Highway to Scale

In today's episode of Highway to Scale, we’re joined by Viktor Johansson, the Co-Founder and CEO of Digip — legal tech SaaS company that offers trademark accessible and affordable protection. Viktor will tell us more about the rapidly growing legal-tech industry, what's it like to build a company alongside 2 other co-founders and why one of the aspects of building a strong and successful business lies in owning your brand.__________GUEST:Viktor Johansson — Digip Co-Founder & CEO _ABOUT VIKTOR:https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktor-johansson-34a7179/ Viktor is the Co-Founder and CEO of Digip — a legal tech company with the objective to provide an end-to-end digital solution for brand protection.He started his career as an IP counsel but transitioned into strategic and commercial roles within the internet digital sector and, in addition to that, he is passionate about creating and implementing commercial strategies that turn into real actions and results._ABOUT DIGIP:https://www.digip.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/digip/Digip is a legal tech company with the objective to provide an end-to-end digital solution for brand protection. They provide tailored solutions combining using digital technology to digitize the IP protection market and to create the best possible experience for their clients.Their platform offers an on-demand trademark registration and protection service that gives entrepreneurs and established businesses an opportunity to protect and strengthen their brand names worldwide in a digital and user-friendly environmentBy combining tech, know-how, and investments, Digip creates the most innovative technology on the market to enhance the customer experience, streamline processes and lower the cost of intellectual property protection._____GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.facebook.com/bornfight.companywww.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com

In today's episode of Highway to Scale, we’re joined by Vasilij Brandt, the Founder of Blazar Capital, and a Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer at Nordgreen. In this podcast, Vasilij will tell us more about the work of start-up incubators as well as the process of building and scaling e-commerce businesses.__________GUEST:Vasilij Brandt — Founder of Blazar Capital _ABOUT VASILIJ:https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasilij-brandt/www.vasilijbrandt.comVasilij Brandt is the Co-Founder and CMO at Blazar Capital, and also a Co-Founder and Member of The Board at Nordgreen. He owns Master of Science degrees from The Technical University of Berlin as well as The University of Twente.He is a Danish e-commerce enthusiast, digital entrepreneur, and Forbes 30 Under 30 alumni. Prior to co-founding Blazar Capital and Nordgreen, Vasilij was the Head of Growth at the Hut Group —  one of Europe's leading e-commerce portfolio companies and one of Europe's few unicorns with a primary focus on health, beauty, prestige, and nutrition-related consumer goods._ABOUT BLAZAR:https://blazarcapital.com/https://www.linkedin.com/company/blazarcapital/Blazar Capital is a company builder in the Internet space. They create ideas, partner with entrepreneurs and CEOs to establish the companies behind them and provide investments and expertise to quickly achieve global leadership. Blazer Capital only focuses on ideas with truly global scale and innovative business models that can disrupt the markets they operate in. Nordgreen is one of those companies — it's a watch brand with a rich Scandinavian tradition that interlinks purpose and time functionality with timeless aesthetic appeal that can be passed on to the next generation. Nordgreen's vision is to pioneer inspirational Scandinavian design and to use our business to inspire awareness and action about the challenges facing the planet, and humanity.Since the launch of Blazar Capital in 2017, they’ve incubated Nordgreen, Chamberlain Coffee, Scandinavian Biolabs, MessyWeekend, and as well as several other brands and their products have been sold to more than 100 countries._____GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.facebook.com/bornfight.companywww.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com

