Ignite: Conversations on Startups, Venture Capital, Tech, Future, and Society

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 “...

Ignite GP: Building Funds and Vetting Operators in Real Estate with Eric Silverman | Ep180

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve ever wondered how the top real estate investors navigate market cycles, pick only the best deals, and stay disciplined over decades—you’...

Ignite Partners: The QA Mindset Every Founder Needs with Rajeev Rai of QASource | Ep179

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s breakneck startup environment, speed is survival. But as Rajeev Rai, co-founder and CEO of QASource, reminds us—you can’t scale chaos...

Ignite VC: How GPs Can Scale Smarter and Win LP Trust Early with Dave Perretz | Ep178

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Running a fund isn’t just about picking great startups or raising capital. Behind every high-performing GP is a system—often invisible—that keep...

Ignite VC: Ben Black on Turning LP Chaos into a 2x DPI and Building Akkadian Ventures | Ep177

20 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the world of venture capital, success stories often mask the complexity behind the scenes. Ben Black’s journey, however, is one that embraces the...

Ignite VC: Samara Hernandez on Building a $60M Fund from Scratch and Leading with Conviction | Ep175

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Samara Hernandez launched Chingona Ventures, she wasn't just starting another VC firm—she was starting a movement. A former engineer turned Gol...

Ignite VC: Reimagining Civilization Through Deep Tech & First Principles with Abdo John Hajj | Ep176

13 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if the most compelling investment strategy wasn’t just about returns—but about building the infrastructure for humanity’s future?In our lat...

Ignite Startups: The Hidden Power of Knowledge Graphs in Enterprise AI with Malcolm De Leo | Ep174

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When we talk about the future of AI, the conversation is dominated by models—LLMs, agents, prompts. But what if we’ve been looking in the wrong di...

Ignite Marketing: Rewiring the Marketing Stack with Agentic AI with Chris O’Neill | Ep173

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Ignite Podcast, Chris O’Neill—former Google executive and current CEO of GrowthLoop—joins us for a wide-ranging conversat...

Ignite VC: The Future of Work, AI, and Impact Investing with Oliver Libby | Ep172

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a landscape where traditional venture capital is under scrutiny, Oliver Libby is proving that there’s a better way forward. As the Co-Founding Ma...

Ignite Marketing: David Meerman Scott on Marketing Lessons Every Startup Founder Should Know | Ep171

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a digital world flooded with content and AI-generated noise, how can founders cut through the clutter and actually connect with their audience?Acco...

Ignite VC: Creating the Next Generation of Women-Led IPOs with Mala Ramakrishnan | Ep170

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if the future of enterprise AI wasn’t just built on innovation—but inclusion? In our latest episode of the Ignite Podcast, we sat down with M...

Ignite VC: Jim Curry on Rethinking Venture and Building Companies Built to Last | Ep169

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when a Rackspace veteran and OpenStack co-founder decides traditional venture capital just isn’t working—for founders or investors? Y...

Ignite Startups: How Osama Elkady Is Eliminating ETL and Unlocking Real-Time Insight | Ep168

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if the biggest bottleneck in your data strategy isn’t your infrastructure—but your architecture?That’s the bold idea behind Osama Elkady’...

Ignite AI: Minha Hwang on Scaling AI Experiments and Building Smarter Models with Less Data | Ep167

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The AI world moves fast—but few people think rigorously about how we know what’s actually working. In our latest episode of the Ignite Podcast, we...

Ignite Markets: The Hidden Power of Microcaps and Why Big Investors Miss It with Steve Kann | Ep166

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if the next unicorn is trading at $1 a share—and no one’s looking?In this episode of the Ignite Podcast, we sit down with Steve Kann, a seaso...