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Venture Studio episodes:

11.12.2021
Ep 52 - Building Blocks of the New World with Sean Ford
Sean Ford is the COO of Algorand, pioneers of a new future powered by blockchains. In this episode, we dive into the fascinating world of blockchain, and how Algorand is leading the charge by providing an infrastructure for existing businesses...
09.20.2021
Ep 51 - The Crypto Future with Ken Kruger, CEO of MOON
I’m sure like me, a lot of you who don’t work in crypto are trying to understand and learn about it these days. I know that some of us are very skeptical, some are intrigued, and that some are just...
04.13.2018
Ep 50 - Lylan Masterman - White Star
Lylan Masterman is General Partner at White Star Capital where he leads the New York office. In this episode, Masterman discusses White Stars history and his approach to venture capitol investments. Masterman has an impressive technical background that informs his...
01.21.2018
Ep 49 - Arne Halleraker - FJ Labs
A Norwegian native, Arne joined the FJ Labs team in the spring of 2016. He lived in San Francisco for 1.5 years, where he was director of global partnerships for Telenor and focused on business development with Google [x]. ===== [email protected] fjlabs.com fjlabs.com/portfolio
11.27.2017
Ep 48 - Wendy Xiao Schadeck - Northzone
This episode's guest is Wendy Xiao Schadeck of Northzone. Wendy joined Northzone in 2016. She has a particular interest for media, fintech, real estate tech, edtech, and blockchain, and specifically companies that connect the New York and European ecosystems. ...
10.20.2017
Ep 47 - Lindsey Gray - Two Sigma Ventures
Lindsey Gray leads the Platform Team at Two Sigma Ventures. She is responsible for identifying the needs and challenges of portfolio companies, and developing resources, programs, and connections to help them succeed. Lindsey is also helping to build out...
09.24.2017
Ep 46 - Deborah Jackson - Plum Alley
Deborah Jackson is a founder and entrepreneur, early-stage investor and former investment banker. In 2012 Deborah founded Plum Alley to advance women entrepreneurs and strong teams of women and men, to build better products and companies that are positioned to...
06.15.2017
Ep 45 - Jason Cahill - McCune Capital
This week’s guest is Jason Cahill of McCune Capital. A network design engineer by training, an experienced manager, an Army veteran who served with Special Forces, an empathetic customer advocate, and a product-focused leader that loves to think big. An MBA...
05.05.2017
Ep 44 - Rafat Ali - Skift
This week's guest is Rafat Ali. Rafat is the CEO/founder of Skift, the largest business intelligence and marketing platform in travel, providing news, information, data, and services to all sectors of the world’s largest industry. Previously, he was the founder...
04.18.2017
Ep 43 - Ed Sim - Boldstart Ventures (2 of 2)
This week is part 2 of our interview with Ed Sim, founder of Boldstart Ventures, an enterprise seed fund which focuses on infrastructure and SaaS startups. Part 1 is here: https://soundcloud.com/venture-studio/ep-42-ed-sim-boldstart-ventures-1-of-2 All of our shows are available on iTunes, Soundcloud,...
04.07.2017
Ep 42 - Ed Sim - Boldstart Ventures (1 of 2)
This week’s guest is Ed Sim, founder of Boldstart Ventures, an enterprise seed fund which focuses on infrastructure and SaaS startups. All of our shows are available on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play. Make sure to subscribe on...
03.28.2017
Ep 41 - Jessica Lawrence Quinn - NY Tech Alliance
Jessica Lawrence Quinn is the CEO of NY Tech Alliance, a non-profit organization supporting New York’s growing technology community, and the organizer of NY Tech Meetup, the world’s largest Meetup group. Prior to her work with NY Tech Alliance, Jessica...
03.09.2017
Ep 40 - Brad Harrison - Scout Ventures (2 of 2)
Part 2 with Brad Harrison of Scout Ventures Scout Ventures is a seed stage venture capital firm in NYC that partners with experienced entrepreneurs who are building scalable technologies. Scout focuses on core business fundamentals and help with key areas...
02.23.2017
Ep 39 - Brad Harrison - Scout Ventures (1 of 2)
This week’s guest is the incomparable Brad Harrison, founder and managing partner of Scout Ventures. Scout Ventures is a seed stage venture capital firm in NYC that partners with experienced entrepreneurs who are building scalable technologies. Brad is an entrepreneur...
02.09.2017
Ep 38 - Spencer Ante - Author, Journalist & Founder (2 of 2)
This episode's guest is Spencer Ante, founder of WhoWeUse and author of Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital. This is part 2 of our interview with Spencer. When we left off, Spencer had just told the...
01.25.2017
Ep 37 - Spencer Ante - Author, Journalist & Founder (1 of 2)
This episode's guest is Spencer Ante, author of Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital. Spencer is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated and award-winning author, writer, editor, and journalist formerly with The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek and Wired. He is...
12.19.2016
