The Breakouts - 20 Minute Startup Stories

The Breakouts Podcast
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The Breakouts - 20 Minute Startup Stories

Learn the playbooks of extraordinary founders building category-defining startups. Season 1 is focused on emerging verticals (ex: Web3, HealthTech, FinTech, AI/ML, etc). It features 10 founders that collectively raised $100M+ in seed funding this year.

  1. 03/23/2023

    E27: Special Episode - Splitero's Series A

    Michael Gifford⁠ recently raised $11.7M in Series A funding for his new startup, ⁠Splitero⁠. Splitero enables homeowners to quickly access the equity of their home without having to take on additional debt or make monthly payments. ⁠Podcast Twitter⁠ ⁠Discord Community⁠ ⁠YouTube Channel⁠ ⁠Newsletter (The Ultimate Founder's Playbook)⁠ ⁠TikTok⁠ Host: ⁠Akkshay Khoslaa⁠ Writing & Production: ⁠Akkshay Khoslaa⁠ & ⁠Gokul Kumarresen

    26 min

  2. 01/12/2023

    E26: Startup Strategies with Starlight - Product, Distribution, & Fundraising

    Grey Nguyen recently raised a $5M seed round to build Starlight — an app that lets businesses set up their company wallet, onboard their team and track their spending with one secure tool. Starlight is an all-in-one solution for companies to manage their crypto assets. They offer everything a company needs to operate in the crypto economy from setting up wallets, to buying crypto, to tracking expenses. Starlight helps you manage the details - so you can focus on running your business. Podcast Twitter Discord Community YouTube Channel Newsletter (The Ultimate Founder's Playbook) TikTok Host: Akkshay Khoslaa Writing & Production: Akkshay Khoslaa & Gokul Kumarresen

    22 min

  3. 01/10/2023

    E25: Startup Strategies with Risc Zero - Product, Distribution, & Fundraising

    Brian Retford recently raised a $14M seed round to build Risc Zero - a startup creating scaling solutions using Zero Knowledge Proofs which will make blockchains faster, cheaper and more accessible. Risc Zero provides a platform enabling users to trust programs run anywhere while allowing developers to use the tools they already know. The company was founded by a team of Seattle-based hackers committed to enabling users to control their experience on the internet through the creation of privacy-enhancing decentralization technology. Podcast Twitter Discord Community YouTube Channel Newsletter (The Ultimate Founder's Playbook) TikTok Host: Akkshay Khoslaa Writing & Production: Akkshay Khoslaa & Gokul Kumarresen

    23 min

  4. 01/05/2023

    E24: Startup Strategies with Jupe - Product, Distribution, & Fundraising

    Jeff Wilson recently raised a $9.5M seed round to build a universal autonomous housing platform for 1.5 billion humans. with his startup, Jupe. Wilson is also known as ‘Professor Dumpster’ for the year he lived in a 33 sq. ft. modified trash dumpster as part of an environmental education and minimalist housing experiment. Wilson’s work on startups, minimalism, and social experimentation has been featured in Forbes, The Atlantic, NY Times, and The Washington Post. Podcast Twitter Discord Community YouTube Channel Newsletter (The Ultimate Founder's Playbook) TikTok Host: Akkshay Khoslaa Writing & Production: Akkshay Khoslaa & Gokul Kumarresen

    22 min

  5. 01/03/2023

    E23: Startup Strategies with Renee - Product, Distribution, & Fundraising

    Nick Desai recently raised an $8.2M seed round to build a patient-centric personal health concierge app, Renee. Nick started this company with his wife, Renee. In the past, the 2 of them founded Heal — a HealthTech company that pioneered home-centric patient care and raised over $200M. Discord Community YouTube Channel Newsletter (The Ultimate Founder's Playbook) TikTok Host: Akkshay Khoslaa Writing & Production: Akkshay Khoslaa & Gokul Kumarresen

    26 min

  6. 12/29/2022

    E22: Startup Strategies with Splitero - Product, Distribution, & Fundraising

    Michael Gifford recently raised $5.8M in seed funding & $1B in debt financing for his new startup, Splitero. Splitero enables homeowners to quickly access the equity of their home without having to take on additional debt or make monthly payments. Podcast Twitter Discord Community YouTube Channel Newsletter (The Ultimate Founder's Playbook) TikTok Host: Akkshay Khoslaa Writing & Production: Akkshay Khoslaa & Gokul Kumarresen

    22 min

  7. 12/27/2022

    E21: Startup Strategies with Commons Clinic - Product, Distribution & Fundraising

    Nick Aubin recently raised an $11M seed round to build Commons Clinic - a startup providing seamless specialty care programs for pain & orthopedics. In this episode, Akkshay chats with Nick about strategies, tactics, & hacks that Nick is using to build his business. Podcast Twitter Discord Community YouTube Channel Newsletter (The Ultimate Founder's Playbook) TikTok Host: Akkshay Khoslaa Writing & Production: Akkshay Khoslaa & Gokul Kumarresen

    28 min

  8. 12/22/2022

    E20: Startup Strategies with Ramper - Product, Distribution, & Fundraising

    Sisun Lee recently raised an $3M PreSeed round to build a developer-first on-ramp to Web3 with his new startup, Ramper. Ramper is building an SDK that empowers developers to easily integrate web3 authentication and NFT checkout into their mobile applications. Sisun is a 2nd-time founder — before Ramper, he had founded a nootropics beverage company called More Labs and raised over $20M for it. Discord Community YouTube Channel Newsletter (The Ultimate Founder's Playbook) TikTok Host: Akkshay Khoslaa Writing & Production: Akkshay Khoslaa & Gokul Kumarresen

    29 min
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Learn the playbooks of extraordinary founders building category-defining startups. Season 1 is focused on emerging verticals (ex: Web3, HealthTech, FinTech, AI/ML, etc). It features 10 founders that collectively raised $100M+ in seed funding this year.

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