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Cielo, the world's leading Talent Acquisition Partner, today releases Agentic AI for TA. These agents are proactive teammates that elevate and enable their human counterparts to make the best hiring decisions. https://hrtechfeed.com/cielo-launches-agentic-ai/ TrackerRMS, a global leader in applicant tracking systems (ATS) and customer relationship management (CRM) software for the recruitment and staffing industry, announced its movement toward artificial intelligence: the new Evolution Virtual Agent (“EVA”), a natural language voice assistant that will be available in the Tracker recruiting platform later this year. https://hrtechfeed.com/tracker-recruiting-software-adding-voice-assistant/ NEW YORK — Helios Global Payments Solutions Inc, the AI-powered workforce management platform focusing on localized automation workflows, has successfully raised a total investment round of $15.5 million in funding as it launches its highly anticipated product worldwide across 125+ countries. With backing from global corporate investors, private angel investors and several Family Office investors, Helios is positioned to disrupt how companies hire, manage and pay their global workforce. https://hrtechfeed.com/helios-secures-15-5-million-for-its-workforce-management-tool/ NEW YORK — HeyMilo, an AI-powered candidate screening platform, today announced $2.2 million in seed funding. The round, led by Canaan Partners, underscores the growing demand for innovative technologies that streamline recruitment and unlock efficiencies in talent acquisition. Additional participation came from Alumni Ventures and Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, reflecting broad confidence in HeyMilo's potential to reshape the future of hiring. https://hrtechfeed.com/heymilo-secures-2-2-million-to-interview-and-evaluate-candidates/ DENVER — Employ, the owners of JazzHR, Lever, and Jobvite, just acquired Pillar, a transformative AI interview intelligence platform.and a past advertiser here on RecTech. https://hrtechfeed.com/employ-acquires-pillar-interview-intelligence/
Redefining Success as a Parent and Leader About Our Guest: Brian is the founder of SIZE, an advisory group of former c-suite executives supporting over 60 late-stage technology and consumer companies. SIZE partners closely with CEOs and executives, diving deep into their businesses to drive growth, navigate uncertainty, and achieve successful exits. Previously, Brian was Vice President of Global Marketing at Expedia Group, overseeing marketing for the $5.4 billion hotel group. Before that, he held marketing leadership roles at DreamWorks Animation, managing retail P&Ls, brand strategies for major franchises like Shrek and How to Train Your Dragon, and over 100 omni-channel campaigns. Brian sits on four boards, advises 20+ companies (including unicorn Gopuff), and is a scout investor for Canaan Partners. He earned a Master's in Finance from the London School of Economics and a BA from Indiana University. Thanks for watching! Takeaways: Brian Schwartz created a New Year's countdown for kids with Madagascar characters and has lived in multiple countries, building a career in global marketing. Remote work has allowed him to spend more time with his daughter, nurturing a strong bond as a girl dad. Traveling is a lifelong passion for him and his wife, and they believe in exposing their children to different cultures through travel. The decision to start a family was grounded in financial readiness and stability, influenced by his entrepreneurial parents. He values raising children close in age, fostering companionship, and reflects on the challenges and joys of parenting, emphasizing self-reflection and balance. Brian questions traditional education's ROI, while prioritizing opportunities and happiness over financial success for his children. Managing family dynamics requires a supportive partner, financial planning, and maintaining personal hobbies and interests. Parenting evolves over time, bringing joys and challenges, with children's activities increasingly shaping family schedules. Advice for new parents includes seeking help, balancing work and family, and defining success through fulfillment, not just finances.
Jeffrey Pfeffer teaches the single most popular (and somewhat controversial) class at Stanford's Graduate School of Business: The Paths to Power. He's also the author of 16 books, including 7 Rules of Power: Surprising—But True—Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career. He has taught at Harvard, the London Business School, and IESE and has written for publications like Fortune and the Washington Post. Recognized by the Academy of Management and listed in the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame, Jeffrey also serves on several corporate and nonprofit boards, bringing his expertise to global audiences through seminars and executive education. In our conversation, we discuss:• Jeffrey's seven rules of power• How individuals can acquire and use power in business• Networking, and how to do it effectively• How to build a non-cringe personal brand• How to increase your influence to amplify your impact• Examples and stories of people building power• Tradeoffs and challenges that come with power—Brought to you by:• Uizard—AI-powered prototyping for visionary product leaders• Webflow—The web experience platform• Heap—Cross-platform product analytics that converts, engages, and retains customers—Find the transcript at: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-paths-to-power-jeffrey-pfeffer—Where to find Jeffrey Pfeffer:• X: https://x.com/JeffreyPfeffer• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-pfeffer-57a01b6/• Website: https://jeffreypfeffer.com/• Podcast: https://jeffreypfeffer.com/pfeffer-on-power/—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Jeffrey's background (02:54) Understanding discomfort with power(04:56) Power skills for underrepresented groups(07:51) The popularity and challenges of Jeffrey's class at Stanford(12:21) The seven rules of power(13:03) Success stories from his course(15:43) Building a personal brand(21:11) Getting out of your own way(26:04) Breaking the rules to gain power(30:34) Networking relentlessly(40:10) Why Jeffrey says to “pursue weak ties”(42:00) Using your power to build more power(44:34) The importance of appearance and body language(47:15) Mastering the art of presentation(55:12) Examples of homework assignments that Jeffrey gives students(59:11) People will forget how you acquired power(01:03:58) More good people need to have power(01:10:49) The price of power and autonomy(01:17:13) A homework assignment for you—Referenced:• Gerald Ferris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerald-r-ferris-5816b1b5/• Political Skill at Work: https://tarjomefa.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/4173-engilish.pdf• Laura Esserman, MD: https://cancer.ucsf.edu/people/esserman.laura• Taylor Swift's website: https://www.taylorswift.com/• Matthew 7: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207&version=NIV• Mother Teresa quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2887-if-you-judge-people-you-have-no-time-to-love• Paths to Power course description: https://jeffreypfeffer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Pfeffer-OB377-Course-Outline-2018.pdf• 7 Rules of Power: https://jeffreypfeffer.com/books/7-rules-of-power/• The Knowing-Doing Gap: https://jeffreypfeffer.com/books/the-knowing-doing-gap/• Derek Kan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekkan/• Mitt Romney on X: https://x.com/mittromney• Elaine Chao's website: https://www.elainechao.com/• Tony Hsieh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hsieh• Zappos: https://www.zappos.com/• How I Did It: Zappos's CEO on Going to Extremes for Customers: https://hbr.org/2010/07/how-i-did-it-zapposs-ceo-on-going-to-extremes-for-customers• McKinsey & Company: https://www.mckinsey.com/• Bain & Company: https://www.bain.com/• BCG: https://www.bcg.com/• Keith Ferrazzi's website: https://www.keithferrazzi.com/• Deloitte: https://www2.deloitte.com/• Tristan Walker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristanwalker/• Foursquare: https://foursquare.com/• Laura Chau on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-chau/• Canaan Partners: https://www.canaan.com/• Andreessen Horowitz: https://a16z.com/• Sequoia Capital: https://www.sequoiacap.com/• Greylock: https://greylock.com/• The Women Who Venture (WoVen) Podcast: https://www.canaan.com/woven/podcasts• Imposter syndrome: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/imposter-syndrome• Gary Loveman and Harrah's Entertainment: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/case-studies/gary-loveman-harrahs-entertainment• “If you need help, just ask”: Underestimating compliance with direct requests for help: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/if-you-need-help-just-ask-underestimating-compliance-direct-requests• Life story of Kathleen Frances Fowler: https://www.forevermissed.com/kathleenfowler/lifestory• Jason Calacanis on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis/• Jason Calacanis: A Case Study in Creating Resources: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/case-studies/jason-calacanis-case-study-creating-resources• You're Invited: The Art and Science of Connection, Trust, and Belonging: https://www.amazon.com/Youre-Invited-Science-Cultivating-Influence/dp/0063030977• View from the Top: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/experience/learning/guest-speakers/view-top• Omid Kordestani on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omid-kordestani-46515151/• Netscape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape• Esther Wojcicki on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/estherwojcicki/• Leanne Williams: https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/leanne-williams• Precision Psychiatry: Using Neuroscience Insights to Inform Personally Tailored, Measurement-Based Care: https://www.amazon.com/Precision-Psychiatry-Neuroscience-Personally-Measurement-Based/dp/1615371583• Mark Granovetter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-granovetter-8161704/• The Strength of Weak Ties: https://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-readings/granovetter73weakties.pdf• Getting a Job: https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Job-Study-Contacts-Careers/dp/0226305813• Acting with Power: https://www.amazon.com/Acting-Power-More-Powerful-Believe/dp/110190397X• Articles by Herminia Ibarra: https://herminiaibarra.com/articles/• Kingdom of the Planet of the Ape: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11389872/• Jim Collins's website: https://www.jimcollins.com/• Dana Carney on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danarosecarney/• Baba Shiv: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/baba-shiv• Tony Hayward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hayward• Lloyd Blankfein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Blankfein• Regis McKenna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regis_McKenna• Jack Valenti: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Valenti• Salman Rushdie quote: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/434175220328596286/• How to build deeper, more robust relationships | Carole Robin (Stanford GSB professor, “Touchy Feely”): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/build-robust-relationships-carole-robin• Carole Robin's 15% rule: https://pen-name.notion.site/Carole-Robin-on-Lenny-s-Podcast-dc7159208e4242428f4b11ebc92285eb• Karlie Kloss on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karliekloss• Lindsey Graham's website: https://www.lindseygraham.com/• Was Microsoft's Empire Built on Stolen Code? We May Never Know: https://www.wired.com/2012/08/ms-dos-examined-for-thef/• Who's who of Jeffrey Epstein's powerful friends, associates and possible co-conspirators: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/12/us/jeffrey-epstein-associates-possible-accomplices/index.html• Why Did Martha Stewart Go to Prison? A Look Back at Her 2004 Fraud Case: https://people.com/martha-stewart-fraud-case-prison-sentence-look-back-8550277• Dianne Feinstein: https://www.congress.gov/member/dianne-feinstein/F000062• Richard Blum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Blum• Athena Care Network: https://www.athenacarenetwork.org• James G. March: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._March• Satya Nadella on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella/• Trump Organization fined $1.6 million for tax fraud: https://apnews.com/article/politics-legal-proceedings-new-york-city-donald-trump-manhattan-e2f1d01525dafb64be8738c8b4f32085• Rudy Giuliani: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani• Harvard president resigns amid claims of plagiarism and antisemitism backlash: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/02/harvard-president-claudine-gay-resigns• Stanford president resigns after fallout from falsified data in his research: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188828810/stanford-university-president-resigns• Rudy Crew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Crew—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.—Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed. Get full access to Lenny's Newsletter at www.lennysnewsletter.com/subscribe
Venture capital is a team sport masquerading as an individual sport. Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka, partner at Canaan Partners, tells us why he thinks VC partnerships resemble a swim team. We also talk about space and defense tech, the evolution of venture capital, how generational transition can work well and why a thoughtful reserve strategy has outsized leverage, especially in early stage venture firms.
