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FinTech's DEI Discussions – Powered by Harrington StarrThe DEI Discussions: Can AI be Trusted with Inclusion? | Rohan Handa, Ex-Founding Member at Horizen Labs VenturesThe DEI Discussions is delighted to bring the Artificial Discrimination series: Can AI be trusted with Inclusion?In the latest episode of this exclusive series, Nadia is joined by Rohan Handa, Ex-Founding Member at Horizen Labs Ventures.In this episode, Rohan highlights the challenges AI presents, particularly the "black box" issue where the decision-making process remains mysterious. And emphasizes the need for regulations, transparency, and ethical guidelines to ensure safe and responsible AI use.Looking ahead, Rohan envisions AI taking over mundane and administrative...
2023-09-2018 min
Crypto HipsterCrypto Hipster's Mysticals, Episode 17: Social Impact! The Value of Blockchain Data is Greater Than Just Data on the BlockchainThis seventeenth episode of Crypto Hipster's Mysticals is a
compilation of short clips from Seasons 4 and 5 of the Crypto Hipster Podcasts.
This episode comprises podcast segments from Crypto Hipster's interviews of:
Gregory Zavcer–Director of Swarm Foundation
Krishna Hegde–Co-founder at PYOR (Power Your Own Research)
Lloyd Moore–Chief Technology Officer at Valence Blockchain
Rohan Handa–Founding Member and Head of Business Development at Horizen Labs Ventures
All original podcasts can be listened to in their entirety on the Crypto Hipster Podcast channel on your fa...
2023-08-1523 min
Crypto HipsterDiscovering and Implementing Token Launch Best Practices, with Rohan Handa @ Horizen Labs VenturesRohan Handa is the Founding Member and Head of Business Development at Horizen Labs Ventures. HLV is the premiere Web3 advisory services and solutions company, where he managed the successful launch of ApeCoin (creating over $8Bn in value), Otherside (sold for over $300M), and ApeStaking Protocol, and was responsible for closing new projects, including The Sandbox, Jam City, Dust Labs and others.
Previously, Rohan has helped build out the multi-million dollar venture arm for BBVA, investing and managing a portfolio of startups building products at the bleeding edge of technology creating over $50M in value. He...
2023-07-0146 min
Native AssetsBuilding APE Coin, Valuing The Metaverse, Growing A Web3 Team & more w/ Rohan Handa of Horizen Labs | Native Assets S2E13As the internet becomes an increasingly critical thread woven through the fabric of society, a persistent immersive layer dubbed the "Metaverse" is emerging. Many throw the term around with little understanding of its nature - few are the folks who’ve chosen to build this future.
While this amorphous realm is not a singular place or location, but more of a network - certain players are better positioned than others when it comes to creating a world immersive & engaged enough to attract users at scale. One such player is Yuga Labs, the team behind Bored Ape yacht clu...
2022-09-2359 min
There R GiantsThere R Giants Pod-78: Matt Mikulski, Trevor McDonald, Rohan HandaThis week’s There R Giants podcast features three conversations I had with players conducted while I was visiting the Giants’ minor league spring training facility in Scottsdale. Matt Mikulski, Trevor McDonald, and Rohan Handa all took time to share their journeys with me as they each prepare for their first full season in pro ball.Audio is a little uneven this week, as the interviews were recorded out in the back fields at the Giants’ new Papago Park facility and I didn’t quite have my normal technical elements on the road with me. Hopefully, you’ll overloo...
2022-03-2432 min
Giants Prospects - A San Francisco Giants Minor League PodcastFinal Game Recap and Top 80 Prospects ReviewIn this episode I will recap the game that occurred on Sunday, October 2nd, 2021 and then do a review of the top 80 prospects. Sacramento won 5-1 against Albuquerque at home. Top 80 List: SS Marco Luciano - 60 OF Luis Matos - 55 LHP Kyle Harrison - 50 RHP Will Bednar OF Jairo Pomares OF Heliot Ramos - 45 C Patrick Bailey LHP Matt Mikulski C Joey Bart LHP Sammy Long LHP Nick Swiney OF Hunter Bishop SS Aeverson Arteaga - 40+ OF Diego Rincones C Adrian Sugastey RHP Ryan Murphy LHP Esmerlin Vinicio RHP Prelander Berroa RHP Eric Silva SS Will...
