The Startup Journey Podcast

#3 Raising $30M from a Dorm Room With Indico CTO & Co-Founder Slater Victoroff

Back in 2013, Slater and his co-founder had an idea in their dorm room – to revolutionise the data industry by creating a platform that takes raw data and structures it, enabling you to build innovative, mission-critical enterprise workflows.
The idea quickly gained interest as they were accepted into Techstars Boston – and before long, Slater was questioning whether or not he needed to stay in school. 
Indico Data was so successful that he never graduated. He was too busy scaling the backend system to handle several billion monthly API calls and a developer ecosystem of roughly 10k developers (while closing multiple six-figure enterprise contracts simultaneously). 
Fast forward to today, and Indico Data is worth over $30M and is consistently pushing the envelope within its vertical.
In this episode, we break down:
The process for validating the business idea behind Indico
The road to product-market fit 
The lessons Slater learnt from dealing with investors 
Key insights on building an early-stage startup team
Balancing the intense work every entrepreneur faces with their personal life 
Advice on every facet of the entrepreneurial journey
Tune in as Slater delves into the trials and tribulations of launching such a huge startup between just him and his co-founder.
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#2 Solving One Problem: Taulia Co-Founder Maex Ament on Building an Industry-Leading Company with Over 1.8M Clients

Today’s guest, Markus (Maex) Ament, is the founder behind Taulia, a  leading provider of working capital solutions with over 1.8 million companies using it across the globe – including Airbus, Nissan & the UK Government. 
And, like most successful companies, it began with a problem. In Taulia’s case, that problem was liquidity: 
“When a company invoices a client, they’re generally going to have to wait anywhere between 30 to 90 days to receive payment. We wanted to solve that problem for companies.” 
While this idea isn’t necessarily new, Maex and his team added a twist. They went to the biggest companies on the planet and used their cash to pay their suppliers early for a “dynamic discount”. 
Tune in as Maex shares his story, and the hurdles he and his founding team faced bringing Taulia to life and scaling it to become an industry leader. 
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#1 From Humble Roots to Raising over $2.5B in funding With Kabbage Co-Founder Kathryn Petralia

Back in 2008, Kathryn Petralia and her founding team had a vision. To use technology to give small businesses the funding tools they need to grow and scale their companies. 
A few months later, Kabbage was born. The platform quickly evolved and grew to not just provide loans to SMEs, but a full suite of cash management solutions for founders and entrepreneurs. 
In this episode, we break down:
The process for validating the business idea behind Kabbage
The road to product-market fit 
The lessons Kathryn learnt from dealing with investors 
Key insights on building an early-stage startup team
Balancing the intense work every entrepreneur faces with their personal life 
Advice on every facet of the entrepreneurial journey
Tune in as Kathryn shares the trials and tribulations of building Kabbage – from its humble roots providing small business loans to eBay users to raising over $2.5B in funding and getting acquired by American Express.
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