Hadley Harris

Hadley Harris, cofounder of Eniac Ventures, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Hadley humors Scott on one of his favorite topics – dealing with venture capitalists. Scott and Hadley dig into the rise of VC competition and why VCs can’t afford to be as dismissive or authoritative in the new environment with a growing list…

David Cheng

David Cheng, Principal at DCM Ventures, joins the pod with Scott Kitun. The role of VC isn’t the same as your father’s, or even your grandfather’s VC anymore. No longer is venture capital only about getting a check once and being hands off otherwise. As we’ve started to see with a16z and rolling funds, DCM’s…

Alex Wilhelm

Alex Wilhelm, Senior Editor at TechCrunch and well-known as @alex on Twitter, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Scott and Alex share their feels being able to talk to so many founders and struggles keeping up on email. They run through Alex’s Chicago roots and Technori nostalgia – Alex talks about how Technori events helped…

Kim-Mai Cutler

Kim-Mai Cutler, a longtime tech journalist and currently a partner at Initialized Capital, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Kim-Mai has spent most of her life around Silicon Valley and knows from her experiences and studies just what the problems tech faces and its impact on California and the world as a whole. She dives…

Mac Conwell

VC firms are known for catapulting some of the most iconic tech companies into unicorn status and their founders into household names. However, they’re not known for looking at founders outside the tech bubbles or their own ecosystem, leading to a lot of missed opportunities. That’s where Mac Conwell wanted to step in. As a…

This fundraising tool stack helps startups raise VC efficiently

  Startup fundraising can be brutal. Foundersuite’s software provides founders with tools to help find and pitch investors, track the outreach and develop pitch decks, cap tables and term sheets based on a range of helpful templates. While venture-backed startups are frequently criticized for homogenous leadership teams, Foundersuite CEO Nathan Beckord says that is changing:…

SMS Assist Founder Mike Rothman Invests Big In Technori

Technori takes equity investment to launch Technori Co-op, a non-traditional startup incubator, focused on disrupting how startups are launched and funded.   DV Partners, led by SMS Assist Founder and Chairman Mike Rothman, today announced a seven figure investment in Chicago’s largest and most active startup platform, Technori. The funds will be used to expand…