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Insights by Angular Ventures
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Angular Ventures hosts a series of interactive talks with founders, leaders and VCs from the global enterprise tech community. These episodes are designed to deliver practical startup advice in an easy-to-consume format.
Podcast episodes are filmed virtually with a live audience of early stage founders. Register to virtually attend upcoming live sessions at angularventures.com/events/.
Podcast episodes are filmed virtually with a live audience of early stage founders. Register to virtually attend upcoming live sessions at angularventures.com/events/.
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Angular Insights podcast episode, led by Jennifer Schear, Founding Partner at Schear Immigration Law Firm, on US immigration best practices for founders.
During the session, Jennifer discusses recent US immigration trends and updates and best practices for short and long term planning for tech founders from initial relocation through permanent residence and beyond.
Angular Insights podcast episode led by Kasper Hulthin. Kasper co-founded Podio (acquired by Citrix) and Peakon (acquired by Workday). He is now the co-founder of Future Five, where he’s an active entrepreneur and investor in a handful of companies. Among other things, he is currently the Chairman of Normative.io, a Swedish company that is building an emissions accounting platform.
Angular Insights podcast episode led by Stijn "Stan" Christiaens, Co-Founder and Chief Data Citizen of Collibra, on the evolution of Collibra's product positioning and how they successfully created a category.
Stan currently leads Collibra’s Data Office and is responsible for overall data strategy, data infrastructure and translating internal learnings into value for their customers and partners. He is also Collibra’s product evangelist and drives future innovation. Previously, Stan launched various departments within Collibra including Product, Presales, Postsales, Partnerships, Marketplace, and Research and Education.
Angular Insights episode led by Jason Green, on the lessons learned from investing early in over a dozen SaaS unicorns.
Jason is a Founding General Partner of Emergence, the first early-stage venture firm focused entirely on the enterprise cloud. The firm has been an early investor in companies such as Salesforce.com, Veeva, Box, Bill.com, Doximity, SuccessFactors, Yammer, Gusto, ServiceMax, SalesLoft and many others. Currently, Jason serves on the Boards of ASAPP, BetterWorks, Drishti, Lotame and Oyster and as a board observer at Gusto and G2.
Jason was named to the Forbes Top 100 Venture Capitalists Midas List and has served on the board of the National Venture Capital Association. Jason also served as Chairman of the West Coast Research Center for Harvard Business School and on the advisory board of the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.
During his Insights session, Jason shares insightful stories and lessons from his experience investing in SaaS unicorns, including Salesforce, SuccessFactors, Box, Gusto, SalesLoft, ServiceMax, Veeva, Bill.com, Doximity, Yammer and Zoom among others.
Angular Insights episode led by Oren Kaniel, Co-Founder & CEO of AppsFlyer, on the importance of culture and values as you scale a business.
Oren founded AppsFlyer a decade ago to solve one of the major problems in the mobile apps market – mobile analytics and user attribution.
During his Insights session, Oren discussed how he built a true unicorn in a challenging market against huge competitors - by building a people-first culture.
Angular Insights episode on compliance tech and building painkillers. This special episode is co-led by Eynat Guez, CEO of Papaya Global, and Neta Meidav, CEO of Vault Platform.
Eynat is a leading expert in global payroll and global workforce management. She co-founded Papaya Global in 2016 after seeing the technology gap in global payroll. Last September, Papaya Global announced that its valuation has surged to $3.7B following its $250M Series D.
Neta is the co-founder and CEO of Vault Platform, a venture-backed startup with a mission to help companies worldwide become the best and most ethical versions of themselves. In 2021, Neta led Vault through an $8.2M Series A funding round, attracting high profile investors such as Gradient Ventures.
During their Insights session, Eynat and Neta focus on topics including:
- ComplianceTech GTM: what works and what doesn't work
- Selling into legal and compliance departments
- The cultural enablement ComplianceTech can provide
- Fundraising as a woman
Check out and register for upcoming Angular Insights at angularventures.com/events
Angular Insights episode on 20 years of growth learnings, led by Darius Contractor.
Darius is a growth-focused product and engineering leader. He’s grown companies and teams at Tickle, Bebo, FWD.us, Dropbox, Facebook, Airtable and now Vendr. Along the way he’s learned how to go viral, scaling infra, agile management, rapid iteration, product strategy and all aspects of growing a website.
During this Insights session, Darius highlights some key growth learnings including:
- What makes users tick
- Am I ready for a growth team?
- How does B2B growth differ from B2C
- Succeeding at growth in year 1
- Roles and careers in growth
Check out and register for upcoming Angular Insights at angularventures.com/events
Angular Insights episode on building your marketing engine, led by Leigh Moore, VP of Marketing at Snyk.
