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Karun is co-founder of GetVantage and its Chief Growth Officer. GetVantage invests between $25k - $2.5m in emerging business in India across certain sectors, like eCommerce, SaaS, gaming, cleantech. Karun is also an investor and advisor in GajiGesa, who’s founder Vidit was on this podcast earlier. Karun has a PR and comms background and has 15 yoe at both corporates and scale-ups like Uber and Rolls Royce, before starting GetVantage.

Listen to this episode for lots of insights on

• The early days of GetVantage: The idea, the team, the technology, first traction
• The USD 500 - 1,500bn SME funding gap and how GetVantage is helping close it
• How GetVantage is able to provide business loans within 7 to 10 days (!)
• The Indian government’s breakthrough initiatives to build a national digital infrastructure
• Karuns journey from India to the US to Singapore to India, and the change he sees
• Karun’s lessons on PR and comms and key tactics for others to up their game
• Karun’s lessons on entrepreneurship, and the importance of always remaining a student

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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others. Press follow in your podcast app or on Youtube to get new Founder Radio episodes in your feed automatically.

Vidit Agrawal is the founder of GajiGesa (Indonesia), which manages employee finances in South-East Asia, and has amassed 350k users in just under 4 years. With GajiGesa, employees have early access to their wages and no longer need predatory lending, and employers save thousands of hours on administration. Before GajiGesa, Vidit has spent time at several iconic companies: UBS, Uber, and Stripe, and he explains what their cultures were like, and what parts he incorporated.

Listen to this episode for Vidit’s stories on

• Selecting a business opportunity to work on
• How he factored lifestyle and passion of the problem into that
• The early days of GajiGesa: Finding product market fit
• After product market fit: Scaling and and repetitive processes
• Whether Vidit recommends starting a company with your wife..
• What needs to happen to make the company break-even in 2025
• Why Singapore is such a great country to live and do business in
• The quality of live in Indonesia, and the first wave of tech businesses there

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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others. Press follow in your podcast app or on Youtube to get new Founder Radio episodes in your feed automatically.

Fred Jordan of FinalSpark (Switserland) and his team are building a revolutionary new kind of computer, out of human stem cells. The human brain is several orders of magnitude more energy efficient than silicon based computer, and Fred's team hopes to unlock those efficiencies for out-of-brain computation. They have opened up their platform up to research universities, and to the public, and we've pasted the link below. After having financed FinalSpark from the proceeds of his other business for years, Fred is currently raising EUR 50m to accelerate realising their vision.

Listen to this episode for lots of insights on

• Why the human brain is such an incredible processing machine
• How Fred and his team have been working towards replicating a human brain in a lab
• What it would mean if they manage to build a working and lasting biocomputer
• Why Fred is fundraising and what he expects to be able to achieve with it
• How Fred has built his other business AlpVision, and his lessons learned
• How Fred's journey as an entrepreneur has changed him, and his advice to others
• And please find a link to FinalSpark's biocomputing platform here: https://finalspark.com/live/

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