Startup Steroid brings you the Founders podcast. In this podcast, we invite founders to share their experiences of starting and running a startup. You get to know their pain points and how they tackled them.
We believe that education starts at home. Unfortunately, most parents don't know what kind of educational products and experiences to provide their children to pique their curiosity in STEM. It's a big problem when kids today don't know what engineering or computer science even means. Our founder, Oscar Pedroso, experienced this when he was in school. So, he and his team made it a mission of theirs to ensure all students (regardless of background) are aware of the many educational paths and career opportunities that exist. So many kids have the potential to be the next Elon Musk and we're going to help make that happen! Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=E2FC6F77-F6CA-459C-9339-AC0E6DADB1E3
Shoonya's mission is to create interactive edutainment content that is inspired by the stories and characters of the world. Why do we want to do it? It's simple. There is a great need for it. With the growing technologies, the world is indeed "becoming flat" and children today are intrigued by cultures around the world. Our company is based out of Santa Barbara, California, which is geographically placed somewhere between Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Not sure, if this is by intention or accident but our company is a perfect marriage of these two worlds; Edutainment and EdTech. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=619514CF-3211-4851-B1B5-51B9CC6091F0
Powered by our community of #styletrotters sharing real dress codes from the streets, reviewing local brands and hot-spots, and shopping Live drops. The LocalAway community is changing the conversations around fashion away from a ‘one size fits all' mold into themes that encourage everyone to be their authentic selves. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=C7FD2666-C442-4B17-A5C4-1443C7B25304
GVNG provides the technology for the GVNG Wallet, which gives individuals and employers the power of a charitable foundation in a simple to use app. Like a gamified 401k for giving—contribute to get a tax benefit today, donate later. Plus amplify impact with tax-deductible crowdfunding. Provides a seamless path to donate to 1.7m charities and a unified picture of impact with a single tax receipt at the end of the year. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=442DD5C4-490A-48A8-98A8-86F2BF7FC55A
Love needles? Neither do we. Our pain and anxiety-relieving products are easy to use, fast to work and designed specifically for needles. We're taking the pain out of shots, blood draws, injections and needle procedures of any kind. We're changing the way healthcare feels. Needle pain causes up to 25% of people in the U.S. to avoid flu vaccines and other simple medical procedures. It's time for painless to be the new standard of care. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=F5DA4AA7-9C9A-4006-96A8-E7976FD356E0
Exchange rates (FX) stifle trade and hamper economic opportunity, especially in emerging economies. We are democratizing derivatives to relegate FX volatility to antiquity and make global trade and worldwide economic access so ubiquitous, it's taken for granted. Exchange rates can fluctuate 10–25% annually, leading to busted budgets and disrupted cash flows. This volatility impacts startups and enterprises in virtually every industry. Thankfully, companies can hedge with derivatives like futures and options to help manage, contain, and even benefit from that risk. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=79C3BD0D-FB69-40E4-A78B-F825C8B30E20
A highly accomplished and results-oriented CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE, with a proven record of implementing practical solutions and successfully leading the development of major biotech and pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices. Utilizes exceptional organizational skills and keen attention to detail to focus on the timely, efficient, and high-quality execution of clinical studies to create lasting strategic value. A forward-thinking leader with exceptional business acumen sets a strategic direction to secure the long-lasting success of a company. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=DB2B2093-5E5B-4436-B25B-1A01AEE7F146
Unlike the surgical method, Hera's test (MetriDxTM) is capable of diagnosing and staging endo, quantitatively. This capability provides physicians objective data, which can be used in the clinical management of the disease. Collecting patient tissue samples is a common practice in physician offices. The uterine tissue sample required for Hera's test will be collected via a Pipelle biopsy and shipped to Hera's lab for analysis. This entire process is well-established as it is comparable to the model used for a PAP smear. MetriDxTM will greatly reduce wait time and failure rates associated with the current standard by moving diagnostic capability from the OR to the physician's office, eliminating both guesswork and patient downtime from the equation. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=BD17F432-E80A-4FD5-BD91-6DF7A8C3C12D
