The Generation Hustle Podcast

Episode 84 is with Prateek Sanjay, Founder of Foundraisr! Prateek helps FinTech and SaaS startups to source angel investors through cold emailing, with his company, Foundraisr. His ability to create demand, build relationships and ultimately secure funding rounds for startups through cold outreaches have solidified his reputation as an expert in investor outreach. We sit down with Prateek to talk...

Episode 83 is with Neal Soni, Co-Founder of Prepared! Prepared is a start-up building technology to better connect citizens to the US emergency calling system. Currently, 911 call centres are technologically antiquated and unable to accept anything besides calls. Prepared’s services allow 911 dispatchers to send callers a text that connects them to a web app, where they can upload images, videos,...

Episode 82 is with Elizabeth Yin, Co-Founder & General Partner at Hustle Fund! Hustle Fund makes pre-seed investments into the fastest-growing start-ups. With a team of former founders, Hustle Fund understands how amazing AND terrible startup life is and brings that authentic element to the table. Elizabeth Yin was a former partner at 500 Startups where she invested in seed stage companies and...

Episode 81 is with Pablo Srugo, Partner at Mistral Venture Partners! Mistral is a seed to early stage venture capital firm that focuses on getting start-ups to Product-Market Fit. They look for investments that leverage the power of the internet to make businesses smarter. Pablo is a two-time founder, having first launched MyTutor.ca, a tutoring marketplace for university students that was acquire...

Episode 80 is with Maëlle Gavet, CEO of Techstars! In June 2022, we attended the Collision Tech Conference in Toronto, Ontario, during which we had the opportunity to sit down with Maëlle for a personal chat. Maëlle Gavet is a French businesswoman, author, and entrepreneur who has been a leading tech executive for over 15 years. She has been named to Fortune’s 40 Under 40 and Time’s Top 25 Female...

Episode 79 is with Chris Neumann, General Partner at Panache Ventures. Panache Ventures is Canada's most active seed stage venture capital fund. The fund has a founders-first philosophy, a commitment to diversity and strategically co-invests with smart angel investors and seed stage funds. Chris has 18 years of experience in Silicon Valley as an engineer, early startup employee, founder and invest...

Episode 78 is with Muhammad Lila, Founder & CEO of Goodable! Muhammad is an award-winning journalist, media founder, and strategist who leads multi-platform teams and creates content across all platforms. He specializes in taking complex subject matter and distilling it into easy-to-understand content that is designed to create impact. Muhammad holds a vast wealth of experience ranging from CN...

Episode 77 is with Markell Baldwin, Partner at Drive Capital! Markell is a former Staff Electronic Design Engineer at Tesla with demonstrated experience in product development, sensor technology from a microcontroller level to the system level, and systems integration. At Drive Capital, he focuses on finding market defining companies in mobility, supply chain, and space. We chat with Markell about...

Episode 76 is with Ashley Francisco, Head of Startup Developer Ecosystems for Google Canada! In her role, Ashley manages Google Canada's Accelerator programs, scaled startup ecosystem events, and Canadian partner engagement. Her goal is to bring the best of Google's people, programs, products and technology to startup teams across the country. Ashley is a professional marketer by trade w...

Episode 75 is with Jesse Abrams, Co-Founder & CEO of Homewise! Recently distinguished by NEXT Canada as “The W. Galen Weston Top Entrepreneur”, by the American Marketing Association Hall of Legends as one of Canada's top 5 "Marketers on the Rise" and by Marketing Magazine as a "Top 30 Under 30" Marketer in Canada, Jesse is an accomplished business leader, Digital Marketer and Advertiser. He ha...

Episode 74 is with Nicole DeTommaso, Senior Associate at Harlem Capital! As a Senior Associate at Harlem Capital, Nicole focuses on deal sourcing, due diligence, and platform development. Prior to Harlem Capital, Nicole worked at RBC Capital Markets within the Investment Banking division, focused primarily on Mergers & Acquisitions and Initial Public Offerings within the technology and digital...

Episode 73 is with Jess Chan, Founder & CEO at Longplay Brands! Longplay Brands is a marketing agency working with B2C e-commerce brands in the health, wellness, and lifestyle spaces. The company M.O. is to work with businesses who are in it for the longplay - brands who are looking to create a legacy, build a lasting brand, and impact real lives. In other words, they build relationships at sc...

Episode 72 is with Leigh Marie Braswell, Principal at Founders Fund! Before joining Founders Fund, Leigh Marie was an early engineer & the first product manager at Scale AI, where she originally built & later led product development for the LiDAR/3D annotation products, used by many autonomous vehicles, robots, and AR/VR companies. She also has done software development at Blend, machine l...

Episode 71 is with Peter Zhou, Co-Founder & CEO of Rutter! Rutter is building a universal API for e-commerce platforms. The e-commerce market is split across hundreds of platforms, such as Shopify, Squarespace, Amazon, and others. Each of these platforms has its own app store or its equivalent. Rutter is an integration layer letting any e-commerce tool build one integration to access any store...

Episode 70 is with Adit Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO of Lula! Lula is an institutionally backed delivery tech company, that helps stores by providing an all-encompassing platform that connects the world to them. They provide stores (convenience, liquor, pet, and more) the specialized technology, data, and customer success these merchants need to serve customers. This united network of stores powere...

Episode 69 is with Robbie Crabtree, Founder of Performative Speaking! Robbie is a retired trial lawyer turned Startup Founder Coach turning founders into powerful storytellers. Having started his career in the legal sector, Robbie helped victims get justice for violent felonies, murders, & child abuse cases as a successful trial lawyer. After eight years of competitive storytelling in a courtr...

Episode 68 is with Dennis Xu, Co-Founder of Mem Labs! Mem is the world's first self-organizing workspace that leverages artificial intelligence to equip knowledge workers in the world with the information they need to do their best work. The free app is an early access platform dedicated to pushing users to quickly jot down their thoughts without focusing too heavily on the underlying organiz...

Episode 67 is with Raad Ahmed, Founder & CEO of LawTrades! LawTrades is pioneering a new work model that economically empowers independent legal professionals to monetize their skills, while helping companies build distributed legal teams. General Counsels have access to a highly selective talent network of attorneys, paralegals, compliance, and legal ops, to complement their own legal departm...

Episode 66 is with Maika Isogawa, Co-Founder and CEO at Webacy! Webacy helps protect your digital legacy by allowing you to decide what you want to do with your digital life after you die. This includes your social media accounts blockchain-based assets, cryptocurrencies and other assets. Some of this involves deletion or memorialization of accounts, posting final, sequenced content, and transferr...

Episode 65 is with Harsehaj Dhami and Samantha Ouyang, two International Baccalaureate high school students based in Toronto. Harsehaj is an impact driven student working to bridge the healthcare access gap to low income families and those struggling with their mental health. She is currently helping build a health startup based out of San Francisco that has just raised their seed-round. In her pe...

Episode 64 is with Alexandra Nuth, Co-Founder and COO at Control HQ! Control HQ is a financial management tool for freelancers and flexible workers. The freedom and flexibility of self employment is coveted, but not the antiquated process of managing your money, from irregular pay to income taxes. Alexandra built her way up in corporate strategy before teaming up with two colleagues on this ventur...

Episode 63 is with Lloyed Lobo, Co-Founder and President of Boast A.I. Boast A.I helps companies access the billions of dollars available in R&D tax credits and funding to improve insights and grow faster. Their software integrates financial, engineering, and project data to increase the speed, accuracy, and size of eligible tax incentives. In other words, Boast helps you maximize claims and i...

Episode 62 is with Brice Scheschuk, Co-Founder of WIND Mobile (now known as Freedom Mobile) and currently the Managing Partner at Globalive Capital. The telecom space is one of the most regulated and red-tape ruled industries to work within, making Wind Mobile’s story an incredible achievement. Brice led the Finance, HR, Procurement and Supply Chain functions of one of the largest new entrant pure...

Episode 61 is with Ben Share, Co-Founder and CEO at Dime! Dime helps turn your content into genuine digital collectibles for your followers to buy, sell, trade and collect. While NFTs have the potential to transform the way we create art and use the internet, we still need a system in place that's powerful enough and clear enough for everyone to use. Dime is the first NFT marketplace to not requir...

Episode 60 is with Kris Bennatti, Co-Founder, CEO and Lead Developer at Bedrock AI! Bedrock AI are experts and innovators in the adaptation of language models to financial text that facilitate a unique, quantamental approach to reading and understanding SEC filings. In other words, they use underused, unstructured data sources to understand and predict earnings management, accounting problems and...