Alok Mittal has been on both ends of the startup ecosystem. He's been a founder and a VC. These days he's back in the founder's seat but still enabling businesses but through his lending platform Indifi which lends money to Small and Medium Enterprises or SMEs.He has very strong thoughts about org building even though he admits Indifi is only 9 years old. He speaks from his observations and his strong beliefs. In Alok's mind it's the mid-management which holds together the organization and not necessarily the leadership team.Alok also has the history of setting up three ventures, which includes the part he played in setting up Canaan Partners, a VC firm in India. Then of course there is JobsAhead which was his first startup and now he's busy lending to the sector which contributes to 30% of the country's GDP, and yet finds credit hard to come by.Alok hung up his VC shoes in 2015 to solve this problem and take on the problem of lending to SMEs, the ones who were being given a pass by traditional banks and NBFCs. But they're not leaning on solving for every SME out there. Indifi have found the sectors they want to lend to and are working towards making these businesses get access to credit.He also talked about:Failures and the learnings it bringsHow he assesses risks as a VC and a founderThe bible of raising moneyAdvice to Young entrepreneursListen to all of that and a whole lot more in this Part 1 episode of our conversation with Alok Mittal.Welcome to First Principles – The weekly leadership podcast from The Ken.Let's get started.Also, if you love listening to First Principles, you are sure to love The Ken, India's first subscriber-only business publication. To discover the deeply-reported stories that we publish everyday head over to our website and subscribe to The Ken's premium subscription.Also, do write to us with your suggestions and opinions about First Principles at fp@the-ken.com. We love hearing from our listeners and subscribers.
Yan Wu is a seasoned professional with a diverse background in finance, technology, and artificial intelligence. As the Co-Founder and COO of Bond Financial Technologies, Inc., he has played a pivotal role in raising over $42 million in investments from prominent institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, Coatue, and Canaan Partners. Bond is a groundbreaking banking-as-a-service platform that empowers both consumer and enterprise clients to enhance their customer experiences by embedding financial products seamlessly.Yan's career journey has been marked by significant accomplishments. Prior to his role at Bond, he served as the VP of Data at SoFi, a leading consumer fintech firm valued at $8 billion. During his tenure, he spearheaded the growth of the Data Science and Analytics team, expanding it from 6 to 60 experts. Under his leadership, the team leveraged analytics, data science, and machine learning to optimize various facets of the business, including marketing, underwriting, product development, pricing, and operational efficiency.Before venturing into the fintech sector, Yan Wu dedicated 15 years to the investment industry, where he made significant contributions. Notably, he held the position of Head of Analytics and Portfolio Construction at BlackRock, a global giant managing over $11 trillion in assets. At BlackRock, Yan was responsible for overseeing the $600 billion quant fund and played a pivotal role in the development of Aladdin, a pioneering risk management platform that currently supervises more than $20 trillion in assets worldwide.Yan's educational background is equally impressive. He holds an MBA from the prestigious Wharton School and a BS in Engineering from UC Berkeley. Beyond his professional accomplishments, Yan is a devoted mentor at Data Science 4 All's Women's Summit and has been involved in various community organizations, including serving as a former board member at WOMAN Inc. and as a mentor at Upwardly Global. His extensive expertise and dedication to empoweSupport the showFollow me on Facebook ⬇️https://www.facebook.com/manuj.aggarwal❤️ ID - Manuj Aggarwal■ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manujaggarwal/ ■ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/realmanuj■ Instagram: ...
Doug Brien has gone from success in the NFL to kicking his first business through a billion dollar IPO. Now he's working on an even bigger vision to bring peace of mind to others, for which he's already raised $200M. His startup, Mynd Management, has acquired funding from top-tier investors like Lightspeed Venture Partners, Canaan Partners, Invesco Real Estate, and Jackson Square.
In this episode of the Capital Stack podcast, host David Paul interviews Ross Fubini, the managing director of XYZ Ventures based in San Francisco. They discuss various topics related to venture funding, technology, and market trends. Here are the key highlights from the conversation: Ross Fubini's Background: Ross shares his background as a computer scientist and his early experience working for Netscape in the late '90s when the internet was still in its early stages of development. Netscape's Impact: They discuss Netscape's role in creating various foundational elements of the internet that are now taken for granted, such as the browser and proxy server, which laid the groundwork for the CDN (Content Delivery Network) business. Ross's Career Journey: Ross talks about his career path, including working for companies like Tellme, Plum Tree, Symantec, and starting his own enterprise software company, which was eventually acquired by SuccessFactors. He also mentions his transition into venture capital and his experiences at KPort Capital and Canaan Partners. Village Global: Ross briefly introduces Village Global, a network-based venture firm that connects luminaries, investors, fund managers, and founders. He highlights the power of networks and the opportunities they create. XYZ Ventures: Ross dives into XYZ Ventures, his current venture capital firm. They have a deep focus on founders coming from the Palantir network and have invested in companies within the enterprise software, FinTech, and SureTech sectors. Public Sector Opportunities: Ross explains their interest in the public sector, driven by his personal background and passion for making a significant impact in areas like defense, healthcare, and government procurement. He mentions their investment in Anduril, a defense contractor, as an example. Identifying Opportunities: Ross emphasizes the importance of identifying changing trends and industries where significant opportunities for innovation and growth exist, such as climate technology and procurement. Software Adoption in Traditional Industries: The hosts observe that traditionally stodgy industries like utilities and infrastructure are now buying software solutions, indicating a shift towards digital transformation and increased adoption of technology. Early Stage of Transformation: They acknowledge that despite the progress, these shifts are still in the early stages, and there are significant opportunities for innovation and growth in industries like defense and FinTech. Missed Opportunities in Healthcare: The hosts reflect on the missed opportunities in the healthcare sector, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, where the focus was primarily on telehealth and not enough on tech-enabled solutions and efficiency improvements. Complexity and Competition in Software: They discuss how software solutions that address complex problems tend to offer more value, as the easy problems have already been solved. Additionally, they note that the competitive landscape in the software industry can be intense, requiring constant innovation to stay ahead. Network-Driven Investments: The hosts emphasize the importance of networks and relationships in venture capital. They share their approach of focusing on founders introduced by other founders, as about 50% of their portfolio companies have come through such introductions. Outbound Sourcing: While they don't rely heavily on outbound sourcing, they believe in being proactive in reaching out to potential founders through their networks and leveraging existing relationships. Market Cycles and Portfolio Companies: The hosts mention that they are fortunate to be in a strong position with profitable late-stage investments and well-funded early-stage companies. They advise their portfolio companies to be appropriately skeptical, closely monitor budgets and sales performance, and continue demonstrating growth despite market challenges. Overall, the episode covers Ross...
Welcome to "Secrets of Scale," a new pod storm series hosted by Matt Brown. In this first series of 2023, Matt dives deep into the world of "scaleups" companies, speaking with founders and CEOs who have successfully reached scale, raised millions of dollars, and have valuable insights to share on scaling their businesses on a global stage. Join Matt as he uncovers the secrets to success in the world of scaling a business. Series: Secrets of Scale Krish Ramineni founded Fireflies.ai to make virtual meetings easy for participants. Their cloud-based technology automatically transcribes and takes bullet notes from user calls and meetings, identifying key takeways from the transcription. Fireflies.ai and has key partnerships with top providers including Zoom, Slack, Salesforce, Dropbox and Asana and has raised $19 million from Khosla Ventures and Canaan Partners, among others.The enterprise has grown from 10 employees to 70 in less than a year. Over 300,000 organizations and 2.5 million people have received AI-generated meeting notes from Fireflies.aiGet an interview on the Matt Brown Show: www.mattbrownshow.Support the show
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This episode was originally released on April 28, 2021.Maha Ibrahim is a General Partner of Canaan Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm, where she has worked since March 2000. Maha isn't our typical guest...Maha isn't a female founder but she is a female “FINDER”. In this episode, Nada sits down with Maha and discusses how she approaches her decision-making to invest in early-stage ventures. For many female entrepreneurs, raising capital seems unattainable but Maha breaks it down. Whether you're raising millions or thousands, this episode will become your go-to reference. Nada asks Maha big questions and Maha delivers intentional insight for anyone who is considering raising money to scale their business. You can learn more about Maha and her work, you can go here.Please follow us at @thisislibertyroad on Instagram--that's where we hang out the most. And please rate and review us —it helps to know if this podcast is inspiring and equipping you to launch and grow your ventures.
As the region gears up for Venture Atlanta, Valor investors Lisa Calhoun, Gary Peat, Robin Bienfait and William Leonard discuss the current state of venture capital locally, including the seed stage deal volume, the trend in seed capital valuations and more. They discuss local firms including Valor, Knoll, Collab, Tech Square Labs, Fearless Fund and more, mentioning specific outside investors the team has worked with including Canaan Partners and Sequoia. The team shares some of the big current opportunities in Atlanta--and also challenges unique the local environment. This episode is important for founders, investors and corporate innovators alike. You also learn how you can meet up with the Valor team this week, at the Atlanta Unlocked last stop, September 22, at Valor's offices in Atlanta Tech Park.
Krish Ramineni, Fireflies CEO and Microsoft alum, learned the value of NLP working with Skype and Office as a Product Manager. He set out to solve a problem he had: note-taking in meetings and following up afterward. Fireflies has been used by more than 60,000 organizations to make meetings more efficient. Krish has raised nearly $20M from an A-list group of investors including Canaan Partners and Khosla Ventures. Listen and learn...The evolution of speech recognition technology in the enterpriseHow Krish and the team build an AI voice assistant that joins meetings in 100 countries every dayHow to start with 85% ASR (automated speech recognition) accuracy and make it better using AIHow to mitigate the impact of biased training data where foreign accents and uncommon speech patterns are underrepresentedWho owns voice transcripts used to train AI modelsHow being recorded changes participant behavior in meetingsThe future of "voice-first" computingReferences in this episode:Krishna Gade from Fiddler discusses AI explainabilityFireflies on Twitter A whole breast, AI-based ultrasound system was cleared by the FDA to improve mammogram accuracyDentists now use AI to improve the accuracy of spotting cavities
Text Hawk to 66866 to become part of "Mindful Monday." Receive a carefully curated email each Monday morning to help you start your week off right... Full show notes at www.LearningLeader.com Twitter/IG: @RyanHawk12 https://twitter.com/RyanHawk12 Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University where he has taught since 1979. He is the author or co-author of 15 books including Leadership B.S.: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time; Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't; The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First; Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management. Notes: “The two fundamental dimensions that distinguish people who rise to great heights and accomplish amazing things are will, the drive to take on big challenges, and skill, the capabilities required to turn ambition into accomplishment. The three personal qualities embodied are ambition, energy, and focus. The four skills useful in acquiring power are self-knowledge and a reflective mindset, confidence and the ability to project self-assurance, the ability to read others and empathize with their point of view, and a capacity to tolerate conflict.” “Being memorable equals getting picked.” “Measuring the wrong thing is often worse than measuring nothing because you do get what you measure." “People are seduced by and attracted to narcissists and despots and wind up voting for or working for them, frequently with bad outcomes." Break the rules — in one test, the rule breaker dropped cigarette ashes on the floor and spoke rudely to the waiter. That person was perceived to be 29% more powerful than the person who was more polite. “I completely reject the idea that working adults need to be treated like infants or worse and not told the realities, harsh or not, about the world of work.” Build a powerful brand — in late 2020, Laura Chau was promoted to partner at Canaan Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm. She started a podcast. It gave her the opportunity to ask women who were very senior in their careers to talk for an hour… she expanded her network. Her own status was enhanced through her association with high-status people. Then she started writing and publishing her work. This attracted people to her. A brand needs coherence. Have a narrative and tell it repeatedly. Love: "Kathleen, whom I met at a party in the Green Room of the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco on January 19, 1985, and married on July 23, 1986. As she would say, no algorithm would have matched us." “To the amazing Kathleen, the love of my life, whose death left a hole in my heart and soul.” The 7 rules of Power are: 1) Get out of your own way. 2) Break the rules. 3) Show up in a powerful fashion. 4) Create a powerful brand. 5) Network relentlessly. 6) Use your power. 7) Understand that once you have acquired power, what you did to get it will be forgiven, forgotten, or both.
LIBERTY Sessions with Nada Jones | Celebrating women who do & inspiring women who can |
This episode was originally released on April 28, 2021.Maha Ibrahim is a General Partner of Canaan Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm, where she has worked since March 2000. Maha isn't our typical guest...Maha isn't a female founder but she is a female “FINDER”. In this episode, Nada sits down with Maha and discusses how she approaches her decision-making to invest in early-stage ventures. For many female entrepreneurs, raising capital seems unattainable but Maha breaks it down. Whether you're raising millions or thousands, this episode will become your go-to reference. Nada asks Maha big questions and Maha delivers intentional insight for anyone who is considering raising money to scale their business. You can learn more about Maha and her work, you can go here.Please follow us at @thisislibertyroad on Instagram--that's where we hang out the most. And please rate and review us —it helps to know if this podcast is inspiring and equipping you to launch and grow your ventures.
Krish Ramineni wanted Fireflies.ai to make virtual meetings easy for participants. His cloud-based technology automatically transcribes and takes bullet notes from user calls and meetings, identifying key takeways from the transcription. Fireflies.ai and has key partnerships with top providers including Zoom, Slack, Salesforce, Dropbox and Asana and has raised $19 million from Khosla Ventures and Canaan Partners, among others. The enterprise has grown from 10 employees to 70 in less than a year. Over 300,000 organizations and 2.5 million people have received AI-generated meeting notes from Fireflies.ai. In this conversation we chat about how to use the tech but also Krish's experience as a new entrepreneur. Connect with Krish: Website: https://fireflies.ai/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishramineni/ +++++ Subscribe to the Podcast! ▶︎ PODCAST | https://bit.ly/3bU6D3l Please Follow & Connect with me! Link's Below ▶︎ WEBSITE | https://tyzerevans.com ▶︎ YOUTUBE | https://youtube.com/c/tyzerevans ▶︎ INSTAGRAM | https://instagram.com/tyzerevans ▶︎ FACEBOOK | https://facebook.com/grindsellelevate ▶︎ LINKEDIN | https://linkedin.com/in/tyzerevans ▶︎ TWITTER | https://twitter.com/tyzerevans ▶︎ TIKTOK | https://tiktok.com/tyzerevans ▶︎ PATREON | https://patreon.com/tyzerevans Check out Tyzer's other podcast "The Book Legion" at https://thebooklegion.com
Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek are the Co-Founders and Managing Partners of Renegade Partners, a venture capital firm they launched in 2019 after each experienced life inside top-notch venture firms – Renata at Felicis and Lux and Rosanne at Canaan Partners and IVP. They raised a first fund of $100 million to focus on the “Supercritical Stage” of a company's development. Our conversation discusses the dynamics of a venture capital spinout and the nuances of a stage-focused strategy. First, we dive into their backgrounds, lessons learned from their experience, forming a partnership and strategy together, and going to market. Then, we discuss Renegade's investment process across sourcing, filtering, winning deals, and working with companies. We close with perspectives on the competitive landscape, battle for talent, and areas of growth internally, including the application of our mutual friend Annie Duke's decision theories to the practice of venture investing. Learn More Follow Ted on Twitter at @tseides or LinkedIn Subscribe to the mailing list Access Transcript with Premium Membership
In this episode we chat with Robert M. Lee, the Founder and CEO of Dragos, which is an industrial cybersecurity company that detects and responds to threats in industrial controls systems. Dragos has raised over $360 million and is backed by Blackrock, Koch Disruptive Technologies, Canaan Partners, and others. Robert M. Lee is a recognized pioneer in the industrial security incident response and threat intelligence community. He gained his start in security as a U.S. Air Force Cyber Warfare Operations Officer. He went on to build the industrial community's first dedicated monitoring and incident response class at the SANS Institute. We hope you enjoy the show.
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Zuben Matthews is the cofounder and CEO of Brigit which is a Holistic financial health app that helps Americans relieve stress, save for tomorrow and guides them to a state of financial well-being. The company has raised to date over $140 million from top tier investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Canaan Partners, DCM Ventures, CRV, Shasta Ventures, DN Capital, Abstract Ventures, and Sound Ventures to name a few.
Zuben Matthews is the cofounder and CEO of Brigit which is a Holistic financial health app that helps Americans relieve stress, save for tomorrow and guides them to a state of financial well-being. The company has raised to date over $140 million from top tier investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Canaan Partners, DCM Ventures, CRV, Shasta Ventures, DN Capital, Abstract Ventures, and Sound Ventures to name a few.
Britain has passed a law requiring new houses and buildings to install electric vehicle charging points from next year, BBC reports. This will see up to 145,000 charging points installed across the country each year. New supermarkets, workplaces and buildings undergoing major renovations will also come under the new law. The UK is switching to EVs, with petrol and diesel car sales banned from 2030. Niantic, the maker of the popular augmented reality game Pokémon GO, has raised $300 million from Coatue at a valuation of $9 billion, the company said in a blogpost on Monday. The company that initially spun out of Google, will use the funds to invest in current games and new apps, expand its Lightship developer platform, and build out its version of what it calls the real-world metaverse. “We're building a future where the real world is overlaid with digital creations, entertainment and information, making it more magical, fun and informative,” said John Hanke, Niantic's Founder and CEO. Jina.ai, an open-source startup in Berlin, that uses neural search to help its users find information in their unstructured data (including videos and images), has raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Canaan Partners, TechCrunch reports. New investor Mango Capital, as well as existing investors GGV Capital, SAP.iO and Yunqi Partners also participated in this round. DuckDuckGo, the maker of the privacy-focused browser and app of the same name, is beta testing an app-tracking blocker for Android phones, the company said in a blogpost. People can join the private waitlist by downloading the app or updating to the latest version, navigating to app tracking protection in the privacy section under settings, and clicking on the ‘join the private wait list' option. Once active, the app-tracking blocker will detect when your Android apps are about to send data to third-party tracking companies found in DuckDuckGo's app tracker dataset, and block those requests. El Salvador, which recently became the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender, plans to build a Bitcoin city at the base of a volcano, with the cryptocurrency used to fund the project, its president has announced, BBC reports. The city will be circular to represent the shape of a coin and will be built near the Conchagua volcano to take advantage of its geothermal energy to power Bitcoin mining, according to the report. (03:28) Interview: Ashwathnarayan CN, Karnataka's minister for science and tech, higher education, information tech, biotech, and skill development The government of the state of Karnataka is making efforts to expand the tech ecosystem concentrated in Bengaluru, beyond the state's capital city, which has become India's tech capital. In today's interview, Ashwathnarayan CN, the state's minister for science and tech, higher education, information tech, biotech, and skill development, articulates some of the ways the government is making progress on this front.
