Podcasts Archives

Matheus Riolfi Co-founder & CEO of Tint, AI Powered Embedded Insurance, Raises $25 Million Series A (VC EP37)

Matheus Riolfi Co-founder & CEO of Tint.ai, an AI powered insurance solution for companies to embed insurance as part of their product offering. A good example is Turo, a peer-to-peer car sharing service, which requires custom insurance for each part of...

Krish Ramineni, Co-founder & CEO of Fireflies.ai, AI Powered Meeting Assistant, Raises $19 Million (VC EP36)

Krish Ramineni is the co-founder & CEO of Fireflies.ai, a meeting assistant and voice intelligence platform. In this interview Krish shares the story behind his two previous startup ideas — a drone delivery company and an AI chatbot, which he built...

Yoav Vilner, CEO & Co-founder of Walnut.io, No-Code Product Demo SAAS, Raises $35 Million Series B (VC EP35)

Yoav Vilner is the co-founder and CEO of Walnut.io, a SAAS platform creating an entire new category of no-code, cloud-based, product demonstration technology. Walnut gives sales and marketing teams the ability to create stable interactive product demos and...

Yahya Mokhtarzada, Co-Founder Truebill, Sold To Rocket Companies For $1.275 Billion (VC EP34)

Yahya Mokhtarzada, along with two of his brothers, founded Truebill, which was acquired by Rocket Companies for $1.275 billion. We dived into Yahya’s background, exploring his first two companies, one started with his brothers that he left (but did...

Michelle Tascoe Made $1.2 Million In Three Years With One-On-One Financial Coaching (VC EP33)

Michelle Tascoe is based in LA and has one of the longest running private one-on-one financial advice coaching practices. She’s now earning over half a million a year, but it wasn’t always like this. It’s been a long and steady journey to...

Thomas Smale, Over A Billion Dollars In Company Sales, What Business Models Lead To The Biggest Exit (VC EP32)

This is Vested Capital episode 32, featuring Thomas Smale, the founder of FE International, a leading M&A firm. I first interviewed Thomas 9 years ago. At the time his company had helped to facilitate over $5 Million in deals. Now that number is over a...

Yaro On Crypto, Property, Angel Investing And Closing Down His Flagship Course Blog Mastermind (VC EP31)

This is a solo podcast episode recorded at the start of 2022 to recap recent investment performance, including crypto, property and angel investing. I also explain why I made the decision at the start of the year to close down my flagship course, Blog...

Mikkel Thorup, World Traveling Expat, How To Move Offshore And Eliminate Taxes (VC EP30)

Mikkel Thorup hosts The Expat Money Show podcast (I was on episode 155) and has spent over 21 years in continual travel around the world, visiting more than 100 countries including Colombia, North Korea, Zimbabwe, and Iran. Mikkel runs a consultancy to help...

Arthur Menard, CEO And Founder Of Lambs, Radiation Protection Clothing DTC Brand And 8-Figure Business (VC EP29)

Arthur Menard is the CEO and co-founder of Lambs, a clothing brand that blocks 99% of EMFs (cellphone, 4G, 5G, Wifi, Bluetooth radiation) as well as 10x the amount of UVs compared to traditional clothing. His company is doing 8-figures in sales, having got...

David Ciccarelli, CEO And Founder Voices.com, Marketplace For Voice Audio Content, Raises $18Mil Towards IPO (VC EP28)

David Ciccarelli is the CEO and founder of Voices.com. Based in London, Canada, Voices.com provides an online marketplace, facilitating transactions between business clients and over two million voice over professionals. In this interview David shares the...

Teddy Kyres, Founder Groupe Orbis Mortgage Brokerage, Single Broker Does $100 Million In Loans In One Year, How To Secure Finance For Property When The Banks Say No (VC EP27)

Teddy Kyres is the founder of Groupe Orbis, a Montreal based mortgage brokerage firm, with over 60 brokers following the system Teddy created for succeeding as a mortgage broker. Teddy is also my mortgage broker and helped me secure finance for investing in...

Joshua Scigala, Co-Founder TheStandard.io, DeFi Lending, And Vaultoro, Bitcoin And Gold Trading Platform (VC EP26)

Joshua Scigala knows a lot about crypto (thus this is a LONG episode!). He was there when Satoshi first released Bitcoin and he was unfortunately there as well when the first major exchange, Mt. Gox, collapsed. Today Joshua is leading a new Defi project...

Collis Ta-eed Co-founder Of Envato (Themeforest, Audiojungle, Videohive), Aussie Tech Unicorn That Stayed Private And Bootstrapped (VC EP25)

Collis Ta’eed with his wife Cyan started out with an idea — they wanted to create a marketplace where digital media producers could sell their creations to customers. They began with the then popular Flash file format and later expanded into...

Gabriele Musella, CEO And Co-founder Of Venture Backed Coinrule, Automated Crypto Trading (VC EP24)

Gabriele Musella is a well-educated, well-traveled, co-founder of Coinrule.com, a company where you can build or copy sets of rules for automatically trading cryptocurrencies. The company recently raised $3M+ from MKB Bank, Urban Innovation Fund, Zilliqa and...

Kison Patel, Founder Of DealRoom, Digitizing The Workflow For M&A Using SAAS (VC EP23)

Kison Patel is the founder of DealRoom.net, a SAAS platform for managing the lifecycle of mergers and acquisitions. Kison spent ten years of his life running his own boutique M&A advisory firm, participating in some way with 363 asset sales. During this...

Russ Heddleston, Co-Founder DocSend, Sold To Dropbox For $165 Million (VC EP22)

Russ Heddleston is the co-founder and former CEO of DocSend, which was acquired by Dropbox for $165 Million in early 2021. Russ currently works at Dropbox continuing the vision he had for DocSend. During this interview we hear how Russ went from studying at...

Sara Mauskopf, Co-Founder & CEO of Winnie.com, Childcare Provider Marketplace, Raises $15.5 Million In Funding (VC EP21)

Sara Mauskopf is the co-founder and CEO of Winnie.com, a marketplace platform that connects parents looking for childcare and preschool providers with over 250,000 centres around the USA. To date, Sara and her team have raised $15.5 Million in venture...

Lee Zlotoff, Creator Of MacGyver, How He Became A Screenwriter, The Origin Of His Famous Show And How He Kept The Rights To It, 3 Steps To Tap Into Your Own ‘Inner MacGyver’ (VC EP20)

I’m resurfacing this interview from 2016 because recently (2021) the team at MacGyver HQ has been sharing this interview on their social media, so I thought it would be a great time to share it with those new to Vested Capital. It was quite a thrill to...

Wil Schroter, Founder of Startups.com, Blue Diesel, Unsubscribe.com, Acquired Zirtual, Clarity.fm (VC EP19)

It’s hard to summarize all the success of Wil Schroter. He’s founded so many companies. Today he’s founder of Startups.com, a business education site and suite of tools and resources for entrepreneurs, some of which were previous startups...

Tim Ferriss Trilogy: The Entrepreneur Origin Story, Optimizing Learning, The Original 4-Hour Workweek Interview (VC EP18)

Tim Ferriss needs no introduction. Author, lifestyle design pioneer, angel investor (Wealthfront, Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba, Shopify, Duolingo), peak performance bio hacker, accelerated learning leader and of course, podcast host. Tim first appeared...

Podcasts

Subscribe To TheVested Capital Podcast

Subscribe To The
Vested Capital Podcast