Future Ventures: Scaling with Clarity

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• Nicola Redi — Why Europe’s Deep Tech Moment Is Just Beginning | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 40 22.05.2026 50мин

  Send us Fan Mail Italy is known for sun, food, and culture. What it isn't known for — and should be — is being one of the top research nations on the planet. Nicola Redi has built his career on closing that gap. As Managing Partner at Obloo Ventures, one of Italy's leading deep tech VC firms, he spends his days translating breakthroughs in AI, quantum, aerospace, and computational science into companies that can actually scale. With nearly three decades spanning venture capital, corporate inn...
• Tom Milar — Turning Waste into Capital Building Circular Systems That Scale | FV Podcast Ep. 39 21.05.2026 47мин

  Send us Fan Mail Tom Milar has spent over a decade building infrastructure for private companies — first through incorporation services out of Hong Kong and Las Vegas, and now through Eqvista, a valuation and equity management platform serving 23,000 startups. After a successful acquisition, Tom took five of his most important team members and set out to fix a problem he kept running into himself: founders were managing ownership and valuation off static PDFs and Excel sheets, working from da...
• Mathew Jackson — Building Circular Systems That Scale | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 12 20.05.2026 1ч 13мин

  Send us Fan Mail Matthew Jackson is the co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Alimentary Systems, a New Zealand company rethinking how the world handles organic waste and sewage. An Edmund Hillary Fellow with a track record of building and scaling high-growth ventures across global markets, Matthew has helped drive billions in market value creation — including bringing Netflix to New Zealand and triggering a wave of industry convergence that reshaped the local media landscape. But what m...
• Stanley Wei — AI That Actually Gets Things Done: The Future of Autonomous Agents | FV Podcast E. 37 20.05.2026 57мин

  Send us Fan Mail Stanley Wei is the Founder and CEO of Pine AI, an autonomous agent platform that doesn't just answer questions — it picks up the phone, fills out the forms, and gets things done on behalf of consumers. Pine negotiates bills, cancels subscriptions, files complaints, resolves disputes, and navigates insurance claims autonomously. Before launching Pine, Stanley held leadership roles at Gore and invested in AI through Hillhouse Capital, watching the space evolve from the early de...
• Stan Christiaens — The Billion-Dollar Problem Behind AI | Future Ventures Podcast Episode 37 20.05.2026 55мин

  Send us Fan Mail Stan Christiaens is the Cofounder and Chief Data Citizen of Collibra, one of the companies that helped define the modern data governance category. What began in 2008 as a spinoff from a semantics research lab at the Free University of Brussels has grown into a global platform used by some of the world's largest enterprises to manage data trust, lineage, governance, and increasingly, AI oversight. Eighteen years in, Stan has a vantage point most operators do not — he has watch...
• Neeraj Singh — Building Sustainable Software in the Age of AI | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 36 19.05.2026 54мин

  Send us Fan Mail While most of Silicon Valley argues over whether SaaS is dead, Neeraj Singh is quietly running the experiment that might answer the question. He's the founder and CEO of BigBinary, a 15-year-old remote-first software consultancy, and Neeto, a growing suite of affordable alternatives to the bloated enterprise tools founders begrudgingly pay for every month. NeetoCal goes head-to-head with Calendly at $30 a year — less than a single month of the competition. NeetoSign takes on ...
• Hubertus Hofkirchner — The Future of Money and Trade Infraestructure | FV Podcast Ep. 35 19.05.2026 1ч 1мин

  Send us Fan Mail Hubertus Hofkirchner has spent four decades operating at the intersection of trade finance, technology, and monetary theory. He started his career at Citibank International in Vienna, designed a securities system that rolled out across smaller city banks throughout Europe, and later served as Director at Kreditanstalt Investment Bank. As a serial entrepreneur, he built one of the first online brokerages for Central and Eastern Europe, founded what he believes was the first tr...
• Dave Hertig — High Tech, High Touch: The Future of CEO Performance | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 34 18.05.2026 1ч 2мин

  Send us Fan Mail Dave Hertig has spent his career watching CEOs up close — first as a business journalist who interviewed more than 100 of them for UBS alone, then as the founder of Boom, where he now focuses on CEO performance under pressure. Along the way, he developed a conviction that became the spine of his work: the people the rest of the company looks up to have blind spots like everyone else, but those blind spots carry outsized consequences. Get the CEO right and the whole system com...
• Omar Sahyoun — AI-Powered Commerce and the Reinvention of Main Street | FV Podcast Ep. 33 18.05.2026 48мин

  Send us Fan Mail Omar Sahyoun has spent two decades building at the edge of where consumers, technology, and physical commerce meet. He co-founded TeamBuy and DealFind, two of Canada's earliest daily-deal platforms that collectively scaled past 4 million members. He moved into fintech as a senior operator at Ariel and Purpose Financial, helping bring same-day digital lending into the mainstream. Today, as Managing Partner at Brand-FX, he runs three operating companies — Shoply (SMB commerce f...
• Andrew Ackerman — Where Venture Capital is actually Betting | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 32 18.05.2026 58мин

  Send us Fan Mail Andrew Ackerman has sat in nearly every chair around the startup table. He's a serial entrepreneur, an angel investor, a venture capitalist, an accelerator operator at Dream Adventures and Reach Labs (the venture arm of the National Association of Realtors), an adjunct professor at NYU, and the author of The Entrepreneur's Odyssey — a story-driven guide to building startups in the real world. He's invested in more than 70 companies, most in PropTech and ConTech, and is curren...
• John Cowan — Founder-Aligned Capital in the Era of Autonomy | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 031 15.05.2026 58мин