In this episode, Leigh highlights some key learnings about how to build a marketing foundation and some of the important areas to focus on early including:
- Messaging to your primary audience
- Why a product led approach is worth investing in
- How to think about your first marketing hires
Check out and register for upcoming Angular Insights at angularventures.com/events
Angular Insights episode on product-led partnerships, led by Andrew Edelman.
Andrew is the Head of Strategic & Platform Partnerships at Zapier where he is responsible for building and expanding partnerships with 4,000+ apps. With prior experience at Box, Google, and Narrative Science, he is focused on helping scale and grow innovative SaaS companies through product-led partnerships.
In this episode, Andrew focuses on topics including:
- How to think about your overall platform strategy
- When to build and how to prioritize native integrations
- How to build effective partner ecosystems
- Where do co-marketing and co-selling opportunities fit in
- How to connect partnerships to a product-led growth motion
Check out and register for upcoming Angular Insights at angularventures.com/events
Angular Insights episode on open source and category creation led by Emil Eifrem, Co-Founder & CEO of Neo4j.
Emil sketched the idea for what today is known as the graph database on a flight to Mumbai in 2000. As the CEO of Neo4j, and a co-author of the O'Reilly book Graph Databases, he's devoted his professional life to building, innovating, and evangelizing graph databases.
In this episode, Emil focuses on topics including building a new category, open source GTM, monetization, competition and co-operation with the tech giants, and more.
Check out and register for upcoming Angular Insights at angularventures.com/events
Angular Insights episode on building developer products and communities led by Amir Shevat.
Amir is the Head of Product for the Twitter Developer Platform and a Venture Partner in Innovation Endeavors. Previously, Amir was the co-founder of Reshuffle (sold to Twitter), VP of Product at AWS Twitch, Head of DevRel at Slack, and Head of Developer Programs at Google.
In this episode, Amir focuses on topics including when and how to start developer product and community outreach. As well as how to measure developer products and communities success, and common pitfalls to avoid.
In this Angular Insights session, we are joined by Ash Fontana, Managing Director at Zetta Venture Partners and author of the AI-First Company: How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence.
In this episode, Ash discusses how to define competitive advantage in the AI-first century.
In this Angular Insights session, we are joined by Ben Braverman, Chief Customer Officer at Flexport.
In this special episode featuring a startup sales clinic, Ben discusses optimizing strategy for outbound vs inbound with three early stage startup CEOs - Vicki Knott from CruxOCM, Jonathan Anderson from Candu, and Xenia Muntean from Planable.
In this Angular Insights episode, we are joined by Micha Breakstone, the Co-Founder of Chorus.ai. Micha discusses how to think of the decision for building an AI-stack in-house, discussing pros and cons, and covering issues such as cost, precision, and privacy.
As an early employee at Airtable, David Peterson has learned a few things about bottoms-up growth and the no-code space. In this Angular Insights episode, David discusses topics such as driving bottoms-up growth for a horizontal product with an ill-defined category, and leveraging no-code tools to empower early stage teams to move faster.
In this Angular Insights episode Bucky Moore, Partner at Kleiner Perkins, shares the four trends driving enterprise software forward - and how to align with them as a startup.
In this Angular Insights episode we are joined by Beck Bamberger, CEO of BAM.
While some companies are certainly struggling during the pandemic, some startups are being positively impacted and have encouraging, compelling, and unique stories to offer to the media. In this episode, Beck shares:
- case studies of startups garnering positive press in this unprecedented time
- tactics to pursue media coverage right now
- how to delicately message your pitches to media and secure stories
In this Angular Insights episode we are joined by Micha Breakstone, the Co-Founder of Chorus.ai.
Micha shares his thoughts and tips on building AI-driven startups, based on his experience across 4 startups and over 12 years. Discussion will include thoughts on the founding team, hiring PhDs, and the elements that make an AI-driven startup unique.
In this Angular Insights episode we are joined by Francesca Danzi, Former Chief Client Officer at Tory Burch, and discuss the future of retail.
As a former customer strategy and retail experience leader at Burberry and Tory Burch and founder of her customer experience and digital transformation consultancy, Francesca is well placed to speak about the future of retail and fashion.
In this episode, Francesca looks at the new role that digital commerce and physical retail will play in a post-pandemic world and the new capabilities that brands will have to build to lead there. Key topics she covers include technology and analytics driven innovation, customer value creation, localization and new engagement models.
In this Angular Insights episode we are joined by Roy Raanani, Co-Founder and President of Chorus.ai, and discuss adapting to a remote-first sales strategy.