Empiric's software platform and hardware sensors are being used to predict industrial equipment failure, remotely manage facilities in real-time, and improve quality assurance reporting processes across all industrial verticals. Our current focus is providing complete end-to-end visibility, for Life Sciences companies, of their cold chain. Empiric's software platform and hardware sensors are being used to predict industrial equipment failure, remotely manage facilities in real-time, and improve quality assurance reporting processes across all industrial verticals. Our current focus is providing complete end-to-end visibility, for Life Sciences companies, of their cold chain. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=B9AF2A48-C3FB-4637-9B70-231E9EEDB472
Every year, wildfires cause $130 Billion in economic damages and release greenhouse gasses equivalent to 65% of California's transport industry. That is when we are fortunate enough that no lives are lost. A significant portion of the annual burn area is the result of just a few fires attributed to the electric grid. Delphire was created to provide early detection of these grid-related fires. Our system can detect these wildfires in seconds using a state-of-the-art CV and AI pairing while gathering data from before the fire started. Once we learn more about the conditions that lead to ignition, we expect our system to prevent fires. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=6ABAA07E-E1B0-47D2-BAF9-0BEE8996DF22
ELE Optics is an information technology company that specializes in providing cloud services. It enables its users to use the cloud to build beautiful reports full of interactive charts and team discussions. It is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=E67036E9-7C29-429B-BF01-90B3306E1CD8
Chris Karageuzian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Helpwithmyloan.com. Chris has over 20 years of experience working in sales & management for Coldwell Banker, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase and US Bank. Successfully managed teams from 15-40 employees, always a top performer at each company, received high honour awards and accolades. HWML's AI software is improving the lending process. The problem in our industry is a low 55% average at funding loans due to the fragmented lending process. Our SaaS software yields automated underwriting and loan matching at a 95% proven funding rate. We did this by giving brokers, banks and consumers access to our platform syndicated with 300+ lenders in Commercial, Residential, Business, and Consumer loans. HWML has funded over $150M+ in the full spectrum of lending. Chris drives business with his competitive nature and strategic mind. He believes great customer experience is a combination of how well you connect with people you're trying to help and communicating your understanding back to them. Plan in decades. Think in years. Work in months. Live in days. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=AD40A903-699B-4959-8986-DDCAFFF432BE
Ms. Shah is a serial healthcare services entrepreneur. Before founding PsychOnline LLC with Mr. Dalal she co-founded a radiology services firm with Mr. Dalal. In addition to her entrepreneurial experience, Ms. Shah has worked for KCI, a biomedical devices company, and Frost and Sullivan as a healthcare analyst. Ms. Shah holds an MBA from The University of West Florida and a Bachelor of Life Sciences from India. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=C7EBFCD5-F0EB-452C-B9CD-729DC5E79A2E
Predictus BioSciences is developing in-vitro diagnostic tests for cancer. Two FDA-approved CPT analogs, topotecan, and irinotecan are used in the tests. The company provides a molecular mechanism of topoI degradation by UPP and identified the molecular determinants of this pathway. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=00D76EB1-8533-4DFA-9DD4-3E4AFCD0CC1B
Coastr is making car rentals better for everyone (customers and car rental businesses) by solving the massive market fragmentation, ‘clunky' customer experience issues, and lack of access to quality insurance in the market which is difficult to address without scale. Coastr's Digital Car Rental Management Platform provides independent car rental businesses with a connected ecosystem platform to become fully digitized and benefit from immediate cost savings, higher fleet utilization, and revenue maximization. In addition, the data from the platform can unlock other value-added services such as on-demand insurance. Our offering includes- 1) a SaaS platform which is an all-in-one cloud-based software that is powered by Telematics and AI, to efficiently manage entire car rental operations from booking, maintenance, pricing, reporting, and a mobile app for check-in/check-out and damage assessment. Coastr is additionally equipping the operators with technological innovations such as keyless entry, biometric customer verification, predictive maintenance, on-demand fleet insurance, dynamic pricing, automated fleet on-boarding, and immobilization which is being brought together as a fully integrated solution to help our rental partners be prepared for the future of car rentals and compete with major market players; 2) A consumer app (to be released in early 2021) that will enable end customers (Corporate travelers first and then Retail customers) to make bookings and benefit from a fully contactless rental service enabled by keyless entry technology while offering a greater choice, competitive pricing and better levels of service through our partners. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=065407A9-09D0-4910-BF4E-E953B593F1BA
