SE Tech Podcast - Hosted by MMM Tech Law

In this episode, we speak with Ricky Steele, Author of The Heart of Networking. The Heart of Networking is a book written by Ricky Steele cohesively painting the picture of his remarkable story while revealing step-by-step the secrets of building your own business network. A story of pain and triumph preparing you for a lifetime commitment to an ethic of service and excellence.

In this episode, we speak with Lee Demby, Co-Founder of Boardroom Insiders. Boardroom Insiders is a business intelligence platform designed to help sales and marketing teams target the C-suite to close bigger deals faster. It allows companies to tap a digital database of 26,000+ executive profiles, each containing a wealth of insight into the C-level leaders at the largest companies in the U.S.

In this episode, we speak with Gary Campbell, CEO & Co-Founder of WineView. WineView makes wine more accessible to the average consumer while helping restaurants sell more wine. In addition, they provide the infrastructure for beverage directors and managers to build out custom wine training specified to their wine list and menu. The WineView database has indexed well over 400,000 wines and has worked with over 500 restaurants to help people find their next favorite glass of wine.

In this episode, we speak with Angel Rutledge, Co-Founder of Meetify. Meetify is a mobile app that simplifies the process of scheduling in person meetings. Meetify aims to enrich relationships for a better world through time spent face to face with others. App users can have a centralized location for planning, with less room for confusion and error.

In this episode, we speak with Tony Wallace, CEO & Founder Of Automate America. Automate America is a one stop shop for advanced manufacturing and automated services. With a platform connecting over 30,000 trusted automation professionals with high-value automation contracts from various industries. Customers can easily post work at their desired rate and only pay that amount, while contractors and engineering firms are paid the rate stated in the contract and can choose their payment terms.

In this episode, we speak with Justin Adams, Co-Founder and CEO of Aiwyn.

In this episode, we speak with Dan Flaherty, Founder & President Of Mountain West Consulting.

In this episode, we speak with Barry Etra, Enabler at RAISE Forum and President of Atlanta Keiretsu. Barry Etra talks about growing the SE entrepreneurial ecosystem from inside and the mission of the RAISE Forum and the Keiretsu Forum, two different efforts to help fund more companies with money that keeps the companies local.

In this episode, we speak with Mark Buffington, Managing Partner and Paul Judge, Managing Partner of Panoramic Ventures. Panoramic Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Atlanta that takes a “wider-view” approach to investing by targeting the Southeast and Midwest and placing a focus on diverse founders and university startups. Panoramic opens new doors for overlooked founders, giving more entrepreneurs access to capital to build leading tech companies. For more information, visit www.panoramic.vc or follow Panoramic Ventures on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Twitter @panoramicvc.

In this episode, we speak with Bogdan Constantin, Founder & CEO of Voxie. Voxie is a conversational SMS marketing platform that helps businesses build relationships with their customers and drive 10X more revenues, at scale.

In this episode, we speak with Sid Mookerji, Managing Partner and Founder at Silicon Road. Sid Mookerji is Managing Partner and Founder of Silicon Road Ventures an Atlanta based fund investing into early stage commerce tech ventures. Prior, Sid founded and ran a company that built technologies for retail, e-commerce and CPG companies which was sold to Cognizant a few years ago. Sid's family foundation called the Mookerji Foundation has made significant gifts to the Georgia Tech Foundation and the KSU Foundation to further the mission of encouraging entrepreneurship in Atlanta.

In this episode, we speak with Dana Marxer, CEO and Founder of ayeQ. ayeQ’s SaaS platform guides the creation, execution and optimization of go-to-market strategy for B2B companies. Pioneering “Strategy Automation,” ayeQ incorporates decades of strategic best practices, services, and patent-pending algorithms to align plans, define processes, and deliver real-time performance feedback to optimize resources for faster, more predictable growth.

In this episode, we speak with Zane Tarence, Partner and Managing Director of Founders Advisors. Zane Tarence shares about his book on the 17 interrelated characteristics that make a company investment-worthy. This topic is critical for owners whether they plan to raise funds, recapitalize, purchase additional add-on companies, sell, or stay in their companies forever.

