The company makes investments that can change lives by discovering and transforming deep technology Big Ideas into valuable public companies through a unique approach to public venture capital. This approach focuses on community-driven financings of pre-revenue, early-stage deep technology companies through early initial public offerings (IPOs), primarily listed on NASDAQ, as well as post-IPO offerings for already public companies that fit MDB's overall investment criteria. Its subsidiaries oper...
May 30, 2025•29 min•Ep. 167
A leading acquirer of private B2B SaaS companies in Latin America. Headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, the company focuses on acquiring profitable, high-growth SaaS businesses with strong recurring revenue and cash flow generation. By fostering an entrepreneurial environment, Nuvini enables its portfolio companies to scale and maintain leadership within their respective industries. The company’s long-term vision is to buy, retain, and create value through strategic partnerships and operational e...
May 08, 2025•22 min•Ep. 166
Pantheon Resources was listed in 2006 as an independent UK based oil and gas exploration company focused on hydrocarbon producing basins located onshore USA – a region of low sovereign risk, abundant infrastructure and established oil and gas markets. Pantheon now has a host of discovered resources that it has continued to mature as the Company has transitioned from what was an early-stage speculative exploration company, into an appraisal company with an intention of becoming a development and ...
Apr 22, 2025•23 min•Ep. 164
HeartSciences is a medical technology company focused on applying innovative AI-based technology to ECGs to expand and improve ECG clinical utility. Millions of ECGs are performed every week. Working to improve healthcare by making it a far more valuable ECG, particularly in frontline or point-of-care clinical settings. With one of the largest libraries of AI-ECG algorithms, the company intends to provide these AI-ECG algorithms on a device agnostic cloud-based solution as well as a low-cost ECG...
Apr 09, 2025•23 min•Ep. 163
A diversified and experienced global producer of tungsten concentrate in conflict-free regions. The company is currently mining, processing and shipping tungsten concentrate from its Panasqueira mine in Portugal. Its Sangdong tungsten mine in Gangwon Province, South Korea is currently under construction. The Sangdong mine was historically one of the largest tungsten mines in the world and one of the few long-life, high-grade tungsten deposits outside of China, and has significant upside potentia...
Mar 20, 2025•32 min•Ep. 162
A global cleantech company providing innovative solutions addressing wastewater treatment and waste management issues within the municipal, federal and industrial markets. 374Water's AirSCWO technology is designed to efficiently destroy and mineralize a broad spectrum of organic non-hazardous and hazardous organic wastes producing safe dischargeable water streams, safe mineral effluent, safe vent gas, and recoverable heat energy. 374Water's AirSCWO technology has the potential to assist its cust...
Mar 10, 2025•22 min•Ep. 161
A leader in specialty activated carbon technologies, delivering innovative solutions for air and water purification to support a cleaner, more sustainable future. The Company operates two divisions: ME2C Environmental, a pioneer of SEA® sorbent technologies for mercury emissions capture to the coal-fired utility sector, and WE2C Environmental, dedicated to developing disruptive water purification technologies with a specialization on forever chemicals such as PFAS and PFOS. Backed by a strong in...
Feb 13, 2025•25 min•Ep. 160
A leading podcast platform that provides creators and advertisers with a full 360-degree solution in sales, marketing, public relations, production and distribution. PodcastOne has over 3.5 billion total downloads with a community of 200 top podcasters, including Adam Carolla, Kaitlyn Bristowe, Jordan Harbinger, LadyGang, A&E's Cold Case Files, and Varnamtown. PodcastOne has built a distribution network reaching over 1 billion listeners a month across all channels, including its majority sha...
Jan 07, 2025•27 min•Ep. 159
A video technology and image science software company. Our solutions and technologies are backed by 53 International granted patents, making us a world leading provider of video encoding, transcoding, and optimization software solutions that enable high quality, performance, and unmatched bitrate efficiency for live and VOD video services. Hollywood studios, MSO's, and some of the world's largest OTT streaming services rely on Beamr's content-adaptive bitrate (CABR) technology and software encod...
Jan 06, 2025•21 min•Ep. 158
An AI technology company dedicated to optimizing customer communication through its digital platform and intelligent software solutions. Offering enterprise level customer contact services. Helport’s mission is to empower everyone to work as an expert.
