FounderTech Decoded

Welcome to the FounderTech Decoded podcast. In this Series, each episode acts as a dedicated Briefing with a leading industry voice currently navigating their unique path into a new Deal Diligence™, that is affecting the way forward looking deal flow and funnels might now identify, generate and evaluate new and untapped venture value.   In this Briefing episode we talk to Sami Abou Saab founder and CEO of zigzag - the global innovation platform that empowers entrepreneurs to rapidly evaluate and validate ideas and then to build and launch quickly.    We explore how the anatomy of a great founder aligns with those founders that can sustain and survive the difficult and emerging early stages of their startup journey when it becomes psychologically hard.    We discuss how a great founder has that rare ability to listen and cut through the noise of hustle culture and startup hype to be able to focus and hone in on their key ‘element’ of their fundamental insight and core strategic competencies. Navigating this whilst also having the ability to agilely pivot and shift whilst continually delivering and executing at a very high level of operational competency.    Given this invaluable founder make up and profile, this increasingly means that we are moving away from typical due diligence to be able to consistently identify and assess such a founder. Towards a more consistent psychological and data driven assessment, that can better track, map and evaluate this unique startup founder anatomy.   Connect with Sami further: > https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabousaab/ > https://zigzag.vc/

Welcome to the FounderTech Decoded podcast. In this Series, each episode acts as a dedicated Briefing with a leading industry voice currently navigating their unique path into a new Deal Diligence™, that is affecting the way forward looking deal flow and funnels might now identify, generate and evaluate new and untapped venture value.   In this Briefing we talk with Karan Madan, who has a unique perspective and story as he works in deal origination at both ends of the venture ecosystem - for both private equity with Clifden Consulting and  also with startup assessment at FundIQ.   The conversation is a deep and detailed exploration into the ongoing importance and intrinsic value of alignment in venture deal flow. We discuss how whilst there may be different lenses and metrics, the principals and dynamics of this alignment apply equally to the early stage founder who is currently looking to now initially frame, market and distribute their pitch deck to investors as to an experienced founder. Who might be now running a mature business and managing a substantial operational infrastructure and is currently moving out of the Series B or C in their venture capital stage into the private equity phase. In order to rapidly scale, generate new value and possibly drive towards exit for themselves and their shareholders and stakeholders.   Uniquely this episode Briefing is also infused with and evaluated via the principles of Stoicism. The guiding philosophy that Karan continually returns to in order to guide his own journey and enable him to continually maintain and calibrate his own ongoing personal and professional alignment!   Connect further: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karanmadankmrt/  https://www.fundiq.report/  https://www.clifdenconsulting.co.uk/

Welcome to the FounderTech Decoded podcast. In this Series, each episode acts as a dedicated Briefing with a leading industry voice currently navigating their unique path into a new Deal Diligence™, that is affecting the way forward looking deal flow and funnels might now identify, generate and evaluate new and untapped venture value. In this Briefing we with talk with Stacy Kehren Idema about her new venture Equati. An intelligent legacy technology for Family Offices which bridges generations through data and technology. Creating a single source of truth for Family Office investors, we help them align their direct / impact / alternative investment opportunities to their values; while reducing emotional bias, enhancing family communication, and fostering co-investment opportunities. We explore how a Family offices often struggle with balancing their portfolio thesis with effective investment governance with the need to uphold their legacy - particularly when historical data shows 90% of family offices face wealth erosion by the third generation.  We discuss how her Deal Diligence™ journey - mirroring many others working and pioneering this new paths into this evolving space - is being driven by a cross section of emerging technologies with an increasing appetite in venture for data colliding with the behavioural shifts in appetite amongst forward thinking investors around the psychology of leveraging the competitive advantages offered by these shifts first and early. Connect with Stacy: > LinkedIn here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacykehrenidema/ > https://equati.ai/  > Contact and sign up for newsletter here: https://equati.ai/contact/

Welcome to the FounderTech Decoded podcast. In this Series, each episode acts as a dedicated Briefing with a leading industry voice currently navigating their unique path into a new Deal Diligence™, that is affecting the way forward looking deal flow and funnels might now identify, generate and evaluate new and untapped venture value.   In this Briefing episode we talk to Naish Yadav about how in scaling his startup Ventur he is setting up and creating a data driven foundation for early stage founders to now access and be able to leverage. A foundation that enables them from the outset better frame, understand and therefore match with the portfolio thesis of potentially aligned investors.   We talk about why this critical stage of the process is still so inefficiently managed and implemented - with so much of this founder investor outreach still being so unaligned and in reality too often cold and generic.   We discuss how the rise of low code / no code prototyping and side hustle startups, whilst great in terms of increasing the speed, ability and agility and also lowering the cost of anyone to conceive of and launch a startup, might also be inadvertently creating a noise to signal problem for the ecosystem, as it tries to filter through the resulting increased volume and vastly differing quality of startup deal flow.   We also explore where we are on the adoption scale amongst investors for data driven processes, perspectives and tools now fully integrating with their existing deal funnels - particularly around early stage pre-seed deal flow - and the untapped value this might unlock in the ecosystem.   For more information visit: https://venturhq.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/naishyadav/

Welcome to the FounderTech Decoded podcast. In this Series, each episode acts as a dedicated Briefing with a leading industry voice currently navigating their unique path into a new Deal Diligence™, that is affecting the way forward looking deal flow and funnels might now identify, generate and evaluate new and untapped venture value.   In this Briefing episode we talk to Soma Pirityi about how with his company ETA Technologies, he is pioneering applying data analytics to provide a much needed and currently missing agile and intelligent Deal Diligence™ on startup teams.   We explore why when 75% of S&P500 companies use and integrate psychometric testing, very few people in venture employ similar metrics when evaluating startup teams that they're currently looking to back and advance.   Particularly when 23% of those startups consistently fail due to a breakdown in team dynamics and with it an inability to operationally execute and strategically implement key ongoing milestones.   Hear how Soma believes why by increasingly integrating AI and associated data intelligence into current deal flow, this naturally leads to an increasing move towards and reliance on the 'Entrepreneurial Team Analytics' that ETA facilitates and a move away from the 'spray and pray' approach to cultivating a startup portfolio.   For more information visit: https://www.eta-technologies.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/soma-benedek-pirityi/