Ignite: Conversations on Startups, Venture Capital, Tech, Future, and Society
Episodes
Ignite VC: How Jeffrey Becker Bets on Founders Before Product, Revenue, or Traction | Ep280
18 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most investors say they want to back outlier founders. Jeffrey Becker is trying to find them before the company even exists.As General Partner at Antl...
Ignite VC: The Capital Markets Hack Founders Are Missing with Jonathan David Nelson | Ep279
16 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most startup founders are trained to think about capital in one narrow way: raise venture money, grow fast, stay private as long as possible, and even...
Ignite AI: Dennis Mortensen on Startup Failure, AI Agents, and Why Boring SaaS Problems Win | Ep278
09 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most founders want to build the future. Dennis Mortensen has done it repeatedly—and he has the scar tissue to prove how expensive that ambition can ...
Ignite VC: Charlie O’Donnell on Founder Unfriendly and the Real Game of Startup Fundraising | Ep277
05 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Venture capital looks simple from the outside.Build something interesting. Pitch investors. Get funded. Grow fast.But anyone who has actually raised m...
Ignite Design: Lauren Von Dehsen on Scaling UX, AI Design Tools, and Product Leadership | Ep276
03 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most people do not think about design when a thermostat works, a fitness band syncs, or a banking app helps them make a decision without friction.That...
Ignite Startups: How ChargeMate Is Fixing EV Charging Reliability with AI with Brad Crist | Ep275
29 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Electric vehicles are supposed to represent the future of transportation. Cleaner. Smarter. More connected. More efficient.But for many drivers, the f...
Ignite: The Book — Eric Ries on Why Good Companies Go Bad in his new book: Incorruptible | Ep274
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For more than a decade, Eric Ries has been one of the defining voices in startup culture.The Lean Startup became required reading across Silicon Valle...
Ignite Marketing: The Marketing Data Trap Every Founder Needs to Understand with Attila Tóth | Ep273
25 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most founders obsess over product, fundraising, and growth. They track revenue, CAC, conversion rates, and maybe retention. But according to Attila Tó...
Ignite Startups: The AI Infrastructure Layer Every Startup Will Need with Roy Pereira | Ep272
20 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most founders still think AI is a feature. Roy Pereira thinks that’s a catastrophic misunderstanding.The 5x founder and CEO of Unified believes we a...
Ignite GTM: Alex Sobol on Building Trust, Pipeline, and Real Enterprise Relationships | Ep271
18 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Enterprise sales has a distribution problem.Not a product problem.Not even really a pricing problem.A distribution problem.Most B2B companies today —...
Ignite UX: How to Avoid Building a Product No One Will Use with Bill Albert | Ep270
14 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most startups don’t fail because they can’t build.They fail because they build the wrong thing.That’s the core problem Bill Albert has spent dec...
Ignite Startups: Building Human-Like AI Agents That Feel Real with Vish Hari | Ep269
11 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most AI today is impressive. It can write, code, summarize, and answer almost anything you throw at it.But it still feels… off.You ask a question. I...
Ignite Startups: Fixing Insurance for Small Businesses Using AI with Tanner Hackett | Ep268
09 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Insurance works. You pay a premium, get a policy, and hope you never need it. The problem is everything around that model is outdated.Tanner Hackett, ...
Ignite Singularity: The End of Venture as We Know It with David S. Rose | Ep267
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most people talk about startups from one angle. Founder. Investor. Operator.David S. Rose has done all three—at scale, across decades, and across mu...
Ignite Startups: How AI Search Is Reshaping Growth Strategies with Jochen Madler | Ep266
05 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when customers stop searching—and start asking?That shift is already underway. Instead of typing keywords into Google, users are turnin...
Ignite VC: The Science of Startup Success and Behavioral Investing with Mike MacCombie | Ep265
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most venture capital advice sounds the same: chase big markets, back great founders, and hope for outlier outcomes. Mike MacCombie takes a different a...
