Starting a company is thrilling, but also daunting. But what happens if you try building a company in a place where you may or may not have the community and the network to support you in your efforts? I want to ask foreign founders why they decided to take the leap and build their company in a specific location. With this podcast we are exploring ideas, listening to founder challenges, and discovering why foreign founders are the most optimistic group of people I've encountered.
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Starting a company is thrilling, but also daunting. But what happens if you try building a company in a place where you may or may not have the community and the network to support you in your efforts? I want to ask foreign founders why they decided to take the leap and build their company in a specific location. With this podcast we are exploring ideas, listening to founder challenges, and discovering why foreign founders are the most optimistic group of people I've encountered.
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Nikhil Teja Kolli built mokSa.ai after witnessing small retail businesses lose 10-15% of their revenue to theft. His solution? Privacy-first AI that catches shoplifters without facial recognition - and small business owners are obsessed with it.
From collecting 20,000+ theft videos to building patent-pending AI technology, Nikhil's journey shows how turning a massive problem into data can create game-changing solutions. His AI watches actions, not faces, works with any camera (even $40 ones from 2014), and sends real-time alerts when theft happens.
But here's the twist: mokSa.ai doesn't just catch thieves. It predicts customer counts, optimizes employee scheduling, and provides heat maps - basically turning any security camera into a business intelligence powerhouse.
🔥 What You'll Learn:
⏰ Key Moments:
00:00 - Meet Nikhil Teja Kolli, Founder of mokSa.ai
02:30 - Growing Up in Family Retail Business in Hyderabad
05:45 - The Liquor Store Incidents That Sparked Everything
09:15 - How Small Businesses Lose 10-15% Revenue to Theft
12:00 - Building the 20,000 Video Dataset (The Hard Way)
15:30 - From Aeronautical Engineer to Railroad to AI Entrepreneur
18:45 - Privacy-First AI: Actions vs. Faces
21:20 - Why Any Camera Works (Even 2014 Models)
24:15 - Beyond Security: Customer Forecasting & Heat Maps
27:40 - The Camera-Agnostic Business Strategy
🔗 Connect with Nikhil:
Website: moksa.ai
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhilteja-kolli/
About mokSa.ai: Privacy-first AI platform that detects theft, fraud, and provides operational insights for retail businesses using existing camera systems.
#AI #RetailTech #SmallBusiness #Privacy #Surveillance #Entrepreneurship #StartupStory #TechFounder
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Joseph Lee went from selling electronics in parking lots at age 14 to building Supademo, the world's fastest-growing AI-powered demo platform. Born in Seoul, raised in Vancouver, and now thriving in NYC, Joseph shares his journey from creating multiple ventures to fund university, building North America's first demand-driven seafood marketplace, to discovering the power of interactive product demos. In this episode, he reveals his systematic approach to finding the right co-founder and idea, the viral growth strategies behind Supademo, and why location still matters for ambitious founders.
What You'll Learn:
⏰ KEY TIMESTAMPS:
05:15 - The 14-Year-Old Entrepreneur: Electronics Arbitrage Business
08:45 - University Ventures: Candles, Clothing, and Web Development
12:20 - Coastline Market Origin: Why Seafood Supply Chain Needed Disruption
15:30 - The Pandemic Pivot: From Marketplace to Business-in-a-Box
18:45 - The Supademo Lightbulb: When Demo Videos Weren't Enough
21:20 - The Systematic Startup Process: March Madness for Ideas
24:15 - Product Differentiation: Speed and Ease Over Feature Wars
27:40 - Target Market: B2B SaaS Teams Across Three Key Functions
30:45 - PLG Reality Check: Viral Loops vs. Free Tiers
33:30 - Early Customer Acquisition: Network, Reddit, and Value-First Approach
36:20 - Growth Momentum: Why Speed Solves All Problems
39:15 - Location Debate: SF FOMO and the Network Effect
41:25 - Optimistic Outlook: AI's Positive Impact on Wealth Distribution
🔗 Connect with Joseph:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhylee/
Website: https://supademo.com
Try Supademo: Start creating interactive demos without signing up
🎯 About Supademo: Supademo is the world's fastest-growing AI-powered demo platform, helping B2B SaaS companies create interactive product demos for sales, onboarding, and customer success in minutes, not hours.
