This Week in Startups

One Concern CEO & natural disaster survivor Ahmad Wani created A.I. platform Seismic Concern to predict earthquake impact, direct response teams with greater accuracy, & save lives

Satya Patel of Homebrew on 80+ investments, betting on founders with a mission, solving a problem over building a business, funding "phases" not stages, portfolio stars, & the critical importance of boards & organizational muscle memory

Satya Patel of Homebrew on 80+ investments, betting on founders with a mission, solving a problem over building a business, funding "phases" not stages, portfolio stars, & the critical importance of boards & organizational muscle memory

Startup Tuneup: 8 founders pitch & get Jason's candid feedback in healthcare, sports SaaS, influencer marketing, (co-) work space creation, voter/candidate matching, home repair concierge, retail interactive mirror

Jeff Clavier, Uncork Capital, on pioneering micro VC, lessons from 200+ investments & 5 funds, strategizing at Seed for Series A crunch, risky ICOs, & the hard-won wisdom of always be raising

News Roundtable, Top Tech 2017! Jason, Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt & Adam Ludwin of Chain take on repealed net neutrality & fallout, crypto craze & FOMO, hottest products & predictions for the big stories of 2018.

Boldstart Founder Ed Sim on 20yrs seeding 50+ enterprise co’s, how his father’s fleeing N. Korea shaped his VC, NYC deep tech, & being 1st dollar in to help move founder-product fit to product-market fit to self-sustainability.

Boldstart Founder Ed Sim on 20yrs seeding 50+ enterprise co’s, how his father’s fleeing N. Korea shaped his VC, NYC deep tech, & being 1st dollar in to help move founder-product fit to product-market fit to self-sustainability.

As populations grow, and climates change, could cities be our salvation? With the right infrastructure, urban areas or megaregions can be the most carbon & economic efficient habitations. But cities face countless problems, in housing shortages, broken transportation, overflowing waste, and more. With Urban.us, Shaun Abrahamson & Stonly Baptiste seed startups solving for challenges to make our cities better and our futures more hopeful. Shaun & Stonly talk to Jason about what they're working on, why cities are so critical, what they look for in startups, which problems they are tackling, and much more.

Fish consumption is on the rise, but the earth's exploitable fish supply is dwindling. And becoming more polluted. And expensive. Finless Foods is looking to solve this scarcity with biotechnology. CEO Mike Selden explains his clean fish, an affordable, healthy, sustainable seafood he's growing with cutting-edge cell culture tech. And Jason tastes it!