Ignite Startups: AI-Driven Defense and Continuous Security with Derek Foster | Ep264
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most teams don’t have a security problem. They have a timing problem.By the time vulnerabilities are found, the code is already live. By the time re...
Ignite VC: How to Build and Scale B2B SaaS Startups in 2026 with Arun Penmetsa | Ep263
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most founders think product-market fit is about traction. Revenue, growth rate, number of customers.That’s not how Arun Penmetsa sees it.After more ...
Ignite VC: How to Build and Scale Startups in Any Market with Christian Schroeder | Ep262
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most startups don’t fail because of bad ideas. They fail because of poor execution, weak hiring, or founders solving problems they don’t truly car...
Ignite Startups: The Rise of Creator-Led Marketing in B2B with David Walsh | Ep261
23 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most founders don’t fail because they can’t build. They fail because they build the wrong thing, for the wrong customer, at the wrong time.David W...
Ignite VC: The Truth About Seed Funding and How Venture Has Changed in 2026 with Ben Narasin | Ep260
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most founders are playing the wrong game.They’re building like it’s 2016.Raising like it’s 2018.Pitching like capital is still cheap.It’s not....
Ignite Startups: The Truth About Venture Debt and Growth Capital with Ryan Ridgway | Ep259
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most founders think fundraising means one thing: raising equity.That assumption gets expensive.In this conversation with Ryan Ridgway, founder and CEO...
Ignite GTM: Data-Driven Growth Strategies for Early Startups with Neil Weitzman | Ep258
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most early-stage founders think their growth problem is about effort.More calls. More emails. More hires.Neil Weitzman sees the opposite. The real iss...
Ignite Sales: Building a Repeatable Sales System That Drives Revenue with Glenn Poulos | Ep257
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most founders don’t fail because of product.They fail because they never build a real sales system.Glenn Poulos knows this firsthand.He built and so...
Ignite Startups: Building a Startup Without Coding or Funding with Henrik Werdelin | Ep256
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most startup advice still assumes a world that no longer exists.Raise capital. Hire engineers. Build for scale. Chase a billion-dollar outcome.But wha...
Ignite Legal: What Every Founder Needs to Know About IP Strategy with Dina Blikshteyn | Ep255
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2017, Google published a research paper called “Attention Is All You Need.” It quietly introduced the transformer—the architecture behind tod...
Ignite Startups: Turning Unstructured Data Into a Strategic Superpower with AI with DROdio | Ep254
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A five-year-old building a video game with AI should feel like science fiction.Instead, for Daniel R. Odio (DROdio), it’s just Tuesday.That quiet sh...
Ignite Startups: How LainaHealth Is Redesigning Healthcare Workflows for Scale with Ryan Eder |Ep253
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare doesn’t collapse all at once. It clogs.Not with a dramatic failure—a breakthrough drug gone wrong or a hospital shutting down—but wit...
Ignite LP: The Hidden Decision Framework Powering Elite VCs with Aram Attar | Ep252
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A venture capitalist walks into a room, looks at a pitch deck, and says, “I’ve got a good feeling about this.”That sentence alone has probably c...
Ignite Startups: How AI Engineers Are Replacing Dev Teams with Karan Grover | Ep251
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A strange thing is happening inside engineering teams right now.The best developers aren’t writing more code. They’re writing less—and shipping ...
Ignite Leadership: How Founders Scale & Survive Startup Growth with David Bishop | Ep250
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A founder walks into their own company one day and realizes something unsettling:Everyone is waiting on them.Decisions pile up. Bottlenecks form. The ...
Ignite Startups: Why SPVs Could Replace Traditional VC Funds with Nik Talreja | Ep249
28 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most people think venture capital evolves in big, cinematic moments—new funds, bigger rounds, splashy IPOs. In reality, the biggest shifts happen qu...
Ignite Startups: How To Use AI for Better Leadership and Feedback with Jared Goralnick | Ep247
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A strange thing is happening inside companies right now.We’ve built more tools to measure performance than ever before—dashboards, OKRs, engagemen...
