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EP 269 First Self-Cleaning Commercial Air Purifier Mar 10, 2023

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Innovation is often inspired by biomimicry - the design and production of materials modeled on biological entities.
Our guest, Sissi Liu, is passionate about solving complex societal problems with cutting-edge technology, and she was inspired by the metalmark butterfly for her innovative new product.
After nearly 20 years in clean tech/sustainability, entrepreneurship, and venture investing, Sissi co-founded Metalmark Innovations to tackle air quality and climate change challenges.
Metalmark Innovations is a Public Benefits Corporation and is releasing its patent-pending product: Tatama, the first self-cleaning commercial air purifier. Inspired by the nanostructure of the metalmark butterfly’s wings, Tatama provides air cleaning with HEPA-grade filters that capture 99.97% of airborne particles.
Once a month, Tatama quickly destroys the captured materials and renews the filter for the next cycle, resulting in indoor air that’s far cleaner than outdoor air, without the hassles of typical air purifiers.
You can learn more about Metalmark Innovations here: https://www.metalmark.xyz/
Follow Metalmark on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/metalmark/
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EP 268 - Fortune 40 Under 40 FinTech Founder Makes Saving for Children_s Future Easy Mar 07, 2023

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Many parents are seeking ways to give their children a better head start financially in life.
Our guest, Ksenia Yudina, is a chartered financial analyst, a Mom, and the Founder and CEO of UNest, an app that empowers parents to easily invest and save for their kids’ future.
After coming to the U.S. from Russia at 18, Ksenia took on $180,000 in debt to pay for college. She quickly realized that many other graduates were strapped with debt and saw a need for a more accessible savings vehicle than the traditional 529 that requires confusing paperwork and fees.
In 2020, Ksenia launched UNest, and has raised over $38 million from well-known VCs to build her fintech platform into a popular savings and investment vehicle for parents.
With many of UNest’s team members located in Ukraine, on February 24, 2022, Ksenia had to work around the clock to evacuate her team members to safety.
To learn more about UNest and download the app, please visit: https://www.unest.co
Be sure to follow UNest on LinkedIn and Twitter here:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/u-nest/
https://twitter.com/UNest
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EP 267 Using Behavioral Science + Technology to Activate Purpose in the Workplace Mar 03, 2023

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Research shows that aligning company and personal purpose improves productivity, retention, and overall wellness in the workplace.
Greg Sloan, CFP®, CEPA, CPMTM, is the Chief Purpose Officer and Co-Founder of Go Beyond, a talent development company that leverages behavioral science and technology to help companies attract, engage, and grow their people.
Go Beyond has humanized and gamified the purpose discovery process for both company and worker. Their SaaS platform includes on-demand videos, self-guided exercises, and behavioral assessments to build a purpose-centered culture.
With over 25+ years of experience in financial services, Greg is a serial founder who discovered the benefits of activating personal purpose in the workplace and loves sharing this knowledge with other leaders.
To try Go Beyond, please visit: https://www.gobeyond.work/solutions/purpose-pulse and select "try it for yourself" and receive 15% off using promo code Ande15.
Measure the 6 Factors driving disengagement, turnover, and burnout: https://www.gobeyond.work/solutions/purpose-pulse
Connect with Greg and Go Beyond via these social platforms:
Greg Sloan’s personal LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregonpurpose/
Company LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/go-beyond-work/
Greg Sloan’s personal Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/greg.sloan.520
Company’s Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/trygobeyond.work
Greg Sloan’s personal Twitter:
https://twitter.com/gregonpurpose
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/GoBeyond_work
Greg Sloan’s personal Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/gregonpurpose/
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/gobeyond.work/
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EP 266 Helping Companies Be Happy and Have Fun Feb 28, 2023

