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Midstage Startup Momentum
by Roland Siebelink
Roland Siebelink talks all things tech startup and bring you interviews with tech cofounders across the world.
Episodes
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#098 GeniusLabs | If You Don’t Quit, Someday You Will Find Product-Market Fit
The modern gaming industry is massive, almost as big as the movie industry. However, things are tough, as game developers have to compete with user-generated content platforms like TikTok and YouTube. To keep up, game developers need to be able to produce quality content faster than ever before....
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#097 Mother Games | Creating a New Way of Seeing the World
The gaming industry is always open to creative and innovative ideas. Mother Games is one startup that is doing just that, both in terms of gameplay and in the way that it operates. The company’s first game Le Zoo will be out soon, promising a transformational experience for players. But outside…
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#096 ForceMetrics | Go Head First Into the Bad
We can all agree on the importance of public safety. Yet, in today’s world, many of the people in charge of public safety are doing their jobs with less information than an Uber driver. That is precisely the problem that Andre McGregor has set out to change with his startup ForceMetrics. Using…
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#095 icetanaAI | We Write AI That Keeps People Safe
What happens when a business is struggling despite having great technology and a useful product offering? Just find someone with experience building startups to start from scratch. That’s the story of icetana AI, an AI-based security company based in Australia. The company had the technology to…
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#094 TechSee | If I Can See It, I Can Solve It
As amazing as modern technology can be, it doesn’t always work the way we want it to work. Sometimes your home Internet goes out or your new coffee machine isn’t cooperating. In those instances, calling customer support or having a technician visit isn’t always a smooth process either. Luckily,...
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#093 SensiAI | The Best Thing I Learned Was to Trust My Intuition
The home care industry is more important than ever, but some would say it’s behind the times because it’s not harnessing the power of modern technology. But that’s starting to change thanks to Sensi.AI, which is utilizing artificial intelligence to help home care companies improve their service…
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#092 Spines | Focus on the Business, and Investors Will Chase You
The publishing industry is what most would consider old and outdated, not exactly an ideal setting for an up-and-coming tech startup. But don’t tell that to Spines founder Yehuda Niv. Already established in the publishing world, Yehuda is using AI to disrupt and revolutionize the publishing...
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#091 SymbianAI | The Importance of Intellectual Honesty
What if AI could make cybercrime too expensive for hackers to pursue? In this episode of the Midstage Startup Momentum Podcast, Ambuj Kumar, co-founder, and CEO of Symbian AI, discusses the power of intellectual honesty, innovation, and AI-driven cybersecurity in building scalable, impactful...
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#090 InHeirit | Coaching an Early-Stage Startup towards Launching
Founders who have never experienced coaching firsthand often wonder what it’s like to work with an experienced startup coach. At the Midstage Institute, we wanted to peel back the curtain a little to show you what it’s like during a coaching session. I recently spoke with the co-founders of an...
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#089 dub CEO Steven Wang: Expect Results Before Inspecting
How is someone with no investing experience or expertise supposed to get into the game without any know-how? Aren’t they just setting themselves up for failure? That’s no longer a concern with dub, which allows users to copy the portfolios of accomplished investors. Rather than having to pick...
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#088 Clarity CEO & Co-Founder Michael Matias: It’s All About Being on the Court
Modern technology can give us so many great things, but it also creates new challenges. Over the last year, deep fakes have emerged as one of those great challenges. Deep fakes are a form of generative AI that aims to deceive and manipulate people with things that aren’t true. Luckily, a startup...
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#087 LimaCharlie Founder and CEO Maxime Lamothe-Brassard: Learn it the Hard Way
Cybersecurity is one of the biggest markets emerging in the tech industry right now. There are several big players, yet there is plenty of room for startups that are being innovative and taking a different approach. LimaCharlie is the latter, creating a SecOps cloud platform that aims to bring...
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#086 Grwth.co’s Founder Mosheh Poltorak: Product Market Fit As a Journey, Not a Destination
There is a point for all startups when it becomes necessary to ask for outside help. Sometimes that means hiring a fractional CMO to help get the go-to-market machine working. For startups in that position, there are consultants like Grwth.co available to help. Led by experienced founder Mosheh...
