DueDash Investability Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Fundraising is an event, but what happens before and after? Qualitative investor relations are the basis of future success for both founders and investors.
If you are a founder having difficulties handling investor curveball questions or an investor wondering how to find the next golden startup deal, then this is the podcast for you.
Join us as we explore the exciting trends and challenges in the FinTech industry with Tahira Dosani, Managing Partner of ResilienceVC. From the highs of new FinTech unicorns to the lows of The First Republic Bank panic, 2023 was a rollercoaster. With the industry set to triple by 2030, Tahira shares insights on what FinTech founders need to succeed with both customers and investors, and the growing importance of impact. Drawing from her experience at Accion Venture Lab, LeapFrog Investments, and launching Afghanistan’s first mobile money platform, Tahira offers a deep dive into the future of FinTech. Don't miss this compelling conversation on the disruptions reshaping the industry.
In this episode, we explore tech and innovation with investor Alois Eder. With 20 years in the high-tech industry at major players like Texas Instruments, Siemens, Infineon, and Intel, Alois brings a wealth of experience. He's managed global organizations in engineering and business roles and co-founded Intel's startup growth program, Ignite, in 2021, where he now focuses on driving innovation and engaging with startups. Join us for this captivating interview with Alois Eder.
In this episode, join Dr. Aarti Gupta, a seasoned investment strategist with 13+ years as Chief Investment Officer at Jagran Group, where she masterfully manages family assets and seeks innovative solutions. Discover her unique perspective, forged by her expertise in investment strategy and economics. Learn about her role as an investor on India's TV show, Horses Stable, and her commitment to women's entrepreneurship through FICCI FLO Start-ups. Dr. Gupta's extensive experience as a board member for family-owned businesses and start-ups, along with her impressive credentials including a PhD from IIT Kanpur and a Harvard University post-graduate diploma, make her a trailblazer in the investment world. Tune in for insights on entrepreneurship, investment, and finance, and delve into her advocacy for global women's empowerment via Harvard Alumni for Global Women's Empowerment.
In this captivating episode, join Andreas, a Partner at Kompas VC, as he takes us on a remarkable journey of venture capital and sustainable innovation. With his vast experience in investment, Andreas spearheads impactful investments across eastern and southern Europe, as well as the German speaking region. Discover how his dedication to creating a better world led him to pivotal roles, such as Managing Director of an Energy- and Smart-City venture fund in Austria, and Investment Director for Europe and Israel at the renowned Volvo Cars Tech Fund. Andreas's unwavering commitment to reducing our modern lifestyle's environmental impact shines through as he focuses on minimizing carbon footprints in the built environment and improving the quality of life for individuals in their homes. Tune in for captivating insights and explore the intersection of venture capital, sustainability, and the pursuit of a brighter future.
Anton Wibowo has more than 12 years of diverse business, management, and investment experience in the Singaporean biotechnology and agribusiness communities.
Anton led Biomax Group's technical and sales teams, served on the investment committee, and was a key contributor to an award-winning biotech company recycling waste into fertilizer while serving as the company's operations director and former business development director. He led the company's investment committee and was a key contributor to an effective multimillion-dollar fundraising effort with institutional and individual investors.
As CEO of The Trendlines Group, Anton oversees their S$25M Agrifood Fund and invests in innovation-based agrifood tech companies that improve quality of life. Pay heed to this episode to find out why he is so passionate about investing in innovative startups with a greater purpose.
Raising capital during an economic crisis can be a challenging task, José shares what is important here. Co-founding Dux Capital, José Luis is an enthusiast for business development, finance, startups, and golf. Prior to receiving a BA in Finance from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico City, he obtained an MBA from the IE Business School in Madrid, where he focused on private equity and venture capital, and a dual certificate from Singapore Management University. José Luis has founded over eight startups, with both successes and failures. Listen to this episode to learn how he took a chance by leaving his job to start a path that led to him being a successful and motivational investor.
Tae Hea co-founded Storm Ventures, an early stage VC fund based in Silicon Valley. Storm has invested in nearly 200 B2B software companies leading to 11 unicorns, including Marketo, Talkdesk and Workato. At Storm, Tae Hea was the founding CEO of Airespace, a B2B startup, which was later sold to Cisco for $450m. Storm has been actively investing in Europe leading to 4 European unicorns: Algolia in France, Pipedrive in Estonia, Solarisbank in Germany and Talkdesk in Portugal.