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How does one take a brilliant expertise and turn it into a thriving, profitable B2B tech platform serving thousands of paying customers?
Our guest, Lee Rubin, is the CEO and Co-Founder of Confetti, a young, well-funded startup helping companies create memorable, easy-to-plan experiences that inspire dynamic workplaces, encourage healthier offices, and motivate happier, more holistic teams.
Today Confetti is loved by 2,500+ businesses such as Google, Facebook, Spotify, and many other startups, firms and agencies.
A visionary culture leader with a decade of experience in B2B sales, Lee is one of the world’s experts on remote event planning. Under her leadership, Confetti scaled from $0 to $12 million in annual revenue within 2 years using only $2.5 millon in funding.
Lee now leads a team of 60 people who support a customer base of over 4,000 unique paying companies. Her hope is that Confetti not only offers a place for people to easily and quickly book these experiences, but to be a vehicle that changes the relationship people have with their jobs and the people they work with by making it more meaningful.
To learn more about Confetti, please visit: https://www.withconfetti.com/
Connect with Lee and follow Confetti via these social platforms:
Lee via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rubinl/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/with_confetti/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/withconfetti/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/withconfetti
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EP 265 Strengthening the Local and Regional Economy Through Entrepreneurship Feb 21, 2023

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Supporting and funding entrepreneurs is a terrific way to accelerate economic development in a community.
Our guest, Ian Cain, is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of QUBIC Labs, a startup incubator and innovation hub focused on helping entrepreneurs and innovators to develop world-class companies to serve businesses, governments, and people.
QUBIC Labs is located in Quincy, MA – the birthplace of many famous founders and innovators: from John Adams and John Hancock to Howard Johnson’s ice cream parlors and hotels, and our beloved Dunkin Donuts.
Ian also serves his local community as an elected representative to the City Council in Quincy, MA, a member of the Board of Directors at Bay State Community Services, and a member of the Board of Advisors at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton.
To learn more about QUBIC Labs, please visit: https://www.qubiclabs.com
Follow QUBIC Labs online via:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qubiclabs
Twitter: https://twitter.com/qubic_labs
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qubic_labs
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EP 264 Questions Founders Need to Ask Investors During the First Meeting Feb 17, 2023

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Founders – you work so hard to be prepared for investors' questions during your pitch presentations.
But are you qualifying those investors?
Your time is valuable, and you need to minimize the chance of wasting your time with investors who will not invest in your startup.
Our guest, Alex Iskold, is a 4x founder, a software engineer, an investor in over 150 startups, and the Founder and a Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures, where he leads pre-seed rounds, backs visionary founders who are creating technologies of the future, with a specific focus on biotech, deep tech, platform and API companies.
Alex writes one of the top startup blogs (a personal fave!), called Startup Hacks, and is a life-long learner and deeply interested in Complexity Science and Systems Thinking. (https://www.startuphacks.vc/)
Prior to founding 2048 Ventures, Alex spent 5 years at Techstars as the Managing Director of its NYC program. He was also the founder and CEO of Info Lab (acquired by IBM), founder and CEO of GetGlue (backed by USV, RRE, Time Warner), and a Chief Architect of distributed computing startup DataSynapse (acquired by TIBCO).
Alex currently serves as a Coach and a VC in Residence at the Harvard Business School, and he previously taught an award-winning undergraduate computer science class at NYU.
11 Questions Founders Need to Ask Investors During the First Meeting
https://www.startuphacks.vc/blog/2016/09/21/11-questions-founders-need-to-ask-investors-during-the-fist-meeting
30 Questions Investors Ask During Fundraising
https://www.startuphacks.vc/blog/2016/09/13/30-questions-investors-ask-during-fundraising
To learn more about 2048 Ventures, please visit: https://www.2048.vc/
Follow Alex via:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexiskold
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iskold/
Startup Hacks: https://www.startuphacks.vc/
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EP 263 Leveraging AI to Make Resale of Beauty Products Faster + Cheaper + Safer Feb 14, 2023

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Karen Lee is on a mission to reimagine e-commerce for beauty lovers by providing a trusted market place for buying and rehoming new beauty products.
Glou Beauty is empowering beauty lovers to become more conscious consumers, pushing against an industry that encourages over-consumption.
As the first consumer-to-consumer re-commerce marketplace for beauty, Glou enables consumers to easily buy and sell makeup, skincare, and beauty products.
The platform is an environmentally friendly option as it both minimizes waste and maximizes the useful life of a beauty product, while allowing consumers to shop different beauty brands and products at an accessible price point. Good for the planet, good for the wallet!
An actor, sailor, polyglot, robot-fixer, and beauty product encyclopedia, Karen spent 8+ years in fashion and luxury and, in just 5 years, earned her HBA & MSc from Ivey Business School, and an MiM from CEMS schools Tsinghua University and Bocconi University.
To learn more about Glou Beauty and it's rehoming platform, please visit: https://www.glou.co
Follow Glou Beauty everywhere it glows:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gloubeauty/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/glou-beauty/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gloubeauty
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EP 262 Closing the Racial and Gender Wealth Gap via Small Business Ownership Feb 10, 2023

