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🎧 Google leads $300 mln funding at Sharechat parent; Airbus sets up an H2 R&D facility in the UK; One AI raises $8 mln

Amid a funding slowdown, Sharechat’s parent Mohalla Tech is expected to announce a $300 million funding round led by Google, India’s Times Group and Singapore’s Temasek, Reuters reports. Airbus has set up an R&D facility in the UK for cryogenic fuel technologies for its proposed hydrogen planes.

🎧 Startup Fundraising Free Office Hours with Angel Investor Scott Fox

Bring your startup questions to the Startup Council’s FREE founder fundraising “Office Hours”. You’ll get FREE expert Silicon Valley advice to help diverse entrepreneurs start, raise money, and grow new ventures. Have questions about raising venture capital? How to find product/market fit? Angel investors.

🎧 Strong Compute raises $7.8M seed round to speed up ML training pipelines

Strong Compute, a Sydney, Australia-based startup that helps developers remove the bottlenecks in their machine learning training pipelines, today announced that it has raised a $7.8 million seed round.

🎧 Funding Options with Swoop Canada on The Startup Talk Podcast

Funding Options with Swoop Canada on The Startup Talk Podcast Daire Burke of Swoop Funding Canada joins the Startup Coach to talk about the different types of funding options available to startups in Canada. Find out more about Swoop Funding Canada at: * Swoop Canada * Instagram * Daire Burke on LinkedIn * Twitter Invest in Equivesto the Equity Crowdfunding platform Other Great Podcasts: * Who Are These Investors * Who Are These Startups * Open Your Energy Guided Meditation Join us monthly for Startup Investor Drinks Register for Startup and Entrepreneur Events here To

🎧 Matthew Stoudt On Raising $70 Million To Solve Your Pain Through Immersive Therapeutics

Matthew Stoudt’s latest startup has not only raised tens of millions of dollars in funding but hit Fast Company’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2022. The venture, Applied VR has attracted investment from top-tier investors like Jazz Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital, SVB Capital, and Sway Ventures.

🎧 How To Determine Which Fundraising Option Is Right For Your Business And The Importance Of Female-Founded Businesses With Fundraising Expert And Angel

I’m joined by VC-backed startup operator, angel investor, author, and podcast host Stef Caldwell. She’s a champion for not just getting women a seat at the table, but actually helping female-owned businesses build their own tables. We talk about some of the reasons why women don’t pursue their big ideas, why she’s so passionate about closing the gender wealth gap, and tips for how to take that first step to starting your business.

🎧 The Entrepreneur’s Essentials with Brett Hurt

Thom Singer sits down with one of the most successful entrepreneurs in Austin, Texas. His friend, Brett Hurt, is the author of The Entrepreneur’s Essentials and the founder of six successful companies.  In this conversation they chat about Brett’s entrepreneurship, the new book, what makes a B Corporation, and how Brett can do a 22 minute plank.

🎧 Why This Twitter Executive Launched a Cannabis Data Company

As the cannabis market grows, so have the number of data technology companies offering brands business intelligence. Our guest today is Jeffrey Graham Co-Founder and CEO of Pistil Data. The company has built applications for salespeople at brands to that helps them identify the best-selling opportunities. Pistil recently closed a $6.5 million seed round led by Snoop Dogg’s Casa Verde.

🎧 Key Drivers that will determine the ability of a Nation to Succeed | Anirudh Suri, Author, The Great Tech Game and Managing Partner, India Internet Fu

The tech startup ecosystem in India has seen the emergence of a slew of new investors recently, many of whom are coming in to support with seed funding. Securing funding and support from a venture capital investor can be the make-or-break point for many early-stage startups on the edge of success (or, unfortunately, failure).

🎧 EP 200 Bringing Equality to Startup Funding by Investing in LGBTQ+ Founders

There are verified stories of LGBTQ+ members who have been ignored and singled out by potential investors because of their gender identity. Our guest, Ben Stokes, is on a mission to help create a world that’s built on radical inclusivity, where diversity of knowledge and experience is celebrated. He’s the Founding Partner of Chasing Rainbows, an early-stage investment fund focused on investing in founders who come from underrepresented backgrounds – particularly those from the LGBTQ+ community.

