12 episodes

The Calm/Storm Found/Her podcast sets the stage for aspiring startups, you might not have heard of before. We want to help them to create awareness and raise their first round through a “voice only” pitch.  Simply focusing on the story telling, without any visual distractions. We invite female founders to pitch to us and our audience. Together with a female co-investor we will ask questions, give feedback and reveal if we decided to invest or not and of course why...

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The Calm/Storm Found/Her podcast sets the stage for aspiring startups, you might not have heard of before. We want to help them to create awareness and raise their first round through a “voice only” pitch.  Simply focusing on the story telling, without any visual distractions. We invite female founders to pitch to us and our audience. Together with a female co-investor we will ask questions, give feedback and reveal if we decided to invest or not and of course why...

    Dana Aronovici, CTO & Co-Founder of FemXX Health

    Dana Aronovici, CTO & Co-Founder of FemXX Health

    Our 11th episode features Dana Aronovici, CTO and Co-Founder of FemXX - a startup that is building a community of Endometriosis-fighters and medical experts sharing health insights and experiences to feel better - and Kadi-Ingrid Lilles, Berlin Founders Fund Manager who is co-hosting the podcast with Calm/Storm's Investment Manager, Marta.

    This podcast is not only for first-time female co-founders but for everyone interested in a super early-stage venture! Learn more about Calm/Storm and our investment focus in digital health and wellbeing, our Founder Academy, and our Found/Her initiative to enable more mixed teams to raise funds from investors on our website calmstorm.vc, or on our social media channels. If you want to become a part of Found/Her podcast as a founder pitching or as a co-host, let us know!

    • 36 min
    Stephanie Romiszewski, the Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of Sleepyhead

    Stephanie Romiszewski, the Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of Sleepyhead

    Our 10th (!) episode features Stephanie Romiszewski, Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of Sleepyhead - a startup that helps chronic insomnia sufferers beat their sleep disorder with a tailored and supportive digital therapy program - and Justina Kilinski from WestTech Ventures who is co-hosting the podcast with Calm/Storm's Principal, Andrej.

    This podcast is not only for first-time female co-founders but for everyone interested in a super early-stage venture! Learn more about Calm/Storm and our investment focus in digital health and wellbeing, our Founder Academy, and our Found/Her initiative to enable more mixed teams to raise funds from investors on our website calmstorm.vc, or on our social media channels. If you want to become a part of Found/Her podcast as a founder pitching or as a co-host, let us know!

    • 37 min
    Emilia Theye, Co-Founder of Clare&me

    Emilia Theye, Co-Founder of Clare&me

    The 9th episode is bringing Emilia Theye, CEO and Co-Founder of Clare&me - an AI-powered voice coach trained in cognitive-behavioral therapy - and Hana Besbes from Heal Capital to discuss the booming digital mental health space.

    This podcast is not only for first-time female co-founders but for everyone interested in a super early-stage venture! Learn more about Calm/Storm and our investment focus in digital health and wellbeing, our Founder Academy, and our Found/Her initiative to enable more mixed teams to raise funds from investors on our website calmstorm.vc, or on our social media channels. If you want to become a part of Found/Her podcast as a founder pitching or as a co-host, let us know!

    • 36 min
    Alice Pelton, CEO and Founder of The Lowdown

    Alice Pelton, CEO and Founder of The Lowdown

    Our 8th episode is featuring Alice Pelton, CEO and Founder of The Lowdown which gives women a safe space to find and get access to the best contraception methods through user reviews, personalised recommendations, expert advice and seamless prescriptions..

    Our hosts for this episode are Michael, the founding Partner at Calm/Storm Ventures and Marta Gaia Zanchi, Managing Partner at Nina Capital - a Barcelona-based fund investing in need-drive health tech founders.

    If you'd like to learn even more about The Lowdown, head over to WIRED to read their coverage of the startup.

    This podcast is not only for first-time female co-founders but for everyone interested in a super early-stage venture! Learn more about Calm/Storm and our investment focus in digital health and wellbeing, our Founder Academy, and our Found/Her initiative to enable more mixed teams to raise funds from investors on our website calmstorm.vc, or on our social media channels. If you want to become a part of Found/Her podcast as a founder pitching or as a co-host, let us know!

    • 43 min
    Ariana Alexander-Sefre, CEO & Co-Founder of Spoke

    Ariana Alexander-Sefre, CEO & Co-Founder of Spoke

    Calm/Storm Ventures launched a new podcast series for female co-founders and everyone interested in super early-stage startup fundraising. Our 7th episode is featuring Ariana Alexander-Sefre, CEO and Co-Founder of Spoke which is breaking the mould of mindfulness by leveraging music and lyricism to help the demographic that is most underserved by existing solutions - gen Z men.

    Our hosts for this episode are Michael, the founding Partner at Calm/Storm Ventures and Lina Wenner, Associate Partner at firstminute capital - a UK-based Pan-European Seed investor. 

    This is one of the longest episodes ever but we hope you'll enjoy listening to Ariana's passionate pitch and the ensuing discussion about the existing mindfulness products and trends. Special thanks to Spoke for making the samples of their sessions available in the episode. This podcast is not only for first-time female co-founders but for everyone interested in a super early-stage venture. Learn more about Calm/Storm and our investment focus in digital health and wellbeing, our Founder Academy, and our Found/Her initiative to enable more mixed teams to raise funds from investors on our website calmstorm.vc, or on our social media channels. If you want to become a part of Found/Her podcast as a founder pitching or as a co-host, let us know!

    • 51 min
    Amanda Philpott, CEO & Co-Founder of Eargym

    Amanda Philpott, CEO & Co-Founder of Eargym

    Calm/Storm Ventures launched a new podcast series for female co-founders and everyone interested in super early-stage startup fundraising. The 6th episode is featuring Amanda Philpott, CEO and Co-Founder of Eargym - a digital solution for hearing loss treatment, connecting science with cutting-edge technology to improve the prevention of avoidable problems of hearing loss. The solution enables to train hearing in a whole new way that is convenient and fun for the end-user. Amanda started her entrepreneurial journey after a long senior management career at NHS, most recently as a CEO of Clinical Commissioning Groups. Together with her Co-Founder, they completed 9 months programme at Zinc.

    Our hosts for this episode are Monika Warezak from Calm/Storm Ventures and Chenelle Ansah, Partner at Cornerstone Partners - a British angel investor syndicate and a VC firm focused on investing in businesses owned and run by black and diverse founders. 

    Chenelle and Monika will interview Amanda and discuss the investment opportunity. In public, in an unbiased way, and all to demystify venture capital step by step. This podcast is not only for first-time female co-founders but for everyone interested in a super early-stage venture. Learn more about Calm/Storm and our investment focus in digital health and wellbeing, our Founder Academy, and our Found/Her initiative to enable more mixed teams to raise funds from investors on our website calmstorm.vc, or on our social media channels. If you want to become a part of Found/Her podcast as a founder pitching or as a co-host, let us know!

    • 37 min

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