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64. Kaushal Diwan, DPR - Evaluating and...
Kaushal shares the context of ‘why’ one of the world’s premier general contractors has taken innovation so s...
00:34:03
May 30, 2023
63. Ben Fife, GS Growth - What's Happen...
Ben shares an outlook on what’s going on in the growth stage ecosystem given the current market reset (spoiler: ...
00:35:31
May 22, 2023
62. Karen Kerr, Exposition Ventures - T...
Karen explains how the Chicago Columbian Exposition spurred on the 2nd industrial revolution and inspired the laun...
00:36:24
May 08, 2023
61. Dennis Muilenburg, New Vista Capita...
Dennis shares how a lifetime dedicated to aerospace innovation led him to co-founding New Vista Capital as his nex...
00:32:18
May 01, 2023
60. Jim Adler, Toyota Ventures - Discov...
Jim shares the origin story of Toyota Ventures and how the firm leverages its $500M AUM to discover what's nex...
00:39:52
April 17, 2023
59. Sam Smith-Eppsteiner, Innovation En...
Sam shares how the convergence of data, compute, and advanced engineering is leading to their thesis of “The Su...
00:36:58
April 10, 2023
58. Katie Rae, The Engine - Tough Tech ...
Katie shares The Engine’s definition of and approach to Tough Tech investing, her thoughts on why the Tough Tech...
00:28:43
February 20, 2023
57. Steve Sloane, Menlo Ventures - "Cam...
Steve shares why a storied Silicon Valley firm chose to form a pod of focused supply chain expertise, digs in on...
00:29:26
February 13, 2023
56. Manifest Conference 2023 - All-In S...
Hot off a trip to Vegas for the 2023 Manifest supply chain innovation conference, the four besties Chris Stallman ...
00:33:16
February 08, 2023
55. Alan Cohen, DCVC – DeepTech Tackl...
Alan shares how DCVC both defines the fund’s DeepTech thesis and how his associated focus on attacking “trill...
00:39:46
January 17, 2023
54. Lior Ron, Uber Freight - Uber for F...
Lior shares the origin story of both why Uber Freight was launched in 2017 and how the intrapreneurship support he...
00:40:17
January 09, 2023
53. Mike Droesch, Bessemer - Roadmap to...
Mike outlines how a systems engineering background working on maritime tugboats eventually led to building up the ...
00:32:13
December 12, 2022
52. Katherine Boyle, a16z - American Dy...
Katherine shares with us the why & how the a16z American Dynamism practice was founded to build for America an...
00:33:42
December 05, 2022
51. Lior Susan, Eclipse Ventures – Re...
Lior shares what the two ah-ha moments were to launch Eclipse where he saw the tech growth potential ahead for ind...
00:34:45
November 28, 2022
50. Torie Crown, Four More Capital - A ...
Torie shares the origin story of launching a venture arm, Four More Capital, within the multi-generational Henry C...
00:32:31
May 23, 2022
49. Byron Knight, Koch Disruptive Techn...
Bryron shares when, how, and why a private corporation with $120B in revenue, 120,000 employees spread across 70 c...
00:28:35
May 02, 2022
48. Sophie Purdom, Climate Tech VC - Br...
Clean Tech, ESG, Sustainability, Decarbonization, Energy Transition, Impact Investing, etc. descriptors have all s...
00:39:40
April 17, 2022
47. Stacy Scopano, JE Dunn - Constructu...
Stacy walks us through a macro-historical retrospective detailing what structural issues led to the last decade of...
00:44:04
April 11, 2022
46. Eric Spiegel - Industry4.0, Just Ge...
Eric explains how he defines Industry4.0 and walks us through a global outlook on how the US, Germany, and China a...
00:38:26
April 05, 2022
45. Carl Bass - Maker Movement in 2022
Carl shares what led to his maker passion within industrial settings and re-launching Flying Moose, how the curren...
00:39:30
March 21, 2022
44. Ankoor Patel, Kaleris - Rise of Rai...
Ankoor outlines his macro take on what’s occurring within the current global supply chain strain, why customers ...
00:37:07
January 31, 2022
43. Jeff Immelt, NEA - Digital Industri...
Heavy Hitters episode 43 is live now with NEA Venture Partner, Jeff Immelt. As a GE Ventures alumni, this one is e...
