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🎧 EP 190 Advice for Startups Seeking Funding

Is fundraising for your startup causing daytime stress and nighttime terrors? Our guest, serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Ben Jen, is here to help ease your fundraising journey with his insights and advice. Ben is the Founder and Managing Director of Ben Jen Holdings, a venture capital and private equity firm dealing with companies in various tech and business fields.

🎧 Christine De Wendel On Raising A $24 Million Seed Round And Hiring 400 People In 10 Months To Take On A Trillion Dollar Market

Christine de Wendel kickstarted her fintech startup with a massive $24M Seed round. Followed by an even larger Series A fundraising round, just four months later. Her venture, Sundayapp has attracted the interest of top-tier investors like DST Global, Coatue, New Wave, and French Partners. In this episode, you will learn: * How to hire a remote team of 400 in multiple countries, in just 10 months * Christine’s top advice for other entrepreneurs * How to balance your family and scaling a big business Alejandro Cremades · EP 440 Christine De Wendel On Raising A $24 Millio

🎧 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.

🎧 #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.

🎧 Apple to cut new iPhone SE production; HCL Tech lands Novo Nordisk contract; Chalo acquires Vogo

Apple plans to make about 20 percent fewer iPhone SEs next quarter than originally planned, in one of the first signs that the Ukraine war and looming inflation have started to dent consumer electronics demand, Nikkei Asia reports. HCL Technologies has been selected to provide global service desk and on-site support to Danish pharma company Novo Nordisk.

🎧 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.

🎧 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.

🎧 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.

🎧 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.

🎧 #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.

🎧 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.

🎧 #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.

🎧 Ökostromanbieter Ostrom mischt mit 4,4 Mio. Euro Seed-Runde den Energiemarkt auf

In der Nachmittagsfolge begrüßen wir heute Matthias Martensen, Co-Founder und CEO von Ostrom. Das Berliner Startup hat insgesamt 4,4 Millionen Euro Pre-Seed und Seed-Funding unter anderem von bekannten Investorinnen und Investoren eingesammelt. Ostrom ist ein digitaler Ökostromanbieter mit Hauptsitz in Berlin mit der Vision, den Wechsel zu grüner Energie einfacher, erschwinglicher und transparenter zu machen.

🎧 &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.

🎧 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.

🎧 Throwback Tuesday – Assessing a Teams’ Mental Health Needs to Provide Support and Avoid Burnout, Leah Weiss, PhD

In this “Throwback Tuesday” HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover ( talks with Leah Weiss, Ph.D. about assessing a teams’ mental health needs to provide support and avoid burnout (Originally Aired September 9th 2021). See the video here: 

🎧 Find Your North Star – Martin Schilling, Techstars

Our guest today is passionate about enabling the next generation of entrepreneurs to build high-growth businesses. He believes they are more important than ever to create innovation, jobs and to keep Europe competitive. And there is nothing more powerful for a new business than to find its North Star and ensure that everybody can recite it in their sleep.

🎧 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.

🎧 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.

🎧 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.

🎧 YouTube Jumps Into Podcasting (Big Podcast Insider – Issue 70)

This is the audio companion to Issue 70 of Big Podcast Insider. If you’re interested in more info on what I talk about on this episode and also links, that’s where to go.   Big Podcast Insider is a weekly newsletter on podcasting. If you like the content of this episode, consider subscribing – it’s free and you can unsubscribe at any time.

🎧 How to Maintain Velocity Without Sacrificing Quality: Interview with Qualio Founder and CEO Robert Fenton

In this episode of Medsider Radio, we sat down with Robert Fenton, the founder and CEO of Qualio, a cloud-based all-in-one quality management system (QMS) for life sciences companies.  Prior to founding Qualio in 2012, Robert studied pharmacy for five years at the University College Cork, practiced as a community pharmacist, and spent time in quality and R&D roles at global pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer and LEO Pharma.

🎧 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.

🎧 Arus Oil Raised RM100,000 from VC Funding and Grants (Tips to Raise Funds)

In this episode of Getting Funded MY, we have Syazwan Majid from Arus Oil to share how they managed to raise RM100k from VC Funding and Grants. The areas covered include: – The story of Arus Oil – The process of recycling with Arus Oil – What happens after Arus Oil collects the used cooking oil – Arus Oil’s funding journey – How Arus Oil found out about the IOI Kickstart program – Terms and conditions of the IOI Kickstart grant – Increasing chances of winning pre-seed funding – Arus Oil’s collection terms for areas outside of Selangor – Plans to utilise the RM100k raised

🎧 Investing Nerdy & Early, The Story of Auth0’s Seed Round, and Why You Shouldn’t Leave to Start “The Right” Company (Sunil Nagaraj)

Sunil Nagaraj of Ubiquity Ventures joins Nick to discuss Investing Nerdy & Early, The Story of Auth0’s Seed Round, and Why You Shouldn’t Leave to Start “The Right” Company.  Missed a recent episode? Go to The Full Ratchet blog and catch up! Also, follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

🎧 Startup Fridays Season 2 Ep. 6: ‘Entrepreneurship isn’t a lifestyle, it’s a life time of perseverance’ — Naga Prakasam

Our guest today is Nagaraja Prakasam, an angel investor and startup mentor. Before he turned investor full time, Naga, as everyone knows him, had a successful career in the software industry. Over the years, he’s turned his focus to impact investment and it remains his passion. He is also a bit of a globetrotter and has visited 26 countries. He is an advisor and mentor at various startup incubators, including the NSRCEL in IIM Bangalore

🎧 20VC: How I Lost a $125M Deal with Yahoo by Being Too Honest, The M&A Meeting with Steve Jobs That Did Not Go Well and How U2’s Bono Saved The Day For

Ali Partovi is the CEO @ Neo, a mentorship community and communal VC fund that announced their new $150M fund last year on the back of early hits from Fund I including Vanta and Kalshi. As an angel, Ali has made personal investments in Dropbox, Uber, Airbnb, Facebook, Convoy and many more. Prior to investing, Ali founded 2 companies, the first; LinkExchange which he sold to Microsoft for $265M in 1998 and the second, iLike which was acquired by Microsoft in 2009.

🎧 Matidor on the Startup Talk Podcast

Vincent Lam and Sean Huang co founders of Matidor join the Startup Coach to talk about starting up in Shanghai, serial entrepreneurship, raising capital, startup screwups, and who is the better badminton player on episode 116 of The Startup Talk Podcast Check out Matidor at Links Mention in the Podcast * Upcoming Events * Equivesto Equity Crowdfunding * TorontoStarts Entrepreneur and Startup Community * Google Accelerator   Find out more about Matidor on social: * Twitter * LinkedIn * Facebook Register for Startup and Entrepreneur Events here Toronto

🎧 S03E32: Following Tech Optimism from Cupertino to Singapore, Finding Founder-Angel Fit, and Learning By Doing with Angel Investor and GTM Leader Andy

We’re back with another episode in partnership with Insignia Ventures Academy (IVA), Asia’s first experiential VC accelerator! We went on call with Andy Hwang, former Google and Facebook go-to-market leader, now angel investor and startup advisor in Southeast Asia. He’s also an alumnus of IVA, and more recently has been a mentor for the second cohort of the program.

🎧 Code Smoke Signals and Nomad Health Funding

CodeSignal, a technical assessment platform dedicated to helping companies, including Facebook, Roblox, Zoom, Robinhood, and others, make data-driven hiring decisions in tech recruiting, announced $50M in Series C funding and the launch of CodeSignal’s new advanced Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that unlocks highly relevant assessment experiences.

🎧 596. News: Visa and Amazon call a truce – but for how long?

Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher and Gwera Kiwana, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week’s guests are: Ron Shevlin, Chief Research Officer, Cornerstone Advisors Eric Johansson, Tech Editor, Verdict Paddy O’Neil, Country Manager UK, Spendesk With soundclips from: Michael Hershfield, Founder and CEO, Accrue Savings We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Amazon to continue accepting Visa credit cards in UK as it bids to resolve payment disp

🎧 191. Steve Baxter on investing in startups

We’re taking the journey into the brave new world of startups and startup investing, continuing the conversation with successful startup founder, tech startup investor and Shark Tank star Steve Baxter. Last week we delved into the entrepreneurial world as we followed Steve’s own journey to startup success and what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur.

🎧 37 – State of seed investing with Stephen Page of SFC Capital

Recently, SFC Capital and Beauhurst issued a report about the seed investing market. It showed some interesting, and rather worrying, trends. In this episode, Stephen Page, CEO of SFC Capital discusses the report and the seed market. The big news in the report is a decline in seed funding over the past couple of years.

🎧 New Blizzard Game, $1.5B Saudi ESL FACEIT Acquisition, Kotaku PC Gamer Rumors, Lame Guild HQ, Spyke $55M Seed, Netflix Ambitions

In the latest weekly news and podcast after-show (sponsored by YouGov), we discuss Blizzard developing a new survival game, Sony expecting Activision titles to continue to operate on multiple platforms, Bobby Kotick considering buying Kotaku and PC Gamer, Saudi-based Savvy Gaming Group buying ESL Gaming for over $1 billion, Guild Esports opening a new headquarters, China denying trademark applications for metaverse related terms, Spyke Games raising $55 million in seed funding, Netflix trying to offer the “best gaming service available,” and so much more!

🎧 748: Elliott Bisnow | Make No Small Plans

Entrepreneurship can feel a bit like being on your own island, but Elliott Bisnow is connecting like-minded people to make big things from small groups. Elliot is the Co-Founder of Summit Group, whose family of organizations includes Powder Mountain, Summit Series, Summit Junto, and Summit Impact.  Elliot is a startup investor, having made almost 50 early-stage investments.

🎧 Startup 101: How to Master Fundraising

In ‘Startup 101: How to Master Fundraising’, Brian Ma presents us with a Fundraising Bootcamp. As the founder of various successful startups, Brian is no stranger to the process of fundraising. In this session, he will cover the fundamentals of fundraising and common mistakes founders are making. Topics discussed in this episode: 00:35 The importance of funding 01:05 Different funding paths 02:45 What matters when it comes towards funding: external factors, internal factors, and creating FOMO.

🎧 Venture capital funding increases by almost 20% in third quarter to €231m

Venture capital funding into Irish SMEs increased by 19% to almost a quarter of a billion Euro or €231m in the third quarter of 2021, compared to €193m last year, according to the survey published by Irish Venture Capital Association VenturePuls. Funding into SMEs, mostly tech firms, for the nine months to end September 2021 reached €872m, up 11% from €786m last year.

🎧 Ksenia Yudina (UNest) – How she’s Helping Parents Invest in Their Kids

Our guest is Ksenia Yudina, the Founder and CEO of UNest, the first mobile app that makes it easier than ever for parents to open a simple and affordable tax-advantaged investment account for their kids. We talk about how she immegrated to the U.S., transitioning careers from real estate to finance and where she realized alot of new parents are very motivated to invest in their parents, but don’t kow where to go.

🎧 Ensure Your Startup Growth: Tips on Capital Raising Using Special Purpose Vehicle and Strategic Deployment – The Journey of Tara Spalding

As a founder, you need to be strategic about your plans for startup growth. Capital raising alone won’t be the solution to your cash flow problems. Instead of focusing on this, you need to know if you’re building a sustainable and profitable business. Because no matter how successful you are at capital raising, it’s pointless if you don’t know how to deploy these resources.

