Venture In The South
Venture in the South is about angel investing in the Southeastern United States. We interview founders and thought leaders, sponsor a few panels discussing significant events and share our own experiences with over 100 startup investments. Released every Monday and usually 30-45 minutes long, ~50% of shows are Founder interviews, ~25% interviews with thought leaders and ~25% educational. We invite feedback and suggestions via www.ventureinthesouth.com or email david@ventureinthesouth.com. If you like our show please subscribe and give us a rating with a quick review. Thanks for listening and remember: Our mission is to MAKE MONEY, HAVE FUN AND DO GOOD.
Episodes
S5:E277 David interviews Jacob Rushfinn Co-founder and CEO of Botsi, an AI platform for personalizing software subscription offers to enable more tailored customer choices at the top of the sales funnel. (recorded 9.24.26)
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S5:E276 David reviews the past week in Venture with most of the focus on AI. On Wednesday David will interview Jacob Rushfinn, Co-founder and CEO of Botsi, an AI platform for personalizing software subscription offers to enable more tailored customer choices at the top of the sales funnel. (recorded 9.27.26)
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S5:E275 David and Paul team up to review the concept of Funds of Funds in the Southeastern Startup ecosystem. We explain the concepts and theses for the Fund of Fund strategy, review government efforts to stimulate jobs by using this strategy to distribute state funds for economic development and we also review private Funds of Funds aiming to make money for private investors. (recorded 9.3.26)
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S5:E274 David reviews the past week in Venture and tees up E275 on Wednesday when David joins Paul to discuss the Fund of Funds Strategy for Startup Investing. (recorded 9.20.26)
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S5:E273 Paul and David review the status of Unicorns in the Southeast including who qualifies, how many there are, what happens to them over time and why we even care. (recorded 9/3/26)
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David reviews the past week in Venture with a special focus on the apparently engineered tweet storm regarding human extinction precipitated by the resignation tweet from Jacob Coxon, a low level Anthropic employee with a 3 month tenure and no educational credentials in CS or AI. David outlines the facts that support a coordinated/media-assisted political narrative and how it threatens the Anthropic IPO. Tune in on Wednesday Septem...
S5:E271 David is joined by Author and History Professor Dr. Joseph Moore to discuss his most recent book How to Get Rich in American History: 300 Years of Financial Advice That Worked (& Didn’t).
He offers a unique and innovative take on the history of American innovation that lead to both booms and busts, and how we might gain from that knowledge today. (recorded 9.3.26)
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S5:E270 David reviews the past week in Venture and previews Wednesday's E271 when he’ll be interviewing Dr. Joseph Moore, an Author, Historian and Investor about his book, How to Get Rich in American History, a National Bestseller. He offers thoughtful yet unconventional insights into the history of American investing, the scams we keep falling for, and what history says about crypto, stocks, and real estate. He also summariz...
S5:E269 Paul interviews Hannah Webb, Venture Partner at LeVert Ventures, a Southeastern Fund with specialized investment expertise in agriculture, emerging technology, and sustainability. (recorded 8.19.26)
Some Links to AgTech Deal Flow resources discussed in the interview.
World Agri=Tech, San Francisco
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S5:E268 David reviews the past week in Venture and previews E269, Wednesday's interview with Hannah Webb, Venture Partner at LeVert Ventures. We'll be talking about their AgTech Fund and the role of AgTech in the Venture Economy. (recorded 8.30.26)
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S5:E267 It's The Quarterly Power Show with co-host Karl Rábago, a Power Utility Expert. Today we're talking about Microgrids and how they might solve the power problem for Data Centers and make them better neighbors. (recorded 8.20.26)
Michigan Public Service Commission letter addressing energy affordability
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S5:E266 David reviews the week in venture and introduces the Wednesday Power Show with co-host Karl Rabago, a utility industry veteran. We’ll be focusing on Microgrids and their potential to solve many of the Grid problems facing industry today. (recorded 8.23.26)
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S5:E265 David and Paul discuss a significant milestone notched by VentureSouth, an Angel Group focused on the Southeastern Startup Ecosystem. They reached the $100M threshold of deployed capital, joining just 10 other North American Angel Groups that have reached that milestone. In the VC world, only 10% of VC funds are in this club. We’ll be discussing what this means, how VS achieved that goal and review the other 10 Angel ...
S5:E264 David reviews the past week in venture and tees up Wednesday's E265 when Paul joins in a discussion of a significant milestone notched by VentureSouth, an Angel Group focused on the Southeastern Startup Ecosystem. They reached the $100M threshold of deployed capital, joining just 10 other North American Angel Groups that have reached that metric. And in the VC world, only 10% of VC funds are in this club. We’ll be dis...
S5:E263 David and Paul discuss how economic downturns can affect founders and startup investors, what they can do to plan for them, how to deal with them and what can be learned from them. (recorded 8.6.26)
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S5:E262 David reviews the past week in Venture and previews E263 on Wednesday 8.12.26 with Paul when we'll be offering up a timely episode on ‘Financial Downturns’ and how investors can plan around them while the champagne is still flowing. (recorded 8.9.26)
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S5:E261 David interviews Emily Morris, CEO of Emergy, a startup focused on harnessing water infrastructure into distributed renewable energy microgrids, an elegant solution to growing power demand. (recorded 7.31.26)
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S5:E260 David reviews the past Week In Venture and setups his interview with Emily Morris, CEO of Emrgy, a startup I first invested into in 2016. Emrgy is focused on harnessing water infrastructure into distributed renewable energy microgrids, an elegant solution to growing power demand. (recorded on 7.31.26)
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S5:E259 David interviews Christopher Mirabile, a leading Angel Investor with Launchpad Ventures, a co-founder of the venture portfolio tracking tool Seraf, and an author of two novels (links below) with Bublish, one of David's portfolio companies.
The pair discuss Christopher's authorship experience with Bublish, his angel investing experience, and the founding of Seraf. (recorded 7.26.26)
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S5:E258 David reviews The Week In Venture, and, once again, AI dominated. Then on Wednesday July 29th I'll be interviewing Christopher Mirabile, a leading angel investor with Launchpad Ventures, a co-founder of Seraf, a venture portfolio tracking tool, and an author of two novels with Bublish, one of my portfolio companies. (recorded 7.26.26)
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