The market for cars in 2021 has been one of the most pandemic-affected markets. The supply of both new and used cars has never been tighter and our guest today is seeing it from all sides. Dan Park is the CEO of Clutch, Canada's first and largest online car retailer. We talk to Dan about the automotive industry, his path to becoming CEO, and about his plans for the $60M he recently raised from Canaan Partners, FJ Labs, and Real Ventures.About Dan Park:Dan is CEO of Clutch, an online platform for car buying and ownership. Prior to Clutch, Dan was GM & Head of Uber Eats Canada. During his time at Uber, Dan led the growth of Uber's food delivery platform in Canada. Previously, Dan was a Venture Partner at Azure Capital Partners and led the firm’s Canadian investment efforts.A word from our sponsor:For anyone that is lucky enough to be a part of building startups, we’ve all seen that mad-rush to answer extensive security questionnaires and implement SOC 2 controls the moment that big whale of a client is on the hook in order to not lose the deal. Which unfortunately ends up swallowing the entire organization's time and resources in the hopes to land that whale, right? Lucky for us at Ripple, we have partnered with compliance automation provider Drata. Drata saves our portfolio companies from these same issues when it comes to effectively proving a strong, ongoing security posture and achieving frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001.Drata allows startups to put Security and Compliance on Autopilot. Companies using Drata experience an average time savings of 85% when compared to running the SOC 2 process manually. Build trust with customers by proving your commitment to security, and maintain continuous compliance in between your audits. Don’t take it from us, Drata works with all kinds of startups like ClearCo, Lemonade, FullStory, Slice and countless others. They're backed by top venture funds such as Okta Ventures and GGV, and are currently G2's number one ranked cloud compliance software provider for customer satisfaction. Listeners of Tank Talks can get set up with a demo of Drata and take advantage of a 15% discount offer and waived implementation fees by visiting drata.com/tanktalks to get setup today.In this episode we discuss:02:44 How the auto industry is evolving and why now is a great time for disruption04:56 The effect of the pandemic on modernizing the automotive industry and how its effected supply and demand for cars07:39 How consumer behavior during the pandemic pushed forward app adoption09:18 What the enduring lessons from the pandemic will be for the automotive industry10:30 Why the dealership model is ready for disruption11:42 How established players in the industry are fighting back against being disrupted from outsiders13:18 Breaking down the existing legal structures between dealerships and automotive brands16:16 How Clutch is using their data to analyze the aftermarket and used car market18:59 Why Clutch is a better way to buy a used car20:43 Real-world lessons Dan and his team have had to make while building Clutch22:06 How Clutch has captured market share23:18 How Dan defines Clutch’s company culture24:26 Why Dan left Uber Eats to become the CEO of Clutch26:46 Plans for Clutch’s recent $60M raiseFast Favorites:Favourite PodcastHow I Built ThisMasters Of ScaleRevisionist HistoryThis American LifeBlog/NewsletterThe PeakTech GadgetGoPro MaxTrendCanada’s startup sceneBookShoe Dog by Phil KnightFollow Matt Cohen and Tank Talks here!Podcast production support provided by Agentbee.Agency This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tanktalks.substack.com
Ten years ago, Jilliene Helman was working in Union Bank's wealth management group. She couldn't help but notice that the bank's wealthiest clients earned their fortunes in real estate. When our government passed the 2012 JOBS Act (intended to encourage funding of small businesses by easing securities regulations), Jilliene saw an opportunity. So she quit the bank. And created RealtyMogul. Her new way of investing in real estate has caught on. To put it mildly. Her firm has done over 300 deals, with a real estate value of $4 Billion. And lets everyday people access institutional-quality investments. Investors can participate in a deal at a time or invest in one of their REIT pooled vehicles with a diversified group of deals. Clearly, she's onto something. Top investors Canaan Partners and Sorenson Capital have backed her vision. In this 20-minute conversation, Jilliene reveals how she's built her 70-person team to shake up the real estate investment field.
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Maha Ibrahim is a General Partner of Canaan Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm, where she has worked since March 2000. Maha isn’t our typical guest...Maha isn’t a female founder but she is a female “FINDER”. In this episode, Nada sits down with Maha and discusses how she approaches her decision-making to invest in early-stage ventures. For many female entrepreneurs, raising capital seems unattainable but Maha breaks it down. Whether you’re raising millions or thousands, this episode will become your go-to reference. Nada asks Maha big questions and Maha delivers intentional insight for anyone who is considering raising money to scale their business. You can learn more about Maha and her work, you can go here.Don't forget to follow us at @libertyforher on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Please let us know your thoughts about this episode by using the hashtag #libertyforher and please rate and review us—it helps to know if this podcast is inspiring and equipping you to launch and grow your ventures.
Anirudh Singh sits down with Yan Wu, Co-Founder and VP of Operations at Bond Financial Technologies. In this episode, they discuss: - Yan's career journey - Why all brands will become fintechs - How bond rapidly adjusted to a remote environment - Bond's goal to be the premier BaaS platform and much more! Bond helps brands embed financial services products into their existing offerings, helping brands increase activation, improve retention, and therefore increase customer lifetime value. Yan Wu Yan Wu is a CoFounder at Bond Financial Technologies, Inc., banking as a service platform that has raised over $42 million from Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, Coatue, and Canaan Partners. Bond seeks to allow any brand to embed financial products to improve their customers' experience. Previously, Yan was Head of Data at SoFi, an $8 billion consumer fintech focused on digital lending. His team of over 60 data scientists and engineers used analytics, data science, and machine learning to improve marketing, underwriting, product, and operations. Prior to fintech, Yan spent 15 years in the investment industry, most notably at BlackRock, where he was Head of Analytics and Portfolio Construction in BlackRock's $400 billion quantitative investment group. Yan earned an MBA from Wharton and a BS in Engineering from UC Berkeley. Yan is a perennial mentor at Data Science 4 All's Women's Summit. Yan was a former board member at WOMAN Inc. and a mentor at Upwardly Global. For more FinTech insights, follow us below: Medium: https://medium.com/wharton-fintech LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wharton-fintech-club/ WFT Twitter: https://twitter.com/whartonfintech Anirudh's Twitter: https://twitter.com/avsingh_24
This week we had on Nandu Anilal ( @nanduanilal) of Canaan Partners. Canaan is an early-stage fund that has a portfolio that speaks for itself. Within his role, Nandu focuses on enterprise technology companies, and in his free time, he shares a lot of his lessons and learnings through writing. In this talk, we discuss: The process of learning as a VC The rise of data-driven companies Themes worth monitoring within data infrastructure Preempting rounds and escaping the competitive fundraising process
Jilliene Helman started a digital real estate business in her living room 8 years ago and has now invested in over $2 billion of real estate. We talk about investing 101 and finding opportunities in the market. Find out how to invest with us: www.theinvestormindset.com/investJilliene is an amazing guest this week - she has incredible experience and knowledge of starting a successful business and investing successfully in real estate. If you're just starting out in the real estate investing game, or just thinking about it, then this is an episode made just for you. Jilliene drops some essential advice on the subject of investing, starting out, getting educated and spreading your investment risk. Jilliene Helman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of RealtyMogul, a FinTech company focused on investing in commercial real estate. In this capacity, Jilliene has invested in over $2 billion of real estate and deployed over $400 million of equity capital. She has also raised over $50 million in venture capital to finance the business from top-tier venture capital firms including Canaan Partners and Sorenson Capital. Jilliene is also an executive on numerous RealtyMogul subsidiaries and serves as Chief Executive Officer for RM Manager, a wholly-owned exempt reporting advisor, Chief Executive Officer for RM Advisor, a wholly-owned investment advisor, Chief Executive Officer for Mogul Securities, a wholly-owned broker-dealer, Chief Executive Officer for RealtyMogul Commercial Capital, a wholly-owned real estate lender and broker and Chief Executive Officer for RM Communities, a wholly-owned owner/operator of multifamily real estate. Hit the subscribe button to join our community and let us know in the comments below: How did your first deal go? KEY TAKEAWAYS1. Get educated before you start investing in your first deal2. Think about what type of assets and deal you want to invest in3. Consider REIT deals4. You can find great deals online 5. Interest rates are super low right now - multifamily could be the way to go6. Diversify your investment in order to reduce risk 7. Real estate is still a great market to be in and the market looks promising LINKShttps://www.xfactor.ventures/https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillienehelman/https://twitter.com/jillienehelman?lang=en
How I Raised It - The podcast where we interview startup founders who raised capital.
Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Christine Tao of Sounding Board, an online platform that is democratizing coaching for emerging business leaders (https://www.soundingboardinc.com/). In this episode, Christine shares how she raised capital as a female, non-technical co-founder, how coaching is similar to mentoring, how she kept in touch with her investors (each of which had previously told her "no"), how to look at investors as equals, and how she ran a lightning-fast oversubscribed process in 6 weeks. The Company most recently raised a $13.1 million Series A led by Canaan Partners. Other investors include Correlation Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Precursor Ventures, as well as Degreed founder David Blake and Kevin Johnson, the former CEO of Udemy. How I Raised It is produced by Foundersuite, makers of software to raise capital and manage investor relations. Foundersuite's customers have raised over $2.5 Billion since 2016. Create a free account at www.foundersuite.com
Not many people know that Evan Frank introduced our now-managing partners Carlos Espinal and Reshma Sohoni to each other during Seedcamp’s infancy. Even fewer are aware that Reshma was his first boss in NYC. And virtually no one (likely not even the Seedcamp Team) knows that Evan was single-handedly responsible for onboarding Seedcamp onto Gmail. But Evan Frank’s accomplishments far surpass his influence on Seedcamp’s leadership and tech-stack. After leaving a career in growth equity in 2010, he co-founded onefinestay, a pioneering brand in the alternative accommodation industry, offering short-term stays in high-end urban real estate. After raising $80M from Index Ventures, Canaan Partners, and Hyatt Hotels, onefinestay was acquired by Accor hotels for $200M in 2016. Following the acquisition, Evan was appointed CEO, running the global organisation with over 500 employees. Throughout this founder journey, Evan learned about building company culture through servant leadership and scaling operations using OKRs. Today, he sits down with Seedcamp’s Carlos Espinal to discuss his growth journey to-date and share what he’s up to now building Okra Labs, a firm helping teams incorporate KPI-driven goal setting & management frameworks. Links: Carlos Espinal - www.twitter.com/cee Seedcamp - www.seedcamp.com Evan Frank - www.twitter.com/evanbfrank Evan Frank Website - www.evanfrank.co Okra Labs - www.okralabs.com The Balance - www.thebalance.io Google’s OKR Playbook - www.whatmatters.com/resources/google-okr-playbook John Doerr’s What Matters - www.whatmatters.com
Today I’m joined by Byron Ling of Canaan Partners. In this episode, we discuss Byron’s investments in companies like Mirror, Ro, Papa, and Uniform Teeth. His insights on building a consumer brand in the healthcare space. And what we should look out for as fitness, wellness, and healthcare converge. About Byron Byron is a Partner at Canaan focusing on consumer and digital health investing. His investments include Papa, Ro, Uniform Teeth, Kin Euphorics, and Bravo Sierra. He was previously an investor at Primary Venture Partners, leading investments in companies such as Mirror and K Health. Prior to venture capital, he was an early employee at Gilt Groupe, helping scale the flash sale e-commerce company from product-market fit through the growth stage. Byron holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in Economics from Case Western Reserve University. More from Fitt Insider Fitt Insider is a weekly newsletter and podcast about the business of fitness and wellness. From product launches and funding news to game-changing innovation, Fitt Insider provides listeners with insights and analysis on this ever-evolving industry. Join your peers and colleagues from companies like Equinox, Apple, Peloton, Goldman Sachs, Nike, and ClassPass by subscribing. Website: http://insider.fitt.co
Join Michael and Robin as they chat with Vern Howard on what it was like raising venture capital as a black founder, his actionable insights for founders like him, and his views on “diversity washing” and what companies can do to avoid it. He is the CEO and founder of Hallo — a diversity recruiting platform that helps connect college students across the country with leading companies like Apple and Google. Hallo has raised $1.9m in funding from Canaan Partners, Tribe Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and many other leading VCs. With over 500 active universities including Carnegie Mellon, Fordham University, Stanford University, and USC, Hallo is quickly becoming one of the go-to platforms for top brands and universities, looking to discover diverse new talent in lieu of traditional recruitment measures.
