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The Angel Nest
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The Angel Nest helps connect business founders with strategic investors, advisors and customers. Each episode provides a compact snapshot of the business, traction with customers and the long term vision of its founders. Hosted by angel investor David Hemenway, The Angel Nest examines the company’s value proposition as seen through the vision of early investors, advisors and even customers.
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Meet the Startup That is Scaling Puppy Yoga
What if the most effective therapy for stress, burnout, and anxiety didn’t come from a pill or a practitioner, but from a room full of puppies? Francesca Albo is betting on it, and the market agrees. Today on The Angel Nest, Francesca joins David to talk about Puppy Sphere, North America’s…
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New York Angels is Investing in Tech to Provide Better Nutrition for Preterm Infants
Preterm birth affects one in ten babies in the United States, and for the smallest and most fragile among them, what they are fed in those first critical weeks can determine whether they survive and how well they thrive. The science has long pointed to mother’s own milk as the gold standard. The...
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Volute Is Using AI to Extend Executive Education
Higher education is under pressure. Budgets are strained, research funding is being cut, and the gap between what business schools teach and what industry actually needs grows wider every year. Executive education is the one corner of the university that has always had to face the market…
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New York Angels is Investing in the AI Companies that are Revolutionizing Marketing
AI is reshaping every industry, but few are as ripe for reinvention as advertising, a business built on a slow and expensive mix of creativity and manpower. In this New York Angels edition of The Angel Nest, host David Hemenway sits down with New York Angels member Mike Jacobs and Anna Stepura,...
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Heroes Made is Helping Schools Teach Social and Emotional Health
Elementary schools are no longer exclusively about academics. Now, educators also share responsibility for building students' character, as well as their social and emotional health. Today on The Angel Nest, we meet Maria Howard, founder of Heroes Made, a character education platform for grades…
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How NY Angels Find Great Medtech Investments Like Aim Medical Robotics
Angel investing in medical technology can be tough. The science is complex, the timelines are long, and the risks are hard to judge without the right expertise in the room. At the New York Angels, that has changed. In this New York Angels edition of The Angel Nest, we meet NYA members and medical...
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Setmixer is Recording Live Music and Bringing Back the Bootleg
When Pascal de Mul was part of a young Spotify team revolutionizing music distribution, he unintentionally killed something he loved: the live bootleg. Now he is bringing it back, legally and in studio quality. Today on The Angel Nest, we meet Pascal de Mul, founder of Setmixer, the UK-based…
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How New York Angels is Helping SkyFire AI Soar!
Drones have been consumer products for years, but entrepreneurs are now finding their commercial potential. New ideas are coming fast, and few are as ambitious as SkyFire. In this New York Angels edition of The Angel Nest, we meet Don Mathis, a former Navy flight officer who watched drones change...
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The New York Angels is Investing to Get ROI from AI
How are investors going to get ROI, from AI? We hear a lot about the investment in artificial intelligence. But the New York Angels are working hard to find investible companies where artificial intelligence will yield real profits. In this episode, we meet Eric Tao, the founder of Mega Minds and...
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Innovation Double Play: How the New York Angels Helped this Entrepreneur Launch Two Successful Companies
When David Steinberger decided to start a creator-friendly comics brand, he hoped to partner with angel investors who could help. On this special New York Angels edition of the Angel Nest, you'll learn how that initial partnership spawned not one successful company, but two. Today, we meet…
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How The RI Life Science Hub is Supporting New Brain Therapies
In a special edition of the Angel Nest podcast, host David Hemenway talks with two prominent experts about the Rhode Island Life Science Hub and how the Hub’s support is integral to growing the life science sector in New England and helping to get great ideas to market faster. Among the most...
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The Future of Angel Investing with NYA Chair Cindy Cook and David S. Rose, Chairman Emeritus
On this special New York Angels edition of the Angel Nest, board chair Cindy Cook joins us to interview the founder of the New York Angels, David S. Rose. He’s updated his famous book, “Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money and Having Fun in Startups.” We’ll learn what’s new and how…
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How Rooled and Numeric Use AI to Drive Efficiency
We hear a lot about AI these days and how it makes work efficient, but what does that actually mean in practice? In this special episode of the Angel Nest podcast, we hear from people who are actually making it happen in finance and accounting. Host David Hemenway welcomes Johnnie Walker from...
