Philipp Roesch-Schlanderer was struck with a ground-breaking idea while working out at the gym as a student at Columbia University in New York. eGym was born two years later with a mission to make the gym work for everyone by innovating and using data.
A perfectionist at heart, Derek Li is working on perfecting an AI algorithm that will improve the impacts of tutoring in China; a market where most students continue their education after hours with a tutor. We sat down with Derek to talk about market dynamics and next steps for Squirrel AI.
Interview with Charles Wang, the Founder and CEO of Quiknos
It’s real now — after a five-year quest to bring platooning to the trucking industry, commercial trucks are now using platooning on a daily basis. What has this journey been like for Peloton and the company’s CEO, Josh Switkes? And what’s ahead down the road?
The RetailNext founder story - Interview with Alexei Agratchev, CEO and co-founder of RetailNext
Lime’s co-founders, Toby Sun and Brad Bao, on growing up in China, building a business in the US and how they want to change the culture of mobility globally.
Moovit has more than 550 million users and is adding 1.1 million new users per day. The company's size has quintupled in just two years and covers multi-modal transit in more than 3,000 cities in more than 90 countries. How did Moovit enable this kind of growth?
Ben Jacobs, co-founder and former CEO of Whistle, now Head of Ventures at Mars Petcare, has been on both sides of the M&A negotiation table. Here he shares the story behind Whistle, his pet activity company (acquired by Mars Petcare), along with his best advice for both potential buyers and potential acquisition targets.
How a virus-infected video game in the 80s led to a Ph.D. in cryptography from Yale University, a cybersecurity moon-shot, and a new universal language for cybersecurity.
Babbel recently turned ten years old. We sat down with co-founders Markus Witte and Thomas Holl in Berlin to talk about Babbel ten years from now, what being a learning company means and why building a diverse team is top of mind for the founders.
The story about how Rajeev Goel, co-founder and CEO of PubMatic, built a successful global business while maintaining the execution speed of a small startup.
How does a story that, by all accounts, should end in bankruptcy, become a tale of success? This is the remarkable survival story of Heptagon, a media-shy company that went from the brink of bankruptcy to become one of the largest exits in Europe in 2017.