Brian Schwartz is a hub of LA startup deals, a scout for Canaan Partners, the founder of SIZE advisors, SIZE capital, and an advisor to unicorn startup goPuff.
Unknowns: To truly set ourselves apart we need to have faith in our own abilities and take the plunge. From lightbulb moments, to dodging educational expectations, our guests prove that by venturing into the unknown we are able to unlock new potential, for our careers and ourselves. We’ll hear from Julie Wainwright, Julia Collins, Candace Nelson, Dr. Odette Harris, Amy DuRoss, Michelle Phan, and Glo Harris about forging new paths, taking risks, and finding their true callings.Hosted by Laura Chau, WoVen : Women Who Venture is a podcast from Canaan and Edit Audio Inc. that represents a platform, a community and really a celebration of venturesome and adventurous women in healthcare, tech and business.
Lisa Alderson is the co-founder and CEO of Genome Medical which is a telegenomics technology and services company allowing access to genomic-based medicine. The company has raised over $60 million from investors such as Canaan Partners, GE Ventures, Perceptive Advisors, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Techammer, Casdin Capital, Manatt Venture Fund, and Samsung Catalyst Fund to name a few.
Lisa Alderson is the co-founder and CEO of Genome Medical which is a telegenomics technology and services company allowing access to genomic-based medicine. The company has raised over $60 million from investors such as Canaan Partners, GE Ventures, Perceptive Advisors, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Techammer, Casdin Capital, Manatt Venture Fund, and Samsung Catalyst Fund to name a few.
About this nugget: This nugget was pulled from episode 243 from an interview with Michael Gilroy, from when he was a partner at Canaan Partners. Currently he’s a general partner at Coatue Management. This nugget is on the origin of embedded finance. What is a nugget of the week?: The host John Siracusa has recorded over 300 episodes as the host of the Bank On It fintech podcast where he interviews founders building the future of fintech and the VCS/Angels who fund them. With each interview there’s this wow moment when the person interviewed has shared something really special, unique or a reminder on how founders or investors should think. So, here we are delivering those moments to you in the form of a bite sized nugget. About Michael Gilroy: Michael is a general partner at Coatue Management, prior to that he was a partner at Canaan Partners. About the host: John, is the host of the ‘Bank On It’ podcast recorded onsite in Wall Street at OpenFin. He's also the founder of the remotely recorded, studio quality standardized audio production system called ListenDeck. As a fintech, VC, financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He’s in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry. Stay in the fintech know by subscribing to ‘Bank On It’, Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter, Medium
Community: Often we think about success as being a personal achievement, but these guests demonstrate the power of being an active part of a community. Whether it’s hearing advice from a leader, or sharing concerns with associates, working in collaboration with and seeking support from others can shape the way we think and act, ultimately compelling us to become better versions of ourselves and better managers of our teams. We’ll hear from Julia Collins, Karla Gallardo, Glo Harris, Michelle Phan, Gail Medaris, Amy DuRoss and Dr. Odette Harris about inspiring high school teachers, managers with emotional intelligence, and the overlooked loneliness of being a CEO.Hosted by Laura Chau, WoVen : Women Who Venture is a podcast from Canaan and Edit Audio Inc. that represents a platform, a community and really a celebration of venturesome and adventurous women in healthcare, tech and business.
Balance: Domestic responsibilities have always fallen more heavily on women than on men, and that remains true even when both partners work outside the home. Juggling domestic and professional life has always been hard, but COVID-19 has made that balance impossible. Our co-host Nina Kjellson finds that even in these pre-COVID interviews, our guests provide much inspiration and guidance in their individual perspectives and experiences as working moms. We’ll hear from Dr. Odette Harris, Mariam Naficy, Karla Gallardo, Ginger More, Julia Collins, and Amy DuRoss to hear the similarities between starting a family and a company at the same time, the difference supportive managers make, and why women should take more entrepreneurial risks before having children.Hosted by Nina Kjellson, WoVen : Women Who Venture is a podcast from Canaan and Edit Audio Inc. that represents a platform, a community and really a celebration of venturesome and adventurous women in healthcare, tech and business.
Emma Stubbs is a Rockstar. After graduating from Harvard in Neurobiology, she decided to take a hike. Literally. Covering 2,600 miles from Mexico to Canada. Then, she joined a little-known startup called CircleUp. And after 4 promotions in 5 years, she’s now Chief Operating Officer. Since then, CircleUp has become the leading investment platform providing capital to innovative, early-stage CPG brands with a modern, scalable approach to private markets. In short, she helps CPG entrepreneurs thrive. CircleUp’s investment platform finds & evaluates potential investment deals all algorithmically. It then invests equity and/or debt. CircleUp has raised venture funding from the best: Union Square Ventures, Collaborative Fund, GV, Canaan Partners, QED Investors, Rose Park, and Maveron. I wanted to find out how she’s scaled the CircleUp team to 70 people (and what possessed her to take that 2,600-mile hike.)
Prejudice: Last time we explored the power of self-care. This episode, we’ll dig into prejudice, a draining reality that most women, and especially women of color, have to deal with on a regular basis. Being an “other” in a predominantly white and male working environment comes with many challenges, but it also comes with an opportunity to influence change. Our co-host Laura Chau reveals the ways in which our guests experience, cope with, and push back against the prejudice they face. We sit down with Odette Harris, Julia Collins, Julie Wainwright, Amy DuRoss, and Mariam Naficy to hear how they embody confidence, unapologetically innovate, and evoke change for the future.Hosted by Laura Chau, WoVen : Women Who Venture is a podcast from Canaan and Edit Audio Inc. that represents a platform, a community and really a celebration of venturesome and adventurous women in healthcare, tech and business.
In this Masterclass you learn - 1. Mental models for original and contrarian thinking. 2. Principles of shaping meaningful careers in VC. 3. Art of making great decisions. 4. Powerful productivity techniques. Rahul Khanna is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Trifecta Capital, India’s first and largest Venture Debt Fund with assets of $210 million under management across two Funds. As of Dec 1, 2019, Trifecta Capital has provided Rs. 1200 crores of venture debt across 56 companies, several of them unicorns and market leaders - BigBasket, PaperBoat, LivSpace, UrbanClap, Curefit, UrbanLadder, Rivigo, BlackBuck, Pharmeasy, CarDekho, NinjaKart, Cars24, ZoomCars, Turtlemint, Chaipoint etc. He was previously, Managing Director at Canaan Partners, a global venture capital fund with $3.5 Billion under management. Rahul has 24 years of operating and investing experience in Technology, Media and Telecoms.Having returned to India from Silicon Valley in 2005, Rahul has played a key role in the development of the venture capital ecosystem in India and is recognized as an active investor in several high growth companies. Rahul also supports the startup ecosystem by advising early stage companies and making angel investments as member of the Mumbai Angels (Delhi Chapter). Some of his angel investments include CarTrade, Unmetric, Zopper, Cocoberry, Wooplr, Zenatix and MediAssist.
Laura Chau is a Principal at Canaan Partners who focuses on investing in early stage consumer technology companies that are changing the way we live, work, and think. Laura has partnered with category-defining startups in various roles, including Coterie, Kabam, Cuyana, Branch Metrics, Greenhouse, Kustomer, and KonMari Media. Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas. With $5B under management, a diversified fund and over 190 exits to date, Canaan has invested in some of the world's leading technology and healthcare companies over the past 30 years. Canaan’s focus areas include fintech, enterprise/cloud, marketplaces, frontier tech, biopharma, digital health and medtech. http://www.canaan.com www.CharlieNYC.com
In this episode, I have the real pleasure to speak (and very fast for that matter!) with Phil Rosen, CEO and Founder of the rapidly scaling EVEN Financial, the company with the leading API for financial services monetization, based in NYC. EVEN helps connect your consumers to personalized products at the right time with the definitive search, comparison and recommendation engine for financial services. There is no other company out there doing something similar at scale, and with the kind of results and growth trajectory that is beyond impressive: => Even works with all parties — financial institutions, marketers, affiliates and consumers — to enhance the online finance ecosystem for everyone, creating the optimal end-user experience; => For Partners: Proven greater monetization, comprehensive turnkey FI access, managed compliance, backed by machine learning recommendation engine; => For Financial Institutions: Proven lower cost of acquisition, lower delinquencies, lower charge offs, access to vast high quality organic network to reach consumers => A team of 130+ and growing fast; => An A-list of VC and other investors backing the company: $50M total funding, with some of the biggest brand names, like Citi Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, LendingClub, American Express Ventures, Canaan Partners, F-Prime Capital, GreatPoint Ventures, and Goldman Sachs; The bottom line, with EVEN Financial: Financial Institutions Build Profitable Portfolios with proven lower acquisition costs, through access to the vast, high-quality, organic Even network – reaching millions of consumers with native integrations featuring programmatic purchasing, full compliance, machine learning, and data backed by over 40 million user profiles to support decisioning. Channel Partners Increase Monetization with turn-key financial institution integrations across loans, savings, credit cards, and more – powered by Even’s best-in-class compliance, pricing options, controls, and machine learning optimization. Consumers Enjoy the Optimal User Experience with the ability to search, compare, and get matched with the financial services they need instantly through Even’s industry-leading recommendation engine. In my conversation with Phil, we address: * How he started EVEN 5 years ago after leaving Orchard; * How the business has evolved while product/market fit was being adjusted; * If the company pivoted at some point and how/why; * Experience as a CEO vs. pure CTO type of work; * Hiring challenges and future growth plans; * Quid crypto / blockchain? * The end game, if there is one; and many more insights to share. So, enjoy this episode, share lavishly, and give me a great rating and/or review on any platform of your choice. =============================================================== Check out also my other conversations with key industry players: - http://bit.ly/Iwantmyngravenow - http://bit.ly/Iwantmycelsiusnow - http://bit.ly/Iwantmypeponow - http://bit.ly/Iwantmywerbachnow - http://bit.ly/Iwantmymillonow - http://bit.ly/Iwantmycrypto101 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/WYFT/support
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Kurt Rathmann is the Founder & CEO @ ScaleFactor, the startup providing an automated bookkeeping solution at its core, bringing all of your company’s important financial information into one place. To date, Kurt has raised over $105m with ScaleFactor from the likes of Byron Deeter @ Bessemer, Coatue, Canaan Partners, Stripes Group and Firebrand to name a few. As Michael @ Coatue told me before the show, there is no way Kurt was not going to be the founder of a bookkeeping company given his background. Prior to ScaleFacotr, Kurt was the CFO of KNS Communications and a Senior Audit Professional @ KPMG. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How did Kurt make his way into the world of startups and come to found the gamechanger for bookkeeping in the form of ScaleFactor? Does Kurt believe that Founders do need to be mission-driven or can founding a company be a more analytical exercise? 2.) How did it come to be that Kurt raised 3 separate funding rounds and over $105m in just 13 months? How does Kurt feel about the saying, "when there is money on the table, take it"? Having had his B and C pre-empted, how does Kurt feel about the rise of pre-emptive rounds today? How did Kurt approach the mental challenge of transitioning from resource-starved to relative resource abundance? Was that tough to do? 3.) What is Kurt's biggest advice to founders when it comes to investor selection? What does Kurt believe are the 5 things that VCs can do to add value? Why does Kurt believe it is the responsibility of the founder to extract that value from the VC? What can founders do to really get the most out of their investors? What has Kurt found to be the biggest value from his cap table? Where do founders think VCs add value but they do not? 4.) What are some very unique and deliberate things that Kurt does to create an amazing culture at ScaleFactor? How does he advise on creating great energy in the office itself? How does Kurt think about retaining that core ethos with the expansion to multiple offices? What have been some of the biggest challenges in scaling communications internally? 5.) Does Kurt believe that being outside of a core tech hub severely limits his ability to hire the best talent? What do founders outside of these hubs need to very strategically do? How does being outside of a core hub also impact how Kurt thinks founders need to approach fundraising? What specifically can they do to increase their odds? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Kurt’s Fave Book: The Empowered Challenger Playbook: How Brands Can Change the Game, Steal Market Share, and Topple Giants As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Kurt on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Instagram here for mojito madness and all things 20VC.
