Startup Success: A Podcast for Founders & Investors

Kate Adams

jhui@burklandassociates.com

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Booking Overview

This is an interview-led startup and venture-growth podcast featuring founders, investors, and experienced thought leaders discussing fundraising, scaling, finance, and operations. PR agencies could credibly pitch accomplished startup founders, angel or venture investors, and operators with firsthand experience in building, funding, selling, or scaling companies; booking difficulty is medium because guests typically bring substantial entrepreneurial or investment credentials.

Metrics

Episodes: 149

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 135 subscribers

Instagram: 125 followers

Contact Information

jhui@burklandassociates.com

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Host

Kate Adams - Host of a podcast focused on startup scaling, fundraising, finance, hiring, marketing, sales, and operations.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Startup founders, investors, and operators with firsthand experience building, scaling, funding, selling, or advising companies, particularly those with specialized expertise in emerging technology or venture markets.
Required Achievements:  
Built or scaled a notable startup, Raised capital or worked as an investor, Completed a company sale or exit, Held senior roles at major technology or consulting organizations, Published or demonstrated expertise in startup, investment, or innovation topics

Recent Guest Discussions

Jaclyn Johnson - Scaling A Business, Private Equity Exits And Buybacks, Preparing To Raise Capital, And Changes In Early-stage Investing.

Ahmed Rashad - Building An AI Startup, Selecting Venture Capital Partners, Founder Delegation, Investor Communications, And Specialized AI Data.

Jonathan Aberman - AI Market Dynamics, Fundraising And Validation, Startup Differentiation, Innovation, And Building An AI Company.

Recent Topics

Startups, Venture Capital, Fundraising, Entrepreneurship, Finance

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Startup Success: A Podcast for Founders & Investors
:

Q2 2026 Snapshot: The Startup Ecosystem

July 14, 2026

In this episode of Startup Success, we sit down with Steve Lord, COO and Chief Knowledge Officer at Burkland, for our quarterly update. Steve joins us to break down what's happening in the funding landscape, what founders should have on their radar, and where things are headed next.Steve unpacks a busy Q2 marked by geopolitical volatility, shifting interest rate expectations, and a VC market that may finally be turning a corner. He explains how the stock market impacts VC cycles, and why foun...

Selling a Startup, Buying It Back, and Changing How Founders Raise: A Founder's Story

June 30, 2026

In this episode of Startup Success, we sit down with Jaclyn Johnson, founder of Create & Cultivate and co-founder of the angel investing platform Cherub, for a conversation about scaling a business, navigating an exit, and the future of early-stage investing. Jaclyn shares how she built Create & Cultivate into a multi-million-dollar, bootstrapped company, why she made the difficult decision to sell, and what prompted her to buy back the company a few years later. She offers an honest ...

Lessons From the Front Lines of Building an AI Startup

June 16, 2026

Ahmed Rashad started his career on an oil rig, taught himself to code, and went on to build and sell a company. After stops at Oracle, MIT, McKinsey, Amazon, and Scale AI, he founded Perle to solve a problem he kept running into: the AI data gap.Perle builds specialized training data for AI models in fields like medicine and linguistics — the niche areas where general AI struggles.Despite the anxiety around AI, Ahmed believes the upside far outweighs today’s disruption. Faster development doe...

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