2021-10-041h 05
RizzoCastRizzoCast E79: Sports Performance Specialist Hayden LettsIn episode 80 of RizzoCast, we are joined by Sports Performance Specialist Hayden Letts from Dynamic Sports Training. We discuss his career in strength and conditioning, creating plans for each athlete, working with baseball players, evaluating velocity, Giants prospect Rohan Handa, and more!
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2021-09-2131 min
30 With Murti30 With Murti: Rohan HandaRohan Handa is one of many college and high school baseball players eager for the upcoming MLB draft. What makes Handa, a 21-year old left-handed pitcher from Yale, unique is his background as an Indian-American and his development in the last year despite losing two college seasons to COVID. Here is an interesting look at a potential future major leaguer from Sweeny Murti on the latest "30 With Murti" podcast.
2021-06-3038 min
The Umpire Strikes BackEpisode 29 - All Stars ⭐ Dynamos 🌪 Schools 🏫 & Cricket Nuggets!This week we focus on junior cricket & in particular the ECB National Programmes All Stars and Dynamos. We speak to ECB Head of National Programmes Jason Russell-Jones and Delivery Manager Dan Garbutt, who tell us the national plans for summer 2021. They also remind us of the philosophy of All Stars, the Dynamos link to the Hundred and confirm plans for Activator training. We then hear from Emily Munro, our Schools Engagement Manager and Ryan Beck, Schools Cricket Activator to get the Hampshire view on All Stars/Dynamos and the link to our school work.
2021-03-0438 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Simpl CEO, Nitya Sharma On Starting a Buy Now Pay Later Startup In India And The Opportunity Landscape.Nitya Sharma, CEO, and Co-Founder of Simpl. Simpl is a technology company that offers Pay-later solutions in India. Simpl has revolutionized online checkout in India by creating a market-leading Pay-Later platform, empowering e-commerce merchants to offer their consumers 1-click checkout, a line of credit at POS, and full buyer protection.
Before starting Simpl, Nitya worked on Wall Street for more than 10 years, where he structured, traded, and risk-managed structured credit portfolios at Bear Stearns and Goldman Sachs. Before that, he was a co-founding portfolio manager at JNF Financial, a distressed credit hedge fund from 2010–2014. Nitya initially moved back...
2020-10-0557 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Upshift CEO, Ezra Goldman On The Importance Of Conviction And Going All InEzra Goldman is the founder and CEO of Upshift that offers fractional car leasing service for low mileage drivers. Ezra cofounded a dockless bike-share in 1999 and helped design a shared folding electric scooter at the MIT Media Lab with Piaggio in 2006 while doing his Master's in City Planning. He's consulted on innovation for HP and was managing director of a tech startup in Copenhagen, where he also was a Ph.D. candidate studying why Danish people ride bicycles. Upshift has received almost $2M in equity, debt, and project financing from the likes of Urban Us, URBAN-X accelerator by BMW...
2020-09-2551 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Stride.ai CEO, Vijay Nadadur On His Journey From India to the US, And His Startup Journey And LearningsVijay Nadadur is the founder and CEO of Stride.ai. Stride's AI platform enables development, deployment, and adoption of enterprise-grade, smart applications. We leverage cutting edge AI and Natural Language Understanding to build and deliver solutions, keeping in mind the pain points of a financial services organization. When these AI-powered applications are deployed, enterprises can better understand risk, manage regulation, meet compliance, and automate mundane tasks more effectively than ever before. Our solutions are flexible, available both on our Private Cloud as well as On-Premise.
On this episode, we talk to Vijay about:
His journey from In...
