Who Are These Startups

In this episode of "Who Are These Startups," the Startup Coach sits down with the co-founders of Uwear.ai. Uwear.ai, is building an AI-powered software that allows online clothing stores to generate studio-quality photos of their products without going through a traditional photoshoot. Links: UWear.ai Website Uwear.ai on LinkedIn Startup Talk Podcast Check Out our Monthly Startup Investor Drinks TorontoStarts Entrepreneur and Startup Community Angel Investor List Venture Capital List Join us on Reddit TorontoStarts YouTube Channel

In this episode of "Who Are These Startups," the Startup Coach sits down with Hanyin Chen, the CEO and Co-Founder of ASKaFOX. ASKaFOX is on a mission to enhance worldwide manufacturers' supply chain resiliency through the power of AI. Hanyin explains how they provide manufacturers with contingency plans during supply disruptions, offering fast and reliable solutions. Using NLP, ASKaFOX enables efficient supplier discovery, matching customer queries with the best possible data points. They also employ an Uber-like in-factory auditing service to validate potential suppliers from an industrial perspective. Tune in to learn how ASKaFOX revolutionizes manufacturing partnerships and eliminates the need for exhaustive Google searches, trade shows, and extensive business travel. Links: AskaFox Website LinkedIn Twitter Medium Substack Startup Talk Podcast Check Out our Monthly Startup Investor Drinks TorontoStarts Entrepreneur and Startup Community Angel Investor List Venture Capital List Join us on Reddit TorontoStarts YouTube Channel

In the latest episode of "Who Are These Startups," the startup coach sits down with Jerry Chien, the CEO and Co-founder of Gravvity, a Canadian startup revolutionizing the creation of 3D augmented reality and virtual reality shops. Gravvity enables anyone to easily build virtual shopping experiences without the need for coding expertise, catering to the growing trend of virtual environments where kids spend hours each day. As the podcast dives into the interview, Jerry explains the current landscape of virtual shopping experiences and how major brands are increasingly investing in this space. However, the main challenge lies in the complexity and cost associated with hiring development teams to create these virtual shops. Gravvity aims to simplify the process, making it accessible and affordable for anyone to bring their virtual shops to life. The interview covers a range of topics, including Gravvity's core offering, their target audience, and the story behind the startup's inception. Jerry also discusses what drives him as an entrepreneur and how he defines success in the dynamic world of technology startups. The conversation delves into Gravvity's business model, funding situation, and the lessons Jerry has learned along the way. He reflects on the biggest challenges faced as a founder and shares insights on effective pitching techniques. Additionally, Jerry reveals his favorite productivity hack, utilizing ChatGPT, and talks about the Next AI program, which Gravvity is a part of. For aspiring founders, Jerry provides valuable tips and advice, emphasizing the importance of perseverance and team building. As an AI founder, he shares his thoughts on the current debates surrounding AI development and addresses the concerns and fears associated with it. Listeners can connect with Jerry and Gravvity on LinkedIn, where they can learn more about the company's innovative approach to web3 store creation. Building such stores may seem daunting, but Gravvity aims to streamline the process, reducing the time commitment and asset requirements typically associated with it. Tune in to this episode of "Who Are These Startups" to gain insights into the world of virtual shopping experiences and how Gravvity is transforming the way we shop in virtual environments. Links: Gravvity Website Jerry Chien on LinkedIn Startup Talk Podcast Check Out our Monthly Startup Investor Drinks TorontoStarts Entrepreneur and Startup Community Angel Investor List Venture Capital List Join us on Reddit TorontoStarts YouTube Channel Automated Transcript of Gravvity - Who are these startups SUMMARY KEYWORDS founder, startup, gravvity, create, ai, shop, companies, virtual, space, big, product, opportunity, super, day, experience, path, marketplace, executable, building, shopify SPEAKERS Jerry Chien, The Startup Coach The Startup Coach Welcome to Who are the startups podcast shorts featuring founder interviews of Canadian startups. Don't let pain hold you back, get fast pain relief with the pain removers, maximum strength pain relief balm, the perfect solution for chronic pain and sore muscles, visit the pain removers.com and get back to living your life to the fullest. Welcome back to who are these startups. I'm the startup coach, founder of Toronto starts and with me today is Jerry Chen, CEO and co founder of gravvity. Welcome, Jerry. Jerry Chien Thanks a lot, Craig, really appreciate it. The Startup Coach What is gravvity do Jerry Chien so we make it possible for anyone to create 3d augmented reality and virtual reality shops basically had in the marketplace right now all the biggest brands are creating these virtual shopping experiences, because they realized that kids are spending almost three hours a day in these virtual environments like Roblox, Minecraft and fortnight. And it's projected to reach you know, to $2.6 trillion by 2030.

