Midstage Startup Momentum

The modern gaming industry is massive, almost as big as the movie industry. However, things are tough, as game developers have to compete with user-generated content platforms like TikTok and YouTube. To keep up, game developers need to be able to produce quality content faster than ever before. That’s exactly the service offered by Nadav Benoudiz and his startup GenieLabs, which is a smart conten...

The gaming industry is always open to creative and innovative ideas. Mother Games is one startup that is doing just that, both in terms of gameplay and in the way that it operates. The company’s first game Le Zoo will be out soon, promising a transformational experience for players. But outside of the gameplay, Mother Games is doing things a little differently. Co-founder and CEO Kelsey Falter is...

We can all agree on the importance of public safety. Yet, in today’s world, many of the people in charge of public safety are doing their jobs with less information than an Uber driver. That is precisely the problem that Andre McGregor has set out to change with his startup ForceMetrics. Using his experience as a former FBI special agent and building cybersecurity software in Silicon Valley, McGre...

What happens when a business is struggling despite having great technology and a useful product offering? Just find someone with experience building startups to start from scratch. That’s the story of icetana AI, an AI-based security company based in Australia. The company had the technology to be successful, but was struggling to find success. But when experienced entrepreneur Kevin Brown was bro...

As amazing as modern technology can be, it doesn’t always work the way we want it to work. Sometimes your home Internet goes out or your new coffee machine isn’t cooperating. In those instances, calling customer support or having a technician visit isn’t always a smooth process either. Luckily, TechSee is revolutionizing how people receive customer support for their devices. For customers, technic...

The home care industry is more important than ever, but some would say it’s behind the times because it’s not harnessing the power of modern technology. But that’s starting to change thanks to Sensi. AI, which is utilizing artificial intelligence to help home care companies improve their service and take better care of seniors. Sensi is the first of its kind, creating a new category, while at the...

The publishing industry is what most would consider old and outdated, not exactly an ideal setting for an up-and-coming tech startup. But don’t tell that to Spines founder Yehuda Niv. Already established in the publishing world, Yehuda is using AI to disrupt and revolutionize the publishing industry the same way AI has done in countless other industries. Spines is off to a fast start early in its...

What if AI could make cybercrime too expensive for hackers to pursue? In this episode of the Midstage Startup Momentum Podcast, Ambuj Kumar, co-founder, and CEO of Symbian AI, discusses the power of intellectual honesty, innovation, and AI-driven cybersecurity in building scalable, impactful solutions. He emphasizes that true innovation comes from open challenges and discussions rather than blind...

Founders who have never experienced coaching firsthand often wonder what it’s like to work with an experienced startup coach. At the Midstage Institute, we wanted to peel back the curtain a little to show you what it’s like during a coaching session. I recently spoke with the co-founders of an estate planning startup called Inherit. With their permission, of course, I turned that into a podcast to...

How is someone with no investing experience or expertise supposed to get into the game without any know-how? Aren’t they just setting themselves up for failure? That’s no longer a concern with dub, which allows users to copy the portfolios of accomplished investors. Rather than having to pick individual stocks, dub allows users to invest in people and their ideas. It’s truly the next great innovat...

Modern technology can give us so many great things, but it also creates new challenges. Over the last year, deep fakes have emerged as one of those great challenges. Deep fakes are a form of generative AI that aims to deceive and manipulate people with things that aren’t true. Luckily, a startup like Clarity. AI is working to address this problem. Clarity serves prominent news outlets, law firms,...

Cybersecurity is one of the biggest markets emerging in the tech industry right now. There are several big players, yet there is plenty of room for startups that are being innovative and taking a different approach. LimaCharlie is the latter, creating a SecOps cloud platform that aims to bring together a variety of cybersecurity capabilities in a single platform. In other words, it’s a more simpli...

