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Join Sal Daher's Investment Syndicate: Click to Join Jeff Behren's doctoral dissertation suggests that life science startups are not funded the way we all think. Listen to our discussion of his work and learn why he believes we have to revise what is taught to founders about raising money. Highlights: Sal Daher Welcomes Jeff Behrens Back on the Podcast to Discuss His Findings on Biotech Funding "W...

Join Sal Daher's Investment Syndicate: Click to Join Mortgage origination is a massive business deeply stuck in the past. Proof: in 2020 it still takes an average of 45 days to approve a mortgage. Israeli founder Eilon Shalev and his buddies from MIT Sloan School aim to change all that with their startup Elphi. Highlights: Sal Daher Welcomes Listeners & Introduces Eilon Shalev of Elphi What Elphi...

Join Sal Daher's Investment Syndicate: Click to Join Tech VC Matt Fates of Ascent Venture Partners talks about his portfolio and his investing career and ponders becoming more active as an angel investor. A frank and informative conversation with a delightful guest. Highlights: Sal Daher Welcomes Listeners & Introduces Matt Fates, Venture Capitalist Matt Fate's VC Portfolio: Connected2Fiber "The p...

Join Sal's Investment Syndicate: Click Here Unlike software startups that can scale with minimal resources, biotech startups need frequently to rely on collaborations with big strategic players to get to scale. This is an interview with one of the top attorneys in arranging such deals, David Glazer of Morgan Lewis. I learned much from David; I hope you will too. Highlights: Sal Daher Introduces Da...

Join Sal's Investment Syndicate: Click Here As a venture capitalist Fred Bamber helped build such successful companies as Interleaf, Q1 Labs and Volt Server. Now working as an angel investor Fred is invested such exciting companies as SQZ Biotech, Pixability, ViralGains and Streamroot (exited). In his self-effacing and modest way, Fred reveals deep wisdom gained from 75 investments in his career a...

Join Sal's Investment Syndicate: Click to Join Young founder Derek Canton was obsessed with making restaurant payments frictionless. COVID scrambled his product plans but opened up a huge opportunity to provide contactless payment. Throughout lockdown Paerpay has gotten traction for its text-driven payment system which is a perfect fit for the times. Highlights: Sal Introduces Founder Derek Canton...

Join Sal Daher's Investment Syndicate:  Click to Join Ben Littauer travelled an unlikely path from philosophy to communications technology. He brings to life the exciting turns in his careers as founder and angel investor.  In his light-hearted style, Ben provides a thoughtful tour of Boston's angel scene in this episode that ranges over many topics including equity crowdfunding.  In particular, h...

Join Sal Daher's Investment Syndicate: Click to Subscribe The sense of purpose and focus that led Klaudyne Hong to do her PhD at MIT in two years helped her turn a chance comment during a fly-fishing trip into a groundbreaking startup. Peach IntelliHealth is building AI for acute medical care. Her project was seeded by the Government of Singapore where she found great help in building her data set...

Sal Daher's Investment Syndicate: Click Here Ralph Wagner recalls his journey of self-discovery that led from failure in engineering to incandescent success in marketing and sales. The man who could not do calculus or write code excelled at identifying and exploiting opportunities created by computer technology. In this interview one sees that Ralph's captivating personality is firmly ballasted by...

Sal Daher's Investment Syndicate: Click Here Vets have known for a century that injecting extract from fetal tissue helps wounds heal faster However, the procedures required were arduous. Hilltop Bio is taking the hassles out of this time-tested therapy and creating a new revenue stream for clinics. Amanda Drobnis, founder and Jess McLear, board member update us on the company's progress. Intervie...

Join Sal's Investment Syndicate List: Click to Join Joe Selvaggi, entrepreneur and podcaster straddles the worlds of business and policy in his podcast HubWonk, one of two podcasts from Boston's Pioneer Institute. Joe and I talked about compelling interviews of founders and how they relate to the work of the free-market think tank. Fun & Instructive. Highlights include: Sal Daher's Introduction of...

Join Sal's Investment Syndicate: Click Here Super angel investor Michael Mark tells fascinating stories that take us from the precocious founding of his first startup straight out of MIT to his being a highly-prized investor in hundreds of startups today. The narratives are interwoven with valuable lessons on how tech startups are built in Boston's vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem. They include e...