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Mariana Mazzucato, (Mat-zu-cat-toe) a professor of the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London. Her book is “The Value of Everything … Making and Taking in the Global Economy”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Tim Shannon from Canaan Partners discusses some terms with potential in the future of medicine: “protein degradation” and “synthetic lethality”. And Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft reviews the latest FDA approvals using AI.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Mariana Mazzucato, (Mat-zu-cat-toe) a professor of the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London. Her book is “The Value of Everything … Making and Taking in the Global Economy”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Tim Shannon from Canaan Partners discusses some terms with potential in the future of medicine: “protein degradation” and “synthetic lethality”. And Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft reviews the latest FDA approvals using AI.
Maha is a partner at Canaan Partners, one of Silicon Valley's largest and most successful venture firms. She spots technology trends early and partners closely with her companies to drive growth and exits. Maha focuses on e-commerce and enterprise / cloud, and was one of the first investors to recognize the potential of social gaming. She represented Canaan as the first institutional investor in The RealReal – which recently went public. Maha is a founding member of All Raise, an organization with the mission to “accelerate the success of female funders and founders”. She is also a trustee for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Before becoming a venture capitalist, Maha was an executive at Qwest Communications and studied Economics and Sociology at Stanford, and Economics at MIT. In this podcast Maha shares her journey to becoming a venture capitalist. She discusses the changes she’s seen in the venture industry and what does – and doesn’t – excite her today. We also talk about the evolving path for women in Silicon Valley, and what an ally of women can do to be helpful. Canaan Partners www.canaan.com All Raise www.allraise.org The RealReal www.threrealreal.com
Jonathan Cherki is the founder and CEO of Contentsquare which provides a solution for mobile & web customer experience optimization. Jonathan Cherki has raised over $120 million for Contentsquare from investors such as Canaan Partners, Highland Europe, Eurazeo, and H14. In addition, the company has also acquired Clicktale and Pricing Assistant.
Jonathan Cherki is the founder and CEO of Contentsquare which provides a solution for mobile & web customer experience optimization. Jonathan Cherki has raised over $120 million for Contentsquare from investors such as Canaan Partners, Highland Europe, Eurazeo, and H14. In addition, the company has also acquired Clicktale and Pricing Assistant.
Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Michael Gilroy from Canaan Partners. Canaan is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in visionaries with transformative ideas. While we love speedy success, we're acutely aware that greatness comes in many forms and at different times. That's why we're not afraid to break the mold to bring something spectacular to life. At the end of the interview Michael turns the table and asks John why he started the show over 4 years ago. If it's the first time hearing it you might be surprised. Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with Al Goldstein from Avant & Amount About the host: John is the host of the twice-weekly “Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry. Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium
Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. This episode was recorded live onsite during In|Vest 2019 in NYC on a podcast stage in the center of it all. In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Lowell Putnam from Plaid. Lowell, was a cofounder and CEO of Quovo which was acquired by Plaid in January 2019. Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday's episode with Michael Gilroy from Canaan Partners. About the host: John is the host of the twice-weekly “Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry. Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium
Dan Ciporin ’86 is general partner at Canaan Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm. He is interviewed by Michelle Kwon ’20, a second-year MBA student at Yale School of Management. Show Notes. Dan Ciporin ’86 is a general partner at Canaan, an early-stage venture capital firm. He partners with startups to deliver innovation particularly in the areas of financial technology, e-commerce, and marketplaces. Dan joined Canaan after serving as Chairman and CEO of Shopping.com, where he took the company public after leading it from zero to over $100 million in revenue in five years and then sold it to Ebay. Prior to that he was Senior VP of MasterCard International running their global debit program. Dan earned an A.B. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and an M.B.A. from Yale School of Management in 1986. Michelle Kwon '20 is a second-year student in Yale SOM's full-time MBA program. Before enrolling at Yale SOM, she worked as a Business Affairs Project Manager supporting the launch of Airbnb Experiences in San Francisco. Before Airbnb, she worked at Soros Fund Management in New York City supporting equity capital markets, securitized products, and growth equity investments. Michelle graduated from Georgetown University with a B.A. in Government and conducted research in South Korea as a Fulbright Scholar. She is from Orange County, CA by way of Cincinnati, OH.
Join us today as we speak with Laura Chau from Canaan Partners about sparking joy in healthcare.
Michael Gilroy grew up dreaming of becoming a professional athlete, then a hedge fund manager, and finally a venture capitalist. He achieved his goal of becoming a Partner at Canaan, a prominent VC in San Francisco. Michael shares how a couple of traumatic experiences shaped his priorities, what he looks for in the companies he funds, and how he works to stay centered.
How is an early-stage VC a lot like Shane Battier or Andre Iguodala? When they are on the court, they make the players around them better. That's how Michael Sidgmore sees his role as a pre-seed and seed round FinTech investor: He's the sixth man, coming off the bench to serve as the glue that helps his team get to the next level. He may not be in the trenches on a daily basis, but when he does get in the game, good things happen. Michael is a Partner at Broadhaven Ventures, an independent investment bank serving the financial services industry. In his role at Broadhaven, Michael focuses on sourcing, investing and managing investments in early-stage FinTech startups. Prior to joining the firm, he served as a pre-product employee at iCapital Network and the first sales hire at Mosaic. Michael is also the founder of Let's Humanize Finance, an interview series with FinTech entrepreneurs and innovators who are changing the way we interact with money. Today, Michael joins us to share his unique path from semi-pro soccer player to Broadhaven Ventures, explaining how reading Leaving Microsoft to Change the World changed his life. He offers insight around how to measure impact in a nonprofit organization and how FinTech companies can make both a profit and an impact. Michael also gives us his take on the evolution of FinTech and the way cryptocurrency might fit into the larger picture of financial services in general. Listen in for Michael's top four opportunities in the FinTech space and learn how he sees the role of an early-stage VC as that of the sixth man. Topics Covered Michael's path from semi-pro soccer to Broadhaven Ventures Interned for Room to Read during accidental gap year in UK Transfer from Middlebury to London School of Economics Work at Goldman Sachs before shift to FinTech startups The key to running a successful conference Engaging content (e.g.: Shark Tank for trade ideas) Interesting people How to measure impact as a nonprofit organization KPIs specific to goals (i.e.: # of students with library access) View donors as investors expecting social return Michael's definition of success in business Do something you love, doesn't feel like work Help entrepreneurs realize dreams + make impact FinTech's ability to make a profit AND an impact Access to credit for unbanked individuals, small businesses Facilitate growth of middle class in emerging markets Michael's take on the evolution of FinTech From $3B of VC in 2012 to $16B in 2016 Challenge for disruptors to create standalone brand Bring enabling tech to traditional financial institutions Michael's insight around the opportunities in FinTech Emerging markets (Asia, Latin America) Big brands become FinTech companies Banking the SMB Collaborations (e.g.: Goldman + Apple) Michael's thoughts on how crypto fits into the FinTech picture Irony of centralized organizations in decentralized framework Interesting use cases in tokenization of assets How Michael sees his role as an early-stage VC Serve as sixth man (critical player off bench) Get companies ready to graduate to series A How Broadhaven is building out their team Institutionalizing processes Adding skill sets like culture, HR Connect with Michael Broadhaven Ventures https://www.broadhaven.com/ Broadhaven on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/broadhaven/ Michael on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsidgmore/ Michael on Twitter https://twitter.com/michaelsidgmore Let's Humanize Finance http://www.letshumanizefinance.com/ Resources Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood http://www.leavingmicrosoftbook.com/ Room to Read https://www.roomtoread.org/ LSE Alternative Investments Conference https://www.lseaic.com/ David Rubenstein at The Carlyle Group https://www.carlyle.com/about-carlyle/team/david-m-rubenstein Silver Lake https://www.silverlake.com/ Glenn Hutchins http://www.hamiltonproject.org/people/glenn_h._hutchins Man Group https://www.man.com/ Lord Stanley Fink https://www.crunchbase.com/person/stanley-fink#section-overview Mosaic https://www.joinmosaic.com/ iCapital https://www.icapitalnetwork.com/ QED Investors https://qedinvestors.com/ Gusto https://gusto.com/ Chime https://www.chimebank.com/ MoneyLion https://www.moneylion.com/ SoFi https://www.sofi.com/ Michael Gilroy https://www.canaan.com/team/michael-gilroy Canaan Partners https://www.canaan.com/ ScaleFactor https://scalefactor.com/ Greg Phillips https://www.broadhaven.com/greg-phillips Guissu Raafat Baier https://www.linkedin.com/in/guissu/ The Third Door by Alex Banayan https://thirddoorbook.com/ Keith Rabois on Boost VC EP090 https://theboostvcpodcast.simplecast.fm/rabois Connect with Boost VC Boost VC Website https://www.boost.vc/ Boost VC on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/boostvc/ Boost VC on Twitter https://twitter.com/BoostVC
