The Accelerator with Michael Conniff

With a $10 million valuation, Connected Home is looking to raise $2 million to drive expansion in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Dubai—and ultimately the United States—after generating $1.5 million in revenue from an installed base of 1,500 homes. The company integrates its technology with utilities and other services—even food delivery and the quality of air outside the home. The kicker is customers never know they've paid an installation fee and are billed monthly on their utility bill.

Author of Rebel Leadership: How To Change In Uncertain Times, consultant Larry Robertson, a Fullbright Scholar, spends his time trying to figure out the secrets of leadership—secrets he can impart to founders and entrepreneurs. In The Accelerator with Michael Conniff, he details the many surprising ways to instill leadership top to bottom in an organization, no matter how new it might be. .

Anna Federova, CEO of Unicorn Events, the world's largest pitch contest for startups, entrepreneurs, and founders, tells The Accelerator's host Michael Conniff about plans for over 300 events in 2022—starting with Gaming and Entertainment Thursday, January 20, 2022—for angel investors, venture capitalists, and investors from all over the world. Unicorn is part of Network VC, formerly known as Startup Network.

Michael hosts Soerinder Dataram CEO, WAUWTEC. Maria McKenzie Business Development Lead, WAUWTECWAUTEC is offering a new video compression solution that will take your 100% original video file and will compress it to 99.7% without losing quality. How amazing! They are a pioneer in this space.

Sarah White of Little Bridge Limited talks about creating a safe social media platform for children