2020-09-1852 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Finding The Right Financial Advise w/ Taylor Matthews (CEO), Farther FinanceTaylor Matthews is the Co-Founder and CEO of Farther Finance. He has raised over $1.6 Mn in venture capital from Cota Capital, The Tiffin Group, and other investors and is developing an investment advisory platform created to provide modern technology with trusted advice. The company's platform offers investment advice on allocations of exchange-traded funds based on personalized information that each client provides via the firm's platform, as well as uses a proprietary algorithm to implement model portfolios designed by investment experts with target asset allocations of equity and fixed-income, enabling clients to get access to ETFs that preserve capital and...
2020-09-0447 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Building And Scaling a Startup As a Couple With The Founders Of KidzJet Benny Shaikh (CEO) and Ashish Chhaparwal (CFO)KidzJet was started by parents with a vision to provide Safe, Reliable, and Affordable Transportation. Breaking the barriers of transportation opens up a world of exploration and learning for children. With the students no longer limited by distance, schools can expand to new avenues to attract talent. Benny Shaikh (CEO), after the birth of her twin sons, Kabir and Ruhan, she experienced the challenge of balancing her children's schedule with her professional life. In May 2014 she started KidzJet, in an effort to simplify life for parents and kids. Soon after, seeing the passion of her wife, her husband Ashish Chh...
2020-08-2150 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: The Ins And Outs Of Startup And Corporate Partnership w/ Dmitry Norenko (CEO, Upswot) and Martin Bailey (Director of Innovation, Temenos)Dmitry Norenko is the Founder and CEO of Upswot, powering SMB-focused sales efficiency of online and offline channels of the Banks with continuous monitoring & insights into 92 alternative data sources. They are working with dozens of Banks and Insurers in Europe and North America. Martin Bailey is the Director of Innovation at Temenos, where he runs a cross-product innovation hub to incubate ideas in typically challenging areas (such as digital, cyber & cloud).
And on this episode we talk about the journey of the partnership between a startup and a large corporate, covering the myriad of aspects that often n...
2020-08-1459 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: JB Capital's Jeremy Hill On The Hustle Behind Entrepreneurship And The Power Of Just Doing It.As the Founder and Managing Director of the JB Capital Group of Companies, Jeremy Hill is responsible for the overall strategic direction and leadership of the firm. His role contributes to the development and execution of our strategic and corporate goals, which includes oversight of relationships with capital partners and the evaluation and consummation of new investments.
Known for his entrepreneurial vision and development expertise, Jeremy was the President of several firms focusing on investment strategies and structured finance in the United States prior to founding JB Capital. Providing nearly $500 Million in capital to privately held businesses...
2020-07-3157 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Journey From A Simple Luggage Storage Idea To A VC Backed Venture w/ CEO Of Bounce, Cody CandeeCody Candee, co-founder of Bounce, who aims to give you a place to leave your things anywhere in the city by providing short term bag storage in hotels and shops. Before starting Bounce, Cody worked at Intuit, the makers of the accounting software Quickbooks, and at the venture studio FactoryX. That’s where he learned about the importance of rapid prototyping and how it should be done so that you can find the right approach with your startup in the fastest way possible. The San Francisco-based startup has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from investors including Structured Capital managing pa...
2020-07-2446 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Psychic Entropy And The Power of DaydreamingOur minds wander but does not mean it's lost. In fact, let it wander and allow it to connect the dots of imagination.
2020-07-1810 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: The Importance Of Lifelong LearningThe key to evolution and prosperity is all about learning and imparting that knowledge to the world. Never stop learning.
2020-07-1206 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Life, A Function Of Perspective.Have you ever been in a life-threatening or life-ending situation or condition or diagnosis? Do you remember what it feels like? People tend to promise themselves and everyone around them that they will live differently. They promise to live differently because they understand, or rather forced into understanding the fragility of life, and the unfulfilled promises. That is the greatest fear that drives us. Everything comes racing down to your mind -- the people you loved, your family, your friends, the dreams that may remain a dream. When life’s fragility is primed, people’s goals and motives in thei...
