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The Innovators & Investors Podcast: Connecting the Startup Ecosystem

The Innovators & Investors Podcast is on a mission to bridge the gap between founders, investors, and industry leaders across the early-stage ecosystem. By bringing together visionaries from cutting-edge startups, venture capitalists, family offices, angel investors, accelerators, and studios, we offer a platform for sharing invaluable insights, market trends, and first-hand experiences. Whether you're an entrepreneur navigating the challenges of building a business or an investor seeking opportunities in emerging technologies, our podcast provides a front-row seat to the dynamic world of innovation and investment. Tune in to gain a comprehensive understanding of the startup landscape, stay ahead of the curve, and benefit from the collective wisdom of those shaping the future.

Become a Featured Guest

As a founder, venture capitalist, family office, angel investor, accelerator, or studio leader driving innovation across industries, The Innovators & Investors Podcast offers you a platform to share your successes, challenges, and strategies. Whether you're navigating the complexities of launching a startup or deploying capital into promising ventures, your insights are invaluable. By joining us as a guest, you contribute to a rich dialogue that enlightens peers and entrepreneurs alike, sharing wisdom that only firsthand experience can provide.

Our Ideal Guests

We seek out visionary leaders who are driving significant change and innovation within their industries or deploying capital into groundbreaking AI, SaaS, and other transformational businesses. Our guests have proven track records of success, whether it's getting a startup off the ground or navigating the complexities of evaluating early-stage investment opportunities. Most importantly, our guests must be engaging storytellers capable of sharing compelling narratives about their professional journeys that captivate listeners and provide relatable learnings. By having guests with these qualities, we ensure our audience gains invaluable insights from the forefront of the startup ecosystem.

Benefits of Being a Guest

Appearing as a guest on The Innovators & Investors Podcast offers several key advantages:

Increased Brand Visibility: Amplify your personal and professional brand by showcasing your expertise to a dedicated audience of industry peers and potential customers/investors. We will promote your episode through our social media and podcast networks as well as provide you with co-branded assets and recordings for your own marketing efforts. Our co-branded approach aims to give you free PR and extended reach to a new audience.
Strategic Networking: Connect with other entrepreneurs and investors, and thought leaders who are listeners and guests on our show. We believe in the power of networks and relationship building and are cultivating a community where we are happy to make introductions and facilitate mutually-beneficial connections.
Impactful Knowledge Exchange: Participate in meaningful conversations that highlight your mission and achievements while providing actionable advice to others in the startup and investment ecosystems. Share compelling insights that can enlighten peers and inspire emerging entrepreneurs.

How to Join the Show

If you are a visionary leader at the forefront of the startup ecosystem, driving significant change or deploying capital in early-stage companies, we invite you to share your story on The Innovators & Investors Podcast. To be considered as a guest, please follow these steps:

1. Ensure you meet the guest criteria: You should be a founder, president, CEO of an investor-backed or bootstrapped startup grossing at least $1M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and experiencing momentum. Alternatively, you could be a family office CIO, venture capitalist, angel investor, or work at an accelerator or studio actively investing in early-stage companies across various industries.

2. Complete the guest application form, providing details about yourself, your company or investment firm, job title, website, social media profiles, and a professional headshot.

3. If your application is successful, our team will reach out with instructions to book your interview slot on the calendar.

As a featured guest, you'll have the opportunity to discuss your successes, challenges, and strategies navigating the early-stage business ecosystem. You'll also receive valuable tips from our host, Kristian Marquez, to help you connect with our audience, gain exposure, and potentially attract new customers or partners. The interview will be conducted via Zoom, and we'll provide guidance on technical requirements to ensure a smooth recording experience.

Please watch this quick video first:

Guest requirements:

AI, SaaS company founders as well as family office CIOs and venture capital partners.

Two primary audiences:
(i) Early stage, venture backed AI, SaaS companies (i.e., founders, Presidents, and/or CEOs); and
(ii) Investors, to include both family office CIOs and venture capital firms.

As a business, you should be grossing at least $1.0M ARR AND experiencing momentum. As an investor, you should be actively investing in early stage AI, and/or SaaS companies.

United States based companies only please.

Application to be on the Innovators & Investors podcast:

Please check the guest requirements listed above to see if you would be a good fit before applying. Thank you!
Assistants & PR Agencies: Please supply the GUEST'S contact information for scheduling / confirmation purposes.
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After the application is submitted:

Our vetting team will review the application and reach back out to you with instructions to book on the calendar.
When the appointment is booked, Kristian Marquez will share some vital tips (via video) to help you connect with our audience, gain some great exposure, and hopefully encourage some great connections and customers from our audience.
Enjoy the interview with Kristian Marquez via Zoom video.
We'll produce all the assets, social media posts, and even video clips to promote our appearance.
We hope that your appearance also leads to great customer and partner opportunities.

Some final tech tips

VIDEO:

AUDIO:

We'll be recording on Zoom VIDEO.

We will likely grab a couple 30-60 second video snippets of our chat to promote you to our audience. Try to be well-lit so we can see your smiling face!

Download Zoom (free) here

Please have a quality microphone ready to go prior to our interview. Gaming headsets and internal laptop microphones are usually very poor quality and may require rescheduling our interview.