In this episode of Startup Happy Hour, we’re talking to Rafael Cosman, the founder and CEO of TrustToken. Decentralized finance and cryptocurrency are grabbing headlines all over the world today, and Rafael is here to share his insights about t

Episode 55: Driving Instant Pay for the Gig Economy — with Nico Simko from Clair

Jun 8th, 2021 39m

One of the challenges facing gig workers and hourly workers today is to get paid regularly and on time. Nico Simko founded Clair to solve this problem. It’s a platform built to provide instant payment to hourly and gig workers.Nico explains wh

Episode 53: Democratizing Video Production with Mike Cheng from Lumen5

Jun 8th, 2021 37m 49s

In this episode of Startup Happy Hour, we’re talking to Mike Cheng. He is the co-founder and CEO of a company called Lumen5, which is one of the fastest-growing companies in Canada right now.Their goal is to democratize video production by hel

Episode 52: Fighting Chronic Pain with an App with Celine Tien from Flowly

May 31st, 2021 31m 24s

In today’s episode of Startup Happy Hour, we’re talking to Celine Tien, Founder and CEO of Flowly, an app for managing your pain and anxiety.Celine takes us through how Flowly works to help people with chronic pain and anxiety, and explains ho

Episode 51: The Future of Subscription Businesses with Dan Burcaw

May 25th, 2021 55m 17s

In today’s episode of Startup Happy Hour, we’re talking to Dan Burcaw. He's the co-founder and CEO at Nami ML, which is a service that helps you launch, scale, and optimize your mobile app subscription business.Dan talks to us about what Nami

Episode 50: Leveraging Crypto as an Artistic Medium with David Sun

May 18th, 2021 43m 20s

David Sun is the CEO of Proof of Beauty, a community-driven crypto art project that builds commentary on crypto using crypto itself as the artistic medium.In this episode of the Startup Happy Hour, David shares insight into how crypto art is a

Episode 49: Decentralizing the Workforce with Matthew Yahes

May 11th, 2021 42m 41s

Matthew Yahes is CEO at Extend Your Team, a company that connects remote workers for mid- to upper-level positions with US-based companies and entrepreneurs.In this episode of the Startup Happy Hour, Matthew talks about how his personal experi

Episode 48: Challenging the Status Quo with Niket Desai

May 4th, 2021 48m 48s

Niket Desai is a serial entrepreneur and mastermind behind design and product strategy at Time by Ping, a platform that leverages AI and machine learning to free lawyers from manually tracking their billable hours.In this episode, Niket shares

Episode 47: Freeing the Legal Industry from Timekeeping with Patrick Gardner

Apr 27th, 2021 40m 8s

Patrick Gardner is the CTO at Time by Ping, a platform that leverages AI and machine learning to free lawyers from manually tracking their billable hours.In this episode, Patrick dives into the technology behind Time by Ping. He explains why t

Episode 46: Gamifying Crypto Education with Brian Flynn

Apr 20th, 2021 39m 15s

Brian Flynn is the Co-Founder and CEO of RabbitHole, a company that educates users on crypto by taking them through a task-based journey that allows them to earn crypto by completing tasks.In this episode, Brian shares the reason why he decide

Episode 45: Creating Intentional Connections with David Kobrosky

Apr 13th, 2021 53m 33s

David Kobrosky is the Co-Founder of intros.ai, an introduction infrastructure company that facilitates connections between individuals in existing communities.In this episode, David chats about the role and importance of intention when forming

Episode 44: Investing in the Future of B2B Technology with Jeffrey Silverman

Apr 6th, 2021 40m

Jeffrey Silverman is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Laconia Capital Group, a venture capital firm that invests in B2B startups at a seed-stage level. Laconia is sector agnostic, but they focus specifically on startups that are building tech

Episode 43: Bringing Intelligence to Chatbots with Peter Voss

Mar 30th, 2021 44m 48s

Peter Voss is the CEO and Founder of Aigo.ai, an AI company that centers around creating intelligent chatbots with human-like abilities, such as memory and reasoning.In this episode, Peter shares insight into how artificial general intelligenc

Episode 42: Solving Food Insecurity with Eddy Badrina

Mar 23rd, 2021 45m 26s

Eddy Badrina is the CEO of Eden Green Technology, an agriculture technology company that provides food suppliers and distributors with patented hardware and proprietary software to put in their warehouses and controlled environment facilities.