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Welcome back to Who Are These Startups. Podcast shorts featuring founders of Canadian startups, hosted by the Startup Coach. This episode features co-founder and CPO of InheritChain Sodaba Rameh. —— Who Are These Investors PodcastStartup Talk Podcast Register for Startup and Entrepreneur Events here Check Out our Monthly Startup Investor Drinks TorontoStarts Entrepreneur and Startup Community Angel Investor List Venture Capital List Join us on Reddit TorontoStarts YouTube Channel Starting A Business in Ontario: A Resources Guide For Entrepreneurs, Startups, and Scaleups Startup Pricing Strategies The Startup List Monthly Entrepreneur & Startup Investor Speed Dating Join us for Startup Pitch Battle

Welcome back to Who Are These Startups. Podcast shorts featuring founders of Canadian startups, hosted by the Startup Coach. This episode features Visto.AI CEO and Co-founder Josh Schachnow. —— Who Are These Investors PodcastStartup Talk Podcast Register for Startup and Entrepreneur Events here Check Out our Monthly Startup Investor Drinks TorontoStarts Entrepreneur and Startup Community Angel Investor List Venture Capital List Join us on Reddit TorontoStarts YouTube Channel Starting A Business in Ontario: A Resources Guide For Entrepreneurs, Startups, and Scaleups Startup Pricing Strategies The Startup List Monthly Entrepreneur & Startup Investor Speed Dating Join us for Startup Pitch Battle Visto AI on Who Are These Startups Podcast Transcript (Automate) Visto AI on Who Are These Startups podcast final.mp3 - TranscriptWelcome to who are these startups podcast shorts, featuring founder interviews of Canadian startups. Welcome back to. Who are these startups with me? Today is Josh Shack. Now. Co-founder and CEO of Vista Way. I welcome Josh, thanks for having me, Greg appreciated. What does Vista do? We are an immigration tech company. So we we've been around for a few years. Now, you can find on our website, a lot of tools, if you're an aspiring immigrant to learn about the different programs and waste to come to Canada. But primarily what we focus on now is helping connect Canadian companies with skilled workers abroad more specifically right now Tech workers from abroad. So we've built a platform where companies can find interview and sponsor AKA bring through the immigration programs foreign Tech Talent into their Canadian offices. What is your startup story? Well, I'm an immigration lawyer by trade, I don't dress like it anymore. Part of what I like so much about the tech world, but I've been practicing immigration law out of out of Toronto, for the last five years. Five and a half years and was working primarily with tech companies, more and more of them started and continue to sponsor foreign Talent, just because of how competitive it is in, in Canada, North America. Now it's becoming Global how competitive it is in terms of the war on talent. And after a few years of working with a lot of tech companies and seeing the cool things they were building, I was just confused about why nobody was building, m e, n e, tachyon immigration. So I started this. So about two-and-a-half years ago, we started with more of a b2c focus but pivoted over the last summer to building this B2B platform that I just talked about and the team's grown, have a co-founder Alex to see to do we have a developer of Our Own in Mexico A few other contractors that we work with from around the world. Some awesome investors so it's it's grown a lot in a couple years and hopefully we'll continue to grow a lot more. What drives you? What drives me? I think, just solving big problems for a lot of people I like doing immigration work, but it wasn't, I guess so efficient in a lot of traditional professionals operating we're seeing this in a lot of Industries, right? Where Tech comes in and just kind of changes the way things work and changes, how efficient and effective things can be done. And so what really drives me, especially, as it relates to Visto is being able to help so many companies grow their teams. Because we know that companies are really only as good as their people and can really only grow as quick as they can. Add more great people. So, helping a lot of companies and helping a lot of immigrants because there's a lot of people around the world that weren't, as lucky as I am, as I was growing up and now I continue to get to live in Canada, which I think is in a, one of the best countries to live in in the world. And there's a lot of people out there who want to start Lives in different countries for any number of reasons. And what our platform does is help those people.