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#085 Founders Space CEO Captain Hoff: Navigating Startup Success
For many midstage startups, finding an accelerator can be a great way to find useful guidance that can help drive better results. One of the top accelerators in the startup world today is Founders Space, which is run by Steve Hoffman (AKA Captain Hoff). Steve is a veteran of several startups and...
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#084 Imascono CEO & Co-Founder Héctor Paz: Be Transparent With Your People
When it comes to virtual and augmented reality technologies, the future that many of us have always dreamed about may already be here. That’s the case largely because of startups like Imascono, which is based in Spain. Imascono has done some amazing things while developing applied imagination and...
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#083 Constrafor CEO & Founder Anwar Ghauche: Talk to Your Customers Before Building a Product
While the construction business is massive, it’s also rather complicated. Fortunately, there are tech startups like Constrafor that are helping both general contractors and subcontractors streamline everything they do, completing projects and getting everyone paid faster. Constrafor is a...
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#082 Hydrosat CEO & Co-Founder Pieter Fossel: Finding Triple Win Scenarios
With a growing population and climate change, it’s more important than ever for farmers to be able to grow as much food as possible as efficiently as possible. Fortunately, there are startups like Hydrosat that are trying to make that job a little easier for them. As its name implies, Hydrosat…
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#081 Sendlane CEO & Founder Jimmy Kim: You Can’t Just Build for Everyone--so I Built It for Myself!
Experience is often a key ingredient for startup founders. Jimmy Kim, the CEO and founder of Sendlane, has plenty of experience with Sendlane being his third startup. With Sendlane, Jimmy is hoping to combine several MarTech tools into a single platform, dominating the space while creating a new...
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#080 Genialis CEO & Co-Founder Rafael Rosengarten: Build a Great Company and a Great Business Follows
The ongoing fight against cancer requires all hands on deck. Fortunately, tech startups are starting to harness the power of AI and machine learning to help in the fight against cancer. Genialis is one startup that uses AI in the precision medicine industry to ensure cancer patients are getting…
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#079 Hiberus Internacional CEO Marcos Latorre - How to Develop Talent Instead of Recruiting It
It’s usually in the nature of startup leaders to conquer one market and expand to another. That is exactly the case with Hiberus, which is one of the premier tech startups in Spain but aspires to be so much more. Hiberus is a tech consulting startup that offers a variety of services and has…
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#078 Midstage Momentum Method
No startup can make it to product-market dominance without having a plan. That’s why the Midstage Institute has put together the midstage momentum method. This is a five-lever plan to help startups upon reaching the midstage and get them from product-market fit to product-market dominance as...
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#077 Daisy Intelligence Founder & CEO Gary Saarenvirta: What is Explainable Decisions as a Service?
There seems to be truly no limit to what artificial intelligence is capable of doing. One of the best examples of this is Canadian startup Daisy Intelligence, which works primarily with retailers and insurers to make automated decisions that don’t require having a human in the loop. It’s what...
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#076 Resync Co-Founder & CEO Emir Nurov: Why Founders Should be Honey Badgers
All over the planet, companies are trying to reduce their CO2 emissions, if not to help the planet, least to reduce their energy costs. Fortunately, there are startups like Resync that are serving enterprises as an energy management solution using AI. The Singapore-based startup has already made...
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#075 Cogo EMEA CEO Emma Kisby: Put Purpose at the Heart of Business
Solving the climate crisis is surely going to be a group effort that requires a majority of the people in the world. Fortunately, there is a tech company like Cogo that’s helping to lead the way. Cogo is helping individuals and businesses to better understand their carbon footprints and make...
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#074 Ofload Founder & CEO Geoffroy Henry: Where is the Value in Strategic Partners
Let’s face it, the world couldn’t function without trucks on the road carrying goods from place to place. Naturally, the world functions at its best when the freight on those trucks is managed efficiently. Fortunately, there is a logistics startup like Ofload that acts as a service provider and...
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#073 Cybersixgill CEO Sharon Wagner: Building a Channel-Driven Go-To Market
Given the current climate in the world, cybersecurity is more important than ever. Learning about security threats and being able to remediate them is critical for all organizations. Needless to say, the sooner you know about security threats, the better. That’s Cybersixgill is changing the game...
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#072 What Changes to Make After Finding Product-Market Fit (Part 5)
For all startups, finding product-market fit is far from the end of the journey. In fact, product-market fit is when things only start to get interesting. But after achieving product-market fit, there are several key changes that all startups must make to get to the next stage of development. If...
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#071 8fig Co-Founder & CEO Yaron Shapira: How to Raise Awareness with Product-Led Growth
It’s hard to deny that e-commerce has a bright future in this world. But how are small entrepreneurs supposed to succeed in this industry? Well, the answer could come from a startup called 8fig, which is using AI to help small e-commerce businesses replicate an executive team, helping them across...
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#070 Rezilion Co-Founder & CEO Liran Tancman: Don’t Take the Burn to the Next Milestone
Software security is more important than ever, and its importance for both software companies and their customers is only going to grow. In theory, that’s going to force developers to spend more time working on security. But that’s not the case with a startup like Rezilion. They are helping...
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#069 What Changes to Make After Finding Product-Market Fit (Part 4)
The behavior and focus of a startup need to change in several ways after it reaches product-market fit. The use of marketing is one of the biggest challenges during this time. It’s critical that marketing be used effectively and in pursuit of the right goal following product-market fit. During…
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#068 Precision OS Co-Founder & CEO Danny Goel: Focus on What Customers Actually Want, Not What We Think They Want
Few professionals need to be perfect at their job as much as a surgeon. The trick for surgeons is trying to become skilled and experienced at performing surgery without being able to practice on real patients. Fortunately, Precision OS is helping to solve the problem of surgeons lacking hands-on...
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#067 What Changes to Make After Finding Product-Market Fit (Part 3)
One of the biggest challenges for startups is turning product-market fit into profit. Since startups have the benefit of finding outside investments, traditional financing practices don’t always apply. The question then becomes how to find the right profit margins over time while using investment...
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#066 Midstage Institute Startup Coach Roland Siebelink: Leading Your Midstage Startup Through the New Normal
All startup leaders are currently facing the challenge of leading their company through the new normal of low startup valuations. Valuations started to drop during the second quarter of 2022 and it could take time for the economy to rebound. In the meantime, what are startups supposed to do to…
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#065 What Changes to Make After Finding Product-Market Fit (Part 2)
Reaching product-market fit always means that changes are coming for your startup. The obvious changes are often in sales and marketing, but they aren’t the only ones. The entire company needs to change. This includes the user experience, the buyer experience, and even the way that you build your...
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#064 What Changes to Make After Finding Product-Market Fit (Part 1)
No matter the business or the industry, there will always be changes afoot upon reaching product-market fit. Any startup must be proactive in making these changes after achieving product-market fit. It’s these changes that will hopefully take a startup from product-market fit to product-market...
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#063 Klear (previously Kountable) Co-Founder & CEO Chris Hale: How to Accelerate the Enterprise Sales Cycle
Most tech startups tend to endure a long and strange journey on their way to finding product-market-fit and significant traction. But things have been a little more complex and confusing for Kountable, a startup in the FinTech space. Kountable has had multiple iterations and got its start in a...
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ProdPerfect Co-Founder & CEO Dan Widing: If You Know You Can Sell It, Just Build It
The product testing space is an important one, just ask any software engineer. But it’s also a complicated space, especially with the current economic situation in the tech world. These circumstances have led to a lot of challenges but also a lot of learnings for ProdPerfect, which is trying to...
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CHEQ Founder & CEO Tom Lapham: How to Work a Triple-Sided Marketplace
Mobile ordering and contactless ordering have changed the food and beverage industry in a short period of time. But on-premise efficiency within the food and beverage industry still leaves much to be desired. However, that could be changing thanks to tech startup CHEQ, which is changing the way...
