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Scaling with Clarity

The Future Ventures Podcast

Welcome to Scaling with Clarity

The Future Ventures Podcast

Where founders share the real stories behind scaling their companies — and how they are applying AI.

Each episode features candid conversations with company builders across industries, exploring the strategies, setbacks, and breakthroughs that shape their journeys. We delve into how they're integrating artificial intelligence into their operations, products, and decision-making — not as a buzzword, but as a practical tool for growth.

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Dr. Henry Erdley — Turning "Undruggable" Cancer Targets into Precision Therapies | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 006

Send us Fan MailDr. Henry Erdlei is a physician-scientist pushing the boundaries of cancer immunotherapy. An alumnus of Charité Medical School and a researcher at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin, Henry has dedicated years to engineering immune cells to hunt and destroy tumors — and he is now applying that expertise to GoCART Therapeutics, a biotech startup developing a modular CAR-T cell platform that could revolutionize cancer treatment. His work sits at the crossroads of biology, engineering, and AI-driven drug design. This conversation highlights CAR-T therapy, a highly effective cancer treatment not yet available for 70% of cancer types. Targeting antigens on vital tissues like the brain and bone marrow is risky, but GoCART's 'AND gate' system requires two antigens for activation, enabling it to target 'undruggable' cancers. Henry discusses the science, business plan, funding, and his views on drug regulation in straightforward langua

Oded Agam — The NextLeap Ventures Model for Deep Tech Investing | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 005

Send us Fan MailOded Agam | NextLeap Ventures — Deep Tech Investing, the Intel AI Miss, and Building Innovation EcosystemsOded Agam is one of those rare investors who has actually built what he now funds. With 35 years spanning Israeli startups, Fortune 50 strategic planning at Intel, and early-stage deep tech investing through NextLeap Ventures, Oded brings an operator's lens to every deal. He led Intel's Strategic Technologies Group — the unit responsible for identifying and incubating transformational technologies — and drove strategic planning for product lines generating over $30 billion in revenue. When he left Intel in 2017, he called four former colleagues and started a venture fund.This conversation matters because Oded doesn't deal in theory. He walks through how NextLeap narrows nearly 1,000 startups down to three investments per cycle, why he pitched a $300 million AI program to Intel leadership in 2014 that could have changed the chip industry's trajector

Charles Cormier — Inside the New Founder Playbook | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 004

Send us Fan MailEP004 — Charles Cormier on Systems, Cold Email, and Why Most Founders Get Fundraising Wrong Charles Cormier is a founder who doesn’t wait for permission. As CEO of RaasRocket and founder of GTM Ventures and the Podbuyer podcast network, he’s learned that fundraising today is just as much about the systems you build as the people you know. In this episode, he sits down with Maxim Atanassov to unpack why traditional approaches like warm intros and VC lunches often fall flat—and what to do instead. His take is simple, practical, and grounded in real outcomes, all shaped by a first-principles, energy-efficient way of working. We dig into how capital markets have shifted: hype alone is no longer enough to get you funded, and a lot of founders haven’t caught up. Charles has worked with hundreds of founders on fundraising and go-to-market strategy and keeps seeing the same patterns show up again and again. Here are a few of the most

Paul Claxton — From Combat Tours to Term Sheets: Paul Claxton on Founders, Capital, and AI | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 003

Send us Fan MailFrom Combat Tours to Term Sheets: Paul Claxton on Founders, Capital, and AIGuest: Paul Anthony Claxton, Managing Partner, Digerati InvestmentsAbout This EpisodePaul Anthony Claxton didn't follow the usual route into venture capital. He served four combat tours in Iraq as a United States Marine — including leading a command intelligence center where he observed the early days of drone warfare — before enduring six years of corporate layoffs, building a bootstrapped company to $20K MRR in three months, and eventually moving into early-stage investing. Today, he manages Digerati Investments, a $60 million AI-focused seed and Series A fund based in Southern California.This conversation is worth your time because Paul operates at a rare intersection: operator empathy, military-grade discipline, and a genuine sophistication around capital strategy that most early-stage investors don't bring to the table. He's not interested in hype. He's interested in founders who

Ray Fitzpatrick — Why Most Startups Don't Get Funded (And What to Do About It) | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 002

Send us Fan MailRay Fitzpatrick, Founder & CEO, Profitual Ray Fitzpatrick spent ten years writing checks to startups as Director of Investments at NBIF — New Brunswick's pre-seed venture capital fund — and observed the same issue recurring across hundreds of companies. Founders excelled at developing products but struggled to grasp their own finances. This wasn’t due to laziness, but because no accessible tool existed for non-finance professionals to use effectively. That's the challenge Profitual aims to address. This discussion extends far beyond the product itself. Ray is a CPA and a serial entrepreneur managing three businesses at once, with firsthand experience on both sides of the investor table. His insights into fundraising, co-founder relationships, cap table design, and what financial literacy truly means for a scaling founder are rooted in real-world experience — not just theory. If you're building a company and have ever felt nervous wh

David Kofoed Wind- From EdTech Exit to AI Agents: Scaling on Your Own Terms | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 001

Send us Fan MailFrom EdTech Exit to AI Agents: Scaling on Your Own Terms with David Kofoed Wind Guest: David Kofoed Wind ·(Founder of Agentwork) David Kofoed Wind has accomplished what most founders only talk about — building two companies from scratch, taking them through Y Combinator, scaling them responsibly without overextending on headcount, and selling one of them. He's a mathematician with a PhD in machine learning, a former CERN collaborator, and someone who has been seriously considering AI since he was thirteen. Now he's back in the game with Agentwork, a company rethinking how work gets done when AI and humans work together side by side. This conversation is valuable for founders trying to understand where AI genuinely fits into their operations — not just the hype, but the real substance. David speaks plainly about what has changed, what stays the same, and why pursuing headcount growth was never a smart move. He has been working at the for

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