Tech Optimist: An Alumni Ventures Podcast

Host

Mike Collins

CEO and Co-Founder at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 57 episodes

Host

Ryan Musto

Senior Associate at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Abbey Donnell

Founder and CEO at Work & Mother

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Adam Oliner

Founder and CEO at Graft

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Adrian Corless

CEO at CarbonCapture

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Alan Orwick

Co-founder and CEO at Quai Network

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Alek Sinn

CEO & Creative Director at Sinn Studio

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Alexandra Mysoor

Co-Founder and CEO at Alix

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Alex Wayenberg

Co-founder and CEO at Shape

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Ali Hussain

CEO and Co-founder at Tabs

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Almir Brljak

Chief Operating Officer at Sinn Studio

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Amogha Tadimety

Co-Founder and CEO at Nanopath

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Andrea Reisman Johnson

Co-Founder & CEO at Rally Reader

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Andreas Mjelde

CEO and Co-Founder

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Andy Hamilton

CEO and Co-Founder at When

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Anthony Tassone

Co-Founder and CEO at Truleo

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Asaf Yanai

Co-founder and CEO at Alison AI

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Benjamin Holmes

CEO at Nanochon

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Brian Mengwasser

Founder and CEO at Edgescale AI

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Brook Stroud

Senior Principal, Alumni Ventures

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Cameron Halliday

Co-founder and CEO at Mantel

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Cecelia Carrera

Founder and CEO at BistroCat

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Chad Gerstensang

Co-Founder and CEO at UNIXi.io

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Charlie Silver

CEO and Founder at Ruby Bio

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Chase Pion

Co-Founder & CFO/COO at Bezel

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Cheri Ackerman

Co-founder and CEO at Concerto Biosciences

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Chris Sklarin

Managing Partner at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 3 episodes

Designer

Daniel Hyland

Senior Graphic Designer at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 8 episodes

Guest

Daniel Pelaez

Co-founder and CEO at Cyvl

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Daphne Pariser, Ph.D.

CEO and Co-founder at HeronAI

Appears in 1 episode

Producer

David Carey

Business Development at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 67 episodes

Guest

David DellaPelle

Co-Founder & CEO at Dune Security

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

David T. Scott

Founder and CEO at Evil Genius Games

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

David Tse

CEO and Co-founder at BabylonChain

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Deep Chakraborty

CEO and Co-Founder at Enact Systems

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Dhruv Patel

Co-Founder & CEO @ Arch

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Drew Wandzilak

Associate, Green D & Yard & Strategic Tech Fund at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 12 episodes

Guest

Erik Anderson

CEO at SIQ Basketball

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Erik Severinghaus

Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Bloomfilter

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Erin Levine

CEO & Co-Founder at Hello Divorce

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Ernest Scheyder

Journalist and author of "The War Below"

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Fernando Rodriguez-Villa

CEO and Co-Founder at AdeptID

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Gautam Narang

CEO & Co-Founder at Gatik

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Grant Demeter

Principal at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Greg Baker

Managing Partner at Alumni Ventures' Sports, U Wisconsin (Bascom Ventures), and Duke (Towerview Ventures) funds

Appears in 4 episodes

Guest

Gregg Kaplan

CEO at Dentologie

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Himanshu Sahay

Co-Founder & CTO at Arch

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Ian Brooke

CEO and Founder at Astro Mechanica

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Itamar Benedy

Co-Founder & CEO of Anzu.io

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Janna Wandzilak

CEO and Co-Founder at Bundle

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Jason Bird

Associate at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 2 episodes

Guest

Jason Park

CEO & Co-founder at Coldcart

Appears in 1 episode

Producer

Jeannie Masters

SVP of Communication at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 84 episodes