🎧 How to Build a Marketing Strategy and Raise a Seed Round w/ Sonia Baschez

In this episode, I sit down with Sonia Baschez, Head of Marketing at Atmos. Sonia shares her story as one of the first full-time hires at the construction company and how she set about building a marketing strategy that Atmos raise a $4m Seed Round in 2020. This includes going unexpectedly viral at the start of the pandemic, leveraging the power of local media, and how to go about establishing credibility with no case studies.

🎧 Startup Fridays S2 Ep. 9: ‘We need to accelerate corporate adoption of climate tech from startups’ — Pratap Raju

Our guest today is Pratap Raju, founding partner of Climate Collective, an organisation that is building a platform to accelerate climate tech startups in India, by catalysing stronger linkages between the startups and large corporate buyers and users of their solutions. He is also the founding partner of a VC fund, Climate Seeds Fund, providing seed-stage funding to climate startups.

🎧 128 Step-by-step fundraising process with Nathan Beckord

128 Step-by-step fundraising process with Nathan Beckord Nathan Beckord Earlier in my career, I started two companies, an early web catalog provider and a clinical trial software company. I also worked in investment banking, and was involved in three technology IPOs and nearly 40 acquisitions. On the content side, I produce the popular “How I Raised it” podcast found on iTunes, SoundCloud and Spotify.

🎧 How Medtech Companies Should Approach the Consumer Health Market: Interview with Movano CEO John Mastrototaro

In this episode of Medsider Radio, we sat down with John Mastrototaro, CEO of Movano. John has more than 30 years’ worth of experience in the medical device industry and was part of the MiniMed team that helped develop the world’s first ambulatory continuous glucose monitoring system and sensor-augmented insulin pump.

🎧 Deep Dive: Startup fundraising with Nathan Beckord

Understanding VC is a deep dive on how Venture Capitalists work. In this episode, I talk with Nathan Beckord, Founder and CEO at FounderSuite, a new-age SaaS product which eases the planning, accounting, and finding the right VC fits for your startup. Nathan talks about his journey developing FounderSuite, a startup for startups, and how he has been able to realize that vision.

🎧 Why Fundraising Is More Than Just A Pitch Deck with Jonathan Lowenhar and Leslie Fine from Enjoy The Work

Fundraising can be one of the most daunting tasks as a founder or even for a fund manager like me. If you just google how to fundraise, you get millions of results, a lot of conflicting information and it can all be overwhelming. Our guests today, Leslie Fine and Jonathan Lowenhar are looking to help solve that for founders by being a trusted source of coaching and advice with their startup advisory firm, Enjoy The Work.

🎧 How VOLY is driving impactful customer experience

Josh Peacock, Head of Marketing at VOLY, sits down with host Mark Jones to share how the instant grocery delivery startup is building a community of customers.     Resources  VOLY  How VOLY Is Bringing Instant Groceries To Australia  Voly to expand beyond Sydney after $18 million seed funding round  You might also like…  How Ben & Jerry’s mix marketing and meaning  12 Marketing Matters that Matter with Andrew Baxter  Steffen Daleng on marketing beyond commodities 

🎧 How This Dropout Created Massive Success as an Entrepreneur (with Olivier Roland): Episode 342

Olivier Roland was 19 year old drop out that created his first business, and never looked back. He is now a serial entrepreneur, blogger, Youtuber, startup investor, bestseller author, amateur archaeologist, diver, amateur airplane pilot, globetrotter, international speaker and philanthropist among his many hats. He has built a global audience of more than 450,000 fans convinced by his method, while traveling the world 6 months a year for more than 10 years. Olivier is now on a mission to show that you don’t need to be brilliant in school to be brilliant in life.

🎧 Andreas Hufnagl – The Hustle Behind Armada Brands

After recently raising $1.3 million in pre-seed funding, Andreas Hufnagl of Armada Brands joins us to share how they are powering the new brands that will propel Philippine e-commerce to greater heights. Andreas will share his early hustles in consulting and how he mastered the skill of assessing businesses that can scale.