Jan 03, 2025•27 min•Ep. 157
A global leader in vision and light control solutions for the automotive, aeronautics, architecture, and safety technology industries. It’s core capabilities start with world-class research and development which leads to the manufacturing and marketing of surfaces, systems and solutions that are smart and multifunctional for the spaces we spend our time in most. From glass that switches between transparent and opaque on an aircraft, automobile, or building to transparent displays for digital sig...
Dec 18, 2024•24 min•Ep. 156
A developmental stage company committed to providing minimally invasive and hi-definition solutions for EEG recording, brain stimulation and ablation solutions for patients suffering from epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, dystonia, essential tremors, chronic pain due to failed back surgeries and other related neurological disorders that may improve patient outcomes and reduce procedural costs. The Company may also pursue applications for other areas such as depression, mood disorders, pain, inconti...
Nov 12, 2024•25 min•Ep. 155
Kopin Corporation is a leading developer and provider of innovative display, and application-specific optical solutions sold as critical components and subassemblies for defense, enterprise, professional and consumer products. Kopin’s portfolio includes microdisplays, display modules, eyepiece assemblies, image projection modules, and vehicle mounted and head-mounted display systems that incorporate ultra-small high-resolution Active Matrix Liquid Crystal displays (AMLCD), Ferroelectric Liquid C...
Oct 10, 2024•30 min•Ep. 154
A leading global, vertically integrated provider of optics, photonics and infrared solutions for the industrial, commercial, defense, telecommunications, and medical industries. LightPath designs and manufactures proprietary optical and infrared components including molded glass aspheric lenses and assemblies, custom molded glass freeform lenses, infrared lenses and thermal imaging assemblies, fused fiber collimators, and proprietary Black Diamond™ ("BD") chalcogenide-based glass lenses. LightPa...
Sep 18, 2024•26 min•Ep. 153
A marketing technology company that provides essential marketing and sales solutions for businesses of all sizes. On a mission to help their customers achieve their mission, Banzai enables companies of all sizes to target, engage, and measure both new and existing customers more effectively. Banzai customers include Square, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Thinkific, Doodle and ActiveCampaign, among thousands of others.
Sep 17, 2024•25 min•Ep. 152
A leading health sciences company, is dedicated to advancing consumer and clinical health. Our consumer initiatives is led by IM8, a new health and wellness brand. Our clinical division is led by Insighta, our $200 million joint venture with renowned scientist Prof. Dennis Lo, focused on multi-cancer early detection technologies. This is followed by ACT Genomics, which has achieved FDA clearance for comprehensive genomic profiling of solid tumors, and CircleDNA, which uses NGS to offer comprehen...
Aug 19, 2024•27 min•Ep. 151
A growing agriculture technology company providing equipment and services to growers in the Controlled Environment Agriculture ("CEA") industry which also include vertical farming in North America. Nature's Miracle offers hardware to design, build and operate various indoor growing settings including greenhouse and indoor-growing spaces. Nature's Miracle, through its two wholly-owned subsidiaries (Visiontech Group, Inc. and Hydroman, Inc.), provides grow lights as well as other hydroponic produc...
Jun 27, 2024•18 min•Ep. 150
A leading provider of AI-powered, digital-first education solutions, disrupting the highly standardized system of traditional education with a personalized, flexible and life-long learning curriculum for the modern student. Genius Group services 5.4 million users in over 100 countries, providing personalized curriculums for individuals, enterprises and governments. The comprehensive, AI-powered platform offers programs for K-12 education, accredited university courses and skills-based courses fo...
Jun 10, 2024•33 min•Ep. 149
American Rebel Holdings has operated primarily as a designer, manufacturer and marketer of branded safes and personal security and self-defense products and has recently transitioned into the beverage industry through the introduction of American Rebel Beer. The Company also designs and produces branded apparel and accessories.
Jun 03, 2024•28 min•Ep. 148
A pioneer in high-performance 60 GHz unlicensed and 5G mmWave wireless technology, offering chipsets, antenna modules, software and IP. Peraso supports a variety of applications, including fixed wireless access, immersive video and factory automation. In addition, Peraso's solutions for data and telecom networks focus on Accelerating Data Intelligence and Multi-Access Edge Computing, providing end-to-end solutions from the edge to the centralized core and into the cloud....
