1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Max Brickman, Founder at Heartland Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You have to build around capital-efficient principles. What about companies in the Midwest? Max Brickman: Absolutely. We have one called Claira. Katie Hall is the founder. It does competency-based evaluation of your current workforce. When you look at a map of Fortune 1,000 companies, they’re predominantly in the Midwest. There’s an unfair advantage

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Max Brickman, Founder at Heartland Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s do some examples of companies that you have invested in especially where you have brought them to your customers very early on. Max Brickman: One would be Workstream. We are one of the early investors in their seed round. It targets the HR space – hiring hourly employees. We loved Desmond the

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Max Brickman, Founder at Heartland Ventures (Part 1)

Max Brickman, Founder at Heartland Ventures, talks about his firm’s investment thesis. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with a little bit of introduction about your background. Max Brickman: I’m from Wisconsin. I started in the entrepreneurial space early on. I bought my first property in northern Wisconsin when I was 14. It was money from a

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608th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Max Brickman, Heartland Ventures

Max Brickman, Founder at Heartland Ventures, talks about his firm’s investment thesis.