VentureSouth continues to invest in a wide range of companies across the Southeast. Here's another sampling of VentureSouth portfolio companies you can “meet” via their episodes on the Venture In The South podcast — picking up where we left off last time. Here in no particular (but reverse) order:
Voxel Innovations: Episode 251. Voxel is a manufacturing-tech company improving the supply chain for cutting-edge chip production and power turbines feeding the AI data center boom. It had been three years since Voxel last checked in at Episode 71 — catch up with CEO Daniel Herrington on recent updates.
HealthyCell: Episode 249. HealthyCell's microgel supplement delivery technology keeps making nutrition easier to absorb, and this update finds the DTC brand preparing its next move into retail. Tune in as CEO Doug Giampapa breaks down what eCommerce looks like in the age of AI.
Gradient Health: Episode 247. Gradient Health keeps expanding access to medical imaging data for AI model developers, and business is booming right alongside the wider AI wave, which Gradient is certainly riding. CEO Josh Miller shares Gradient's growth story and his read on where AI startups go from here.
Bublish: Episode 243. Bublish has benefited from AI’s capabilities to help self-publishers, making positioning, editing, design, and distribution all easier to facilitate. CEO Kathy Meis returns with news of bestsellers and media-rights deals that might be launching Bublish into its next chapter.
Seal the Seasons & VBase Oil: Episode 221. Two longstanding portfolio companies, one episode: Seal the Seasons Co-Founder & CEO Patrick Mateer and the team at VBase Oil stop by with updates on where their businesses stand today.
Atticus Pharma: Episode 219. Atticus Pharma, a spinout from fellow portfolio company Zylo Therapeutics, is working on new drug formulations aimed at disrupting immunodermatology. Executive Chairman Scott Pancoast updates the plan that CEO Leigh Hsu shared in Episode 179.
Redbud Labs & Adovate: Episode 217. Two life-science portfolio companies that have been around the block and made real go-to-market progress get their moment together in this update episode.
Givebacks: Episode 209. And lastly Givebacks provides an update on progress since the last visit on Episode 49 (under its prior persona, MemberHub) as it becomes the all-in-one payment solution for school districts, PTAs, PTOs, booster clubs, and families.
That's it for the portfolio companies featured since Episode 200 of Venture In The South. We hope you enjoy the variety, and take home a lesson or two for your own entrepreneurial or investing efforts.