Startup Success: A Podcast for Founders & Investors

Kate Adams

Booking Overview

This is a business interview show focused on startup scaling, featuring founders, investors, and experienced startup advisors who share practical lessons on fundraising, hiring, operations, and growth. Credible pitches include venture-backed founders, venture capital investors, and specialists with substantial fundraising or startup-building results; booking difficulty is medium because guests generally need a meaningful track record but are not limited to household-name executives.

Metrics

Episodes: 154

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 135 subscribers

Instagram: 125 followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

jhui@burklandassociates.com

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Host

Kate Adams - Podcast host focused on the practical challenges of building, financing, and scaling startups.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Founders and CEOs with meaningful company-building or fundraising experience; venture capital investors; and startup advisors or operators with demonstrable expertise in pitching, scaling, hiring, finance, marketing, sales, or operations.

Required Achievements:

Building or scaling a venture-backed startup, Raising significant venture capital or leading institutional investments, Creating a new market category or differentiated startup solution, Helping startups improve fundraising, investor communication, or operating performance

Recent Guest Discussions

Cortney Woodruff - Building Accessible Pathways From College To Industry, Identifying Market Gaps Through Lived Experience, Founder-market Fit, And Angel Investing.

Kameale Terry - Creating A New Market Category, Fundraising Through A Series A, Scaling Climate Technology, Artificial Intelligence, And Building Around Customer Pain Points.

Medha Agarwal - How Founders Can Stand Out To Investors, Founder-market Fit, Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Startups, Startup Defensibility, Pricing, And Venture Support Beyond Capital.

Carl Fudge - Pitch-deck Strategy, The Psychology Of Investor Decisions, Communicating The “why Now” Argument, Fundraising For Artificial Intelligence Startups, And Presenting With Impact.

Melissa Hanna - Health Technology Fundraising, Pitching Investors, Applying Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare, Building Healthcare Infrastructure, And Maintaining Core Values While Scaling.

Recent Topics

Business, Entrepreneurship, Fundraising, Venture Capital, Scaling

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Startup Success: A Podcast for Founders & Investors

How Real-World Experience Helps Founders Spot Market Gaps

September 22, 2026

Cortney Woodruff, Co-Founder and CEO of Assemble, is bridging the gap between college and industry after living the problem himself. Tune in to hear how founders can stand out beyond traditional networks and pedigrees, why real-world experience helps founders spot what others miss, and what he'd tell any founder who feels like they're starting without a map.=== CHAPTERS ===00:18 --- Meet Cortney Woodruff, Founder and Angel Investor01:03 --- From Jackson, Mississippi to the World's Top Busines...

How to Build a Category Leader When No One Sees the Problem

September 08, 2026

Kameale Terry set out to fix EV chargers everyone insisted weren't broken. Today, she’s CEO and Co-founder of the startup ChargerHelp, the undisputed category leader in reliability-as-a-service for EV chargers. She joins Kate to share what it takes to scale, her path to a successful Series A, how AI has been instrumental in the company's growth, and her infectious enthusiasm for building!=== CHAPTERS ===01:40 — The EV Charger Reliability Issue That Sparked the Idea02:42 — Why She Took the Lea...

How to Stand Out to Investors in an AI-Saturated Market

August 25, 2026

Medha Agarwal, General Partner at defy.vc, joins Kate to share how founders can stand out to investors in an AI-saturated market, what she looks for before writing a check, why founder-market fit matters, and how AI is reshaping everything from startup defensibility to pricing models. She also offers a look at how devy.vc supports founders well beyond capital.Full show notes, transcript, and companion article: https://burklandassociates.com/podcasts/how-to-stand-out-to-investors-in-an-ai-satu...

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