S2 E19 - Jeremiah Owyang of Blitzscaling Ventures and Nathan Beckord of Foundersuite.com and Fundingstack.com

On this week's episode of Silicon Valley Impact, we speak with Jeremiah Owyang, General Partner at Blitzscaling Ventures and Founder of Llama Lounge, and Nathan Beckord, CEO of Foundersuite.com (for startups) and Fundingstack.com (for VCs and i-bankers).

Jeremiah is the General Partner leading AI investments in early-stage startups at Blitzscaling Ventures. He’s also the founder of the Llama Lounge AI startup event series and a well-known conference speaker. A longtime Silicon Valley veteran dating back to the Dotcom era, Jeremiah has co-founded multiple technology research firms.

Nathan Beckord, CFA, is the Founder and CEO of Foundersuite.com and Fundingstack.com. These are end-to-end platforms for raising capital—designed for startups, VCs, and investment bankers. The platforms offer a database of over 210,000 global investors to build your target list, a “Get Intro” feature to secure warm introductions, a CRM to manage the raise, pitch deck hosting, investor update tools, email marketing capabilities, and a Virtual Data Room to close the deal.

Collectively, Foundersuite and Fundingstack have helped users raise over $21 billion in capital worldwide.

Previously, Nathan worked at VentureArchetypes in San Francisco and in J.P. Morgan’s private placement group in New York, where he supported startups and VCs in raising capital. He holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship, a B.S.C. in Finance, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). In his free time, he enjoys sailing, traveling, and riding motorcycles.

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