Founded by 2 ex-consultants who have worked for big names in the industry in the US, Canada, France, and Luxembourg. Both founders identified that mainstream consulting business models are bound to fail and COVID-19 has accelerated the downfall of these fragile business models. Binary Analytics is a consulting company that offers all its services remotely and in a gamified environment. Problem: US companies pay 600 billion USD per year when hiring unengaged employees or underperforming employees. Solution: This is a software integration that gauges employee performance metrics and translates these into daily reports with suggestions on what should be done to improve the service and with 5-minute-online games to be played by the employee in order to acquire the skills that he/she needs to better perform at the job. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=634DBCE8-28F5-4BDF-9AC5-18F4AF99D5B8
The CalTier Portfolio Fund opens the door to professionally managed institutional grade multi-family investments not typically available to the retail investor. We identify, negotiate, invest and manage these multi-family assets on your behalf so you don't have to. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=03478166-98A0-4583-A6D4-F7A0582F73B5
Fuzelo has unique patented at-home fitness products for under $100 which will include a membership app that features guided adventure workout videos, and discount health & beauty products, filling a void in the exploding at-home fitness market. They have over 20 years of experience selling fitness products to the mass market. Company Profile Link – https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=7BE63885-7FFF-4FF2-8BDD-5CFF33352AB6
It is a calm place in Jeevanahalli, where Cyriac Joseph and Roshni Davidson are practitioners of Thai yoga massage at the School of Thai Yoga Massage. “It is a combination of Thai massage, acupressure, and yoga. When you do yoga yourself, you may not be able to stretch as much as you will when someone pushes your body. Combined with a good massage this is a great stress buster,” explains Cyriac, the trained instructor. Company Profile Link: https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=792D280E-3528-4295-8D50-D03001BCC418
30 Friends is a social tool that enables users to meet, socialize and network with new people. Our platform also has tools that encourage better conversations and allow users to connect with other people. Company Profile Link: https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=C4E98D77-8CCA-4343-A471-03FE406270A4
TagHawk is the first community-based resale marketplace mobile app for all-in-one buying, selling, and moving used items within communities like apartments, universities, and clubs. TagHawk aggregates and displays items that community members want to buy or sell, and connects users with local movers to provide affordable delivery solutions. By leveraging the safety and convenience of communities, cashless escrow payment, in-app chat, and on-demand delivery service, users enjoy an easier, faster, and safer one-stop shopping experience. Company Profile Link – https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=2CD69916-694F-4F22-842E-188212554F9C&fbclid=IwAR19FiYZ9JBqcXdyox1VXZiAJ7XJu43ofIRDNkXHHgrrfmU1yaTC6HbZ-IE
Who are we? We understand jobs & recruitment like nobody else. We are a tech start-up, reinventing the way you attract, shortlist, and engage candidates. We match the right talent to the right opportunity and accelerate the hiring process. Think of us as an extension of your recruitment team. We may not be able to throw a pizza party for the team, but we have the tools to help you make high-impact hiring decisions. Our holistic recruiting solution caters to recruiters and jobseekers alike. Company Profile Link – https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=A4B0668D-DB0E-4005-9842-FF5D3502AB3E
