190: Sky’s the Limit: Owen O’Driscoll and PlanDail

Founder and CEO of PlanDail, Owen O’Driscoll, riffs with Pete Townsend on PlanDail’s mission to build Europe’s premier cross-border, seamless, regulated crowdfunding platform, powered by carbon-neutral Algorand technology. PlanDail’s aim is to connect high-impact focused entrepreneurs with ESG/impact investors of all shapes and sizes who want to fund a better future for the planet.

Show Notes
Guest Profile

In this episode, we dig into:

How Owen’s foundational experiences in operations, supply chains, horticulture, blockchain, and retail investing merged together to form his vision for PlanDail.
How participating in an accelerator in 2019 opened Owen’s eyes to the startup ethos.
Taking advantage of the entrepreneurial support frameworks in Ireland to transform himself into a startup founder.
Making sure that as a CEO, you can have the confidence in yourself to back yourself.
Self-sovereign identity - in digital form - both for investors and for companies raising funding on the PlanDail platform.
Combatting ESG greenwashing by integrating ESG commitments and audited outcomes into a company’s digital identity.
How PlanDail want early-stage investors to be the retail investors who can steer the important decisions and have a pride of ownership about where a company is going, especially around ESG (environmental, social, governance).
Bringing the PlanDail vision to reality with their MVP, an easy-to-use and regulated crowdfunding platform focused on high-impact entrepreneurs and the individual investors who believe in them.
Self-sovereign identity as a bridge for web2 and web3-minded investors.
Enabling the PlanDail platform to integrate across multiple blockchain protocols, including Algorand, IPFS and Hyperledger, as part of their platform scaling strategy.
Getting the first investors in PlanDail on board with the recent opening of their pre-seed round.