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Hosted by Amar Varma and Amit Jethani, Mantle Mondays brings you authentic conversations with builders, founders, and funders every other Monday.
Amar Varma and Amit Jethani hosts Mantle Mondays, a business show with 24 episodes published.
Your current insurance policy has a gap in it. Your AI system is probably sitting right in it. Karthik Ramakrishnan, CEO of Armilla AI, has spent 15 years at the frontier of machine learning. From building prediction pla
Most founders obsess over growth. But Rebecca Skvorc, CFO at ODAIA, says the real question is whether your company has the foundation to survive it. In this episode of Mantle Mondays, Rebecca joins Amar Varma to unpack w
Colin Hennigar of SickKids Foundation and the Upside Foundation joins Mantle Mondays to explain how founders can turn startup equity into lasting impact and why legacy should start long before the exit. Donate to SickKid
Raising venture capital in 2026 looks nothing like it did three years ago. Seed-strapped companies are hitting $6M ARR in six months. Pre-ChatGPT portfolios are re-platforming from scratch. Matt Cohen, Founder and Managi
What does it actually take to manage wealth well after an exit?In this episode of Mantle Mondays, Chris Canavan, the General Manager for post-exit founders, breaks down how founders should think about managing post-exit
AI makes it easier to ship. Ashok Sivanand, founder and former CEO of Integral, explains why that can be dangerous if founders confuse output with progress.In this Mantle Mondays conversation, Ashok breaks down how lean
Phil Jacobson, former Head of Operations at Tensor Labs, breaks down what startup ops actually looks like when the stakes are high: legal, finance, hiring, cap table cleanup, and acquisition readiness. The biggest takeaw
Most people treat networking like a volume game: more DMs, more intros, more meetings. Andrew D’Souza (Boardy, ex‑Clearco) argues it’s actually a trust + memory game—and AI finally makes a true “trust bridge” possible. I
In this episode of Mantle Mondays, Amar Varma sits down with Mark Gilbert, co-founder and CEO of Zocks, to talk about what it really takes to build a product people can’t live without. Mark's journey is anything but line
For decades, if you wanted to build a world-class tech company, you had to move to Silicon Valley. AI just changed that. When SF deploys new AI infrastructure today, the entire world gets access within 24 hours. For the
Joshua Berkowitz, Managing Principal at Berkocorp, shares how he runs his family's investment office as a one-person investment team—and why that's actually an advantage.In this episode of Mantle Mondays, Josh reveals:-
In this episode of Mantle Mondays, Amar Varma sits down with Narayan Chowdhury, Co-founder and Managing Director at Franklin Park, for an in-depth conversation about how AI is fundamentally transforming institutional inv
In this episode of Mantle Mondays, Amar Varma sits down with Candice Faktor, co-founder and CEO of Disco, to discuss her incredible journey from scaling Wattpad from 4 million to 90 million users to revolutionizing onlin
"Elon Musk was my first board member. I still have his signed offer letter with his phone number on it." That's just one story from Nihal Mehta's journey from college entrepreneur to Managing Partner at Eniac Ventures ($
Join Mantle's Amar Varma for an incredible conversation with Farhan Thawar, a tech veteran who's been at the forefront of every major wave of innovation over the past three decades. From early days at Waterloo to leading
First-time founders: stop underpaying for top talent. Adrian Camara learned this the hard way while building Athennian. When you're hiring a VP of Sales and one candidate costs 40-50% more than another, your instinct is
Alex Norman, co-founder of TechTO and managing partner at N49P Ventures, joins Mantle Mondays to share his journey building one of the most vibrant startup communities while investing in 80+ early-stage companies. From t
Mike Cooke, co-founder and CEO of AmacaThera, joins Amar to share his journey building a biotech company that's tackling post-operative pain and the opioid crisis.
Mark MacLeod has seen it all—14 years as CFO at companies like Shopify and FreshBooks, founding partner at Real Ventures, ran a boutique investment bank that sold over $1B in companies, and now coaches CEOs of venture-ba
Amar sits down with fellow serial entrepreneur, George Babu, founder and CEO of Aire Labs, as he shares his remarkable journey from working at BlackBerry during its $90 billion peak, to pioneering AI-powered robotics at
Matt Cohen
Founder and Managing Partner · UF Water Institute
1 appearance on this show
Amar Varma
Mantle
1 appearance on this show
Andrew D'Souza
Clearco
1 appearance on this show
Andrew D’Souza
Founder & CEO · Clearco
1 appearance on this show
Mark Gilbert
Reformanda Initiative Fellow · SelectCleaning
1 appearance on this show
Farhan Thawar
Head of Engineering · Helpful.com
1 appearance on this show
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Mantle Mondays is hosted by Amar Varma and Amit Jethani. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 24 episodes.
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