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Hosted by Philip Smith · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 32 episodes
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Founders & Investors discuss how to fund your startup's journey. Sponsored by Perfutil Technologies & Leyton.
Philip Smith hosts Founders and Funding, a business show with 32 episodes published.
In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip Smith speaks with Eoin, Co-founder and CEO of Trace. Eoin shares how a problem he watched his college friends struggle with, burning through AI subscription credi
In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip Smith speaks with Stas Levitan, Founder and CEO of Lightsight AI, a full-stack AI search platform that covers both the technical and analytics sides of winning vi
In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip Smith speaks with Emma Meehan, Founder and CEO of KinetikIQ, a software platform using the 3D scanning technology built into iPhone and iPad Pro devices to delive
In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip Smith speaks with Ben Barrett, Co-Founder of Nomad, an AI adoption and software company he started while still in college. Ben shares the full arc of Nomad's jour
In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip Smith speaks with Mark Swaine, who spent 3 years as product lead at Elkstone VC and now founder of Swaine Partners. Mark shares his perspective from both sides of
In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip Smith speaks with Ankur Arora, Co-Founder of Montro. Ankur shares the story behind Montro, a Dublin-based, EU-native AI and SaaS governance platform that helps mi
In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip Smith speaks with Sanket Agarwal, Co-Founder of Fleek. Sanket shares the story behind Fleek, a marketplace solving the inventory problem for the secondhand fashio
In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip speaks with Sean Mullaney, Founder & CEO of Seapoint. Sean shares the story behind Seapoint, an all-in-one financial platform built specifically for startup found
In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip Smith speaks with Daria Berman, CEO and Co-Founder of Fuss. Daria shares the story behind Fuss, a mobile app and social platform helping people spend more meaning
In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip speaks with Aleksandrina Ikonomova, exited founder, startup mentor and angel investor. Aleksandrina brings a rare combination of perspectives to the conversation,
In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip Smith speaks with Niall Moran, Fractional CTO and Startup Advisor. Niall brings over 20 years of experience across software development, go-to-market strategy, an
In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip Smith speaks with Darragh Gaffney, Business Lead Ireland at Leyton. Darragh shares how Leyton helps startups and scaling companies unlock funding they didn't know
In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip Smith speaks with Ross Keating, Co-Founder of Overpath. Ross shares the story behind Overpath, an AI-powered revenue execution platform built to help sales reps w
In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip Smith speaks with Damien Mulley, Start-Up Programme Manager at UCC Innovation. Damien shares what it really looks like to support early-stage founders coming stra
In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip Smith speaks with Richard Blythman, Founder & CEO of Naptha AI. Richard shares his journey building Naptha AI, from predicting the rise of AI agents before MCP wa
In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip Smith speaks with Roger Courtney, Founder & CEO of Sunstone. Roger shares his journey building Sunstone, the challenges of scaling a company, and what it takes to
In this episode, Alister Esam shares with Philip what really drives successful startup investing, from spotting patterns across hundreds of deals to why traction matters more than ideas. We discuss founder traits, fundin
In this episode, Adriana Ignat (COO of Pulsate and Founder of VEKT AI) unpacks what it actually looks like to build a startup alongside a full-time executive role. From late nights and weekend sprints to creative ways of
On this episode Philip speaks with Alan Costello, Partner at Resolve Partners, about what founders should focus on when building and funding a startup. They discuss customer discovery, building real traction, and how fou
In this episode of Founders and Funding, Philip speaks with Oscar Williams - VC investor, climate tech specialist and deep tech mentor. They explore funding strategies for hard tech startups, mixed capital stacks, what i
Matthew Stafford
Managing Partner · Build Grow Scale
1 appearance on this show
Eoin Quirke
Trace
1 appearance on this show
Stas Levitan
Lightsight AI
1 appearance on this show
Mark Swaine
Swaine Partners
1 appearance on this show
Daria Berman
FUSS
1 appearance on this show
Darragh Gaffney
Leyton
1 appearance on this show
Ross Keating
Overpath
1 appearance on this show
Damien Mulley
UCC Innovation
1 appearance on this show
Richard Blythman
Naptha AI
1 appearance on this show
Roger Courtney
Sunstone
1 appearance on this show
Alister Esam
Angel6
1 appearance on this show
Adriana Ignat
VEKT AI
1 appearance on this show
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