In today's episode of Highway to Scale, we’re joined by Louise Gauffin and David Wickström, who are the CEO and CTO of Skyqraft — a visual data analytics provider that helps utility companies make better decisions about their grids. In this episode, Louise and David will tell us more about using AI to provide clients with data and insights needed to plan and maintain their existing and future infrastructure.__________GUESTS:Louise Gauffin and David Wickström — Skyqraft CEO and CTO _ABOUT LOUISE AND DAVID:https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisegauffinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/david-almroth Louise is the CEO of Skyqraft and she spent her career working as an intrapreneur building and scaling organizations in fast-paced international environments. After spending 20 years abroad, she decided that the next step in her career was the Tech startup scene in Sweden.David is the co-founder, CTO and the main AI architect of Skyqraft with 20+ years of experience leading high-tech performing software development teams, and he’s been into computers and gaming ever since he was a kid._ABOUT SKYQRAFT:https://www.skyqraft.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/skyqraft/Skyqraft is a visual data analytics provider helping utility companies make better decisions about their grids. Leveraging artificial intelligence, aerial grid images are converted into powerful and usable management information — by analyzing and visually displaying grid insights, Skyqraft enables utility companies to make smarter, more sustainable and cost-efficient decisions about their grid maintenance.Today, Skyqraft is a trusted partner of some of the most forward-looking and influential utilities in Europe and North America, providing them with the data and insights needed to plan and maintain future linear infrastructure._____GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.facebook.com/bornfight.companywww.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com

In today's episode of Highway to Scale, we’re joined by Mathias Wikström, CEO & Co-Founder of Doconomy — a company that provides digital services for everyday climate action that turn your spending into a financial power for a sustainable future. In this podcast, Mathias will tell us more about impact tech, how our understanding of impact is reshaping all commercial activity on Earth and how we can use financial tools to educate and drive positive change.__________GUEST:Mathias Wikström —CEO & Co-Founder of Doconomy_ABOUT MATHIAS WIKSTRÖM:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathiasw1/Mathias Wikström is a Sweden-based renowned sustainability business leader and creative strategist. He founded Doconomy together with Johan Pihl and spearheaded globally awarded forefront projects in Finance, Sustainability and Human Rights.He has received an EMBA with honors at Stockholm School of Economics with a focus on Leading Innovation. Mathias has won several Grand Prix at Cannes Lions and served on many award juries, as President for Innovation in Eurobest amongst others. He is a high-scoring speaker at industry summits in Europe, the USA, Asia, and Latin America as well as with the UN and UNFCCC. _ABOUT DOCONOMY:https://doconomy.com/https://www.linkedin.com/company/doconomy/Doconomy is a fintech startup that provides leading impact data services for individuals and corporations to help educate, engage and reduce environmental impact. They believe that people want to contribute to saving the planet but are hindered by insufficient tools to do so.Their solution for consumers is called DO — a mobile banking service that enables users to understand the impact of their daily choices. This allows people to adjust behavior, and to compensate for their impact on the planet. Åland Index, a cloud-based service for climate impact calculations, is their enterprise service. It’s the leading index solution for CO2 emission calculations for payments and financial transactions with banks representing over 500 000 000 users and growing.Their next-gen transparency tool for brands and producers is called The 2030 Calculator — a Product Carbon Footprint Tool. It that can help others to better understand the carbon footprint of the products and materials they produce as well as provide the transparency that will allow consumers to make informed consumption choices._____GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com

In today's episode of Highway to Scale, we’re joined by Jonatan Marc Rasmussen, the Co-Founder and CEO of All Gravy —  a financial wellness app for hourly paid employees. In this episode, Jonatan will tell us more about the current state of the gig economy and how businesses can improve their employees' financial well-being.__________GUEST:Jonatan Marc Rasmussen — All Gravy CEO & Co-founder_ABOUT JONATAN:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonatanmarc/ Jonatan Marc Rasmussen is the Co-Founder and CEO of All Gravy — a venture-funded Fintech solution for hourly paid and gig workers in Denmark. He’s a former management consultant turned entrepreneur, with experience in venture-building, commercial strategy and innovation.Since the dark days of consulting, he’s focused on the startup world working on the venture side helping create startups and scaling scale-ups always with a keen focus on customer-led products. He learned the ropes as a Strategy Consultant working primarily for Financial Institutions across Europe._ABOUT All Gravy:https://www.allgravy.com/https://www.linkedin.com/company/allgravy/All Gravy is the app for hourly paid employees. It gives them a live payslip and full control over their money. With All Gravy, they have an overview of their earnings, bills and savings goals, and access to their salary as soon as they have finished their shift. Employers benefit from a more motivated workforce, who are more likely to take shifts and can save their finance and HR teams a lot of time by ensuring their employees always understand which shifts they are getting paid for at which times.All Gravy is a venture-backed company, backed by Founders who have built companies such as Pleo and Kontist._____GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.facebook.com/bornfight.companywww.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com

