3Ep. 47
Nikolaus Suhr, the co-founder of Kasko, an insurance technology company founded in 2015, offers "InsurTech as a Service"; it specializes in working with large insurers to design, distribute, and run digital insurance products for any distribution channel. Kasko has now raised $3 million since its 2015 inception. Where to find Nikolaus Suhr: • Website: KASKO • LinkedIn (5) Nikolaus Sühr | LinkedIn Where to find Hadi Radwan: • Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack • Link...
Feb 22, 2024•24 min•Season 3Ep. 46
Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz, the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Chapter, a Medicare advisory platform that uses a blend of technology and a trained team of advisors to decipher all plans at a microscopic level, ensuring that members can enroll in the plans that are best suited for their needs based on cost and coverage. Chapter has raised to date $61 million from notable investors such as Addition, Narya Capital, Susa Ventures, Maverick Ventures, XYZ Venture Capital, Core Innovation Capital...
Feb 15, 2024•22 min•Season 3Ep. 45
Aidan Rushby is the co-founder and CEO of Carmoola, liberating the archaic, slow, and backward car finance market with a new, straightforward “neo car finance” product that is effortless to use and reduces the time taken to complete a car purchase from days to just minutes. Carmoola’s exclusive proprietary technology and systems enable a streamlined process that provides buyers with a budget, generates a free history check on the car, and allows payment to be made both instantly online and at th...
Feb 12, 2024•24 min•Season 3Ep. 44
Julio Martínez is the co-founder & CEO of Abacum is the leading FP&A automation platform that empowers Finance teams to: 👉Drive efficient growth with faster revenue forecasts, scenarios, and headcount planning. 👉Free up time by automating Board decks and monthly performance and forecasting reports. 👉Increase your time for analysis with all your operational and financial KPIs in one place, in real time. 👉Drive budget owner accountability with structured workflows. Abacum has raised $4...
Feb 09, 2024•34 min•Season 3Ep. 43
Robert Korzinek, the co-founder of Zingcover, which delivers truly specialist, tailored insurance cover for end-consumers through embedded partnerships in retail markets. ZingCover has now raised a total of $1.2 million since its 2021 inception. Where to find Robert Korzinek: • Website: Zing Cover – Embedded insurance powered by Brands, Data & Expertise • LinkedIn (1) Robert Korzinek | LinkedIn Where to find Hadi Radwan: • Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack • LinkedIn: Ha...
Feb 04, 2024•29 min•Season 3Ep. 42
Matt Watson is the founder and CEO of Origin, a comprehensive employee financial wellness platform. Its integrated solution helps employees simultaneously manage compensation, benefits, and personal finances with financial professionals. Origin is the first platform that combines human financial planners with cutting-edge financial technology that educates employees and allows them to create, execute, and track their personalized financial plans. Origin has now raised $72 million since its incep...
Feb 02, 2024•28 min•Season 3Ep. 41
Steven Bartel is the co-founder of Gem, which is helping talent acquisition teams hire with remarkable speed and efficiency. With Gem, teams can automate and personalize candidate communication, unify all recruiting touchpoints into a single system, and get usable data across the entire hiring process. Gem has raised a total of $148 million from notable investors such as ICONIQ, Greylock, Accel, Sapphire Ventures, and Meritech Capital. Where to find Steven Bartel: • Website: Recruiting CRM | All...
Jan 29, 2024•38 min•Season 3Ep. 40
Matthew Grant is a partner at Instech which is the world’s largest insurance technology community. They offer unprecedented connections to the most comprehensive and global gathering of tech entrepreneurs, investors, and insurance industry incumbents. They host conferences, webinars, roundtables, and insurtech rankings. They have hosted over 25,000 executives, entrepreneurs, and investors. Where to find Matthew Grant: • Website: (5) Matthew Grant | LinkedIn • LinkedIn instech.co | Where to find ...
Jan 24, 2024•19 min•Season 3Ep. 39
Jeff Seibert is co-founder of Digits, a beautifully designed accounting and reporting platform that essentially sits on top of Intuit’s QuickBooks. It then uses that data, plus API-based integrations on incoming and outgoing money in its business, to create a massive information database. Digits then begins to organize and read that data to create more intelligence around it, such as providing automatic answers to the kinds of “how” or “why” questions that an accountant or other finance pro migh...
Jan 20, 2024•26 min•Season 3Ep. 38
Hedda Båverud Olsson is the co-founder and CEO of Lassie, a pet health app and insurance provider. Lassie has now raised €36.5 million from Balderton Capital, Felix Capital, Inventure, Passion Capital, and Philian. Since Lassie's successful launch in Sweden, over 2.5 years ago, and 60,000 customers later, the company recently launched in Germany. Where to find Hedda Båverud Olsson: • Website: Djurförsäkring – Din digitala djurförsäkring | Lassie • LinkedIn (6) Hedda Båverud Olsson | LinkedI...
Jan 15, 2024•24 min•Season 3Ep. 37
Nozomi Ito is the co-founder and CEO of MagicPod, an AI no-code test automation platform supporting the development of high-speed, high-quality software. Using MagicPod, developers can easily automate most of their UI testing one step at a time, all without having to write any code. They can use the built-in device emulator for mobile app testing, or test on real-world devices they either own themselves or through integrations with SauceLabs, BrowserStack and HeadSpin. MagicPod raised a $2.4 mil...
