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McKinsey on Start-ups

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McKinsey on Start-ups is an original podcast series from Fuel, McKinsey’s startup practice. In each episode, our experts cut through the noise to help startups and investors accelerate growth. We feature conversations with founders/leaders, investors, and industry experts to share the latest perspective across borders and sectors.

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Creating a clean water supply from the air and sun

Thursday, March 16, 2023 • Duration 30:14

On today’s episode of McKinsey on Startups, our guest is Dr. Cody Friesen, the founder and CEO of Source Global, a sustainability-focused startup that is working to help solve the planet’s drinking water scarcity issues. The company’s flagship product is the Source Hydropanel, a solar-powered, self-contained piece of technology that turns the plentiful water vapor in the atmosphere into a clean, renewable water supply. Source Global has done both commercial and residential projects in more than 50 countries worldwide, and expects to produce and sell tens of thousands of them this year, growing to a few hundred thousand in 2024. Friesen, an MIT-educated material scientist and professor at Arizona State University, has raised close to $300 million in funding since originally founding Source Global in 2015. The company is a Public Benefit Corporation (or PBC), making it focused on both shareholders and stakeholders broadly defined. Friesen sees no tension between “mission and money,” and hopes to help foster what he calls “conscious capitalism” as he pursues his company’s ambitious goal of making drinking water an unlimited resource.

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Bringing Latin American micro-business into the fintech age

Thursday, September 22, 2022 • Duration 30:44

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https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a31303030303163356175743475333168726977&he=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 On this episode of McKinsey on Start-ups, we speak with Lluís Cañadell, the co-founder and CEO of Treinta, a Colombia-based fintech startup focused on helping Latin American microbusinesses transition into the digital era. Across Latin America, there are some 50 million micro-merchants or microbusinesses, typically sole proprietors or those with less than 10 employees, the vast majority of which are still relying on pen and paper for record-keeping and inventory management. Treinta’s super-app helps this class of merchants use their smartphones to take on those tasks, as well as receive digital payments, create online stores, and access a B2B marketplace; the company’s name comes from its original selling point of saving micro-merchants 30 minutes a day and increasing efficiency 30 percent. Launched by Cañadell and co-founder Man Hei Lou in 2020, Treinta now has around 5 million active users across 18 countries; earlier this year, it raised $46 million in a Series A round, one of the largest such raises in Latin America, bringing its total funding to $60 million. The company has a goal of expanding its micro-business ecosystem to one day include lending and additional fintech services, all enabled by and part of what Canadell calls “the democratization of financial services.”

How harnessing human data could reinvent drug discovery

Thursday, September 8, 2022 • Duration 30:44

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https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a3130303030316335616c6975346a6330746d76&he=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 On this episode of McKinsey on Start-ups, we talk to David Berry, the founder and CEO of Valo Health, a human data-driven startup hoping to fundamentally alter the drug discovery and development process. Berry, a serial entrepreneur who has founded more than 30 companies (five of which are publicly traded), believes the industry’s longtime approach to generating new drugs is too costly, slow, and ineffective to keep pace in the battle against disease. Valo is one of scores of AI and machine learning startups emerging lately that aim to use human datasets to reinvent the drug discovery and development process, but Berry feels his company’s distinctive approach gives it an advantage. Instead of targeting just a single therapeutic and disease category at a time, Valo relies on its Opal computational platform to simultaneously pursue potential treatments for multiple conditions in an integrated fashion. Valo’s wealth of longitudinal, high-density data is another asset, according to Berry. Assets are critical in such an expensive undertaking, and Valo has raised close to half a billion dollars in funding since its founding in 2019.

The next test for edtech

Thursday, August 25, 2022 • Duration 26:16

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https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a313030303031633561626b6667646f67636e77&he=253246253246706f6463617374732e6d636b696e7365792e636f6d253246706f6463617374253346706325334473746172747570735f727373253236707525334468747470732532353341253235324625323532467777772e6d636b696e7365792e636f6d25323532466173736574732532353246646f74636f6d25323532466d636b696e7365792d6f6e2d737461727475707325323532466d6f732d7468652d6e6578742d746573742d666f722d6564746563682e6d7033253236706e2533445468652532426e65787425324274657374253242666f72253242656474656368 Listen to the podcast (duration: 26:15) > Since the pandemic began, educational technology (or edtech) and remote schooling have gained traction. Growing numbers of students and adults were initially forced to rely on virtual classes and teaching, and since then many have chosen to stick with this relatively new method of learning. In this back-to-school guest episode from the McKinsey Israel on High Tech podcast, senior partner Andrew Goodman and Aviel Lazar of edtech company Chegg discuss the evolving edtech market and what lessons it holds for both current and prospective entrepreneurs and investors in the space.

