The VentureFuel Visionaries

How do you evolve your mindset from fear to growth? Can you become the change you want to see in the world, and if you want to change the narrative, shouldn’t you change the outcome? Fiercely female, always rogue. Caroline shares why investing in women is good business and how we can build our innovation muscles to change the world.

AllVoices gives companies the tools to listen at scale by allowing employees to anonymously send feedback to company leaders about workplace issues like bias and harassment. This gives everyone a voice and gives employers the opportunity to proactively improve diversity, equity and inclusion.

Learfield IMG College is a $2 billion company that has the multimedia rights to 54 of the top 65 universities including sponsorship for nearly 130 collegiate institutions, conferences and arenas. Rob Schneider is leading innovation at a unique time in the history of live sports and we talk about everything from data, to startups to creative problem solving.

Corporate innovators from AB InBev, Comcast and Supergoop! discuss going rogue in their careers and how Covid as the great accelerator is shaping the future of entertainment, retail and social connections.

Combining hip-hop, electronic, R&B and indie rock was the signature of the Trillectro Music Festival lauded for showcasing up-and-coming musicians on the eve of their big break. But for founder Modi Oyewole, this mashup of various cultures and passions is the secret sauce of innovation. Join us as Modi takes us from Nike to Jay Z, from Red Bull to Kendrick Lamar to how he connects brands with...

The social media boycott and impending cookie-apocalypse mean that brands and viewers are demanding a “better, high-quality, safe and appropriate” video experience. Enter IRIS.TV, a privacy-first video intelligence platform using machine learning to automate personalized video content based on audience preference with top premium publishers. Happier viewers, higher performing ads – all safely deli...

Learn how Mara Abrams is creating and deploying open innovation strategies (prize competitions and accelerators) to solve the key challenges of increasing participation in the 2020 Census and showing the critical importance of Census and other federal data. Mara is a Senior Advisor for the Open Innovation Program at the U.S. Census Bureau and Co-Founder and Director of the Census Open Innovation L...

Custom computer-generated voice for business. Resemble Co-Founder Saqib Muhammad discusses his solution for creating and updating audio content outside the studio, enabling creators to be more dynamic and flexible in this growing age of voice assistants and audio-driven media.

Embrace curiosity and overcome risk with Mike Pell, a one-man creative agency for designing, coding and shipping breakthrough software. Mike leads Design for The Microsoft Garage, the company’s worldwide program for experimental projects and curiosity-fueled explorations. He is the co-inventor of Adobe Acrobat, has been awarded several U.S. patents for work at Microsoft and designed and developed...

A broadcast-quality studio created remotely in a matter of days, capable of streaming live content across TV, mobile, AR, VR with almost zero latency. The future of content, education, podcasting and professionalizing your business content.

Generating wins for your core business through multi-touchpoint startup engagement with 2020 VentureFuel Visionary Danielle Cohn, VP of Startup Engagement and Head of LIFT Labs for Comcast NBCUniversal. Uncover challenges worth solving and enable your business to adapt to an uncertain future.

On this special LIVE recording we talk about virtual events with a16z and Run The World, a virtual event platform focused on enabling meaningful social connection. They just raised $11M and have been described as a hybrid of Zoom video, Eventbrite ticketing, Twitch interactivity, and LinkedIn networking.

Can large companies and traditional industries go Direct-to-Consumers (DTC)? Learn from the best as 2020 VentureFuel Visionary Jackson Jeyanayagam, VP/GM of DTC at The Clorox Company, shares his recipe for innovating within large companies. He describes how he created a playbook for how to modernize brands and to scale them across traditional organizations.

As a leader in the zero-waste revolution, Package Free founder, Lauren Singer, shares her commitment to reducing trash and making the sustainable lifestyle accessible and affordable for every consumer.

"Advertising is dead," so says 2020 VentureFuel Visionary Raja Rajamannar, the Chief Marketing & Communications Officer and President of Healthcare Business for Mastercard. He shares why the greatest advancements in his 35-year career are from collaborations with startups and how you can build an innovation culture.

With billions of views and millions of image downloads a month, Unsplash has become a force in the creative ecosystem. Co-Founder Mikael Cho discusses the value to image producers, users and brands, and how they can authentically embed themselves into Unsplash's community.

2020 VentureFuel Visionary, Matt Arden shares how his team launched the NBA 2K League season remotely for broadcast on ESPN and Twitch in a matter of weeks, and how corporate innovators can take pandemic pivots to inform future processes.

Co-Founder, Fiona Lee, shares the story of how distribution challenges for her cookie company led to the launch of Pod Foods, a next gen food distribution platform bringing emerging food/beverage brands to retailers.

In this special episode, we feature a panel from our Rogue Women event in May, 2020, with three executives from the sports industry discussing the future of the fan experience, live sports, storytelling and more.

Jack Shannon, Co-Founder of event sponsorship platform, Recess, shares his founder story and recent pivot into the virtual event landscape.

Chief Revenue Office of Ryff, Shini Wark, discusses the technology making post-production product placement come to life, enabling brands to connect with audiences in authentic, timely and relevant ways, and providing content owners with new revenue opportunities.

CEO Gideon Stein shares the story of how an online community of comedians transformed into the data-driven, on-demand creative service that is Write Label, and how brands can outsource creativity for fast and effective results.

Voice app and machine teaching engine founder Pat Higbie shares why voice is a growing category for business and brands, and how his AI makes it all possible.

Nadia Masri, founder of real-time consumer insights platform Perksy, shares her pursuits as a serial entrepreneur, Perksy's mobile-first mentality, and key insights into consumer behavior during the covid pandemic.

Connecting brands and athletes in an open marketplace, founder Ishveen Anand shares her vision for OpenSponsorship and how it can help brands be more authentic and athletes gain valuable traction in their communities.