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How The RI Life Science Hub and Brown Engineering Collaborate
The Rhode Island Life Science Hub is accelerating innovation in New England. In this episode of The Angel Nest, we talk with Dr. Tejal Desai, Sorenson Family Dean of Engineering at Brown University about how Brown and The Rhode Island Life Science Hub are partnering to bring groundbreaking ideas…
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New York Angels Backed ProSentry is Changing How Buildings Monitor for Leaks
This month on the New York Angels edition of The Angel Nest, we meet a great business inspired by a disaster. When his home flooded with water, John Rusk decided there had to be a better way to protect property. So, he invented an early warning system and started ProSentry in 2019 to prevent…
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RI Life Science Hub is Bringing Innovation to Market
Academically rich, Rhode Island and its capital city of Providence have traditionally excelled in research and innovation. Remember the industrial revolution started in Rhode Island. But now there’s a new catalyst to create businesses and jobs and bring new technologies to the marketplace that…
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Inside Brown University’s Bold Bet on Regenerative Medicine
At Brown University they’re working on something called the extracellular matrix – a way to help the body promote tissue healing and regeneration with minimal negative impact and without debilitating drugs. It could be a game changer for heart disease and a host of other ailments. In this…
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The Experts Reveal Startup Marketing That Works
Building a winning startup brand takes more than just a great product. As this episode’s guests tell us, potential investors should also consider how a company is positioning it's brand in the marketplace to gauge whether or not it will be successful. Brian Morley, CMO at Native Orthopaedics, and...
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How the New York Angels Bet on IC 360 and Won
In this special New York Angels edition of The Angel Nest podcast, we talk with IC 360 (Integrity Compliance 360) which provides integrity monitoring and regulatory compliance for sports betting and has grown to more than $10MM in annual revenue. It's clients include top brands like The NFL, MLB...
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How New York Angels Helped Magellan.ai Scale its Podcast Advertising Business
This edition of The Angel Nest features Cameron Hendrix, co-founder of Magellan AI, the company revolutionizing podcast ad measurement and attribution. Since receiving seed funding from New York Angels, Magellan has grown revenue 8–10x and now helps advertisers understand exactly where their...
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Startup Playbook: FanDuel’s Founder Talks Growth and Funding
Online sports betting topped $18 billion in the U.S. last year and is on track to reach $30 billion in the next 10 years. Nearly 95% of all sports betting was done online in 2024, with companies like Fan Duel leading the charge. In this episode of the Angel Nest podcast, we continue our series…
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How The New York Angels Investment Helped Fixe Streamline Bookkeeping for Restaurants
In this special New York Angels edition of the Angel Nest Podcast we talk to the co-founder of Fixe, an automated streamlined bookkeeping service for the restaurant industry. We'll hear how his chance meeting led to The New York Angels leading his seed investment round. Guests include Ryan…
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Kimani Toussaint and Brown Technology Innovations share a vision to improve critical pulse oximeters
Pulse oximeters are small devices that clip onto your finger at a doctor’s office or hospital to measure blood oxygen levels. Unfortunately, these devices do not do an equitable job of producing accurate results across all skin tones. Kimani Toussaint, senior associate dean for research and...
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NVP Writes Big Seed Stage Checks For B2B Software. Hear Where They Are Finding Value.
If you’re a B2B software founder or investor you want to talk to Tom Wisniewski. His Newark Venture Partners make big seed stage bets through a $200MM fund. Tom is a partner at NVP, where they invest in world-class B2B software in the Fintech and e-commerce space, including marketplaces and...
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Join us for Withum NYC Fintech Connect Feb. 27 Featuring David S. Rose’s USREM and Many More Great Startups
You know David S. Rose as the father of angel investing in New York, and the Founder and CEO of Gust.com. Now he’s bringing liquidity to investors in commercial real estate through USREM (which stands for US Real Estate Market). You can meet him at The NYC Fintech Connect Event on February 27…
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New Help For Painful Knees - Native Orthopaedics Wants to Prevent Your Next Knee Replacement
Do your knees hurt? If so, you’ve got plenty of company. It turns out that arthroscopic knee surgery is one of the most popular procedures. In this episode of the Angel Nest, we speak to Dr. Chris Anderson, the founding surgeon of Native Orthopaedics. He grew up tying fly fishing knots in his...