WaxNax is an ancillary packaging and filling service in the Cannabis Industry, and more specifically, the niche THC/CBD concentrate space. Being ancillary, WaxNax does not grow, cultivate or touch any part of the Cannabis plant. WaxNax can sell and cross over any state, and even country lines, selling to any market where there is legal medical or recreational Cannabis concentrates being produced. WaxNax provides proprietary packaging and proprietary filling robots that allow concentrate manufacturers to offer a single serve, pre-dosed packaging SKU to their customers. Concentrate producers purchase packaging, lease a Nax robot, put their concentrate into the robot, and let the robot pre-dose concentrate into the WaxNax packaging to be sold in their existing distribution channels. Now, customers can travel very easily with their concentrates, eliminate dreaded clean up, know exactly how much they are consuming and consume cannabis in the easiest way possible overall. Company Profile Link – https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?founderUserId=9C803709-FB40-4CB4-9BBB-063F0AA1DAD1
STUNN is for the bold, empowered women who know that real beauty goes beyond skin deep, who want more from their skincare than a surface solution. The game-changers who want to look AND feel amazing, who are driven to blaze their own trails, light up every room, and harness their own unique beauty from the inside out. You are unique and so is your skin. We don't believe in spot treating or surface solutions. We understand that your body operates synergistically; your skin is the largest organ in your body and is deeply affected by key internal and external factors – so, we vow to provide you with a truly holistic approach that covers all your bases. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=71
DownToDash is an app to make quality activity buddies. We connect people in the same location based on what you are interested in doing, whether it's workouts, sports, movies or other activities. We curate personalized experiences for you every week, based on your availability and location. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=351
Innovative, online marketplace for the global timber industry - the home of wood. Connecting buyers with sellers in the wood industry. Providing an online platform for suppliers. Wooduchoose is the only platform that allows customers choice, comparison, and guidance to find the right product(s) and supplier(s). Those, so-called - 'competitors' are our, potential, partners. Our website allows them to reach a wider audience. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=65
Krino.ai enables companies to build communication experiences through conversational catboats, increasing the customer conversion rate and helping prioritize the pipeline; we process every conversation to identify insights in customer behaviors to drive business decisions. Company's Profile URL - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=161
Gaurav Kumar is the CEO of Beyond Codes Inc.- A Global Leader in B2B Demand Generation Services for IT, ITeS, and Product companies. Like some of the stalwarts of the current generation, Gaurav also started Beyond Codes from his garage. He laid the foundation of the company in 2008, in Simi Valley, California. In the first year, he started by providing high-quality demand generation services to two startup organizations. Since then, as CEO, and being a true visionary Gaurav leads the company's business strategy and worldwide operations. He has led Beyond Codes from the front and has made it an extremely successful organization serving multi-billion-dollar companies to well-funded startups globally. Being ranked #1744 in the Inc.5000 list (2019) of fastest-growing private-sector companies in the marketing sector is one of the biggest testimony to how Gaurav has scripted the success journey of Beyond Codes. Beyond Codes has expanded its services to include Market Research, Account-Based Marketing, Digital Marketing, and Talent Acquisition (for Sales – Hunters & Farmers) and expanded its geographical presence across North America, Europe, Middle East & Asia Pacific. Ranked amongst the top global firms in B2B Appointment Setting, Beyond Codes today is one of the few companies offering Multilingual Lead Generation services. He has been associated with various TiE chapters for over 24 years in different roles including Executive Council Board and is currently also part of “Vistage” Southern California. He has also acted as a mentor to various startups. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/investors-interview
From 2012 to today, Spinster Sisters has never stopped growing. The Spinster Sisters line expanded from soap to bath, body, face, aromatherapy, and hair products. Yes, there were once dog products too. Making new products is Kelly and the team's absolute favorite thing in the world. With every formulation, we've challenged ourselves to use simple, recognizable ingredients with incredible scents. Our core mission is to make natural skincare that's both safe and effective for you, and beneficial to the planet. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=221 After a couple of years of formulating new recipes and operating out of Kelly's basement, robust wholesale business and packed market schedule made Spinster Sisters take over the entire house. There were soap-making and shipping supplies in the kitchen, drums of oil being delivered by semi-truck to the garage, boxes of packaging stacked to the basement... you get the picture!
