{"podcast":{"title":"Scouting for Growth","slug":"scouting-for-growth-4686831","podcast_index_feed_id":4686831,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/sabinega/feed.xml","website_url":"https://sabinega.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/21959862/c84aea4ad531642db775e0d7782c8f77.jpg","author":"Sabine VanderLinden","episode_count":233,"summary":"There are over 180,000 FinTech ventures out there today. My team tracks 7.3 million of them across markets every single week. But the number that matters isn’t the one that’s growing. It’s the one that isn’t. Only 25% of these ventures have secured funding and meaningful backing. The other 75% aren’t just looking for capital. They’re looking for access, credibility, and partnerships with the institutions that can turn a great product into real-world impact. This is Scouting for Growth. I’m Sabine VanderLinden. I lead Alchemy Crew Ventures, and I built the Venture-Client Model for regulated industries... the model where a growth venture earns a corporation as its customer before a VC writes the cheque. When that sequence works, it changes the equation for everyone: founders, corporates, and the investors watching from both sides of the table. Each episode, I bring a founder, an operator, or an institutional leader to the table for the conversation that usually happens behind closed doors: about how corporates really think, how capital really flows, and what it actually takes to build, grow, and scale in a world where the boundaries between FinTech, InsurTech, HealthTech, and AI are…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T16:17:45.012213+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831"},"episode":{"title":"Sangha Penesetti: Reinventing Enterprise’s Future Through Flexible Work","slug":"sangha-penesetti-reinventing-enterprise-s-future-through-flexible-work","published_at":"2025-12-25T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/sangha-penesetti-reinventing-enterprise-s-future-through-flexible-work","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831","url":"https://sabinega.podbean.com/e/sangha-penesetti-reinventing-enterprise-s-future-through-flexible-work/","audio_url":"https://cohst.app/pdcst/6K4Q1I/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/x7gdnhyrqk4yzjhe/pdcst_6K4Q1I_traffic_megaphone_fm_USVL6152356302.mp3","summary":"On this episode of Scouting For Growth, Sabine VdL sits down with Sangha Penesetti, Founder & CEO of goZeal—a leader who didn’t just break the glass ceiling… she redesigned the entire building (with better lighting and significantly better policies). Sangha shares the deeply personal story that sparked goZeal: early in her career, every client meeting felt the same—rooms filled with men, with Sangha often the only woman and the only woman of colour in the room. When she became a mother in 2010, the lack of flexibility in the industry became impossible to ignore. There was little empathy, no real system support for working mothers, and certainly no workplace designed for parents navigating both ambition and responsibility. Then came Covid—and with it, a painful revelation. Sangha saw brilliant, highly educated women (especially Indian and Asian mothers) quietly step out of the workforce to raise families—and never return. Not because they lacked capability or drive, but because the system simply wasn’t built for them. That moment made everything click: this wasn’t an individual problem. It was a systemic design flaw. And that’s when goZeal was born. Together, Sabine and Sangha explore what “empowerment” really means. It’s not a buzzword, it’s economic mobility—financial freedom, autonomy, and the ability for women to shape their own lives, careers, and futures. As Sangha puts it, being included isn’t the same as being empowered. True inclusion is about access to meaningful work, decision-making authority, and direct pathways to opportunity. This episode goes beyond surface-level DEI conversations and into the hard economics of equity. The message is clear: when women—especially women of colour—advance, companies don’t just look better on paper. They become more innovati…","meta_description":"On this episode of Scouting For Growth, Sabine VdL sits down with Sangha Penesetti, Founder & CEO of goZeal—a leader who didn’t just break the glass ceili…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1672,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/scouting-for-growth-4686831/episodes/sangha-penesetti-reinventing-enterprise-s-future-through-flexible-work/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/sangha-penesetti-reinventing-enterprise-s-future-through-flexible-work.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}