Brydge Club by Ruffin Mitchener

This week on the Play Brydge podcast, we welcomed Sam Safer Valentine, Co-founder & COO of Norby. Norby is an AI-powered communications platform that helps creators and entrepreneurs amplify their work through a lightweight website, event hosting, texting and email campaigns, lead collection, and so much more. Before Norby, Sam pursued a career in marketing and worked at organizations includin...

During this week’s episode, I spoke with Zehra all about her experience building founder community at Republic and with the Z list, her community of 12K investors and founders in NYC. Zehra first started learning about venture capital investing while studying at Columbia. After graduation, she accepted an offer with the Republic venture team. Since then, Zehra has focused her work on democratizing...

Tiffany Faith Demers is the CEO & founder of Upkeep , the trusted way to book your botox, facial, & other MedSpa needs. Tiffany was working in skincare, when she started to notice millennials and gen z consumers shift spending from beauty products to medical aesthetics. In fact, the Global Medical Aesthetics Market Size is expected to surpass $30 billion by 2030 💅 Upkeep Beauty is backed...

Loved having an honest conversation, with Claudia Laurie, all about her journey co-founding Prive, the revenue platform for commerce enabling subscriptions & more. Claudia is also a podcast co-host of The Room Podcast, which is ranked top 5% globally. Fun fact, Claudia first met her Prive investor, Jesse Draper of Halogen Ventures, while recording an episode for her show 💥 In this episode of...

Isabella Mandis is a freshman at Harvard University and founder of Girls Who VC, the first organization dedicated to bringing young women in to the field of venture capital. 🔥 Isabella is the first undergrad student to be accepted into The MBA Fund. 💻 Prior to Harvard, she learned to code with Girls Who Code and worked with a number of startups 🤩 She's most inspired by Audrey Micay Wisch th...

Meet Juliette Richert 👋 She's an investor at The Artemis Fund -- a seed stage VC firm investing in female founders building businesses that modernize wealth. Their portfolio includes Hello Divorce, UNest, Reel, Green Room + more! The fund was co-founded by two women, Leslie Goldman Tepper & Diana Murakhovskaya, who are on a mission to diversify wealth. During this episode, Juliette and I...

Tech entrepreneur Jessica Chang is the CEO and Co-Founder of WeeCare, the largest childcare network in America. A committed early childhood education advocate and mom of two, she is set on solving the childcare crisis. Prior to co-founding WeeCare, Jessica was COO of Affinity China, a principal investor at Macquarie Capital, and VP of Marketplace at Radpad. A graduate of UC Berkeley, she is a pres...

Meet Meera Clark, she's an investor at Redpoint Ventures, former investment banker, Forbes 30 Under 30, & Kauffman Fellow ✨   In this episode of the Future is Female, Meera and I talked all about:  ⚡ Pivoting careers from investment banking to early stage investing   👼 How she made her first angel investments & tips for others looking to get started!  🎗 Her favorite...

Why are there so many dating apps to help us find love, but so little to help us keep it?  At Stanford, Ali Maggioncalda studied Human Behavioral Biology and researched how to improve relationships.   During grad school, Ali launched Lovewick: Relationship App: a new couples app that helps you learn about each other and share new experiences.   To celebrate Valentine's day, I'm shar...

Our very first Future is Female episode featuring an investor!! 🎙  Ashley Aydin is a principal at Vamos Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund backing diverse founders.   In this episode, Ashley and I dive into:   🖥 Her early career at Morgan Stanley & a YC startup  📚 Why she pursued her MBA at MIT Sloan (***and who the MBA might not be right for)  💥 Her drive...

What if Noom + Headspace + Betterment had a baby?   👶 Aura Finance is a mindful money management platform that helps you put your money to work and anxiety to rest.   In the first episode of 2023 🎇, I interviewed Kelsey Willock, my former WFU classmate (Go Deacs!) and co-founder of Aura.   We discuss everything from:  🏦 Her decision to leave Goldman Sachs  👋 Meeting he...

Sandy Lin has over 500K followers on TikTok, and now she's building a tech business around it. Her startup, Creobase , is the new HubSpot for creators. Making it easy for creators to find, manage and automate their brand partnerships. It's fascinating to watch creators like Sandy build brand and community around their tech businesses. In fact, Sandy has already had success partnering and angel inv...

Imagine a new search engine using generative AI. Instead of links,  Andi gives you answers - like a smart friend.    The tool uses language models combined with live data to generate answers to questions, and to explain and summarize information combined from the best sources.   When Angela Hoover and her co-founder met in the Denver airport, they found a shared passion for cre...

While working as a PM for Visa, Vrinda Gupta was rejected by the credit card she helped launch.    That's when she discovered 70% of women's spend is on noncredit building products, like debit cards and credit cards in other people's names.   In 2019, Vrinda launched Sequin Financial, Inc. (YC S21) , the first debit card by and for women. It's first card teaching women about the fin...

In this episode, Ruffin Mitchener interviews Kristy Kim, founder of Tomo Credit.    We discuss everything from:  🎓 Dropping out of the MBA to disrupt the credit industry   💳 Reaching one million card-holders at Tomo  💥 Building a majority female executive team in fintech   + more     Get the card:  tomocredit.com Connect with us:  linkedin....

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