Digital Innovation Chat

Brian Hosie is a VP of Engineering at Lendio, which is a free online marketplace that helps business owners find the right lenders and secure loans within minutes. Lendio was founded in 2011, now the company employes 474 team members and raised a total of $108.5M in funding. In this episode, we're gonna talk about: - How to get a loan with Lendio. - The growth of team size from 100 to 400 team members. - How do they structure teams to make each team autonomous. - Why Utah is a growing tech hub in the US. Visit Cleevio.com to learn more.

Emanuele Blanco is the CTO at Moneyfarm, an app-based investment platform and one of the largest digital wealth management companies in Europe. It aims to make investing easy, accessible, and cheap. To this day, Moneyfarm has secured $127.3M in total funding, and in this episode, we're gonna talk about: - How does Moneyfarm disrupt traditional financial advisors? - Mobile vs Display: Where do most of the users come from? - What is next in their product roadmap? - The revenue model of Moneyfarm?

David Werner is a Head Of Engineering at Exporo, an equity crowdinvesting platform for real estate in Germany. Exporo allows private investors to start investing in attractive real estate projects with a starting amount of 500€. Since its foundation in November 2014, Exporo has financed around 200 real estate projects, and raising a total of €59.2M in funding over 3 rounds. In this episode, we're gonna talk about: - An emerging trend of digital real estate investing. - How does blockchain technology allow them to lower costs and dependencies. - What is the average return on crowdinvestments into real estate? - How did they simplify the traditional real estate investment process in Germany? -What is the revenue model for Exporo?

Karin Tsai is a Director of Engineering at Duolingo, is the most popular language-learning platform and the most downloaded education app in the world, with more than 300 million users. In December 2019 Duolingo was valued at $1.5 billion, making it Pittsburgh's first startup to reach "unicorn" status. Visit Cleevio.com to learn more.

Matthew Kramer is the VP Of Engineering at VenueNext, which is a leader in point-of-sale, mobile commerce, and loyalty solutions and is used by every major professional sports venue around the world – transforming the way fans shop, order, and pay. To this day, VenueNext has secured $24M in total funding, and in this episode, we're gonna talk about: The ways how VenueNext is redefining experiences for the sport fans How "IOS 14 App Clips" is pushing the new vision for the app industry How COVID-19 transformed their industry

Sebastian Honores is the Director of Product Management at Fever, which is a scaleup company that studies consumer data to recommend events for booking and helps companies plan those events. In total funding, Fever has secured $71.8M from notable VCs such as Rakuten and Accel. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Jago Philippens is a Head of Engineering at TicketSwap which is a safe, convenient, and fair place to buy and sell e-tickets for concerts, festivals, sports events, theatre, and day trips. They protect their ticket buyers from overpricing by keeping to a maximum of 20% mark-up from the original ticket sales price. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Tamer Qtaish is the CTO at homie.rent which used to be a prop-tech London-based startup making renting hassle-free for renters and agents alike. Their personal home finders helped renters understand renting and take care of all logistics so they don't waste time finding their ideal home. They also work alongside agents to drive them qualified and move-ready tenants, increasing their deal flow and transactions. The company recently transitioned into building software for real estate businesses, trading under the name Realpro. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Joe Petterson is the CTO at Banked which is a fintech startup that powers real-time payments for consumers, businesses and banks. Their dream is to ensure everyone gets paid in the fastest, cheapest, most efficient way possible, so they're driving an irreversible shift in global payments. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Zach Silverman is the Co-Founder & CTO of LeafLink which is the largest wholesale cannabis marketplace today.LeafLink partners with growing cannabis brands to simplify how retailers order the products they love online. They are the industry standard platform for orders, sales, and relationship management. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Tom Reay is the CTO at Flux Systems and a former VP of engineering at Revolut. At Flux Systems he helped develop a software platform that keeps a track of payment receipts by automatically linking them to payment cards. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Yaron Shoshani is the CTO of ezbob which is a UK based software provider for banks and other financial institutions and a pioneer in the rapidly growing ‘lending-as-a-service' (LaaS) sector. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Ramon Ferraz is the CEO at 2gether, which is the fast-growing crypto trading app based in Spain, that allows traders and beginners to buy and sell cryptocurrencies at the real market price and without added fees. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Russ Greenspan is the CTO at PresenceLearning, which is the leading provider of live online clinical education-related services for K12 students, with over 2.5 million online teletherapy sessions happen up to this day. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Pau Ramon is the CTO of Factorial which is a human resources software platform for small and medium companies that integrates all HR processes in a single place. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Barney Jackson is the Head of Engineering at allplants which is an award-winning planet-positive food brand with around 90+ employees on a mission to build Earth's most forward-thinking food company. They already served almost 1,000,000 meals to homes all over the UK, subscribing to an easier way to enjoy plant-based living. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Todd Zino is the CTO of Trussle which is a free online mortgage broker that works with much-needed transparency. They help first-time buyers and existing homeowners save time and money securing a great-value mortgage online. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Pau Picas is the Head of Mobile at Stuart which is a leading last-mile delivery platform that connects small and big businesses to a fleet of geolocalized couriers. They empower thousands of companies across Europe by providing same-day delivery, next-day delivery, and return solutions, and currently, they work across verticals with retailers, grocery stores, restaurants, and eCommerce merchants to enable smarter transportation models. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Michael Schenck is the VP of Engineering at Ikos which is delivering a scalable leasing service for residential landlords that improves their occupancy rates and provides real-time market data for rental, rehab, and investment decisions. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Hass Chapman is the CTO and VP Product at Drover which is a VC-backed marketplace company offering monthly, all-in car subscriptions to customers who want to experience car ownership as it should be.   Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Ryan King is a Principal Mobile Engineer at Oodle Car Finance which is a car finance company that matches customers with the UK's best car dealers. Their vision is a simple, streamlined, and intelligent car buying, with personalized service and support. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Martin Fjordvald is a VP of Engineering at CompareEuropeGroup which is a pan-European, leading financial comparison platform. The Group helps people across Europe save money and make better choices about personal finance with comprehensive, free, and independent online comparison tools for insurance, credit cards, personal loans, and other financial products. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Mike Tolliver is the Director of Product Experience at Mersive Technologies which offers their product Solstice as a cloud-enabled meeting collaboration platform that is optimized for both local and remote teams. It allows simultaneous users to wirelessly share content to the room display and seamlessly bridges to remote locations using any major video conferencing service.  Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Bryon Jacob is the CTO and co-founder of data.world which is the modern catalog for data and analysis. data.world makes it easy for everyone to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. In addition to its enterprise product, data.world is home to the world's largest collaborative open data community. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.  

