The Angel Nest

Online sports betting topped $18 billion in the U.S. last year and is on track to reach $30 billion in the next 10 years. Nearly 95% of all sports betting was done online in 2024, with companies like Fan Duel leading the charge.  In this episode of the Angel Nest podcast, we continue our series with Johnnie Walker of Rooled Outsourced CFO and Accounting Services and we welcome Nigel Eccles, a founder of Fan Duel. He’s also a board...

In this special New York Angels edition of the Angel Nest Podcast we talk to the co-founder of Fixe, an automated streamlined bookkeeping service for the restaurant industry. We'll hear how his chance meeting led to The New York Angels leading his seed investment round. Guests include Ryan Handel, the CEO of Fixe, and Simon Hopkins, a New York Angel, who co-led the investment in Fixe and has served on the board ever since.  Cindy...

Pulse oximeters are small devices that clip onto your finger at a doctor’s office or hospital to measure blood oxygen levels. Unfortunately, these devices do not do an equitable job of producing accurate results across all skin tones. Kimani Toussaint, senior associate dean for research and strategic initiatives at the Brown University School of Engineering, joined us on The Angel Nest Podcast to talk about this problem and the wo...

If you’re a B2B software founder or investor you want to talk to Tom Wisniewski. His Newark Venture Partners make big seed stage bets through a $200MM fund. Tom is a partner at NVP, where they invest in world-class B2B software in the Fintech and e-commerce space, including marketplaces and digital. They’re known to write $1-$3MM checks at seed stage.  In this episode of the Angel Nest Podcast, we’ll find out where’s he’s finding...

You know David S. Rose as the father of angel investing in New York, and the Founder and CEO of Gust.com. Now he’s bringing liquidity to investors in commercial real estate through USREM (which stands for US Real Estate Market). You can meet him at The NYC Fintech Connect Event on February 27, but we’re pleased to welcome him to this edition of the Angel Nest podcast for a preview of the event.  Rose wi...

Do your knees hurt? If so, you’ve got plenty of company. It turns out that arthroscopic knee surgery is one of the most popular procedures. In this episode of the Angel Nest, we speak to Dr. Chris Anderson, the founding surgeon of Native Orthopaedics. He grew up tying fly fishing knots in his native Tennessee and used that experience to invent the dragonfly finger trap method of repairing meniscus tears. It works in a way that cou...

With everyone living and playing longer, orthopaedic issues are booming for baby boomers, and for the rest of us.

In this Angel Nest First Look episode, we meet Native Orthopaedics. Their technology will revolutionize the way meniscus tears are repaired. And, it might just work for a whole host of other problems too.  Brian Morley of Native Orthopaedics joins us for this discussion. We’ll have an extensive series of programs about...

Every venture fund claims to add value, but what does that mean to investors? Luke Timberlake and his partners at Fintech Ventures are finding ways to capitalize on the movement that gives small investors access to bigger potential returns and markets they can’t invest in on their own.  In this episode of The Angel Nest podcast, we’ll talk with Luke about Fintech Ventures and how they provide the capita...

How can startup founder build their brands through thought leadership and digital distribution in a way that actually gets customers? In this episode, we’re talking about marketing for startups.   This is another in our series of podcasts with Johnnie Walker of Rooled Outsourced CFO and Accounting Services about how founders are getting creative to get their businesses off the ground, raise money and find clients. We’re joined ...

It takes more than a good idea to have a successful launch. With funding harder to come by for companies of all sizes, proven technology and the partnerships to get it to market are more valuable than ever.  In this episode of the Angel Net, we meet a venture studio that is helping founders get funded and connecting them to leading academic and government institutions - all with the idea of solving society's biggest challenges.  ...

Investor Tom Wisniewski knows what companies need to do to get funded. He’s a New York Angel, the Managing Partner at Newark Venture Partners, and he’s leading and investing in large seed rounds for firms specializing in B2B software.  He joins host David Hemenway and Johnnie Walker of Rooled Outsourced CFO and Accounting Services, the startup finance experts. Tom will share his take on what you need to do to raise money in this m...

If you think it’s harder than it used to be to find financing for your start up all the data says, you’re right. In this episode, we continue our series with Johnnie Walker of Rooled Outsourced CFO and Accounting Services about how founders are getting funded in this new environment.  We’re also pleased to get timely advice from one of the most experienced and prolific angel investors anywhere. David S. Rose has been called the f...

EdTech deals with some of society’s most important challenges, but sometimes doesn’t get the same attention it’s SaaS or AI siblings get from investors. Ash Kaluarachchi’s StartEd is changing that by helping founders accelerate their EdTech vision and turn good ideas into great companies.  In this episode of the Angel Nest, we’ll hear about EdTech Week coming up in New York, and how Ash and his accelerator helped Mike Linares, fou...

There may be no better place for investors to find innovative companies than at leading colleges and universities that not only develop the tech, but also lead the charge into the marketplace.  Brown University has become a big player in tech innovation, including life sciences, software, Greentech and more. They put Brown developed technology first, but partner with innovators and entrepreneurs everywhere to launch and lead solut...

Newport, Rhode Island is famous for recreation. Now, investors get a chance to mine a startup ecosystem that has some truly unique advantages at The Newport Investor Summit, September 26-27.  Situated between Boston and New York with a more affordable cost of living and some of the world’s leading educational institutions, the small state of Rhode Island has been making big gains in the innovation economy. It’s been helped along b...

Brown University has become a big player in tech innovation. In this episode, we’ll meet some of the game-changing companies they’ve helped develop and talk about how you can meet them at their Innovation@Brown showcase, which happens September 26. Adept Materials makes paint that helps regulate moisture in ever-more energy efficient but air-tight houses - and yes, that can be a problem. Derek Stein is CEO and a former physics pro...

Technology has changed so much in finance and accounting. But with all the disruption one thing stays the same. Companies want to invoice efficiently and get paid faster. In this episode, Johnnie Walker of Rooled and Ali Hussain of Tabs join us on the Angel Nest to talk about how they’re using AI to boost their clients’ bottom lines. This is another episode in our series with Walker, founder of Rooled Outsourced CFO and Accounting...

There is a revolution happening in how America moves freight, and we are not talking about EVs or hybrids. Trucking companies, including many smaller fleets, are quickly professionalizing their financial management with the help of a modern payments platform for invoicing, financing and payments. In this episode of the Angel Nest podcast, we meet Outgo which Bain Capital says it’s one of the top 50 emerging fintech SaaS companies...

Everyone is watching their diet, and it’s not just calories anymore. Heightened awareness about allergies and intolerances – along with the food-as-medicine movement – has led to a whole host of issues that people are trying to solve for themselves with smarter eating. But what do you do when you eat out? How do you know what’s really in that food?  Well, there’s an app for that. Today, we meet Foodini. This episode of the Angel N...