#Entrepreneurship #ProductLedGrowth #AITools #SaaSDemos #ImmigrantFounder #StartupGrowth #CustomerSuccess #B2BSaaS
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Anna Ratala went from running major tech events in Singapore to building Zvook, a venture-backed podcast advertising platform that she ultimately had to shut down after 4+ years. In this deeply honest conversation, she shares the emotional journey of letting go, rebuilding her identity beyond "founder," and finding her next chapter at a former competitor.
What You'll Learn:
⏰ KEY TIMESTAMPS:
02:30 - From Finland to Singapore: Running Slush Singapore
12:00 - Content Strategy: Using Founder Stories as Marketing
15:30 - The Complexity of Scaling Host-Read Advertising
18:45 - Running Out of Money: The Final Year Struggles
24:15 - The Hard Decision: Shutting Down After 4+ Years
30:45 - Identity Crisis: Who Am I Without Being a Founder?
36:20 - Joining Red Circle: Working for a Former Competitor
39:15 - Leaving Ego at the Door: Transitioning to Employee
42:30 - Current Role: Marketing Director at Red Circle
49:30 - Optimistic Outlook: Seeing Opportunities, Not Obstacles
Connect with Anna:
Anna's story is a reminder that entrepreneurship isn't just about the successes - it's about resilience, learning from failure, and finding new ways to contribute to the industries you're passionate about.
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#Entrepreneurship #StartupFailure #PodcastAdvertising #ImmigrantFounders #StartupStories
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Jose Carlos "Charlie" Sarmiento went from corporate finance executive in Guatemala to extreme triathlete competing on the world stage, ultimately building VTX Athlete - a platform that connects endurance athletes with funding and brand sponsorships. In this episode, he shares his incredible journey from losing his father at 14, overcoming depression through ultramarathons, and creating a revolutionary algorithm that ranks athletes based on performance data rather than social media followers.
What You'll Learn:
⏰ KEY TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Introduction: Meet Charlie Sarmiento, Ultra-Athlete & Entrepreneur 03:23 - Losing His Father at 14: The Gift That Shaped His Character 07:14 - Building VTX Athlete: The "NASDAQ for Athletes" Concept 08:47 - Why Endurance Sports? The Untapped 100 Million Athlete Market 09:44 - The Real Cost Breakdown: $15K Per Race, $100K Annual Budget 12:07 - The VTX Algorithm: Performance Data vs. Social Media Metrics 14:29 - Three-Index System: Training, Social Impact, Athletic Results 16:36 - Market Size: 100M Athletes Worldwide, 60M Target Market 17:24 - Beyond Gear: Airlines, Hotels, and Real Sponsorship Needs 19:51 - "The Real Ultraman" Book: System to Rewire Your Brain 21:43 - From Zero to 50 Miles: Using Ultra Running to Beat Depression 23:02 - Immigration Journey: O1A Visa Through Athletic Excellence 27:40 - Why Entrepreneurship is Harder Than Ultramarathons 31:49 - Favorite Race: Lavaredo Dolomites, Italy (Family Heritage) 32:55 - Living in Gratitude: What Charlie is Optimistic About
🔗 Connect with Charlie:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ultrasarmiento/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliesarmiento/
Company: www.vtxathlete.com
Book: https://a.co/d/33SuRkQ
🎯 About VTX Athlete: VTX Athlete is revolutionizing endurance sports by creating the first performance-based marketplace connecting athletes with funding and brand sponsorships through data-driven algorithms.
#Entrepreneurship #EnduranceSports #UltraMarathon #Immigration #PerformanceData #SportsSponsorship #Guatemala #Austin #StartupStory
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Supercharge your existing KYC with e-IDs
Polish born Jarek Sygitowicz is co-founder and CSO at YC backed and London based Authologic. Founded in 2020, Authologic is a digital ID startup bridging legacy KYC systems and AI-era identity verification, helping businesses stay compliant, secure, and user-friendly.
