Today we have Greg Brown, Administrator of the Charlotte Angel Fund I and Charlotte Angel Fund II as well as owner of Cardinal Finance – a fractional CFO firm – back on the podcast for a continuation of our discussion from last week. Greg has been firmly involved in the startup community for at least five years now and talks with a bunch of investors AND founders. As such, he has a very unique perspective on what’s happening in the ecosystem of high growth companies.
In today’s podcast we cover the following and more:
What’s the difference in the startup/investment space since our first interview in October 2016?
Are you talking with more Charlotte based founders who want or need to raise money? Is there a difference in the founders you talk with today versus the founders you talked with in Charlotte three years ago?
Besides getting Mike Praeger and his team at AvidXchange to IPO – which seems to be everyone’s solution for Charlotte’s lack of new companies and funding – what does Charlotte need to do more of to attract new founders and companies?
Why doesn’t Fund II have 1,000 members?
How can people find out more about the Charlotte Angel Fund?
Tune in next week for the first of our two part series with John Espey – Co-Founder and CEO of Levvel – as we explore how Levvel started out (hint it was more about credit cards), why they pivoted to their current mission and where they are going along with much more. It’s a great interview that will lead us into our second part of the interview in two weeks – a discussion of what’s most important now for Charlotte’s startup scene.
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