Venture In The South

Zylo Therapeutics has experienced steady progress in product and partner development over the last 6 years as they approach their first year of revenue. CEO Scott Pancoast updates us on a very exciting partnership opportunity in the anti-aging space that will come to market in January 2024. He reviews all the other progress, the various other products in development and the future revenue stream. He also talks about potentially spinning out the Pharma part of the business to a larger partner and focusing on the non-Pharma products and partners that have seen success. 

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The Atlanta Tech Angels has been one of the most successful seed stage angel groups in the Southern US. They are focused on tech startups and typically lead rounds of $300k – $750k, generally a convertible note with 6% interest, 20% discount, and a valuation cap between $2M – $6M while also participating in a variety of syndicated angel deals. ATA's minimum expectation for investment is a complete or near-complete prototype product but they prefer a product in Beta stage with pilots or better still, a fully-developed product with initial revenue and demonstrated customer interest. ATA Members may invest selectively in deals that interest them and via the ATA Serles LLC, their sidecar co-investment vehicle. Jay and Matthew are 2 of the volunteer leaders of ATA and walk us through the ATA experience.

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Julie Hussey described herself as an average American until she came into generational wealth on the passing of her father. She talks about how she came to terms with her new reality and went about formulating and executing an investment plan that included venture. She walks us through each step of her experience, how she educated herself, and how she developed her own strategy for impact investing. 

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Pretty much everyone is familiar with 3D printing, using a liquid or fine particle material to 'print' a solid structure like an inkjet printer prints a page. The difference is that it prints many layers, thus the 3 Dimensional character. But what if you started with a solid block and subtracted material to create a solid structure, like a mill or lathe mechanically removing material to create a shape? And, what if you could do this without touching the original block, without friction or abrasion and do a run of 10,000 blocks at a time all with a perfectly smooth finish? It's called Pulsed Electrochemical Machining. It's technically difficult, and requires highly specialized knowledge and equipment, but can create small (millimeter) to medium sized parts (up to about a meter) parts with micrometer level precision, exquisite finishes and can be used for complimentary machining for a component manufactured by traditional means. It's better, faster, and sometimes may be cheaper than traditional manufacturing. This is manufacturing tech at its best, sort of like Tesla or Intuitive Surgical, using proprietary tech to disrupt manufacturing. Daniel Herrington is the founder and CEO who has led Voxel Innovations for 7 years and is now managing dramatic growth, doubling revenue YoY for the last several years. He explains his business, why it is so disruptive and where it's headed in the future.

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David interviews Allyson Eman, the CEO of Venture Atlanta, which began 17 years ago with one mission: to connect companies to capital. Launched in 2007 with a couple hundred attendees and 20 investment funds, Venture Atlanta now welcomes more than 1,300 annual attendees and over 350 investment funds. The conference’s networking and events have led to $7.5 billion in fundings raised and over $17 billion in successful exits including Kabbage, Cloud Sherpas, Roadie, ParkMobile, SalesLoft, and many more. Today, VentureAtlanta has evolved to encompass the connections, resources, partnerships, and community forged beyond the annual conference in support of the Southeast’s most promising tech companies.

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Corporate Venture has become an increasingly common path for large organizations to gain access to innovation that cannot be achieved internally. Cutler Knupp heads the venture arm for The Haskell Company which is tasked to identify innovative companies in the architecture, engineering and construction industries that can lead to collaboration or outright acquisition. Cutler explains how this corporate VC model works and addresses the 'Innovator's Dilemma' for Haskell.

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Meet Mac Lackey  who has been an entrepreneur for over twenty five years and has started, scaled and sold six companies in that time. He has been featured on CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, USA Today and The New York Times. He spent six years on the board of a multi-billion dollar public company and has written a free ebook about exits, Creating The Exit Opportunity, to help founders find the best buyers and command a premium for their business. Now he's focused on mentoring others through the exit process and leads a program called ExitDNA to help entrepreneurs optimize their exit. We talk about his experience, some general guidance he offers on exit planning and some specific exit scenarios that are commonly encountered by founders.

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In this episode, we talk about Crypto, which has been in the news for regulatory issues, volatility, and its very future in the US. Our host bring together a Crypto panel of investors, enthusiasts, and operators to get their perspectives on the top 5 issues for Crypto in May 2023: 1) SEC efforts to regulate crypto by enforcement 2) Is Choke Point II real? 3) Coinbase sues the SEC to create regulation 4) CFTC vs SEC as a regulatory authority for crypto and 5) Crypto price movements.

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This episode spotlights Dan Ciprari who is a serial entrepreneur and met his cofounder, Habib Fathi, while working as an entrepreneur-in-residence at ATDC, the nation’s oldest technology incubator. The Pointivo opportunity met his criteria for jumping into a new startup: being truly innovative and differentiating with really strong IP potential, and the perfect cofounder. Pointivo is an industry leader in structural image analysis for Telecom (cell towers), Facility and Property Management (roofing & construction) and the Energy Industry (utilities, oil & gas, renewables). Their drone based AI powered imaging analytics allow them to automatically identify and extract location, measurement and detailed understanding about physical assets and structures, with the highest-level of accuracy. This has brought new industry insights that simplify processes and decisions related to physical assets in unique and powerful ways.

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David and Paul review the recent $1.3B Volkswagen incentive package offered by South Carolina to build the new Scout EV production facility in the midlands of South Carolina. We review the details of the deal, why it was done and how it might have been better. Our guest John Warner offers some key insights into the structure and motivations for this deal while David and Paul opine on their own assessment of the deal.

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