Guest

Jeff Glueck

CEO and Co-founder at Salvo Health

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Joe Schaeppi

CEO & Co-Founder at Solsten

Appears in 1 episode

Editor

John Harrison

Editor

Appears in 6 episodes

Guest

Kareem Aly

Co-Founder & CEO of Kabata

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Karl Siebrecht

Co-founder & CEO at Flexe

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Keaton Nankivil

Senior Principal at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 1 episode

Producer

Keith Murphy

Director, Video Programs at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 84 episodes

Guest

Kirin Sinha

Founder and CEO at Illumix

Appears in 1 episode

Producer

Kirsten Bannan

Social Media Manager at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 84 episodes

Guest

Kyla Scanlon

Founder at Bread

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Laura Bordewieck Rippy

Board Director and Managing Partner, Green D & Yard & Women's Fund at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 5 episodes

Guest

Lucas Pasch

Senior Principal at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 5 episodes

Guest

Ludwig Pierre Schulze

Managing Partner, Waterman, 116 Street & Doctors Innovate Fund at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Matt Caspari

Managing Partner at Alumni Ventures' Deep Tech, Georgetown (Potomac Ventures) and UC Berkeley (Strawberry Creek Ventures) funds

Appears in 7 episodes

Guest

Matthew White

Co-Founder & CEO at Multitude Insights

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Matt Loszak

CEO and Founder at Aalo Atomics

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Meera Oak

Senior Principal, Seed Fund & Doctors Innovate & Women's Fund at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 2 episodes

Guest

Meg Reiss

Founder and CEO at SolidIntel Inc.

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Michael Dubrovsky

CEO and Co-Founder at SiPhox

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Michael Mager

Co-Founder and CEO at Precision Neuroscience

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Michael Martin

CEO at RapidSOS

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Mike Peri

Partner at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 6 episodes

Guest

Naren Ramaswamy

Principal, Spike & Deep Tech Fund at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 14 episodes

Guest

Nate Holiday

CEO and Co-founder at Space and Time

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Nathan Mintz

Chairman and Founding CEO at Spartan

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Nikhil Ajjarapu

CEO and Co-founder of Rescript

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Patrick Rafferty

Founder & CEO of UserHub

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Paul Lee

CEO and Co-Founder at Patlytics

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Paul Lwin

Co-founder and CEO HavocAI

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Pete Mathias

Partner, Green D, Yard & Strategic Tech Fund at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 6 episodes

Guest

Quaid Walker

Co-Founder & CEO at Bezel

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Ray Wu

Managing Partner

Appears in 6 episodes

Guest

Rob Thelen

CEO and Co-Founder at Rownd

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Ron Bodkin

Founder and CEO at ChainML

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Ronit Belson

Co-founder and CEO at Sawmills

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Ron Levin

Managing Partner at Alumni Ventures and Author of "Higher Purpose Venture Capital"

Appears in 2 episodes

Guest

Ross Correia

Co-Founder & CEO at Reactiv

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Russell Hannigan

Space Business Executive

Appears in 1 episode

Producer

Sam Herrick

Video Producer, Editor, and Voice Over Artist

Appears in 71 episodes

Guest

Sean (Xiang) Ren

CEO and Co-founder at Sahara AI

Appears in 1 episode

Producer

Shail Highbloom

Platform (CEO Services) at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 84 episodes

Guest

Sherif Barakat

Co-Founder & CEO at Swaplanet

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Sophia Zhao

Senior Principal, AI Fund & Westwood & Women's Fund at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Steve Chen

Founder & CEO of NewRetirement

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Tanay Kothari

Co-Founder and CEO at Wispr (https://www.flowvoice.ai/)

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Todd Ruoff

CEO at Autonomys Labs

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Tom Harries

Co-founder and CEO at Earth

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Tom Mueller

Founder and CEO at Impulse Space

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Troy Jones Jr.

Co-Founder and CEO at StatusPRO

Appears in 1 episode

Guest

Wesley Yiu

Partner at Alumni Ventures

Appears in 2 episodes

Creators and Guests