GSD Venture Studios Podcasts by Gary Fowler

"Building flying robots is 10x harder than building apps - here's why" And this conversation will blow your mind! 🚁 Join us for a Top Global Startups conversation with Andrea Cecchi who left his interests in soccer and cooking in Milan to build FloFleet - a company creating autonomous aircraft that could revolutionize industries. This is eye-opening stuff: 💰 Hardware startups need...

💸Instant payments are revolutionizing $150B Latin America remittances But that's all changing thanks to amazing innovators! ✨ Join us in an exciting discussion with Enrique Perezalonso who built Palla - a platform that's making international money transfers instant and affordable across Latin America. This is game-changing stuff: ⚡ Send money instantly instead of waiting 3-5 days 💰 Pay...

She turned her disease into a $5M company - and won Founder of the Year" This story will inspire you! ✨ Join us in an interesting conversation with Eleanora Cavani who did something incredible - she reversed her own severe chronic condition using gut health science, then built that solution into Alba Health and raised $5 million! Her journey is amazing: 🔬 Molecular biologist who left Boston...

Mixed Reality Revolution: How AR, VR & XR Are Transforming Travel Foreverwith Sanjay Bhatia | Simplenight Join us for an exciting conversation on how augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and extended reality (XR) are redefining the way we experience travel — from previewing destinations before a trip, to enhancing experiences while on the journey, and even enabling fully immersive alt...

What happens when an entire country starts aging faster than anywhere else in the world? Japan is finding out - and creating amazing solutions! 💡 Join us in a new interesting episode with Kohei Yano who built something incredible called PIAZZA - Japan's #1 community app that's helping solve population decline and aging challenges. This is fascinating stuff: 🏘️ Think Nextdoor, but it actua...

🛒 Ever wonder if those online ads actually get people into stores? This is the million-dollar question every retailer asks! 💰 Join us in an incredible conversation with Kürşad Arman who built something amazing called VenueX that finally answers this question. What we'll discover: 🤖 How AI can track when someone sees an ad online then actually buys in-store 📱 How major brands like Arçelik a...

🚀 Ever wondered how your favorite apps handle millions of requests without breaking? The secret is in the APIs - and there's a revolution happening! 💡 Just had an amazing conversation with Stefan Avram from WunderGraph who's completely changing how big companies build and manage their software connections. What blew my mind: ⚡ Traditional ways of connecting apps are outdated and slow 🔧...

🎯 Ever wondered how AI is changing professional sports? Our latest podcast guest blew my mind! 🤯Pawel Osterreicher went from Boston Consulting Group strategy work to building an AI startup that's revolutionizing how sports teams and media companies access game data. His company ReSpo. Vision uses computer vision to make sports analytics accessible to everyone - not just the big leagues with...

🎥 The Video Marketing Revolution Hiding in Plain Sight Dev Mehrotra just dropped some mind-blowing insights about AI video content that every marketer needs to hear: The Breakthrough: 3LC is producing studio-quality video content for performance, social, and brand marketing at a fraction of traditional cost and time. We're talking major cuts in both while maintaining quality that used to requ...

"The hidden legal landmines in your vendor contracts could cost millions. This professor-turned-CEO built AI that catches what lawyers miss - and it's changing how we think about access to justice." The AI That's Reading Every Contract So You Don't Have To. John Licato just shared three game-changing legal AI applications that every business leader needs to know about. Listen...

India’s family office ecosystem is scaling fast. Joining us is Valmik Iyer, CFA (Co‑Founder & Joint CEO, ILIOS 72 Alternative Capital; CFA) to unpack what’s driving the surge—from AIF Cat I/II/III and co‑investments to governance, reporting, and AI-powered operations. Practical frameworks, not theory.

A strong ecosystem can be the difference between a good product and a great business. Join me as I sit down with Tommy Nordahl—Co-founder & CEO of Starhive, serial entrepreneur with two exits—to discuss:Building inside the Atlassian ecosystem and the power of partnershipsWhy customers pushed him toward a flexible, transparent, industry-agnostic data platformThe trade-offs vs. vertical point soluti...

"Leaders don’t just manage change—they make it happen."If you’re leading transformation in procurement, supply chain, or operations, this one is rich with practical frameworks. Martin Schneider has led through both calm and chaos: two decades in financial services, full P&L responsibility over a 9B SEK business, and a career defined by digitalization, transformation, leadership, and...

Voice clones. Fake video meetings. KYC spoofing. Here’s what detection can do today, where it fails, and how to tune thresholds so security doesn’t kill conversion Deepfakes moved from novelty to business risk. Reality Defender CEO Ben Colman joins us to break down the current state of deepfake detection—and how enterprises deploy real‑time defense across video, voice, and images without crushing...

Solar that belongs, not dominates. Sunspeker’s Fabrizio Chiara breaks down SeeBeyond and InvisibleEnergy—BIPV that blends into façades without sacrificing performance. Watch for tactics on partnerships, investor traction, and human-centered energy at scale.

Maor Ezer, co‑founder/CEO of ai.work and ex‑WalkMe leader, on AI Workforce Platforms transforming the $400B internal services market and ops productivity.

We’re diving deep into enterprise GenAI with Ben Luria, CEO & Co‑Founder of Hirundo (Machine Unlearning). A Rhodes Scholar and Visiting Fellow at Oxford, Ben previously founded fintech and edtech ventures and now focuses on how to make AI “forget” to reduce real‑world risks.

From law student to leading a high-growth beauty-wellness tech platform, Anurav Dave (LUZO) shares how he and two college friends launched during COVID and scaled to 6 cities with 500K+ downloads. We discuss India’s startup ecosystem and the real-world role of AI in beauty and wellness.

Chris Hodgson, Co‑CEO of OBT Live, unpacks how AI‑powered, real‑time engagement is reshaping retail loyalty. We dive into OBT Live’s Proof of Value Engagement (PoVE)—a hands‑on way to test personalisation, layered experiences, and ROI before scaling to a full platform. Practical plays to boost revenue and build genuine, lasting loyalty.

Mark Orttung, CEO of Projectworks and Chair of Provoke, shares how consulting firms can adapt to “AI whiplash”—rapid model shifts, client expectations, and delivery risk. Former CEO of Nexient (exited to NTT DATA) and ex‑President/COO at Bill.com , Mark brings product-led, network-scale lessons to services. Practical playbooks: pricing, scope control, AI risk, and IP.

GSD Presents: Top Global Startups with Matias Sigal AI-Powered Solar: Scaling Climate Tech, Winning Customers, and Finding the Next Big Idea August 13th, Wednesday

GSD Presents: Top Global Startups with Jane Ollis Building a Tech Startup as a Woman Founder: Lessons in AI, Resilience, and Starting From Scratch August 7th, Thursday

GSD Presents: Top Global Startups with Ronan Wall From Quiet Quitting to Purpose-Driven Work: Fixing the Employee Engagement Gap August 6th, Wednesday

GSD Presents Silicon Valley Tech & AI with Anton Zimarov AI in Cybersecurity: Attacker and Defender POV July 23, Wednesday 1PM EST

GSD Presents: Top Global Startups with Hai Ho Turning Sand into Sustainable Heat: How Alternō is Decarbonising Industrial Energy July 23rd, Wednesday