Join Sal's Investment Syndicate: Click Here Curious Reactor, the AI built by founder Jenny Ro, PhD, helps participants at life science conferences figure out who to meet. It's only the first step in a promising road map. Loved the chat with this compelling founder.

Join Sal's Investment Syndicate: Click to Join An MBA and an architect who got together as co-founders at MIT to build software that helps designers make decisions based on numbers and science. Spatiometrics is now helping to make offices COVID-resistant. During the interview we discussed the company's founding story, its workflow and how they are helping with back to work planning. 

Join Sal's Investment Syndicate: Click Here Founder Gillian Isabelle, Ph. D. returns to give us an update on how her startup Enlivity is navigating the COVID crisis. Here is Gillian's origin story: Gillian Isabelle's Full Interview

Join Sal's Syndicate: Click Here To celebrate our 100th episode, Raul Rosa and I curated snippets from various interviews that illustrate particularly valuable lessons in entrepreneurship. Below you will find a list of the full episodes next to the name of the guest cited. Starting at the launch of the 100th episode it will also be possible to search for content on https://angelinvestboston.com ba...

Sal's Investment Syndicate: Click Here Events platform Host Events confronts going virtual with COVID-19. I also talked to Brian Megill about his entrepreneurial journey.

Join Sal's Investment Syndicate: Click Here   Brazilian patients struggle to access specialized medical care. Precavida, which just graduated from Techstars Boston, is addressing this problem. Here is my interview with founder Lais Fonseca.

Join Sal's Investment Syndicate: Link to Syndicate Page Trying to create a bike startup, repeat founder Tivan Amour builds a texting tool that quickly outgrows the original business and is then launched as an independent company. Listen to the founding story of Tone (tonemessaging.com) and how it's allowing brands to speak directly to customers. A great chat with one of my favorite founders. Highl...

Join Sal's Syndicate: Click to Join Born in a Brazilian slum, Artur Souza has founded a promising startup in Boston. His experience with the complexity of adopting his dog led to the creation of Adopets, a platform to facilitate pet adoption. The surge in pet adoption caused by COVID-19 has opened up opportunities for this inspiring founder. 

Sal' Investment Syndicate: Click Here Meenta is the platform for sharing the use of high-end scientific equipment. Its founders, Gabor Bethlendy and Stephan Smith, are using resources they have built to help companies test employees for COVID.  You can learn more about Meenta in the following interviews: Here is my interview of Gabor Bethlendy: https://www.angelinvestboston.com/ep-65/gabor-bethlen...

Sal's Investment Syndicate: Link to Sal's Syndicate In VentureFizz, Keith Cline has created a place where great tech companies and great tech talent meet. Check it out at: https://venturefizz.com/ I had a wide-ranging interview with this most affable and informed guest, here are some highlights: Sal Daher Introduces Keith Kline of Venture Fizz How VentureFizz Came About The VentureFizz Podcast Ori...

Join Sal's Syndicate:  Click to Join Techstars alum COBU has been getting traction at leading apartment buildings for its ability to build community and thus lower tenant turnover. During the lockdown, it has been a social lifeline for apartment dwellers. Founder Ben Pleat returns to the podcast to tell the story. Listen to the founding story of COBU here: COBU: Community in Rentals

Sal's Investment Syndicate : Link to My Syndicates An alum of Techstars and Shark Tank backed by Mark Cuban and Sara Blakely, Alice's Table was a promising startup. Then, the virus struck. For an events company this could have been fatal but Alice Lewis pivoted in an intriguing direction that is already showing strong traction. Hear this great story told by an inspiring founder. Here's Alice's ful...

More secrets for founders raising money. Angel investor Sal Daher has suggestions to make your raise less painful. Highlights include: Sal's Intro – New Fundraising Secret at the End Sal Daher's Opening Statement on Funding for Startups Angels vs. VCs Walnut Ventures & MIT Angels Angel Groups in Boston Super Angel Joe Caruso and His Pet Peeve about Pitch Decks "…if you got it flaunt it." "What I l...