upside
Named a top 27 business podcast by Fortune, upside examines startup investing outside of Silicon Valley.
Every Wednesday, we speak with an early stage founder. We interview them as if we are angel investors considering the company as an investment opportunity.
Each show has three segments:
1.) Intro: independent research of the company
2.) Interview: interview with the founder
3.) Debrief: breaking down the opportunity
Sometimes, we share Coffee Chats interviewing venture capitalists, community builders, and later-stage founders.
Subscribe and see why Business Insider called our podcast "Almost as Good as Getting an MBA."
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 219
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2021
Nathan McDonald of Keiretsu Forum // a global community of angel investors with 53 chapters across four continents [CC064]
Interview begins: 8:37
Debrief: 58:58
Nathan McDonald is the CEO and Managing Partner of Keiretsu Capital as well as the Chairman of the Keiretsu Forum Northwest.
Keiretsu Forum is a global investment c…
Mary Grove of Bread & Butter Ventures // from Google and Rise of the Rest to Minneapolis [CC063]
Interview begins: 10:30
Debrief: 45:38
Mary Grove is Managing Partner of Bread and Butter Ventures. She brings nearly two decades of leadership experience in technology, early-stage investing, and star…
Documo // Fax and document management for highly-regulated industries [UP078]
Interview begins: 11:02
Debrief: 53:06
Matt Valeo is the founder and CEO of Documo.
Documo creates document workflow solutions that make working with documents easy, more secure, and better for the pla…
Ashley Flucas of Flucas Ventures // turning 100 angel investments into an AngelList syndicate [CC062]
Interview begins: 8:44
Debrief: 51:53
Ashley Flucas is an angel investor and syndicate lead with Flucas Ventures.
By day, Ashley is a general counsel/partner at a real estate finance fund (infrastructur…
Einar Vollset of TinySeed // lessons from the first cohort of the accelerator for bootstrappers [CC061]
Interview begins: 9:28
Debrief: 35:09
Einar Vollset is a General Partner at TinySeed.
TinySeed is a year-long, remote accelerator designed for early-stage SaaS founders.
He is also a YC-alum, former Corn…
SLP Toolkit // Helping Speech Language Pathologists manage their caseloads [UP077]
Interview begins: 8:54
Debrief: 1:02:09
SLP Toolkit™ is a web-based app with built in assessments and tools that give a school-based Speech Language Pathologist the confidence s/he needs to take charge…
Rootine // Personalized daily health using DNA, blood levels, and lifestyle data [UP076]
Interview begins: 6:52
Debrief: 44:32
Rachel Sanders is the co-founder and CEO of Rootine.
Rootine was founded in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2018 and creates custom daily vitamins based on your DNA, lifes…
.CLUB // exclusive rights to sell a generic top level domain name [UP075]
Interview begins: 7:12
Debrief: 48:41
Colin Campbell is the founder and chairman of.CLUB Domains, a domain registry that owns the generic top-level domain rights to .club domains.
Colin took two intern…
Xendoo // personalized bookkeeping for small businesses [UP074]
Interview begins: 6:03
Debrief: 48:54
Lillian (Lil) Roberts is the founder and CEO of Xendoo.
Xendoo is a cloud-based bookkeeping and accounting service focused on small business owners. By harnessing t…
Dave Sachse // investing in venture funds and startups as a family office [CC060]
Interview begins: 6:49
Debrief: 35:17
Today we're talking with Dave Sachse, the founder, and managing partner of the Sachse Family Fund.
The Sachse Family Fund is a family office venture capital fund ba…
Will Price of Next Frontier Capital // bringing venture capital to the rocky mountain region [CC059]
Interview begins: 6:36
Debrief: 48:89
Today we're talking with Will Price the Founder and General Partner of Next Frontier Capital.
Will founded Next Frontier Capital to partner with mission-driven, ta…
Peter Livingston of Unpopular Ventures // early stage investing through a syndicate [CC058]
Interview begins: 5:16
Debrief: 43:55
Unpopular Ventures is led by Peter Livingston, whose experience is almost entirely in startups - as both an operator and investor. He was the first engineer at iRh…
CC057: Saurabh Sharma of Jump Capital // Series A and B capital for cloud infrastructure and enterprise software
Interview begins: 6:08
Debrief begins: 37:58
Today we are talking with Saurabh Sharma He is a partner at Jump Capital, a thesis led sector-focused and operating centric venture capital firm specializin…
CC056: Chetan Parekh of P&G Ventures // identifying and developing the next generation of billion-dollar brands
Interview begins: 6:08
Debrief begins: 42:55
Today our guest is Chetan Parekh. Chetan is the Senior Brand Director & Innovation Portfolio Leader at P&G Ventures. He leads a multi-disciplinary team in c…
UP073: Pear Commerce // creating a win-win-win for consumers, brands, and retailers
Interview begins: 8:38
Debrief begins: 51:03
Today we’re talking with Eric Martell, the founder of Pear Commerce. Pear Commerce enables CPG companies to drive real transactions from existing national a…
CC055: Jason Illian of Koch Disruptive Technologies // investing in emerging technologies for one of the world’s largest private companies
Interview begins: 8:46
Debrief begins: 44:36
This week we're speaking with Jason Illian, Managing Director of Koch Disruptive Technologies.
Jason was the founder and CEO of BookShout, the world's leadin…
CC054: Patrick McKenna of One America Works // helping coastal companies open new offices in the heartland
Interview begins: 7:40
Debrief begins: 45:20
In this episode, we are discussing the challenges and opportunities of economic growth outside Silicon Valley with Patrick Mckenna, Managing Partner and fou…
CC053: Andrew D'Souza of Clearbanc // revenue-based financing and the 20-minute term sheet
Interview Begins: 7:11
Debrief Begins: 42:31
In this episode, we'll be talking with Andrew D'Souza, the co-founder and CEO of Clearbanc.
Along with his partners, he has raised hundreds of millions of d…
CC052: Nick Cooney of Lever VC // investing in alternative protein startups
Interview begins: 5:50
Debrief begins: 39:35
Nick Cooney is the Founder and Managing Director of Lever VC.
Lever VC is a new fund focused in alternative animal products, including alternative proteins, …
CC051: Grady Buchanan of OmniValley // connecting startup investors between the coasts
Interview begins: 6:11
Debrief begins: 43:23
Grady Buchanan is the founder and CEO of OmniValley.
OmniValley is an exclusive online investor network focused on helping you create connections anywhere in…