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

In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip speaks with Ali Winger, Founder and CEO of Key2Biotics. Key2Biotics helps supplement and food and beverage brands develop probiotic and gut health products, taking them from concept through to shelf, and operates a purpose-built innovation centre in Cork with three labs and a team of scientists. Ali shares how she left senior leadership in some of the largest global probiotic and supplement companies at the start of 2025 to build the bus

In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip speaks with Alexandra Butmalai, Co-founder and CEO of amazive. Amazive is an AI software for engineer-to-order manufacturers, currently focused on windows and doors, extracting specifications from architectural plans, sketches, and tender documents and turning them into structured, editable data that feeds straight into production planning. Alexandra explains how a process that can take up to two weeks by hand is cut down to minutes. She