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Just Getting Started
by FUSE VC
FUSE is an early-stage venture firm based in the Pacific Northwest, and just like the founders in our portfolio - we are just getting started. We believe that founders deserve more: more urgency, more community, more expertise, more reliability - more of everything. And we aim to deliver. Join us to hear the founding stories of companies in the FUSE family, experiences from visionary operators and executives in the Pacific Northwest, as well as startup journey wisdom and best practices from the FUSE team. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Introducing Rohan D'Souza, Co-Founder and CEO of Avante
Rohan D'Souza recently joined us for a conversation to share the story behind Avante – an AI-native platform transforming how employers manage employee benefits. Tune in to hear how Rohan, Nick Cecil, Dr. Carly Eckert, and Kabir Shahani are helping employees become healthier and more engaged with...
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Introducing Yash Wagh, Co-Founder and CEO of Gone
Today, I'm joined by Yash Wagh, co-founder and CEO of Gone. Gone is building the infrastructure for the $100B+ global recommerce market, offering free pickup for used items and turning them into curated inventory for a tech-enabled resale marketplace. It’s a seamless way for consumers to…
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Introducing Ezra Feilden, Co-Founder and CTO of Star Cloud
Today, I’m joined by Ezra Feilden, co-founder and CTO of Star Cloud (Formerly Lumen Orbit). In light of massive energy requirements for AI and data processing workloads, Lumen is pursuing a big vision: putting data centers in space. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for…
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Introducing Karthik Jagannathan, CEO of Gallabox
This episode features Karthik Jagannathan, CEO of Gallabox. In our conversation, Karthik shares compelling perspectives from his experiences as a first-time founder and longtime business leader serving SMBs. Learn about how it all led to starting Gallabox - which is helping businesses automate...
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Introducing Sadee Gamhewa, Founder & CEO of Velou
Today you’ll hear from Sadee Gamhewa, Founder and CEO of Velou. Join us to learn about how Sadee’s personal experience with ecommerce shopping led him to create Velou and how the company is enriching brands’ product description pages, optimizing their data for search engines, and ultimately...
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Introducing Luke Arrigoni, Founder and CEO of Loti
Today I am joined by Luke Arrigoni, Founder and CEO of Loti. Join us as we discuss how Loti is changing the game for artists and talent in managing their digital image and likeness by finding and removing unwanted real and deepfake content within hours of it appearing online. Let's get started!...
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Introducing Martín Ramírez, Co-Founder and CEO of Signify
Today I am joined by Martin Ramirez, Co-Founder and CEO of Signify. Join us as we discuss Martin’s path from MSFT, Pharma, multiple early stage startups, AI Voice – and how it all led him to a focus on regulatory compliance for manufacturers with Signify. Also prepared to soak up some great...
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Introducing Kyle Roche, Co-Founder and CEO of Griptape
Today you’ll hear from Kyle Roche, Co-founder and CEO of Griptape. Join us as we discuss Kyle’s 15-year journey driving software innovation at AWS and his prior startup 2Lemetry, and how Griptape is lowering the barrier to entry for AI usage at SMBs and Enterprises alike. Let's get started!…
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Introducing Nate Hamet, Co-Founder and CEO of Quindar
Today you’ll hear from Nate Hamet, Co-founder and CEO of Quindar. Join us as we discuss Nate’s path to discovering his passion for SpaceTech, meeting his five co-founders, and how Quindar is becoming mission-critical – pun intended – for satellite operators and beneficiaries of their data like…
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Introducing Doug Logan, Co-Founder and CEO of Aerial
Today you’ll hear from Doug Logan, Co-founder and CEO of Aerial. Join us to learn about Doug’s prior experience serving startups and midmarket M&A at K&L gates, and how the pain from masses of clerical work inspired his vision for Aerial. Speeding up financing rounds and creating legal cost…
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Operational Excellence - Honing a Numbers-driven Operating Approach
Today's Operational Excellence episode features Mike Bignold, the Founder and CEO of CostCertified. In this conversation he sits down with FUSE GP Brendan Wales to share about how he leverages a numbers-driven approach to operating, and how it's helped CostCertified to grow by more than 10x in…
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Operational Excellence - Operating Tactics to 10x Revenue in 2 years
In this episode we sit down with Leif Magnuson, Co-Founder and CEO of TipHaus . In this conversation he is joined by FUSE GP Brendan Wales to discuss some of his creative tactics for operating leanly and efficiently -- and how it's helped TipHaus 10x its revenue in two years. Let's get started!...