Christopher "CJ" Jordan is the VP of Product & Engineering at Hive, which is the real-time project management tool behind rockstar teams at Uber, Google, Starbucks, Essence, and more. In this episode, CJ is going to talk about his approach to scaling up after raising the Series A round at Hive, share his opinion on building the remote and distributed teams, and explain the impact of COVID-19 on their business. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Ezequiel Cura is a VP of Engineering at Badi which is redefining urban housing in cities such as London, Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin through its AI-powered online booking platform, that provides users with a seamless and secure room rental experience. Since it launched, Badi has succeeded in raising $45 million with five rounds of financing, and together with Ezequiel we're going to chat about the impact of the COVID-19 on their market, what are his best practices when it comes to hiring the best engineering talent, and why is he a fan of in-house engineering teams vs outsourcing.  Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

  Jonathan Lister Parsons is a CTO at PensionBee, the UK's leading online pension provider, that helps to transfer old pensions into one new plan, and that can easily be managed online.   In this episode, Jonathan is going to talk about his transition from running a consultancy agency to running a scaleup Fintech company, explain the reasons for choosing a cross-platform framework for their mobile apps, and share an impact of Covid-19 on the pension plan industry and particularly on the PensionBee. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Nathan Creswell is a Head of Product at Vector, a first mobile workflow, and a transportation management platform for shippers, logistics brokers, and carriers. Nathan talks about prioritization of the future product roadmap in B2B software space, determines the required steps for building a scalable B2B product, tells how to build an architecture that would provide flexibility, and gives advice on the correct allocation resources. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Nitsan Seniak is the CTO at iziwork, a French-based temporary employment platform that offers temporary agency workers simple and instant access to a wide range of assignments. In this episode, Nitsan talks about scaling up a startup that raised €12,000,000 in Series A, explains how they disrupt the traditional temporary agency market, and shares why they choose a native instead of a cross-platform development framework. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Nishant Nayak is a Product and Design Leader at Zenjob, an automated staffing platform that connects large and medium-sized companies to student employees. In this episode, Nishant is going to describe the work of their matching algorithm, share future plans at Zenjob, explain how they intend to expand globally and tell his opinion regarding thinking long-term about product vision Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Florian Sauter is a CTO and Co-Founder at eGym, a Germany based cloud-connected system that combines intelligent software with the latest fitness equipment In this episode, Florian talks about the idea behind smart fitness solutions, walks through the eGym growth to over 200 employees, shares how they raised over $100 million in funding and breaks down technology that has been developing for over 11 years. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.  

