The Accelerator with Michael Conniff

Nathan Beckord CEO Foundersuite. This is a SAAS platform that has a collection of tools for startups seeking capital. They have built products from every part of the startup journey. It is the “Ultimate Funding Stack” The team has plans to add more features to the platform in order to make startups more discoverable. Nathan’s whole career has been focused on helping startups raise capital. He star...

Hayden Hughes is the Co-Founder and CEO of Alpha Impact, social trading built for the 80% of people who aren’t yet in crypto. He is originally from Canada but is based in Singapore. Alpha Impact is a copy-trading social media platform designed to connect followers with professional traders. Users can connect their investment account to Alpha Impact to copy top traders in our community, get the lat...

Torkel Falkenberg graduated with Ph. D. from Karolinska Institutet close to 30 years ago. After getting his Ph. D., he discovered that he was more geared to global health. He has dedicated his time and effort since 1995 to help low and middle-income countries with healthcare reforms. Through this work, he started working with the World Health Organisation. He is one of the authors of global strate...

Jonathan Moore is a tech enthusiast and entrepreneur who has lived in Korea since 2006- He is originally from Texas. He randomly decided to go to South Korea right after college off a spinning globe and he has lived there ever since. Jonathan started off as an English teacher. Later on, met his future co-founder and they started a company called Be Native. This is when he discovered his purpose wa...

Anastasia Lit is the Director of Investor relations for Europe and the Middle East for the Deep Knowledge Group Deep Knowledge Group is a consortium of commercial and non-profit organizations active on many fronts in the realm of DeepTech and Frontier Technologies (AI, Longevity, FinTech, GovTech, InvestTech), ranging from scientific research to investment, entrepreneurship, analytics, media, phil...

Michael Guastamacchio Co-Founder / CEO at MediaZilla talked to Michael Conniff about his revolutionary company. MediaZilla empowers organizations and individuals to communicate powerful information and experiences through video. MediaZilla specializes in making sure your important recordings remain confidential. The company has put specialized security protocols to ensure the videos remain private...

Adam C Grant is a venture partner at Republic. He is currently investing with a venture firm called Overlooked Ventures. This is a venture capital firm focused on transparently supporting and investing in early-stage companies with one or more historically ignored founders.  The community is made up of minorities, women founders, people of color, and the LGBTQ community. They work with winners and...

He Worked in medical software for 14 years, first as an employee and then as a consultant. He began his investor journey soon afterward. He primarily focuses on C-stage startups. He shared with us some of the great companies he has invested in. When the pandemic struck, he started looking for a hobby that wouldn’t be affected by lockdowns and that is how his blogging journey began. His blog is cal...

He is Russian by Nationality and has Tatar origins. He works for Starta VC where is the Head of African Track. This entails creating an African Accelerator business for Starta VC which has its Headquarters in New York. Starta VC is a global accelerator that helps international business founders scale their businesses irrespective of their origins. He talks to us about his experience working with A...

Andy Gibbs is the CEO of Fidotek Corporation. Fidotek enables pet owners to speak with their pets via a smart speaker. The company achieved this by acquiring dog data, using AI to determine dog behavior, and converting it into a human voice played into a smart speaker in the home which enables the pet owner and the pets to communicate. Andy has a wealth of experience in starting and running busine...

She is a sought-after brand strategist, entrepreneur, and investor. As an investor, she thrives at helping start-ups thrive. She is also the founder of Brandprenuer, Brandfluencer a marketing agency that supports visionaries and change-makers, and pioneers to gain traction and acquire new clients. Dr. Irene Kilubi uses her background in corporate influence strategy to achieve this.

Huey Ching is an aspiring entrepreneur doing amazing things while in university. She is the founder and CEO of Chingspire Webdesign Solution. This is a company that creates websites for businesses for the purpose of marketing and identifying potential leads and bringing revenue to the business. She is currently majoring in International Business at Sunway University where she has won the Outstandi...

Giannandrea Giammanco is the CEO of FVTURA. This is not your typical start-up incubator. Giannandrea describes the company as a venture builder rather than a start-up incubator A typical start-up incubator usually offers just funding and mentorship. What differentiates Fvtura from other incubators is that they give more. In addition to funding and mentorship, they offer support in terms of operati...

James Spurway is a purpose-driven, impact-focused, angel lead investor who helps first-time sustainable business model founders navigate their external fundraising journey. He is also known as the fundraising angel. He is originally from Australia. He comes from a rural setting in Queensland Australia. In his own words, he was born in a very poor family. His family was literally dirt poor. This ph...

Bjorn Ekeberg is the Chief Commercial Officer at Recharge Health. The company offers a revolutionary technology called the FlexBeam which is targeted red light therapy. The technology offers an alternative way of managing pain without using painkillers. The target user of the device is people who are keen on trying new technology and people aged between 35 to 55 years. The technology is still evol...

Michelle Katics is the Co-Founder and CEO of BankersLab. BankersLab was started in Thailand by former bankers who decided to come up with solutions to the pain points they encountered in the Industry. The company has been around for ten years and is in 30 countries! Being in the business for this amount of time has seen the company go through a lot of pivotal moments. The most recent change was br...

Lev Chneider is the CEO of Happiness As A Service (HAAS). According to Lev, HAAS is a mindset. They take data on customer satisfaction and curate it to give customers a 9/10 and even 10/10 satisfaction index. They focus on smaller/silent voices that may otherwise be overlooked or drowned by popular voices. Lev believes that companies and corporations who do not listen to their customers will disap...

Aditya Sharma is the Co-founder and CEO of HiCounselor. This is a career accelerator for recent grads and early stage professionals. The company has been in existence for two years, 8 months and has a success rate of 100%. Candidates who go through HiCounselor get ten times more interviews, they get jobs within five to six weeks instead of waiting for six months or more. Aditya was prompted to sta...

Alex Porter, Founder & CEO of Mod Tech Labs Inc talks to Michael Conniff about their revolutionary technology. MOD is a mobile + cloud-based software that makes 3D in minutes! The way this works is, you take images using your mobile phone or any camera and upload it to the MOD processing portal. The automated portal outputs 3D digital content. The technology uses the data from the photos and s...

Andre Facote is from Lisbon, Portugal. He is the co-founder of Skizo. Skizo is a company dedicated to making an impact on the environment by cleaning up plastic in the ocean. They do this in collaboration with fishermen. The idea came to Andre when he and his one-and-a-half-year-old son were out having fun on the beach and his son picked up plastic waste and started to eat. He was greatly disguste...

Andre Facote is from Lisbon, Portugal. He is the co-founder of Skizo. Skizo is a company dedicated to making an impact on the environment by cleaning up plastic in the ocean. They do this in collaboration with fishermen. The idea came to Andre when he and his one and a half-year-old son were out having fun on the beach and his son picked up plastic waste and started to eat. He was greatly disguste...

Daniel Sarquis from Brazil. He is a managing partner at Mergus Ventures. At Mergus Ventures, they believe in investment through a transparent, balanced, and prosperous environment. They are made of founders who dive into problem-solving opportunities. They operate in markets that have a lot of potential. He has an engineering background but was introduced to the world of investment by his dad.

Jeremy believes that the best investors are former founders. It takes being a founder to know a founder. Jeremy is both an investor and an entrepreneur at heart. He believes that the best investors are former founders. He comes from a family of entrepreneurs. His dad instilled in him the value of caring for the people around you, whether family, colleagues, or the society at large. According to Je...

Blue Lake is a venture capital firm with a focus on the UK to Ukraine companies. They are keen on helping founders from under-represented places such as Ukraine, India Greece, and France

Ligo Partners co-invests with their discrete and invitation-only consortium of like-minded investors into disruptive tech-focused deal flow sourced directly from family offices and top venture capital firms worldwide. Travis believes that the best companies are the ones that solve smaller problems. When you solve smaller problems, you stumble into billion-dollar solutions. He believes that the pur...