Startup Steroid - Founders Podcast

Debkanchan Samadder - CEO of Ride, Ride is an aggregator platform for auto-rickshaws and e-Rickshaws.

Ride is an aggregator platform for auto-rickshaws and e-Rickshaws. There are 170 Million people hailing rickshaws every day but most of them have 2 common pain points- Lack of availability and Refusals. So we sought out to solve that problem and bridge the information gap between users and drivers.

Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=304

 

 

Brian Hoang, CEO of SURVIVR - VR police training (Techstars '20)

SURVIVR is a public safety startup backed by Techstars. We exist to make communities safer.

SURVIVR® is a platform for immersive virtual reality first responder training. We empower responders to better protect our communities by supplementing the limitations of traditional training.

Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=298

Miri Berger - CEO and Co-Founder at 6Degrees, a startup that aims to help people who have lost the use of their upper limbs and hands to reclaim their digital life.

6Degrees has developed an adaptive hands-free controller that gives people independence and choice by making devices accessible. Their patented wireless controller can be utilized to operate any smart device - including smartphones, tablets, and PCs. Crescent has deep applicability in the fields of AR/VR, defense, and assistive technologies

 

Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=95

 

Lukas-Karim Merhi, Founder & CEO TENZR Health - Wrist trainer & tracker

BioInteractive Technologies, endorsed by the Mayo Clinic & Techstars, is a Medical Device and Digital Health company developing intelligent wearables for physical therapy, using its patent-pending TENZR™ musculoskeletal sensing technology.

Hand, wrist, and elbow impairments are both painful and frustrating to deal with. Everybody deserves to be able to work, play, and enjoy a life without pain.

BioInteractive Technologies flagship product, the TENZR Wristband empowers individuals suffering from Wrist Fractures, Stroke, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Tennis/Golfer’s Elbow, Spinal Cord Injury, and Traumatic Brain Injury; by providing guidance, feedback, and data to facilitate recovery.

Company Profile Link – https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=100

Kurt Alexander, founder/CEO of Quick Safety, a business dedicated to protecting life, property and reputation.

Kurt is the founder/CEO of Quick Safety, a business dedicated to protecting life, property, and reputation. Providing Electrical Contractors & Asset Owners with a transparent platform that proves electrical circuits are safe and meet compliance standards. With the ability to predict/prevent power failures, electrical fires, and electrocutions.
Kurt Alexander has over 27 years in general management, financial management, administration management, and project management. He has 13 years of professional business consulting & analysis experience, coupled with 7 years of extensive finance, budgeting, data analysis & management training in Australasia and the Middle East.
Kurt has extensive experience in a wide array of consulting/training engagements within the electrical, hospitality, tourism, resort, mining, property development, construction, telecommunications, agriculture, engineering, retail, IT, manufacturing, and consumer industries within Australasia, India, and the Middle East.

Company Profile URL - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=165

 

John Quinn, Co-founder and CEO at Exos Aerospace - A "GO" for Jaguar and Orbital

At Exos our mission in life is not to build and fly Low Earth Orbit capable reusable rockets but rather, to enable other brilliant minds to change the world for the better …as two examples: First, the rapid space manufacturing of mesenchymal stem cells (or MSC’s) for regenerative medical treatments have shown phenomenal results in clinical trials after return from the International Space Station (Exos can do in months what took years on ISS). Secondly, enabling the development and deployment of reusable hypersonic technologies that will drastically reduce point-to-point travel times in the new global economy.

Company Profile URL - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=80

Dan Thornton, Co-Founder GoldPhish - Helping companies build awesome Security Awareness Training programmes.

GoldPhish is a UK-based cybersecurity awareness training platform helping businesses educate employees, change behaviour and reduce their risk against growing cyber threats.

Human Error is the cause for over 90% of successful cyber attacks. Threats like phishing, ransomware and other forms of social engineering continue to plague organizations of all sizes, costing the global industry billions in losses each year. The solution to this human factor in cybersecurity is changing behaviour through effective education. We created GoldPhish to help businesses address this problem with world-class training content that engages learners to help change behaviour and begin building more secure cultures. Our customisable multi-tenant training platform allows our network of global reseller partners to add this solution to their portfolio of existing services and realise easy additional revenue by delivering world-class training to their customers.

Company Profile Link - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=74

Dan "Cosmo" Grupp, CEO at LifeAir - LifeAir is pioneering the first ventilator with a disposable airway.

 

LifeAir is pioneering the first ventilator with a disposable airway to stop the patient-patient spread of COVID-19 and VAP (ventilator-associated pneumonia)

Pain: Currently ventilators can’t be cleaned, so have the potential to spread diseases from one patient to the next, including COVID-19 and especially pneumonia, which kills 100,000 people each year and costs hospitals $12B. Also, ventilators are very expensive, with a base Medtronic unit starting at $25,000. Solution: It is well-known that ventilators harbor dangerous bacteria.

 

COVID-19 pushes this issue into the foreground. Our solution of the first disposable airway solves this problem once and for all. By engineering our own gas handling and sensor system, we have also driven the cost down 10x. I have invented multiple medical devices now on the market, and I said “I have to fix this”.

 

Company Profile URL - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=168

Rajeev Ramanath, CEO of Blueberry Technology Inc. - We are designing and building autonomous wheelchairs for indoor use, to provide accessible mobility for all

At Blueberry Technology, we are designing and building autonomous wheelchairs to enhance user mobility in indoor spaces. Our wheelchairs address challenges around mobility and customer satisfaction, at the same time, increase operational efficiencies in venues like airports. With the increased availability of low-cost sensors, low-cost compute and drive train solutions, integrating these efficiently in an appropriate form factor enables us to address these issues.

Company Profile URL - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=113  

Karim Varela, CEO & Founder, Civilized Software - At Civilized Software, we're building products at the intersection of entertainment and AI.

Civilized Software is building products at the intersection of AI and entertainment. Our vision is a future where erotica is accessible to everyone, regardless of gender or sexual orientation.

Porndora is a personalized pleasure. We utilize AI/ML to build a personalized pleasure profile for every user and learn over time what you like to eliminate wasteful searching. We are building an adult website that works for all.

Technology executive, investor, and advisor with a career history of producing highly scalable and secure software solutions. Exceptional record of success in building and leading top-performing, global engineering teams, managing budgets as large as $5MM, and bringing order and agility to growing engineering teams. Excels at implementing agile engineering practices, building product-focused engineering teams, and delivering software on time. Outstanding problem solving, leadership, and team motivation skills.

Check out the company profile, video interview, and pitch deck at - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=279