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Operational Excellence - Building and running world-class boards
Today's Operational Excellence episode features FUSE Operating Partner John Connors. John has been a partner at Ignition (FUSE’s Alma Matter) since 2005 and also served as CFO and CIO of Microsoft. Throughout his career he has served on many public, private, non-profit and civic boards, some...
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Introducing Jackson and Jamieson Fregeau, Founders of Quandri
Today I am joined by Jackson and Jamieson Fregeau, the founders of Quandri. Join us as we discuss how these two brothers teamed up to build an RPA platform to automate workflows for insurance brokerages. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Operational Excellence - Hiring and fostering world-class teams: How to look for and maintain top talent (including AI talent) and best practices for structuring performance reviews
Today's Operational Excellence episode features Paul Mikesell, the current Founder and CEO of Carbon Robotics. Prior to Carbon, Paul co-founded Isilon Systems, which went public in 2006 and was subsequently acquired by EMC for $2.25 billion in 2010. Paul also served as Director of Infrastructure...
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Introducing Benji Barash, Co-Founder and CEO of Roboto
Today you’ll hear from Benji Barash, Co-founder and CEO of Roboto. Join us to learn about Benji’s experience helping run the drone program at Amazon – and how it paved the way for starting Roboto. This business is transforming the way engineers can access and analyze multimodal hardware and…
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Operational Excellence - Delivering a world-class sales motion and driving top performance
This month's Operational Excellence webinar features FUSE LP and Attentive VP of Sales, Gavin Hewitt. In this discussion, Gavin and FUSE's Brendan Wales discuss sales best practices. Topics include: how to best serve big and small ACVs, how to build comp and capacity models for SDRs/AEs, how to...
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Introducing Leif Magnuson, Co-Founder and CEO of TipHaus
Today I am sitting down with Leif Magnuson, Co-founder and CEO of TipHaus. Tune in as Leif shares about his journey in the restaurant industry and some key insights into the ever increasing importance of proper tip management strategies. He’ll also share why major restaurant brands are turning to...
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Operational Excellence - Starting and Scaling Three Venture-backed Startups before Thirty
Today FUSE GP Brendan Wales sits down with Ryan Fink, Co-founder and CEO of Digs. Ryan has started 3 companies before the age of 35. He scaled his first two to successful exits – and has a big vision for company number 3: Digs. In today’s conversation he shares key insights from his journey about...
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Introducing Vikram Chalana, Co-founder and CEO of Pictory
Today you'll hear from Vikram Chalana, Co-founder and CEO of Pictory. Join us as we discuss the making of the product, the generative AI landscape, and why Pictory can turn anyone into a video editing pro in minutes. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Operational Excellence - How to Build an Execution Machine: Applying Operating Tactics from a profitable, high-growth software business to early-stage stage startups
In this Operational Excellence episode we sit down with FUSE LP Eric Johnson. Eric was the CEO of Nintex for 5 years and was CFO prior to that. Nintex generates $250M+ ARR and was recently valued at $2B. He knows what it takes to build an execution machine. Listen in as he and FUSE GP Brendan…
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Operational Excellence - The Journey is the Reward: Maintaining excellence for a Decade+
Today we continue with our Operational Excellence series. This week's episode features a conversation between FUSE GP Brendan Wales and FUSE Operating Partner Bobby Wagner. As an All-Pro linebacker Bobby continues to be at the top of his game, having recently completed his 11th NFL season. He…
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Introducing David Rhodus, Founder and CEO of Flostream
Today you’ll hear from David Rhodus, Founder and CEO of Flostream. Join us as David discusses his prior experiences in blockchain, including his time at Ethereum, what led to him create SUMI, and how the product is revolutionizing storage. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
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Operational Excellence, Executive Hiring Series - Episode 6: VP of People and Culture
Welcome back! Today we're are wrapping up this portion of the Operational Excellence series focused on the hiring journey. I'm joined once again by FUSE Operating Partner Satbir Khanuja, to talk about hiring an early stage VP of People and Culture. With learnings gathered throughout his time as a...