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Sensible4 Founder & CEO Harri Santamala: Understanding the Long Game
Self-driving vehicles are becoming all of the rage in all corners of the world. But what happens to autonomous vehicles when the weather is less than perfect? That is the problem being addressed by Finland-based startup Sensible4. With a background more focused on robotics than autonomous…
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SuperAnnotate Co-Founder & CEO Tigran Petrosyan: How to Work Across Multiple Industries
The machine learning industry continues to grow by leaps and bounds, creating a whole new space in the technology sphere. That’s where Tigran Petrosyan and his startup SuperAnnotate enter the picture. Tigran is the co-founder and CEO of SuperAnnotate, which provides the training data…
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Keela Founder & CEO Nejeed Kassam: When You Take Other People’s Money, You Don’t Sleep at Night
It’s not just businesses and individuals that need cutting-edge technology to operate more efficiently, nonprofits need it too. In fact, nonprofits and charitable organizations need it more than most because they’ve been falling behind in that area. Fortunately, tech startup Keela is helping to…
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4me CEO Cor Winkler Prins: How to Get Things in Place Before Selling to Enterprises
There are always going to be challenges for startups that sell exclusively to enterprise clients. That’s particularly true in a crowded market like service management. However, CEO Cor Winkler Prins and his startup 4me have found a way to succeed by being able to thrive on complexity. Of course…
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Sensei Labs Co-Founder & CEO Jay Goldman: How to Keep Iterating in a State of Product-Market-Fit
There are many challenges startups face when they try to spin out of another company, especially when they have a product that wasn’t initially built for commercial use. However, it’s possible to find success in these kinds of situations. Toronto-based startup Sensei Labs is a living example of...
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How to Lead Your Startup During the Economic Downturn (part 2)
Tech startups have not been immune to the recent economic downturn. Many have been put in a position where fundraising will be next to impossible, so they need to find other ways to survive the dark economic winter until spring arrives. But there’s no reason why any startup leader can’t find a…
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Keatext founder and CEO Narjes Boufaden: Customer Journey Is the Single Source of Truth
No matter the industry or the size of a company, the customer experience is often one of the biggest factors in long-term success. With that in mind, Keatext has set out to provide next-level customer analysis feedback. Keatext technology takes emails, surveys, chats, and all other text feedback…
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How to Lead Your Startup During the Economic Downturn (part 1)
The recent economic downturn has already had a profound impact on tech startups. Many midstage companies are struggling to raise funds or receive valuations they view as fair, leaving many to wonder how they’ll survive the next year or more and come out of the other side of the downturn intact....
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LeasePilot CEO & Co-Founder Gabriel Safar: Navigating Multiple Stakeholders with Different Interests
They say that time is money, so saving time is the same as saving money. One startup that’s trying to do just that for its clients is LeasePilot, which helps commercial real estate companies to draft their leases in half of the time it currently takes. Operating at the cross-section of commercial...
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Hostaway CEO & Co-Founder Marcus Rader: How to be Comfortable as a Wartime CEO
Ever since the emergence of Airbnb, short-term rentals have been unbelievably popular and easy to find in all corners of the world. But that doesn’t mean it’s been easy for the people in charge of managing all of those properties. Fortunately, tech startup Hostaway has created software to make…
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Thinknum Co-Founder & CEO Gregory Ugwi: Building a Company Is Taking the Ultimate Test
We all know that the Internet is loaded with information, but so much of it isn’t structured in a way that can be queried. Well, that’s not the case anymore because of Thinknum, which crawls the Internet for “alternative” data that tech company operators and investors can use to get ahead.…
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Sprinto Co-Founder & CEO Girish Redekar: SAAS is Eating Software
For B2B SaaS companies, keeping data safe and secure has become increasingly important. However, meeting compliances for privacy and security can be problematic and time-consuming. Fortunately, young startup Sprinto is bringing some much-needed relief to this pain point. Sprinto co-founder and…
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