An investor and growth specialist, he offers insights into why Storm Ventures invests in B2B startups and how they can help businesses unlock growth. In addition, he explains how their investment filters work in pre-revenue companies, depending on whether they will invest in a startup that has a promising team structure or one that already exhibits high traction. Learn more in this episode about how to identify the right startups to invest in and how to manage them to achieve revenue success.
Angel investor with a track record of success, Mandi Joshi, partner at Asia's largest intergrated incubator, Venture Catalysts, managing partner at Ms Strategy Global, and director at Horse Production, a multimedia production company that is co-producing India's first TV series on start-up investment with Bollywood superstar Suniel Shetty.
As an experienced investor, he knows what is required by investors in founders and startups to enable them to take a chance on them at all stages of the company's growth. Sharing his extensive investment experience, he discusses the traits, drive, business models and innovative solutions that investors seek in startups and founders. Additionally, he shares insights into how he helps startups and founders through the TV show he produces, "Horses Stable".
Michael is the Managing Partner and co-founder of the early-stage venture capital firm Cocoon Capital. Cocoon focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage deep tech and enterprise tech companies across SE Asia. Set up alongside Will Klippgen in 2016, Cocoon adopts a hands-on, founder-first approach to investing.
Rev. Dr. M. Keith Daniel is the Co-Founder and Managing Director for Resilient Ventures, LLC acommitted capital fund investing in AfricanAmerican-led high-growth companies. He is also the owner of Madison Consulting Group,LLC (MCG), a company committed to serving individuals and institutions striving for the greatest good where all may enjoy flourishing work and life outcomes.
Two experienced investors share their secrets on connecting with investors and getting your early stage startup funded as a first time founder.
Sunny Kumar is a Partner at GSR Ventures, where he focuses on investments in early-stage companies applying artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to the healthcare sector. He is a physician as well as a published medical researcher with a focus on applying informatics and artificial intelligence to translational medicine in the fields of neurosurgery and gene therapy. Serial entrepreneur, he founded a company to reduce readmissions for high-risk chronic disease patients using voice-enabled natural language processing.
A graduate of Yale University, Sunny earned a BS in Molecular Biology and an MD from Stanford University School of Medicine. Markets are shaken to the core by some companies. They can transform whole industries and have a profound impact. However, such companies are rare and difficult to identify at an early stage. This episode gives us a glimpse into how funds looking for unicorns find these gems and decide which companies to back.
Giuseppe Stuto is a first US generation, Boston-based entrepreneur who currently serves as the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of 186 Ventures, an early-stage VC fund. Prior to co-founding 186 Ventures, Giuseppe was the Co-Founder and CEO of Fam, a group video technology start-up that exited to DraftKings in 2018.
Today Giuseppe spends most of his time investing in and helping entrepreneurs build in web3, FinTech, Future of Work, Media, and Digital Health. A founder turned successful venture capitalist shares what well-established VC investors expect from early-stage startups as well as how to gain the confidence of such investors to be venture capitalists.
Ellen is passionate about innovation and about helping build great companies in Philadelphia. She is the Executive Director of Robin Hood Ventures , a leading angel group helping to fuel startup growth in the Philadelphia region. She also serves as the Executive Director of Mid-Atlantic Diamond Ventures, a venture forum for early-stage companies, and serves as adjunct faculty for Temple University’s Fox School of Business. In this episode, Ellen shares her insights on how angel networks help startups succeed in early stages, and how startups can pitch these networks to convince their members to invest.
Amos is an expert in robotics, a serial innovator, and the Co-CEO and Co-founder of Sparkfield. He has a proved track record with successful launches of innovative products, services, and business models in the sectors automotive, home and garden, agriculture, and Iot. How big is it? A common question investors will ask when it comes to market size. If they invest in you, they want to make sure you have a market that is worth investing in. They also want to know how much of that market you can actually capture and how fast it is growing. How do you calculate these numbers and present a market that investors will be interested in? This and other topics will be covered in this episode.
