23: Diabetes Saliva Disease Self Monitoring and Screening by Biotech Startup, Daeki, and Talk about Startup life and Development with Founder and CEO Amanda

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Saliva to detect disease,  A Startup, Daeki, and Founder, Amanda work to create innovated technology to make self monitoring and detecting as easy as figuring out if your pregnant.  In this episode, we get into how she moved from Chile to the UK to start this company while getting her undergraduate degree, the things she has learned, why she has built the company, and how big of a nerd she is about anime (the name of the company is a big giveaway). Also, she was a part of RebelBio Cohort V, which is what brought her to the UK.

Diabetes Saliva Disease Self Monitoring and Screening by Biotech Startup, Daeki, and Talk about Startup life and Development with Founder and CEO Amanda

Amanda, CEO – From Freshman Courses in Chili, to Moving to the UK, to Joining RebelBio, and Founding Daeki

Here is her website:

www.daekitech.com

Hyperlinked Timestamped Show Notes

1. [ 2:10 ] *What her background is, and how she got started much earlier than most people. Still in undergrad!
2. [ 2:45 ] How she at first did not want to be an entrepreneur, where the idea behind the startup came from, and how she slowly navigated her way into creating this great startup.
3. [ 6:10 ] *How they ended up in London, how the first product they made involved saliva, and how she got into Rebelbio. She has traveled quite a lot.
4. [ 9:15 ] How Europe compares to other places, and how she loves traveling throughout Europe.
5. [ 10:22 ] *How she learned to pitch, and what she has been doing to gain XP to level up her skills.
6. [ 11:25 ] *Strategies to help people who are going to pitch to others, and how a friend of hers kept acting like Barney from HIMYM.
7. [ 12:30 ] *The balance between people who are open to talking vs not talking with her.
8. [ 13:10 ] Thoughts on mentors.
9. [ 14:00 ] Suggestions that advisers have given her, such as confidence.
10. [ 15:05 ] *How does the science work with her product and some learning hurtles she has gone through to find something that works.
11. [ 17:30 ] *Something she used to never think about, but now thinks about a lot so she can troubleshoot problems before they come up. Quick example of how they lost materials one time, and how they adapted to ensure that doesn’t ever happen again.
12. [ 20:45 ] *What she is going to do after successfully pitching to investors, and her plans to get things churning out by late 2018.
13. [ 21:20 ] How to spell her startup and why she picked a Japanese name for the company.
14. [ 22:10 ] Her “guilty pleasures” and what she does on Friday nights, which sounds like fun to me!
15. [ 23:00 ] Our mutual love of One piece the Manga and we talk about it a little bit.
16. [ 26:40 ] Other anime that she loves and her anime recommendations.
17. [ 29:00 ] *How effective her saliva technology is at monitoring A1C levels, and over the next 3 months she will have much better data.
18. [ 30:15 ] *Advice for people who want to start a biotech company.
19. [ 31:30 ] How she finds grants, and her history with getting funding through grants, and her thoughts on the process.
20. [ 32:30 ] Her recommendations on setting yourself up for success, like finding people who know things you don’t so you both can grow.
21. [ 34:20 ] *Best ways to keep up to date with her and her company.
22. [ 35:15 ] The literal meaning of Daeki.
23. [ 36:25 ] *Don’t let age stop you. She started at 19!