In this episode, we speak with AJ Richichi, CEO and CTO of SENTIO. SENTIO helps franchisees hire great hourly employees and reduce turnover. Before a Hiring Manager reviews or conducts an interview, SENTIO determines which candidates are likely to be successful... or fail.

In this episode, we speak with Mark Buffington, CEO and Mark Flickinger, COO of BIP Capital. BIP Capital is recognized as one of the most active and successful venture investors in the Southeast, serving entrepreneurs, investors, and operators to grow the emerging company ecosystem. It applies experience and process to make investment decisions and operational recommendations, allowing its portfolio companies to achieve and stay on a glide path of growth. Areas of focus include Enterprise SaaS, Healthcare IT, Digital Media, Dev Tools, and MarTech. For more information, visit www.bip.capital.com or follow BIP Capital on LinkedIn or Twitter @BIPCapital.

In this episode, we speak with Lyle Newkirk, CFO Key Issues – How to be a Successful Tech CFO. Lyle Newkirk is a growth-oriented CFO focused on SaaS (software as a service) with emphasis on revenue enhancement and with strong experience in both public and private companies.

In this episode, we speak with Dr. John Robinson, CEO and Founder of Wellzesta. Wellzesta provides software for successful aging. Their wellness, communications, and engagement platforms allow providers to better serve seniors in the community and home.

In this episode, we speak with Jim Barnish, Founding Partner of Orchid Black. Orchid Black is a growth services firm that accelerates and creates value for select founder-led, tech-forward companies, by using experience-driven insight and execution.

In this episode, we speak with John Freund, Founder and CEO of Jump Technologies. Headquartered in Eagan, MN, Jump Technologies creates safe, simple, and cost-effective solutions that help hospitals manage inventory from the loading dock to the patient. They reduce stockouts, overordering, and waste, while increasing inventory turns and improving billing accuracy across a facility or system. The company’s JumpStock solution facilitates data-driven decision making that allows hospitals to save time, free up cash, and improve nurse satisfaction with supply chain.

In this episode, we speak with Matt Ethington, Founder and CEO of ChronicCareIQ. ChronicCareIQ enables doctors to add comprehensive remote patient care to their practices and service lines.

In this episode, we speak with Craig Lemasters, CEO of GXG. GXG helps organizations get unstuck on critical initiatives by connecting them to external operators who have tackled similar challenges in their own careers. GXG’s expert facilitation extracts the practical, ‘how-to’ insights that enable teams and individual leaders to accelerate their progress and maximize output.

In this episode, we speak with Amy Zimmerman, Co-Founder and Principal of PeopleCo. PeopleCo. helps leaders develop high-performance, fully-engaged, culture-first companies.

In this episode, we speak with Prince Niyyar, President and CEO of Commdex. Commdex is a nationwide systems integrator that provides a broad range of mission-critical communications solutions that empower those who save lives. Commdex specializes in designing and implementing mission-critical voice, video, and data networks over Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS), land mobile radio (LMR) Satellite, Wi-Fi, LTE, 5G, microwave, and other technologies.

In this episode, we speak with Justin Bellante, Co-Founder, President and CEO of BioIQ. BioIQ is modernizing the diagnostic testing industry through a national network of labs and customized solutions that support payors, employers, and consumers. By aggregating testing solutions, optimizing lab capacity, and integrating testing with customers’ needs and strategies, BioIQ ensure resilience and reliability so that employers and payors can protect workforces and members.

In this episode, we speak with Angela Fusaro, Co-Founder and CEO of Physician 360. Physician 360 transforms neighborhood pharmacies into urgent cares by providing them access to labs tests and an on-demand telemedicine platform for minor medical illnesses.

In this episode, we speak with Jamie Thomas, Co-Founder and CEO of Cognito Forms. Cognito Forms offers a low-code/no-code form building platform that organizations use to enable their own digital transformation – no developer required. Combining robust features with an intuitive user experience, Cognito Forms empowers customers around the globe to create online apps and automate their business processes online.