Ignite VC: How Angel Investors Pick Winners Before the Data Exists with Cintia Mano | Ep248
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A strange thing happens in startups: the earlier the stage, the less the numbers matter—and the more everything depends on human behavior. That’s ...
Ignite LP: The Truth About Raising Capital From Institutional Investors with Miguel Silva | Ep246
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A strange truth about venture capital:Most people think the real decision-makers are the investors writing checks into startups. But zoom out one laye...
Ignite Startups: The Future of Voice AI for Businesses with Will Bodewes | Ep245
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1890, entire rooms of people were hired to do math. Their job title was literally “computer.”Then machines showed up—and the job disappeared....
Ignite Startups: The Flywheel of Verified Impact with Trevor Laudate | Ep244
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most corporate donations disappear into a black hole.A press release goes out. A feel-good banner sits on a website. Somewhere, a receipt gets emailed...
Ignite VC: How Gaingels Scaled to 2,700+ Investments with Lorenzo Thione | Ep243
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most investors spend their lives trying to answer one question: how do you get access to great companies early?Lorenzo Thione somehow answered a harde...
Ignite Startups: How Chris Hicken Is Reinventing User Research with AI at Theysaid | Ep241
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015, waiting six weeks for user research felt normal.In 2026, it feels like sending a fax.Yet most companies still treat feedback like it’s a qu...
Ignite LP: Inside Abu Dhabi’s Capital Ecosystem with Rajesh Ranjan | Ep 242
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In December, while most of the world was winding down, Abu Dhabi was doing the opposite.Formula One. Abu Dhabi Finance Week. Global allocators flying ...
Ignite Startups: How Coral Vita Is Scaling Reef Restoration Worldwide with Sam Teicher | Ep240
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most people think coral reefs are just pretty scenery. The kind you admire between cocktails and snorkeling photos.That belief is quietly wrecking coa...
Ignite VC: Building Health Tech That Payers Actually Buy with Emily Durfee | Ep239
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most people think healthcare innovation fails because the tech isn’t good enough.That’s comforting. It lets us believe the solution is smarter fou...
Ignite Startups: Building AI That Runs Marketing for B2B Startups with Harsha Vankayalapati | Ep238
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most founders think they have a product problem.What they usually have is a distribution problem wearing a clever disguise.This episode of the Ignite ...
Ignite Impact: Building Nonprofit SaaS That Actually Scales with Jim Fruchterman | Ep237
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine pitching a product that works, changes lives, scales globally, and still gets rejected in the same meeting for being “too small.”That happ...
Ignite Reinvention: How AI Is Rewriting Work Inside Big Companies with Nikki Barua | Ep236
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most conversations about AI at work sound the same. New tools. New models. New productivity hacks. That framing misses the point.The real disruption i...
Ignite VC: The End of Optimization & the Rise of Intelligence in Startups with Sheena Jindal | Ep235
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most venture firms are built for sugar highs.Fast deals. Loud narratives. Big portfolios designed to statistically survive chaos. It works, until it d...
The American Dream: Oliver Libby on Power, Policy, and the Future of America | Ep234
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most people don’t wake up thinking about “the American Dream.” They wake up thinking about rent, healthcare, their kid’s future, and whether t...
Ignite Performance: How Behavioral Design Can Fix Broken Workplace Decisions with Siri Chilazi
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most workplaces don’t fail because people are malicious. They fail because their systems quietly tilt the table.Imagine a startup that hires brillia...
Ignite Startups: How Embedded Finance Is Fixing SME Credit in Latin America with Nicolás Villa | Ep232
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most small businesses don’t fail because the founders are lazy or the ideas are bad. They fail because money moves at the wrong speed.Imagine runnin...
Ignite Startups: How AI Is Rewriting Private Market Investing with Ali Dastjerdi | Ep231
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most investors don’t lose great deals because they lack conviction.They lose them because they see them too late.That’s the quiet problem Ali Dast...
