Hitechies - Podcast

In this episode of Hitechies Podcast, we have Tobias Seidl co-founder of STOKKR.  The EU’s pioneering digital investment marketplace for alternative assets, where smart investors connect with and fund innovative businesses.

STOKR is the all-in-one solution for young and growing ventures looking to raise capital in the EU. Operating out of Luxembourg, STOKR provides founders with the full suite of technical deployment, investment structuring, and compliance support for the issuance of EU-compliant security token offerings (STOs).

Through carefully selected high-profile offerings, STOKR fosters a risk-reduced environment, liberates investment opportunities from traditional venture capital, and directly connects visionary ventures to a network of professional and retail investors. STOKR allows investors to participate in the future success of a diverse range of ventures through profit- or revenue-sharing rights, without middlemen such as custodians or brokers.  

Currently, STOKR is facilitating major STOs like that of Blockstream ($100m), security token tied to Bitcoin hashrate, payable in BTC. Blockstream is led by Dr. Adam Back, who is quoted in the Bitcoin white paper.

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On this episode of Hitechies Podcast We have James Simms, 
James is an edtech entrepreneur. He started a business in 2016 called The EverLearner Ltd. They provide online courses to support students and teachers in schools and colleges boost grades and save time. They have grown from nothing to now serving to approach 50% of all English and Welsh secondary schools and colleges with commercial services. They have just over 200k students learning each week.

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On this episode of Hitechies Podcast, we have Franziska Iseli.
She is a bestselling author and co-founder of the marketing education platform Basic Bananas based in Sydney, Australia. She recently came out with her new book "Social Media for Small Businesses" on April 1, with the hopes of teaching business owners valuable marketing skills to get them through the pandemic. She's been running Basic Bananas for over 11 years and has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to social media marketing.

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In this episode of hitechies podcast we have a guest Rachel Soper Sanders.

Rachel Soper Sanders is the CEO and co-founder of Rootine, a mission-driven brand focused on improving health by optimizing cellular nutrition.  With 10 years’ experience at the intersection of health and technology, she is disrupting the market as a female founder in the male-dominated personalized health tech space. In addition to being a founder, Rachel is a startup advisor, investor, new mom, and has been featured across Forbes, Entrepreneur, Thrive Global, Business Insider, and more. She started her career as an investment banker and has worked in product and strategy at a high-growth digital health company.   Rachel received a BS from Vanderbilt University an MBA from Harvard Business School.

About Rootine

We are entering a new era of human performance. An era in which biometric technology, personalized treatments, and real time results tracking are available to improve quality of life. An era in which we can achieve optimal health with products designed to enhance fitness, mental acuity, sleep, nutrition, and metabolic stability through prescriptive solutions. Finally, there is a health stack for the quantified self. As an essential contributor, Rootine optimizes cellular nutrition through better data science and personalized solutions that enable you to perform at your best every day. Our test, take, and track approach leverages best-in-class AI and considers individual DNA, blood, and lifestyle test results to not only create the most accurate nutrient formula for your body, but deliver it through the most precise dosage on the market. Rootine’s unique microbead form factor allows our scientists to design and deliver the perfect cellular nutrition formula your body needs for maximum performance. A more powerful cell makes for a more powerful self.

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In this episode of hitechies podcast we have Ahmed Elsamadisi 

He's currently the CEO of our data / ai startup  narrator.ai , a YC backed company that is trying to standardize all data analysis. 

Ahmed was honored as one of Forbes' 30 under 30 this year and has worked on missile defense algorithms for Raytheon.

Ahmed started his career at Cornell’s Autonomous Systems Laboratory focusing on human-robot interaction and Bayesian data fusion as well as building algorithms for autonomous cars. He then joined Raytheon to develop tactical AI algorithms for missile defense, four of which are still in use today by the US Military. Eventually, he moved on to Raytheon’s Advanced Technology division to focus on building human exoskeletons


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In this episode of hitechies podcast, we have Derek Omari.