In today's episode of Highway to Scale, we’re joined by  Vincent Weir, Founding Partner at Invenio Growth —  a Stockholm-based management consultancy that helps corporations and other capital allocators engage the startup and investor ecosystems.  In this podcast, Vincent will tell us more about the current state of the venture capital industry, the importance of impact investing for overall business success, and the ways VC companies help fund solutions to society's biggest problems.__________GUEST:Vincent Weir  — Partner at Invenio Growth_ABOUT VINCENT:https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-weir-7a295354/ Vincent Weir is an entrepreneur, consultant and adviser who defines his mission as linking people and ideas across platforms that empower them.He completed the pivots from liberal arts to management consulting to product management to venture capital, sustaining constant feedback from some of the world's smartest people along the way. Working in Europe, he learned to navigate team rooms with different languages and cultures, through lingering recessions and more hopeful times._ABOUT INVENIO GROWTH:https://inveniogrowth.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/invenio-growth/Invenio assists clients in identifying and implementing growth strategies in the venture economy, they also assist leaders in interpreting trends in the startup ecosystem and they translate those insights into initiatives and actions such as open innovation, company building, and venture M&A.Invenio was born out of NFT Ventures, one of the largest fintech venture portfolios in Europe. Their team evaluates thousands of startups each year and brings insights from the VC investment world to the growth projects they advise and operate. Their growth orientation makes Invenio a strong partner for growth cases, and they strive to deliver results from the planning phase through implementation._____GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.facebook.com/bornfight.companywww.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com 

In today's episode of Highway to Scale, we’re joined by Søren, who is the co-founder and CEO of Teamway — a member-owned society where world-class tech professionals team up with bold companies to build the products and services of tomorrow. Søren will tell us more about the way he sees the future of work, why a great team is a key aspect of achieving success and what are the benefits of building a member-owned business. __________GUEST:Søren Nørgaard  — Teamway Co-Founder and CEO_ABOUT SØREN:https://www.linkedin.com/in/sorennorgard/ Søren is the co-founder and CEO of Teamway, and a seasoned entrepreneur who spent the last decade building, launching and scaling products and services in Scandinavia, Asia and the Silicon Valley. His entrepreneurship career started from a young age — from selling tractors with his dad, and reselling sneakers as a teenager, to building Teamway, a global community-led marketplace in 2020._ABOUT TEAMWAY:https://teamway.io/https://www.linkedin.com/company/theteamway/ Teamway is a member-owned society where world-class tech professionals team up with bold companies to build the products and services of tomorrow. It's the new way for companies to create, hire and manage remote tech talent while creating fair opportunities for both the talent and the organizations — they’re shaping the future of work by building the home for the world's elastic workforce.Teamway connects great companies with the best freelance tech teams through their global community-led marketplace in a remote, elastic and mutually trusted setup. This empowers companies to transform into modern elastic organizations and it creates a new more inclusive work environment for their freelance members.They work with exciting startups, innovation labs and enterprises like IKEA and Verisure who use Teamway to accelerate innovation, build new products and make their organizations more agile._________GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.facebook.com/bornfight.companywww.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com 

In today's episode I'm joined by Liviu who is the CEO of DRUID. Liviu will tell us more about the changes that happened at DRUID since our previous podcast, what are conversational business applications and how to use artificial intelligence to improve customer experience.__________HOSTED BY:Dorian — Bornfight Content Creatorhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/dorian.derezic@bornfight.com__________GUEST:Liviu Dragan — DRUID CEO_ABOUT LIVIU:https://www.linkedin.com/in/liviudragan/Liviu created two of the most renowned Romanian IT brands – TotalSoft and Charisma. And these two brands have been a valuable business card for the Romanian software industry.  As a founding member and president of the Software and Services Industry Association, Liviu was actively involved in promoting the Romanian IT industry, and then at the beginning of 2018, he started his new success story when he founded DRUID._ABOUT DRUID:https://www.druidai.com/https://www.linkedin.com/company/druidplatform/DRUID is an AI-powered platform that allows users to design, develop and deploy natural and rich interactions between employees, customers, partners and enterprise systems, through omnichannel text and voice conversations.In short, DRUID brings human conversation to the enterprise world in the most intuitive, efficient and human-like way._____GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.facebook.com/bornfight.companywww.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com