In this episode, we speak with Kevin Bandy, President and Chief Strategy Officer at Simetric. Simetric provides unified data, managerial insights and intuitive controls to optimize IoT deployments across global operators and device control platforms within a single pane. Simetric’s SaaS platform frees as much as 50% in IoT operational budgets and enables the next horizon of business process automation to billions of edge and 5G devices.

In this episode, we speak with Calvin Goforth, Founder and CEO of VIC Technology Venture Development. VIC Technology Venture Development (victech.com), is a venture development firm that builds high impact life science companies from the ground up. These companies are based on intellectual property licensed from top research institutions worldwide with initial funding from VIC's affiliated investor network (VIC Investor Network, vicnetwork.com).

In this episode, we speak with Jennifer Silverberg, CEO of SmartCommerce. SmartCommerce helps CPG companies dramatically accelerate eCommerce, by enabling one-click conversion from any digital impulse point, into any retailer cart.

In this episode, we speak with Peter Velardi, CEO of ReferMe IQ. ReferMe IQ's mission is to help their clients generate Referral and Personal Network customers with state of the art marketing intelligence so they get more leads faster and cheaper.

In this episode, we speak with Ortez Gude, CEO of Citiri. Citiri provides an operational readiness SaaS platform that saves construction owners money while increasing their operational capability. The solution eliminates or reduces common post construction anomalies and significantly improves stakeholders' confidence and operational capabilities, during and beyond operational startup.

In this episode, we speak with Peter DiSalvo, Co-Founder and CEO of DataCapable. DataCapable increases safety for asset-based businesses and eliminates communication gaps via real-time global discovery and prediction of events that impact people.

In this episode, we speak with Greg White, Board Director & Advisor to Early-Stage Tech | Principal & Host Supply Chain Now. Greg advises early-stage tech founders to create breakthroughs & accelerate success from startup to growth-stage & beyond. His experience starting, growing & advising tech companies has driven Greg to help founders avoid missteps & pitfalls that delay or limit personal & company potential to help everyone win.

In this episode, we speak with Van Willis, Co-Founder/CEO and Jim Bowling, Co-Founder/COO of PREMEDEX. Tech-enabled service provider PREMEDEX leverages CRM and a team service-model matrix to drive revenues, improve outcomes, and increase patient/member loyalty for health systems and payers. The multi-channel, interactive outreach campaigns (which include over 100 use cases) increase engagement and provide real-time data to assist healthcare organizations with meeting key initiatives. Visit www.PREMEDEX.com to learn more.

In this episode, we speak with Mitch Skyer, Co-Founder/President and Scott Reiser, Co-Founder/CTO of Passio Technologies. Passio Technologies provides innovative, customizable transit and parking solutions coupled with user-friendly, industry-leading technology and reporting. Passio is a company of service-oriented, transit experts who have developed technology to meet the specific needs of bus transportation and parking systems.

In this episode, we speak with Emily Morris, Founder and CEO of Emrgy. Emrgy designs and deploys modular, scalable hydroelectric solutions without the need for construction or dams. In just five years, Emrgy has sold and installed renewable energy projects with the City of Atlanta, Southern Company, and Denver Water to demonstrate distributed hydropower as an attractive alternative/compliment to solar and wind power.

In this episode, we speak with George Azih, Founder and CEO of LeaseQuery. LeaseQuery takes lease accounting through compliance and beyond. From reporting to journal entries, the CPA-approved, cloud-based solution simplifies lease accounting for accountants and finance professionals and facilitates compliance for organizations across all sectors reporting under FASB, IFRS, and GASB.

In this episode, we speak with David Brinkman, President and CEO of AssureSign. AssureSign simplifies the world’s most universally powerful action – the signature. Available as an on-premises, customizable solution for the enterprise and as an on-demand, SaaS solution for small business, AssureSign uniquely enables any business to create and execute a secure and seamless signature experience.

