THE LAUNCH a Podcast by TandemLaunch

Are you easily overwhelmed when thinking of all the potential legal matters your venture could encounter? Tune into this week’s episode to hear Sunny Handa, senior partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP – and Bobbi Bidochka, our own Venture Associate, discuss all things related to tech law! Join the discussion to learn tips on how to prevent some of the common legal issues many startups face in the beginning, women and diversity in a predominantly male industry, gain a legal perspective relating to NFTs, Cryptocurrency, VRAR, and the metaverse; and more.

Are you an entrepreneur struggling to get your startup where it needs to be due to a lack of funding? We know filling out applications can be complicated and time-consuming, with low success rates. Tune into this week’s episode to hear Brianna Blaney – Co-Founder and CEO from Pocketed – and Aria Hahn – Co-Founder and CTO, discuss all things related to non-dilutive funding! Listen in to learn more about how the Pocketed platform enables entrepreneurs to secure free government funding, their perspective as a female-led business on qualifiers when discussing female founders, and how passion for a topic and knowing your purpose are the guiding factors that drive an entrepreneur to success.

Do innovation and curiosity fuel your passion to create change? Tune into this week’s episode to hear Derek Kuhn – CEO of HaiLa – and Bobbi Bidochka, our own Venture Associate, discuss innovation! Tune in to learn more on how technology is being used for good at HaiLa and how they are shaping the future by adapting pre-existing tech to create sustainable solutions.

How often do you think about your goals and career advancements? Are you stuck in a position, but eager to go further? Wouldn’t it be nice to receive the guidance you need? Tune into this week’s episode to hear Ashley Werhun – CEO and Co-Founder at Mentorly – and Bobbi Bidochka, our own Venture Associate, discuss all things mentorship-related! Join the discussion to learn more about the path that led Mentorly to pivot the distribution of their product and business model, the market shift towards providing employees with a sense of the direct impact of the company’s success, and how to go about creating a seamless introduction with mentors and investors.

As you pour blood, sweat and tears into creating a successful startup, have you ever stopped to think about why you are doing what you are doing? If you answered yes, you are not alone. Join Scott Loong, Partner at Panache Ventures, as he discusses why people should align their values with their careers, and why it is important. Successful startups always have a clear answer to validate the purpose of their work and use it as a coping mechanism when going through challenging times. Loong shares that venture capitalists select companies that have an impact on portfolio construction as well as on ideas that can be brought outside a local and even broader national context. Therefore, when startups are thoughtful in their approach when contacting venture capitalists, the process becomes streamlined.

Ever wonder what a board of directors actually does? Or where to start when looking to build a board? Tune in this week to hear our guest Glenda Dorchak – CEO, Board Director and Operating Advisor – and Bobbi Bidochka, our own Venture Associate, discuss all things board related! Join their conversation to hear about finding members, culture and diversity, and how to engage with your board of directors.

When capital is combined with community, the end product is commercialization and impact. This is exactly what The51 stands for. The51 is a financial feminist movement for women-led startups to build mutual wealth and share knowledge to become influential innovators and investors. It is all about creating the five wheels of opportunity to unlock the financial feminist economy. Joining the podcast is Judy Fairburn, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of The51, who speaks on why venture capital has historically been male-dominated and how providing a safe and open place to learning helps women pivot their successful startups. Judy advises that it's not the founders that have the best credentials, the best technology, or the perfect pitch that attracts investors, instead, it is the people who have a real sense of purpose and will make a difference that truly attracts an investor's attention.

We know that there are not enough women in tech, especially at the leadership level. Tune in this week as Bobbi Bidochka moderates a discussion that focuses on female leadership and the power of authenticity, coaching and diversity. Featured in this episode are 3 trailblazing females: Mary Anderson – Investor, Advisory, and Board Member Wendy Wallbridge – Principal and Executive Coach of On Your Mark Corporate Coaching and Consulting, and author of Spiraling Upward Robin Selden – CMO of Peace by Piece International They’ll speak to harnessing your authenticity, bringing forward your feminine qualities to lead effectively, as well as strategies for male allies. Get inspired as you hear about their meaningful career journeys and their spiral up to leadership positions!

In early-stage ventures, it is important to be able to manage certain risks and optimize the return on investment. How do you build a pipeline of technologies which are likely to succeed? With the help of patents. These intellectual assets are a combination of your team's talent and the legal tools that will allow you to capture and monetize your technology. Join Julien Lacheré, Partner and Patent Agent at BCF, and Bobbi Bidochka, Venture Associate at TandemLaunch, as they discuss why it is not common for tech startups to think about patenting their technology at the start of their entrepreneurship journey. This episode also includes expert advice on how to handle a situation when a company's invention is not patentable and other common mistakes made by entrepreneurs. Join us as we jam about IP for the season finale of THE LAUNCH!