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Native Orthopaedics’ Technology Will Revolutionize the Way Knees (and More) Are Repaired
With everyone living and playing longer, orthopaedic issues are booming for baby boomers, and for the rest of us. In this Angel Nest First Look episode, we meet Native Orthopaedics. Their technology will revolutionize the way meniscus tears are repaired. And, it might just work for a whole host…
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How Fintech Ventures Fund Helped Groundfloor’s High Yield Investing Get Off the Ground
Every venture fund claims to add value, but what does that mean to investors? Luke Timberlake and his partners at Fintech Ventures are finding ways to capitalize on the movement that gives small investors access to bigger potential returns and markets they can’t invest in on their own. In this...
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Build Your Brand Through Thought Leadership: Johnnie Walker (Rooled) and Melissa Hollis (Taylor Street Collective) Tell You How
How can startup founder build their brands through thought leadership and digital distribution in a way that actually gets customers? In this episode, we’re talking about marketing for startups. This is another in our series of podcasts with Johnnie Walker of Rooled Outsourced CFO and Accounting...
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Rooled Planning for 2025 Series - Alex Goldberg (Ad Astral Funds) and Johnnie Walker (Rooled) Talk About Getting Good Ideas to Market
It takes more than a good idea to have a successful launch. With funding harder to come by for companies of all sizes, proven technology and the partnerships to get it to market are more valuable than ever. In this episode of the Angel Net, we meet a venture studio that is helping founders get...
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Rooled Planning for 2025 Series – Tom Wisniewski (Newark Venture Partners) and Johnnie Walker (Rooled) Talk About Investor Friendly Financials
Investor Tom Wisniewski knows what companies need to do to get funded. He’s a New York Angel, the Managing Partner at Newark Venture Partners, and he’s leading and investing in large seed rounds for firms specializing in B2B software. He joins host David Hemenway and Johnnie Walker of Rooled...
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Rooled Planning for 2025 Series – David S. Rose on How to Raise Money from Investors
If you think it’s harder than it used to be to find financing for your start up all the data says, you’re right. In this episode, we continue our series with Johnnie Walker of Rooled Outsourced CFO and Accounting Services about how founders are getting funded in this new environment. We’re also...
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StartEd Showcases Game Changing Startups at EdTech Week in NYC Oct. 8-10
EdTech deals with some of society’s most important challenges, but sometimes doesn’t get the same attention it’s SaaS or AI siblings get from investors. Ash Kaluarachchi’s StartEd is changing that by helping founders accelerate their EdTech vision and turn good ideas into great companies. In this...
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See You this Thursday @Brown Innovation Showcase
There may be no better place for investors to find innovative companies than at leading colleges and universities that not only develop the tech, but also lead the charge into the marketplace. Brown University has become a big player in tech innovation, including life sciences, software…
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First Newport Investor Summit Sept 26-27 Features RI’s Best Startups
Newport, Rhode Island is famous for recreation. Now, investors get a chance to mine a startup ecosystem that has some truly unique advantages at The Newport Investor Summit, September 26-27. Situated between Boston and New York with a more affordable cost of living and some of the world’s leading...
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Innovation@Brown: Meet 20+ premier companies Sept 26th
Brown University has become a big player in tech innovation. In this episode, we’ll meet some of the game-changing companies they’ve helped develop and talk about how you can meet them at their Innovation@Brown showcase, which happens September 26. Adept Materials makes paint that helps regulate...
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Get Paid Faster – Tabs and Rooled Team Up To Accelerate Receivables!
Technology has changed so much in finance and accounting. But with all the disruption one thing stays the same. Companies want to invoice efficiently and get paid faster. In this episode, Johnnie Walker of Rooled and Ali Hussain of Tabs join us on the Angel Nest to talk about how they’re using AI...
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Outgo Fintech Platform Helps Truckers Get More Income!
