Malaika Judd, an entrepreneur, angel investor, and previous co-founder of Sendy. Sendy was a one-stop logistics platform for enterprises and merchants, covering delivery needs in the region to help small businesses/side hustles reach their customers more efficiently and cost-effectively. In this episode, you will hear about: 🚚 What does Sendy do? 📱…

Andreata is a partner at TLcom Capital, a leading tech VC firm based in Nairobi. Locally rooted and globally connected, TLcom has managed in excess of $300M and is currently investing from its TIDE Africa fund, which invests in early to growth-stage companies in Sub-Saharan Africa. TLcom is also famous for its initiatives in building strong technol…

Francis Dufay, CEO of Jumia, a leading e-commerce platform in Africa. With proprietary logistics Jumia Logistics and JumiaPay fintech platforms, Jumia is able to seamlessly deliver the widest range of genuine products at low prices to the customer. Juia is also the first African startup that went public in NYSE. Today, it is active in 11 countries …

Jesse Moore, the CEO and co-founder of M-KOPA. M-KOPA, a leading technology startup in Kenya, helps underbanked low-income African households unlock essential products and services that improve their life qualities with fair and flexible financial choices. M-KOPA has built one of the world’s most advanced connected financing platforms, deploying $1…

Joseph Rehmann is the Founder & Group CEO of Victory Farms. By rebuilding the fish value chain from scratch, Victory Farms drastically reduced the cost of protein in Africa. Through this journey, Joe and his team have built one of the first truly regenerative aquaculture farms in the world: all while improving biodiversity, sinking carbon, and supp…

Daniel Yu is the Founder and CEO of Wasoko. Wasoko aims to unleash African commerce from various aspects. Using Wasoko’s services, shopkeepers and suppliers are more efficiently connected. By simply ordering products via the mobile app, shopkeepers can receive deliveries at their doorstep. Additionally, Wasoko has been able to support and finance s…

Basil Moftah, the General Partner at Nclude, a venture capitalist fund and Fintech innovation engine with a core focus on the Middle East and North Africa. As an influential force in the venture capital space, Basil is at the forefront of the Fintech revolution in Egypt, a country experiencing a quantum leap forward in its Fintech ecosystem. In thi…

Vikas is the Founder & CEO of abillion. abillion is a social media platform focused on helping people create better daily habits and rituals, starting with what they eat and buy. abillion’s mission is to become the definitive global ecosystem for everything sustainable. In this episode, you will hear about: 💼What’s the motivation for founding abill…

Jim Rogers, a well-known investor, author, and financial commentator. He is the co-founder of the Quantum Fund, a hedge fund that achieved an impressive record of returns, and the author of “The Investment Biker”. In this episode, you will learn: 🎓 Jim’s early life journey from Yale to Oxford 💼 The Quantum Fund – how it beat the S&P by nearly 4200%…

Pierre Paslier is the co-founder and co-CEO of Notpla, a leader in the sustainable packaging and container manufacturing industry.Notpla is replacing the use of plastic in packaging with seaweed and plants that biodegrade in weeks to make our world more sustainable. In this episode, you will hear about:🌱 How do biodegradable plants, especially seaw…

Atish Davda is CEO and Co-Founder of EquityZen, a company working on bringing private markets to the public. Atish talks about his journey to starting EquityZen and what this company means to the future of investing in innovation. The interview is dedicated to PennPAC. PennPAC works with nonprofit organizations to help solve their business challeng…

Irving Fain, the founder and CEO of Bowery Farming. Bowery is the leading vertical farming company in the United States, serving almost 800 grocery stores and major e-commerce platforms, such as Whole Foods, Giant, Walmart, and so on. Join the conversation and learn how technology can play an important role in the Agriculture industry's future and …

Rick Bates, CEO and Co-Founder of RxSense. RxSense is a healthcare technology company that provides advanced cloud-based enterprise solutions. RxSense also contracts with the nation's largest pharmacies (including CVS, Walmart and Walgreens) to deliver consistently low prices directly to consumers on prescription drugs through its SingleCare (www.s…