Chris Ostrowski is a CTO at Dutchie, which is the fastest-growing online ordering platform for cannabis retailers, that offers a convenient, easy, and safe way to order on-demand for delivery or pickup. In this episode, Chris talks about a business model of Dutchie, shares the most notable investors such as Snoop Dog and Kevin Durant, tells how the cannabis delivery works, tells how they overcome the challenges with payment processing in the most regulated industry in the world and explains why they still do not have a native mobile app. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Blanca Lanaspa is the VP of Product at Nextail Labs, which is a new generation platform for retail merchandising that empowers brands and retailers to sell more with less stock through hyper-local demand forecasting and agile process automation. In this episode, Blanca talks about the economic value of their AI platform for retailers, discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the retail industry, shares its effect on Nextail Labs in particular, and explains the right time for the early-stage companies to bring outside people on the senior positions. Visit Nextail Labs for more information.

Richard Earl is a Product Director at EO Charging, which is the UK's leading designer and manufacturer of Electric Vehicle (EV) smart charging point station pod for home office or commercial installations. In his episode, Richard is going to talk about the idea behind EO Charging, explain the reasons for designing products for both residential and commercial installations, walk us through his prototype building processes, and tell briefly about COVID-19 impact on their business. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Giles Chamberlin is the CTO and Co-Founder of Pexip, a company that simplifies complex video communication and conferencing for organizations of any size. Its scalable, cloud-native platform enables high-quality video meetings, interoperability with Microsoft and Google solutions, and video system device registration. In this episode, Giles talks about Pexip's stock market debut during the lockdown that became the First Fully-Virtual IPO in history, shares the evolution of Pexip from the early MVP to a robust application that disrupts the video communications market, and explains how COVID-19 impacted their business. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

John Underkoffler is a founder and ex-CEO of Oblong Industries, an award-winning maker of multi-stream, gesture-based collaboration solutions. Oblong's technological expertise built on 10 years of his work at the MIT Media Lab. John also was a science advisor to blockbusters including Iron Man, The Hulk, and Minority Report. In this episode, John describes the early days of Oblong Industries, shares his opinion on the impediments for big ideas in a current startup ecosystem, talks about the future breakthrough of UI, and explains who would be responsible for the disruption in the UI space. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Matt Weber is the CTO at Forager, a freight-matching startup and the leader in cross-border logistics that combines cutting-edge technology and decades of industry experience. In this episode, Matt talks about the idea behind building their cross-border freight-matching marketplace, shares his experience of transitioning from running an agency to running a software company, explains the reason for building a web app rather than a mobile app, and shares his vision on the future of Forager. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

Jim Hunter is the CTO of Delos, which is the global wellness pioneer on a mission to enhance the health & well-being of people in the built world. Jim will share with us why he's so excited about the mission at Delos, how he goes about outsourcing or building in-house, what are some specific challenges of an IoT company without having the hardware in-house, and what's their process for building new products. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.  

In today's episode, Jan interviews Jason Kirton who's the Director of Engineering at Dispatch, which is a scale-up that enables businesses to order a courier directly from the driver. We're going to discuss why Jason joined Dispatch, how he thinks about outsourcing software development and organizing his teams in a scale-up mode, and how did COVID-19 impact their industry. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

In today's episode, Jan interviews Jacob Radkiewicz who's the VP of Engineering at ShipBob, which is a Chicago based scale-up that offers simple, fast, and affordable fulfillment for e-commerce businesses. We're going to discuss why Jacob joined Shipbob, how he organizes his 40 engineers by business function, why they chose to build an iOS app for the warehouse workers, and how he recruited over 400 engineers in his career. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

In today's episode, Jan interviews John Harrison who's the Senior Director of Engineering at Lucid, which is the parent company of two cloud-based visual productivity solutions: Lucidchart and Lucidpress with $166.1M funding under its belt. We're going to discuss how John started at Lucid, how he currently goes about organizing his 30 development teams, and why hiring  UX resources is a bigger bottleneck than hiring engineers for Lucid. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

In today's episode, Jan interviews Ryan Gay who's the CTO of Decision Lens, which is a software that improves the speed and quality of prioritization and resource optimization for enterprise companies, governments, or federal agencies. We're going to discuss how Ryan goes about outsourcing and working with distributed teams globally, why he chose a remote culture model and how they scaled up from 6 people to over 80 employees. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.

In today's episode, Jan interviews Daniel Mackey who's the founder and CTO of Teamwork.com, which is a collaboration software that includes work management, helpdesk, chat, sales CRM and content collaboration workspace. We're going to discuss how Daniel bootstrapped a $30M ARR business as a small agency owner from Cork. You're also going to learn why Daniel spent 500K euros on a domain teamwork.com, how he organizes his 125 engineers across 5 offices globally and what is the future for Teamwork.com

In today's episode, Jan interviews AJ 'Dr Doom' Shewki who's the founder of a VR startup LIV. We're going to discuss how is VR going to change the world after the coronavirus crisis, how can companies utilize VR for employee training and what's the future of VR. LIV powers spectator experiences for Virtual Reality for the audience outside the headset and their proprietary technology puts real people inside digital worlds and broadcasts that experience to the world, in real-time.