In this episode, we speak with Faraz Zubairi, CEO and Mike McCloskey, COO of ExamMed. ExamMed equips doctors with innovative virtual healthcare technology to treat patients remotely through an easy-to-use, HIPAA-compliant video-enabled platform. ExamMed's technology has been incorporated into hospitals and medical groups nationally across a broad range of specialties.

In this episode, we speak with Nishant Jain, Co-Founder and CEO of Presso a robotics startup making instant laundry and dry-cleaning robots. Nishant shares Presso's journey and growth in these uncertain times. Presso enables costume departments in film and TV productions to disinfect, clean, and press clothes on-site and save thousands of dollars in production delays caused by missing and delayed costumes.

In this episode, we speak with Nick Gallo, Co-CEO and Giovanni Gallo, Co-CEO of ComplianceLine. ComplianceLine provides an efficient and independent means of identifying and resolving employees’ concerns regarding potential misconduct. For more than 20 years, ComplianceLine has put their customers and the quality of their work before profits to become the leading provider of ethics and compliance (E&C) solutions and second-largest player in the space.

In this episode, we speak with Amin Rahme, President & CEO of Surgery Exchange. Surgery Exchange is a software solution provider to assist hospitals better control their implant supply chain and reduce their cost to serve through automation and process improvement for orthopedic, spine, cardiovascular, and other implant surgeries. The Surgery Exchange end-to-end solution helps hospitals, increase their workforce productivity, gain advance visibility to case product requirements, eliminate price and reimbursement leakages, manage and control hospital-owned and supplier-consigned implant inventory, collect accurate real-time case-level data, and bring together hospitals and device manufacturers to remove inefficiencies in supply chain and reduce their respective costs.

In this episode, we speak with Michael Otis, Founder and Principal of Proficy. Proficy is a spend, vendor, and contract management solution for multi-location businesses. With a user-friendly strategic sourcing platform, data transformations, and RFx management services, Proficy drives down third-party spend and streamlines the entire procurement process.

In this episode, we speak with Sudhir Sharma, Founder of Green Boom. Green Boom is the leading manufacturer of zero polypropylene, biomass only, completely hydrophobic, oil-only absorbents. Their patent-pending technologies allow them to convert biomass based materials into completely biodegradable water-repellent oil absorbents.

In this episode, we speak with Jack Markwalter, Co-Founder/CEO & Hodges Markwalter, Co-Founder/COO of Viva Finance. VIVA’s mission is to build an inclusive financial system by expanding access to affordable credit. VIVA offers access to low-cost loans and financial education as an employee benefit.

In this episode, we speak with Dev Mandavia, CEO/Co-Founder, Lucas Mara Muller, Co-Founder and Cassidy Wong, Co-Founder of Ethos Medical. Ethos Medical has developed the Iris, a needle guidance system that enables practitioners to navigate needles into the spine at bedside for procedures like epidurals and spinal taps.

In this episode, we speak with Gary Peat, General Partner at Valor Ventures. Valor Ventures is a partnership that invests in early-stage software companies. The firm's purpose is creating top returns with a mission of making inclusion the new normal.

In this episode, we speak with Tyler Quill, Co-Founder & CEO of pHAM. pHAM created a patented, innovative coffee filter which reduces the acidity of coffee meaning less stomach discomfort and whiter teeth for coffee fanatics everywhere.

In this episode, we speak with Matt Johnson, Managing Partner of Johnson Venture Partners. Johnson Venture Partners (JVP) is a micro VC fund investing in high-growth startups in the Southeast. JVP invests in a diversified portfolio of startup companies with high potential for growth to acquisition, IPO, or other liquidity event.

In this episode, we speak with Robert Preville, CEO & Founder of KWIPPED. KWIPPED is an online B2B equipment marketplace where businesses can rent, lease, finance or buy any equipment for any job from a global network of thousands of trusted equipment suppliers.

In this episode, we speak with Gore Bolton, CEO & Founder of Land Intelligence. Land Intelligence, Inc provides reports, analysis and advisory services to all stakeholders involved in land development and acquisition.