Startup Steroid - Founders Podcast

Phil Stover, Co-Founder & CEO of PvP.com - The first true gamer social community

Phil Stover is CEO of PvP.com, the first true gamer social community. In 2016, Phil co-founded Blue Skies Ventures to build, advise, and invest in early-stage startups.

The firm actively invests and its portfolio companies and network of resources were built from scratch on the simple idea to help entrepreneurs incubate ideas and accelerate. Phil is an active member of the Los Angeles community, currently supporting Pledge LA, and previously The Action Group Network and young professional’s group 310YP as a board member. Prior to his crazy life in startups, his 11-year corporate management career in banking and insurance included oversight of multi-million dollar sales initiatives and product launches and $2.3B in P&L responsibilities. He has an undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University and an MBA from the University of Southern California.

 

Check out the company profile, video interview, and pitch deck at - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=135

Anand Hira, CEO and Co-founder of Zycara - Zycara is a receivables management, credit insight, and liquidity solutions SaaS platform.

Zycara is a receivables management, credit insight, and liquidity solutions SaaS platform that leverages online and industry reputation to help businesses collect a higher percentage of delinquent invoices, reduce losses from bad debt write-offs, and evaluate customer creditworthiness in real-time. We are building the first ecosystem that marries the power of accountability through publication with proprietary real-time creditworthiness data to provide SMBs with the tools and resources to manage b2b financial relationships and liquidity solutions.

Zycara's proposition: more efficient invoice resolution cycles and real-time customer creditworthiness data compared to traditional solutions (collections, legal services, credit reporting agencies).

Check out the company profile, video interview, and pitch deck at - https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=136

Carlos Balagot, CEO at Spectrum CL - Spectrum CannaLabs protects the health and safety of cannabis users with pharmaceutical grade testing protocols.

Spectrum CannaLabs provides pharma-grade testing solutions for cannabis products so that consumers looking to better their quality of life don't end up making it worse.

• Carlos has 9+ years as an experienced bench scientist in the biotechnology industry in both start-up and big pharma environments with strong research skills
• He has solid cGMP skills in vaccines and biologics product development, assay support, and documentation (SOPs, technical reports, qualification reports), and implementation for all therapeutic areas.
• Provide key go/no go data to advance preclinical and commercial regulatory submissions (IND, FDA letters, post-marketing) and approval.
• He has a strong work ethic, quick and thorough learner, skilled independent contributor, and effective cross-functional team collaborator with efficient problem solving and communication skills

 

Specialties: Nucleic acid technologies, assay development including qualification and validation, GLP/cGMP, establishing high throughput screening, incorporating lab automation

Check out the company profile, video interview, and pitch deck at https://www.startupsteroid.com/founder?cid=177

Yael Tamar, Co-CEO and Co-founder of SolidBlock - Transforming property into tradable financial product

Yael works to make property investing accessible, transparent, and streamlined with SolidBlock, where she is the Co-CEO and Co-founder.

Prior to that, Yael has spent almost two decades in the financial markets. She started at a Wall Street broker-dealer as an analyst, moving to M&A and private equity, as well as financial engineering, structuring products and indices for pension funds and family offices.

Yael worked on the largest IPO of an Israeli real estate company on AIM and served as an executive on the largest MVNO in Israel that was listed on NASDAQ.

Yael has co-founded several fintech startups, a successful marketing company in the blockchain space, and an import/export company that was acquired.

Yael is also a regional co-chair at FIBREE, the Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise, the leading international network for exchanging knowledge between the real estate industry.

Yael is an influencer, who has appeared as a guest speaker in over 50 conferences and events have a podcast (Apple podcast, Spotify: BlockSolid) and a full course on tokenization.

Yael was listed in the Top 25 Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Speakers and 100 Most Inspirational Women In Blockchain.

Laurie O'Hara, CEO of OLITA; Safe on your skin, Safe for the planet

Laurie founded and grew Olita to create sun care products that are ethically manufactured with premium, non-toxic ingredients that are safe on the skin, as well as safe on the environment. Olita is on a mission to make skin happy with superior environmentally safe sun care solutions.

She has a wealth of experience in entrepreneurship and management leadership and community involvement. Her previous professional successes in the financial services industry include comprehensive business development, market growth, customer segmentation, marketing, and communications strategy.

Specialties: International work experience. Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese