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S4:E162 David opens with the Weekly Venture Update and then Paul interviews Cian Robinson, a Lone Wolf Angel focused on the HealthTech vertical. Cian is a former hospital system executive now focused on corporate venture who has gone independent, mixing consulting with Angel investing. He discusses his perspective on the startup ecosystem, his strategies for deal flow and diligence and the current deal environment. (interview recorded 2/13/25)
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David opens with the weekly update in Southern Venture and then interviews Tom Eisenmann. He's a professor at Harvard Business School focused on entrepreneurship and authored the book Why Startups Fail.
David previously interviewed him for E60 and today is talking about what founders and investors can do to proactively reduce the risk of failure and discuss the opportunities for AI to help founders and investors. He outlines the HBS Foundry effort for AI education for founders as well as MIT's Orbit, another AI tool for founders. (interview recorded 1.21.25)
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S4:E160 David opens with the weekly update in Venture and then interviews Ron Lau, Vice President for Corporate Development and Capital Programs at SpaceFlorida, about the Florida Space Economy and Ecosystem. SpaceFlorida is an independent Special District in Florida with fairly broad authority such as Airport and Ports Authority across Florida with operations in Aerospace and Space Infrastructure as well as Procurement to execute on their projects. (interview recorded 1/22/25)
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S4:E159 David opens with the weekly update in Venture and then Paul interviews Jeff and Michelle DiMaio, cofounders of VBASE Oil, a B2B producer of New Tech proprietary synthetic ester base oils and lubricants that outperform traditional products but are bio based, biodegradable, non-toxic and non-bioaccumulating in support of sustainable and circular industrial practices. It’s not your traditional tech startup but it’s very innovative, solves a big problem in a very big global market, has a wide moat against competitors and is scalable. (interview recorded 2/17/25)
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S4:E158 David opens with the weekly update in Venture and then Paul interviews Curtis Lee, a Director at SC Quantum, about the evolution of Quantum Computing in the South. He covers the recent history of SCQuantum, the Quantum Projects Fund for financial and structural support for Quantum development and potential opportunities for Angel Investors. (interview recorded 2/6/25)
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S4:E157 David opens with the weekly update on Venture and then interviews Ben Patz, a Florida venture capitalist who is leading the 2025 Florida Venture Capital Conference, one of the largest Venture Events in the US with ~1,000 attendees including 250+ active venture investors from across the US.
In its 40th year, the Florida Venture Capital Conference companies have raised over $30B for participating companies. With over 40 companies from across the South pitching to raise capital, the conference offers opportunities for networking, learning, growing your business…and more networking.
Hear pitches from top startups selected by active investors…plus speakers, panels, and more. (recorded 2.4.25)
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S4:E156 David opens with the weekly update in Venture, and then Paul joins for a discussion of the differences between Angel Capital Investment and VC Investment.
The discussion arose from an article posted on LinkedIn proposing that founders who can't get VC funding shouldn't expect to be able to get Angel funding because they're basically the same. We disagree and present our argument for the difference.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dc-palter_why-angels-are-not-the-answer-for-startups-activity-7285007063242420224-qAk0/
https://www.venturesouth.vc/resources/angels-vs-venture-capitalists-substitutes-or-complements
(recorded 1.21.25)
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S4:E155 David opens with the weekly update in venture and then Paul joins for an interview with CadChat CEO Graham Bredemeyer. CadChat is a first to market meeting platform for 3D collaboration on product design incorporating all major CAD platforms. This platform solves a big problem in enterprise product design by bringing product design teams together in 3D space during meetings and supporting institutional memory of collaboration. (recorded 11/11/24)
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S4:E154 David opens with the weekly update in venture and then Paul joins for an interview with William Taylor in Part 2 of our series on Lone Wolf Angels.
A Lone Wolf is an angel that flies solo without a group, does their own diligence and solicits their own deal flow. If you fit the definition of a Lone Wolf, we’d be interested in talking with you to share your experience with our listeners.
Paul and William discuss Williams approach to deal flow, identifying investment opportunities, interviewing founders and getting help with diligence. (recorded 11/8/24)Follow David on LinkedIn or reach out to David on Twitter/X @DGRollingSouth for comments.
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S4:E153 David opens with the weekly update in venture and then interviews Pat Gouhin, the CEO of the Angel Capital Association. We discuss:
what the ACA is and what it doeswho are the investor and founder memberswhat members get from the ACAstartup investment analytics and reports produced by the ACAthe Angel University sponsored by the ACA for introductory and advanced training on the Venture Ecosystemthe major issues facing startup founders and investorspolicy efforts by the ACA to influence change in the regulatory definition of the Accredited Investor(recorded 1.7.25)
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S4:E152 David opens with investment predictions for 2025 and then dishes out the weekly update in Venture. Paul then interviews Lone Wolf Angel Investor Daniel Pomp. We’ve characterized Daniel as a ‘Lone Wolf" because he flies solo in the startup ecosystem, doing his own diligence, soliciting his own deal flow and is frequently the first money into a new startup. He has over 80 companies in his portfolio with considerable success and we thought we might learn something from him. (recorded 12/4/24)
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E151: David opens with the weekly update in venture then kicks off an interview with Fashivly Founder and CEO, Ashlyn Greer. Fashivly is an innovative online fashion platform aiming to disrupt fashion shopping. It sounds like just another shopping site but Fashivly is truly unique in that they have no inventory, have multiple revenue streams, have been profitable from their bootstrapped beginning and are utilizing a scalable AI model trained on their own proprietary data. Their secret sauce is fully personalized and accessorized looks tailored to the shopper's budget, body type and lifestyle, delivered on-demand directly to their inbox to shop! And it's coming to men too. If you are an accredited investor and interested in Fashivly, reach out to [email protected] for a warm intro to Ashlyn. (recorded 12/19/24)
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E150: David opens with the weekly venture update then joins Paul to discuss significant portfolio events in 2024 including:
Zylo TherapeuticsAticus PharmaYuva BioCase StatusRoundlyXluminelleAltis BioIconicWe then pose some questions for listeners about potential future show topics. (recorded 11.27.24)
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E149: David opens with the weekly venture update then joins Paul to discuss the portfolio we wish we could have. What do we wish we could invest in?