Priscilla Pecci is a Partner at Craftwerx Capital, CEO & Co-founder of Thrival Energy. Trival is her new venture as she brings a wealth of experience in global media and technology.With Priscilla's expertise in 5G media, and her partner's expertise in military and government, Trival aims for deeptech companies with dual use cases, whether commercial, government or military.
It is her interest in the evolving metaverse and its relationship to currencies, tokenization, and NFTs that she highlights, as well as the importance of a start-up with a complementary diverse team and traction, as well as startups that can demonstrate the problem they are trying to solve and have dedicated founders that can activate their roadmaps.
Amy was a managing partner of Quake Capital. Forbes ranks Quake among the top 10 seed investors, as well as the top ten leading investors in the United States. The company invests in companies that tend to have traction based on merit, rising above the level of high excellence. The importance of adding more female partners to the investment industry is discussed, as well as why a startup with high traction attracts numerous investors without hesitation.
Varun Goenka is CEO of Charge Up, a battery swapping company, where they are building Bharath's largest battery swapping network. From a business family and now a resident of Delhi. He discusses how Charge Up has improved the livelihood of the majority of drivers in India and how the company still stands to gain more market share, with a market valued at more than a billion rupees.
A seasoned angel investor, he has a deep understanding of how to build companies from early stages to later stages and then take them to Nasdaq. Startups that have a strong team and a disruptive approach to their industry attract his interest. Increasing the value of a startup and ensuring its longevity on the market is his aim. Learn about the traits Matt looks for in a startup founder before aligning himself with it.
Shalibhadra has more than 25 years of experience in the media industry . Previously, he was CEO of a leading Design and Production company in India. With a friend, he created ABC Talkies, India's first film tech and marketplace. In the coming year, he outlines the expansion plans for his media house company ABC Talkies, which aims to deliver quality content at affordable rates, changing the media game in India.
Jens is one of Europe’s most active angel investors, making 20 investments per year. Based in Berlin, he is a Founding Partner & CEO of Angel Invest. Jen shares his intrinsic motivation that has contributed to him being the prolific angel investor he is. Startups that revolutionize innovation are what fascinate him, and he invests in those companies.
Early in his career, Joe worked for several startups, giving him extensive knowledge of how startups operate, which led him to discover his passion for investing. In this episode, we’ll examine Joe’s road to investment success, as well as learn his insights into what he looks for in startups from series A who can demonstrate high traction, longevity, and financial stability.
In this session, we interviewed Jitesh, who led the business development at Blume, and Radhika, who is part of the investment team. Learn how this leading fund decides which are the future champions of tomorrow.
Kyle Kling sources seed and series A startups for MDI within the United States. He has invested in and supported more than 30 startups globally, built 4 international offices, and assist in raising 9 funds. He shares with us what the investment arm of Indonesia's largest SOE is looking for in startups.
Gonzalo has been an entrepreneur his whole life before he moved to the other side of the table and became an investor. He is motivated to support the next great agritech entrepreneurs of Latin America. From go to market, to uncovering market dynamics to remain competitive and relevant, learn from his expertise.
Gurukool comes from the traditional form of education common in India in the past where children were sent to learn. And just like a gurukool focused on teaching the principles a person should live by Ntasha looks carefully at founders and what sets them apart. From team synergies to clearly being able to explain what your product is actually about she shares what founders need to raise funding.
In this episode, Parul is interviewing Halogen Ventures partner Alexa Binns. Halogen Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in consumer technology companies led by women. Learn how they support women entrepreneurship and what they want to see in founders they invest in.
In our first investor interview on the investability podcast, Katja Ruhnke from CK Venture shares how driving impact led her to become an investor, what she considers as important when investing in startups, and much more.
How to build a socially impactful business and make money at the same time? Social entrepreneurship can be a challenging field. So how to succeed? There is none better to ask than somebody who succeeded at it! Building impactful and profitable social enterprises is what Berat Kjamili was born for. Through his work, he has impacted over 20 million lives through two migration management services when he was only 18. He co-founded the biggest hackathon in Turkey, the Coronathon Turkey. In addition, he initiated also the world's biggest hackathon: #EUvsVirus. Then his company Migport, which he co-founded, bridges refugees and locals through the Migport App. On top, he won 23 awards and published book chapters and articles. So enjoy this episode of the DueDash Investability podcast when we dive deep into social entrepreneurship.