Binti - Reinventing Foster Care And Adoption With Felicia Curcuru Female Founders & Funders podcast

Binti - Reinventing foster care and adoption with Felicia Curcuru

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Hi Everyone! In this episode of the Female Founders and Funders podcast I speak with Felicia Curcuru, the founder and CEO of Binti, a company that is reinventing the foster care and adoption process. She started the company in 2014 after seeing firsthand how hard it was for her sister to adopt and has experienced the ups and downs of building a company, finding product marketing fit, dealing with co-founders and employees, and so much more. In the episode we explore topics such as:

Felicia's background and how she came to start Binti
In an early blog post that Felicia wrote she mentioned some crazy statistics on foster care and adpoption: each year 6 million children are orphaned worldwide, 3 million families express an interest in adoption, 1 million families take steps to adopt but only 250,000 parents end up adopting. We discuss what she uncovered about why this process is so broken?
The hardest part of getting Binti off the ground
Being a first time founder
Who the end customers of Binti’s technology are and how that has evolved over time and with learnings
How to go about finding a co-founder and what to do if things don't work out
Working with the government and in a somewhat regulated space
Getting the first customers and happy users
How adoptions and foster programs have evolved (or not) since she began in this space in 2014
Felicia's experience with All Raise, a non profit supporting women venture investors and entrepreneurs and how she came to help start Female Founder Office Hours
Practices to help stay sane as you manage starting a company, fundraising, juggling life etc
The best piece of advice she's been given in her career or life

To learn more about Binti or get in touch you can go to the website at https://binti.com/ and to learn more about All Raise go to https://www.allraise.org/

--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/femalefoundersandfunders/support

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Felicia's background and how she came to start Binti
In an early blog post that Felicia wrote she mentioned some crazy statistics on foster care and adpoption: each year 6 million children are orphaned worldwide, 3 million families express an interest in adoption, 1 million families take steps to adopt but only 250,000 parents end up adopting. We discuss what she uncovered about why this process is so broken?
The hardest part of getting Binti off the ground
Being a first time founder
Who the end customers of Binti’s technology are and how that has evolved over time and with learnings
How to go about finding a co-founder and what to do if things don't work out
Working with the government and in a somewhat regulated space
Getting the first customers and happy users
How adoptions and foster programs have evolved (or not) since she began in this space in 2014
Felicia's experience with All Raise, a non profit supporting women venture investors and entrepreneurs and how she came to help start Female Founder Office Hours
Practices to help stay sane as you manage starting a company, fundraising, juggling life etc
The best piece of advice she's been given in her career or life

To learn more about Binti or get in touch you can go to the website at https://binti.com/ and to learn more about All Raise go to https://www.allraise.org/

--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/femalefoundersandfunders/support

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