Meet the Entrepreneur
34 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago -A podcast by Start-up Society featuring full-length, deep-dive interviews with co-founders of very exciting start-ups from across the country.
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Meet the Entrepreneur #30 - Steven Plappert, Forecastr
November 15, 2023 06:55 - 44 minutes - 82.1 MBFOLLOW STEVEN PLAPPERT & FORECASTR https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-plappert-59477b3b/ https://www.forecastr.co/ https://www.facebook.com/ForecastrHQ https://twitter.com/forecastr/ https://www.instagram.com/forecastrco/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/forecastr https://youtube.com/forecastr https://www.tiktok.com/@forecastrco FOLLOW START-UP SOCIETY https://linktr.ee/startup_society https://startupsociety.substack.com/ https://medium.com/start-up-society https://linkedin.com/...
Meet the Entrepreneur #29 - Seth Farbman, Vstock Transfer
July 04, 2023 17:15 - 25 minutes - 46.3 MBVStock Transfer is a SEC-registered stock transfer agent providing best-in-class service combined with a cost savings structure to private and public companies. Founded by lawyers and managed by lawyers to better service companies, counsel and shareholders, VStock offers a unique combination of technology (24/7 online access) and proactive, energetic, personalized and experienced customer service. FOLLOW SETH FARBMAN & VSTOCK TRANSFER https://www.linkedin.com/in/sethfarbman/ https://twitt...
Meet the Entrepreneur #28 - Bahareh Banisadr, Be Bahar
April 03, 2023 04:57 - 43 minutes - 79.8 MBBahar translates to spring, which is the time of year when everything gets refreshed and blooms back into life. After 10 years of working in the fashion industry, Bahareh Banisadr realized the detailed attention given to caring for each item of clothing is instantly lost once the item reaches home. This inspired her to create a range of products that offer fast, effective, and convenient aftercare for fashions. The mission is simple: make fashion care easy and accessible for everyone. Milli...
Meet the Entrepreneur #27 - Robert Steele, Thumzup
March 15, 2023 05:45 - 22 minutes - 41.7 MBThumzup Media Corporation (Thumzup) is democratizing the multi-billion dollar social media branding and marketing industry. Its flagship product, the Thumzup platform, utilizes a robust programmatic advertiser dashboard coupled with a consumer-facing App to enable individuals to get paid cash for posting about participating advertisers on major social media outlets through the Thumzup App. The easy-to-use dashboard allows advertisers to programmatically customize their campaigns. Cash paymen...
Meet the Investor #4 - Sakib Jamal, Crossbeam Venture Partners
November 18, 2022 19:39 - 31 minutes - 57.7 MBCrossbeam Venture Partners (Crossbeam) is a venture capital firm that invests in Pre-Seed and Series A startups building tomorrow's economy. Focused on the themes of platform economies, fintech, novel asset classes, and new forms of media, Crossbeam is built to back companies of the next generation economy and the small businesses of tomorrow. FOLLOW CROSSBEAM https://crossbeam.vc/ https://twitter.com/crossbeamvc https://www.linkedin.com/company/crossbeamvc/ FOLLOW START-UP SOCIETY htt...
Meet the Entrepreneur #26 - Raad Ahmed, Lawtrades
October 21, 2022 08:02 - 29 minutes - 54.5 MBFounded by two law school graduates, Raad Ahmed and Ashish Walia, Lawtrades is pioneering a new work model for the $100B legal market via a marketplace that connects companies with top legal talent for on-demand support. This approach economically empowers independent legal professionals to monetize their skills, while helping companies seamlessly scale their operations through diverse, pre-vetted, and cost-effective legal teams. FOLLOW LAWTRADES https://www.lawtrades.com/ https://twitter...
Meet the Entrepreneur #25 - Gavin Dove, Fluent
October 13, 2022 16:37 - 24 minutes - 45.6 MBFluent is a chrome extension that helps you practice new languages while you browse the web. We translate select English words on the websites you're already reading to a new language of your choice. No need to start a new routine or spend any extra time on studying. FOLLOW FLUENT https://www.fluent.co/ https://twitter.com/usefluent https://www.instagram.com/usefluent/ https://www.tiktok.com/@usefluent https://www.linkedin.com/company/usefluent/ FOLLOW START-UP SOCIETY https://linktr...
Meet the Entrepreneur #24 - Peter Venti, FamilyMeal
September 19, 2022 19:26 - 24 minutes - 44.7 MBFamilyMeal supports a drastically improved economic model for chefs and restaurateurs so that we can all focus on more exciting experiences and deeper relationships. As the start-up expands its marketplace for the best local restaurant offerings, it does so with reverence to community, hospitality and fun. FOLLOW FAMILYMEAL http://www.familymeal.com/ https://www.instagram.com/familymeal/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/familymeal/ FOLLOW START-UP SOCIETY https://medium.com/start-up-so...
Meet the Entrepreneur #23 - Kristy Carabello, Vertige
September 08, 2022 18:26 - 34 minutes - 64.2 MBVertige, the vertigo tracker bringing balance back to your mind, body and soul. With the Vertige app, vertigo sufferers can discover potential triggers and track episodes with the click of a button. FOLLOW VERTIGE https://vertige.app/ https://www.facebook.com/VertigeApp/ https://twitter.com/vertige_app https://www.instagram.com/vertige_app/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vertige/id1623476042 FOLLOW START-UP SOCIETY https://medium.com/start-up-society https://linkedin.com/company/star...
Meet the Entrepreneur #22 - Tom Logan & Cooper Low, Cohley
August 09, 2022 16:44 - 33 minutes - 61.3 MBCohley’s aim is to continue to help the world’s best brands generate the content that they need through vetted 3rd party creators, allowing those brands to generate high volumes of diverse, actionable content for a fraction of the cost. FOLLOW COHLEY https://www.cohley.com/ https://www.facebook.com/cohley/ https://twitter.com/cohley_ https://www.instagram.com/cohleycreators/?hl=en https://www.linkedin.com/company/cohley/ FOLLOW START-UP SOCIETY https://medium.com/start-up-society ht...
Meet The Entrepreneur #21 - Alexander Marohnic, Tranquilease
July 22, 2022 08:16 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBTranquilease Premium CBD provides quality, natural and sustainable CBD flower to customers across the United States. FOLLOW TRANQUILEASE https://www.tranquileaseherbs.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TranquileaseCBD/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/tranquilease/ FOLLOW ALEXANDER ON TIKTOK https://www.tiktok.com/@alexandermarohnic5 FOLLOW START-UP SOCIETY https://medium.com/start-up-society https://linkedin.com/company/start-up-society/ https://twitter.com/Start_UpSociety https://ope...
Meet the Entrepreneur #20 - Shaina Zafar, JUV Consulting
July 03, 2022 15:11 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBJUV Consulting is a Gen-Z founded, Gen-Z led consultancy firm specializing in driving and delivering generation-based insights. The company works with its clients to address the challenge of understanding today’s changing landscape by providing current, curated, and creative strategic solutions. Composed of Gen Zers from all around the world, JUV’s global team and diverse, interwoven network seek to provide your company, brand, or business with a look into the inner workings of Generation Z,...
Meet the Investor #3 - Atin Batra, 27V
June 05, 2022 05:31 - 24 minutes - 45.7 MB27V believes in supporting the 2 greatest human endeavors: learning and labor. The VC Fund invests $50K – $250K in global EdTech and Future of Work startups at the pre-Seed and Seed stage. FOLLOW 27V https://27v.vc/ https://twitter.com/TwentySevenVC https://www.linkedin.com/company/27v/ FOLLOW START-UP SOCIETY https://medium.com/start-up-society https://linkedin.com/company/start-up-society/ https://twitter.com/Start_UpSociety https://open.spotify.com/show/3bbAerx9kyceQtvHAKDuOe ht...
Meet the Entrepreneur #19 - Issac Elnekave, 1Question
May 02, 2022 06:14 - 29 minutes - 53.8 MB1Question is a mobile app that has children answer curriculum-aligned educational questions in order to earn screen time on their device. Parents have full control by using the 1Question Parent App to make changes to the settings as well as track their child’s progress in real time. FOLLOW 1QUESTION https://1question.app/ https://www.facebook.com/1QuestionMobileApp https://www.instagram.com/1question.app/ https://twitter.com/1QuestionApp https://www.linkedin.com/company/1question/ htt...
Meet the Entrepreneur #18 - Coby Chatwin & Andrew Malekie, Link Brokerages
April 19, 2022 00:22 - 37 minutes - 27.3 MBLink provides a service unlike any other brokerage. The company brings state-of-the-art technology to an outdated industry, revolutionizing the way brokers, agents, and clients collaborate. The integration of its platform, cohesive brand, and comprehensive digital support maximizes efficiency and facilitates new levels of growth. FOLLOW LINK https://www.linkbrokerages.com/ https://linktr.ee/linkbrokerages https://www.facebook.com/linkbrokerages https://www.instagram.com/linkbrokerages/ ...
Meet the Entrepreneur #17 - Suelin Chen, Cake
April 11, 2022 06:31 - 34 minutes - 32 MBCake (joincake.com) provides a digital platform that makes it easier to do advance care planning and end-of-life planning. The company is building a destination for end-of-life planning, response, and inspiration. FOLLOW CAKE https://www.joincake.com/ https://www.facebook.com/JoinCakeApp https://www.instagram.com/joincakeapp https://twitter.com/JoinCakeApp https://www.linkedin.com/company/joincake https://www.pinterest.com/joinCAKEapp https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO1Hut6X5O7JutOl...