There is a revolution happening in how America moves freight, and we are not talking about EVs or hybrids. Trucking companies, including many smaller fleets, are quickly professionalizing their financial management with the help of a modern payments platform for invoicing, financing and payments....
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Foodini Lets Dietary Restricted Diners Dine Out With Confidence
Everyone is watching their diet, and it’s not just calories anymore. Heightened awareness about allergies and intolerances – along with the food-as-medicine movement – has led to a whole host of issues that people are trying to solve for themselves with smarter eating. But what do you do when you...
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Find Your Angel! Investor Heidi Diamond and Johnnie Walker Tell You How
The path for founders to get their business funded is increasingly challenging. How long will this environment last and what can founders do now to get access to the capital they need to grow? In this episode, another in our series with Johnnie Walker of Rooled Outsourced CFO and Accounting...
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Celtic Renewables’ has the Perfect Supply/Demand Dynamic. Both are Unlimited!
Celtic Renewables is making green chemicals from low-value waste products. With the world going green and consumers demanding products with less environmental impact, demand seems set to soar. But, can the supply keep up? And, will the cost of raw materials needed to make green chemicals increase...
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Rooled and Beat Ventures on Funding for AI Founders
The technology is already changing the world, but where are people actually making (and saving) money from AI? We continue our series of podcasts with Johnnie Walker of Rooled Outsourced CFO and Accounting Services about how founders are getting funded in this new environment. Rooled are startup...
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Demand for Celtic Renewables’ Green Chemicals Exceeds Supply. That’s Good News!
Celtic Renewables is revolutionizing their industry by replacing harmful petrochemicals with biologically derived “green” chemicals for a more sustainable future. In this episode of the Angel Nest podcast, we’re joined by their founder and CEO Mark Simmers, who has been on a 12-year mission to...
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On A Mission to Expand Medical Self Testing From Home
The pandemic made home testing common for COVID, but now it’s possible to diagnose all kinds of acute and even chronic conditions without leaving your home. It’s the next revolution in tech and AI-enabled healthcare designed to save lives, time and money. In this episode of the Angel Nest…
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Celtic Renewables’ Tech Turns Whiskey Residue into Green Chemicals!
While EVs get the headlines in the fight to reduce climate change and carbon emissions, you can’t tackle climate change without finding a way to also get the petroleum out of petrochemicals. It is in everything our modern society uses – from food to pharmaceuticals, to household cleaners…
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From Angel to "A" Round: Getting Funded Today
A tightening VC market and a higher interest rate economy has made it much more difficult to get past the “friends and family” round and to the big A-Round of funding. In this first episode of our second season, we’ve again teamed up with Johnnie Walker of Rooled, the start-up finance experts who...
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A Micro VC Who Maximizes Access for Angel Investors
Individual investors are not always welcomed into hot startup VC funds. Micro VC Mike Kocan of Outbound Capital is changing that and in this episode you’ll learn how this former Accenture consultant and fund manager is making B2B software bets accessible to angel investors. This is another in the...
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Rooled and TrueWind Partner to Help Clients get Funded in 2024
Entrepreneurs are 100 percent focused on their big idea, as it should be. But investors and early customers want to know the finances are solid. In this episode of the Angel Nest podcast, we talk with Johnnie Walker from Rooled, outsourced accounting and CFO services, and Alex Lee from Truewind…
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Startup Finance Experts Rooled and Finerva Go Global to Help Clients Get Funded
Business is now global so shouldn’t your financial consultants also offer worldwide expertise? In another of our continuing partnership podcasts with Rooled, outsourced CFO and accounting services, we examine the state of the startup world and the importance of financial reporting. Company...
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Meet RestauRent, the App for Planning (and Booking) Private Events
OpenTable and Resy apps have streamlined restaurant reservations, but what about private events? They’re still pretty much stuck in the dark ages of Google searches, emails and phone calls. In this episode of the Angel Nest, we meet a serial entrepreneur who is changing that with his new company,...
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The Angel Nest helps connect business founders with strategic investors, advisors and customers. Each episode provides a compact snapshot of the business, traction with customers and the long term vision of its founders. Hosted by angel investor David Hemenway, The Angel Nest examines the company’s value proposition as seen through the vision of early investors, advisors and even customers.
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