On the latest What The Tech podcast we welcome CTO and Co-Founder of Adauris Ve Sharma. Adauris is a B2B SaaS narration tool for publishers that enables written content to be instantly transformed into rich audio experiences.
As an audiophile himself, Ve is passionate about Adauris’s mission to help publishers & content creators create greater value from each piece of their writing, increasing accessibility and driving content engagement throughout the day through audio.
Their platform combines synthetic narration with a suite of features designed to drive engagement, deliver the best audio experience, and provide rich insights into listeners’ behavior.
It is some very cool tech with a great mission behind it, and I’m excited to pick Ve’s brain on Adauris’s success to date, working with partners throughout the North American tech and startup ecosystem, and what’s on deck for the future.
Startup funding for growth
Even as a CTO who was playing a pivotal role in building their business, Ve knew that tackling Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit claims could be a tricky process. Beyond the “gotchas,” there are plenty of horror stories around the startup ecosystem of tax credit claims gone wrong and dozens—if not hundreds—of hours sank with little success.
There was also a flip side to those SR&ED horror stories, and that was Boast, as others across Ve’s network all had a smooth and seamless experience working with our team to maximize their R&D tax credit claims. With unmatched tech and tax expertise, along with our own experience building fast-growth businesses, Boast is the perfect partner for entrepreneurs like Ve.
Joining a League of Innovators
Some of the best conversations we have with founders are with those who hadn’t necessarily expected to find themselves leading a business.
For Ve, he took a solution-oriented approach into formulating his idea and finding the resources he needed to build it. From there, he tapped into his valuable local tech ecosystem to fill in the gaps in his expertise and—as Ve puts it—the rest is history.
It’s a winning formula for startup success and really emphasizes the importance of tapping into incubators and accelerators to understand the realities of business as well as the true value (and viability) of your ideas.