Meet the Entrepreneur #16 - Connor Chase, Zenbase
March 02, 2022 05:40 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBZenbase is a wellness experience that leverages cryptocurrency rewards through meditation mining. Zenbase was created with one goal in mind: to improve the world. We strive to make wellness a baseline norm with the help of consciousness-assisted technology. FOLLOW ZENBASE https://www.zenbase.us/ https://www.facebook.com/zenbase.us/ https://twitter.com/zenbase_us https://www.instagram.com/zenbase.us/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/zenbase-us/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyAD6cWA...
Meet the Entrepreneur #15 - Boyede Sobitan, OjaExpress
February 05, 2022 18:49 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBOjaExpress is a digital marketplace that seeks to power the cultural grocery delivery market, via its vertically integrated platform. The platform allows for ethnic grocery stores to sell their products online, immediately, and allows consumers to order cultural-specific groceries for same-day delivery. FOLLOW OJAEXPRESS www.ojaexpress.com https://www.facebook.com/ojaex/ https://twitter.com/OjaExpress https://www.instagram.com/ojaexpress/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/ojaexpress/ F...
Meet the Investor #1 - Sergio Paluch, Beta Boom
December 10, 2021 08:56 - 25 minutes - 47.5 MBSergio Paluch is a Founding Partner at Beta Boom. Beta Boom invests in pre-seed startups building the future for women and the U.S. rising majority—Black, Latinx, Asian, and Middle Eastern customers. The firm looks for and invests in under-the-radar founders and helps them grow their startup with daily coaching and support from marketing and product experts. FOLLOW BETA BOOM https://betaboom.com/ https://twitter.com/betaboom https://www.instagram.com/betaboom/ https://www.linkedin.com/c...
Meet the Investor #2 - Patrick Mathieson, Toba Capital
December 10, 2021 08:55 - 27 minutes - 50 MBPatrick Mathieson is a Partner at Toba Capital. Toba Capital is an early-stage investment firm committed to helping create incredible technology companies. The firm looks for businesses capable of long-term growth and teams with the potential to fundamentally shift markets for the common good. FOLLOW TOBA CAPITAL https://tobacapital.com/ https://twitter.com/tobacapital https://www.linkedin.com/company/toba-capital/ FOLLOW START-UP SOCIETY https://medium.com/start-up-society https://li...
Meet the Entrepreneur #14 - Darren Lopez, Lion's Fuel
November 19, 2021 07:41 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBDarren Lopez has a 23-year diverse entrepreneurial background in nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, and anti-aging/wellness. He is the Co-Founder of Lion’s Fuel, a provider of performance-enhancing nutrition and hacks that help you get in shape, stay in shape, recover faster, fight fatigue, and generally perform better. FOLLOW AGELESS GLOBAL & LION’S FUEL https://www.agelessgloballab.com/ https://twitter.com/Ageless_Global https://www.linkedin.com/company/ageless-global https://www.faceboo...
Meet the Entrepreneur #13 - Brittany Wright & Kevin Loo, Endex
September 27, 2021 07:27 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBEndex is a social investment platform that facilitates the convenient creation, publication and investment in custom index-like portfolios. Endex allows retail investors to connect on the topic of investing and provides a place where beginners can learn and find new investment strategies to emulate. Endex also provides a space where rising star traders and investment influencers can come to hone their skills, monetize their content, and engage with their followers and community in ways not p...
Meet the Entrepreneur #12 - Jessica Toh, Huckleberry
September 10, 2021 15:16 - 21 minutes - 20.2 MBHuckleberry is on a mission to democratize access to child wellness specialists so that every parent can have personalized guidance to raise happy, healthy families. Huckleberry’s first product improves children’s sleep. By combining human experts with AI, the intuitive app + service understands each sleep situation, predicts what will happen, and provides a personalized, easy-to-follow program that results in better sleep. FOLLOW HUCKLEBERRY https://huckleberrycare.com/ https://www.faceb...
Meet the Entrepreneur #11 - Nestor Hugo Solari, Sigo Seguros
August 17, 2021 01:14 - 23 minutes - 44.1 MBSigo Seguros is an inclusive auto insurance provider focused on serving the Spanish speaking community. The company provides transparent, reliable, and affordable prices that remove fees and biased rating factors that have disproportionately affected minorities. FOLLOW SIGO SEGUROS https://sigoseguros.com/ https://www.facebook.com/sigoseguros/ https://twitter.com/SigoSeguros https://www.instagram.com/sigoseguros/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/sigo-seguros/ FOLLOW START-UP SOCIETY ...
Meet the Entrepreneur #10 - Sam Petralia, Bullhorn
June 22, 2021 03:45 - 39 minutes - 37 MBSam Petralia is the Co-Founder of Bullhorn. Bullhorn is a podcast platform that lets podcasters build and interact with their community and monetize more effectively. Podcasters can create unique and engaging episodes by building visual and interactive elements on top of their live and pre-recorded audio. Listeners can become part of their favorite podcasts by voting, asking questions, or even calling-in and becoming a guest on the episode. Bullhorn does this while being completely free for ...
Meet the Entrepreneur #9 - Apu Kumar & Carl Nielson, CITYDATA.ai
June 11, 2021 07:00 - 37 minutes - 35.1 MBToday we are sitting down with Apu Kumar, Founder and Chief of R&D and Carl Nielson, Managing Director of CITYDATA.ai. As a GovTech 100 company, CITYDATA builds and maintains daily-refreshed anonymized knowledge graphs about people-presence, activity, and movement for thousands of cities on a global scale. The company’s geospatial AI platform provides fresh, accurate, anonymized, and actionable insights about how people interact with the real world. Read Start-up Society #41: The GovTech Is...
Meet the Entrepreneur #8 - Jack Griffin, FoodFinder
April 03, 2021 17:52 - 42 minutes - 78.3 MBJack is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of FoodFinder, a non-profit that uses its mobile app and website to let food insecure families know exactly when and where they can receive free food assistance. FoodFinder currently offers the information of 50,000 food assistance programs across all 50 states and aims to provide families in need with the most trusted way to find free food. FOLLOW FOODFINDER https://foodfinder.us/ https://www.facebook.com/FoodFinderUS/ https://www.instagra...
Meet the Entrepreneur #7 - Ryan Laverty, Arist
December 12, 2020 05:31 - 37 minutes - 69.4 MBRyan is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Arist, a text message learning platform that helps Fortune 500 companies and leading nonprofits rapidly train their employees entirely via text message and WhatsApp. FOLLOW ARIST https://www.arist.co/ https://www.facebook.com/LearnArist https://www.instagram.com/textarist/ https://twitter.com/learnarist https://www.linkedin.com/company/aristu/ FOLLOW START-UP SOCIETY https://medium.com/start-up-society https://linkedin.com/compan...
Meet the Entrepreneur #6 - Ben Smith, Goal House NYC
August 24, 2020 09:00 - 28 minutes - 52.6 MBBen Smith is a coliving entrepreneur and the Founder of Goal House NYC: a place to learn, grow, and achieve. FOLLOW GOAL HOUSE NYC https://www.goalhousenyc.com/ https://www.instagram.com/goalhousenyc/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/goal-house-nyc/
Meet the Entrepreneur #5 - Piper Foster Wilder, 60Hertz
July 27, 2020 12:17 - 33 minutes - 61.6 MBPiper Foster Wilder is the Founder and CEO of 60Hertz. 60Hertz provides a Maintenance Management Software platform designed specifically for people managing remote energy assets such as microgrid. The company is based in Anchorage, Alaska. https://www.60hertzenergy.com/
Meet the Entrepreneur #4 - Shekar Raman, Birdzi & Havanote
July 14, 2020 19:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBWelcome back to the 4th edition of the Meet The Entrepreneur podcast co-hosted by Rumeer Keshwani and Arteen Zahiri. This week we had the pleasure of speaking with Shekar Raman, CEO and Co-founder of Birdzi and Havanote. Birdzi is a series B company bringing AI and data analytics to grocery stores, they have seen close to 5x growth in store adoption since 2019. Havanote is a seed stage social media company looking to allow users to link posts directly to locations allowing areas to function ...
Meet the Entrepreneur #3 - Nezar Kadhem, EatApp
July 06, 2020 12:00 - 49 minutes - 46.1 MBNezar Kadhem CEO and Founder of EatApp. Nezar is the Chief Executive Officer of EatApp the Middle East’s #1 reservation platform and online booking engine for restaurants. The platform powers reservations at the most renowned restaurants and hospitality brands. To date, Eat App has seated 10+ million diners in 1000+ restaurants across the Middle East.
Meet the Entrepreneur #2 - Brad Morris, StudioSesh
June 24, 2020 16:42 - 28 minutes - 52.9 MBJames (Brad) Morris is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of StudioSesh.
Meet the Entrepreneur #1 - David Henderson, MP Strategic Group
June 18, 2020 23:43 - 1 hour - 140 MBDavid Henderson is the Chief Operating Officer and Marketing Director of MP Strategic Group. David is interviewed by Start-up Society founder Arteen Zahiri. The two discuss geopolitics, COVID-19, 5G, IoT, climate change, and more.