Venture In The South

S5:E223 David interviews Scot Wingo, a GP at the Tweener Fund, a North Carolina Startup Fund. He explains how the Tweener Fund was started, how it has evolved and discusses their investment thesis. (recorded 3.18.26)

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S5:E222 David gives The Weekly Update on Venture and introduces the upcoming interview with Scot Wingo on Wednesday 3.25.26. He's a GP at The Tweener Fund and he explains its origins, the investment thesis of the Fund and why they expanded to cover startups across all of North Carolina.

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S5E221 David interviews 2 CEO's of some longstanding portfolio companies:

• Seal the Seasons Co-Founder & CEO Patrick Mateer 
• Vbase Oil  Founder & CEO Jeff Dimaio

The CEO's briefly update listeners on the problem they are solving, who their customers are and relevant growth metrics from the recent past and their forecasts for 2026. We also briefly discuss their exit dynamics. (recorded 2.18.26)

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S5:E220 David provides The Weekly Update on Venture and previews the portfolio updates for Wednesday 3.18.26. The Update Interviews on Wednesday will be with 2 portfolio companies:

1. Seal the Seasons offers locally grown frozen fruits and vegetables and is introducing 2 new product lines of white labeled Smoothie Kits and Chocolate covered frozen fruit that could be their breakout products.
2. Vbase Oil offers proprietary Secondary Polyol Ester® base oils engineered for  High-Performance and Sustainable Base Oils that out perform currently available industrial lubricants.

(recorded 3.15.26)

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S5:E219 David interviews Scott Pancoast, the Executive Chairman at Atticus Pharma, a spinout from Zylo Pharma where Scott is CEO. Atticus has 2 drug candidates from their Immunodermatology Platform and Scott updates listeners on the most recent developments at Atticus as they approach a liquidity event in the next few years. (recorded 2.18.26)

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S5:E218 David delivers The Weekly Update in Venture and previews the upcoming  interview with Scott Pancoast, Executive Chairman of Atticus Pharma. He outlines Atticus’s plan to disrupt Immunodermatology with 2 innovative drug formulations using a drug platform model to spin out IP protected drugs while continuing to grow the platform model. (recorded 3.8.26)

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S5;E217 David interviews the founders of 2  Life Science portfolio companies that have been around for a while and have made significant progress in their GTM strategies. Both have been previously profiled in detail, Redbud Labs for E138 in Sep24 and Adovate for E184 in Aug25. Thus today’s interviews are updates on the progress they’ve made against their GTM strategies. (recorded 2.18.26)

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S5:E216 David details The Weekly Update in Venture and previews Wednesday's E216 interviews with 2 portfolio companies executing on their GTM strategies. (recorded 3.1.26)

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S5:E215 David and Paul review the VentureSouth 10th annual Summit, summarizing the What, Who and Why for that event. Then David will preview an upcoming Webinar for GenZ and Millenial investors interested in venture but who do not qualify as accredited investors and finally Paul will review other upcoming events of interest. (recorded 2/20/26)

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S5:E214 David delivers The Weekly Update in Venture and introduces the upcoming summary of the VentureSouth 10th Annual Summit for E215. Paul will be summarizing the What, Who and Why for that event, while David will preview an upcoming Webinar for GenZ and Millenial investors interested in venture but who do not qualify as accredited investors and finally Paul will summarize other upcoming events of interest to Angels. (recorded 2.22.26)

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