Ignite VC: Why Early Traction Lies and Conviction Wins with Adam Besvinick | Ep230
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most people think venture capital is about spotting rockets early. It’s not.It’s about deciding which fires are worth sitting next to while everyo...
Ignite Startups: Alexander Wulff on Solving Startup Finance with Agentic AI Systems | Ep229
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most founders don’t fear competition. They fear the spreadsheet.It’s 11:47 p.m. You’re not debugging code or answering customers. You’re stari...
Ignite Startups: How Andrew D’Souza Built an AI That Connects Founders and Investors | Ep228
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most people think networking is a volume game. More emails. More intros. More “quick chats.” Like pouring water faster into a leaky bucket and cal...
Ignite VC: How to Build a Career in VC from Scratch & Stand Out in Venture with Sarah Romanko | Ep227
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most people think venture capital is a gated community. Ivy League keys, Silicon Valley zip codes, warm intros from people whose Wikipedia pages are l...
Ignite VC: Scaling from Seed to Growth, GTM Strategy and Founder Advice from Karen Page | Ep226
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most startup advice breaks down right when it’s needed most, in the messy middle, after the first signs of traction and before real scale. This is t...
Ignite LP: Process Beats Prediction in Investing with John McArthur | Ep225
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most people think wealth is about picking the right stocks.That’s adorable.In reality, wealth is a systems problem. A long-horizon, low-drama, deepl...
Ignite VC: Eric Woo on The Hidden Signals Behind Top-Performing Emerging Managers | Ep224
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What most LPs miss, and why venture is quietly changing shapeHere’s a strange truth about venture capital: it’s an industry obsessed with pattern ...
Ignite VC: Kerty Levy & Keith Camhi on How Vertical Networks Change Startup Outcomes | Ep223
04 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a surprising truth most founders learn too late: Money is rarely the thing that breaks a startup. Isolation is.In a world where it’s never ...
Ignite PR: How Founders Actually Earn Media Attention in the AI Era with Matt Stewart | Ep222
28 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most founders think PR starts with a press release.That’s like thinking fitness starts with buying fancy running shoes.This episode of the Ignite Po...
Ignite Tech: What 20 Years Inside AWS Taught Jeff Barr About Cloud, AI, and Careers | Ep221
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What Happens When a Curious Teenager Accidentally Helps Invent the Cloud?Imagine a long-haired kid in a tiny Seattle computer store in the late 1970s,...
Ignite Startups: Building Real-World Community with Dorothy Li of Real Roots | Ep220
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a quietly brutal truth: most adults don’t lose friends because they’re bad at friendship. They lose them because the system breaks.You mo...
Ignite Marketing: The Secrets of High-Impact B2B Marketing with Udi Ledergor | Ep219
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most great marketing stories start with a spreadsheet. Udi Ledergor’s starts on stage.Before he helped build Gong into one of the most influential S...
Ignite Economics: The Hidden Economics Behind Deep Tech Success with Ramana Nanda | Ep218
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a world where fusion energy costs less than your monthly coffee habit, biotech startups design new materials the way software engineers write ...
Ignite VC: How Rob Hodgkinson Built a Quant Engine for Series B Investing | Ep217
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine you’re trying to predict the next unicorn.Not in a tarot-cards-on-a-coffee-table kind of way, but with actual data—the kind that tells you...
Ignite VC: How Shaun Gold Uses Humor to Expose Startup Truths and Win in Venture Capital | Ep216
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine spending twenty years in Miami nightlife—not drinking, not partying, but studying the whole circus like an anthropologist with a guest list....
Ignite Product: How Continuous Discovery Builds Better Products with Teresa Torres | Ep215
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine if every product team on earth suddenly stopped guessing. No more features built on vibes, no more roadmaps shaped by the loudest executive, n...
