Ethan Song is forever an optimist and began his journey as the founder and CEO of Frank And Oak, which aimed to reshape the fashion industry by making it more personal and sustainable. Frank And Oak was named Most innovative company in retail by Fast Company and was #1 on the Deloitte Fast50 list. Today, Ethan is the founder of RareCircles, helping…

Caroline Winnett is the Executive Director of Berkeley SkyDeck, a global hub for entrepreneurship, and one of the leading accelerators in the world. She is a serial entrepreneur, civic activist, angel investor, advisor and board member of several startups, as well as and a frequent speaker on startups, accelerators, women in business and consumer n…

Krish Ramineni was a former PM at Microsoft and stumbled into entrepreneurship. When focusing on productivity solutions, he and his co-founders decided to just build something that they would use. Fireflies AI was born and the rest is history! Fireflies AI assistant joins meetings across zoom, Gmeet, Teams, and several other video conferencing plat…

Marshall started his career in 2015 in the event space and had an affinity for pedal-to-the-metal organizations, guerilla marketing tactics, and doing things others won’t. After dropping out of university in 2017, Marshall started working with startups and small businesses, and focused on growth, particularly in sales. After some success growing an…

Ron Ross is the founder of Everee, workforce payments technology that makes it easy to pay people instantly. He is a seasoned finance executive with 15 years of experience leading accounting, finance and operations teams at fast-growing companies. Ron came up with Everee after seeing firsthand the negative impact of waiting two weeks for a paycheck…

Alejandra Santos is the founder and CEO of Startup Tandem. She landed in Miami from Honduras at the age of 17 with no support, money, or family. During her first few years in the US, she struggled to keep a roof over her head and food on her table, while at the same time pursuing an education…. But she did it. Alejandra comes with 14+ years of expe…

Shannon Erley has worked in the skincare and beauty industry for years and was personally struggling with adult hormonal acne. It wasn’t until she started working with a licensed esthetician that recommended a good at-home skincare routine was when her skin started to improve. With so many people getting skincare recommendations elsewhere, she want…

Maia's the Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer of the Nav.it Money App, the fitness app for finances which provides personalized financial coaching to help people build good habits and live financially well. She's devoted to closing wealth gaps perpetuated by a system not built for the majority of America and believes financial wellbeing is an inte…

Lindsay Pinchuk started her first company with just a $500 investment, growing it to reach 3MM users per month and generating 7-figures in revenue year over year. Less than a decade later she led her company through its acquisition to a large agency holding company. Today, Lindsay is Founder + CEO of Lindsay Pinchuk Marketing + Consulting, helping …

Justin Izzo is the research lead at DocSend, the secure document sharing platform that provides founders with the insight they need to succeed throughout their fundraising journey. Justin brings 15 years of research and leadership experience to the role in combination with his passion for educating and empowering startup founders. On today’s episod…

An entrepreneur at heart, Stephanie Cartin walked away from her corporate career in 2012 to follow her passion to launch Socialfly, a leading social-first digital and influencer marketing agency based in New York City named to Inc. 5000's fastest growing private companies two years in a row. In 2018, Stephanie co-founded Entreprenista, a media comp…

The eldest daughter of two immigrant entrepreneurs, Priyanka Murthy has a talent and passion for the law. She became a Fulbright Scholar, a cum laude Northwestern Law graduate, an editor of the Law Review, and a law clerk to two prolific federal judges. But a side hustle with her parents’ small jewelry wholesale business made her realize that the j…

Originally from Guayaquil, Ecuador, Saskia Sorrosa built a strong career in marketing and moved into what she believed to be her dream role—VP of Marketing for the NBA. When her second child arrived on the scene, Saskia realized that she needed to step back from her corporate career to pursue aligning her business with her values. That’s when she f…

Joshua March is Co-founder and CEO of SCiFi Foods, a Bay Area food tech company focused on making transformational meat alternatives first by combining plant-based and cultivated meat to make burgers that are drastically closer in taste to the real versions. But his journey began in a completely different industry. One line in a scifi book sparked …

Before co-founding Truebill (now Rocket Money), Yahya Mokhtarzada and his brothers were always starting companies together. From the traditional lemonade stand to shoveling driveways, their ventures were always evolving. Together, they launched Free Webs—which became Webs.com—and Yahya found himself (and his brothers!) raising Series A when Yahya w…

Joe Keeley’s love for hockey led him into entrepreneurship in one of the most unique ways you’ve ever heard! Today, Keeley is the CEO and Co-founder of JustiFi Technologies, a venture backed fintech business providing payments and fintech infrastructure and strategy for vertical SaaS platforms. In this episode, you will hear: How Joe accidentally s…

Doug Ludlow grew up in Modesto, an agricultural town in Central California. Despite Modesto city’s proximity to Silicon Valley, the city is almost entirely cut off from the technology industry, which is the economic engine of the 21st century. He helped start MainStreet in part to bring back good jobs and upward mobility to the people living in his…

