Investor Connect: Impact VC, AI Screening, and Expanding Startup Investing to Individuals
On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Max Schuster, entrepreneur, startup investor, and marketing lead at Capacura, a German venture capital firm focused on impact investing. Capacura specializes in education technology, health technology, and climate technology, backing companies where scalable business models directly correlate with scalable social and environmental...
Investor Connect: Investing Beyond Silicon Valley
On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Brian Birk, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Sun Mountain Capital Advisors. Brian brings a unique combination of experience as an entrepreneur, business operator, and investor, with a background spanning technology, life sciences, venture capital, and private credit. Located in Santa Fe, New...
Investor Connect: Building Ontario VC Ecosystem, Governance, and Scaling Innovation
On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Brenda Hogan, CIO at Venture Ontario, to discuss how Venture Ontario operates like a sovereign-wealth-style investor focused exclusively on backing venture capital funds across general technology, life sciences/medical devices, cleantech, and climate tech. Brenda explains how fund-of-funds and co-investment models help develop...
Investor Connect: JIP Strategy, Licensing, and Deal Readiness in Life Sciences
On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall Marchant welcomes Gillian Fenton of LST Strategies, who brings more than 30 years of experience in licensing intellectual property and life sciences transactions, including work with GSK, Emergent BioSolutions, and Biogen, as well as university startups, established life science companies, and investors. Gillian...
Investor Connect: Renewable Energy, Greenhouses, and Rural Resilience
On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Al McGregor, COO of Perfect Energy, Inc. & AgroEnergy Farms, Co. Through Perfect Energy in Colorado with partners in Texas, Al connects solar and wind generation to practical commercial and agricultural use, arguing renewables and fossil fuels must be balanced to preserve...
Investor Connect: Building Better Angel Due Diligence with The Diligent Observer
On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Andrew Kazlow, entrepreneur, writer, and host of The Diligent Observer. Andrew shares how he moved from an engineering background into the business side of industrial automation, then returned to Texas A&M for an MBA where he studied what’s “broken” in angel investing...
Investor Connect: Solving the Pre-MVP Catch-22 with Venturetainment
In this episode of Investor Connect, we welcome Jason Taylor, founder and president of CodeLaunch, who shares how he created the program in 2012 to help early-stage tech founders overcome the catch-22 of needing a product to raise funding but needing funding to build the product. Jason explains how CodeLaunch...
Investor Connect: Scaling B2B SaaS with AI and Active Investing
In this episode of Investor Connect, Hall T. Martin welcomes Per Nordling, an entrepreneur, angel investor, and SaaS operator who co-founded Medius in 2001, bootstrapped it to about $10M in revenue, raised capital to accelerate expansion, and helped scale the company internationally across Europe, North America, Australia, and parts of...