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You don’t have to come up with a terrific idea to become an entrepreneur. You can buy and scale an already established business!
Our guest, Allegra Stennett, is the Co-Founder of New Majority Capital, an impact investing firm that addresses the racial and gender wealth gaps in the United States by providing training and capital for BIPOC and women entrepreneurs to buy and scale existing small businesses.
Prior to launching NMC, Allegra completed an MBA at MIT Sloan School of Management and an EdM in Education Policy & Management at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
After graduating at Andrews University, Allegra was a commercial and investment banker at J.P. Morgan for 5 years, where she covered a variety of multi-billion dollar client relationships in the Healthcare, Industrials, Oil & Gas, and Nonprofit sectors; launched a second language program to prepare 5,000 tri-state employees for expat assignments; and was the only person in her banking cohort to personally close a $100 million transaction.
To learn more about New Majority Capital, please visit: https://newmajoritycapital.com/
To learn about New Majority Capital's Wefunder Campaign, please visit: https://wefunder.com/newmajoritycapital
Be sure to follow Allegra and New Majority Capital on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/new-majority-capital/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/allegrastennett/
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EP 261 Helping Schools Help More Students Feb 07, 2023

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Helping schools help students is a mission that began in Alyse Maslonik's childhood.
From living in a domestic abuse shelter to creating a self-funded business that now raises millions of dollars for under-privileged children, Alyse has experienced it all.
At age 21, with a measly $63 dollars to her name, she packed up everything she owned and set out on a journey to change her life. By the age of 23, she was managing a multi-million-dollar property asset in Charlotte, NC and went on to become one of the youngest Sales & Marketing Representatives for a custom home builder in the Charlotte region, where she developed a love of helping people achieve their own piece of the American dream through home ownership.
With fierce determination and a belief that she could make a difference, Alyse founded RedefinED Advisors LLC, a strategic development partner for non-public and private schools that now offers a wide array of services to help schools grow funding and enrollment.
As CEO of RedefinED Advisors LLC, Alyse continues her lifelong mission through the Triumph Over Tragedy Scholarship Award, which provides additional scholarships to students that have demonstrated their ability to triumph over tragedy and who have remained resilient in the face of adversity.
To learn more about RedefinED Advisors, please visit: https://www.redefiningeducation.org/
Connect with Alyse and RedefinED Advisors on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/redefiningeducation/
Here's the link to the TECH IN MOTION Fireside Chat: https://events.techinmotion.com/fireside-chat-c-light-technologies
The link to Dan Pallotta's Ted Talk: https://youtu.be/bfAzi6D5FpM
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EP 260 Accelerating Innovation in the Chemical Industry Feb 03, 2023

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The chemical industry has become the third largest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions, with more than half of its resources ending up in waste streams.
Our guest, Daniela Blanco, Co-Founder & CEO of Sunthetics, is solving this global problem by making the chemical industry more sustainable by helping it fast-track innovation, which leads to better materials and more efficient processes.
Daniela obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from New York University (2020). At Sunthetics, she developed ground-breaking machine-learning platforms that enable the development of new chemicals, materials, and processes up to 15 times faster, significantly reducing R&D emissions by up to 95%.
Daniela has multiple patents on sustainable chemical technologies and has been named Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy North America, Rising Star in Sustainability, Top Innovator Under 35 in Latin America by MIT Technology Review, Top Female Founder by Inc Magazine, Top Graduate Inventor by Lemelson-MIT, Global Student Entrepreneur Champion, and Brightest AI-CI Mind by the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.
Her story and vision led her to co-star in National Geographic’s recent documentary, Own the Room, available to stream on Disney+.
To learn more about Sunthetics, please visit: https://sunthetics.io/
Please follow Sunthetics on social here:
Instagram: @suntheticsml
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