00:30:35
January 03, 2022
42. Mike Zayonc, Plug & Play - Engaging...
Mike discusses what the trends and indicators were all the way back in 2017 that led Plug and Play to launch their...
00:31:08
November 29, 2021
41. Steve Taub, In-Q-Tel - Digital Indu...
Steve explains what is meant by In-Q-Tel’s platform slogan to “combine the security savvy of government with t...
00:38:41
November 22, 2021
40. Aaron Jacobson, NEA - The Golden Ag...
We discuss the ‘6Ts’ framework Aaron developed to evaluate industrial automation innovation, how he analyzes t...
00:29:02
November 08, 2021
39. Sunil Nagaraj, Ubiquity Ventures - ...
Sunil outlines how he got the conviction to leave a premier VC platform to launch Ubiquity Ventures, breaks down h...
00:35:05
November 01, 2021
38. BuiltWorlds 2021 Summit Panel - Bui...
Heavy Hitters episode 37 is live now thanks to BuiltWorlds allowing the release of their 2021 US Summit panel disc...
00:45:57
October 25, 2021
37. Tim Keebler, OpenView - Product-Led...
Tim shares his own driver for jumping into the digital industrial investment ecosystem, what he defines as the ‘...
00:33:16
October 18, 2021
36. Brentt Baltimore, Greycroft - Built...
We walk through how Brentt found himself carving out a thematic focus on the Builtworld ecosystem within Greycroft...
00:34:09
October 11, 2021
35. Cutler Knupp, Haskell Dysruptek - I...
Cutler shares why a world-recognized, 60-year old general contractor decided in 2018 to launch a dedicated innovat...
00:36:47
October 04, 2021
34. Chris Stallman, Fontinalis Partners...
Chris walks us through the history that led to Fontinalis Partners launching one of the very first thematic VC fun...
00:30:18
September 20, 2021
33. Sam Baker, Scale Venture Partners -...
Sam shares how his iconic, early-stage enterprise s/w venture fund found itself investing in emerging tech applica...
00:26:48
September 13, 2021
32. Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka, Canaan - A Gen...
Canaan is a storied, early-stage venture VC fund that has been around 34 years with ~6B AUM across 12 funds, and R...
00:31:22
September 07, 2021
31. Ginger Rothrock, HG Ventures - When...
Ginger explains why a private, fourth-generation family-owned industrials business founded in 1930 with over 38 op...
00:28:45
August 30, 2021
30. Trevor Zimmerman, Blackhorn Venture...
Trevor outlines how having a sector focus, and associated domain expertise, provides a prepared mind that allows h...
00:35:42
August 23, 2021
29. Travis Connors, Building Ventures -...
Travis explains how they saw the opportunity to build an architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) and real...
00:33:01
August 16, 2021
28. Bryan Dow, Stifel - A Capital Marke...
Bryan has easily been one of the most active investment bankers within the digital industrial ecosystem, and he ki...
00:34:49
August 02, 2021
27. Gina Chung, DHL - Creating The Logi...
Gina leads the DHL Americas Innovation Center, a 28,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility in Chicago where cu...
00:29:58
July 20, 2021
26. Mike Plasencia, Ryder Ventures - Th...
Supply chain tech startups raked in $7.7 billion in venture funding in Q1 2021, an increase of 90.6% over last qua...
00:29:51
July 12, 2021
25. Guy Perelmuter, GRIDS Capital - Dee...
Guy’s unique background, blended between deep tech and capital markets, guides us through a fun discussion on th...
00:34:34
July 05, 2021
24. Cindy Revol, Perot Jain - The Rise ...
Family office direct investing into the private markets, and the venture capital asset class specifically, is at a...
00:36:19
June 28, 2021
23. Ram Jambunathan, SAP.iO - Building ...
Ram has deep experience on both sides of the tech startup and incumbent table, and he brings that experience to he...
00:45:35
June 07, 2021
22. Julian Counihan, Schematic Ventures...
Julian was ahead of the curve in identifying the e-comm wave that is now transforming our industrial supply chain,...