In today's episode of Highway to Scale I'm joined by David who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Eppione. David will tell us more about the challenges and opportunities within the human resources industry, the importance of data for business success and the benefits of surrounding yourself with exceptional co-founders and team members.__________HOSTED BY:Dorian — Bornfight Content Creatorhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/dorian.derezic@bornfight.com__________GUEST:David Kindlon — Eppione CEO_ABOUT DAVID:https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidkindlon/David has been an insurance specialist since 2001, running the family insurance brokerage business in Dublin, Ireland. He is passionate about helping small and medium enterprises maximize their potential through the use of leading edge technologies and advisory services. David was a council member of the Irish Brokers Association._ABOUT EPPIONE:https://eppione.com/https://www.linkedin.com/company/eppione/Eppione supports businesses to empower, inspire and nurture their employees through technology and employee benefits.Their integrated HR & employee benefits platform is more than just a HRIS. With flexible employee benefits access and visibility, as well as an advanced business intelligence module, Eppione helps users support and understand their unique workforce like never before – while reducing the time and resource of day-to-day HR admin.Eppione's dedicated team of experts also support businesses of all shapes and sizes to find the right insurance, pension and employee benefits plans to suit their unique workforce. _____GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com

In today's episode of Highway to Scale I'm joined by Jordan who is the Founder and Partner at Rainmaking, as well as a CEO of the Rainmaking Venture Studio. Jordan will tell us more about the process of corporate venture building, why startup co-founders need to be able to navigate and thrive in uncertainty, and why a long-term vision of a company is important for its success.__________HOSTED BY:Dorian — Bornfight Content Creatorhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/dorian.derezic@bornfight.com__________GUEST:Jordan Schlipf — Rainmaking Founder and Partner_ABOUT JORDAN:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-schlipf-0b855174/Jordan is a Founder & Partner at Rainmaking, a global corporate innovation and venture development firm. He is a serial tech founder, early-stage investor and an expert Lean Startup trainer. Today, Jordan is a Venture Partner at Vectr Ventures and CEO of the Rainmaking Venture Studio, an investment-only Corporate Venture Builder ('CVB'). _ABOUT RAINMAKING:https://rainmaking.io/https://www.linkedin.com/company/rainmaking/https://www.linkedin.com/company/rainmaking-venture-studio/Rainmaking is a global corporate innovation and venture development firm. Their Venture Studio offers a model for large companies to acquire the startups they want at the time that they need them at a price they can afford.Rainmaking Venture Studio combines the scale strengths of large companies with their deep experience in building ventures to create high-growth ventures. This approach de-risks the process of building strategically aligned businesses for their corporate partners, without losing long-term ownership.Rainmaking acts as professional venture builders and investors, co-investing with companies and sharing in the risk and reward. They are not consultants or a development agency, so they never charge fees, but act as true partners._____WANT TO BE A GUEST ON THE PODCAST?Contact me on Linkedin -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/_____GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com

