Moats & Multiples in Hardtech with Venture Declassified

June 8th, 2026  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 4 mins

What actually changes when you raise money for a hardware company instead of a software one? In this Hardtech Podcast crossover with the Venture Declassified crew (Jacob Schpok of Elevate Ventures, Mike Kelly of Start Something Ventures, and Ben Pidgeon of VisionTech), Grant plays the founder and asks three active investors to grill him on how hard tech is underwritten differently at pre-seed, seed, and Series A: the metrics, the moats, the multiples, and why the same traits that make hardware slow and expensive early are exactly what make it defensible later.

Building Your Way To Building Great Products with Mike Kelly

March 19th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  40 mins 27 secs

accelerator, design, developertown, engineering, glassboard, glasslab, product development, vc, venture capital, venture studio

This month we talk with Mike Kelly, Managing Partner at Developertown. Developertown is leading software consulting company who partners with companies of all sizes to take their technology visions from concept to reality.