CFO Insights

About CFO Insights

Startup CFO is a digital first, peer to peer group where finance people working in disruptive tech come together and advise on certain topics, ask questions and grow their peer network. This podcast was designed to cover topics that add value to CFOs and senior finance professionals. We invite industry leaders to cover technical and non-technical topics to help finance professionals grow professionally and personally. As the group has been around for 10 years, we know the ins and outs of building relationships between peers and support great conversations. By visiting our website, you can learn more about the group. https://startupcfo.tech

Publisher

Startup CFO

Category

business · business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Apr 2022

Latest episode

24 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

53 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Sept 2026

   George Nichkov, Founder at Taxnova, shares insights on building CFO friendly tooling for R&D tax claims

   In this episode we're joined by George Nichov, founder at TaxNova and formerly leading on product at Gett. George shares lessons on finance and engineering collaborate on things like R&D tax credits. Examining the different skillsets, approaches and the challenges in partnering on this important range of international incentives. He talks through how this insight has helped shape TaxNova, building out an AI-native platform for tech companies to deliver defensible R&D claims. And shares the future direction for Finance teams to work optimally on these complex tax filings.

2. 

   13 Aug 2026

   Sapna Shah, of Sie ventures, joins Guy to discuss being a strategic partner to a founder and CFOs and seed investing

   In this episode we're joined by Sapna Shah Syndicate Lead & Venture partner at Sie ventures as well as seed investor and fractional CFO. Sapna and I dive into the focus areas for her investments, exploring the importance of network in key verticals and how to support founders shaping a big vision for investment. She shares her insights from her work as a Fractional CFO and you’ll certainly want to hear our discussion how CFO parents seek to shape the next generation. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sapna-shah/ https://www.sie.ventures/

3. 

   7 Aug 2026

   Edward Barrow, co-founder & CEO at Cloud Capital, on CFOs and the discipline of managing cloud costs

   In this episode we're joined by Edward Barrow, co-founder & CEO @ Cloud Capital, and a former finance leader who spent years managing $100Ms in cloud commitments before building the company to solve the problem himself. In this episode, Ed unpacks the rise of cloud and AI compute costs, and why CFOs now face a brand new discipline: a line item that's grown to rival payroll, yet remains the least understood and least predictable on the P&L. We dig into the critical difference between AI costs sitting in OpEx versus COGS, why repricing alone won't rescue gross margins, and the "token treadmill" that keeps consumption outpacing falling unit prices. We also explore why the CFO-CTO relationship has never mattered more, and what it actually takes to build a shared vocabulary between finance and engineering. https://startupcfo.tech/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebarrow/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebarrow/) https://www.cloudcapital.co (https://www.cloudcapital.co/) [Report] Cost of Compute 2026: https://www.cloudcapital.co/the-cost-of-compute (https://www.cloudcapital.co/the-cost-of-compute)

Who has been a guest on CFO Insights

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• Veronika von Heise-Rotenburg
• Rob Collings
• Pete Donell
• John Gronen
• Špela Prijon

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Spotify

4.9 / 5

13 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 31 / 100

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Quality

32

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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