Guy Podjarny is the Founder & CEO @ Snyk, the developer-first solution that automates finding and fixing vulnerabilities in your dependencies. To date, Guy has raised over $32m in VC funding from Snyk from some of the great of venture including Accel, GV, our friends at Boldstart and Canaan Partners, just to name a few. As for Guy, prior to Snyk, he was the CTO of Akamai’s Web Performance Business following their acquisition of his startup, Blaze.io. Before founding Blaze, Guy built Web Application Security products, including the first Web App Firewall (AppShield), Dynamic Application Security Testing tool (AppScan) and Static Application Security Testing tool (AppScan Dev Edition). Fun fact on Guy, he is the holder of 18 patents related to security and performance. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: How Guy made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found one of the hottest open source companies of our day in the form of Snyk? How does Guy navigate between the difficult balance of going wide on market and shallow on product or narrow in market and deep in product? What is the decision-making process? What does Guy advise founders on feature prioritisation in the early days? Does Guy agree if you are not embarrassed by V1, you have shipped too late? How does support provide a feedback loop on what to build next? Why does Guy believe that, “successful freemium requires giving away your secret sauce”? How can one give away enough secret sauce in freemium without giving away too much people don’t buy? How does freemium fundamentally alter your relationship to revenue? Where does Guy see many going wrong when pursuing the freemium model? How does Guy think about the problem of agency with developers using the product but having to sell to CIOs? What 2 things can be done to make this sell easier? What does Guy believe is the right framework to think about pricing through? Why is transparency in enterprise pricing not always optimal? What does Guy believe is required to have strong and seamless communication across functions and locations? How has Guy seen this change over time and with increased locations? Where does Guy see many going wrong when trying to scale team across location? Guy’s 60 Second SaaStr: How does Guy know when is the right time to hire your first sales person? How did Guy learn to let go and trust his team? What does Guy know now that he wishes he had known at the beginning? Read the full transcript on our blog. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr Guy Podjarny
Brad Birnbaum is the Founder & CEO @ Kustomer, the first intelligent platform for customer experience that enables you to know everything about every customer. To date Brad has raised over $38m in funding for Kustomer from some of the very best in the SaaS business including Tomasz Tunguz @ Redpoint, Ed Sim @ Boldstart, Canaan Partners, Box Group and Social Leverage just to name a few. Previously he was the Co-founder of Assistly, which was acquired by Salesforce and became Desk.com. Prior to that, he was CTO for Talisma and Co‑founder & CTO of eShare Technologies. In addition, Brad was also the CTO @ Sean parker’s Airtime and VP of Engineering with Salesforce. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: How Brad made his way into the world of customer experience and SaaS over 20 years ago? This is Brad’s 4th time at the roadshow, what does Brad believe are the core benefits of repeat entrepreneurship? How did his prior experience change his operating mentality with Kustomer? What has he done differently this time? What worked and he has kept the same? Brad has made the transition from CTO to CEO, how did he find this transition? What were some of the most challenging elements? What have been some of the biggest surprises? What advice would Brad have for other CTOs who have made or are thinking about making the transition? Brad initially served SMBs with Kustomer but now primarily focuses on mid-level, what would Brad’s biggest advice be when it comes to finding the right go-to-market strategy for you? How did their transition alter their approach to pricing, product, messaging and distribution? Where does Brad see many people go wrong on go-to-market? Brad’s 60 Second SaaStr: What does Brad know now that he wishes he had known at the beginning? When is the right time to pour fuel on the company fire? What would Brad most like to change in the world of SaaS? Read the full transcript on our blog. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr Brad Birnbaum
The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
Ryan Caldbeck is the Founder & CEO @ CircleUp, the startup creating a transparent and efficient market to drive innovation for consumer brands. To date, Ryan has raised over $50m with CircleUp from some friends and prior guests of the show including USV, Collaborative Fund and Canaan Partners just to name a few. Prior to CircleUp, Ryan spent nearly 7 years investing in consumer products with the likes of TSG Consumer Partners and Encore Consumer Capital. As a result of Ryan's success with CircleUp he has been recognised as a "Titan of Retail" by Bloomberg and "40 Under 40" by the San Francisco Business Times. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Ryan made his way into the world of consumer investing and what the realisation moment was for him that the market needed a solution, CircleUp? 2.) Why does Ryan believe that venture capital has a fundamental problem? What is it about the economics of funds that Ryan has a problem with? Who is to blame for this situation; the LPs who fund it or the AUM hungry VCs? Why does Ryan believe the majority of micro VCs are micro as that is all they could raise? Is that really fair or true? 3.) Why does Ryan fundamentally believe the LP ecosystem and mechanism for backing funds is inherently broken? What is so wrong with current LP incentives? What does Ryan believe can be done to encourage more risk-taking and innovation from within the LP class? 4.) Recognising the antiquated nature of much of VC, what does Ryan believe the future of VC looks like? How will we see the use of data impact both sourcing and investment decision-making? Where does Ryan believe it has the most potential? Where is data so sparse that it will be challenging? How does Ryan believe the best managers of the future will use data? 5.) Consumer brands and DNVBs are riding high today, does Ryan believe we are in a consumer bubble? What does Ryan believe is so wrong about how the majority of the current crop of VCs analyse consumer businesses? How should they be analysed? Why does Ryan believe consumer exits will be smaller? Is it fair to say consumer is more capital intensive and largely sells for 1.6-1.8 EBITDA? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Ryan’s Fave Book: The Hard Thing About Hard Things As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Ryan on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Instagram here for mojito madness and all things 20VC.
Did you know that 80% of job opportunities at $100,000+ filled every month aren’t advertised? Despite the internet, it’s still a highly inefficient & hidden market. Joe Meyer, Founder & CEO of Execthread, intends to change that. It’s NYC-based VC-backed job-sharing network that enables executives to access that “hidden job market.” ExecThread has become the largest global aggregator of unpublished executive-level job opportunities. Joe has been a successful start-up CEO and operating executive at high-growth tech companies including HopStop (acquired by Apple), Quigo (acquired by AOL) and eBay. He’s been named Entrepreneur of the Year by Crain's New York Business. And investors have taken notice. He’s raised $6.5 million in capital from Canaan Partners, Javelin Venture Partners, NextView Ventures, and Corazon Capital. In this 20-minute conversation, Joe explains how it works & why. If you’re looking for a senior-level role, or senior-level talent, pull on this thread & listen.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Mariana Mazzucato, (Mat-zu-cat-toe) a professor of the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London. Her book is “The Value of Everything … Making and Taking in the Global Economy”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Tim Shannon from Canaan Partners discusses some terms with potential in the future of medicine: “protein degradation” and “synthetic lethality”. And Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft reviews the latest FDA approvals using AI.
On Tech Nation Health, Tim Shannon from Canaan Partners discusses some terms with potential in the future of medicine: “protein degradation” and “synthetic lethality”. And Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft reviews the latest FDA approvals using AI.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Mariana Mazzucato, (Mat-zu-cat-toe) a professor of the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London. Her book is “The Value of Everything … Making and Taking in the Global Economy”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Tim Shannon from Canaan Partners discusses some terms with potential in the future of medicine: “protein degradation” and “synthetic lethality”. And Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft reviews the latest FDA approvals using AI.
On Tech Nation Health, treating medical conditions with a person’s own cells. Nina Kjellson (Shell-son), Managing Partner, from Canaan Partners explains the challenges of car-T therapy in treating cancer patients, and Vericel’s Gerard Michel describes their work repairing cartilage in the knee and severe burns. Also, Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft covers the Blue Button conference
On this week’s Tech Nation, how natural disasters shaped civilizations. Former USGS scientist, Dr. Lucy Jones joins Moira to talk about her book: “The Big Ones”. Then on Tech Nation Health, treating medical conditions with a person’s own cells. Nina Kjellson (Shell-son), Managing Partner, from Canaan Partners explains the challenges of car-T therapy in treating cancer patients, and Vericel’s Gerard Michel describes their work repairing cartilage in the knee and severe burns. Also, Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft covers the Blue Button conference
On this week’s Tech Nation, how natural disasters shaped civilizations. Former USGS scientist, Dr. Lucy Jones joins Moira to talk about her book: “The Big Ones”. Then on Tech Nation Health, treating medical conditions with a person’s own cells. Nina Kjellson (Shell-son), Managing Partner, from Canaan Partners explains the challenges of car-T therapy in treating cancer patients, and Vericel’s Gerard Michel describes their work repairing cartilage in the knee and severe burns. Also, Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft covers the Blue Button conference
How I Raised It - The podcast where we interview startup founders who raised capital.
Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Phill Rosen of Even Financial, makers of an open API for financial services. The company raised $18.8 million of Series A venture funding led by GreatPoint Ventures. The Goldman Sachs Group, Canaan Partners, F-Prime Capital Partners, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Jacob Gibson, Jason Owen, American Express Ventures, Arab Angels, Plug and Play Ventures and Valuestream Ventures also participated in the round. In this episode, Phill discusses the unique dynamics of raising capital for a B2B financial services company operating in a highly-regulated industry, how to raise from large strategic investors / customers, when to use a convertible note vs. doing a priced round, tips for building a data room, and much more.
Welcome back to CTRL+T. This week, Megan Rose Dickey and Henry Pickavet talk about the World Health Organization identifying 'gaming disorder' as a mental health issue. We disagree. Gamers gonna game. Also this week we were joined by Adina Tecklu, VC at Canaan Partners. She was here to talk about Canaan Beta, which is essentially a fund within the larger Canaan fund designed to seek out "category-defining and category-creating companies."