Ep 36 - Shan-Lyn Ma - Zola CEO and Angel Investor
This week’s guest is Shan-Lyn Ma, Co-Founder and CEO of Zola and angel investor in New York City. Zola is re-inventing the Wedding Registry for the modern couple. Remember - all of our shows are available on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn...
11.10.2016
Ep 35 - Jerry Colonna
This week's guest is Jerry Colonna of Reboot. Jerry is an executive coach who uses the skills he learned as a venture capitalist to help entrepreneurs. He draws on his wide variety of experiences to help clients design a more...
10.26.2016
Ep 34 - Jerry Neumann - Angel Investor(2 of 2)
This week is part 2 with Jerry Neumann, early stage angel investor at Neu Venture Capital and longtime New York VC. Neu invests in seed-stage companies developing cutting-edge technologies for use in large markets. Neu makes five or six new...
10.12.2016
Ep 33 - Jerry Neumann - Angel Investor (1 of 2)
This week’s guest is Jerry Neumann, early stage angel investor at Neu Venture Capital and longtime New York VC. Neu invests in seed-stage companies developing cutting-edge technologies for use in large markets. Neu makes five or six new...
09.15.2016
Ep 32 - Jonathan Lehr - Work-Bench
This week’s guest is Jonathan Lehr (@fendien), Co-Founder and General Partner at Work-Bench (@Work_Bench). Work-Bench helps scale enterprise technology startups by providing community and workspace, connecting exceptional builders to Fortune 500 buyers, and co-investing in extraordinary founders tackling enormous...
08.02.2016
Ep 31 - Naval Ravikant - AngelList (2 of 2)
Welcome back to Venture Studio, and welcome back to our fantastic two-part interview with Naval Ravikant of AngelList. If you missed part one, go check it out at venturestudio.org or on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play. ...
07.20.2016
Ep 30 - Naval Ravikant - AngelList (1 of 2)
This week’s guest really needs no introduction. Naval Ravikant is the founder and CEO of AngelList (angel.co). AngelList is the go-to platform for startups to raise money online, recruit employees, and apply for funding. Naval and AngelList...
07.06.2016
Ep 29 - Matt Harrigan - Grand Central Tech
This week’s guest is Matt Harrigan, Co-Founder of Grand Central Tech. Grand Central Tech is a yearlong accelerator in midtown Manhattan that actually sounds quite different from most accelerators: One year. No Rent. No Equity. GCT surrounds...
06.15.2016
Ep 28 - Zach Aarons - MetaProp NYC & Millennium Partners
This week, Zach Aarons of MetaProp NYC and Millennium Partners joins us on the podcast. MetaProp NYC is an accelerator that brings together the brightest minds in real estate and technology to help quickly build promising young real estate...
06.02.2016
Ep 27 - Julian Counihan - Red Sea Ventures
This week, Julian Counihan of Red Sea Ventures joins us on the podcast. Check out our entire archive of interviews - including Dave’s epic two-part interview with Bitcoin Jesus Roger Ver - at venturestudio.org or on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and TuneIn...
05.12.2016
Ep 26 - Roger Ehrenberg - IA Ventures
This week, Roger Ehrenberg (@infoarbitrage), Managing Partner at IA Ventures joins us on the podcast. Check out our entire archive of interviews at venturestudio.org or on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and TuneIn and now Google Play. Remember to subscribe on iTunes...
04.28.2016
Ep 25 - Dr. Ulrich Quay - BMW I Ventures
This week, Ulrich Quay, the Head of BMW i Ventures joins us on the podcast. If you like this episode about mobility and hardware, you’ll love Dave’s interview with Jenny Fielding, head of Techstars IoT program. Check out our entire...
04.14.2016
Ep 24 - Eliot Durbin - Boldstart Ventures
This week, Eliot Durbin, General Partner at Boldstart Ventures, joins the show. Miss an episode, such as the Dave’s classic interview with SoftTech’s founder Jeff Clavier that Elliot referenced during this week’s show? Check out our entire archive at venturestudio.org...
03.30.2016
Ep 23 - Jenny Fielding - Techstars
This week, Jenny Fielding joined the show from Techstars, where she is the Managing Director leading the FinTech and Internet of Things programs in New York City. Looking for more Techstars NYC interviews, like our November talk with Alex Iskold or...
03.16.2016
Ep 22 - Paul Martino - Bullpen Capital
This week, Dave interviews Paul Martino, founder and General Partner at Bullpen Capital, one of the pioneers in post-seed round funding. Remember to subscribe to Venture Studio on iTunes so you never miss an episode. As always, you can find us...
03.03.2016
Ep 21 - Brad Hargreaves - Common, General Assembly, Maveron, Angel Investor
This week, Dave interviews Brad Hargreaves, founder of Common, co-founder of General Assembly, Venture Partner at Maveron and angel investor. Remember to subscribe to Venture Studio on iTunes so you never miss an episode. As always, you can find us on...
02.16.2016
Ep 20 - Phil Toronto - Vayner/RSE
This week, Dave interviews Phil Toronto of Vayner/RSE, an early stage venture capital fund formed by VaynerMedia and RSE Ventures. Make sure to subscribe to Venture Studio on iTunes so you never have to worry about missing an episode. As...