"Don’t wait! There is no one best time to launch your start-up!" Have you ever pushed entrepreneurship to the side or never considered the option because of your experience or resources? Then this week's podcast episode is for you! Samantha Phenix chats with Bobbi Bidochka about the moment she realized that in order to be successful in larger enterprise roles, she would have to take an entrepreneurial approach to her job. Consequently, she became the founder of her own company and has become a trailblazer within the start-up community. Phenix also provides listeners with resources that helped her and can help aspiring entrepreneurs begin their start-up journey.

How can we add a layer of quality to the programmatic inventory we buy from publishers without having to invade privacy or use private information? Let us introduce you to CONTXTFUL! Guillaume Bouchard explains that they leverage motion sensors found on mobile devices to determine how attentive a user is to their device in real-time. This, in turn, helps publishers create more profit and help advertisers buy better inventory in an efficient way that strays away from the norm. Bouchard and Bidochka also chat about the future of marketing technologies and the lean towards the attention economy. This is an episode you don't want to miss!

Be prepared to enter the physics rabbit hole! We know we can't create invisibility cloaking devices yet, (sorry to all the Harry Potter fans out there), but we can definitely use MetaMaterials to steer energy in targeted ways that are just not possible with natural materials. Bobbi Bidochka sits down with Chris Alliegro, Managing Partner at MetaVC Capital who explains how he is able to create shapes at different spatial dimensions through interference patterns. More specifically, how putting surfaces in front of energy waves that have microscopic structures smaller than the scale of that energy result in MetaMaterials.

This week's episode is bringing a very special guest. Someone who has known TandemLaunch since its conception. It is our very own CEO, Helge Seetzen! He sits down with podcast host, Bobbi Bidochka, to talk about how he was able to take ideas from universities and build them to create deep tech startups which is what TandemLaunch at scale continues to do. SPAC, NFTs, MetaVerse, and other contested technologies are among the topics of this episode so make sure you join us as we jam about deep tech.

This week's episode is the first of the season to feature two of our co-founders! LATYS co-founders, Artmiz Golkaramnay and Gursimiran Singh Sethi, along with our host, Bobbi Bidochka, discuss everything from smart antennas and the direction of the RF vertical to the 5G hysteria. Should we be concerned? With LATYS, cutting-edge technology is leveraged from top universities to build robust and efficient wireless infrastructure such as antennas and metasurfaces.

This week packs a panel of investing experts that discuss investment trends in today’s tech landscape, attributes investors look for in founders, and ways to overcome the investor accessibility challenge. This episode features the following guests: David Charbonneau - Founder & Managing Partner, Boreal Ventures Charles Lesperance - Partner - Deep Tech, BDC Nathalie Marcoux - VP Finance, Capinabel Inc. Scott Pelton - Co-Founder, RISCCAP

The second episode of THE LAUNCH is now out! Get ready to literally "tune in" as the inventor behind Soundskrit's technology, Dr. Ronald N. Miles, shares the behind-the-scenes story of how he used the difference between how insects and humans hear sound to build a new and unique technology. Who knew that spiders and tech could go together! To learn more about Dr. Ronald N. Miles or to listen to other episodes of THE LAUNCH, click here: https://blog.tandemlaunch.com/podcast/soundskrit

This episode features a panel of 5 trailblazing females who discuss entrepreneurship, startups, and the importance of women in tech. We know there aren't enough women in tech, we know there’s a leaky pipeline and we know that female founders are currently underfunded. Tune in as we unpack some of this.

Do you want to know what investors really think? Get the inside scoop! Join our host, Bobbi Bidochka as she chats with #TheWittyVC, Todd Graham from Venrock. He’s funny and knows his sh*t. All that and a bag of chips….sensors, semi-conductors, transducers…

Happy National Inventors Month! Starting off this month strong, a new episode of THE LAUNCH is out and it is definitely something you do not want to miss. You've probably heard of Artisan Bread but have you heard of Artisan Headphones? Join Bobbi Bidochka and our Technical Director Omar Zahr, as we jam with Dr. Thomas Szkopek (the inventor behind ORA Sound, a TandemLaunch spin-out) about his experience as an academic who commercialized his research. We also get into the debate about open innovation versus patenting….are we holding back research by patenting too early? Listen to the episode and chime in on social media!

Who knew that Shrimp and Tech could go together? Food sustainability is a hugely important right now and seafood as small as shrimp are having a big impact! Learn how XpertSea leverages AI technology to help farmers modernize their operations and boost profits by providing access to fast payments, valuable production insights and vetted networks of sellers and buyers.