Derek is co-founder of Blerp the audio expression platform making it easy to enhance any moment with sound. He's passionate about the creator economy and how tools like Blerp can help people monetize and make a living sharing their passion. Derek has a background working in Marketing and Sales and has helped Blerp grow to work with over 100,000 creators on Twitch, Youtube, and Facebook.



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In this episode of Hitechies Podcast, We have our Guest Dawn Taylor 

International trauma specialist, life coach strategist, and all-around badass, Dawn’s journey into helping others heal began when she took her personal recovery from the trauma she experienced in her life into her own hands. 


While at times unconventional, Dawn’s strategic methods have helped hundreds heal from everything related to PTSD from sexual, emotional, and physical abuse, to issues from infidelity, to overcoming addiction, as well as helping cult survivors thrive. Dawn’s work has empowered entrepreneurs, stay-at-home moms, and CEOs alike to be the superheroes in their own lives. 


Having completed thousands of hours of training from many professional programs, including the Robbins Madanes Training Institute, and certified as a Subconscious Imprinting Techniques professional, Dawn’s blunt honesty will challenge your thinking, broaden your awareness, and help you achieve the outstanding results you are worthy of.

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Eyal Sivan is a seasoned technologist specializing in all aspects of open banking. Eyal leverages his 25 years of IT experience in management, business analysis, systems integration and distributed application architecture to drive his clients towards open banking readiness, client-focused agility, rapid innovation and global technology leadership.

Beyond his technology expertise, Eyal has excellent leadership and communication skills, consistently striving to inspire the teams he works with. He also has extensive public presentation experience, having spoken at numerous international conferences on APIs, integration architecture, open banking & the general impact of technology on our lives.
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As Mr. Open Banking, Eyal has dedicated his career to help drive the evolution of open banking forward. He believes it can improve millions of lives by enabling a more innovative, resilient & inclusive financial ecosystem.

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In this episode of Hitechies podcast, we have Noah Berkson.

He is a Managing Partner and founder at Candor Ventures. 

He started his first business at freshman year of college in Iowa City, IA. He started 3 software companies (software development, pharmaceutical tech, and property tech) and exited two without venture funding.

Noah has always been intrigued with people who see the world in a different way and who believe they will be successful even when the odds are not in their favor.

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Yvette Adams is a serial entrepreneur and a multi-award winning business woman including winning the ICT Woman of the Year at the iAwards in 2013 and the Commonwealth Bank Business Owner category at the Telstra Business Womens in Queensland in 2010.

She has started six businesses, two of which she has since sold.

The first was a newspaper that she started at the age of just 17 years old which she sold to an American entrepreneur after the first issue! She created her second business and first e-commerce site in 2002 – an online tee-shirt business. Within one month of launching she received a Government Grant and won a website award.

She lived and worked around the world for a seven year stint from 1998 to 2004, with stints working for magazines and newspapers, including a year long travel writing round-the-world assignment.

In 2004 she settled in Australia and in 2007, just 7 weeks after the birth of her second child she launched The Creative Collective from the study nook of her home – a creative services agency.

In just her first year of business she won the Queensland Small Business Champions Young Entrepreneur award and has since gone on to win or be a finalist in numerous other local, regional and national business awards. See: https://www.thecreativecollective.com.au/awards/ for a full list.

Her level of expertise and delivery style has been recognised by Government and has seen her develop and deliver webinars, workings and programs for numerous Government departments, the most notable of which, the GetUpToSpeed program has up skilled 1000’s of people with essential digital skills, and which gained her company The Training Collective the Access & Digital Skills Award at the ANZIAs in 2014 (Australian New Zealand Internet Awards).

She has assisted thousands of business owners to either get online or succeed online and either establish or grow their businesses. She has consulted hundreds businesses in New Zealand, the UK and Australia on their online strategies and built many websites and assisted business owners to commercialise their products and business ideas.

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