S4:E186 David covers The Weekly Update in Venture followed by David and Paul's review the 2025 Angel Funders Report from an investor perspective. We talk about what the data in the report means, what is not there, what we would like to see in the future and how this data influences Seed Stage Startup Investing. (interview recorded 8.26.25)

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S4:E185 David provides The Weekly Update in Venture and then Paul interviews John Harbison, a Board Member of the Angel Capital Association and early advocate for hard data for startup investing. 

Paul and John discuss some of the highlights from the ACA's 2025 Angel Funders Report. Next week, Paul and I will share our own insights from the report in Part 2 on The Angel Funder's Report and discuss how the report helps Angels invest smarter. (interview recorded 8.11.25)

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S4:E184 David provides The Weekly Update in Venture and then Paul interviews Adovate CEO William Stilley about their innovative drug development platform to exploit adenosine receptors involved in multiple major diseases. He explains their strategy of focusing on a single drug candidate with favorable physiochemical characteristics and distribution kinetics that treats a common disease with few to no side effects. They will be initiating their phase II trial of their candidate drug this year and if successful, will plan to sell the drug to a major Pharma company. (interview recorded 8.6.25)

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S4:E183 David starts out with The Weekly Venture Update and Paul interviews 2 VentureSouth market leaders about their startup markets, Jay Shaffer in Chattanooga, TN and and Eric Thome in Charleston, SC. They talk about what brought them to those markets and the kind of startups and investors they see. (interviews recorded 4.26.25 & 6.17.25)

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S4:E182 David closes out the most economically eventful week of the Summer with Inflation down, GDP up and short-term interest rates headed lower in September. With each show, I’m hoping to give you an information edge on investing in general and Venture Investing in particular. After updating you on the notable happenings in venture for the past week, I then bring you Part 2 of my 2 Part Series on the broken US Healthcare system and a proposed pilot solution to fix it right now by making the Healthcare Consumer the Payor. (Part 2 recorded 8.2.25)

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S4:E181 David brings the weekly update on venture and then Paul follows with an interview with Rob Rodrigues, CEO of MP Cloud, a software startup focused on Revenue Cycle Management for EMS providers. The EMS industry is being acutely compressed by the Medicaid Cuts but MP Cloud expects to gain market share by offering better tools to improve cash flow, streamline operations, and reduce errors in providers' everyday work. (interview recorded 6.13.25)

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S4:E180 David brings the latest insights into Venture and then has a follow up interview with Cam Doody of the Brickyard, a different kind of Seed Fund. I first interviewed Cam in Februrary 2024 for E105 and now I’m getting an update on the Brickyard. They have a truly unique approach to recruiting founders from across the US and across business verticals to their Fund Residency in Chattanooga, TN. (interview recorded 7.8.25)

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S4:E179 David offers the latest insights into venture and then Paul interviews Leigh Hsu, CEO of Atticus Pharma, a specialist BioTech Startup focused on Immunodermatology therapeutics. Atticus is utilizing a unique proprietary sustained-release skin delivery technology to address 2 specific skin conditions for which there is no good treatment. Atticus was spun out of Zylo Therapeutics who developed the skin drug delivery technology that Atticus is using for FDA regulated candidate drugs, one for cutaneous Lupus and the other for Alopecia (localized hair loss). (interview recorded 6.11.25)

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S4:E178 First the notable In Venture for the past week and then Part 2 of my series on Robotics and AI. I’ll be Talking With Stijn Van de Velde, Founder and CEO of Drobot, an innovative yet simple mobile Co-Bots-as-a-Service industrial solution to the Find & Fetch problem for tools, parts, inspection and more. They are leveraging existing Real-Time Locating Systems (RTLS) to on-board their Co-bots in as little as one day and using reinforcement learning to fine tune tasks and navigation. Think of them as a shop assistant that will do the walking, Finding and Fetching for a high value worker who can now spend that 25% of their time wasted on human Finding & Fetching to focus on their skilled tasks that require human effort. (recorded 6.26.25)

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S4:E177 First the notable in venture for the past week and then I’ll be talking with Matthew Chang, founder of Chang Robotics, in a blockbuster interview about how robotics is transforming industrial labor and how AI is shaping robotics. He offers several key insights to enlighten investors, especially why humanoids are not really a thing and Cobots are the future. Next week will be Part 2 of our series on Robotics and AI, when I’ll be talking with Stijn Van de Velde, founder of Drobot, a startup focused on task specific find and fetch Cobots-as-a-Service that supports 20-25% gains in industrial worker productivity. (interview recorded 6.19.25)

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