Ignite VC: Jon Staenberg on Building Wealth Through Acquisition & the Power of Search Funds | Ep214
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a gold rush where the nuggets hide in strip malls instead of mountains—car washes, HVAC shops, dental practices, niche manufacturers quietly...
Ignite Startups: The Startup Giving Brands an Edge in AI-Powered Search with Max Sinclair | Ep213
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine you wake up tomorrow and Google quietly matters 50% less to your business.Your customers still search, but they’re not typing into a box—t...
Ignite LP: Cracking the Code of Accredited Investing with Leyla Kunimoto | Ep212
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine you’re at a buffet where half the dishes are behind a velvet rope. You can see them—private equity, venture funds, secondaries, slick CRE ...
Ignite Startups: Building SportsVisio and the Future of AI Sports Tech with Jason Syversen | Ep211
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine arguing about who scored the last bucket in your rec league—and instead of replaying grainy footage, your phone instantly shows you a perfec...
Ignite Startups: Designing the Future of AEC Software with Amar Hanspal | Ep210
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine if the software shaping our cities still thought it was 1998. Layers, files, and workflows built for floppy disks—but running in a world of ...
Ignite VC: Jeffrey Fidelman on Building a Repeatable Capital Engine & Fundraising Wins | Ep209
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jeffrey Fidelman—Founder & CEO of Fidelman & Company—breaks down how early-stage founders and emerging managers can run a repeatable, data-driven ...
Ignite Startups: Max Greenwald on Precision Demand Gen with AI Agents | Ep208
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you only have time to read one deep-dive this week on modern B2B growth, make it this one. In our latest Ignite Podcast episode, we sat down with M...
Ignite VC: The Truth About Product-Market Fit and Founder Grit with Gabriel Jarrosson | Ep207
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most founders believe that if they just build a great product, customers will come.But as Gabriel Jarrosson, General Partner at Lobster Capital, puts ...
Ignite VC: Scaling With Discipline and Growth Equity Without the Hype with Jim Ferry | Ep206
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most founders know the extremes: early-stage venture bets and late-stage buyouts. But what about the “middle”—where the product works, the marke...
Ignite Startups: How Open Source and AI Are Transforming Modern Software with Marc Seitz | Ep205
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a world where startups are built faster than ever, access to secure, transparent, and affordable tools has never been more important. Enter Marc Se...
Ignite LP: Avoiding Team-Risk and Finding True GP–Strategy Fit with Justinas Milašauskas | Ep204
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When you think of global venture capital, Lithuania isn’t the first country that comes to mind. Yet in this episode of the Ignite Podcast, Justinas ...
Ignite VC: Dr. Jack Stockert on Transforming Medicine Through Venture Innovation | Ep203
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When most people think about innovation in healthcare, they imagine hospitals adopting new technology or startups building the next wearable. Few imag...
Ignite PE: Joe Zanca’s Playbook for Deal Flow and Turning Conversations into Closings | Ep202
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re a private equity buyer, independent sponsor, or founder exploring an exit, this episode with Joe Zanca is a pragmatic masterclass on buy-s...
Ignite Startups: How Anthony Jules of Robust AI Is Redefining Human-Robot Collaboration | Ep201
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence and automation, the most exciting breakthroughs aren’t about replacing humans — the...
Ignite Startups: Eric Ries on Lean Startup and Building Mission-Driven Companies | Ep200
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Eric Ries wrote The Lean Startup more than a decade ago, he gave entrepreneurs a framework that transformed how companies are built. Instead of r...
Ignite VC: How Hustle Fund Backs Founders Before Product-Market Fit with Elizabeth Yin | Ep199
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to investing in startups, most venture capital firms say they go “early.” But Elizabeth Yin, Co-Founder and General Partner of Hustl...
Ignite VC: De-Risking Startups with Customers Before Capital with Collin Groves | Ep198
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the world of venture capital, startups often compete for capital with little more than a pitch deck and projections. But what if investors could de...