Lisha Bell is cofounder of BLXVC, an angel syndicate of moms funding Black and Brown founders. She is also the co-founder of the Women of Color Capital Collective, a women of color led group ensuring equitable distribution of capital for women of color. She is the host of the Sisters with Ventures Podcast that aims to tell the stories of women in V…

Dominic Kalms is CEO of a new venture backed Fintech company B Generous, which is revolutionizing how people donate to nonprofits through the advent of the first ever philanthropic credit product. B Generous is backed by some of the top VCs, Banks, and institutional investors in the US and was just accepted into the highly selective Blackbaud Socia…

Samantha Citro Alexander is the Co-Founder of bitewell, a food health company on a mission to improve your health through food. She came onboard as co-founder after a LOT of conversations with the original founder and after asking herself, “Do I believe in the product that we’re building and the problem that we’re solving?” The answer was yes, and …

Military life often requires wearing lots of hats, and that’s especially true for Monica Fullerton, founder of Spouse-ly. Named a Trailblazer in Tech by Military Spouse Magazine, Forbes Next 1000 List, and recently named on the MIGHTY 25 list as one of the most influential leaders supporting the military community, Fullerton is an ambitious entrepr…

Co-founders of Caire Beauty Celeste Lee and Lorrie King were both grade-school entrepreneurs. Both are graduates of The Wharton School. Both started in finance. Both knew they were onto something ‘important’ when their friends were constantly asking for skincare recommendations because their long-time moisturizers and regimens were not ‘doing’ it. …

Named Marine Corps Base Kaneohe Bay Military Spouse of the Year 2019 and MCAS Miramar Military Spouse of the Year 2022, Michelle Penczak is a virtual assistant by trade and a military spouse by love. Her husband Sean is a pilot in the Marine Corps, and through multiple relocations and deployments, Michelle built a vibrant, thriving independent virt…

Cara Oppenheimer and Cary Telander Fortin are creative social entrepreneurs who founded goodbuy, a first-of-its-kind online shopping tool that connects consumers with small businesses that align with their values, and does so in a simple and streamlined way. These two powerhouse mamas bonded over new babies and breastfeeding. When Cara had a big id…

Lynn Power spent much of her 30 year career running and transforming agency brands. She recently left the big agency world to launch MASAMI, a premium clean haircare brand which launched in February 2020. In this episode, Lynn shares the small steps she has taken to move her brand forward through the pandemic and beyond. She shares the importance o…

Swarnali Mitra is currently an early-stage investor at Anthemis Group where she invests in female founded and co-founded companies at the pre-seed/seed stages. Her background spans across engineering, product, public policy and capital markets and she is most interested in solving the hard problems of fintech. She talks about the importance of fund…

After developing Hashimoto’s and guttate psoriasis, Elaine Morrison went on a health journey to find the answers to put her autoimmune illnesses into remission. She radically changed her diet to reverse her symptoms of fatigue, weight gain, hair loss and dry skin. Supplementing with collagen was a game changer, and in 2015, she launched a collagen …

Robin Doyle, the founder of Beautyologie—a fair trade and ethically-sourced online marketplace for conscious consumers who want beauty products that make a difference, not just on the surface of their skin, but in the world we live in— decided on a humanities major in college because she learned that it meant she wouldn’t have to take math classes.…

Olivia Hipkins is the Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner of Gaia Global Ventures as well as the Founder of Green Atlas Consulting. Through this work, she works with investors and target investment companies across venture capital and private equity to integrate sustainability in capital allocation decisions, empowering investment profess…

Jess Hershfield is the founder and CEO of Just Enough Wines, a premium canned wine brand based out of San Francisco. They focus on high-quality wine, in the convenience of a can. After working at Google, Uber, and Lime, Jess had a fantastic resume but just wasn’t passionate about her work. She decided to leave to solve a problem that she cared abou…

Sheera’s business idea is completely unique and it’s morphed and grown over the years. She shares the ups and downs, the testing and pivots, and everything in between that has gotten Zygo to the place it’s at today. Zygo is now the first ever tool that swimmers use to stream audio and live communication underwater. It’s not only used to listen to m…

Jennifer Gligoric is the Founder of Entrepods, a cutting-edge show asking the top entrepreneurial experts "So now what?" when it comes to their business and life. She's also a certified business coach and fractional consultant specializing in business crisis intervention & remote workplaces. For the past decade, she's been helping companies build t…

Justin Clegg has been profiled by VentureBeat, Deseret News and Entrepreneur.com and is a frequent public speaker. Justin has studied, lived and operated in a variety of international locations including Singapore, China, Mexico City, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Mozambique and New Delhi and is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, French and conversational Hindi…

Henley Vazquez is a self-proclaimed hotel junkie driven by match-making the perfect property to each traveler's unique style. Once upon a time, Henley founded and led Passported, a boutique travel agency with a focus on making family travel both accessible and enjoyable. But the pandemic changed everything. After rethinking how things needed to be …

