The Silicon Valley Podcast

April 24, 2020

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 growth companies, and he brings insight from those experiences to his work today at FloWater. Raz was the CEO of several consumer-tech companies, including DealOn, an e-commerce […]

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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 pragmatically leveraging to win and own uncrowded, high-margin markets. Crystal currently serves on the board of Cooler Heads, and previously served as a board member at Siren, Neurable, and

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

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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 stage tech fund and The Chrysalis Advisors, a strategy and investment advisory firm.  In addition to this work, Nichole is deeply committed to making

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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)

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032 Receiving 200 No’s before raising 4.2 Million with Roybi Robot Founder Elnaz Sarraf

On today’s show, we sit down with Elnaz Sarraf, who is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in technology, business, sales, and marketing. She is currently the CEO and Founder of ROYBI; an investor backed EdTech company focusing on early childhood education, that recently raised $4.2 million in its seed round. Before

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031 Being able to retire at age 34 with YouTube star and Economist George Gammon

On today’s show, we’re happy to chat with George Gammon. George Edward Gammon is an American real estate investor and entrepreneur. He produces and stars in the hit reality television series “Vide En Remodelacion,” a home remodeling program on the Colombian network Telemedellin. Prior to 2012, George started, owned, and operated multiple businesses ranging from

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030 Investing to help startups and entrepreneurs with Managing Partner Bill Reichert

On today’s show, we sit down with Bill Reichert. Bill is the Managing Director at Garage Technology Ventures, a seed and early-stage venture capital fund, which invest in extraordinary entrepreneurs with unique technologies that will define the next era of innovation. He takes a hands-on approach from the very beginning, partnering with talented entrepreneurs to

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029 The Secrets of Startup Financial Modeling with Brett Sharenow

On today’s show, we interview Brett Sharenow. Brett is a trusted advisor on raising capital from VCs, PE, and Angel investors, for start-up, growth, pivot, and exit. Since 1995, he has helped companies raise more than $750 million and have facilitated exits valued at more than $6 billion. In this episode, you’ll learn: What happens

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