Foreign Founders

Learn how Rosette Health is preparing healthcare providers on a wide range of patient scenarios . This week on Foreign Founders, we share a company living at the intersection of maternity care and Generative AI. Gülin Yilmaz, born and raised in Türkiye, studied engineering in France, and built her professional career in the U.S. Prior to starting her company, she was Head of Product at Stork Club,...

Are you building an early stage B2B SaaS founder? Pitch Forum VC. We are back the latest season of Foreign Founders. I’m so excited to kick off this season with the incredible Naomi Goez. Naomi is an operator turned investor based in New York City who grew up in Israel and then later in Canada. She began her career in supply chain within the fashion industry, initially in mature industry...

Build your remote team and virtual assistants with Wishup Neelesh Rangwani is an engineer by education, a marketer at heart and cofounder of Wishup.co . He started Wishup.co to help founders build a remote team within 30 minutes with top 0.1% talent from around the world. Wishup aims to create 1 million remote jobs to enable people to work from anywhere in the world. Wishup has served 900+ clients...

Download The Scene on the App Store today! Ridhima Kalani grew up in a small town in India, where she became the chief coordinator and planner for her family. That continued throughout her school into her time at New York University. She was so good at finding the right place for her classmates, that she would wake up to random texts asking her to find the “best spot in NYC” for the vibe, the food...

Need a system to manage complex family logistics? Download Orgo Zoya Lehrer is the co-founder and CEO of Orgo. Orgo, derivative of “organization on the go”, is the first mobile app designed for personal logistics. After bootstrapping for over a year through their alpha and beta releases, Orgo launched publicly in early 2024. They target busy families who manage and launching publicly early 2024, t...

Download the Milksense Lactation Tracking App My guest today is Sujay Suresh Kumar, the CEO and Co-Founder of Lilu. Sujay received his Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from Osmania University and master's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He is passionate about working at the intersection of technology and women's health. He has previously cofounded a...

Listen to Sydney’s podcast, Unlocking Venture Capital Sydney Wong is the principal and investor at VenturX Capital, a family office that invests in industry-agnostic pre-seed and seed companies. Prior to her current role, she was the founder and CEO of a fintech company that had a successful exit to the family office. Sydney also creates weekly startup content through her podcast, Unlocking Ventur...

Work with Volt to easily scale your SMS solution and compliance Martin Lien, co-founder and CEO of Volt joins me on the show today. Volt began in 2022 out of the founders dealing with the inefficiencies of compliance for SMS operations that stemmed from a legislation change in 2021. Today, Volt is the leading marketing ops infrastructure platform that enable companies to integrate and manage multi...

Need family immigration assistance? Work with Consulta Immigration Consulta Immigration, spearheaded by visionary first-generation immigrant entrepreneurs, revolutionizes the immigration landscape with cutting-edge technology. Their mission is fueled by firsthand knowledge of the arduous journey families face, burdened by steep legal costs in their pursuit of dreams. With a commitment to accessibi...

Do you want to become a franchisee or franchisor? Start with WeFranch. Not all businesses are started from scratch. More business owners are operating a proven business concept attached to a brand name, in other words they are participating in the franchise model. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 10.5% of all businesses are franchises supporting nearly 8.2 million direct jobs. You might think...

Find Financial Help For Problem Gambling 1 - 800 - GAMBLER is a helpful resource if you or someone you know has a gambling problem. According to AddictionCenter, it’s estimated that around 2 million people in the U.S. are addicted to gambling, and for as many as 20 million, the habit seriously interferes with work and social life. Alex De Marco, founder and CEO of MoneyStack, is tackling this prob...

Need a B2B Billing & Revenue management solution? Try Received. Roi Ben Daniel is a Fintech Founder, who worked in Fintech his whole career. At Received, Roi is the Cofounder and CEO, where they solve B2B complexities; and before that Roi was at Visa, where he set up the Visa Partnerships team in Tel Aviv, and was part of Visa Ventures. Roi is a big believer in communities and his secret power...