May 28, 2024•24 min•Ep. 147
A California water solutions company dedicated to providing access to clean, reliable and affordable water for people through a unique combination of water supply, storage, pipeline and treatment solutions. With 45,000 acres of land in California, 2.5 million acre-feet of water supply, 220 miles of pipeline assets and the most cost-effective water treatment filtration technology in the industry, Cadiz offers a full suite of solutions to address the impacts of climate change on clean water access...
Apr 25, 2024•26 min•Ep. 146
Owns two operating subsidiaries: Vicon Industries Inc and Advanced Industrial Services Inc. Vicon Industries, is a global leader in advanced security and surveillance technology to safeguard businesses, schools, municipalities, hospitals and cities. They deliver mission-critical security surveillance systems, specializing in engineering complete security solutions that simplify deployment, operation and ongoing maintenance. Offering a wide range of cutting-edge and compliant security technologie...
Apr 15, 2024•27 min•Ep. 145
A leader in Botanical Synthesis, leveraging its patented technology process to grow plant-based molecules, without the need to grow the underlying plant. BioHarvest is leveraging its botanical synthesis technology to develop the next generation of science-based and clinically proven therapeutic solutions within two major business verticals; as a contract development and production organization (CDMO) on behalf of customers seeking complex molecules, and as a creator of proprietary nutraceutical ...
Mar 21, 2024•34 min•Ep. 144
A creator of restored luxury vehicles that combines classic English beauty with modern performance. Currently, ECD restores Land Rovers Defenders, Land Rover Series IIA, the Range Rover Classic and the Jaguar E-Type. Each vehicle produced by ECD is fully bespoke, a one-off that is designed by the client through an immersive luxury design experience and hand-built from the ground up in 2,200 hours by master-certified Automotive Service Excellence ("ASE") craftsmen....
Mar 11, 2024•32 min•Ep. 143
Precipio is a healthcare biotechnology company focused on cancer diagnostics. Our mission is to address the pervasive problem of cancer misdiagnoses by developing solutions in the form of diagnostic products and services. Our products and services deliver higher accuracy, improved laboratory workflow, and ultimately better patient outcomes, which reduce healthcare expenses. Precipio develops innovative technologies in our laboratory where we design, test, validate, and use these products clinica...
Mar 07, 2024•19 min•Ep. 142
Expion360 is an industry leader in premium lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries and accessories for recreational vehicles and marine applications, with residential and industrial applications under development. On December 19, 2023, the Company announced its entrance into the home energy storage market with the introduction of two premium LiFePO4 battery storage systems that enable residential and small business customers to create their own stable micro-energy grid and lessen the impact o...
Feb 21, 2024•23 min•Ep. 141
Airship AI is an AI-driven video, sensor and data management surveillance platform that improves public safety and operational efficiency for public sector and commercial customers by providing predictive analysis of events before they occur and meaningful intelligence to decision makers.
Feb 01, 2024•27 min•Ep. 140
A clinical stage, multi-strategy holding company focused on investing in and accelerating novel life sciences and bio-technology companies through FDA approved clinical trials. Through their diverse experience and extensive industry network, They are building Medicus into a leading pharmaceutical holding company, committed to delivering better treatment outcomes and alleviate pain and suffering. Utilizing a thesis driven collaborative process, they identify, acquire and advance relatively de-ris...
Jan 31, 2024•25 min•Ep. 139
The leading developer of green data centers that convert excess renewable energy into global computing resources. Soluna builds modular, scalable data centers for computing intensive, batchable applications such as Bitcoin mining, AI, and machine learning. Soluna provides a cost-effective alternative to battery storage or transmission lines. Soluna uses technology and intentional design to solve complex, real-world challenges. Up to 30% of the power of renewable energy projects can go to waste. ...
Jan 22, 2024•29 min•Ep. 138
Monogram Orthopedics is working to develop a product solution architecture with the long-term goal of enabling patient-optimized orthopedic implants at scale by linking 3D printing and robotics with advanced pre-operative imaging. The Company has a robot prototype that can autonomously execute optimized paths for high precision insertion of implants in synthetic bone specimens. Monogram intends to produce and market robotic surgical equipment and related software, orthopedic implants, tissue abl...
Jan 17, 2024•22 min•Ep. 137