Ignite Psychology: The Six Behaviors That Drive Fortune 500 Performance with Hugh Massie | Ep197
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if the secret to building wealth, scaling a business, or leading a successful team isn’t just about strategy or market timing — but about beh...
Ignite VC: Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital with Ari Newman of Massive VC | Ep196
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s fast-moving startup world, it’s tempting to chase trends, slap an “AI-first” label on a pitch deck, and hope for inflated valuation...
Ignite VC: Rewriting the Playbook for Startup Funding with Anthony Rosenbaum of SeedLegals | Ep195
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to startup journeys, few are as dynamic and wide-ranging as Anthony Rose’s. From shaping the future of digital media with BBC iPlayer ...
Ignite VC: Scaling Industrial Startups from Zero to Global Impact with Renan Devillieres | Ep194
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Manufacturing is undergoing a massive transformation, and at the forefront of this shift is Renan Devillieres, founder and CEO of OSS Ventures. With a...
Ignite Startups: How OmniSync’s Rupak Doshi is Accelerating Deep Tech Innovation | Ep193
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When we think of world-changing innovations—biotech breakthroughs, AI models, clean energy technologies—they often begin in a lab. Yet, many never...
Ignite Marketing: Building Full-Funnel Growth Engines for Startups with Anthony Chiaravallo | Ep192
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s crowded digital landscape, paid advertising can either be a powerful growth engine—or an expensive black hole that drains a startup’s...
Ignite Team: The Psychology Behind Startup Partnerships with Dr. Matthew Jones | Ep191
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Building a startup is never a solo journey. Behind every successful company lies a partnership—between co-founders, early team members, or strategic...
Ignite LP: The Rise of AI-Driven VC and the Future of Due Diligence with Damir Kopinić | Ep190
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The venture capital landscape is shifting fast — and few people have had a better vantage point than Damir Ibrahimagić Kopinić, co-founder and CEO...
Ignite Startups: Why Diversification Wins in Venture Capital with Arian Ghashghai | Ep189
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a machine learning engineer at Meta, a failed startup founder, and an angel investor all roll into one person? You get Arian Ghashgh...
Ignite Startups: How AI Is Fixing a $70 Billion Healthcare Problem with Dmitry Karpov | Ep188
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every year in the U.S., hospitals lose tens of billions of dollars to a surprisingly preventable problem: documentation errors in medical records. The...
Ignite VC: The People-First Investing Philosophy of Zelkova’s Jay Levy | Ep187
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The startup world moves fast — but according to Jay Levy, Co-Founder and Partner at Zelkova Ventures, the key to building a winning company isn’t ...
Ignite Culture: How to Build a High-Performance Remote Culture That Lasts with Chris Dyer | Ep186
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Chris Dyer talks about culture, he’s not just repeating buzzwords—he’s lived it. As the former CEO of PeopleG2, a five-time Inc. 5000 honor...
Ignite Leadership: Scaling Product Teams and Quiet Leadership with Greg Weinger | Ep185
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Ignite Podcast, Greg Weinger, SVP of Product Management at SheerID, shares his unconventional journey into tech, the challenges...
Ignite Startups: The AI Sales Engine Powering Smarter Outbound with Chris Anzalone | Ep184
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Outbound sales is broken—and Chris Anzalone is on a mission to fix it. As the founder and CEO of Knowledge, Chris brings a rare combination of Wall...
Ignite VC: The Future of AI, Consciousness, and Venture Capital with Chuck Stormon
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to back world-changing technology — and what happens when that technology starts to think?In a recent episode of the Ignite Podcas...
Ignite Partners: What Every VC Needs to Know About Compliance Risk with Ravi de Silva | Ep182
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Compliance is often treated as an afterthought in early-stage fintechs—but that mindset could be the very thing that stalls your growth. In this epi...
Ignite Startups: Designing Ethical and Useful AI with Erika Anderson of Storytell AI | Ep181
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine if every Zoom call, Slack thread, Google Doc, or meeting note could be automatically mined for business insights. No more Slack pings asking “...