Fanalyze is a fantasy sports company that provides a solution where fantasy players can save time by consolidating all their fantasy teams in one platform while offering a fast way to analyze and track players. Fanalyze has developed an innovative way to personalize and streamline your fantasy sports analysis using our special algorithm. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=216
Advanced pediatrics healthcare advice line that replaces the need for a nurse advice line. More robust, available, and affordable. Revolutionizing a healthcare point of entry for parents and caregivers. Advice is delivered through a proprietary native mobile video call app that is HIPAA compliant and improves the communication between user and expert with unique features such as other spoken language notification, emergency alert button, and call recording and transcription that improves medical record-keeping and continuum of care. Network of pediatric care experts that span 8 specialties in California and Illinois, at launch. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=230
Ride is an aggregator platform for auto-rickshaws and e-Rickshaws. There are 170 Million people hailing rickshaws every day but most of them have 2 common pain points- Lack of availability and Refusals. So we sought out to solve that problem and bridge the information gap between users and drivers. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=304
SURVIVR is a public safety startup backed by Techstars. We exist to make communities safer. SURVIVR® is a platform for immersive virtual reality first responder training. We empower responders to better protect our communities by supplementing the limitations of traditional training. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=298
6Degrees has developed an adaptive hands-free controller that gives people independence and choice by making devices accessible. Their patented wireless controller can be utilized to operate any smart device - including smartphones, tablets, and PCs. Crescent has deep applicability in the fields of AR/VR, defense, and assistive technologies Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=95
BioInteractive Technologies, endorsed by the Mayo Clinic & Techstars, is a Medical Device and Digital Health company developing intelligent wearables for physical therapy, using its patent-pending TENZR™ musculoskeletal sensing technology. Hand, wrist, and elbow impairments are both painful and frustrating to deal with. Everybody deserves to be able to work, play, and enjoy a life without pain. BioInteractive Technologies flagship product, the TENZR Wristband empowers individuals suffering from Wrist Fractures, Stroke, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Tennis/Golfer's Elbow, Spinal Cord Injury, and Traumatic Brain Injury; by providing guidance, feedback, and data to facilitate recovery. Company Profile Link – https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=100
Kurt is the founder/CEO of Quick Safety, a business dedicated to protecting life, property, and reputation. Providing Electrical Contractors & Asset Owners with a transparent platform that proves electrical circuits are safe and meet compliance standards. With the ability to predict/prevent power failures, electrical fires, and electrocutions. Kurt Alexander has over 27 years in general management, financial management, administration management, and project management. He has 13 years of professional business consulting & analysis experience, coupled with 7 years of extensive finance, budgeting, data analysis & management training in Australasia and the Middle East. Kurt has extensive experience in a wide array of consulting/training engagements within the electrical, hospitality, tourism, resort, mining, property development, construction, telecommunications, agriculture, engineering, retail, IT, manufacturing, and consumer industries within Australasia, India, and the Middle East. Company Profile URL - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=165
At Exos our mission in life is not to build and fly Low Earth Orbit capable reusable rockets but rather, to enable other brilliant minds to change the world for the better …as two examples: First, the rapid space manufacturing of mesenchymal stem cells (or MSC's) for regenerative medical treatments have shown phenomenal results in clinical trials after return from the International Space Station (Exos can do in months what took years on ISS). Secondly, enabling the development and deployment of reusable hypersonic technologies that will drastically reduce point-to-point travel times in the new global economy. Company Profile URL - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=80
GoldPhish is a UK-based cybersecurity awareness training platform helping businesses educate employees, change behaviour and reduce their risk against growing cyber threats. Human Error is the cause for over 90% of successful cyber attacks. Threats like phishing, ransomware and other forms of social engineering continue to plague organizations of all sizes, costing the global industry billions in losses each year. The solution to this human factor in cybersecurity is changing behaviour through effective education. We created GoldPhish to help businesses address this problem with world-class training content that engages learners to help change behaviour and begin building more secure cultures. Our customisable multi-tenant training platform allows our network of global reseller partners to add this solution to their portfolio of existing services and realise easy additional revenue by delivering world-class training to their customers. Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=74
LifeAir is pioneering the first ventilator with a disposable airway to stop the patient-patient spread of COVID-19 and VAP (ventilator-associated pneumonia) Pain: Currently ventilators can't be cleaned, so have the potential to spread diseases from one patient to the next, including COVID-19 and especially pneumonia, which kills 100,000 people each year and costs hospitals $12B. Also, ventilators are very expensive, with a base Medtronic unit starting at $25,000. Solution: It is well-known that ventilators harbor dangerous bacteria. COVID-19 pushes this issue into the foreground. Our solution of the first disposable airway solves this problem once and for all. By engineering our own gas handling and sensor system, we have also driven the cost down 10x. I have invented multiple medical devices now on the market, and I said “I have to fix this”. Company Profile URL - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=168