2020-06-2709 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Growing Startups And Measuring Success w/ SaaS Growth Ventures's, Artem Gassan (GP)Artem Gassan is the General Partner (GP) at SaaS Growth Ventures and has +4 years of early-stage investing and was a founder of 4 startups with 2 exits. Former Partner and EIR at Upshift Partners and 500 Startups where he invested and helped to scale sales, and revenue for over 50+ portfolio companies. He has and reviewed over 1,000 investments for Fund IV at 500 Startups and accelerator.
On today's episode we talk about:
What is Artem's backstory? What is SaaS Growth Ventures? What are the focus areas? What is the fund thesis? What do you ultimately want to achieve with the fund?
...
2020-06-2653 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Time Transformation.Ever wonder why we sometimes get so engrossed in certain activities that we lose track of time? Listen on to learn more.
2020-06-2008 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Cryptocurrency and Stable Coins Discussion w/ Dr. Mihaela UlieruDr. Mihaela Ulieru is currently the Chief Alchemist at SingularityNET and President of the IMPACT Institute for the Digital Economy. The broadness of her background and expertise enable Dr. Ulieru to tackle problems from original perspectives which require a high level of interdisciplinarity - such as her large scale international collaborative projects aiming to make ICTs an integral component of policymaking for social innovation generation for a healthier, safer, more sustainable, and innovation-driven world Future of Medicine, Living Technologies - book chapter here and Emulating the Mind, recently coined in a book.
On this episode we talk a...
2020-06-1956 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Intellectual Humility And Healing The Wounds Of Polar Thought Disconnect.We are living in a world where no one wants to listen, and everyone wants to be heard. In that world, truth, facts seeking, and credible information doesn't matter as long as you are the loudest voice in the room. There is no intellectual humility, and the race is always on to make a point. This episode discusses the importance of intellectual humility and how we can have better conversations only when we try to be open-minded no matter how polar opposite the thoughts may be. Enjoy!
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2020-06-1210 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Synapse's CEO Sankaet Pathak On Building the AWS Of Banking And The Journey Of a Product.Sankaet Pathak is the Co-founder and CEO of Synapse. Synapse is a San Francisco-based startup that operates a platform enabling banks and fintech companies to easily develop financial services products. It closed a $33 million Series B in 2019 bringing the total funds raised to $50 million, aiming to democratize and become the AWS of financial services. The backers of this startup include Andreessen Horowitz, Core Innovation Capital, and Trinity Ventures.
On this episode you will hear:
Sankaet's journey from India to the US, and what made him start Synapse?
What is SynapseFi and what are they trying to...
2020-06-1151 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: XMargin's CEO Darshan Vaidya Discussing Zero Knowledge Proofs and Cross Margin Trading.Darshan Vaidya a derivatives trader from the UK turned founder of the startup called X-margin. X-Margin is looking to transform the way derivatives are margined and settled, using zero-knowledge technology to disintermediate traditional clearinghouses. X-Margin recently closed its seed round raising capital from renowned venture funds like Polychain Capital, XBTO, and several other angel investors.
I have personally been fascinated by zero-knowledge technology so we go deep into the weeds of it. On this episode, you will hear about:
1. Darshan's backstory and what got him excited about the cryptocurrency space
2. What problems did...
2020-06-0457 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Loneliness, An Emotional VirusLoneliness can be emotionally and physically draining. Don't let your loved ones, friends, and family suffer through it alone. Reach out, and be there.
You can follow me on Twitter, Linkedin, or email me at mindgravity2020@gmail.com.
2020-05-3009 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Starsky Robotics CTO Kartik Tiwari Discusses Unmanned Trucks and Building the Right Team.Kartik Tiwari has a background in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and was the CTO and co-founder of Starsky Robotics, a driverless truck startup that aimed to make roads safer and allow truck drivers to work closer to home.
