GSD Venture Studios Podcasts by Gary Fowler

AI Deployment Reality Check: From Pentagon to Wall Street with AI Squared CEO | Top Global StartupsMost AI projects fail in production. Darren Kimura has deployed AI for the Pentagon and Intelligence Community while investing in 18 startups with 3 IPOs. Tomorrow, he reveals what actually works vs. what's just hype - and why most enterprises are getting AI completely wrong. Join Darren Kimura, CEO...

🚀 From University Lab to Global Success: The Cross-Industry Innovation Story Ever wonder how university research becomes real-world impact? Tomorrow's Top Global Startups features Lisa Layzell - someone who's cracked the code across 4 different industries over 20+ years. Her Journey: ✅ University of Liverpool spin-out CEO ✅ Biotech → Engineering → Cloud Computing → Robotics ✅ Multiple successf...

"Why 99% of businesses are left behind by AI sales innovation Join us with Joe Gagnon, 6-time CEO and Co-Founder of ⁠ Raynmaker.ai ⁠ , who's solving the biggest gap in business technology today. The problem is massive: → AI sales tools are built for Fortune 500 companies with huge budgets → Small businesses (99.9% of US companies) get stuck with outdated CRM systems → SMBs compete against enterpri...

"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 10x more fundi...

💸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 tiny fe...

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 Cons...

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 actually works...

🛒 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 and B...

🚀 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 🔧 Their n...

🎯 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 mass...

🎥 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 require...

"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 to the full conversati...

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 partnerships Why customers pushed him toward a flexible, transparent, industry-agnostic data platformThe trade-offs vs. vertical point...

"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 diversity....

What if every TV in a bar printed ROI? If you run retail or hospitality, this is your roadmap: AI-driven TV ads that measure and convert. Noah Palansky shows how Taiv did it—fast. Taiv turned bar and retail TVs into a high-ROI ad network spanning 2,500+ U.S. locations—helping brands like Pepsi, Budweiser, and ESPN run engaging, measurable out-of-home campaigns. In this Superscaling with AI episode...

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.

Simplenight AI Presents Gen Alpha is Coming: What the Next Generation Wants in Experiences with Sanjay Bhatia August 15, Friday

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