00:40:21
May 24, 2021
21. Santosh Sankar, Dynamo Ventures - S...
Dynamo was one of the very first sector-focused VC funds that lasered in on supply chain. Santosh outlines how the...
00:35:01
May 18, 2021
20. Enno de Boer, McKinsey - Revitalizi...
There has never been a more critical and more opportune time than right now to revitalize the US manufacturing bas...
00:37:29
May 10, 2021
19. Tom Davis, Microsoft - Turbochargin...
As the cloud infrastructure heavyweight within industrials, Microsoft is now throwing its resources behind startup...
00:39:01
April 12, 2021
18. Brandi Bridges, P33 - Industry4.0 T...
Industy4.0 will not succeed without a vibrant and diverse community of both private and public support. As P33’s...
00:35:29
April 05, 2021
17. David Hindley, Autodesk - Organic v...
There is more inorganic growth activity within the digital industrial ecosystem than ever before, and given there ...
00:27:26
March 29, 2021
16. Burcin Kaplanoglu, Oracle - How Big...
Thousands of guests have visited Oracle Industries Innovation Labs, physically and virtually, to see how this Big ...
00:26:05
March 22, 2021
15. Kris Lengieza, Procore - An Open Ec...
With over 300 partners integrated into the Procore Marketplace, Procore is helping drive collaboration and build a...
00:36:58
March 15, 2021
14. Hugh Evans, Additive Manuf. Venture...
Make no mistake, industrial-grade additive manufacturing is now here to stay. Hugh's background blending both fina...
00:33:14
March 08, 2021
13. Michael Young, CAT Ventures - The E...
In the world of digital industrial innovation, corporate venture capital (CVC) can play a major part in supporting...
00:27:06
March 01, 2021
12. Zach Barasz, G2VP - The Rise of VC ...
With its roots at Kleiner Perkins, G2VP is one of the first specialist venture capital funds to focus exclusively ...
00:32:09
February 22, 2021
11. Will O'Donnell, Prologis Ventures -...
Quick fact: an estimated 2.5% of global GPD flows through Prologis facilities that span 19 countries and ~1 billio...
00:40:11
February 15, 2021
10. Michael Keogh, Stanley X - 175 Year...
Mike walks us through how his Stanley X team is helping a 175 year old industrial staple, Stanley Black & Deck...
00:37:01
February 08, 2021
9. David Wilson, Bechtel - Infrastructu...
Did someone say something about infrastructure? David's role as Chief Innovation Officer within one of the world's...
00:32:01
February 01, 2021
8. John Tough, Energize Ventures - Less...
John brings a very unique investment perspective having been an active participant in the famous 2010 energy inves...
00:29:48
January 11, 2021
7. Francisco Betti, World Economic Foru...
We're taking Heavy Hitters global! Francisco outlines how the Future of Advanced Manufacturing and Production plat...
00:35:34
December 28, 2020
6. Vivin Hegde, Hilti - Building an Inn...
Intersecting at the heart of Silicon Valley and global construction innovation, the Hilti Tech Office has a front-...
00:27:03
December 21, 2020
5. Bilal Zuberi, Lux Capital - Science-...
As another one of the most accomplished venture investors in this sector, Bilal gives us a masterclass on how he a...
00:40:52
December 14, 2020
4. Dayna Grayson, Construct Capital - T...
Dayna is one of the most accomplished and pioneering venture capitalists within the digital industrial ecosystem. ...
00:31:27
December 09, 2020
3. Usman Shuja, Honeywell HCE - Digital...
Honeywell Connected Enterprise Chief Commercial Officer, Usman Shuja, shares his experiences leading digital indus...
00:31:59
November 23, 2020
2. Grant Allen, SE Ventures - Corporate...
As both a seasoned venture capital investor and corporate innovation changemaker, SE Ventures General Partner, Gra...
00:32:03
November 04, 2020
1. Rick Bullotta, IIoT Pioneer - An Int...
To kick off the Heavy Hitters podcast series, Rick Bullota joins us to discuss all aspects of past and present dig...
00:37:43
October 27, 2020
0. Welcome to the Heavy Hitters Podcast
Join us as deep dive into the world of digital industrial innovation. Bridging innovative technology companies int...
00:02:13
October 24, 2020

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