Massive thanks to Mediatoolkit for sponsoring a portion of this episode!Mediatoolkit is the fastest way to find out when something important about your business is mentioned online. It is a media monitoring & an analytics tool that gathers information from hundreds of millions of internet sources and notifies you when someone mentions your brand, your company, your competitors or anything else you want to track. And it is doing it all in real time!To get 1 month of Mediatoolkit for free, follow these steps:1. go to mediatoolkit.com2. register for a new account3. choose a STARTER plan in the payment menu4. enter the code HIGHWAY__________________________________________________In today's episode of Highway to Scale I'm joined by Andrew who is a Partner at Flint Capital. Andrew will tell us more about Flint Capital's bridge strategy and how it helps European companies to expand to the US, what are some key differences between venture capitals in Europe and the United States, and what do VCs look for in startups they wish to invest in.__________HOSTED BY:Dorian — Bornfight Content Creatorhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/dorian.derezic@bornfight.com__________GUEST:Andrew Gershfeld — Flint Capital Partner_ABOUT ANDREW:https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewger/Andrew has more than ten years of VC experience and a particular interest in eCommerce, B2B SaaS solutions, Health Tech, Consumer Internet, and other applications of AI and virtualization.Andrew led the first institutional investment round in Flo Health and is currently a board member at Intento, Job Today and Flo Health. Andrew is also a fellow at Kauffman Fellows, an extensive global VC network._ABOUT FLINT CAPITAL:https://flintcap.com/https://www.linkedin.com/company/flintcapital/Flint Capital is a Boston-based international venture capital fund that has raised $250M in two funds. The fund invests in companies from the US, as well as from Israel and Europe, helping them to enter the US market. Flint Capital's portfolio comprises 45 companies, including Flo, Socure, Walkme, CyberX, Cyolo and has 15 successful exits and 4 unicorns._____WANT TO BE A GUEST ON THE PODCAST?Contact me on Linkedin -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/_____GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com

Massive thanks to Mediatoolkit for sponsoring a portion of this episode!Mediatoolkit is the fastest way to find out when something important about your business is mentioned online. It is a media monitoring & an analytics tool that gathers information from hundreds of millions of internet sources and notifies you when someone mentions your brand, your company, your competitors or anything else you want to track. And it is doing it all in real time!To get 1 month of Mediatoolkit for free, follow these steps:1. go to mediatoolkit.com2. register for a new account3. choose a STARTER plan in the payment menu4. enter the code HIGHWAY__________________________________________________In today's episode of Highway to Scale I'm joined by Henrik who is the CEO of Certainly. Henrik will tell us more about improving customer experiences and ecommerce conversions through conversations, the importance of understanding the strengths and weaknesses between different members of the co-founding team, and why a CEOs description of the company vision is an important aspect of raising capital in the early rounds. __________HOSTED BY:Dorian — Bornfight Content Creatorhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/dorian.derezic@bornfight.com__________GUEST:Henrik Fabrin — Certainly CEO_ABOUT HENRIK:https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrikfabrin/Henrik is the CEO & Co-founder of the multi-award-winning Conversational AI scaleup Certainly. He’s an ecommerce specialist, a tech nerd, and a multiple startup founder.Henrik has worked in ecommerce tech for over ten years. During this time, he founded three companies that aim to accelerate growth for companies doing business online. Certainly is Henrik’s latest and greatest endeavor, founded in 2017 together with co-founder Dario Rodriguez. The company has grown exponentially after being backed by two rounds of funding. In addition, Henrik regularly keynotes as an AI expert, both internationally and nationally, and is an advisor to the Danish Government on the subject._ABOUT CERTAINLY:https://certainly.io/https://www.linkedin.com/company/certainly/Certainly is a Conversational AI Platform that is on a mission to help businesses build incredible user experiences for ecommerce by replacing clicks with conversations.With its no-code Chatbot Builder, the Certainly Conversational AI Platform offers a fun and easy building experience. The product offers high-quality user experiences across channels, seamless integrations with dozens of business systems, and a powerful, proprietary AI that detects any language and offers ready-to-use content in 14+ languages. Certainly is trusted by brands such as Carlsberg, Tiger of Sweden, Booking.com, The Fragrance Shop, Trustpilot, Siksilk, Deloitte, Zendesk, and AKQA._____WANT TO BE A GUEST ON THE PODCAST?Contact me on Linkedin -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/_____GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com