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Operational Excellence, Executive Hiring Series - Episode 5: VP of Technology (Engineering) / CTO
Today, we continue with our Operational Excellence series focused on the hiring journey. I'm joined again by FUSE Operating Partner, John Connors, to talk about hiring an early-stage technical leader. With learnings gathered throughout his time as a startup investor and advisor, and his past life...
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Operational Excellence, Executive Hiring Series - Episode 4: VP of Marketing
Today we're continuing with our Operational Excellence series focused on the hiring journey. I'm once again joined by FUSE operating partner Satbir Khanuja to talk about hiring an early stage marketing leader. With learnings gathered throughout his time as an early marketing leader at Amazon as...
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Operational Excellence, Executive Hiring Series - Episode 3: VP of Finance / CFO
Today, we continue on with our Operational Excellence Series focused on the hiring journey. This is our third episode and I'm back with Fuse operating partner, John Connors, to talk about hiring an early-stage VP of Finance. This role is personally relevant to John as he served a significant...
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Operational Excellence, Executive Hiring Series - Episode 2: VP of Product
This is the second episode in our new Executive Hiring Series. Join me as I sit down with Fuse operating partner, Satbir Khanuja to talk about hiring an early stage product leader. Satbir has decades of experience as an operator, founder and investor. He's seen and experienced firsthand what it...
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Introducing Ryan Soskin, Co-Founder and CEO of Goodship
Today you'll hear from Ryan Soskin, Co-Founder and CEO of GoodShip. Join us to learn about how Ryan's decade of experience at companies such as Convoy and Coyote Logistics paved the way for starting GoodShip - and learn about how the business is transforming the way shippers and freight carriers...
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Operational Excellence, Executive Hiring Series - Episode 1: VP of Sales
This is the first episode in our new Executive Hiring Series. Building a high performing leadership team is critical to success. It is imperative to do the proper upfront work when exploring and screen candidates, but as a founder, knowing what to look for based on your company's stage and how to...
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Introducing Max Keenan, Co-Founder and CEO of Needl
Needl is solving the age old issue of internal search. In this episode I sit down with Max Keenan, Co-founder and CEO to discuss the recent advances allowing for better internal search, the best Pizza restaurant in Seattle, and how Needl is super charging the way we can find information and…
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Introducing David Wexler, Co-founder and CEO of PortX
Meet David Wexler, founder and CEO of PortX. Join us as we discuss the entrepreneurship journey and how this company is revolutionizing the way community financial institutions can deliver enhanced customer experiences through seamless integrations with their banking cores. Let's get started!...
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Introducing Rich Rogers and Akhila Tadinada, Founders of Xemelgo
Meet Rich Rogers and Akhila Tadinada, founders of Xemelgo. Join us as we discuss the evolution of manufacturing and the shift towards industry 4.0 and how Xemelgo is completely transforming factory operations and supply chains. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
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Introducing Emiliano Berenbaum, Co-Founder and CEO of Trustle
Today, you'll hear from a Emiliano Berenbaum. He's one of the founders and the CEO of Trustle. Join us as we fire through a few topics about the business, how it's been going and growing, and how he has assembled a killer team to build the next generation Okta. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast....
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Introducing Joshua McKenty, Co-Founder and CEO of Delving
Next is Joshua McKenty, Co-Founder and CEO of Delving. Join us as we discuss the discovery process and entrepreneurship journey - and how Delving is going to transform and supercharge the way we engage with Excel and every other spreadsheet tool. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See...
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Introducing Aatish Mandelecha, Founder and CEO of Strac
Aatish Mandelecha is the Founder and CEO of Strac. Aatish and his team collectively spent 30+ years at Amazon in Payments building various products, widgets, APIs & security. Most recently, they built their payment secure zone that stored & transacted billions of cards. Join us as we fire through…
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Introducing Aaron Bailey, Co-Founder and CEO of Builtfirst
Today you'll hear from Aaron Bailey, co-founder and CEO of Builtfirst. Join us as we fire through a few topics about the business, how it's been going and growing and how Builtfirst is transforming partnership ecosystems, and the way SaaS subscriptions are discovered and purchased. Let's get...
