Startup Gym
Startup Gym is a show about the hard work, coaches, and community that go in to building a company. Our startup gym is Science Inc., an incubator and venture studio in Los Angeles, CA. On any given day, people meet, challenge each other, and work on making their dreams a reality. Join us as we capture some of those conversations.
Episodes
Alex Kehr and Connor Smith are the cofounders of Pop Inc. They are building a fun and engaging stickers marketplace to make your iMessage conversations more personal and expressive. Their marketplace also helps creators distribute and monetize their designs.
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Matt Hartman is Partner at Betaworks Ventures, a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund based in New York City and San Francisco.
Betaworks is a startup platform that builds, runs accelerators, makes investments, and recently opened a new Club for Builders called Betaworks Studios.
On this episode, we talk about the future of new technologies like conversational software and synthetic media, and Matt's experience...
Blake Robbins is Partner at Ludlow Ventures, an early-stage venture firm in Detroit that believes in "VC without ego." Their portfolio includes Honey, Scentbird, Lumi, Product Hunt, Angel List, 100 Thieves, and 80+ others.
Jackson Dahl is Business Development and Founding Team at 100 Thieves, a multimedia gaming and lifestyle organization. Their League of Legends team finished their first regular season in First ...
Ben is the co-founder of Pioneer Square Labs, a startup studio and venture capital fund. He is an entrepreneur and investor, recently serving as the interim CEO of Taunt, where he now serves on the board. He has a background in product management, shipping the first version of Office for iPad at Microsoft. His career at Microsoft later took him to run The Garage, the company’s grassroots innovation program.
After leaving M...
Peter McCormack is a Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency trader, advisor, miner, blogger and podcaster. He has been active in the Bitcoin and Crypto space since 2013 and became a full-time trader in January 2017.
When he started trading full-time, he found it difficult to find information to help new investors in the space, so he started the What Bitcoin Did website to help others who want to invest and trade Bitcoin and Cryptocurr...
Shivani Siroya is the Founder and CEO of Tala, a global leader in mobile-first financial services for underserved consumers.
More than 1.3 million people have borrowed through Tala’s smartphone app, which provides instant credit scoring, lending, and other personalized financial services in emerging markets.
Since recording this podcast, Tala has announced $65M in new financing, new offices in Mexico City and Mumbai, and h...
Sophia Parsa is co-founder and CEO of Toot. Through their app Homework Helper, Toot connects knowledge with curiosity by empowering a community of learners. Students can ask questions using a camera-based interface similar to Snapchat to ask questions and get help from a live tutor.
Sophia also founded Mountain Gate, an invite-only community comprised of entrepreneurs, creatives, and innovators engaged in mutual learning t...
Unlocked is a mobile app that brings the anime & pop culture community together like never before. Users can connect with celebrities, watch and discover content, chat with others in the community, access event coverage, and more.
In addition to being the co-founders of Unlocked, Bryce Papenbrook and David Vincent each have 20+ years of experience as voice over artists. Their impressive filmography includes (to name on...
Jesse Genet is co-founder and CEO of Lumi, a packaging partner for modern brands. Lumi uses data to help companies simplify their process and sell their product. This episode was fun for a couple of reasons: first, because Jesse is awesome! Second, because this is our first time oustide of our building. While Lumi isn't a part of Science, we consider them friends and part of the greater LA-tech family. You can expect more ...
Benoit Vatere is on a journey to redefine mobile entertainment, a few minutes at a time. As Founder and CEO of Mammoth Media, he leads his data-driven team in pioneering the future of media through new forms of content.
Mammoth Media has reached about 30 percent of U.S. teens in less than four years, through its apps Wishbone and Yarn, which have been downloaded tens-of-millions of times. The company just raised $13M in Se...
Tiffany Hakimianpour is Handstand's Founder and CEO. She's a leader with a passion for strategy, technology, execution, people, wellness and everything optimal.
Handstand's vision is to be the world leader in revolutionizing the state of human health, healing, and happiness in each unique individual today, and for the generations to come.
Tiffany featured on Reebok website: Click Here
Handstand partnership with Reebok and ...
Kartik Mandaville is the Founder and CEO of SpringRole, a protocol for attestations on blockchain.
Because SpringRole is built on blockchain and uses smart contracts, it’s able to verify work experience and reputation, give real meaning to endorsements, reward endorsers, and get users endorsements outside of their network. SpringRole is the first portfolio company from Science Blockchain, the blockchain-focused incubator f...
For our inaugural episode, we sit down with Mike Jones, Co-founder and CEO of Science Inc. and Science Blockchain. Mike is an internet executive, strategic advisor, and active angel investor with more than $2.5B in exits. His exits in 2016 alone included Science portfolio companies HelloSociety (acq. by The New York Times), FameBit (acq. by Google), and Dollar Shave Club (acq. by Unilever).
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