Jan 12, 2024•14 min•Season 3Ep. 36
Harish Consul is the founder of Ocgrow Group of Companies, which includes Ocgrow’s venture capital group, Ocgrow Ventures, focused on several early stage high growth verticals which include the technology sector, including a major focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, Saas software, fintech & other related sectors. Where to find Harish Consul: • Website: Ocgrow Group of Companies - Real estate development & venture capital • LinkedIn (7) Harish Consul | LinkedIn Where to find Hadi Radwan...
Jan 08, 2024•18 min•Season 3Ep. 35
Bradley Flowers is the founder of Portal Insurance based in Mobile, Alabama, a scratch-independent agency he founded and is building on the back of social media, personal branding, content, and technology. In 2019, Portal Insurance was named the "Agency for the Future'' by Safeco Insurance for the Southeast United States. Bradley is an acclaimed speaker in the insurance and real estate sector and is the co-host of the “Insurance Guys Podcast,” the most downloaded podcast in the in...
Dec 24, 2023•25 min•Season 3Ep. 34
Jules Veyrat is the co-founder of Stoik, an insurtech that sells cyber services to SMEs. Specifically, Stoik combines security software to mitigate risk levels and an insurance offer that transfers residual risk to a third party. Stoik has now raised $27.5 million since its 2021 inception from notable investors such as Munich Re Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Alven. The company doesn’t sell its insurance product on its website anymore. Instead, it works with third-party ...
Dec 20, 2023•24 min•Season 3Ep. 33
Craig Unger is the Co-founder & CEO of Hyperproof, a software-as-a-service risk and compliance management company. Hyperproof has raised to date $66.5 million from notable investors such as Riverwood Capital and Toba Capital. 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 princip...
Dec 10, 2023•25 min•Season 3Ep. 32
Kris Bennatti is the Co-founder & CEO of Hudson labs, State-of-the-art financial language modeling that can help its user summarize AI-generated investment memos, earnings call summaries, and real-time risk assessments. Bedrock has raised $1.5 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...
Dec 07, 2023•22 min•Season 3Ep. 31
Hamesh Chawla is the co-founder of Mulberri, an AI-powered intelligent business insurance platform that PEOs, brokers, small-medium businesses, and carriers trust to help them be more efficient and productive when writing business together. Mulberri has now raised a total of $4 million from investors includes Hanover Technology Management, MS&AD Ventures, and Altamont Capital Partners. Where to find Hamesh Chawla: • Website: Home - Mulberri • LinkedIn (3) Hamesh Chawla | LinkedIn Where to fi...
Dec 03, 2023•21 min•Season 3Ep. 30
Yi Shi is the founder of Flash Intel, an all-in-one sales platform to consolidate the sales tech stack. Welcome to the show, Yi. Flash Intel raised a total of $10 million. Yi is 4x Entrepreneur. Before Flash Intel, Shi was the chief executive of the Shanghai-based technology group Avazu Holding. Founded in 2009, the startup owns game developer and distributor Teebik, app developer Dotc United, and investment firm aFund. In 2015, Shi sold Avazu Holding's advertising unit Avazu to Shenzhen-li...
Nov 30, 2023•20 min•Season 3Ep. 29
Dylan Serota is the CEO and Co-founder of Terminal, a full-stack remote workforce solution for software-driven companies, providing both recruiting and remote long-term employee support, making it easier for remote software developers to build remote careers and for high-growth companies to find in-demand workers. You have raised to date $30 million. Where to find Dylan Serota: • Website: Engineer your perfect team with Terminal - Terminal.io • LinkedIn (3) Dylan Serota | LinkedIn Where to find ...
Nov 27, 2023•22 min•Season 3Ep. 28
Richard Valtr is the founder of Mews — which provides a cloud-based hotel property management platform with tools covering reservations, payments, and more. It has raised $223 million of funding, from notable investors such as Kinnevik, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Revaia, Derive Ventures, Orbit Capital, Battery Ventures, Notion Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Thayer Ventures and henQ, with a potential company a post-money valuation of $865 million. Mews are streets (for example, in London) ful...
Nov 23, 2023•36 min•Season 3Ep. 27
Suman Kanuganti is the Co-Founder of Personal.ai, an artificial intelligence that can act just like you. It is an AI version of yourself that uses personal data, facts, and opinions to create a responsive and interactive experience that others can use. Simply put, it is not a large language model (LLM) trained on all available information or a “virtual assistant or chatbot” but rather a personal language model (PLM) trained exclusively on the data that you control. Think of Personal.ai as an ext...
Nov 20, 2023•20 min•Season 3Ep. 27
David McFarland is the co-founder of Coterie Insurance, which is on a mission to transform the commercial insurance market for small and micro-businesses. Using an innovative digital platform, Coterie makes insurance easier, faster, and more accessible for businesses and their 32 million employees nationwide. Coterie has now raised a total of $80 million since its 2018 inception. Today, Coterie has more than 40,000 clients. Where to find David McFarland: • Website: Coterie Insurance - Small Busi...
Nov 09, 2023•26 min•Season 3Ep. 26
Today I’m joined by Bob Moesta, the co-creator of the Jobs To Be Done framework, a concept he developed alongside the late Clayton Christensen. Bob's expertise spans a wide range of accomplishments, including the successful launch of over 3,500 new products, services, and businesses. He's also the CEO and founder of the Re-Wired Group, as well as the brains behind several other startup ventures. He is also the author of multiple books including the famous Demand Selling 101. Where to f...
Nov 07, 2023•32 min•Season 3Ep. 25
