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
66 episodes
Linda Carlisle— Scaling Culture, Trust and Communication | FV Podcast Ep. 65
Linda Carlisle founded Comm-ext and is a certified change management professional. Her work focuses on communication, culture, and organizational change. With years of experience, she has helped organizations through growth, transformation, mer...
Manuj Aggarwal— Turning AI Into a Business That Runs Without You | FV Podcast Ep. 66
Manuj Aggarwal is the founder of TetraNoodle Technologies, a technologist and entrepreneur with nearly three decades of experience across technology and artificial intelligence. His path has been anything but conventional: from learning to prog...
James Chalmers— Crossing the Climate-Tech Commercialization Gap | FV Podcast Ep. 64
James Chalmers is the CEO of NovoPower, a Canadian deep-tech company developing systems that convert low-temperature waste heat into usable electricity. A five-time CEO with experience supporting more than 1,500 startups and 2,800 products, Jam...
Peter Boolkah— Building a Business That Can Scale Without You | FV Podcast Ep. 63
Peter Boolkah, known as “The Transition Guy,” is a business coach who helps founders build companies that can grow without remaining permanently dependent on them. After starting at McDonald’s at 16 and spending 15 years inside one of the world...
Shane Wilson— How founders must rethink value, pricing and defensibility | FV Podcast Ep. 62
Shane Wilson is Managing Partner at Citta Capital, where he focuses on early-stage investing and helping build companies, especially in B2B AI, deep technology, and robotics. He started his career in go-to-market roles at New York startups, whe...
Peter Dorfner— Turning Climate Innovation into Commercial Reality | FV Podcast Ep. 61
Peter Dorfner is a Partner at Green Generation Fund (GGF), a Berlin-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage companies across agri-food and energy technology. He helped launch the fund in 2021 after years of investing in food and con...
Boris Besner— Turning Field Execution into a Repeatable Operating System | FV Podcast Ep. 60
Boris Besner is the Founder and CEO of Okos AI, a technology-enabled field services company built to deliver security and low-voltage installations across distributed physical locations. What began as a smart-home and energy-efficiency business...
Etinosa Agbonlahor— Why Customers Hesitate, Buy and Stay | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 59
Etinosa Agbonlahor is a behavioral economist and the CEO of Decision Alpha, where she helps companies make sharper decisions about pricing, customer value, and growth. Her work sits at the intersection of economics, psychology, and commercial s...
Dr. Nisha Kohli— When ESG Stops Being a Report and Starts Running the Business | FV Podcast Ep. 58
Dr. Nisha Kohli is the Founder and CEO of Corpstage, a chartered accountant, and a corporate governance specialist with a PhD focused on the relationship between governance and company valuation. For more than two decades, she has worked across...
Craig Teggart— Beyond the Qubit: Building and Backing the Next Era of Computing | FV Podcast Ep. 56
Craig Taggart is a Venture Partner at Qubits Ventures, where he works at the intersection of venture capital, family office capital, and emerging technologies moving from scientific research into commercial markets. His background spans UBS, in...
Dr. Lyle Oberg — Liquid Biopsies and the Future of Early Detection | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 57
Dr. Lyle Oberg is a physician, former Alberta Cabinet Minister, former board chair of Alberta Health Services, and now CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Exocellular Diagnostics Inc. He has worked across medicine, public policy, healthcare leader...
Steve Walsh — The 10X Leap: How Founders Move From Income to Enterprise Value | FV Podcast Ep. 55
Steve Walsh is the founder of Bison International Group and the author of Make the 10X Leap. He has spent decades around entrepreneurship, capital, private equity, and business building, helping founders answer one of the hardest quest...
Emanuele Pizzatti — The Future of Capital Is Structured, Strategic and Global | FV Podcast Ep. 54
Emanuele Pizzatti is the Founding Partner of Futurewave AG, a Switzerland-based investment and advisory platform focused on private markets, asset management, and cross-border capital opportunities. Futurewave operates across a highly connected...
Yarin Gaon — Why $1–20M Companies Stall and How Strategy Unlocks the Next Multiple | FV Podcast Ep. 53
Yarin Gaon is the Managing Partner of Fractional Partners, a growth advisory firm built for post-product-market-fit companies that are not yet ready to scale cleanly. He is an entrepreneur-turned-investor who started building companies as a tee...
Joerg Erlemeier — Reinventing Leadership in the AI Era | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 52
Joerg Erlemeier is the cofounder and COO of QUCOXX, a platform powered by AI that helps small and medium businesses improve their operations, sales, and finances. With over 30 years of experience working in big organizations, during times of ch...
Esra Kaygin — Building the AI Infrastructure Behind Better Hiring | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 51
Esra Kaygin is the founder and CEO of Hirize, an AI company building infrastructure for how organizations process, understand, and structure document-based data. Before Hirize, Esra worked as a headhunter, built and exited an early AI schedulin...
Alan McLaren — How CEOs Build Trust in High-Stakes Moments | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 50
Alan McLaren is the co-founder of Strata Originals, where he helps CEOs, founders, and executive teams understand one of the most overlooked forces in leadership: how they are actually experienced by other people. His work sits at the intersect...
Dennis Bruce — Building AI-Ready Enterprises in an Era of Uncertainty | FV Podcast Ep. 49
In a moment where everyone is racing to build with AI, Dennis Bruce is the voice telling founders to slow down enough to know where they're going. With more than three decades navigating large-scale technology transformations — from inte...
Damian Roller — Why Many European Startups Think Too Small | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 48
Damian Roller is a Partner at Inovexus, a community-backed founders club that invests in and supports early-stage European startups across the DACH region — Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Before backing founders, he was one: born in Poland,...
Robert Stanley — Why Home Is the Next Healthcare Infrastructure Layer | FV Podcast Ep. 47
Robert Stanley isn't a healthcare lifer. He spent most of his career in technology — running IT projects for big banks, telcos, and airlines — before moving into home care about a decade ago and building one of Ontario's established providers. ...
Greg Miles — Why Women's Health Has Been Ignored for Too Long | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 46
Greg Miles is the founder and CEO of Milestone Gyno-Mics, a biotech company developing the first AI-powered, non-invasive blood test for endometriosis. He is one of the first bioinformatics PhDs in the U.S., with over 15 years of experience in ...
Jan Poetsch — Turning Power Into Profitability | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 45
Jan Poetsch spent almost twenty years working on some of the world's most complicated energy projects. He then realized that the biggest hidden opportunity in industrial energy was right on the income statement: the power bill. His career took ...
Jeremy Funk — The New Rules of Growth in the AI Era | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 44
Jeremy Funk has spent more than two decades doing the one thing most people in tech were told to stop prioritizing: building real relationships. As founder and CEO of Funk Futures — a fractional sales, recruiting, and marketing firm rooted in t...
Emilia De Stasio - The Democratization of Wealth Through Art | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 43
Emilia de Stasio spent years working in finance at places like the European Central Bank and Moody's, but she later turned her focus to a market that has very little data. As a long-time art collector, she often found it hard to get reliable in...
Dave Guttman — From Terminal Diagnosis to 9-Figure Exits | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 42
Dave Guttman has spent more than three decades building, scaling, acquiring, and exiting businesses — racking up multiple 8- and 9-figure outcomes along the way. But the thing that shaped how he operates wasn't a deal. At 24, fresh off an accep...