In today's episode I'm joined by Stefan who is the CEO of Orderlion. Stefan will tell us more about the potential for growth within the F&B industry, why focusing and deeply researching your potential investors is a much more successful tactic for fundraising than trying to attract everyone, and why playing it safe is not the optimal way of building a successful business.__________HOSTED BY:Dorian — Bornfight Content Creatorhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/dorian.derezic@bornfight.com__________GUEST:Stefan Strohmer — Orderlion CEO_ABOUT STEFAN:https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanstrohmer/Stefan is a serial entrepreneur with a Business & IT consulting degree from the University of Vienna. Before starting Orderlion, he founded a B2B consulting agency focused on helping companies optimize their supply chain processes through software-based business process automation, and he was also a in the management of another consulting agency which grew to $5M ARR.Orderlion is Stefan's 3rd venture he started with his co-founder & CTO - Patrick Schubert._ABOUT ORDERLION:https://orderlion.com/https://www.linkedin.com/company/orderlion/Orderlion is a Vienna-based startup that is making global food supply chain more sustainable.  They support suppliers and wholesalers by digitizing key business processes and help them be more efficiently connected with the various participants along the supply chain. Orderlion provides its customers with an e-commerce operating system that enables them to work even more closely and effectively with their respective customers through their own web shop and ordering app - and this includes, among other things, digital and fully automated processing of orders.Orderlion is now active in 4 countries and processes orders worth over 60 million euros per year._____WANT TO BE A GUEST ON THE PODCAST?Contact me on Linkedin -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/_____GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com

In today's episode I'm joined by Jannik who is the CEO of LuggageHero. Jannik will tell us more about the potential of building a company within the travel industry, how to expand your business from Europe to the US, how to leverage crowdfunding to grow your company and why you need to know how to get to your first customer if you want to build a successful business.__________HOSTED BY:Dorian — Bornfight Content Creatorhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/dorian.derezic@bornfight.com__________GUEST:Jannik Lawaetz — LuggageHero CEO_ABOUT JANNIK:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dklawaetz/Jannik is the founder and CEO of LuggageHero, a growing network of affordable luggage-storage sites. He launched the service in 2016, inspired by a personal need to conveniently store luggage while traveling in cities.He is a graduate of the Copenhagen Business School and a nominated entrepreneur of the year 2018 and 2019 by Ernst & Young. Before starting LuggageHero, he helped launch several Danish tech startups, including an event platform for triathletes, as well as a fitness and nutrition portal._ABOUT LUGGAGEHERO:https://luggagehero.com/https://www.linkedin.com/company/luggagehero/LuggageHero is a platform that literally lightens your load when you're travelling, because they provide you with easy, cheap and safe options for storing your luggage. They leverage their continuously growing partner network of retail stores, coffee shops and even hotels where you can drop off and pick up your luggage.Jannik started LuggageHero in his hometown of Copenhagen, rapidly expanded to London and New York City, and now operates in more than 46 cities in North America and Europe. Since LuggageHero launched, its customers have racked up over 3,5 million hoursof bag storage at more than 1000 drop-off points.The company has raised more than $5 million in funding to help expand its operations. It was named one of PhocusWire’s Hot 25 Startups for 2019, as “one to watch” in 2020 by ShortTermRentalz, part of International Hospitality Media Limited, and was country winner in Tech5 (TNW) 2020._____WANT TO BE A GUEST ON THE PODCAST?Contact me on Linkedin -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/_____GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com

In today's episode I'm joined by Martin who is the CEO of Custimy. Martin  will tell us more about the importance of personalization when it comes to creating great customer experiences, why you as a founder want to focus on the most important and the most urgent things instead of spreading yourself across all of the tasks and why a "test, learn, try and adapt" approach is a great path to success.__________HOSTED BY:Dorian — Bornfight Content Creatorhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/dorian.derezic@bornfight.com__________GUEST:Martin Navne — Custimy CEO_ABOUT MARTIN:https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-navne/Martin is a Business Technologist on a mission to minimize the competitive wedge in the Ecommerce market by democratising technology and creating the most Accessible Customer Data Platform for Ecoms._ABOUT CUSTIMY:https://custimy.io/https://www.linkedin.com/company/custimy/Custimy is the most accessible Customer Data Platform software for B2C E-commerce businesses, and its mission is to lessen the competitive gap between SMBs and enterprises.Custimy automatically collects, centralises, consolidates and analyses customer, product and marketing data from multiple tools leaving users with valuable, actionable customer insights ready for personalisation._____WANT TO BE A GUEST ON THE PODCAST?Contact me on Linkedin -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/_____GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.facebook.com/bornfight.companywww.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com