We cover what we don't invest in and whyThe characteristics of an ideal venture investmentManufacturing TechSpace TechLongevity TechPower Generation TechDeep TechHuman Genetic EngineeringVenture Philanthropy.
This includes opportunities that are out or reach or just a twinkle in a founder's eye such as:(recorded 12/3/24)
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E148: David opens with the weekly venture update then interviews Min Alexander Co-founder and CEO of BOSSCAT, a PropTech startup. BC has been on the Pod twice before in E13 and E63, with phenomenal growth and then contraction with the rise of interest rates squelching the real estate market. Now with a reset to diversify revenue channels and a successful fund raise, BC is set to notch a new revenue record. Min reviews the BC story, their current status and the growth plan going forward. (recorded 12/3/24)
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E147: David opens with the weekly venture update then Paul interviews John Cambier, Fund Administrator for the RTP Angel Fund.
RTP AF is based in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area of North Carolina. It is a committed capital fund launched in the Summer 2023 with an aim to invest in and work with companies to help them grow and achieve scale.
It's a member-managed fund with a diverse investor base of over 50 North Carolinians who may also invest additional funds alongside the Fund on any given investment.
The fund is generally sector agnostic and typically invests at the early stages of funding for a company in an amount ranging from $50k to $250k, with an average investment amount of $150k. Focused on early-stage investment opportunities located in the Research Triangle Park region of North Carolina, they also consider deals originating throughout North Carolina and the southeastern United States. (recorded 8/26/24)Follow David on LinkedIn or reach out to David on Twitter/X @DGRollingSouth for comments.
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E146: David opens with the weekly venture update then interviews John D. Cooper who leads Catalyst by Wellstar, the corporate venture arm of Wellstar Health System.
Wellstar is an 11-hospital health system in Georgia with multiple ancillary facilities making them a leading healthcare provider in Georgia. Catalyst is an independent but wholly owned subsidiary of Wellstar, a first-of-its-kind global digital health and innovation center founded in 2021.
Through their strategic partnership with ATDC, the largest startup incubator in the South, Catalyst's mission is to pilot new therapies, develop less-invasive procedures and advance technologies to transform healthcare and improve people’s lives by harnessing the innovation of startup founders.
John explains why Wellstar sponsors ATDC, about their portfolio, what Wellstar offer founders, what Wellstar gets from their sponsorship at ATDC and what he views as some of the greatest problems in Healthcare that need to be solved. (recorded 11/20/24)Follow David on LinkedIn or reach out to David on Twitter/X @DGRollingSouth for comments.
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E145: David opens with the weekly venture update then interviews Ryan Heafy, COO of 6AMCity on their growth, challenges and expectations.
David originally interviewed 6AMCity in May 2022 for E16 and for an update in July 2023 for E77.
As 6AM approaches profitability, David re-interviewed Ryan to understand what has and hasn't worked for 6AM, how they are growing now and what they see ahead over the next few years. (recorded 11.7.24)Follow David on LinkedIn or reach out to David on Twitter/X @DGRollingSouth for comments.
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E144: David updates on Venture for the week, then Paul interviews Thomas Spencer, Co-founder and Chief R&D Office at Scalable Systems Group, formerly known as WasteWizer.
Scalable saw an opportunity to solve a weighty problem in the industrial waste and recycling industry: When is the bin full and ready to empty?
Think about 10,000 bins distributed across 500 to 1,000 sites. Scalable has developed a proprietary technology for capturing the weight of bins up to 20 tons, without moving parts and that can tolerate the stress of the industrial environment all while sharing live data over their IoT network. They have accumulated a large data set to train their AI and have deployed their latest customer dashboard into the metal recycling industry to broad acceptance. Now they are preparing to scale and penetrate other industries that use weight. (recorded 11/8/24)Follow David on LinkedIn or reach out to David on Twitter/X @DGRollingSouth for comments.
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E143: David updates listeners on Venture for the week, then interviews Josh Miller of Gradient Health about his take on AI from the perspective of data.
We discuss his data experience in the context of AI model training and validation, and address some timely questions relevant to the current Era of AI:
1) Is Data where the money is (in addition to GPUs) and is there really future profit in AI models?
2) Data quality, structure and annotations for metadata,
3) Are LLMs being commoditized and what is the future of SLMs?
4) What is the future of AI Assistants and Agents?
5) What is the future of Synthetic Data?
6) How will AI affect the Arts?
7) What is the future for AI investment? (recorded 11/1/24)
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