As traditional verification methods like plastic IDs and photo uploads become more vulnerable to AI fraud, Authologic’s platform minimizes these risks, enhances privacy, and streamlines onboarding while cutting operational costs for customers. With regulations pushing digital ID adoption across Europe, Authologic supports both digital and traditional verification methods, making KYC and AML processes easier for financial services, gaming, and crypto industries.
What You'll Learn:
⏰ KEY TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Introduction: Meet Jarek Sygitowicz, Co-founder of Authologic
01:00 - Family of Tailors: How Bauhaus Design Principles Shape Tech Products
04:00 - Early Tech Journey: From Linux Blogs to First Exit in the 90s
07:00 - The Authologic Vision: Why Plastic IDs Are Like 19th Century Ships
09:00 - COVID's Impact: How Lockdowns Forced Digital Identity Innovation
12:00 - The Global eID Hub: Building "Stripe for KYC" Across Countries
14:00 - Why London?: Strategic Positioning in the Global Fintech Ecosystem
16:00 - AI's Identity Crisis: Proving You're Human in a Deepfake World
18:00 - Live Demo: How eID Wallets Work in Practice (12-Second Verification!)
21:00 - Apple's Game-Changer: Passport Support in Apple Wallet
23:00 - YC Journey: Getting Accepted on First Application
26:00 - Fundraising Philosophy: Why Traction Beats Persuasion Every Time
32:00 - Future-Proofing Identity: What Average People Should Do Today
33:00 - Ultimate Optimism: Why Technology Will Solve Our Biggest Problems
🔗 Connect with Jarek:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sygitowicz
Website: https://authologic.com/
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Startup Founders Can Accelerate Their Fundraising with Boxsy
Elisabeth Bykoff went from aerospace engineering in France to building Boxsy, an AI-powered platform that helps startups scale operationally while connecting them with investors and ecosystem partners. In this episode, she shares her 20+ year journey in the US, the challenges of being a non-technical founder in AI, and why she believes the venture ecosystem needs more transparency on both sides.
What You'll Learn:
⏰ KEY TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Introduction: Meet Elisabeth Bykoff, Founder of Boxsy
02:30 - From French Aerospace Engineering to Seattle (Early Background)
05:45 - The Boeing Rejection: Pivoting from Engineering to Business
09:15 - 10 Years at PWC: Building Salesforce Practice and Getting Green Card
12:00 - Leaving Partnership Track: Jumping into Pre-IPO World with Aptus
15:30 - Key Learning: Services vs. Product Company Transition
18:45 - Series A Experience: From $290M Revenue to $1M ARR
21:20 - The Boxsy Origin: "Ops in a Box" Concept During COVID
24:15 - 2023 Validation Year: Patient Approach to Market Research
27:40 - The Pivot Discovery: Investors Want Transparency Too
30:45 - Current Focus: Fundraising Readiness and Investor Matching
33:30 - Target Market: VCs Managing 10-400 Portfolio Companies
36:20 - The Challenge: Losing Two CTOs Since July 2024
39:15 - Non-Technical Founder Reality: Lovable vs. Months of Development
41:25 - Future Predictions: More Solo Entrepreneurs, Hands-On VCs
44:30 - Book Discussion: "French Landing" - 20 Stories from 20 Years
47:15 - Healthcare Horror Stories: Why Pet Insurance Makes More Sense
49:45 - Optimistic Outlook: AI as the Next Internet-Level Breakthrough
🔗 Connect with Elisabeth:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisabethbykoff/
Read Her Book: "French Landing" (Available in audiobook, narrated by Elisabeth)
Website: https://www.boxsy.io/
🎯 About Boxsy: Boxsy is a unified platform helping founders raise faster and investors make smarter, data-backed decisions.
#Entrepreneurship #AI #StartupOperations #Fundraising #VentureCapital #Immigration #TechFounder #BookLaunch
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Nestor Castillero went from having just $51 in his pocket to building Maera, a seven-figure company that helps global entrepreneurs launch US businesses. In this episode, he shares the raw truth about bootstrapping a business, the power of content marketing, and why US LLCs are game-changers for international founders.
