Forward Thinking Founders

Meddy Daryadel is the founder of de. myViTrend is the online hub for fitness videos. ★ Support this podcast ★

Saket Kumar is the cofounder of Vitt. With Vitt, get upfront, non-dilutive financing against your monthly recurring revenues. Never trade growth off against dilution again. ★ Support this podcast ★

Tela Andrews is the cofounder of BearTax. BearTax helps you to fetch trades from everywhere, identify transfers across exchanges and auto generates tax documents. ★ Support this podcast ★

Michael Houston is the founder of ElevateU. Elevate makes it easy to replace textbooks with digital learning experiences that instructors can customize and track student progress. ★ Support this podcast ★

Oscar Pedroso is the founder of Thimble. Thimble teaches kids STEM skills through weekly 1-hr classes taught by tech professionals. Kits are shipped every 3 months. Invest in Thimble here. ★ Support this podcast ★

Neel Ganu is the founder of Finch. Finch is an all-in-one account that seamlessly integrates the benefits of investing and the flexibility of checking. ★ Support this podcast ★

Cory Hoffart is the cofounder of Stylez. Stylez is the next-gen beauty platform created to empower 3 million beauty pros through educational content, community, client engagement, commerce and soon, augmented reality. ★ Support this podcast ★

Yevgen Kotukh & Daniil Tretiakov are the cofounders of UnlinkVR. UnlinkVR enables Wireless data transmission solution for VR sets based on laser radiation. ★ Support this podcast ★

Evalyn Oloo is the founder of Manyactive. With Manyactive, track, book, or deliver fitness and mental health services close to you. ★ Support this podcast ★

Marko Hozjan is the cofounder of Taia. With Taia, self-translate your documents up to 3x faster or simply outsource them to their highly skilled team of professional translators. ★ Support this podcast ★

In this bonus episode, I talk through the pros and cons of going through an accelerator. This episode will be most helpful for first time founders who are evaluating going through an accelerator. ★ Support this podcast ★

Victoria Duben is the founder of Viewst. Viewst is the workspace that allows you to create, collaborate, and launch ads at scale. ★ Support this podcast ★

Kareem Abukhadra is the founder of Relentless. Relentless enables its customers to get 10+ interviews a month at your favorite companies with no effort. ★ Support this podcast ★

Dornubari Vizor is the founder of GroupApp. GroupApp gives you the tools to build and launch your learning community, create online courses, host your content and monetize your knowledge. ★ Support this podcast ★

Madi Rifkin is the founder of Mount. Mount provides tools for property owners to rent or list amenities, from scooters to golf clubs to e-bikes — and beyond. ★ Support this podcast ★

Adi Diner is the founder of iFocus Health. iFocus is using eye-tracking technology combined with a proprietary AI algorithm to provide data-based treatment efficacy measures. ★ Support this podcast ★

Josh Kline is the founder of HaveNeed. HaveNeed is a free mobile app that enables you to trade for goods and services like never before! HaveNeed also makes it easy to donate items directly to members of your community. ★ Support this podcast ★

Andrew Gluck is the founder and GP of irrvrntVC. irrvrntVC has a tight thesis around DTC, AdTech, and NextG. Generally, they invest $150k-$350k and are very comfortable committing without a lead in place and galvanizing the round. ★ Support this podcast ★

Ivan Huerta is the cofounder of Parabeac. Parabeac is the only Sketch to Flutter and Figma to Flutter Continuous Integration (CI) tool that integrates app design and development workflows for faster & more. ★ Support this podcast ★

Jake Aronskind is the cofounder of Pepper. Pepper is streamlining the process of finding your next meal, sitting down at the dinner table after cooking it, and sharing with your family & friends when you’re done! ★ Support this podcast ★

Viet York is the founder of Lectron. Lectron protects the metaverse, game server, and any online application from DDoS attacks. Then supercharge it with 210+ anycast edge locations around the world to enhance your end user experience ★ Support this podcast ★

Cristina Vanko is the founder of Arrow. Arrow is a swipeless, audio dating experience that feels personal. See someone you like? Shoot your shot with a voice note. ★ Support this podcast ★

With TIKI, see what data you share online and make informed decisions on who else can see it. ★ Support this podcast ★

Tim Connors is the cofounder of Pearl. Text Pearl your interests, they'll intro you to founders who are hiring. ★ Support this podcast ★

Nicholas Hinrichsen is the cofounder of Clutch. We had him on the podcast almost a year ago and since then, his company has refocused, raised from a16z, and is not in full scale mode. Listen to his learnings in this episode. ★ Support this podcast ★

Sébastien Robaszkiewicz is the cofounder of Jitter. Jitter is the easiest motion design tool on the web. ★ Support this podcast ★

Lorea Coronado-Garcia is the cofounder of Spoor. Spoor is building next generation biodiversity monitoring that enables industry and nature to coexist. ★ Support this podcast ★

Alex Pennington is the cofounder of Finish and Feast. Finish & Feast is on a very simple mission: to bring fine dining to everyone, anywhere in the UK. To achieve this mission, they have created the UK’s premier fine dining meal assembly kit platform, which allows people across the UK to enjoy food from some of the best chefs and restaurants on offer. ★ Support this podcast ★