🎧 How a 23 year old created a $8M yearly revenue content marketplace business

India’s largest Content Marketplace with 1L+ creators, 2500+ customers, out of which 70+ are Unicorns.  Does that ring any bells?  We’re talking about Pepper Content, founded by Anirudh Singla, in his 2nd year of undergrad college. Pepper’s journey started when Anirudh during his college decided to take up freelancing and content creation to fund his graduation all by himself.

🎧 How sustainable are Indian unicorns’ business models?

If there was one theme in the startup ecosystem that dominated 2021, it was unicorns! After all, 2021 saw the rise and rise of India’s start-ups with the unicorn-base doubling. Out of India’s 90 unicorns at the beginning of 2022, about 46 had emerged in 2021 itself. “The unicorn wave in India is still going strong: one unicorn has been added every five days within the first two months of 2022, and India is expected to have 100+ new unicorns in 2022” – HDFC Securities report   And, in various quarters, the optimism has also carried on into 2022.

🎧 #104 Millionen ohne Pitchdeck: Tipps vom Choco-Gründer

Das Pitchdeck ist nicht das Wichtigste beim Fundraising. Davon ist Daniel Khachab, Gründer der Gastro-App Choco, überzeugt. Dass seine Theorie stimmt, hat er selbst bewiesen: Insgesamt 145 Millionen Euro haben er und seine Co-Gründer mittlerweile schon für ihr Startup eingesammelt. Ein Pitchdeck hatten sie nur in der allerersten Runde.

🎧 An awesome product is table stakes’: Weezie co-founder Lindsey Johnson on building a luxury bath brand

The key to DTC towel brand Weezie’s success is staying in its lane — or, bathroom. That’s according to co-founder Lindsey Johnson who joined this week’s Modern Retail Podcast. The company, which makes luxury bath towels along with other bathroom-related products like bathrobes and bathmats, has seen year-over-year growth and said late last year that it was on track to hit eight figures in revenue in 2021.

🎧 87 – How This DTC Grew 500% in 2021 (Christopher Jane, Co-Founder and CEO at Proper Good)

When I say “no fridge needed and 90 second convenience” what comes to mind? Well soon, my friend, you will be seeing Proper Good everywhere. I invited Christopher Jane, co-founder and CEO at Proper Good, to talk about his delicious company and what they’re working on with their marketing efforts. Prior, Christopher was co-founder and CEO at Montana Mex (clean label seasonings, sauces and oils carried by Whole Foods, H-E-B, Albertsons and more).

🎧 Priyanka Madnani, founder & CEO of Easy to Pitch. ​​On building India’s fastest-growing one-stop pitching platform for startup founders.

Make your startup investment ready! Today my guest is Priyanka Madnani, Founder & CEO of Easy to Pitch. Easy to Pitch is one of the fastest-growing one-stop pitching solutions for start-up founders & entrepreneurs looking to raise capital for their unique ideas. Since starting she now helps over 500 startups and reviewed over 5000 decks.

🎧 FoodTech GoodBytz erhält 2,5 Mio. Euro in Seed-Runde für ihre Küchenassistenz-Roboter (Cooking • Robotic)

In der Mittagsfolge geht es heute weiter mit Hendrik Susemihl, CEO und Co-Founder von GoodBytz. Das Hamburger FoodTech-Startup konnte sich in der ersten Seed-Runde 2,5 Millionen Euro sichern. GoodBytz wurde 2021 von Dr. Hendrik Susemihl, Kevin Deutmarg und Philipp von Stürmer gegründet. GoodBytzh hat mit intelligenten Küchenassistenz-Robotern ein Werkzeug entwickelt, welches Köchinnen und Köchen mehr Zeit und Freiraum für Kreativität geben soll, um neue Gerichte zu entwickeln.

🎧 #40: Shauraya Bhutani, CapConnect – How To Become A Fundraising Legend and The Role Of Advisors For Startup Fundraising

Shauraya is a Co-Founder at Capital Connect Advisors, a boutique investment bank based in Singapore and New Delhi which provides corporate finance, portfolio management, and ecosystem services to leading tech founders and investors in Asia. Shauraya has been working alongside companies since the early days of the technology wave and has built extensive deal experience, network, and industry expertise working with over 50 technology companies across Southeast Asia and India.