What You'll Learn:
⏰ KEY TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Introduction: Meet Nestor Castillero, Founder of Maera 02:30 - From Panama Lawyer to Wealth Management (Early Background) 05:45 - The Gold Fund Failure: Losing Everything and Starting Over 09:15 - The $51 Beginning: Birth of Maera in 2022 12:00 - First Customer: $899 from Peru and the Validation Moment 15:30 - Working 3 Jobs: Madrid Restaurant + Building Maera at Night 18:45 - The Green Card Approval and Move to New York 21:20 - Why LLCs Over Other Business Entities 24:15 - The 3 Key Benefits of US LLCs for Global Entrepreneurs 27:40 - Target Customers: Who Uses Maera's Services 30:45 - E-commerce and Amazon: Physical Products Strategy 33:30 - Content Marketing: The Free Customer Acquisition Strategy 36:20 - What Works vs. What Doesn't in Content Creation 39:15 - The Decision NOT to Raise Capital 41:25 - What Nestor's Optimistic About for the Future
🔗 Connect with Nestor:
Website: https://www.maera.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nestor-castillero
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maerahq/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@maerahq
🎯 About Maera: Maera helps global entrepreneurs launch and grow US businesses with LLC formation, bank accounts, tax support, and more - all from anywhere in the world.
#Entrepreneurship #BusinessFormation #ContentMarketing #Bootstrapping #GlobalBusiness #LLC #StartupStory
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Helping immigrants navigate life in the U.S.
From Nepal to New York City, Liesel Vaidya is the co-founder and CEO of Imera, a venture-backed platform focused on expanding access and opportunity for immigrants. Liesel previously served as CTO of a digital health startup, where she built award-winning products that transformed access to care for survivors of sexual assault. Originally from Kathmandu, Nepal, she understands firsthand the barriers immigrants face when building a life in a new country.
00:00 Introduction and Background
01:06 Starting the First Company, and raising $9 million
02:51 Challenges and Lessons Learned
05:34 The Birth of a New Idea
09:52 Introducing Imera - bridging the knowledge gap for immigrants
14:02 Community Building and Partnerships
17:03 Future Vision and Goals
Connect with Liesel:
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#ImmigrationTech #ForeignFounders #StartupStory #EntrepreneurshipJourney #ImmigrantSuccess
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Measure and manage all your ad campaigns with RedTrack.io
Vlad Zhovtenko is the CEO and co-founder of RedTrack, the AI-driven analytics and automation platform for media buyers. He has been an active player in the digital advertising space since 2000, and has held multiple marketing and managing director roles in the industry. Beginning in 2008, Vlad worked as an independent consultant and advisor to companies seeking to improve their lead generation and ad tech, helping them create comprehensive digital sales and marketing strategies and establish relevant processes for sustained growth.
He co-founded AdxGeeks in 2015, which provided programmatic media-buying solutions through a white-label DSP SaaS program, then co-founded RedTrack in 2019 to make digital marketing analytics & automation more accessible to SMEs and to help media buyers to make smarter decisions and easily scale campaigns for revenue growth.
In this episode, Vlad shares his experiences:
Find Vlad Zhovtenko on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhovtenko/
Track, attribute, automate, and scale your advertising with RedTrack
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Secure your U.S. Green Card with Half the Investment through EB5 Loan
Nikin Tharan is the co-founder of Greencard Inc and EB5 Loan. Greencard Inc. is a startup dedicated to simplifying the process for high-skilled immigrants to obtain talent visas. Through a personalized program, Greencard Inc helps immigrants build and showcase their accomplishments to secure O1, EB1, and NIW visas. The EB5 Loan program offers foreign investors a direct path to U.S. permanent residency. While traditional applicants invest $800,000 in qualifying American job-creating projects, our innovative financing solution requires just $400,000 upfront - making your American dream accessible today.
In this episode, we learn more about the EB5 program and EB5 Loan.
Here’s how it works:
This structure is purpose-built for talented professionals already in the U.S. on valid status (H1B, F1, etc.).