Episode 41: Increasing Access to Scalable Computing with Christiana Cromer

Mar 16th, 2021 51m 1s

Christiana Cromer is the Marketing Manager at Coiled, a software company that increases access to scalable computing and equips data scientists with the tools they need to solve problems quicker and more efficiently.In this episode, Christiana

Episode 40: Designing a Sustainable Future with Rachel He

Mar 9th, 2021 51m 54s

Rachel He is a product designer on Spotify’s Podcaster Mission team, a team that focuses on various podcaster-related services including podcast creation, distribution, and analytics.In this episode, Rachel shares her day-to-day as a product d

Episode 39: Building the Future of No-Code with Jonah Erlich

Mar 2nd, 2021 48m 50s

Jonah Erlich is a software engineer at Bubble, a no-code platform that allows individuals to build a full stack web application using a drag and drop interface.In this episode, Jonah dives into how no-code makes it possible to build on the fro

Episode 38: Farming Vertically with Sam Norton

Feb 23rd, 2021 46m 54s

Sam Norton is the Founder of Heron Farms, an indoor vertical farm that takes an untraditional approach of using saltwater to irrigate plants.In this episode, Sam gives listeners an overview on the basics of saltwater agriculture, shares his th

Episode 37: Building Smarter with Michael Kovalcik

Feb 16th, 2021 1h 8m

Michael Kovalcik is the Director of Operations at KODE Labs, a smart building software startup that optimizes commercial buildings’ energy usage and operations to create a sustainable and comfortable environment.In this episode, Michael shares

Episode 36: Democratizing Data with Arthur Shi

Feb 9th, 2021 50m 27s

Arthur Shi is a software engineer at Snowflake, a cloud data platform that underwent a successful IPO last fall.In this episode, Arthur shares insight into cloud data and, specifically, how Snowflake is revolutionizing the space. He also dives

Episode 35: Owning Your Digital Identity with Matthew Gould

Feb 2nd, 2021 55m 15s

Matthew Gould is the Founder and CEO of Unstoppable Domains, an innovative startup that builds domain names on the blockchain and sells them to customers for a one-time fee.In this episode, Matthew takes listeners through the ins and outs of w

Episode 34: Working for the 99% with Andrew Hutton

Jan 26th, 2021 52m 18s

“Talent is everywhere; opportunity is not.”That’s why Andrew Hutton created Day One, an accelerator for early stage startups. He believes that entrepreneurship is going to be the most important skill of the 21st century and wants to make it ac

Episode 33: SEO Content Secrets with Ryo Chiba

Jan 19th, 2021 43m 28s

When most people think about SEO, they still automatically think about keywords. But the truth is, there is so much more to SEO than just keywords.Ryo Chiba, Founder of Topic, talks about how to take advantage of the ever-changing Google algor

Episode 32: Work Smarter, Not Harder with Ashutosh Priyadarshy

Jan 12th, 2021 42m 39s

Work smarter, not harder.That’s what Ashutosh Priyadarshy, Founder of Sunsama, helps the world’s most successful professionals do each day with his daily planner that organizes everything you need to do today in one place: tasks, meetings, ema

Episode 31: Using Data to Solve the World's Biggest Problems with Andrew Ehrenberg

Jan 5th, 2021 48m 32s

Can you really use data and AI to solve social justice issues like racism and do good for the world?Andrew Ehrenberg thinks so. As a data scientist at DataRobot, Andrew works day in and day out with massive data dumps to build models and make