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Looking to renovate your next commercial space? Work with Aikito In this episode: Andrew’s family history in hospitality Pivoting from law to real estate, and again to a tech entrepreneur Founding his first company, Ethos Aikito and the problems that they solve Andrew McCarthy is a tech, real estate, and hospitality entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience. He holds a Law Degree and Master's...

Learn more about Dileepan Siva and his executive coaching service Dileepan Siva is a two times founder who has bootstrapped his company to profitability and north of $1B of GMV, prior to that experience he’s scaled several early to mid stage companies, and helped raise over $100M in venture capital. Dileepan shares a lot in this episode: His first experience of feeling underrated in school Being a...

Kicking off season 4 of Foreign Founders with big guests! Our first episode is with Zohar Hod. Zohar Hod is a serial entrepreneur in the fintech industry with 5 startup involvements and two exits under his belt. His latest venture is in the digital marketing space is called One Creation and is a personal passion project for him. As CEO and Co-Founder of One Creation Corporation, Zohar leads a team...

Bhuva Shakti  (she/her) is the Chief Sustainable Innovation Officer at Wallet Max, a FinTech startup revolutionizing fundraising for eco-conscious businesses globally, and the Chief Ethics and Culture Officer at Women in AI. She is the board director and fractional C-Suite advisor for social impact corporations, and a keynote speaker passionate about economic inclusion and climate-friendly pa...

This episode is sponsored by Sessions. I created an online event in 7 minutes and you can too - get 20% off. Alex Koshykov is a Ukrainian entrepreneur who is passionate about building startups. He is the co-founder and CEO of BeKey, a software and hardware development company. His main expertise is in health tech and wellness, and when he’s not working on his company, Alex travels the world interv...

This episode is sponsored by Sessions. I created an online event in 7 minutes and you can too - get 20% off. Throughout his ventures, Adam Silverman developed the belief that humans are currently doing robot work. There is no reason humans should be spending their time doing tasks that can be automated. To address this, Adam co-founded  AgentOps.ai  to develop reliabl...

This episode is sponsored by Sessions. Run all your online meetings and get 20% off. Andres Glusman is a tech and business veteran. He saw and shaped the early internet with one of the earliest digital marketing agencies. Then spent 15 years with Meetup.com , and saw the product and company grow to its ultimate exit to WeWork. He’s currently the co-founder and CEO of DoWhatWorks. DoWhatWorks is a...

Head over to Sessions.us and sign up for a 14-day free no strings attached free trial Tatyana Isa is a General Partner at KITSF (San Francisco). “We invest in people.” She is an individual with extraordinary ability according to the United States Department of Homeland and Security. Tatyana is an entrepreneur with over 13 years, the founder of TRINITY Education Group (Ukraine), KITSF (San Francisc...

Lisa Wehden, the CEO & Co-Founder of Plymouth. Plymouth's mission is to accelerate innovation through faster and more transparent immigration services. Plymouth has helped hundreds of individuals across artificial intelligence, climate technology and healthcare. Previously, Lisa worked as an investor at Bloomberg Beta, a VC firm with $375M AUM. At Bloomberg Beta, Lisa created an evening c...

For listeners who has studied a non-native language, like English, for a long time but feel that they have to repeat themselves, this episode is for you! Anada Lakra is the CEO and Co-Founder of BoldVoice, AI-powered app that helps non-native English speakers improve their pronunciation and confidence in English. Their app helps non-native English speakers with videos from Hollywood accent coaches...

Total consumer debt balances are rising quickly, and in 2023 it was a total of $17.06 trillion per the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Out of various types of consumer debt, credit cards increased by 13.2% year over year according to Experian. And credit card debt is one of the most expensive kind of debt! With the new year brings a moment to reflect and for many it’s a moment to change our beha...

Daniela and Michelle Suarez are two Latina immigrant sisters from Peru, who have embarked on a mission to empower the world to naturally conquer stress and anxiety by guiding them towards balanced calmness and focus. They founded a company called iCalm that creates natural solutions to relieve stress, anxiety, frustration, tension, nervousness, and help people live more fulfilled lives. Prior to i...