Nikin himself is a recipient of the O1A visa (July 2020) and EB1A Green Card (July 2022), and his journey overcoming setbacks to obtain the Green Card is featured in the Amazon best-seller Unshackled.
Connect with Nikin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ntharan/
Learn more about EB5 Loan: https://eb5loan.com/
Work with Greencard Inc.: https://www.greencard.inc/
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See how Endeavor Elements is architecting the future of flight
$100 Per Line of Code? How This Aerospace Founder is Disrupting Aviation
In this eye-opening episode, we sit down with Yves Remmler, the visionary Co-Founder & CEO of Endeavor Elements, who's bringing Silicon Valley innovation to the traditionally slow and regulation-heavy aerospace industry.
Yves reveals how his aerospace startup is revolutionizing the future of flight through cutting-edge AI-driven avionics systems that are setting new standards for safety and efficiency. You'll discover why the aerospace industry currently spends a staggering $100 per line of code and how Endeavor Elements is dramatically reducing these costs while maintaining rigorous safety standards.
Dive deep into the technological breakthroughs enabling fully automated flight and learn how these innovations will transform air travel in the coming decades. Yves shares his ambitious roadmap for building a trillion-dollar company by reimagining how certification processes work in high-stakes industries like aviation and defense.
For anyone interested in aerospace engineering, aviation technology, AI applications in transportation, or disruptive innovation in heavily regulated industries, this conversation offers unprecedented insights from one of the field's most forward-thinking entrepreneurs.
#AerospaceInnovation #AutomatedFlight #AviationTech #StartupDisruption #AIinAviation #AerospaceSoftware #FutureOfFlight #CertificationSolutions
Reach out to Yves Remmler on X: https://x.com/yvesremmler
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Pat Cheung discovered his passion for audience building in 2011 while serving as Head of Product at EQAL, one of Los Angeles' first celebrity and influencer networks, where he designed a social platform driving fan engagement for over 40 influencers and 20 million monthly fan interactions. Currently the founder and CEO of Fanlist, a platform enabling podcasters to create fan pages for engagement and monetization, he has been a tech founder for over a decade with multiple successful exits. His love for technology, business, and podcasting is reflected in Fanlist, and as an avid podcast enthusiast, he's written three books sharing practical tips for podcasters to engage their fans.
Pat took his experience building startups and his new role is to support founders in the Portland Metro Region. Through the Metro Hub, they provider mentorship, connections and mentorship.
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Orange County, he now resides in Portland, Oregon.
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Watch The Flamingo Effect using TODAQ Micro’s technology
Hassan Khan is a co-Founder and the CEO of TODAQ Micro, a fintech that enables instant micropayments for producers of movies, shows and documentaries that want a direct-to-consumer, frictionless, pay-as-you-do experience where they can control their customer relationship, control their content, and have better real-time monetization. Consumers and fans benefit from getting just what they want with one tap without requiring logins or subscriptions.
He is also a co-founder of TODAQ Labs, a deeptech R&D lab that works with Cambridge University and ARM Technologies and has released new web application protocols and cryptographic technologies to enable open web microtransactions.
In 2015, Hassan founded his first company, Quantius, a fintech lender which collateralized IP and intangibleassets to secure growth credit for knowledge rich SMEs. In 2019, Quantius placed third in the Canadian Hedge Fund Awards Private Debt category. The Quantius platform is now the Business Development Bank of Canada’s National IP Innovation Fund.
He was a consultant with McKinsey & Company from 2009 to 2014 serving clients on digital transformation. Hassan’s background started as an Army Signals Officer with the Canadian Army. During his time in service he created integrated cryptographic capabilities for security and emergency response agencies to cooperate for security operations in the former Yugoslavia and the G8 Summit, disaster response for the British Columbia forest fires, and other activities.
Hassan is a computer engineering graduate from the Royal Military College of Canada and completed his prior schooling at Upper Canada College in Toronto.
