The Brandeis Innovation Podcast

Profiles in Innovation features Juan Giraldo, serial entrepreneur and CEO & co-founder of Waku, sharing his journey building mission-driven ventures and leading innovation in the Spark program.

In this Profiles in Innovation episode, Gianna Everette delves into the origins and mission of InBite, an app designed to foster connections and community among students and young adults through shared mealtime experiences.

Tune in to hear Prof. Timothy Hickey discuss his journey in research and innovation, and how he fosters collaboration between academic ideas and practical solutions.

In this Profiles in Innovation episode, Sara Motoyama discusses automating cognitive test scoring with machine learning to make research faster, more accurate, and more accessible.

Sara Landa shares insights from her journey launching Tulum Charters — a yacht charter company — and the strategies that helped her grow it profitably without heavy overhead.

In this Profiles in Innovation episode, Prof. Stephen Van Hooser discusses the NDI Cloud project — a solution for sharing and managing complex neuroscience data to accelerate research collaboration.

A Profiles in Innovation interview with Eric Moyal, founder of Project Insulin, on developing a nonprofit approach to producing and distributing affordable insulin and addressing systemic barriers to essential medicine access.

A Profiles in Innovation episode featuring Yuxuan Zhang, part of Brandeis Innovation’s series highlighting innovators and their stories.

How can make sure that you create a product that customers will love? Eyal Cohen, Brandeis undergraduate and founder of the startup Pool learned how to use a technique called customer discovery to validate his business idea and learn what customers want. We spoke with him about how to become a more successful startup founder, the art of customer discovery, and what it's like being a startup founder while in college.

In this Profiles in Innovation episode, Sam Aronson, founder of Tree for the Taking, shares his journey building sustainable guitars from invasive trees and transforming the music instrument industry.