🎧 How to Use Content Marketing To Establish Your Own Category

Content is the currency of digital and social media, but it can actually even be more strategic than being a mere currency. Content marketing can not only help build your business, but it can play an instrumental role in building out a category that you own and deliver long-term digital benefits for your company.

🎧 Accelerating Impact Through Inclusivity In Access To Capital – Jasiel Martin-Odoom of Unreasonable

Reasonable items seldom change anything. This is why the aim of the Unreasonable Group, a private equity firm, is to re-purpose capitalism and support impact-driven entrepreneurs and companies who are trying to solve major global problems. To date, the Unreasonable Collective has over 300 ventures in more than 180 countries, and these ventures have collectively made more than $7 billion in revenue, nearly $9 million in financing, and are making a difference in the lives of 800 million people across the world.

🎧 &Charge Just Raised Seed Funding to Help Online Shoppers Fight Global Warming

Subscribe Here  Find all options to subscribe to our newsletter, podcast, YouTube channel or listen to our internet radio station here: Link We learned in our projects that charging electric cars is challenging for B2B and B2C customers Simon Vogt, Co-Founder and CSO &ChargeOur Sponsor Invest-in-Hessen  This show was made possible by Hessen Trade and Invest with their brand Invest-in-Hessen.

🎧 #270: The Art of Startup Fundraising and Selling Your Company with Alejandro Cremades

You can learn a lot from a world driven by growing enterprise value from day one. Let the expert who wrote two books on the subject walk you through the world of startups — from fundraising to exit — to show what focusing on the end goal can do for you and your company, starting today.Alejandro Cremades is a serial entrepreneur, M&A advisor, and author of the books The Art of Startup Fundraising and Selling Your Startup.

🎧 SaaStr 552: 5 Lessons on Building Your Sales Organization for Scale with Than Hancock, EVP of Sales @ Podium and Carlie Adams, Head of West Coast Sale

Podium’s EVP of Sales, Than Hancock shares his insights on how to maximize and grow your sales organizations for every stage of growth from seed round to global scale. He will be joined by Regional Sales Manager, Carlie Adams to discuss both the challenges and opportunities for setting up your sales organization for success, particularly during hyper growth.

🎧 Foxtel & F1 in love again | Facebook sued by ACCC for Aussie scam | $450M for a Bored Ape ‘seed’ round

Foxtel has extended its deal to broadcast Formula 1, and the deal is said to be worth between $40 and 45 million a year.   The ACCC is suing Meta, the owner of Facebook, and they’re alleging it knowingly ran ads for crypto scams featuring Australian celebrities.   Yuga Labs, the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, is at it again – they’ve raised $450 million USD for their seed round.

🎧 EiT Health Germany Series 4/12: What Does it Take to Suceed as a Digital Health/Biotech Startup?

In this episode, founders of four very different companies talk about their fundraising experiences. As critically mentioned by Fouad Al-Noor – Co-Founder & CEO – ThinkSono  – we should stop talking about the myth that startups search for investors that can offer strategic benefits. It’s true, but fundraising is still primarily about getting money to be able to start a business.

🎧 How to invest in wine and how Vinovest itself raised money. By Anthony Zhang

Anthony Zhang, Co-founder and CEO at Vinovest talks about how his company helps “regular” people invest in wine – an asset class that was previously only accessible to the wealthy people with free time on their hands. He also spoke about their most recent Series A and how they had to change their business model to close the round successfully.

🎧 The Elements of a Successful Pitch Deck and Raising Money for Your Startup with Leslee Cohen

For many startups, fundraising and marketing is a common part of the early stages. It can be a challenge raising that money and developing a pitch that will wow investors. Ian Garlic talks with business attorney Leslee Cohen, from AllRise Legal Counsel, about the ideal elements of a pitch deck. She also discusses the top two things investors look for in a pitch deck and when you should get an NDA involved.

🎧 290: Unpacking the Story-Building Process with Donna Griffit

Welcome back to the Startup Junkies podcast! Caleb Talley and Davis McEntire were joined by Donna Griffit, a professional storyteller and pitch strategist with a special place in her heart for startups. Donna has had to adapt and adjust many times in her career, whether it was shifting jobs or recessions and pandemics, and she’s picked up immeasurable wisdom for entrepreneurs along the way.