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Introducing Ryan Fuller, Co-Founder and CEO of Round
Today you'll hear from Ryan Fuller, Co-founder and CEO of Round. Join us as we discuss Ryan’s entrepreneurship journey and leadership perspectives - and how Round is creating a community that will shape the Tech world and it’s leaders for the better. Let’s get started! Hosted on Acast. See...
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Introducing Steve Davis, CEO of Operto
Today, you'll hear from Steve Davis, CEO of Operto. Join him and FUSE partner, Brendan Wales as they fire through a few topics about the business, how it's been going and growing, and how Operto is shifting the paradigm of short term rental check-in and guest experiences. Let's get started!…
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Introducing Anand Subbaraj, Co-Founder and CEO of Zuper
Today you'll hear from Anand Subbaraj, Co-founder and CEO of Zuper. Join us as we discuss how the business has been growing, what it means to be truly customer obsessed, and how Zuper is "uberizing" field service operations. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
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Introducing Serge Salager, CEO of Visualping
Serge Salager is the CEO of Visualping, one of Fuse's first portfolio companies. We will quickly fire through a few topics about the business, how it's been going and growing, and how Visualping helps users leverage the internet as their own personal database. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast....
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Introducing Sean Merat, Co-founder and CEO of Owl
Sean Merat is a repeat entrepreneur and current Co-founder and CEO of Owl. Owl was Fuse's very first portfolio company and has been growing quickly since. Join us as we fire through a few topics about the business, how it's been going and growing, and how Owl is changing the game in insurance…
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Introducing Paul Mikesell, Founder and CEO of Carbon Robotics
Paul Mikesell is a seasoned entrepreneur and current Founder and CEO of Carbon Robotics. Prior to Carbon, Paul was the Founder and Director of Engineering at Isilon Systems, which is one of the PNW region's biggest tech success stories. Join us as we discuss Paul's entrepreneurship journey, key...
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Introducing Mike Bignold, Co-founder and CEO of CostCertified
Today you'll hear from Mike Bignold, Co-founder and CEO of CostCertified. Join us as we discuss the business, how it's been going and growing, and how CostCertified is making buying residential construction services as easy as buying on Amazon. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See...
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Introducing Matt Hocking, Co-founder and CEO of WellSaid Labs
Matt Hocking is the Co-Founder and CEO of WellSaid Labs. Join us as we discuss a few topics about the business, how it's been going and growing, and how their AI voice product is the future of voice content creation. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Introducing Kevin Lin, Founder and CEO of Dendron
Today you'll hear from Kevin Lin, Founder and CEO of Dendron. Join us as we fire through a few topics about the business, the team's journey this far, and how Kevin - after having taken over 20,000 notes during his career as a developer - decided it was time to build a new method of knowledge...
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Introducing JT Garwood, Co-founder and CEO of bttn
JT Garwood is the Co-Founder and CEO of bttn, a fast growing B2B medical supply marketplace. Today we'll discuss a few topics about the business, how it's been going and growing, and why the medical supply industry is ripe for disruption. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
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Introducing Johannes Crepon, Co-founder and CEO of PDM Automotive
Today you'll hear from Johannes Crepon, Co-founder and CEO of PDM Automotive. Join us as we fire through a few topics about the business, how it's been going and growing, and how PDM is changing the game in the automotive aftermarket. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...
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Introducing Johannes Ariens, Founder and CEO of Route Line
Johannes Ariens is the Founder and CEO of Route Line. Prior to founding Route Line, Johannes started LOGE, a Pacific Northwest-based hotel and adventure business. Join us as he shares about the entrepreneurial journey, the discovery process that led him to starting Route Line and his vision to...
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Introducing Bryce Bennett, Co-founder and CEO of Solo
Today you'll be hearing from Bryce Bennett, Co-founder and CEO of Solo. Join us as Bryce discusses his prior experience at Uber and Convoy, how it led to building Solo, and why their product will be key in empowering the future of the gig workforce. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
FUSE is an early-stage venture firm based in the Pacific Northwest, and just like the founders in our portfolio - we are just getting started. We believe that founders deserve more: more urgency, more community, more expertise, more reliability - more of everything. And we aim to deliver.
Join us to hear the founding stories of companies in the FUSE family, experiences from visionary operators and executives in the Pacific Northwest, as well as startup journey wisdom and best practices from the FUSE team.
Let's get started!
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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