The Top Entrepreneurs in Money, Marketing, Business and Life
Dan Ruch is the Founder & CEO of Rocketrip, the leading tech platform for reducing corporate travel costs. Rocketrip motivates below policy spending by giving employees data-based trip budgets and letting them keep half of what they save. Venture-backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Canaan Partners, Genacast Ventures, and Y Combinator, Rocketrip helps clients including GE, Edmunds, and Twitter create a positive culture around spend management.
Maha Ibrahim, a general partner at Canaan Partners, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her more than 17 years in venture capital, joining Canaan right before the first dot-com bubble burst. Ibrahim says a lot of her fellow investors have only ever known tech as an "up and to the right" industry and she's concerned by the intense rate at which many companies are burning capital, even after they go public. She also talks about the recent backlash against men in tech who have sexually harassed women, calling Reid Hoffman's decency pledge "the lowest of low bars." The bigger challenge for women going forward, Ibrahim explains, will be helping other women succeed even though there is no obvious female equivalent in tech of Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This is a great podcast with Wende Hutton, General Partner at Caanan Partners.
The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
Roseanne Wincek is an investor with IVP, one of the leaders in growth financing with a portfolio including the likes of Snap, AppDynamics, SuperCell and Slack. At IVP, Roseanne focuses on investing in later-stage, high-growth consumer and enterprise companies, currently serving as a Board Observer for MasterClass and actively working with IVP’s investments in Compass, Glossier, and Qubole. Prior to IVP, Roseanne was a Principal with Canaan Partners where she completed transactions for Beckon, Metacloud, and Stayful, just to name a few. Prior to VC, Roseanne was a co-founder @ imthemusic working to built music apps on the early Facebook platform. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Roseanne made her way from science labs to startups and one of the valleys leading growth stage funds? 2.) Question from Maha Ibrahim @ Canaan Partners: How has the transition been from early to late stage? How do the industries differ in terms of startup visibility? Assessing the "what could be"? Allocation to reserve funding? Expected hold period? 3.)Why does Roseanne believe we are seeing a blurring of the lines between early and late stage? What is the effect for late stage of earlier stage funds having opportunity funds? What is the effect for early stage funds to see growth funds investing earlier?? 4.) Why does Roseanne believe go to market strategy is now more important than ever? How serious does Roseanne believe the incumbency with regards to distribution channels is? Does this mean startups have to develop proprietary organic distribution channels? 5.) How does Roseanne view competition within the financing market? Question from Jenny Lefcourt @ Freestyle: How has Roseanne consistently gotten into some of the hottest most competitive deals? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Roseanne’s Fave Book: Einstein's Refrigerator: Tales of Hot & Cold Roseanne’s Most Recent Investment: Masterclass As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Roseanne on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. eShares is the No 1 Cap Table Management platform, allowing for equity management, 409A valuations, and liquidity, all in one place. eShares is made for companies of all sizes with over 5,000 trusted customers including the likes of Squarespace, Kickstarter, and DoorDash just to name a few. To try out the must have service of the industry, simply head over to esharesinc.com it is a must. Fond is the employee engagement suite with 3 core products, rewards: a recognition platform for rewarding achievements and milestones, perks: a premium corporate discounts program to show employees you care about them and then finally engagement IQ, a free employee engagement survey that allows you to measure the health of your organization. To check it out head over to fond.co
Appetite for Disruption: The Business and Regulation of FinTech
Canaan Partners Part 2: Dan's further thoughts and a debate about the role of regulation.
Appetite for Disruption: The Business and Regulation of FinTech
Canaan Partners, Part 1: Dan Ciporin discusses FinTech from the venture capital standpoint.
Daniel Ruch is the Founder and CEO @ Rocketrip, the startup that reduces travel spend by rewarding employees to save. They have backing from some incredible investors including the likes of Bessemer Venture Partners, Canaan Partners and Y Combinator. Prior to Rocketrip, Dan was a VP in Europe for Tremor Video and before that he held several director and managerial level positions at TACODA until TACODA’s sale to AOL. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: How did Dan make his way into the world of SaaS and come to found Rocketrip? How important is accountability for the founder and CEO? How do you convey this commitment and responsibility to the team? Are there any downsides? At what stage does Dan believe the generalist transitions to the specialist? How has Dan seen his team evolve from stage to stage? What have been the challenges within each stage? How does Dan approach hiring strategy? How does he look to determine people/company fit? Dan has said before that he ‘would not hire without a track record’, why is this? How does Dan view internal budgets? What are the fundamentals to cost saving within the business? How does Dan think one can cut cost without lowering morale? 60 Second SaaStr What is Dan’s fave SaaS reading material? What does Dan know now that he wishes he had known at the beginning? Carrot or stick, what does Dan prefer to implement? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr Dan Ruch
The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
Kevin Chou is co-founder and CEO of Kabam, a world leader in mobile free-to-play games. At Kabam, Kevin catapulted revenue to $400 million and a valuation of more than $1 billion in 2014. Under Kevin’s leadership, Kabam has raised more than $240 million from venture and strategic investors, including some of the world’s largest entertainment and internet companies such as Alibaba, Google, Intel and Warner Brothers. Before Kabam, Kevin worked at Canaan Partners, Kabam’s initial investor and where he invested in 14 consumer technology and online media companies. In 2014 Kevin was named one Fortune magazine’s prestigious “40 Under 40” and, in 2012, was identified by Fortune as one of the “Smartest People in Tech.” In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Kevin came to found the wildly successful Kabam from a life in VC with Canaan Partners? 2.) How does Kevin respond to investors that say games is so challenging as it is so hits driven? What are the requirements to build an enduring and successful games company? 3.) What are the metrics that define success in gaming? Why does Kevin believe that gaming is unlike any other in terms of metrics? 4.) To what extent does Kevin believe it is right to monetise games from the beginning vs the free to play market? What are the features and challenges required for success in the premium end of the market? 5.) How does gaming alter both in terms of design and monetisation when comparing the East to the West? What feature sets are preferrable in both? Why doe the East want to pay for as much up front as possible? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Kevin’s Fave Book: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Kevin’s Fave Blog or Newsletter: Dean Takahashi: VentureBeat As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Kevin on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. X.ai is AI-poweredered personal assistant for scheduling meetings bringing you Amy or Andrew. The assistant you interact with like you would to any other person and it allows you to avoid the tedious hours of email ping pong in order to schedule one meeting. Even better, there is no sign in, no password, no download, all you do is cc amy@x.ai beautiful! And you can check it out now on x.ai it really is a must! Workable is the all-in-one recruiting software for ambitious companies. From posting a job to tracking and managing candidates, Workable provides everything you need to hire better. Transparent communication, organized candidate profiles, structured interviews and a full reporting suite gives hiring teams the information they need to make the best choice. Workable is available for desktop and mobile and you can find out more on workable.com where you can try it for free.
We’ve explored various themes on investing in financial technology on this show. We’ve interviewed Caribou Honig at QED Investors. We’ve also spoken to to Foundation Capital’s Charles Moldow. If you were to put together an all-star team of fintech investors, you’d also want to include Dan Ciporin from Canaan Partners. He was the first institutional investor in Lending Club and has a portfolio that includes CircleUp, Orchard, borro, and direct match. You can see the marketplace finance and marketplace lending theme played out in his investments. Dan joins us on this week’s episode of the Tradestreaming Podcast. We talk about a variety of different things: first and foremost, we talk about his investments, why he made them, and what he’s looking at investing in in the future. We talk about his background — how being the CEO of Shopping.com and selling it to eBay and his previous experience at MasterCard influenced his perspective on consumer credit and its investability. It’s a great episode and glad you’ve joined us. Now, here’s our interview with Dan Ciporin of Canaan Partners.
Nina is General Partner with Canaan Partners. We interviewed her at the Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Summit held in October, 2015.
State of the Real Estate Online Lending Market by Dan Ciporin, General Partner at Canaan Partners. The real estate lending market is a $15 Trillion market, compared to $2.2 Trillion for consumer loans and $300 Billion for small business loans. Despite this, real estate currently only comprises of 5% of total marketplace lending. The steps necessary to increase real estate marketplace lending include: coming up with standardized risk metrics, enabling infrastructure and technology to manage data, and creating a real-time marketplace. It is interesting to see the business model parallels between marketplace lenders now and the successful internet giants, who made their money by being an advertising platform. Marketplace lenders are being the platform between investors and borrowers or sponsors.
The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
Maha Ibrahim is General Partner at Canaan Partners. Maha is renowned in the venture industry for her ability to to spot technology trends extremely early, proven through Maha being one of the 1st investors to recognise the huge potential of social gaming. As a result, Maha led Canaan's early investment in social games pioneer PicksPal (acquired by Liberty Media) and was a seed investor in Kabam, the world's largest developer of massively multiplayer social games. Due to Maha's incredible success in venture, she was included in Silicon Valley the '40 Under 40' award by The Silicon Valley Business Journal and is a regular on Bloomberg TV. Items Mentioned in Today's Show: The Real Real ClusterHQ Lending Club In today's episode you will learn: How Maha made her transition into the world of Venture Capital? As one of the 1st investors in social gaming, what did Maha see that other people did not? With the gaming industry being as fast moving and fickle as it is, shown through the likes of Zynga's troubles, is Maha concerned for her gaming portfolio companies, in their ability to maintain their dominant presence in the sector? Maha is an investor in The Real Real, a company which had revenues of over $100m last year. What does Maha believe is the reason for this incredible success and where does she see the future for The Real Real? Increasing amounts of capital means increasing competition for VCs, what does Maha believe VCs can bring to the table to beat off the competition? What is Maha most impressed by, in terms of entrepreneurs pitching to her? Where does Maha believe the next big forms of disruption are coming from? We finish today's episode with a quick fire round where we hear Maha's thoughts on the hardest part about being a VC, how Maha measures her success as a VC and her most recent investment and why she said yes? You can follow Maha on Twitter here!
Canaan Partners describes themselves as venture catalysts. Join Deepak Kamra as he talks about how he became a venture capitalist, the startups he funded, and the ones that got away. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 21405]
Canaan Partners describes themselves as venture catalysts. Join Deepak Kamra as he talks about how he became a venture capitalist, the startups he funded, and the ones that got away. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 21405]