Sagnik Ghosh is the cofounder of Worqhat. Worqhat aims to create a better life and a better future for University Students and Graduates. ★ Support this podcast ★

Rohan Agrawal is the cofounder of Incentify. Incentify is fostering a community that engages around music, and make connections with people who share your same music taste. ★ Support this podcast ★

Ken Babcock is a cofounder of Tango. With Tango, create process or product documentation on-demand. ★ Support this podcast ★

Joshua Salins is the founder of The Hobby Tribe. Hobby Tribe believes everyone should have the ability and chance to learn something new In this ever-expanding world of opportunity. ★ Support this podcast ★

Abu Bakr Kamal is the founder of Let's Dunch. They helping like-minded professionals collaborate over food and events around the globe. ★ Support this podcast ★

About Chris McCannChris McCann is a general partner at Race Capital, entrepreneur, and community builder. Prior, Chris founded and led the community program at Greylock Partners, a San Francisco based venture capital firm with $3.5 billion under management which led investments in Facebook, LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Coinbase, among others. Chris has an angel portfolio of over twenty investments within the fintech and blockchain verticals including: Binance, Solana, Serum, among others.Before he joined the firm, he was the co-founder and CEO of StartupDigest – of the earliest technology focused publications – which he grew from zero to over one million subscribers before being acquired by Techstars. He was an early advisor for the Thiel Fellowship & StartX at Stanford University. He also writes a newsletter covering the fintech & tech sectors and reaches 15,000 entrepreneurs, engineers, and investors on a weekly basis. ★ Support this podcast ★

Matt Caplan is the cofounder of Biscuits n Groovy. They partner with artists to debut exclusive music and album art to their most devoted fans. ★ Support this podcast ★

Diana Chen runs the Unstoppable Domains podcast and works on their content team to spread the word about their company, web3, and the greater blockchain ecosystem. This episode is an early bet on Diana. ★ Support this podcast ★

Daniel Lewis is the cofounder of Winno. Winno helps people understand the world better. Want to learn more about Wino? Look them up on Seedscout. ★ Support this podcast ★

Rebecca Jones is the founder of Clutch. Clutch is a crypto wallet built by women, for women, to invest in digital currencies. ★ Support this podcast ★

Paul Gross is the cofounder of Remora. Their device captures the carbon emissions from a semi-truck. They sell the captured carbon dioxide to concrete producers and greenhouses, helping companies earn new revenue while meeting their climate commitments. ★ Support this podcast ★

I am very excited to be chatting with Elizabeth Yin, who is the co-founder of Hustle Fund. The following is a bio I pulled from her persona website:Elizabeth Yin is a co-founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, a pre-seed fund for software entrepreneurs. Previously, Elizabeth was a partner at 500 Startups where she invested in seed stage companies and ran the Mountain View accelerator. In a prior life, Elizabeth co-founded and ran an adtech company called LaunchBit (acq 2014). Elizabeth has a BSEE from Stanford and an MBA from MIT Sloan.Elizabeth has reviewed over 20k startup pitches from around the world in the last few years and has helped numerous portfolio founders raise hundreds of millions of dollars. Her work and writing on startup fundraising has been featured in numerous publications including TechCrunch, Forbes, Huffington Post, BetaKit, and more. ★ Support this podcast ★

Hunter Wagenaar is the founder of Idea. Idea is creating interactive, comprehensive health education modules that are inclusive of all identities & medically accurate for parents, students, and organizations. ★ Support this podcast ★

Sergey Kulinkovich is the cofounder of Timestripe. Get super focused on your goals every day! Boost your productivity with a beautiful calendar, shared to-do lists & powerful notes with Timestripe. ★ Support this podcast ★

Julie Kaplan is a senior at Arizona State University studying Global Politics and Finance. This is an early bet. ★ Support this podcast ★

Zach Coelius is a four-time entrepreneur and now investor in early-stage technology companies. Learn more about his rolling fund here or follow him on Twitter here. ★ Support this podcast ★

Miriam Dorsett is the founder of QUOKA. QUOKA is an anonymous messaging exchange designed to improve the mental health of founders. ★ Support this podcast ★

Kirby Winfield is a seasoned startup operator and investor, and is currently the Founding General Partner at Ascend.vc, a pre-seed stage venture fund investing in marketplace, e-commerce/DTC, and B2B software startups in the Pacific Northwest. ★ Support this podcast ★

Prateek Srivastava is the cofounder of Terraview. Terraview is a complete operating system for vineyards. Improve yield, reduce costs, and run your operations from one dashboard. ★ Support this podcast ★

Shiv Thakker is the cofounder of Fleetbase. Fleetbase is an API-first logistics platform for developers and businesses. ★ Support this podcast ★

Artavazd Yeritsyan is the founder of Podcastle. Their AI-powered, production-quality tools can help bring your stories to life. ★ Support this podcast ★

Wallace Torres is the founder of Sidha Health. Sidha Health is bringing respiratory care into the home. ★ Support this podcast ★