Ahmed Elsamadisi is the Founder and CTO at Narrator.ai, a data modeling platform that allows data teams to answer any and all data questions within minutes. He is a passionate and driven entrepreneur who began to obsess over how humans and robots make decisions…. Which led him to launch this amazing company which is solving big problems for busines…

In this episode, FounderSuite CEO Nathan Beckord discusses how his inside knowledge of the fundraising process was eye-opening and led to a huge discovery—running a sloppy fundraising process could keep your startup from raising. That’s when he came up with the idea for FounderSuite—a venture-backed company that makes the leading “funding stack” (i…

Courtney Boyd Meyers is an entrepreneur, environmentalist, and writer. But, there came a point when she couldn't “sit back and watch the world burn”. Lucky for the world, she co-founded AKUA, a Brooklyn-based company creating plant-based foods from locally sourced and regeneratively ocean-farmed kelp—and home of “the world’s first Kelp Burger”. She…

Lauren Wang launched The Flex Co. in 2016 with the dream of transforming the lives of people with periods. Today, Flex is the top-selling sustainable period care brand in the country, sold in over 25,000 retail locations and online. Flex is the only company in the world to offer both disposable and reusable menstrual discs, in addition to menstrual…

Goodmylk Co. founder Brooke Harris is on a mission to “keep it real” with organic, truly nutritional plant mylks made from the good stuff, and nothing else. No chemicals, no binders, no fillers and above all—no compromises. Goodmylk Co. plant mylks are available in over 100 California coffee shops and grocery stores, including Blue Bottle, Erewhon,…

Felicia Curcuru always knew she would be an entrepreneur. She was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company. She was later the first employee, Head of User Experience and Director of Business Development at FundersClub, a leading online venture capital firm. But when she was first introduced to the world of child welfare when her sister adopted t…

Eliza Blank is the Founder & CEO at The Sill, a digitally native direct-to-consumer houseplant brand on a mission to modernize the garden center experience. The Sill has 9 retail stores in the United States and recently opened stores in Boston, Chicago, and Park Slope in Brooklyn. Prior to launching The Sill, Eliza served as a Brand Strategist at W…

Sashee Chandran, founder and CEO of Tea Drops, worked as a Business Analyst for Fortune 100 brands such as eBay. She always loved to drink tea, but found that she just didn’t have the time to go through the whole process and created her own solution to this problem. Before long she had requests for her product and filed her own patent. Today, Tea D…

Stefanie Diaz, the host of She Conquers Capital, is an elite capital raise strategist. Her experience working with companies such as Hustle Fund and Zane Ventures Fund led her to her passion of bridging the funding gap of underrepresented groups. Stefanie launched The Women Only Experience (WOE) to support female founders in their business. This le…

Stacy Tuschl is the founder of the Foot Traffic Formula. she started her own business in her parents’ backyard at the age of 18 and turned it into a multimillion dollar business. She is also the host of the Foot Traffic Formula podcast that has over 1 million downloads and is frequently in the top 30 marketing podcasts on iTunes. In this episode, S…

Jaleh Bisharat, co-founder and CEO of NakedPoppy, has built some of Silicon Valley’s most vibrant brands from the ground up. After serving as VP Marketing at Amazon.com in the late 1990’s, she held board seats or c-suite marketing roles at OpenTable, Upwork, Eventbrite, Skillshare, and Wealthfront. Very few people out there can build a business lik…

Jesse Draper is a mother of 3 boys and founding partner of Halogen Ventures focused on early stage investing in consumer technology companies led by female and co-ed teams. Draper, the first solo female GP in Los Angeles is also a 4th generation venture capitalist. She is a fierce advocate for investing in women and the opportunity for using techno…

Jessica Hoskin is the co-founder of HIKI, a new line of everyday sweat products made for ANY body. Hiki is a brand with products created together to show that when people are seen, heard, and invited into the process the results are far better than “normal”. In this episode, Jessica shares her (several!) startup stories and explains how she got the…

Start with community. Such simple advice! But the road to build Mighty Networks wasn’t a simple one, as CEO and founder Gina Bianchini will tell you. Before Mighty Networks, Gina was the first entrepreneur-in-residence at Andreessen Horowitz. She was also the CEO and co-founder of Ning, a pioneering global platform for creating niche social network…

Ever wonder how you’re going to create, launch, and scale your fashion brand? The incredible Shannon Lohr can show you the way. Shannon is the founder of Factory45, the online business school trusted by over 500 fashion entrepreneurs since 2014. Over the years she's worked with aspiring designers, all over the globe, to launch or grow their brands …

Marian Leitner is founder and CEO of Archer Roose Wines, one of the leading canned wine companies in the US. Marian is on a mission to democratize fine wine by making the wine industry more inclusive and leveraging format to fit the lifestyles of modern consumers. Marian's wines can be found in James Beard Award Winning restaurants, grocery stores,…