Atlanta Startup Podcast

Ken founded Speedscale in 2020 with the ultimate ambition of developing a more efficient solution to prevent production incidents with automation. Hear Ken's journey of starting Speedscale, his advice on developing a GTM strategy, and his take on industry/geographical trends that serve as tailwinds for Speedscale in this conversation with Valor Investor, William Leonard.Let's take this conversation to real time. Join Valor for an upcoming event.

Maggie Kenefake, venture partner with Kansas City venture capital firm Royal Street, looks for seed-stage opportunities in Atlanta too. She is excited about experienced founders in the Southeast with a bias toward diverse founders. Learn what it takes to earn her term sheet in this interview with host and Valor Ventures investor William Leonard.Let's take this conversation to real time. Join Valor for an upcoming event.

Georgia Tech grad and Atlanta native Graham Gitz shares how his first-time fundraising struggles created a vision for Knightley, a data room challenger to data rooms like Digify, Dropbox, and Docsend.Let's take this conversation to real time. Join Valor for an upcoming event.

Hear 20-year veteran venture capitalist Gary Peat, venture capital firm founder Lisa Calhoun, and rising investor William Peat discuss investing in Fintech in the Southeast. They're all investors at Valor Ventures, one of the most active fintech seed investors in the region.Let's take this conversation to real time. Join Valor for an upcoming event.

CoFounders Capital is the most active early-stage venture capital investor in North Carolina, according to Crunchbase. Hear this deep dive discussion with general partner Tim McLoughlin and Valor investor William Leonard. Learn what Tim loves to invest in and his tips for raising capital for founders.Let's take this conversation to real time. Join Valor for an upcoming event.

Interviewed by Valor investor William Leonard, Atlanta founder Tim Hall is helping reshape how large CPG brands leverage AI to automate new product research. Simporter's software automates new product research, including White Space Exploration, pre-launch forecasting, marketing simulations, and product monitoring.Let's take this conversation to real time. Join Valor for an upcoming event.

General Partner at Maveron Anarghya Vardhana is long on inclusion and the demographic shifts reshaping culture. Listen to this passionate conversation with Valor General Partner Lisa Calhoun on how she broke into VC as an immigrant from South India and how she now leads investments for one of the top venture capital firms in the country. Anarghya invests in Seed and Series A and works actively across the Southeast, including leading Maveron's investment in Atlanta's Black-female-founded Capway.Let's take this conversation to real time. Join Valor for an upcoming event.

Victoria Fram is co-founder of Village Capital, a visionary VC investing in seed stage. It started right here in Atlanta and the firm backs founders in the South regularly. Victoria didn't start out as a venture capitalist. She backpacked the world trying to ease poverty. Hear how that influences and informs her investments in this provocative conversation with Valor general partner and founder Lisa CalhounLet's take this conversation to real time. Join Valor for an upcoming event.

Hear dynamic Atlanta lawyer-turned-software-founder Lucy Lu describe how she built AI Legal during the pandemic into a scaling platform that helps other businesses manage legal costs. Interviewed by Valor General Partner Lisa Calhoun, this Startup Runway Finalist graduated from the Harvard of China and brings incredible insight and zest to her work to change the costly legal environment by automating tedious processes.Let's take this conversation to real time. Join Valor for an upcoming event.

Interviewed by Valor general partner Lisa Calhoun, learn how William Leonard--raised in Marietta, educated in Macon at Mercer--plotted a path to break into venture capital. He's worked with not one, but three, venture capital firms and shares his mindset and insights into why he chose to get into venture--and how he made it happen.Let's take this conversation to real time. Join Valor for an upcoming event.