Best Midven Podcasts (2024)

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Chat with Angelo Robles, Founder and CEO at Family Office Association 51:38

3y ago51:38

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Angelo helps the world’s most successful families create modern, multi-generationally dynamic, international family offices, that are digitally savvy, identify exponential opportunities and hazards in becoming truly anti-fragile. Angelo's experience with some of the wealthiest families in the world has allowed him to distill best practices for disc…

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Chat with Anastasia Rivodeaux, Managing Partner at Get Funded Tools 59:17

3y ago59:17

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Anastasia Rivodeaux is Managing Partner at GetFundedTools.com. She is a 3 time CEO of venture startups, has worked across SaaS, HR-tech, mindfulness Tech, consumer, and game verticals, and is an international speaker and startup mentor at 500startups. In the past, Anastasia has driven product vision and technical development of the software for the…

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Chat with Matthew Holding, Partner at Midven 1:02:36

3y ago1:02:36

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He is a venture capital investor at Midven which operates six funds in the UK. They fund new market entrants that are looking to scale quickly. They are sector agnostic, so that means he gets a lot of exposure to many industries, such as biotech, consumer products, and nuclear fusion. His role involves conducting due diligence, deal sourcing, inves…

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Chat with Harshad Lalit, Vice President at Rockefeller Capital 53:18

3y ago53:18

53:18

Harshad is a quantitative researcher, with a focus on alpha research with equity multi-factor models. Developer of the US All Cap Bloomberg Rockefeller Multi-Factor ESG Improvers Index. The index seeks strategic tilts towards Quality and ESG momentum while maintaining low ex-ante volatility He finished his doctoral studies in the School of Aeronaut…

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Chat with Steven Saltzstein, CEO at Force Wealth 53:55

3y ago53:55

53:55

Family Office Research Consulting and Events (FORCE) is the largest community of investment-oriented Family Offices, foundations, endowments, and Ultra High Net Worth Individuals in the U.S. They are constantly bringing unique investment opportunities and information to their community by actively seeking out best-in-class companies for the introdu…

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Chat with Tracy Chadwell, Founding Partner at 1843 Capital 55:51

3y ago55:51

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Named to "Forbes 50 over 50" Inaugural List and one of Entrepreneur Magazine's "100 Powerful Women" Tracy is an experienced venture capital investor and attorney. Notable investments include early investments in Beautycounter (sold for $1 Billion), Tempo Automation, HopSkipDrive, and May Mobility. She is a leader and a sought-after speaker within t…

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Chat with Tanner McDaniel, Director at Cornerstone Fund Services 1:07:36

3y ago1:07:36

1:07:36

Tanner is a Director at Cornerstone Fund Services, overseeing all client engagement, business development, and strategic partnerships for the company. As one of the initial employees at the firm, his experience includes fund formation and administration, US GAAP financial statement preparation and review, limited and general partner reporting, mana…

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Chat with Stonly Baptiste Blue, Co-founder at Urban Us 1:02:41

3y ago1:02:41

1:02:41

Stonly is a founding Partner of Urban Us. Stonly has taught at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and lectured at Harvard Business School and UC Berkeley. Stonly previously founded Veddio Cloud Solutions, an enterprise software company, which was acquired after a year of self-funded growth. He is a serial entrepreneur, having buil…

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Chat with Stephen Melia, Partner at OpenView 1:00:58

3y ago1:00:58

1:00:58

Steve works with OpenView portfolio companies to identify and recruit high-impact senior executives and board members. Prior to OV, Steve was a Principal at True Search, a globally retained executive search firm. At True, he led executive searches across scaling venture and private-equity-backed technology companies. Steve started his career at Kor…

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Chat with Sarah Leners, Senior Associate at Bull City Venture Partners 55:10

3y ago55:10

55:10

Senior Associate. Sarah is a Senior Associate at Bull City Venture Partners. Prior to joining BCVP, Sarah was an investment banker at Lazard Middle Market where she specialized in M&A execution for Consumer, Food, and Retail companies. Music credits: Clouds by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial, Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.…

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Chat with Robert Harary, Associate at Evolution VC Partners 1:09:30

3y ago1:09:30

1:09:30

Robert is a 24-year-old entrepreneur and VC passionate about the future and the technology that takes us there. He is the proud co-founder & CEO of OneH. They built a powerful deal flow engine for venture investors to source, store, and share deal flow. Additionally, he is number two at Evolution VC Partners, a leading Culture-Tech venture capital …

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Chat with Oscar Ramos, Partner at SOSV 1:00:54

3y ago1:00:54

1:00:54

Experienced manager with strong technical background, innovative business vision, and entrepreneurial experience. Worked for multinationals and innovative startups. 10+ years of operational experience in Mainland China. Extensive network in TMT Industry across Europe and Asia. Fluent in English, Spanish, Business Chinese (Oral and written). 360º ma…

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Chat with Max Gokhman, Head of Asset Allocation at Pacific Life Fund Advisors 1:05:27

3y ago1:05:27

1:05:27

A global macro investor with 15+ years of tenure managing multi-asset strategies through a blend of quantitative and fundamental approaches. Strong track record through all market regimes including 2008 and 2020. Experienced in building out investment teams, launching strategies, ESG, thought leadership, and trading. Music credits: Clouds by MBB | …

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Chat with Keith Kan, Associate at Simplifi Ventures 55:24

3y ago55:24

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Keith started at Primera Capital and was inspired to start his own company. He started Operation Space with a group of friends. Then proceeded to make his own company called Ravyn. Music credits: Clouds by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial, Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unport…

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Chat with Kate Brodock, Founding Partner at W Fund 1:01:15

3y ago1:01:15

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Kate is Founding Partner of W Fund (want to talk about investing with us?) and CEO of Women 2.0. She’s lived in the tech startup world for over 15 years and has played an active leadership role in the women in tech ecosystem for over a decade, having previously led a global organization focused on women in technology and entrepreneurship as its Pre…

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Chat with Evan Langsam, Associate at SeedInvest 1:04:13

3y ago1:04:13

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Evan is focused on growth-stage investing at SeedInvest. He is always looking to partner with motivated founders and high-growth companies in the following sectors: Healthtech ∙ Robotics ∙ SaaS ∙ Virtual Reality / Gaming ∙ Agtech ∙ Consumer ∙ Proptech ∙ Cleantech ∙ Fintech Music credits: Clouds by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial, Music pro…

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Chat with Tiffany Williams and Kiley Summers, General Partners at Diversity Fund Houston 41:24

3y ago41:24

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Diversity Fund Houston is a micro venture fund created to invest in minority tech founders during the “friends and family round,” as well as provide opportunities for them to learn, scale, prepare for their first institutional round of financing, and solve problems impacting their communities. Tiffany L. Williams is Co-Founder and Managing Director…

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Chat with Daria Abbaei, General Partner at Naples Technology Ventures 50:12

3y ago50:12

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Daria Abbaei is the Director of Investor Relations at Naples Technology Ventures, where she is responsible for interacting with all of our current and future LPs. Prior to NTV, Daria held several senior-level positions at SKOUT Cybersecurity including Customer Success Lead, Chief of Staff, and Director of Partner Enablement. In her role as Director…

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Chat with Anna Raptis, General Partner at Amplifica Capital 1:02:11

3y ago1:02:11

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Anna Raptis is an international investor with over 25 years of experience. Her experience includes investing across sectors and geographies in international equities, funds, energy, as an angel investor and LP in Venture Capital funds in Mexico. Anna is passionate about and committed to the development of professional women and women investors, to …

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Chat with Kalsoom Lakhani, General Partner at i2i Ventures 54:11

3y ago54:11

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Kalsoom Lakhani is the Founder/CEO of Invest2Innovate, or i2i, which supports startups and the broader entrepreneurship ecosystem in developing markets, beginning in Pakistan. In the last three years, the i2i Accelerator has supported 16 companies that have gone on to create over 200 jobs in Pakistan. She is also the co-founder of The Hero Project,…

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Chat with Robert Frankfurt, Founder at Living Fund 48:02

3y ago48:02

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Rob Frankfurt founded Myca Partners, Inc in 2006 to invest in small-cap US-public and private companies. While investing in the parent company of Lane Bryant, Mr. Frankfurt learned of the obesity and chronic illness epidemic. Not satisfied with public company solutions focused on maintaining the status quo (pills and procedures), Mr. Frankfurt shif…

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Chat with Kfir Kachlon, General Partner at AnD Ventures 1:02:41

4y ago1:02:41

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Kfir Kachlon leads the investments at AnD Ventures, an early-stage VC, focused on the Israeli startup ecosystem. Prior to joining AnD Ventures, Kfir was a senior member of OurCrowd's investments team and the Cannabis and AgriFood technologies lead at OurCrowd. Previously, Kfir practiced Technology Law, focused on IP, M&As, and contracts for advance…

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Live chat with a Venture Capitalist: Entrepreneur & Investment Analyst at Midven 1:02:41

4y ago1:02:41

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Matthew is an investment analyst at an early stage VC fund in the West Midlands, UK. He previously worked at a deep science venture fund in London before moving to a fintech micro VC fund. Whilst studying at University, he founded his own FMCG startup, Notatos ®️, and was able to raise an angel round. His background lies in biomedical materials sci…

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Chat with Harshad Lalit, Vice President at Rockefeller Capital Management 53:15

4y ago53:15

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Harshad U. Lalit, Ph.D., is a Vice President and ESG Quantitative Analyst within Rockefeller Asset Management. Prior to joining Rockefeller in 2019, Dr. Lalit spent two years as a Research Engineer at Caterpillar Technical Research Center working on developing quantitative models and C++ libraries for their in-house engineering solver. Dr. Lalit is…

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Live Chat With Steve Salzstein of FORCE Wealth (Family Office Platform) 53:33

4y ago53:33

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Experienced partner with demonstrated success in the financial services industry. Skilled in Corporate Development, Capital Raising, Investor Awareness, Mergers & Acquisitions, Start-ups, Marketing, and Corporate Finance. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a B.A. focused in Political Science from Ithaca College. This discussion will be moder…

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Episode 1: Alcohol Consumption over Lockdown with Breaking Free 57:30

4y ago57:30

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Matthew and Liam (Midven) discuss the trends in alcohol consumption during lockdown and interventions offered by their firm's portfolio company, Breaking Free, a pioneering digital health and behavioural science company specialising in addictive behaviours.

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Kain Warwick: Founder of Synthetix, a crypto-backed synthetic asset platform, talking about trustless systems, their fundamental challenges, and the future mindset 49:11

5y ago49:11

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In this episode of the Future 1 webshow & podcast, we meet Kain Warwick who is the founder of two crypto projects blueshyft and Synthetix. The blueshyft platform supports a number of services, including over the counter bitcoin purchases, deposits into digital wallets and logistics solutions. Most importantly, we dive deeper on his decentralized fi…

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Cherie Aimee: Featured on Dr. Oz, NBC Today, & CBS, From dying & crossing over to Blockchain, & living the best life possible fulfilling your dreams 56:06

5y ago56:06

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In this episode of the Future 1 webshow & podcast, we meet Cherie Aimiee who's been featured in major media outlets such as The Dr. Oz Show, NBC TODAY Show with Megyn Kelly, Forbes, and ranked #6 of 100 Top Most Influential Women In Blockchain, Top 100 Women In Fintech, and Female Leader of the Year. She is a near death survivor & lived 5 years wit…

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Kyle Kistner & Tom Bean: The story behind the team at bZx & their new product Fulcrum which is the most simple and powerful way to lend and margin trade 54:21

5y ago54:21

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In this episode of the Future 1 webshow & podcast, we meet Kyle Kistner & Tom Bean who are the cofounders of bZx who just launched a new product called Fulcrum, which is the most simple and powerful way to lend and margin trade. It is the first and only completely trustless platform for margin; it does not use centralized price feeds or centrally a…

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Mike Rogers: From Blackstone to Blockchain , Leaving a stable job for Crypto, & Thoughts on Life & Purpose 1:34:38

5y ago1:34:38

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In this episode of the Future 1 webshow & podcast, we meet Mike Rogers who's the founder of Millenials in Blockchain. He was previously at Blackstone & E&Y in New York City driving financial strategies and accounting best practices for major clients. He shares his story on how he left corporate america to go after the massive promise of the future …

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Nelson Chen: Neutral Project (ex-Blackrock) is a metastable basket of stablecoins, native financial instruments and the infrastructure that underpins them 51:54

5+ y ago51:54

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In this episode of the Future 1 webshow & podcast, we meet Nelson Chen from Neutral Project. He was previously a research analyst at BlackRock and research consultant at WorldQuant. He studied computer Science at Georgia Tech and Finance at University of Texas. Neutral Dollar went live 2 weeks ago and is a metastable basket of stablecoins. The resu…

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Raakhee Miller: From Goldman Sachs to Crypto Trading, Growing up in Hong Kong & working in NYC, Job Hopping for professional growth, & Balancing the startup life with parenthood 1:09:56

5+ y ago1:09:56

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In this episode, we meet Rakhee Miller. Rakhee is the CEO of Bitsian. She is a super interesting person. Bitsian is a one-stop aggregator where you can trade any coin to any coin confidently and get the best price across exchanges. The global order book allows to see across all order books at once, and helps you organize all your accounts in one pl…

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Andrey Belyakov: Opium Protocol: Create, settle, and trade virtually all derivatives in a trustless way. Opium Network is a set of smart-contracts that allow anyone to construct and trade financial 1:07:06

5+ y ago1:07:06

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In this episode, we meet Andrey Belyakov. Andrey is a member of the CFA Institute, a professional derivative trader, and fund manager with 10 years of experience with 20+ billion EUR AUM portfolios. Andrey is an entrepreneur, private venture investor and advisor of several fintech start ups. We talk about his new blockchain project Opium . Opium Pr…

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Zhe Yang, Decryption Capital: The fund manager scene and how it varies across different geographies, the evolution of blockchains & interoperability in the future, & China's design considerations 51:21

5+ y ago51:21

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In this episode we meet Zhe Yang who is the Founder and President of Decryption Capital at Decryption Capital. We talk about how the crypto venture fund scenes vary across the midwest, Austin, Texas, & back in Hong Kong . We also discuss things to keep in mind when it comes to blockchain technology becoming more natively part of the technology runn…

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Andrew Romans, 7BC Venture Capital: Raising money from family offices / institutions, VC portfolio construction, & deploying capital to enable the best management teams 37:51

5+ y ago37:51

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Andrew Romans, based in Silicon Valley, is a successful VC-backed entrepreneur, author of two top-selling books on venture capital, former tech VC and M&A investment banker, cofounder of an angel group and General Partner of both Rubicon Venture Capital & 7BC which is a new fund focused on ai, blockchain, & fintech. In this episode we talk about (1…

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Jehan Chu, Kenetic Capital: How blockchain venture funds run in China vs. the USA & stories of hanging out with Arthur Hayes (Bitmex) & Vitalik Buterin 54:41

5+ y ago54:41

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Jehan Chu is the cofounder of Kenetic Capital. Kenetic Capital is a proprietary trading and investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain related companies. They have developed technology to facilitate quantitative trading strategies and offer various digital asset related structured products to counterparts. In this discussion we talk a…

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Katya Fisher, International Blockchain Lawyer: New Crypto Regulations, The Miami Blockchain Scene 1:09:15

5+ y ago1:09:15

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Katya focuses on representing international businesses and entrepreneurs with a specific focus on media and technologies such as blockchain, cybersecurity, cryptocurrency and A.I. Katya is a member of the board of directors of Levelblox (OTC:LVBX), advisor to the IBM Blockchain Accelerator, advisor to Marc Bell Capital, advisor to Blockchain Educat…

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Michael Collins, Portfolio Manager at Boston Advisors: Portfolio Construction after the Recession & Crypto Vehicles for Institutions 1:18:59

5+ y ago1:18:59

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Michael Collins is a Portfolio Manager at Boston Advisors. We talk about how living through the financial crisis impacted several people’s perspectives when it comes to their careers and finances. We talk about how he develops his own investment thesis and how crypto Investment vehicles are still needed for getting institutional investors finally o…

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