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Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

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Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them as a founder, operator, or investor.
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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman. If you would like to see more of The Twenty Minute VC (20VC), head to www.20vc.com for more information on the podcast, show note ...
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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.
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Private Equity Funcast

Jim Milbery and Devin Mathews

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Hosted by Devin Mathews and Jim Milbery, partners at ParkerGale Capital, a middle-market private equity group. This bi-weekly show is a lively discussion of the uses of technology to improve business operations for companies with less than $100 million in revenue.
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Smart Business Dealmakers is the CEO's M&A playbook. We interview the entrepreneurs doing deals, the private equity, VC and family office players investing in them, and the M&A advisers making them happen. Topics include raising capital, buying and selling companies and managing a liquidity event.
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Hall T Martin interviews angel and venture capital investors on how they invest and talks with CEOs who discuss their sector and what to look for. Hall T Martin also leads the Startup Funding Espresso series in which you can learn about startup funding and investing in the time it takes to have an espresso. https://investorconnect.org/
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The Business of Biotech is the pod dedicated to leaders of emerging biopharma firms. SUBSCRIBE to our new newsletter at www.bioprocessonline.com/bob. We bring you insight into organizational, finance and funding, HR, clinical, manufacturing, and regulatory challenges you’ll face as you navigate your company from an idea to success in the clinic. Each episode features guest commentary and best practices from accomplished founders and biopharma industry luminaries. The Business of Biotech is p ...
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Space Capital Podcast, the playbook for investing in the space economy, is hosted by Chad Anderson, founder and Managing Partner of Space Capital, the world’s leading seed-stage venture capital firm investing in the space economy. Listen for unique insights into startup activity and investment trends from the founders and innovators at the forefront.
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Founded & Funded

Madrona Ventures

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Listen to conversations between Madrona investors and entrepreneurs, founders, and startup personalities who talk about some of the key moments in building a company. Designed to give would-be founders and others interested in working with or for startups a view into the struggle and the lessons learned, these conversations are informal and informative. With more than 25 years of investing in early-stage technology companies, Madrona has worked with founders from day one to help build their ...
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The top podcast for anyone building a business in food or beverage, BevNET’s Taste Radio features interviews with the leaders and rising stars of our fast-evolving industry. The shows also include discussion on emerging trends, innovation and news of the week from our regular cadre of hosts from the BevNET and NOSH teams. Tell us what you think at ask@tasteradio.com. You can also email us if you are interested in Taste Radio sponsorship opportunities. And if you like the podcast, share it wi ...
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Space Capital Podcast, the playbook for investing in the space economy, is hosted by Chad Anderson, founder and Managing Partner of Space Capital, the world’s leading seed-stage venture capital firm investing in the space economy. Listen for unique insights into startup activity and investment trends from the founders and innovators at the forefront.
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Hosted by a General Partner (GP) and a Limited Partner (LP), Origins dives into the venture capital ecosystem to learn how the people behind the money make decisions: How LPs choose VC funds to invest in, what drives performance in venture, the dos and don'ts of fundraising, what founders/entrepreneurs/CEOs need to do to raise a Seed, Series A and beyond, what it takes to go from emerging manager to franchise VC, and the latest private market trends and dynamics shaping the investment ecosys ...
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The Official SaaStr Podcast is the latest and greatest from the world of SaaStr, interviewing the most prominent operators and investors to discover their tips, tactics and strategies to attain success in the fiercely competitive world of SaaS. On the side of the operators, we center around getting from $0 to $100m ARR faster, what it takes to scale successfully and what are the core elements of hiring. As for the investors, we learn what metrics they hone in on when examining SaaS business, ...
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Vestigo Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that invests in early-stage technology companies focused on financial services. Its team members, including advisors from academia and the corporate world, are entrepreneurial, highly experienced, and deeply grounded in financial services, asset management, behavioral finance, and growing start-up companies. The complementary strengths of its team members uniquely position Vestigo to identify, make and mana ...
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Created by a group of founders, funders, and entrepreneurs who believe you can create a startup ecosystem in any city in the world. So, they started one in theirs, Redding, CA.
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Playing with unicorns is a new weekly show on startups, entrepreneurship, and venture capital. I cover everything I learned as an entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist during the last 22 years, focusing on everything I wished I knew when I first got started as a tech entrepreneur.
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The Accent Podcast is a series of interviews with entrepreneurs, investors, business and thought leaders. In addition to learning about the guests’ fields of expertise, the listeners would have an opportunity to get to know them on a personal level.
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Startup50K

Cameron Burns

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The Startup50K podcast is an interview series for entrepreneurs, startup founders, corporate innovators. An app developer (the show host) and (often) a tech investor or advisor interviews a startup founder or corporate product owner building a tech company, an innovative new product or an interesting technology. In each show we talk about; raising capital, tech trends, working with developers, hiring staff and building world-changing companies.
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This is your podcast for Fintech, DeFi, Blockchain, Smart Contracts, Digital Banking and all the frontier Web 3.0 technologies that are changing the financial services landscape globally. Host Bill Griesinger brings an informed, unbiased and unique historical perspective to the venture capital and high-tech world. Drawing on over 20 years in the venture finance industry working with tech companies and venture capitalists, he offers an unfiltered and transparent view of the venture capital & ...
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VentureForth gives you a glimpse into the cutting edge world of venture capital and startups, and follows the journeys, trials, and tribulations of some of the most exciting entrepreneurs and investors. Learn about how our guests got their start, what led them to where they are today, and the exciting products and services they're investing in or building for the future.
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The team at MMC go 'Beyond the Hype' with the world’s leading AI technologists, entrepreneurs and corporate executives that are transforming today's industries. This podcast is produced by MMC Ventures, the research-led venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies. Visit mmc.vc for more details or find us on Twitter @MMC_Ventures.
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Welcome to The Path, a videocast and podcast series about how successful entrepreneurs navigate the world of venture capital to help them scale rapidly. Join us, as we welcome the founders of successful businesses to share their experiences and insights on what they’re going through, challenges faced, lessons learned and the changes they’re making moving forward.
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What Got You There is a weekly podcast that focuses on the journey behind some of the world’s most successful people, uncovering the mindsets, strategy, routines that helped them get there. Guests include billionaire entrepreneurs, olympic gold medalists, Wall Street titans and other high performers across vastly different disciplines! It's hosted by Sean DeLaney who for the last 15 years has been working at the intersection of elite performance, entrepreneurship and personal development. As ...
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Startup Grind

www.startupgrind.com

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Startup Grind is the world’s largest community of startups, founders, innovators, and creators. We bring like-minded yet diverse individuals together to connect, learn, teach, help, build, and belong. We do this daily through our local events, flagship conferences, startup program, partnerships, and online media + content - collectively reaching over 3.5 million individuals worldwide.
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The Shot Caller podcast brings you tomorrows game changers, agents of change, revolutionaries, and the investors behind them – today! Stories that will catalyse and inspire you to pursue your dreams, vote with your wallet, increase your longevity, and live your wealthy life! Like the butterfly effect in chaos theory, a small change in one state can have a large, non-linear change on a global scale.
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Hey guys! I’m Alexander Jarvis, a nomad, startup founder, sometime VC and recovered M&A banker. In this series we’re going to answer a question real founders and investors are struggling with every day. They won’t be generic topics, they’ll be tricky things you need to know, from how to fix your business model, specific aspects of growth marketing, fundraising and pitching investors, to how you track your metrics (that VCs want to know!). I’ve been blogging for a few years at AlexanderJarvis ...
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SalesFounders - Startup Sales Strategy, Venture Capital, Entrepreneur, and Sales Development

Brad Harker - Entrepreneur, Startup, Sales, Venture Capital, Crowdfunding,

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SalesFounders is a weekly podcast that focuses on sales growth and strategy for startups. We interview VC’s, entrepreneurs, and industry experts to discuss their stories, secrets, and strategies to help YOU conquer the sales gap, and generate scalable revenue.
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Welcome to a real-world MBA, where entrepreneurs guide you through what it really takes to start, scale, and sell your own business. Your hosts: J and Carol Scott, who left careers in corporate management to launch their own house-flipping business. Every Tuesday, you'll meet a new guest and learn actionable tips for hiring, firing, marketing, raising capital and more. So whether you're looking to boost profits or bring a new idea to life, you'll come away informed and inspired. Tune in, and ...
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Future Food

Louisa Burwood-Taylor

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What will you be eating in 2050? How will it get to your table? How we grow, purchase, and eat our food is changing. New technologies and food products are playing a key role in shaping that change. In this podcast, we speak to the people driving that future, from entrepreneurs and venture capital investors, to farmers and food businesses. Welcome to Future Food!
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The Wall Street Lab

Andreas von Hirschhausen

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The Wall Street Lab is a podcast that explores the world of finance from an insider perspective. The host, Andreas von Hirschhausen interviews top financial professionals in the fields of private equity, hedge funds, investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, asset management, venture capital, management consulting, trading and many more. The themes range from investment related topics, financial markets and news, career development in finance, favourite books, personal habits, just to na ...
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Industrial Evolution is a monthly podcast that aims to inspire entrepreneurs to build deep technologies, and to help founders become more successful in their startup journey. Produced by Eclipse Ventures, a leading investor in full-stack technologies, each episode will feature conversations with exceptional leaders in the market verticals that define and drive economies, and also with Eclipse's investing partners. We will provide key insights into the digital transformation of bedrock econom ...
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What does it take to move from cutting-edge academic research to launching a biotech company that could transform medicine? In this week’s episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Partner Chris Picardo sat down with Jamie Lazarovitz, CEO and co-founder of Archon Biosciences, to uncover the story behind their groundbreaking protein-based biologics and t…
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Pull up a chair and join my conversation with James Cridland, founder & editor of Podnews.net James tells me about their growth from scratch to 32,000 subscribers, and the importance of owning your tech stack and workflow. We also talk about their acquisition of the Podcast Business Journal last year as a key expansion strategy. On a special bonus …
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Web3 Business Models Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. Web3 brings new business models. Here are some key business models to consider: Native assets -- the value of the coin or token is valuable in and of itself. An example is Bitcoin in which the coin itself has val…
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Wesley Chan is a true legend in Silicon Valley. He spent time at Microsoft and HP, and in 2002 he jumped to Google. There, he worked as Sergey Brin’s Chief of Staff and founded Google Analytics and Google Voice - all before then founding and leading the seed investing program at Google Ventures as GP. Under his tenure, GV was the first institutiona…
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SaaStr 774: The Vertical SaaS Rocketship: Samsara's CEO and Co-Founder Sanjit Biswas and SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin on Samsara's Journey to $1.26 Billion in ARR! SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin has an exclusive conversation with Sanjit Biswas, founder and CEO of Samsara and a two-time entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience. Sanj…
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Markus Villig is the Founder and CEO of Bolt, a global mobility platform with more than 200 million lifetime customers in more than 50 countries and 600 cities. Bolt has raised over €1 billion in funding from investors like Sequoia, D1 and G Squared, making Markus the youngest founder of a billion-dollar company in Europe. In Today’s Episode with M…
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Go to Market Strategies in Web3 Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. In the Web2 world go-to-market strategies focused on free products and services. In the Web3 world, go to market strategies focus on tokens. Tokens incentivize the early users by compensating them for …
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On a special episode coming this week, I’m sitting down with James Cridland, founder & editor of Podnews.net, *the* place to get all your podcast news, and then some. Over two episodes, we’ll get into the genesis of the platform and get James’ insights on the latest shifts in the podcast industry. So pull up a chair & join the conversation! Learn m…
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Most Americans eat cold bread. Ismail Salhi and Johanna Hartzheim are changing that dynamic one loaf at a time. Ismail and Johanna are the founders of Wildgrain, a subscription-based service that ships boxes of par-baked frozen sourdough, pastries and hand-cut pasta to customers across the country. The married couple and business partners came to t…
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We love to hear from our listeners. Send us a message. On this episode of the Business of Biotech, Bill and Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute's (Gates MRI) Dr. Claire Wagner joins us to share insights into her work as head of Corporate Strategy and Market Access there. She shares the development of her North Star while working with the incom…
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Reputation, Credentials, and Identity in Web3 Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. Reputation, credentials and identity are new use cases brought about by Web3. Since there are no longer gatekeepers to check credentials and identity, there must be some way to manage thi…
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Rusty Ralston and Jay Patil of Swell VC joins Nick to discuss Investing in "N-of-1" Companies, Focusing on Category Creators, How to Invest in AI While it’s at Peak Hype, and Using Recruiting as a Key Differentiator. In this episode we cover: Assessing Category Creation and Founder Caliber Sector Potential and Investment Strategy Syndicate Structur…
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Rusty Ralston and Jay Patil of Swell VC joins Nick to discuss Investing in "N-of-1" Companies, Focusing on Category Creators, How to Invest in AI While it’s at Peak Hype, and Using Recruiting as a Key Differentiator. In this episode we cover: Assessing Category Creation and Founder Caliber Sector Potential and Investment Strategy Syndicate Structur…
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Matt Grimm is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Anduril Industries, an American defense technology company that specializes in advanced autonomous systems. To date, Anduril has raised over $3.7BN with the latest round pricing the company at a whopping $14BN. Before Anduril, Matt was a Principal at Mithril Capital Management alongside Pe…
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A recent Federal Trade Commission rule aimed to prohibit employers from attempting to enter into non-competes with all workers. Though that rule might never take effect, state-level trends governing the use of non-competes leave plenty for businesses and dealmakers to navigate. Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld partners Matt Brinker and Alex Nasser brea…
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A recent Federal Trade Commission rule aimed to prohibit employers from attempting to enter into non-competes with all workers. Though that rule might never take effect, state-level trends governing the use of non-competes leave plenty for businesses and dealmakers to navigate. Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld partners Matt Brinker and Alex Nasser brea…
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The world needs plant-based spam. Nootropic beverages will make a comeback in 2025. T-shirts are the best brand swag. It’s buy-or-sell time, and the hosts transact in opinions. This episode also features interviews with the leaders of two fast-growing U.K.-based CPG companies: Jack Scott, the co-founder of flavored sparkling water brand Dash, and K…
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What does it take to scale a company from an idea to a $13B industry leader? In my latest episode, Okta CEO Todd McKinnon dives into the essential lessons he’s learned on high-stakes decision-making, managing up to the board, and competing against tech giants like Microsoft. Todd also reflects on his journey to founding Okta, his bold choice to tea…
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On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Mike Partsch, Chief Venture Officer at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). Located in Madison, Wisconsin, WARF serves as the designated tech transfer office for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For nearly a century, WARF has played a crucial role in advancing groundbreaking discove…
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Treasury Function in Web3 Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. Web3 brings a new function the startup must manage: the treasury. The treasury function exists in the Web2 world but typically has no impact until later in the life of the startup. For the Web3 company, the …
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SaaStr 773: CRO Confidential: Moving Beyond Traditional Sales, Clay CEO & Co-Founder Kareem Amin on the Future of AI-Driven Growth CRO Confidential podcast host Sam Blond chats with the CEO and co-founder of Clay, Kareem Amin, about two major topics: The evolution of Go-To-Market systems: where we are today with the incorporation of AI, and where w…
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Difference Between Web2 and Web3 Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. There are several differences between Web2 and Web3. Web2 centralizes the control of information kept by gatekeepers while Web3 decentralizes control and removes the gatekeeper. Web2 requires one to g…
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On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Katelin Holloway Adam Felesky Mike Droesch We asked guests for the most important piece of advice that they'd share with folks early in their venture career. The host of The Full Ratchet is Nick Moran of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investi…
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On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Katelin Holloway Adam Felesky Mike Droesch We asked guests for the most important piece of advice that they'd share with folks early in their venture career. The host of The Full Ratchet is Nick Moran of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investi…
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Composability Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. Web 3 brings software composability to a new level. Composability is the ability to select and combine components to meet specific requirements. An example is the smart contract on the blockchain. Any smart contract can…
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SaaStr 772: What Really Matters in SaaS in 2025 with Jason Lemkin and Dave Kellogg In this episode, SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin and Dave Kellogg, Executive in Residence at Balderton Capital (+ SaaStr fan favorite) share what really matters in SaaS for 2025. We delve into 5 key topics in SaaS and cloud for 2025, discussing the future of AI i…
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Benefits of Web3 Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. The next generation of the web, called Web3 seeks to decentralize the internet and give control back to the users. This brings several benefits to content creators using the internet. Here are some examples: The curr…
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Olivia Ferdi is obsessed with the details. The co-founder of Trip, a U.K.-based brand of lightly sparkling functional beverages intended to help people relax, Olivia says that a passion for the particulars is a key reason why Trip is the fastest-growing soft drink brand in the U.K. and currently preparing for a major expansion of its retail presenc…
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We love to hear from our listeners. Send us a message. Becoming a biotech CEO wasn't on Paul Romness' bingo card. He'd forged his place in the biopharma industry as a foremost public and policy affairs expert. Thirteen years at J&J, more than 5 at Amgen, and half a dozen at Boehringer Ingelheim had earned him the right to coast into a consulting gi…
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Web3 Innovations Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. Web 3 brings new innovations to the internet. Here are some key innovations: Web 3 uses blockchain technology which captures permanently all transactions and list of ownership available for all to access. Web 2 had s…
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Ted Seides of Capital Allocators joins Nick to discuss Lessons from Top Allocators, David Swensen’s Principles for Investment, Insights on Private Equity Deals, and What Strategies are Timeless vs. Fleeting. In this episode we cover: Evolution of Private Equity and Its Role in the Economy Challenges and Opportunities in the Private Equity Industry …
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Ted Seides of Capital Allocators joins Nick to discuss Lessons from Top Allocators, David Swensen’s Principles for Investment, Insights on Private Equity Deals, and What Strategies are Timeless vs. Fleeting. In this episode we cover: Evolution of Private Equity and Its Role in the Economy Challenges and Opportunities in the Private Equity Industry …
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Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, one of the most important companies in history. OpenAI is on a mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Prior to OpenAI, Sam was the President of Y Combinator and an angel investor in Stripe, Airbnb, Reddit and Instacart. 15 Questions with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: 1. Will the tr…
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On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Matt Duomo, CEO and AI Strategy Expert at Fifth Advantage. Located in Austin, Texas, Fifth Advantage helps businesses become future-ready by leveraging AI and digital technologies to drive growth and efficiency. This innovative company is renowned for its "anti-consulting" approach, which focuses o…
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Nine months into his role as Snowflake’s CEO, Sridhar Ramaswamy sat down for a candid discussion on the journey so far & what’s ahead. He uncovered details about his transition to Snowflake CEO, the operational changes he’s put in place to accelerate product development, and his bold predictions for AI’s future—along with how he’s guiding a vision …
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What Is Web3? Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. The current internet is controlled by a few players with concentrated power over the users. The next generation of the web, called Web3 seeks to decentralize the internet and give control back to the users. Web3 promise…
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SaaStr 771: The Top Marketing Strategies for 2025 Growth with the CMOs of Snowflake, LinkedIn, and Carta Right now is one of the hardest times of the year for marketers. Most CMOs will be heads down wrapping up a year-end assessment and figuring out what to pitch for next year’s budgetary spend to drive revenue, all while navigating an ever-changin…
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Vlad Tenev is a Co-Founder and CEO of Robinhood, the commission free stock trading and investing app with a market cap today of $20.7BN. Over the incredible 11 year journey Vlad has raised over $5BN from some of the world’s best investors including Sequoia, a16z, DST, Ribbit and Index. Before Robinhood, Vlad started two finance companies in New Yor…
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Welcome to the newest episode of the Space Capital Podcast, where we will review the Q3 2024 Space IQ review, our quarterly analysis of startup activity and investment trends in the space economy. Space Capital's Chad Anderson and Justus Kilian are going to walk through the results published in our Q3 2024 Space Investment Quarterly, explore curren…
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Welcome to the newest episode of the Space Capital Podcast, where we will review the Q3 2024 Space IQ review, our quarterly analysis of startup activity and investment trends in the space economy. Space Capital's Chad Anderson and Justus Kilian are going to walk through the results published in our Q3 2024 Space Investment Quarterly, explore curren…
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