In 2015, Joey Zwillinger co-founded Allbirds with his partner Tim Brown. Since its founding, Allbirds has gone to design what Time Magazine has called the “World’s Most Comfortable Shoe” and has been worn by Barack Obama, Leonardo DiCaprio, and many others. But even more fascinating is Allbird’s no-compromise mentality to developing sustainable and…

Steve Gu, CEO of AiFi, talks about how he is using AI to automate stores around the world. While AmazonGo and other large conglomerates are pursuing a cashier-less future, Steve Gu talks about how AiFi is shaping this emerging landscape and what to expect in the not-so-distant future. In this interview, you will learn: How do computer vision and ma…

Tracy Young, the co-founder and CEO of TigerEye, a sales and go-to-market platform that helps leaders track and predict the future performance of their business. She was previously the co-founder and CEO of PlanGrid, a construction productivity software. PlanGrid grew from 5 co-founders to 450 people and helped build over 1 million construction pro…

Fred was a part of the original founding team of Zappos and alongside Tony Hsieh and others, helped Zappos grow into a company with more than $1 billion in gross merchandise sales before it was bought by Amazon in 2009. He is also the founder of Las Vegas-centric investment fund Honus Capital, and the co-founder of luxury fashion brand Ross and Sno…

We talk with Matthew Bannick, the Former Managing Partner of Omidyar Network, Former President of eBay International, and former President of PayPal on his advice in entering the impact investment sector as one of the pioneers in the industry. The conversation also covers Matt's advice on helping a company achieve global expansion, strategies to me…

Deciding Our Future: Interview with Annie Duke, the author of How to Decide and Thinking in Bets. She was previously a professional poker player, winning a WSOP Poker Bracelet. She is now a renowned speaker and expert in the decision strategy space. This full interview is dedicated to Alliance for Decision Education. Their mission is to improve liv…

Coronavirus: What will the pandemic mean for globalization? In this interview with Geoffrey Garrett, the Dean at the USC Marshall School of Business and former Dean at the Wharton School, we discuss the impacts on global trade and commerce as a result of the pandemic and the preceding trade war. The interview is dedicated to Southern California Cou…

Irving is the founder and CEO of Bowery Farming, a cutting-edge vertical farming company that is revolutionizing the way we grow food. Irving has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to using technology to create a paradigm shift in how we produce agricultural goods and interact with the world, the land around us. Today’s discussion will not only …

Laura is the CEO and founder of Helaina, which aims to be the first company to put human proteins into food. Through harnessing the power of precision fermentation, Laura and her team seek to create the glycoproteins found in breast milk to help enhance existing infant formula, and in the future open a whole new class of ingredients for food. Laura…

Sankarshan Murthy talks about the constraints of space and how Bumblebee Spaces is seeking to disrupt the industry by innovating a new way of living, with AI and robotics to maximize livable space. The interview is dedicated to Evidence Action - Dispensers for Water Initiative at https://www.evidenceaction.org/dispensersforsafewater/ Find more abou…

Life-Saving Drone Delivery: Interview with Keller Rinaudo, the co-founder and CEO of Zipline a drone delivery company that transports critical and lifesaving products precisely where and when they are needed. This full interview is dedicated to Malaria No More (www.malarianomore.org). They mobilize the political will and global resources required t…

Impact through International Development with Stephanie von Friedeburg, Senior Vice President, Operations, at International Finance Corporation. This interview is dedicated to the Women Entrepreneurs in Finance Initiative: https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/t... Stephanie von Friedeburg is IFC’s first Senior Vice President, Operations. She most re…

ZOOM INTERVIEWS FOR CHARITY: Becoming a Startup hero - Interview with Tim Draper, Founder of Draper VC and Renowned Venture Capital Investor who invested in Tesla, Baidu, Skype, Hotmail, Robinhood etc. The event is dedicated to Draper Heroes institute, a mission to research, develop and share educational models and methods that encompass, explore a…

All Proceeds from this original live podcast was donated to the Basser Center at Penn. Learn more and donate at https://www.basser.org/. Jon Steinberg is the current President of Altice USA News and Advertising. Jon is also the Founder of Cheddar, the former CEO of DailyMail and the former President of BuzzFeed. This podcasts discusses the future o…

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