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Scaling Japan PodcastEpisode 44: Pitch Decks with Schyler Alexandra ColeIn this episode of the Scaling Japan Podcast, we are happy to welcome back Schyler Alexandra Cole, an associate at Incubate Fund and a founder of Startup Co-Creation Community. Be sure to check out our previous episodes together, Episode 40: VCs in Japan and Episode 42: Part 2 VCs in Japan, where we talked about how to better understand what venture capitalists are looking for. Today, Schyler will be sharing her expertise on how to create effective pitch decks.
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This Week in St...2023-05-3145 min
Scaling Japan PodcastEpisode 42: Part Two of VCs in Japan with Schyler Alexandra ColeIn this episode of the Scaling Japan Podcast, we are happy to welcome back Schyler Alexandra Cole, an associate at Incubate Fund and a founder of Startup Co-Creation Community. Be sure to check out our previous episode together, episode 40: VCs in Japan, where we talked about how to better understand what venture capitalists are looking for. Today, we will be continuing that conversation as well as delving into how to successfully raise money.
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Incubate Fund KK
Co-Creation Community
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(2:30) Types...2023-05-1445 min
Scaling Japan PodcastEpisode 40: Part One of VCs in Japan with Schyler Alexandra ColeIn this episode of the Scaling Japan Podcast, we are joined by Schyler Alexandra Cole, an associate at Incubate Fund and a founder of Startup Co-Creation Community. This will be part one of a two part series covering venture capital in Japan. Today's focus will be on how to understand venture capitalists so that you can make a meaningful first impression. Be sure to stay tuned for part two when we delve into how to raise money.
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LinkedIn
Incubate Fund KK
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Co-Creation...2023-04-2536 min
VCedia: Venture Capital l Entrepreneurship | EcosystemsVCedia: Social Entrepreneurship, Cross Border Learning, Capacity Building, and Innovating Japanese Non-Profit Board Governance with Mio Yamamoto, Co-Founder and Executive Director, WITToday I’m so excited to talk with Mio Yamamoto.
Mio is the co-founder and Executive Director of World in Tohoku.
Mio has more than twelve years of experience in providing high-impact social entrepreneurs with management, capacity building, and funding support. Along with her experience in marketing, sales, and strategy consulting in the private sector, she is building a platform where leaders from private, public, and civic sectors promote cross-sector, cross-border collaborations to accelerate social change.
In the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake, she co-founded WI...2021-02-1142 min
VCedia: Venture Capital l Entrepreneurship | EcosystemsVCedia: Tackling the Female Founder Gap with Lucy Svoboda, Ali Lauer, and Soha Yasrebi of GalvanizerToday I’m so excited to talk with Lucy Svoboda, Ali Lauer, and Soha Yasrebi, three of the four co-founders of Galvanizer. Galvanizer is a start-up community tackling the female founder gap with the mission to encourage more women to take the leap into entrepreneurship.
Lucy, Ali, and Soha are all Stanford GSB Class of 2021. Previously Lucy was Chief of Staff at Nearpod, Ali was a VC at Adam Street Partners, and Soha was a VC at OMERS Ventures.
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Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to...2021-02-0435 min
VCedia: Venture Capital l Entrepreneurship | EcosystemsVCedia: Opportunities to Increase Openness and Amplify Japanese Innovation with Risa Ishii of Plug and Play Tech CenterToday I’m so excited to talk with Risa Ishii.
Risa is a Senior Partnerships Manager at Plug and Play Tech Center, the world’s largest early stage investor, accelerator and corporate innovation platform. They have close to 40 locations around the world, making over 250 investments a year. Bridging startups and corporations in Japan with the rest of the world, Risa focuses on Smart Cities which includes mobility, real estate, energy industries, and more. She oversees corporations' strategies and supports them in accelerating their innovation activities in the Bay Area, sometimes setting up their innovation roadmaps and...2021-01-2835 min
VCedia: Venture Capital l Entrepreneurship | EcosystemsVCedia: Revolutionizing Black Hair with Nana Britwum and Jannice Newson of Lillian AugustaToday I’m very excited to talk with Nana Britwum and Jannice Newson, co-founders of Lillian Augusta.
Nana and Jannice are social entrepreneurs creating hair solutions for Black women. Frustrated with their own experiences of irritation in wearing braiding hair, they decided to innovate and make a high quality and sustainable alternative to the traditional plastic braiding hair found in beauty supply stores across the country. Their plant-based braiding hair is just the beginning to becoming the premier company for sustainable Black hair care products.
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Li...2021-01-1431 min
VCedia: Venture Capital l Entrepreneurship | EcosystemsVCedia: Decolonial Design Thinking with Aishwarya VardhanaToday I’m so excited to talk with Aishwarya Vardhana.
Aishwarya is a product designer, visual artist, and writer interested in developing and practicing decolonial design thinking. Aishwarya published an incredible article on the Decolonial Design Thinking framework she is developing. Today, we discuss her experience with design, Decolonial Design Thinking, expanding what it means to be a designer (hint: It’s you!), and more. This is an awesome and ongoing conversation. If you’re energized by what you hear today and want to get involved, be especially sure to check out the episode description to learn how yo...2021-01-0746 min
VCedia: Venture Capital l Entrepreneurship | EcosystemsVCedia: Weathering Crises, GP Commitment, and Increasing Diversity in VC with Bob Mason of Argon VenturesToday I’m excited to talk with Bob Mason! Bob is a Managing Partner at Argon Ventures, leading pre-seed stage investments in Boston with a mission to amplify founder energy to launch cutting-edge software products and build impactful, global businesses. He has been a Managing Partner at Project 11 Ventures and was previously part of the Techstars Boston investment committee. His portfolio includes over 50 startups and access to a network of hundreds of founders.
Before his career as an investor, Bob helped found and build industry-shifting products and businesses for two highly successful public companies: AT...2020-12-291h 03
VCedia: Venture Capital l Entrepreneurship | EcosystemsVCedia: Rescuing Surplus Food with Rafid Sikder and Farhan Kathawala of Passed PlatesToday I am so excited to talk with Rafid Sikder and Farhan Kathawala of Passed Plates.
Rafid is one of the cofounders of Passed Plates - an app where you can rescue delicious surplus food from restaurants, bakeries, supermarkets, and cafe’s nearby at 50% off or more. They’re relatively new and just launched in SF this year. Their goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions emitted into the atmosphere from food waste. Rafid holds a BS in applied mathematics and environmental science from UC Riverside with a MS in computational and mathematical engineering from Stanford. In his...2020-12-2247 min
VCedia: Venture Capital l Entrepreneurship | EcosystemsVCedia: Japan as the Perfect Sandbox with Stephane E. Fouche of HAKO, LLCToday I am so excited to talk with Stephane E. Fouche. Born in Montreal, Canada but raised in Haiti, Stephane graduated from Harvard University. At the age of 12, he moved to New York, USA due to Haiti's political instability. Utilizing the Japanese Education Ministry's sponsored study-abroad scholarship - MEXT, Stephane studied for one year at Kyushu University. During his time in Japan, he interned/worked at Tokyo Gas, Active Learning, Rakuten, and Monex Securities, and became the youngest manager at DMM.com. From the Chairman's Office, Stephane established the DMM.com Strategic Partnership...2020-12-1747 min
VCedia: Venture Capital l Entrepreneurship | EcosystemsVCedia: FemTech Turning Taboo into Triumph with Lia Camargo of fermata inc.Today I’m excited to talk with Lia Camargo! Lia is a bilingual project manager and translator with experience supporting the global expansion of early stage startups. She graduated from Wellesley College (Massachusetts, USA) with a B.A. in Women's and Gender Studies. At the Cambridge Innovation Center, she facilitated R&D collaboration between Boston-based startups and multinational corporations focusing on biotechnological innovation. Lia is passionate about making emerging femtech products and services available to users in Japan, and currently supports Tokyo- and Singapore-based startup, fermata inc., as Global Business Manager.
This is a really fun an...2020-12-1054 min
VCedia: Venture Capital l Entrepreneurship | EcosystemsVCedia: The Hypercultural Latinx with Ilse CalderonOur guest today is Ilse Calderon. Ilse is a senior associate at OVO Fund. She has been at OVO for the past 2.5 years and was previously at Silicon Valley Bank doing venture debt. OVO Fund is a pre-seed fund ($35MM) based in the Bay Area where they like to invest ($250k to $500k) in the earliest of founders (pre-product, pre-rev, pre-product market fit, etc) across capital efficient sectors. Ilse would love for founders targeting the U.S. Hispanic youth audience as well as underrepresented founders in the earliest stage of their startup journey to contact her!
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VCedia: Venture Capital l Entrepreneurship | EcosystemsVCedia: The Startup Studio Model with Miles DotsonOur guest today is Miles Dotson. Miles is Managing Partner at Devland, a startup studio that focuses on building new innovative ventures with brilliant technologists and wildly underestimated entrepreneurs. He also serves as the Director of Investment at CG Capital and as a Partner to StartupPilot Global. Throughout his career Miles has led technology development as a software engineer and product manager creating frameworks for repeatable innovation within Private Equity managed companies. He now focuses on designing sustainable ecosystems that forge technology creation through new ventures, alternative funding models, corporate innovation engagement and applied R&D. Miles earned...2020-12-0344 min
VCedia: Venture Capital l Entrepreneurship | EcosystemsTrailerVCedia is normalizing inclusive dialogue and relationship building on funding and creating a better future. This weekly audio and visual podcast features Schyler talking with investors, entrepreneurs, and area experts on tech, business financing, and ways to create better investment and innovation ecosystems. VCedia aims to make it help guests and listeners better connect and collaborate. If you're building the future, you're in the right place.
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The Grey RoomsS2E1 - Room #692 - JailbirdSAMANTHA WINTERS - "Welcome to the Hotel"Meet Samantha Winters, our main protagonist for Season 2. You might be thinking, "I already know about Samantha Winters, she's the one who killed Jake Stone in the preseason." And you're right. Jake finally found his missing person and she left him to die on the floor. Is this the reason that Sam is now in The Grey Rooms? What other horrible things has she done to deserve this place? Written by Brian BlackSamantha performed by Sarah ThomasBob performed by Graham Rowat...2019-11-2957 min