At Blueberry Technology, we are designing and building autonomous wheelchairs to enhance user mobility in indoor spaces. Our wheelchairs address challenges around mobility and customer satisfaction, at the same time, increase operational efficiencies in venues like airports. With the increased availability of low-cost sensors, low-cost compute and drive train solutions, integrating these efficiently in an appropriate form factor enables us to address these issues. Company Profile URL - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=113
Civilized Software is building products at the intersection of AI and entertainment. Our vision is a future where erotica is accessible to everyone, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. Porndora is a personalized pleasure. We utilize AI/ML to build a personalized pleasure profile for every user and learn over time what you like to eliminate wasteful searching. We are building an adult website that works for all. Technology executive, investor, and advisor with a career history of producing highly scalable and secure software solutions. Exceptional record of success in building and leading top-performing, global engineering teams, managing budgets as large as $5MM, and bringing order and agility to growing engineering teams. Excels at implementing agile engineering practices, building product-focused engineering teams, and delivering software on time. Outstanding problem solving, leadership, and team motivation skills. Check out the company profile, video interview, and pitch deck at - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=279
Phil Stover is CEO of PvP.com, the first true gamer social community. In 2016, Phil co-founded Blue Skies Ventures to build, advise, and invest in early-stage startups. The firm actively invests and its portfolio companies and network of resources were built from scratch on the simple idea to help entrepreneurs incubate ideas and accelerate. Phil is an active member of the Los Angeles community, currently supporting Pledge LA, and previously The Action Group Network and young professional's group 310YP as a board member. Prior to his crazy life in startups, his 11-year corporate management career in banking and insurance included oversight of multi-million dollar sales initiatives and product launches and $2.3B in P&L responsibilities. He has an undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University and an MBA from the University of Southern California. Check out the company profile, video interview, and pitch deck at - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=135
Zycara is a receivables management, credit insight, and liquidity solutions SaaS platform that leverages online and industry reputation to help businesses collect a higher percentage of delinquent invoices, reduce losses from bad debt write-offs, and evaluate customer creditworthiness in real-time. We are building the first ecosystem that marries the power of accountability through publication with proprietary real-time creditworthiness data to provide SMBs with the tools and resources to manage b2b financial relationships and liquidity solutions. Zycara's proposition: more efficient invoice resolution cycles and real-time customer creditworthiness data compared to traditional solutions (collections, legal services, credit reporting agencies). Check out the company profile, video interview, and pitch deck at - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=136
Spectrum CannaLabs provides pharma-grade testing solutions for cannabis products so that consumers looking to better their quality of life don't end up making it worse. Carlos has 9+ years as an experienced bench scientist in the biotechnology industry in both start-up and big pharma environments with strong research skills He has solid cGMP skills in vaccines and biologics product development, assay support, and documentation (SOPs, technical reports, qualification reports), and implementation for all therapeutic areas. Provide key go/no go data to advance preclinical and commercial regulatory submissions (IND, FDA letters, post-marketing) and approval. He has a strong work ethic, quick and thorough learner, skilled independent contributor, and effective cross-functional team collaborator with efficient problem solving and communication skills Specialties: Nucleic acid technologies, assay development including qualification and validation, GLP/cGMP, establishing high throughput screening, incorporating lab automation Check out the company profile, video interview, and pitch deck at https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=177
Yael works to make property investing accessible, transparent, and streamlined with SolidBlock, where she is the Co-CEO and Co-founder. Prior to that, Yael has spent almost two decades in the financial markets. She started at a Wall Street broker-dealer as an analyst, moving to M&A and private equity, as well as financial engineering, structuring products and indices for pension funds and family offices. Yael worked on the largest IPO of an Israeli real estate company on AIM and served as an executive on the largest MVNO in Israel that was listed on NASDAQ. Yael has co-founded several fintech startups, a successful marketing company in the blockchain space, and an import/export company that was acquired. Yael is also a regional co-chair at FIBREE, the Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise, the leading international network for exchanging knowledge between the real estate industry. Yael is an influencer, who has appeared as a guest speaker in over 50 conferences and events have a podcast (Apple podcast, Spotify: BlockSolid) and a full course on tokenization. Yael was listed in the Top 25 Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Speakers and 100 Most Inspirational Women In Blockchain.
Laurie founded and grew Olita to create sun care products that are ethically manufactured with premium, non-toxic ingredients that are safe on the skin, as well as safe on the environment. Olita is on a mission to make skin happy with superior environmentally safe sun care solutions. She has a wealth of experience in entrepreneurship and management leadership and community involvement. Her previous professional successes in the financial services industry include comprehensive business development, market growth, customer segmentation, marketing, and communications strategy. Specialties: International work experience. Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese