Ignite: Conversations on Startups, Venture Capital, Tech, Future, and Society Podcast
1) Ignite VC: Jeffrey Fidelman on Building a Repeatable Capital Engine & Fundraising Wins | Ep209
Jeffrey Fidelman is the Founder & CEO of Fidelman & Company, an investment bank purpose-built for early-stage companies and emerging managers. A Harvard graduate who spent a decade at Morgan Stanley a...Show More
2) Ignite Startups: Max Greenwald on Precision Demand Gen with AI Agents | Ep208
Max Greenwald is the co-founder and CEO of Warmly.ai, a platform building AI agents that warm your TAM and route hot leads to sales. A former Google PM who helped ship Google’s viral “Where’s Waldo” M...Show More
3) Ignite VC: The Truth About Product-Market Fit and Founder Grit with Gabriel Jarrosson | Ep207
Gabriel Jarrosson is a seven-time founder with three exits and the General Partner of Lobster Capital, a fund specializing in top-performing YC startups. With over $25 million invested in early-stage ...Show More
4) Ignite VC: Scaling With Discipline and Growth Equity Without the Hype with Jim Ferry | Ep206
Jim Ferry is a Partner at Volition Capital, a Boston-based growth equity firm backing founder-owned, capital-efficient companies across software, internet, and consumer. With over a decade at Volition...Show More
5) Ignite Startups: How Open Source and AI Are Transforming Modern Software with Marc Seitz | Ep205
Marc Seitz is the founder of Papermark, an open-source alternative to DocSend that helps startups share documents more securely and affordably. With a background spanning physics, hackathons, and star...Show More
6) Ignite LP: Avoiding Team-Risk and Finding True GP–Strategy Fit with Justinas Milašauskas | Ep204
Justinas Milašauskas is an Investment Manager at Willgrow, a Lithuania-based family office and diversified investment platform. With over 15 years of experience across trading, institutional sales, an...Show More
7) Ignite VC: Dr. Jack Stockert on Transforming Medicine Through Venture Innovation | Ep203
Jack Stockert, MD is the Managing Director at Health2047, the venture studio founded by the American Medical Association (AMA) to build, fund, and scale startups transforming healthcare from within. W...Show More
8) Ignite PE: Joe Zanca’s Playbook for Deal Flow and Turning Conversations into Closings | Ep202
Joe Zanca is the Managing Partner of Deal Gen Partners, where he helps private equity funds, independent sponsors, and PE-backed operators source proprietary deals. Previously, he built and exited On ...Show More
9) Ignite Startups: How Anthony Jules of Robust AI Is Redefining Human-Robot Collaboration | Ep201
Anthony Jules is the co-founder and CEO of Robust AI, a robotics company pioneering collaborative systems that blend human and machine intelligence. A 30-year tech veteran and MIT alum, Anthony previo...Show More
10) Ignite Startups: Eric Ries on Lean Startup and Building Mission-Driven Companies | Ep200
Eric Ries is the author of The Lean Startup, founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), and host of The Eric Ries Show. With decades of experience shaping how founders build, scale, and sustain c...Show More