Welcome back to Who Are These Startups. Podcast shorts featuring founders of Canadian startups, hosted by the Startup Coach. This episode features Javelin Sports with Justin Ford. —— Who Are These Investors PodcastStartup Talk Podcast Register for Startup and Entrepreneur Events here TorontoStarts Entrepreneur and Startup Community Angel Investor List Venture Capital List Join us on Reddit TorontoStarts YouTube Channel Starting A Business in Ontario: A Resources Guide For Entrepreneurs, Startups, and Scaleups Startup Pricing Strategies The Startup List Monthly Entrepreneur & Startup Investor Speed Dating Join us for Startup Pitch Battle Javelin Sports on Who Are These Startups Transcript (Automated) Javelin Sports on Who Are These Startups The Startup Coach: Welcome to who are these start-ups podcast shorts, featuring founder interviews of Canadian startups. Welcome back to who are these startups? I'm your host and startup coach. Founder of Toronto starts one of the largest startup communities in Canada. And with me today is Justin Ford CEO and co-founder of javelin sports. Welcome Justin. Justin Ford of Javelin Sports: Thanks, Craig. The Startup Coach: Let's jump right into it. What does javelin sports. Justin Ford of Javelin Sports: So javelin sports is an organization whose goal is to make it easier to play sports. We operate with the core belief that sports are social. So we put most of our time and effort into focusing on building sport communities and then providing them good ways to communicate with each other. Through working with sports players, organizations, leagues in this manner, we've grown a player base of over 30,000 players. And recently we've been kind of expanding on what we currently offered to also allow players to. Match with other players, one-to-one in their area to chat with them and that way, and then also even book places. The Startup Coach: What is javelin sports startup story. So Justin Ford of Javelin Sports: we actually started as a group project that I was working on in my final year at university. I didn't actually think I necessarily wanted to go into entrepreneurship when I was younger, but through building out this group project, I guess I kind of caught the entrepreneurship bug. I really enjoyed the work we were doing for that. I managed to speak with some of our clients and this was in the sports space. So it was a problem that I'm really passionate about solving. So everything kind of aligned. Uh, we launched in 2017 and since then have been kind of slowly scaling up what. There's a number of different things that drive me. Initially, I started working on this once again, cause I just want it to make it easier to play sports. I played a lot as a kid, but after I graduated high school, I was playing less and less. There had to be some way to fix this issue. And there has to be other people who are facing my problems. If you look at numbers, I think 27% of adults are actively playing sports. Whereas about 76% of them say they want to either start playing or play more. So there's this big gap. And we thought if we could build something that simplifies the process makes it easier to connect with people in your area, easier to find games, easier to communicate with other players. Then we could truly increase sports participation rates around the world. With that being said, Toronto has really bustling startup ecosystem. I know you're one of the big drivers behind that. So, so thank you for all the work you're doing there, Craig, through speaking and meeting with a lot of these entrepreneurs and other founders, I started to see from an overall view, just how interesting and exciting the startup community is. So I'm now viewing this as kind of the first of many, hopefully business ventures that I'm working on with just the intent of, of helping solve big problems through the use of,

Welcome back to Who Are These Startups. Podcast shorts featuring founders of Canadian startups, hosted by the Startup Coach. This episode features uCast with Rand Abous Ras. —— Who Are These Investors PodcastStartup Talk Podcast Register for Startup and Entrepreneur Events here TorontoStarts Entrepreneur and Startup Community Angel Investor List Venture Capital List Join us on Reddit TorontoStarts YouTube Channel Starting A Business in Ontario: A Resources Guide For Entrepreneurs, Startups, and Scaleups Startup Pricing Strategies The Startup List Monthly Entrepreneur & Startup Investor Speed Dating Join us for Startup Pitch Battle uCast on Who Are These Startups Transcript (Automated) Startup Coach: Welcome to who are these startups podcast shorts, featuring founder interviews of Canadian startups. Welcome back to who are these startups? I'm your host. The founder of Toronto starts one of the largest startup communities in Canada. And with me today is Rand of uCast welcome Rand. Rand Abou Ras: I'm doing great. Startup Coach: Let's jump right into it. What does uCast do? Rand Abou Ras: So we are a marketplace and ad management platform that helps connect podcasters and brands who want to advertise on audio platforms. And we do all host read ads and our main revenue stream is through CPM and CPA campaigns. Startup Coach: What is uCast startup story? Rand Abou Ras: I started podcasting a really long time ago. I started, when I moved to Canada, I started getting featured on platforms like globe and mail CBC, a lot of other, you know, Toronto news outlets. And the title was always no Syrian refugee does this or Syrian refugee does that? It was tokenizing. I really didn't like the way it was portrayed. I actually tried taking the stories down. They wouldn't agree. They said to you. No, this is the story that we got, and this is the headline that we're running with. Take it or leave it. And so the first time I went on a, actually on a CBC based podcast called fresh air to talk about it. And that was like the first, the first exposure to podcasting that I ever got. And then. We really liked it. I started podcasting on my own. It was just as a hobby. I'm really nothing serious. Um, but when you're in podcasting, you very quickly understand the, the, the, the setbacks of the podcasting world or the industry. So I started doing these different product mock ups, cause I have a product design background or user experience design background. And so I would create these like different product mock-ups and these are flows and I would post them on Reddit. Discord podcasting communities. And I would just let people, you know, vote for whichever solution they like. And eventually the idea of podcast monetization for the long tail was the one that everybody was interested in. So I said, Hey, let's, let's try doing it. I contacted a very good friend of mine. Who's a software engineer. His name is Daniel Martinovich and he's now my co-founder and we started building EUCAST and, uh, that's how we started. Startup Coach: What drives you? Rand Abou Ras: Honestly, my love for product more than anything, a lot of people, you know, have that, that passion about their startup. Uh, but to me, it's my passion for, for product, really, for innovation, for creativity. Um, my ability to just wake up in the morning, talk to customers, understand what, you know, what, what is, what is their setbacks? What is their pain points? And being able to design that process to me that. I love doing that more than anything. So yeah, that's what drives me. Startup Coach: How do you define success? Rand Abou Ras: Honestly, I define success by your failures and I'll, I'll explain what that means. So, you know, if you've, if you've had somewhat of a successful life, but your entire life has been. Quote unquote successful. It is very difficult for you to perceive success be...