🎧 GSU Main Street Entrepreneurs Seed Fund Demo Day 2021

Georgia State’s Main Street Entrepreneurs Seed Fund (MSESF) program is supported by the Marcus Foundation with a $300,000 grant to assist underrepresented student entrepreneurs, recent alumni, and Georgia State community entrepreneurs with seed funding and mentorship to start and grow new ventures. Jamine Moton And MK Khan / Georgia State’s Main Street Entrepreneurs Seed Fund […]

🎧 AI Video Sales Calls? Revenue Operations Platforms? | This Week In sales

On this week in sales we’ll be looking at; AI on video calls, revenue operation platforms, answering your questions and much more! Sales news: The Emergence Of The Revenue Operations Platform Revenue Operations – they are generally trying to describe a better way to manage the people, process, and technology of growth.

🎧 EP 142 : Investing in India SaaS – Alok Goyal (Partner, Stellaris Venture Partners) | Early Stage Investing | Fundraising | Startup Building

Alok is finance professional turned investor and is a partner at Stellaris Venture Partners. He mostly invests in SaaS startups in the Indian ecosystem and has witnessed the evolution of both the SaaS space and the VC space for the past decade. In this episode Alok spoke about how the VC and SaaS spaces have evolved, how the people in these industries have changed, what new entrepreneurs should keep in mind while raising funds in 2021 and more in his conversation with Roshan Cariappa.

🎧 Slightly Unconscionable

Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including a GAO report on AI – Status of Developing and Acquiring Capabilities for Weapon Systems [1:01]. The U.S. Army has awarded a contract for the demonstration of an offensive drone swarm capability (the HIVE small Unmanned Aircraft System), seemingly similar but distinct from DARPA’s OFFSET demo [4:11].

🎧 Music, Entrepreneurship & Embracing Non-Work – Paul Canetti

Paul Canetti is a professor at Columbia Business School and sits on the Strategic Advisory Board of Riverside Acceleration Capital. We explore his initial passion for music growing up, how he became an accidental founder, and how he’s exploring his relationship with work after exiting his startup.   He was named one of Inc.

🎧 SimplyDelivery, Logical Clocks,Endgame, Quantexa, Sourcegraph, Eka Ventures, Pantheon, AttackIQ, Impact, Marco Financial, Arctic Wolf, Remote, Amperit

SimplyDelivery secured €10 million in a Series A funding round, Logical Clocks secured €5M (approx. USD 5.9M in a Series A round, Fortive Corporation acquire ServiceChannel, Endgame has raised a total of $17 million, Quantexa raised $153 million, Sourcegraph has raised $125M in Series D, Eka Ventures, a UK-based venture capital firm, has completed its $95 million, Pantheon raising $100 million in Series E funding from SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Motorola Solutions to acquire Openpath Security solutions, AttackIQ has raised $44 million in a Series C funding, Impact has raised $105 million, Marc

🎧 103. News: HUMN, Amenli and Getsafe prove it’s a good time to raise money

Nigel Walsh and Benjamin Ensor are joined by a great panel of guests to discuss the most recent and exciting news in the world of Insurtech. Joining us today are: Susan Holliday, Senior Adviser, International Finance Corporation (IFC) Mark Musson, Founder of HUMN We cover the following stories: London-based insurtech Humn secures £10.

🎧 Space startup Wyvern raises $4.5M and joins YC’s latest cohort

A Canadian startup working at the cutting edge of satellite imaging has raised $4.5 million across a combination of a $2.25 million seed round, and $2.25 million from a combined pre-seed and government funding.

🎧 Free Startup Fundraising AMA Office Hours w/Angel Investor Scott Fox

Have questions about raising venture capital? How to find product/market fit? Angel investors? Pitch decks? Building your team? Protecting your intellectual property? How to find investors? Starting a company as a first-time, female, or minority founder? Bring your startup questions and challenges to the Startup Council’s FREE founder support “Ask Me Anything Startup Office Hours”.