🎧 225: How to create the perfect pitch deck

Donna Griffit is a Corporate Storyteller who has worked globally with Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, and investors in a wide variety of industries for over 16 years. She has consulted and trained clients in over 30 countries. Donna joined the Predictable Revenue Podcast to provide helpful guidance on how to create the perfect pitch deck.

🎧 #73: Bharat Kanodia – How to Value Unique Assets

Do you want to know how to value a company and what Julia Roberts has to do with it? Then listen to Bharat Kanodia in this episode number 73. Valuation is one of the most difficult exercises in the startup world. How can you put a price tag on a company that doesn’t exist yet? Get help from an expert:  Bharat Kanodia has valued over 2000 businesses and signed off on assets worth $2.

🎧 #326: Maika Isogawa of Webacy, from Acrobat to Tech Startup Founder Building the Future of Digital Asset Management

Maika Isogawa is the Founder and CEO of Webacy, a platform for securing digital assets for the unexpected. Maika is a former professional acrobat and performer for the Cirque Du Soleil brand of shows. She is also a Stanford ’20 alumnus with a special concentration in Symbolic Systems, a program which combines the study of Human Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Linguistics, Philosophy, and more.

🎧 87: Whitney Johnson — The Benefits of Disrupting Yourself and Smart Growth

If you’re interested in growing in your leadership practice and being inspired to think differently and unlock greater personal potential, we want to give you a gift. Just click the link below and tell us where to send you 12 Ideas That Will Make You A Better Leader In 2022. Whitney Johnson is CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors, an Inc.

🎧 Episode 42 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast — An Interview with Raman Malik, Founder and CEO of Rhetoric

Episode 42 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast) — An Interview with Raman Malik, founder and CEO of Rhetoric (www.rhetoric.app) Most leaders at legal tech startups present at one time or another to existing and prospective stakeholders (most importantly, to customer and investor prospects).

🎧 Mem: Eliminate note taking friction

Dennis Xu is a Stanford graduate, entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, and the co-founder of Mem. They recently raised a $5.6mm seed round on zero revenue. Since Mem’s founding in 2019, they went from writing the first line of code to attracting over 100k users.  Mem.ai is a new entry in notetaking software’s hectic market space.

🎧 E89 – Championing the Roll-Up Model in India w/10club’s Bhavna Suresh

In this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Bhavna Suresh, Co-Founder & CEO of 10club.  10club acquires, operates and grows e-commerce first businesses, championing the roll-up model in India. This Thrasio like model gained a lot of popularity in the country early last year as multiple companies emerged in the space.

🎧 306: Nathan Beckord — Capital Raising Mistakes: 3 Times the Charm

Nathan Beckord — Capital Raising Mistakes: Third Time’s the Charm   Today, Bill and his guest take an in-depth look at some of the common mistakes startup founders make when trying to raise capital. Having gone through the experience himself a number of times, our guest shares key highlights he’s learned from his extensive career as an interim CFO, Business Developer, and Advisor.

🎧 EP#49 Rajan Bajaj – Building Slice, re-inventing payments & the pursuit of building a quality consumer product for India

In this episode, Rajan Bajaj (Founder & CEO, Slice), joins our host Digjay, to talk about his path leading up to entrepreneurship, the problem statement & need for a product like Slice today, pivots made since founding the company in 2016, how Slice differentiates itself – both on the product & distribution front, the fundraising challenges faced during early days of Slice and what according to him is the biggest value add from investors.

🎧 #167: Bennett Merriman & Shannan Gove – How Spark and Rosterfy became an industry powerhouse, and why they’re investing in SportsGrad

We’ve got NEWS!! We are stoked to announce SportsGrad have raised a seed funding round led by the founders of Spark Event Group, with a unique collaboration to provide young people a powerful springboard from casual work into full-time careers! We’re super excited to take this idea BIG. But a few people have asked us… “Who invested in SportsGrad.

🎧 Embracing Growth with Brigit Blote

Brigit Blote joins John for the second time on the Leadmore Podcast to catch up on her journey as founder and CEO of Fomeno, where their goal is to make thrifting simple. Inspired after studying sustainability in the mountains of Costa Rica, Brigit started Fomeno while balancing life as a college student and Division 1 athlete.