Getting remote work(ers) off to a good start

Thursday, August 11, 2022 • Duration 37:13

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https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a3130303030316335613336636d3035326b3865&he=253246253246706f6463617374732e6d636b696e7365792e636f6d253246706f6463617374253346706325334473746172747570735f727373253236707525334468747470732532353341253235324625323532467777772e6d636b696e7365792e636f6d25323532466173736574732532353246646f74636f6d25323532466d636b696e7365792d6f6e2d737461727475707325323532466d6f732d67657474696e672d72656d6f74652d776f726b6572732d6f66662d746f2d612d676f6f642d73746172742e6d7033253236706e25334447657474696e6725324272656d6f7465253242776f726b253235323865727325323532392532426f6666253242746f25324261253242676f6f642532427374617274 Chris Herd is the co-founder and CEO of Firstbase, a remote-work infrastructure provider that helps both new ventures and large established companies onboard and serve their growing ranks of employees no longer venturing into the office. Chris and cofounder and CTO Trey Bastian actually launched Firstbase a year before the pandemic fueled the rise of remote work; as they were attempting to get their fintech startup off the ground, they learned firsthand how challenging it can be to get new remote employees set up with the right equipment and provide them an all-around positive experience at the outset. Since they made the pivot to Firstbase, their business has taken off; earlier this year, they raised $50 million in a Series B, bringing the total funding to around $65 million.

How Veho aims to deliver on last-mile logistics

Thursday, July 28, 2022 • Duration 31:18

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https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a31303030303163353971307334396d33313878&he=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 Itamar Zur is the cofounder and CEO of Veho, a next-generation logistics startup that is out to reinvent the delivery experience for e-commerce brands and their customers. In just two years, Veho’s delivery and return logistics platform has grown to 900 employees and is on track to be operating in 50 US markets by the end of year. Earlier this year, only a few months after its Series A raise of $125 million, Veho raised another $170 million, bringing its valuation to around $1.5 billion. By focusing on technology that gives customers more control and transparency over the shipping process and experience, Veho promises to build loyalty and increase customer lifetime value for ecommerce brands. The last mile delivery market that it plays in is already worth more than $100 billion globally, and estimated to reach close to $150 billion by 2025.

Activate’s Ilan Gur: Bridging the science-to-market gap

Thursday, July 14, 2022 • Duration 27:52

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https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a31303030303163353967713065696e66376b62&he=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 Ilan Gur is the founder and CEO of Activate, an innovative non-profit organization that offers two-year entrepreneurial fellowships to scientists to try to bridge the gap in the US innovation ecosystem between the research lab and the startup world. Activate offers a wide range of resources, knowledge and networks to its fellows so they can begin to turn their cutting-edge ideas and technologies into real-world practical solutions, and businesses. The fellows are primarily focused on climate tech and the hard sciences, working to develop sophisticated, sustainable approaches to help a wide range of traditional industries – including agriculture, chemicals, energy, manufacturing and transportation – contribute to the fight against climate change. So far, Activate has supported almost 150 fellows, who have launched more than 100 startups and raised close to $900 million in additional public and private funding.

The emerging use cases of the metaverse

Thursday, June 30, 2022 • Duration 23:53

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https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a31303030303163353936736c646d7635706e61&he=253246253246706f6463617374732e6d636b696e7365792e636f6d253246706f6463617374253346706325334473746172747570735f727373253236707525334468747470732532353341253235324625323532467777772e6d636b696e7365792e636f6d25323532466173736574732532353246646f74636f6d25323532466d636b696e7365792d6f6e2d737461727475707325323532466d6f732d7468652d656d657267696e672d7573652d63617365732d6f662d7468652d6d65746176657273652e6d7033253236706e253344546865253242656d657267696e6725324275736525324263617365732532426f662532427468652532426d6574617665727365 In two recent McKinsey on Start-ups special guest episodes, we examined the emerging contours of the metaverse. Today we are pleased to feature the third and concluding episode in the special three-part series from At the Edge, the new podcast from McKinsey’s Technology Council. McKinsey senior expert Richard Ward talks to Mina Alaghband about a number of near-term metaverse use cases in the industrial, consumer goods and retail sectors, as well as even more innovative applications for further down the road and the potential size of the metaverse market.

The emerging shift to responsible product management

Thursday, June 16, 2022 • Duration 24:33

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