  Send us Fan Mail John Cowan was about to do what he'd done a hundred times before — make the calls, set the meetings, walk a young founder into the venture capital fundraising process. In a split second, he backed out. He couldn't morally send another kid into a system he knew was rigged against him: four cycles of dilution, ratchets, protective provisions, career death. Six or seven months of thinking later, he came back with an essay called The Theory of Venture Reciprocity, a new investmen...
• Sam Hasty — Building Venture-Scale Returns While Solving Planet-Scale Problems | FV Podcast Ep. 030 15.05.2026 52мин

  Send us Fan Mail Sam Hasty, partner at Active Impact Investments — Canada's top climate tech seed fund — has supported early entrepreneurs in energy, logistics, farming, materials, and resilience over eight years. He started as a Memphis math teacher, helped launch a nonprofit accelerator funded by the Steve Jobs family, and studied rural entrepreneurship in Poland with a Fulbright before his first angel investment. This conversation is important because the climate tech scene has shift...
• Joyce Shin— Why AI Will Make Leadership More Human, Not Less | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 29 14.05.2026 48мин

  Send us Fan Mail Joyce Shin, founder of The Human Edge and ex-head of design operations at Dropbox, helped scale teams and systems there. Trained in neuroscience and raised across Texas, Ohio, Seoul, and Tokyo, she studied resilience and effectiveness, first after a traumatic brain injury and later professionally in tech. She left Dropbox to ask: in AI everywhere, what makes us human? She created the PEARLS framework—six skills in thinking, creativity, ethics, and leadership—areas AI can't re...
• Shahin Nabavian — The Future of Mobility, Operations & Intelligent Infrastructure | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 028 14.05.2026 47мин

  Send us Fan Mail Shahin Nabavian, a computer scientist turned venture builder, has worked across operations, infrastructure, and transformation for the past decade. His experience includes a London-based financial startup, venture-building at Shell's maritime division, work at The Economist Group, and founding edtech startup Super Savvy Education. Now, he leads Team CMV (CentricMind Ventures), focusing on emerging technologies like infrastructure enabling companies to use LLMs effectively. Th...
• Dr. Sylvain Charlebois — Inflation, Supply Chains, and the Reinvention of Grocery | FV Podcast Ep 27 08.05.2026 41мин

  Send us Fan Mail Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, the "Food Professor," is the Senior Director of Dalhousie’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab, lead author of Canada's Food Price Report, and a prominent researcher in food supply chain management. He’s the go-to expert for food inflation stories and provides data that guides grocery executives. With 20 years studying Canada's rising food costs, he argues that debates wrongly blame big corporations or stores, overlooking factors like trade barriers, slow regulat...
• Tim Fung — Why Human Skills Still Win in an AI World | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 025 08.05.2026 58мин

  Send us Fan Mail Tim Fung, Founder and CEO of Airtasker, leads one of the world's top local services marketplaces. Since launching in Sydney in 2012, it’s now a publicly listed company operating across Australia, the UK, and the US, facilitating over a billion dollars in jobs for flexible income. Tim is a prominent voice on the future of work and the gig economy. He experienced what most founders only theorize: raising $1.5M in 2012 when "startup" wasn't common in Sydney, and navigating many ...
• Michael Allen Feinman — Selling the American Dream | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 026 08.05.2026 43мин

  Send us Fan Mail Mike Feinman is the Managing Partner at Texas Business Brokers, a top M&A advisory firm for the lower mid-market and main street. His career began at PepsiCo's Taco Bell division and includes leadership at Yum! Brands across 16 countries. He has facilitated millions in sales across manufacturing, restaurants, services, and tech. He entered brokerage unexpectedly—an ex-Pizza Hut colleague asked him at Starbucks in 2014 what he'd do with the four and a half days a week he w...
• Sarah Romanko — How Grit, Brand, and Deal Flow Win | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 024 07.05.2026 47мин

  Send us Fan Mail Sarah Romanko, an investor at Geek Ventures, backs immigrant-founded AI and robotics startups. She entered venture without traditional credentials, relying on persistence like cold outreach, online events, and paying it forward. Her approach shapes how she evaluates and supports founders. This conversation reveals how an early-stage investor thinks—what prompts a "yes" or "no"—and how founders misprice opportunities. She questions the media narrative around fundraising, expla...
• Nikola Borisov — Why the Real AI Battle Isn’t Training—It’s Deployment | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 023 06.05.2026 57мин

  Send us Fan Mail Nikola Borisov is CEO and co-founder of DeepInfra, offering open-source models like DeepSeek, Llama, Kimi, GLM, and GPT-OSS via APIs. He previously scaled IMO Messenger to over 200 million users, handling up to a million new users daily with cheaper self-built infrastructure. A Northwestern CS grad and Bulgarian programming veteran, he learned that distributed systems succeed at the margins. This conversation is crucial because AI inference—execution—is the silent battlegroun...
• Grant Blaisdell — Turning Space into an Investable Asset Class | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 022 05.05.2026 58мин

  Send us Fan Mail Grant Blaisdell, CEO of Copernic Space, is developing space's financial infrastructure by tokenizing payloads, satellite data, computing, and lunar rights, turning space into a liquid market. A serial entrepreneur and blockchain pioneer, he cofounded Coinfirm, the first AML platform for crypto, and created the first AML solution for ERC tokens during the ICO era. His grandfather, a space pioneer, helped Poland reach space. The space economy exceeds $600 billion, mostly driven...