02.04.2016
Ep 19 - Roger Ver - Bitcoin Investor & Bitcoin Evangelist (2 of 2)
Welcome back to Venture Studio and welcome back to our fascinating two-part interview with Bitcoin Jesus, Roger Ver. We pick up part 2 right after Roger described how and why he renounced his US citizenship. Dave kicks off episode two...
01.28.2016
Ep 18 - Roger Ver - Bitcoin Investor & Bitcoin Evangelist (1 of 2)
We have a very special two-part episode coming at you starting this week. Our guests is Roger Ver, entrepreneur, bitcoin investor, bitcoin evangelist, and voluntaryist. If you think we’re just going to talk about bitcoin on this episode,...
01.19.2016
Ep 17 - Huoy Ming Yeh - CSC Upshot Ventures
This week, we are thrilled to welcome Huoy Ming Yeh to the show. Ming is co-founder and managing partner of CSC Upshot Ventures, the largest fund dedicated to financing seed-stage startups, ever. If you’re the type of person...
01.05.2016
Ep 16 - Dustin Dolginow - Maiden Lane Ventures
This week, we welcome Dustin Dolginow to The Studio. Dustin a co-founder of Maiden Lane Ventures, the first institutional venture fund built for AngelList Syndicates. Here’s an excerpt from Maiden Lane’s AngelList page: Raising seed capital is unnecessarily complicated....
12.22.2015
Ep 15 - Craig Shapiro - Collaborative Fund
This week, Dave interviews Craig Shapiro, the founder and managing partner of Collaborative Fund. In this episode, Craig talks about his views on the future of consumption, how to court and land awesome LPs like Pharrell, and how your...
12.15.2015
Ep 14 - John Frankel - ff Venture Capital (2 of 2)
In this week's episode, Dave continues a fascinating two-part interview with John Frankel, the founder of ff venture capital. When we left part 1 last week, John was just starting to describe a tech future with just a few behemoths owning...
12.08.2015
Ep 13 - John Frankel - ff Venture Capital (1 of 2)
In this week’s episode, you’ll hear part 1 of an amazing two part interview with John Frankel, the founder of ff Venture Capital. Dave and John discuss how ff approaches investing, what functions ff provides to it’s portfolio companies...
12.01.2015
Ep 12 - Michael Yavonditte - Yieldmo CEO And Angel Investor
This week, Dave interviews Michael Yavonditte the founder and CEO of Yieldmo and an active angel investor in New York City. If you’re a fan of The Studio, you can find more episodes at venturestudio.org or soundcloud.com/venture-studio. Subscribe on iTunes...
11.25.2015
Ep 11 - Stephanie Palmeri - SoftTechVC
In this week’s episode, we welcome Stephanie Palmeri of SoftTech VC. Dave and Steph discuss SoftTech’s growth as a microVC, how crowded the competitive landscape really is for seed-stage founders, and the case for having a west coast investor...
11.17.2015
Ep 10 - Dave Tisch - Box Group And Spring
In this week's episode of Venture Studio, we welcome back one of our favorite guests, David Tisch, who runs Box Group, an early stage venture investment fund based in New York. The last time David was on Venture Studio...
11.10.2015
Ep 09 - Joanne Wilson - Angel Investor
In today's episode, Dave chats with Joanne Wilson- a prolific angel investor in New York and a major supporter of the city’s startup ecosystem. Joanne Wilson began angel investing in New York after careers in retail, wholesale, media, non-profit, education and...
11.03.2015
Ep 08 - Alex Iskold - Techstars NYC
In today’s episode, Dave interviews Alex Iskold, a 2 time founder, an angel investor, and the Managing Director of Techstars New York. Techstars is one of the most prominent startup accelerators in the world. Techstars make entrepreneurship accessible by opening...
10.27.2015
Ep 07 - Amol Sarva - Angel Investor
In this week’s episode, Dave chats about foxes, hedgehogs and Columbia Lions with company builder and angel investor Amol Sarva. Amol co-founded several startups including Virgin Mobile USA, Peek, Halo Neuroscience, Knotable, BEMAVEN, Knotel, and he also built a...
10.21.2015
Ep 06 - John Frankel - ff Venture Capital
John Frankel is the head of ff Venture Capital, an early-stage New York venture capital firm that includes some of the web’s hottest startups in its portfolio. Check out our Venture Studio Vault interview with Frankel to learn what motivates him...
10.03.2015
Ep 05 - Bo Peabody - Village Ventures
Another edition of the Venture Studio Vault. In this interview from May 2011, Dave chats with the multi-talented Bo Peabody, co-founder of Village Ventures. Prior to Village Ventures, Bo co-founded and sold Tripod, the original social network. ...
10.03.2015
Ep 04 - Jeff Clavier - SoftTechVC
Today we have another classic episode from the Venture Studio Vault. Originally recorded in May 2011, Dave interviewed Jeff Clavier, an angel investor who helped build the microVC ecosystem. Jeff is the founder of SoftTech VC, one of...
09.29.2015
Ep 03 - Matt Harris - Village Ventures
In this episode, originally from May 2011, Dave interviewed Matt Harris, the co-founder of Village Ventures. Two companies that Dave and Matt discuss in this interview are BankSimple and On Deck Capital. Village Ventures lead Simple’s $2.9MM Series A Round...

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Venture Studio episodes:

Ep 52 - Building Blocks of the New World with Sean Ford

Ep 51 - The Crypto Future with Ken Kruger, CEO of MOON

Ep 50 - Lylan Masterman - White Star

Ep 49 - Arne Halleraker - FJ Labs

Ep 48 - Wendy Xiao Schadeck - Northzone

Ep 47 - Lindsey Gray - Two Sigma Ventures

Ep 46 - Deborah Jackson - Plum Alley

Ep 45 - Jason Cahill - McCune Capital

Ep 44 - Rafat Ali - Skift

Ep 43 - Ed Sim - Boldstart Ventures (2 of 2)

Ep 42 - Ed Sim - Boldstart Ventures (1 of 2)

Ep 41 - Jessica Lawrence Quinn - NY Tech Alliance

Ep 40 - Brad Harrison - Scout Ventures (2 of 2)

Ep 39 - Brad Harrison - Scout Ventures (1 of 2)

Ep 38 - Spencer Ante - Author, Journalist & Founder (2 of 2)

Ep 37 - Spencer Ante - Author, Journalist & Founder (1 of 2)

Ep 36 - Shan-Lyn Ma - Zola CEO and Angel Investor

Ep 35 - Jerry Colonna

Ep 34 - Jerry Neumann - Angel Investor(2 of 2)

Ep 33 - Jerry Neumann - Angel Investor (1 of 2)

Ep 32 - Jonathan Lehr - Work-Bench

Ep 31 - Naval Ravikant - AngelList (2 of 2)

Ep 30 - Naval Ravikant - AngelList (1 of 2)

Ep 29 - Matt Harrigan - Grand Central Tech

Ep 28 - Zach Aarons - MetaProp NYC & Millennium Partners

Ep 27 - Julian Counihan - Red Sea Ventures

Ep 26 - Roger Ehrenberg - IA Ventures

Ep 25 - Dr. Ulrich Quay - BMW I Ventures

Ep 24 - Eliot Durbin - Boldstart Ventures

Ep 23 - Jenny Fielding - Techstars

Ep 22 - Paul Martino - Bullpen Capital

Ep 21 - Brad Hargreaves - Common, General Assembly, Maveron, Angel Investor

Ep 20 - Phil Toronto - Vayner/RSE

Ep 19 - Roger Ver - Bitcoin Investor & Bitcoin Evangelist (2 of 2)

Ep 18 - Roger Ver - Bitcoin Investor & Bitcoin Evangelist (1 of 2)

Ep 17 - Huoy Ming Yeh - CSC Upshot Ventures

Ep 16 - Dustin Dolginow - Maiden Lane Ventures

Ep 15 - Craig Shapiro - Collaborative Fund

Ep 14 - John Frankel - ff Venture Capital (2 of 2)

Ep 13 - John Frankel - ff Venture Capital (1 of 2)

Ep 12 - Michael Yavonditte - Yieldmo CEO And Angel Investor

Ep 11 - Stephanie Palmeri - SoftTechVC

Ep 10 - Dave Tisch - Box Group And Spring

Ep 09 - Joanne Wilson - Angel Investor

Ep 08 - Alex Iskold - Techstars NYC

Ep 07 - Amol Sarva - Angel Investor

Ep 06 - John Frankel - ff Venture Capital

Ep 05 - Bo Peabody - Village Ventures

Ep 04 - Jeff Clavier - SoftTechVC

Ep 03 - Matt Harris - Village Ventures