033 Investing in Hardware Startups with Grit Ventures Managing Partner Kelly Coyne

033 Investing in Hardware Startups with Grit Ventures Managing Partner Kelly Coyne

On today’s show, we sit down with Kelly Coyne who is deeply immersed in the Silicon Valley start-up community. Having grown multiple start-ups from conception to over $100M valuations, she is a leading Go-To-Market expert. After earning her MBA from Oxford University, Kelly served at the helm of several early-stage hardware companies (Lily, Mimosa, Candl) and advised many others.

Kelly has broad technology experience, but specializes in guiding Robotics, AI, AR/VR and computer vision companies from concept to launch. She has tremendous experience managing successful betas, developing use cases, connecting products to the right customers, and leading successful product launches. She has also seen some of the extreme pitfalls of SV start-ups - this unique knowledge helps her guide new companies to success. She is a Techstars and Oxford Creative Destruction Labs mentor.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • How have the VCs changed over time in relation to their paths and career backgrounds before becoming a VC?
  • What are the skills or knowledge that is going to be key to be a successful VC in the future?
  • What does it look like to be a fundable pre-seed hardware company?
  • What are the two largest issues that early-stage robotics and artificial intelligence startups face?
  • What is “humanized AI”?

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041 Bootstrapping your company With Chinese Institute of Engineers' President Raymond Chen

041 Bootstrapping your company With Chinese Institute of Engineers' President Raymond Chen

On today’s episode, we sit down with Raymond Chen. Raymond is a board member and the President of CIE-SF, a non-profit volunteer organization. He spent 19 years in the Electronic Design Automation (ED...

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040 Precision Medicine with CEO of Agility Pharmaceuticals Prasun Mishra

040 Precision Medicine with CEO of Agility Pharmaceuticals Prasun Mishra

On today’s episode, we char with Dr. Prasun Mishra. Dr. Mishra (Ex-Genentech, Ex-NCI, Ex-NIH) is the Founder and CEO of Agility Pharmaceuticals. He is a serial entrepreneur who founded his first compa...

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039 Starting a Podcast Company with TIP co-founder Stig Brodersen

039 Starting a Podcast Company with TIP co-founder Stig Brodersen

On today’s show, we’re happy to chat with our very own Stig Brodersen. Stig is a value investor, business owner, and international bestselling author. His podcast We Study Billionaires has over 30 mil...

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038 The Future of Housing with Stanford's First EIR James Ehrlich

038 The Future of Housing with Stanford's First EIR James Ehrlich

James Ehrlich is a serial entrepreneur in the areas of technology, media technology and clean-tech. He is the founder at ReGen Villages, Entrepreneur in Residence at Stanford University Center for Com...

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037 What is an Entreprenuer with Square Co-founder Jim Mckelvey

037 What is an Entreprenuer with Square Co-founder Jim Mckelvey

On today’s episode, we sit down with Jim McKelvey. Jim is the co-founder of Square, a financial services, merchant services aggregator, and mobile payment company. In 2009, Jim designed a card reader ...

30 Apr 202048min

036 What it takes to build a company with FloWater CEO Raz

036 What it takes to build a company with FloWater CEO Raz

Rich Razgaitis has been passionate about building brands and teams. Since 2002, he has served in CEO/president-level roles in several venture capital backed start-ups, privately held turnaround and gr...

23 Apr 202045min

035 Talking Venture Capital with Managing Partner of Anathem Ventures Crystal Mckellar.

035 Talking Venture Capital with Managing Partner of Anathem Ventures Crystal Mckellar.

Crystal McKellar is the Founder and Managing Partner of Anathem Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in companies that have developed breakthrough technology that they are pragmatic...

23 Apr 202045min

034 Business opportunities in Nigeria with Managing Partner of Chrysalis Capital Nichole Yembra

034 Business opportunities in Nigeria with Managing Partner of Chrysalis Capital Nichole Yembra

On today’s show, we’re happy to chat with Nichole Yembra. Nichole is the Founder and Managing Director of The Chrysalis Co which houses The Chrysalis Capital, a new $15M Africa and Diaspora early stag...

23 Apr 202041min

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