Who Are These Startups, this episode features InStage co-founder Imran Mouna. This 10 minute rapid fire conversations with founders where you get to know just who are these startups.Who Are These Startups at WhoAreTheseStartups.com InStage - https://www.instagepractice.com/ Discussion includes: InStage Startup StoryWhat Drives Imran as an EntrepreneurHow Imran defines success InStage Business Model B2B and B2C Funding Situation BootstrappedGrantsPitch CircuitCustomer Pay Biggest Learning Get the Product Out EarlyTalk to Customers Using the Product and Listen"If you are Trying to serve your customers you should be listening to them" Lesson Pitching Your Startup Keep it SimpleStop Telling How Great Your Company is and start talking about how you can help people Favourite Productivity Hack Pomodoro Technique Canadian Startup Resources TorontoStarts (formerly Startup Toronto)MarsDDHelix Tips for Founders Keep Each Other Motivated Books for Founders Pitch Decks Founders Should Read Steam and Netflix Connect with InStage InstagramInStage on TwitterLinkedIn —— Who Are These Investors PodcastStartup Talk Podcast Register for Startup and Entrepreneur Events here TorontoStarts Entrepreneur and Startup Community Angel Investor List Venture Capital List Join us on Reddit TorontoStarts YouTube Channel Starting A Business in Ontario: A Resources Guide For Entrepreneurs, Startups, and Scaleups Startup Pricing Strategies The Startup List Monthly Entrepreneur & Startup Investor Speed Dating Join us for Startup Pitch Battle

Welcome to Who Are These Startups, this episode features Christopher Tufford of Green Apple Gives. Listen to this under 10 min rapid fire conversation where you get to know just who are these startups. Discussion includes: Green Apple Gives Startup StoryWhat Drives Christopher as an EntrepreneurHow Christopher defines successGreen Apple Gives Business ModelFunding SituationBiggest LearningLesson Pitching Your StartupFavourite Productivity HackCanadian Startup ResourcesTips for FoundersBooks for Founders —— Who Are These Investors PodcastStartup Talk Podcast Register for Startup and Entrepreneur Events here TorontoStarts Entrepreneur and Startup Community Angel Investor List Venture Capital List Join us on Reddit TorontoStarts YouTube Channel Starting A Business in Ontario: A Resources Guide For Entrepreneurs, Startups, and Scaleups Startup Pricing Strategies The Startup List Monthly Entrepreneur & Startup Investor Speed Dating Join us for Startup Pitch Battle

Welcome to Who Are These Startups, this episode features Nadia Ladak co founder of Marlow. Listen to this under 10 min rapid fire conversation where you get to know just who are these startups. Discussion includes: Marlow’s Startup StoryWhat Drives Nadia as an EntrepreneurHow Nadia defines successMarlow’s Business ModelFunding SituationBiggest LearningFavourite Productivity HackCanadian Startup ResourcesTips for FoundersBooks for Founders Follow Marlow on Instagram at @Marlow and on TikTok @Wearemarlow —— Who Are These Investors PodcastStartup Talk Podcast Register for Startup and Entrepreneur Events here TorontoStarts Entrepreneur and Startup Community Angel Investor List Venture Capital List Join us on Reddit TorontoStarts YouTube Channel Starting A Business in Ontario: A Resources Guide For Entrepreneurs, Startups, and Scaleups Startup Pricing Strategies The Startup List Monthly Entrepreneur & Startup Investor Speed Dating Join us for Startup Pitch Battle