In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip Smith speaks with Ishini Saparamadu, Founder and CEO of Concolabs, a construction AI company she started as an undergraduate in Sri Lanka. Ishini explains how a chatbot she built in her third year studying quantity surveying, and a screen recording she posted to LinkedIn and Facebook, brought in her first construction users and set the foundation for the business. She talks about funding the early stages through grants, bootstrapping on

In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip Smith speaks with Michael Bambrick, Partner at Wallace Corporate Counsel and Founder of Fundraising Skool. As a VC lawyer who has worked both sides of the table across pre-seed through Series B, Michael explains why fundraising should be run as a structured business project with clear targets and a fixed deadline, rather than a series of hopeful introductions. He walks through his proof, find, pitch framework, why most founders start at

In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip speaks with Anush Mnatsakanyan, Co-Founder and CEO of Burnwe, a video marketing agency built specifically for tech companies. Anush shares how she founded the business in Armenia in 2018, landed her first client in Florida, and has grown it to around 450 clients across 46 countries, producing explainer videos, product launches, demos, and advertising for SaaS and AI companies. She explains why Burnwe has been bootstrapped from day one, w