In today's episode I'm joined by Daniel who is the CEO of Fullview. Daniel will tell us how scalable and fast customer support is becoming one of the biggest difference-makers in the SaaS world, what's the deal with product-led growth and why you should go after the biggest opportunity if you're looking to start a new business.__________HOSTED BY:Dorian — Bornfight Content Creatorhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/dorian.derezic@bornfight.com__________GUEST:Daniel Bakh — Fullview CEO_ABOUT DANIEL:https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielbakh/Daniel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fullview. Before starting Fullview, he spent a few years in Go-To-Market roles at different SaaS companies, and before that, he had worked as a VC and has invested in more than 40 startups as an angel investor._ABOUT FULLVIEW:https://www.fullview.io/https://www.linkedin.com/company/fullviewhq/Fullview is a platform that helps SaaS companies deliver delightful support that is fast, personal and scalable. Fullview enables its users to instantly understand technical customer issues and guide users to solutions at twice the speed. _____WANT TO BE A GUEST ON THE PODCAST?Contact me on Linkedin -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/_____GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.facebook.com/bornfight.companywww.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com

In today's episode I'm joined by Marek who is the CMO of ClimateView. Marek will tell us what's it like to work primarily with governments instead of end users or other businesses, why is the lack of creative focus destroying your marketing efforts and how leveraging the mindset of persistence, discipline and continuity can drive you towards success.__________HOSTED BY:Dorian — Bornfight Content Creatorhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/dorian.derezic@bornfight.com__________GUEST:Marek Birchley — ClimateView CMO_ABOUT MAREK:https://www.linkedin.com/in/marekbirchley/Marek spent the last decade and a half working within advertising and marketing with technology and consumer brands. He’s been called ”super fresh”, ”inconveniently correct” and ”absurdly productive”. In the last few years these skills have helped him co-found a brain cancer foundation, win some Cannes Lions, lead the brand at Swedish Hemnet and even make a creativity app.Today he guides ClimateView's marketing team, helping cities see the value they can unlock by applying ClimateOS to their climate challenges._ABOUT CLIMATEVIEW:https://www.climateview.global/https://www.linkedin.com/company/climateview/ClimateView is a Swedish climate action technology company that helps cities transform climate planning into progress. They combine data, agent-based modelling and interface design to help cities manage the transition to zero carbon economies._____WANT TO BE A GUEST ON THE PODCAST?Contact me on Linkedin -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/_____GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.facebook.com/bornfight.companywww.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com

In today's episode I'm joined by Emil who is the CEO of Brick.  Emil will tell us why success lies in using your product to solve user problems, what is it like to change a company business strategy and how the franchising model became the core of his business.__________HOSTED BY:Dorian — Bornfight Content Creatorhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/dorian.derezic@bornfight.com__________GUEST:Emil Esselin — Brick CEO_ABOUT EMIL:https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilesselin/Before starting Brick, Emil studied economics and marketing and spent time at some of the most prestigious agencies in Sweden. He used to organize high tech music and art festivals, and that is what pushed him to combine his love of cutting edge technology with creating something from scratch - to make something by himself and for himself. Emil is a strong believer that sharing is a key for the future and that we don’t need to own every single little gadget or trinket we might use once or twice a week. He is driven by the motto that access beats ownership and he took that idea to Brick._ABOUT BRICK:https://brickapp.se/https://www.linkedin.com/company/brick-technology/Brick is a network for power bank-sharing that allows users to pick up a charger in one location and return it at another. The Brick app lets users easily rent and return power banks wherever and whenever.Their goal is to be there when user need them the most and simply want to get on with their day when their phone’s dying. The team at Brick believes that having a charged phone is just one way to a good day. To achieve that, Brick is collaborating with high-profile partners in retail, hospitality, and restaurants, among others._____WANT TO BE A GUEST ON THE PODCAST?Contact me on Linkedin -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/_____GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.facebook.com/bornfight.companywww.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com