There is a point for all startups when it becomes necessary to ask for outside help. Sometimes that means hiring a fractional CMO to help get the go-to-market machine working. For startups in that position, there are consultants like Grwth.co available to help. Led by experienced founder Mosheh Poltorak, Grwth.co can provide fractional CMO services for startups while also having a plan to hand the...

For many midstage startups, finding an accelerator can be a great way to find useful guidance that can help drive better results. One of the top accelerators in the startup world today is Founders Space, which is run by Steve Hoffman (AKA Captain Hoff). Steve is a veteran of several startups and the author of several books about the startup world who brings a wealth of information and expertise to...

When it comes to virtual and augmented reality technologies, the future that many of us have always dreamed about may already be here. That’s the case largely because of startups like Imascono, which is based in Spain. Imascono has done some amazing things while developing applied imagination and extended reality technologies that have the capacity to be used for entertainment, marketing, and indu...

While the construction business is massive, it’s also rather complicated. Fortunately, there are tech startups like Constrafor that are helping both general contractors and subcontractors streamline everything they do, completing projects and getting everyone paid faster. Constrafor is a construction procurement platform that handles everything from insurance to invoicing. While only started in 20...

With a growing population and climate change, it’s more important than ever for farmers to be able to grow as much food as possible as efficiently as possible. Fortunately, there are startups like Hydrosat that are trying to make that job a little easier for them. As its name implies, Hydrosat uses satellite data to help farmers, agribusinesses, and government agencies with important insights that...

Experience is often a key ingredient for startup founders. Jimmy Kim, the CEO and founder of Sendlane, has plenty of experience with Sendlane being his third startup. With Sendlane, Jimmy is hoping to combine several MarTech tools into a single platform, dominating the space while creating a new category. Given his experience, Jimmy and Sendlane are well on their way to doing just that. Jimmy join...

The ongoing fight against cancer requires all hands on deck. Fortunately, tech startups are starting to harness the power of AI and machine learning to help in the fight against cancer. Genialis is one startup that uses AI in the precision medicine industry to ensure cancer patients are getting the right treatment. Genialis CEO and co-founder Rafael Rosengarten recently sat down with startup coach...

It’s usually in the nature of startup leaders to conquer one market and expand to another. That is exactly the case with Hiberus, which is one of the premier tech startups in Spain but aspires to be so much more. Hiberus is a tech consulting startup that offers a variety of services and has offices all over Europe with over 3,000 employees. After experiencing such impressive growth and success in...

No startup can make it to product-market dominance without having a plan. That’s why the Midstage Institute has put together the midstage momentum method. This is a five-lever plan to help startups upon reaching the midstage and get them from product-market fit to product-market dominance as quickly and efficiently as possible. The method creates a roadmap that startups can follow for future succe...

There seems to be truly no limit to what artificial intelligence is capable of doing. One of the best examples of this is Canadian startup Daisy Intelligence, which works primarily with retailers and insurers to make automated decisions that don’t require having a human in the loop. It’s what founder and CEO Gary Saarenvirta likes to call “Explainable Decisions as a Service.” Gary joined startup c...

All over the planet, companies are trying to reduce their CO2 emissions, if not to help the planet, least to reduce their energy costs. Fortunately, there are startups like Resync that are serving enterprises as an energy management solution using AI. The Singapore-based startup has already made great progress and is now in the process of scaling and expanding to help move companies in different c...

Solving the climate crisis is surely going to be a group effort that requires a majority of the people in the world. Fortunately, there is a tech company like Cogo that’s helping to lead the way. Cogo is helping individuals and businesses to better understand their carbon footprints and make choices to help reduce carbon emissions. They’ve started by partnering with big banks but have aspirations...

Let’s face it, the world couldn’t function without trucks on the road carrying goods from place to place. Naturally, the world functions at its best when the freight on those trucks is managed efficiently. Fortunately, there is a logistics startup like Ofload that acts as a service provider and helps to coordinate freight to help trucking companies big and small be more efficient. While Ofload onl...