Starsky began moving freight on the highway in early 2017, and one year later became the first company to take the safety driver out of a truck when it drove fully unmanned for seven miles on a closed road in Florida. In June 2019, Starsky did the first-ever fully-unmanned test on a public highway with live traffic. But was shut...
2020-05-2848 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Yoga, and the 8 stages to sync mind and bodyMy personal interest in meditation and yoga is the inspiration behind this episode and how Eastern practices teach us how to attain sync with mind and body. In this episode you will get to learn the 8 stages of Yoga, and what those stages mean. Enjoy!
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2020-05-2210 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: CLC Advisor's CEO Cindy Chin Discusses the NASA Datanaut Program, Innovation, and Mentorship.Cindy Chin is an entrepreneur, venture strategist, solutions leader, and cultural ambassador of the arts and sciences. As CEO of CLC Advisors, LLC, she is an advisor and board member on startup teams, opportunity scout for strategic investment partners, a global thought leader, and speaker. She is also a NASA Datanaut, an open data innovation program to promote data science and diversity operating within the NASA CIO office. In 2018, she was named as one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s “50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs in 2018” along with SpaceX/Tesla’s Elon Musk, General Motors’ Mary Barra, IBM’s Ginni Rometty, actress Reese Witherspoon...
2020-05-2156 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Epictetus and mental resilienceThis episode is dedicated to Epictetus and his framework on mental resilience. Epictetus grew up a slave in Rome and then became a Stoic philosopher. Both of these positions were incredibly precarious – slaves could be abused or killed by their owners, while Stoic philosophers were constantly falling foul of the imperial authorities (Epictetus himself was eventually exiled). Epictetus coped with this insecurity by constantly reminding himself what he could control and what he couldn't. We can control our thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes, but everything else is to some extent out of our control – other people's perceptions and behavior, the econ...
2020-05-1508 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: DeFi, and discussing challenges for an early stage startup with Snowball MoneyParul Gujral is the Founder and CEO of Snowball Money within the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, building a high-interest investment account product. Snowball has so far raised $1.1 Mn from world-class investors like Richard Blum, Sam Zaid, Greg Kidd, Reese Jones, Kevin Lin, and Jeff McDonald to name a few. Parul believes, blockchain technology can substantially increase the scope and efficiency of peer-to-peer transactions, turning previously infeasible business models into viable ones. Empowered by blockchain technology, financial services can become more decentralized, innovative, interoperable, borderless, and transparent. The DeFi space has gained tremendous traction, going from $150 million in April 2018 to $1.2...
2020-05-1438 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Cost of Wasting Free-timeI created this episode in hopes for you to think about things that are important for us to enhance our daily experience from its mundaneness.
This episode is inspired by the writings of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the author of the book Flow. We as a race are constantly looking to optimize our experience and happiness, but most of us are not utilizing our free time to do so. Instead, we focus on the mass consumption of media and other vices that I contest are making us dull beings.
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2020-05-0907 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Airwallex's Head of Strategy, Toshi Kameoka and what it actually takes to expand a non-US fintech unicorn in the US.Toshi Kameoka is the Head of Strategy at Airwallex US and Canada. Airwallex is a fintech unicorn founded in Melbourne, Australia (not the HQ as I mention in the opening remarks...yikes ) helping global businesses move funds cross-border in the fastest, cheapest, most transparent, and most predictable way possible. In short, they are looking to become the "AWS of global banking". The startup has recently raised $360Mn Series D with early 2020 at nearly $2Bn valuation. Its largest investor and major is Tencent and includes other marquee investors like Sequoia Capital, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures, and Mastercard.
In t...
2020-05-0639 min
MindGravity.MindGravity: Err, but what is it?Here's a quick introduction to the MindGravity podcast.
If you would like to get in touch with me, just ping me at mindgravity2020@gmail.com or via LinkedIn.
Hope you enjoy this journey with me!
2020-05-0601 min