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Unknown Host hosts The VentureFuel Visionaries, a business show with 303 episodes published.
As VentureFuel prepares for Innov8rs Canada, where our VP of Innovation, Pritam Bhattarai, will present AI Pilot Purgatory: Why Most Experiments Fail to Scale (and How to Fix It), we're revisiting this insightful convers
What role should government play in driving innovation? In this episode of VF Visionaries, Kathleen Coviello, Chief Economic Transformation Officer at the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), explains how N
What does it take to build startups with the speed of a founder and the scale of a global enterprise? Shilpa Prasad shares how LG Nova is rethinking venture creation by combining corporate resources with a venture studio
Buildings are responsible for a significant share of global energy consumption, yet one of the biggest opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce emissions often goes unnoticed: the building envelope. In this episode
Dan DeMeyere, Chief Product & Technology Officer at ThredUp, has spent more than a decade helping scale one of the world’s largest online resale marketplaces, growing from one of the company’s earliest engineers into the
In this episode, Anish Patel, chief investment and operating officer at Yamaha Motor Ventures shares how Yamaha is rethinking corporate venture capital as a core driver of long-term growth and innovation. Rather than tre
A year ago, VentureFuel Founder & CEO Fred Schonenberg sat down with Kasey Cronquist, President of the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council and the North American Blueberry Council, to discuss the launch of the Blueberry Boos
Tinku Malayil Jose, Head of the Vertical Technology Office for HiTech at Quest Global, has more than 20 years of experience building complex products, from smart TVs and streaming platforms to automotive systems and IoT.
Jesse Draper is the Founding Partner of Halogen Ventures, a Los Angeles–based VC firm investing in early-stage consumer and B2B startups led by female and co-ed teams. A fourth-generation venture capitalist and the first
Charlie O’Donnell is one of the most influential figures in New York’s startup ecosystem. With more than two decades of experience spanning Union Square Ventures, First Round Capital, and then creating the first venture
Prabagar Sankar, Senior Engineer at Intuitive, a leader in robotic-assisted healthcare innovation, shares a front-line perspective on how healthcare innovation actually makes it from lab to patient. We explore the critic
Katie Teuber, Director of Startup Engagement at Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs, shares how to identify the right startup partners, pilot their innovative solutions, and most-importantly scale them across a large enterpri
Raju Dandigam, Engineering Manager at Navan, the all-in-one travel, corporate card, and expense management platform built for modern enterprises shares what it takes to build high-impact products that scale. Raju has mor
Corporate innovation programs often generate activity but struggle to produce measurable business impact. Ronja Stoffregen, Director of Corporate Venturing at REHAU New Ventures, shares how venture clienting can bridge t
Scaling innovation inside a global legacy brand isn’t about ideas — it’s about execution, alignment, and measurable impact. Manasa Nalla, Associate Director of Product Innovation & Strategy at The Duracell Company, explo
With a data engineer career spanning telecom (AT&T) and global banking (Barclays), Monika brings a pragmatic perspective on what it really takes to move from experimentation to production-grade AI at massive scale for la
AI is no longer a future bet — it’s a board-level mandate. But for corporate innovation leaders, the real question isn’t whether to invest in AI… it’s how to turn AI from experimentation theater into measurable enterpris
In this special episode, we recap the Startup City Info Session held on February 18, 2026, spotlighting Tomorrow.City USA, the U.S. edition of a premier urban innovation conference connecting city leaders, investors, and
Innovation leader Mark Treiber breaks down how corporates can stay ahead of platform shifts—from mobile and OTT to the creator economy and AI—and why the biggest mistake companies make is not making enough bets. From his
Adèle Yaroulina, global co-innovation expert and author of the new book “Collaborate to Innovate: How Startups and Established Organizations Create Breakthrough Success Together,” joins Fred Schonenberg, Founder of Ventu
Jesse Draper
Founder and Managing Director · Halogen Ventures
1 appearance on this show
Jeff Barry
Head of Innovation · Dot Foods
1 appearance on this show
Lou Shipley
Harvard senior lecturer and author of Unlikely Entrepreneurs · Harvard Business School
1 appearance on this show
Mike Collins
storyboard artist and illustrator · Solid Ground Church
1 appearance on this show
John Stapleton
Authentic Entrepreneur · AGADA Biosciences
1 appearance on this show
Jim Weber
Former CEO of Brooks Running
1 appearance on this show
Ben Colman
Co-Founder and CEO · Reality Defender
2 appearances on this show
JoAnn Garbin
sustainability and technology entrepreneur · Microsoft
1 appearance on this show
Amy Wood
Manager of Accessible Events · Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
1 appearance on this show
Maria Rodriguez
vocational rehabilitation counselor · Dentons Luxembourg
2 appearances on this show
Marques Colston
Former NFL Wide Receiver, New Orleans Saints
1 appearance on this show
Mike Jackson
Managing Partner, Earthshot Ventures
1 appearance on this show
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The VentureFuel Visionaries is hosted by Unknown Host. The show is categorised under Business (entrepreneurship) and has published 303 episodes.
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