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Learn more about how PolyGone Systems is removing microplastics
Yidian Liu is the Co-founder and COO of PolyGone Systems and a Forbes 30 under 30 Fellow. PolyGone Systems is a Princeton University spinout cleantech company with a mission to remove microplastic pollutants from our waterways. Yidian was a trained designer with a Master’s degree in Architecture from Princeton University. Since 2021, Yidian and her team have won over $2.4M in grant awards and have successfully raised their pre-seed venture capital funding. On this episode, we’re covering everything microplastics from what it is to the Polygone solutions.
In this episode we cover:
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Try Ohai.ai - a personal assistant for your family
Sheila Lirio Marcelo is a Filipino-American entrepreneur with over 20 years of leadership experience in internet consumer marketplace businesses. She founded Care.com in 2006, taking the company public in 2014 and serving as Chairwoman and CEO until its sale to IAC in 2020. Currently, she is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ohai.ai, an AI technology startup aimed at improving family life. Marcelo has received numerous accolades, including being named on Forbes 50 over 50, recognized as one of Fortune’s “Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs,” and honored as a Henry Crown Fellow and Young Global Leader. She holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, a J.D. and M.B.A from Harvard University, and became the youngest recipient of the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award in 2014.
This incredible conversation is worth listening to. We cover more about Sheila’s background as an immigrant founder, compared to her other interviews! Highlight include:
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I’m so delighted to have my friend, Elizabeth Tishchenko. Elizabeth was previously on episode 10 of the show, as the co-founder of her company, Nevemind, a consumer facing application using AI to manage your life. She shut down the company in 2024, so I wanted to reach out to her again and talk about her experience.
Elizabeth is a Ukrainian nomad, serial entrepreneur, and AI consultant, currently serving as CEO of her third startup, FleetMind. A Techstars '23 and Antler '22 alum, she also teaches AI in Business and Product Management at General Assembly.
Welcome back to Foreign Founders!
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Listen to Elizabeth on Episode 10
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Every couple needs a smart, shared brain space
I’m happy to have my friend, Abdullah “Ax” Ali, on Foreign Founders. Ax’s story starts as a war refugee arriving in Baltimore with just $20, working his way through community college to one of the top PhD programs in Human-Computer interactions and publishing over 20 award-winning peer reviewed papers along the way. With stints at Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Bilt, he’s co-founded 3rd Brain for couples to do life better, together.
In this episode, we talk about:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theaxali/
3rd Brain Website: https://www.3rd-brain.com/
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/3rd-brain-couples-organizer/id6476935088
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thirdbrain
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Get your own AI Phoenyx to learn a new language
Originally from Paraná, a small town in Argentina, Carolina is on a mission to help kids learn a second language at the optimal age—when they are young, their brains are most receptive, and they have the time to explore and grow. After building a successful corporate career in Argentina, she sought a new challenge and moved to the US to earn her MBA at MIT Sloan. Following graduation, Carolina co-founded BetterVet, a mobile veterinary startup that raised $40M in 2022 and recently merged with The Vets. Today, she’s revolutionizing bilingual education for children with MyPhoenyx, an AI-powered smart toy designed to make language learning fun, engaging, and screen-free.
In this episode, we talk about:
Carolina Goncebat LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinagoncebat/
MyPhoenyx: https://www.myphoenyx.com/
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Hong Kong is one of the commercial and finance capitals of the world. Strategically located in the South China Sea, Hong Kong boasts several advantages including hosting over 9,000 international and Chinese companies with more than half using the city as their regional headquarters and offices. The city hosts a variety of advantages including their highly skilled workforce, world-class infrastructure, and history of international trade.
Hong Kong is known to have one of the world’s most efficient and advanced banking systems including Asia’s third largest and the world’s sixth largest stock exchange by market capitalization.
We’re delighted to have our guest, Ranjit Unnithan, the Head of Investment Promotion for Invest Hong Kong to share the opportunities available in Hong Kong.
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Want to integrate Web3 into your product? Work with MetaKeep
With stints building products at Microsoft, Twitter, and Meta, Naga Samineni knows a thing or two about serving millions and billions of customers. Naga is taking all the knowledge of how to scale high impact global products, and bringing that to Web3 and the next generation of web infrastructure as co-founder of MetaKeep.
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