In today's episode I'm joined by Timm who is the CEO of Risika.  Timm will share his insights about building a company with multiple co-founders, how to approach the process of raising outside capital and why great customer support makes all the difference in when it comes to highly competitive industries.__________HOSTED BY:Dorian — Bornfight Content Creatorhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/dorian.derezic@bornfight.com__________GUEST:Timm Jeppesen— Risika CEO_ABOUT TIMM:https://www.linkedin.com/in/timmjeppesen/Timm is a FinTech entrepreneur whose passion for entrepreneurship sparked while studying for his master’s in economics and mathematics, and he's currently living his dream of building a tech company from zero to one (billion) while creating the most honest and passionate workplace with the help from nerdy and talented people. Before Risika, Timm worked with strategy and business development in the banking industry because he's very interested in how data morphs into value when applying statistics. _ABOUT RISIKA:https://risika.com/https://www.linkedin.com/company/risika/In 2017, three FinTech entrepreneurs hatched a vision to challenge the old-school status quo within financial risk management. Today, with offices in Copenhagen and Bulgaria, they leverage machine learning to help Nordic B2B companies predict paying and non-paying customers while delivering more ideal customers, through the Risika platform. _____WANT TO BE A GUEST ON THE PODCAST?Contact me on Linkedin -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/_____GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.facebook.com/bornfight.companywww.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com

In today's episode I'm joined by Ola who is the CEO of Soundtrack Your Brand.  Ola will tell us more about the current state and the overall potential of the B2B music streaming industry, why is it important to plan for failure when you're going all-in on your business, and why you need to deeply understand the specifics of different phases connected to the process of building a startup.__________HOSTED BY:Dorian — Bornfight Content Creatorhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/dorian.derezic@bornfight.com__________GUEST:Ola Sars — Soundtrack Your Brand CEO_ABOUT OLA:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ola-sars-6269373/Ola Sars is a Stockholm-based serial entrepreneur active in the music-tech space.He is the Founder, CEO & Chairman of Soundtrack Your Brand, the world's fastest growing music-platform for B2B. Before Soundtrack, he co-founded Spotify Businesses together with Spotify, a stand-alone effort to expand Spotify’s reach into B2B-streaming. In 2018, he pivoted Spotify Business into Soundtrack as a fully independent brand and business.  Previous to co-founding Spotify Business, he was the co-founder and COO of Beats Music, acquired by Apple and transformed into Apple Music, as well as the co-founder of Pacemaker, the world's first DJ driven music platform. Ola’s driving force behind his repeated efforts in transforming the music market comes from his conviction that music is undervalued as an art-form and that the music industry offers significant opportunity for value improvement and growth. Through his multiple start-ups in the music-space, he has focused on unlocking that intrinsic VALUE, both in B2C and now in B2B._ABOUT SOUNDTRACK YOUR BRAND:https://www.soundtrackyourbrand.com/https://www.linkedin.com/company/soundtrackyourbrand/Soundtrack Your Brand helps thousands of businesses strengthen relationships with customers through music. By combining expert curation and world-class tech, Soundtrack Your Brand provides a beautiful all-in-one solution for streaming music to stores, hotels, restaurants, and other commercial settings. Founded in 2013 by Ola Sars as a joint effort with Spotify, Soundtrack Your Brand is the world’s fastest-growing B2B music streaming service, working with iconic brands such as McDonald’s, Lululemon, J Crew,  Uniqlo, Joe & The Juice, Aesop, W Hotels._____WANT TO BE A GUEST ON THE PODCAST?Contact me on Linkedin -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/_____GET IN TOUCH WITH BORNFIGHT:www.facebook.com/bornfight.companywww.linkedin.com/company/bornfightwww.instagram.com/bornfightwww.bornfight.comhello@bornfight.com