Future Ventures: Scaling with Clarity
Future Ventures: Clarity at Scale is the podcast for founders, operators, and investors who are building companies worth owning for the long term — and who need to think clearly about capital, structure, strategy, and growth to get there.
Each episode cuts through the noise around scaling: how to structure a deal, how to position a business for institutional capital, how to build operational leverage without losing control, and how to make the high-stakes decisions that compound in value long after the moment has passed.
Hosted by Maxim Atanassov — a four-time founder and the Managing Partner of Future Ventures Corp. Since 2018, FVC has invested in, incubated, and scaled companies across sectors — with a focus on platform opportunities that compound in value. Maxim's background spans executive leadership inside Canada's largest energy companies and senior advisory at Deloitte and EY. He's a CPA-CA who has sat at the table where capital gets deployed, governance gets built, and hard decisions get made. Now he helps founders get there faster.
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Episodes
17 episodes
Stan Sirakov — From Underdog to Alpha | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 018
Stan Sirakov, a General Partner at LAUNCHub Ventures with 15+ years of venture experience, has invested in 150+ startups since 2012, mainly in regions with limited institutional VC. He founded a fintech marketplace in 2007 and helped launch Bul...
Ivar Skårset — The Rise of Renewable Fuels | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 017
Ivar Skårset, CTO of ENEnergy, is tackling the overlooked challenge of replacing fossil fuels in sectors that can't run on electricity. Coming from the Norwegian oil industry, he sought renewable fuels for heavy industry. Twenty yea...
Mike Solow — Rethinking How Beverage Brands Scale | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 016
Mike Solow is the co-founder of 99 Proof, a boutique investment firm supporting and scaling emerging beverage alcohol brands. With over two decades of experience, he has advised more than 200 entrepreneurs in business development, sales leaders...
Simon Zadek — Why Climate Risk Is the Next Trillion-Dollar Market | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 015
Simon Zadek has over four decades shaping sustainability in capital, policy, and markets, from the 1992 Rio Summit to ethical businesses like Ben & Jerry's and The Body Shop, battles over global supply chains, advising Chinese regulators, a...
Ben Klepacki — The Business Case for Fixing Methane at Scale | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 014
Ben Klepacki is the co-founder and CEO of WestGen Technologies, a Calgary-based hybrid power company that reduces up to 99% of methane venting at oil and gas sites while improving economics. A professional engineer, he started on Canada's large...
Amit Jain — Building Startups That Survive the Global Market | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 013
Amit Jain has 20 years of experience building and scaling companies across Europe, Southeast Asia, India, and beyond. As Managing Partner at StartupBay, a Singapore-based accelerator with a presence in the Czech Republic, he has helped many fou...
Vincent Kuiper— Scaling Foodtech Beyond the Pilot | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 011
At 16, Vincent Kuiper received a €50 brokerage account from his father for his birthday. He become interested in finance, studying quantitative finance and accounting. He then became an equity analyst at a private bank in Amsterdam, spent three...
Ankit Anand — Investing Before the Market Understands It | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 010
Ankit Anand doesn't fit the typical venture capital mold. He started his career as a physics teacher in India, moved to Europe to work on gravitational wave research at ETH Zurich, co-founded a medical technology company, and only then — after ...
Debneel Mukherjee — Inside a Global VC Playbook | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 009
Debneel Mukherjee is the kind of investor most founders never get access to — a former CPA turned self-taught coder turned operator turned venture capitalist, now running Decacorn.VC from Singapore, with roughly 85% of his portfolio deployed in...
Robin Smith — Moving from B2B SaaS to Tech Enabled Services | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 008
Robin Smith, a 20-year enterprise software veteran, has worked through all ownership models—bootstrapped, venture-backed, private equity, and public. Most recently, as COO of a PE-backed portco with 1,000+ employees, he led over €200 million in...
Kim Anders Odhner — Where the Smart Money in Food-Tech Is Going | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 007
Kim Anders Odhner is the Managing Partner for Europe and Asia at Unovis Asset Management, a leading alternative protein investment fund. Before relocating to Amsterdam, Kim spent 25 years in Southeast Asia, developing expertise in emerging-mark...
Dr. Henry Erdley — Turning "Undruggable" Cancer Targets into Precision Therapies | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 006
Dr. 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 engineerin...
Oded Agam — The NextLeap Ventures Model for Deep Tech Investing | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 005
Oded 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, ...
Charles Cormier — Inside the New Founder Playbook | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 004
EP004 — 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 netw...
Paul Claxton — From Combat Tours to Term Sheets: Paul Claxton on Founders, Capital, and AI | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 003
From 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 ...
Ray Fitzpatrick — Why Most Startups Don't Get Funded (And What to Do About It) | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 002
Ray 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 recurri...
David Kofoed Wind- From EdTech Exit to AI Agents: Scaling on Your Own Terms | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 001
From 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 ...