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Digital Innovation Chat

Author: Jan Kartusek

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Digital Innovation Chat is an interview-based podcast with leading CTOs, Chief Product Officers, Digital Transformation Officers or Startup Founders in which they’ll share with you their lessons learned about scaling their digital products and tech departments, how they stay agile and lean in their product development and how they use cutting edge technologies to help them stay ahead of the curve.

This podcast is hosted by Jan Kartusek who's the Chief Business Officer in a digital product development studio Cleevio.
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Leah Farmer is a Senior VP of Product and Technology at Tourlane, which is a planning and booking platform helping travelers research and buy multi-day tours online. Since its foundation in 2016, Tourlane raised a total of $106M in funding from notable VC firms such as Sequoia Capital, Spark Capital, HV Capital, and DN Capital. In this episode, we're gonna talk about - How is Tourlane different, from the regular tour operators? - "A two-pizza team" as the best way to structure agile teams. - What's the difference between European and American engineers? - How the travel industry is changing? - What was Tourlane's engineering focus in 2020? - Top books and apps for the tech team leaders. Visit Cleevio.com for more information.
Brian Hosie is a VP of Engineering at Lendio, which is a free online marketplace that helps business owners find the right lenders and secure loans within minutes. Lendio was founded in 2011, now the company employes 474 team members and raised a total of $108.5M in funding. In this episode, we're gonna talk about: - How to get a loan with Lendio. - The growth of team size from 100 to 400 team members. - How do they structure teams to make each team autonomous. - Why Utah is a growing tech hub in the US. Visit Cleevio.com to learn more.
Emanuele Blanco is the CTO at Moneyfarm, an app-based investment platform and one of the largest digital wealth management companies in Europe. It aims to make investing easy, accessible, and cheap. To this day, Moneyfarm has secured $127.3M in total funding, and in this episode, we're gonna talk about: - How does Moneyfarm disrupt traditional financial advisors? - Mobile vs Display: Where do most of the users come from? - What is next in their product roadmap? - The revenue model of Moneyfarm?
David Werner is a Head Of Engineering at Exporo, an equity crowdinvesting platform for real estate in Germany. Exporo allows private investors to start investing in attractive real estate projects with a starting amount of 500€. Since its foundation in November 2014, Exporo has financed around 200 real estate projects, and raising a total of €59.2M in funding over 3 rounds. In this episode, we're gonna talk about: - An emerging trend of digital real estate investing. - How does blockchain technology allow them to lower costs and dependencies. - What is the average return on crowdinvestments into real estate? - How did they simplify the traditional real estate investment process in Germany? -What is the revenue model for Exporo?
Karin Tsai is a Director of Engineering at Duolingo, is the most popular language-learning platform and the most downloaded education app in the world, with more than 300 million users. In December 2019 Duolingo was valued at $1.5 billion, making it Pittsburgh’s first startup to reach "unicorn" status. Visit Cleevio.com to learn more.
Matthew Kramer is the VP Of Engineering at VenueNext, which is a leader in point-of-sale, mobile commerce, and loyalty solutions and is used by every major professional sports venue around the world – transforming the way fans shop, order, and pay. To this day, VenueNext has secured $24M in total funding, and in this episode, we're gonna talk about: The ways how VenueNext is redefining experiences for the sport fans How "IOS 14 App Clips" is pushing the new vision for the app industry How COVID-19 transformed their industry
Sebastian Honores is the Director of Product Management at Fever, which is a scaleup company that studies consumer data to recommend events for booking and helps companies plan those events. In total funding, Fever has secured $71.8M from notable VCs such as Rakuten and Accel. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.
Jago Philippens is a Head of Engineering at TicketSwap which is a safe, convenient, and fair place to buy and sell e-tickets for concerts, festivals, sports events, theatre, and day trips. They protect their ticket buyers from overpricing by keeping to a maximum of 20% mark-up from the original ticket sales price. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.
Tamer Qtaish is the CTO at homie.rent which used to be a prop-tech London-based startup making renting hassle-free for renters and agents alike. Their personal home finders helped renters understand renting and take care of all logistics so they don't waste time finding their ideal home. They also work alongside agents to drive them qualified and move-ready tenants, increasing their deal flow and transactions. The company recently transitioned into building software for real estate businesses, trading under the name Realpro. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.
Joe Petterson is the CTO at Banked which is a fintech startup that powers real-time payments for consumers, businesses and banks. Their dream is to ensure everyone gets paid in the fastest, cheapest, most efficient way possible, so they’re driving an irreversible shift in global payments. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.
Zach Silverman is the Co-Founder & CTO of LeafLink which is the largest wholesale cannabis marketplace today.LeafLink partners with growing cannabis brands to simplify how retailers order the products they love online. They are the industry standard platform for orders, sales, and relationship management. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.
Brian Wones is the Head of Product at Würk which is the cannabis industry’s leader in human capital management solutions. Wurk exists to help underserved cannabis businesses fortify, comply, and thrive in the face of uncertain regulatory environments. The Human Resources platform allows employers to protect and streamline their operations while providing an environment where employees are a priority every step of the way. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.
Tom Reay is the CTO at Flux Systems and a former VP of engineering at Revolut. At Flux Systems he helped develop a software platform that keeps a track of payment receipts by automatically linking them to payment cards. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.
Yaron Shoshani is the CTO of ezbob which is a UK based software provider for banks and other financial institutions and a pioneer in the rapidly growing ‘lending-as-a-service’ (LaaS) sector. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.
Ramon Ferraz is the CEO at 2gether, which is the fast-growing crypto trading app based in Spain, that allows traders and beginners to buy and sell cryptocurrencies at the real market price and without added fees. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.
Russ Greenspan is the CTO at PresenceLearning, which is the leading provider of live online clinical education-related services for K12 students, with over 2.5 million online teletherapy sessions happen up to this day. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.
Pau Ramon is the CTO of Factorial which is a human resources software platform for small and medium companies that integrates all HR processes in a single place. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.
Barney Jackson is the Head of Engineering at allplants which is an award-winning planet-positive food brand with around 90+ employees on a mission to build Earth’s most forward-thinking food company. They already served almost 1,000,000 meals to homes all over the UK, subscribing to an easier way to enjoy plant-based living. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.
Todd Zino is the CTO of Trussle which is a free online mortgage broker that works with much-needed transparency. They help first-time buyers and existing homeowners save time and money securing a great-value mortgage online. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.
Pau Picas is the Head of Mobile at Stuart which is a leading last-mile delivery platform that connects small and big businesses to a fleet of geolocalized couriers. They empower thousands of companies across Europe by providing same-day delivery, next-day delivery, and return solutions, and currently, they work across verticals with retailers, grocery stores, restaurants, and eCommerce merchants to enable smarter transportation models. Visit www.cleevio.com if you're interested to build a digital product.
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