Future Ventures: Scaling with Clarity

By Maxim Atanassov

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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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Episode Date
Jeff Spence — The Business Is the Product: Rethinking Growth, Capital, and Exits | FV Podcast Ep. 72
Oct 23, 2026
Kevin Ertell — The Strategy Trap: Why Great Plans Fail in Execution | FV Podcast Ep. 71
Oct 15, 2026
Salvatore Manzi — The Founder’s Message: Communicating Through Every Stage of Scale | FV Podcast Ep. 70
Oct 13, 2026
Mark Francis — Scaling Beyond the Founder: How to Build a Team You Can Trust | FV Podcast Ep. 69
Sep 15, 2026
Dave Irvine — Why Founders Must Scale Themselves Before They Scale Their Companies | FV Podcast Ep. 68
Aug 18, 2026
Jae Hwang — Why Experience May Be the Founder’s Greatest Edge | FV Podcast Ep. 67
Aug 13, 2026
Linda Carlisle— Scaling Culture, Trust and Communication | FV Podcast Ep. 65
Aug 12, 2026
Manuj Aggarwal— Turning AI Into a Business That Runs Without You | FV Podcast Ep. 66
Aug 12, 2026
James Chalmers— Crossing the Climate-Tech Commercialization Gap | FV Podcast Ep. 64
Jul 30, 2026
Peter Boolkah— Building a Business That Can Scale Without You | FV Podcast Ep. 63
Jul 28, 2026
Shane Wilson— How founders must rethink value, pricing and defensibility | FV Podcast Ep. 62
Jul 27, 2026
Peter Dorfner— Turning Climate Innovation into Commercial Reality | FV Podcast Ep. 61
Jul 22, 2026
Boris Besner— Turning Field Execution into a Repeatable Operating System | FV Podcast Ep. 60
Jul 21, 2026
Etinosa Agbonlahor— Why Customers Hesitate, Buy and Stay | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 59
Jul 20, 2026
Dr. Nisha Kohli— When ESG Stops Being a Report and Starts Running the Business | FV Podcast Ep. 58
Jul 17, 2026
Craig Teggart— Beyond the Qubit: Building and Backing the Next Era of Computing | FV Podcast Ep. 56
Jul 15, 2026
Dr. Lyle Oberg — Liquid Biopsies and the Future of Early Detection | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 57
Jul 13, 2026
Steve Walsh — The 10X Leap: How Founders Move From Income to Enterprise Value | FV Podcast Ep. 55
Jul 06, 2026
Emanuele Pizzatti — The Future of Capital Is Structured, Strategic and Global | FV Podcast Ep. 54
Jul 03, 2026
Yarin Gaon — Why $1–20M Companies Stall and How Strategy Unlocks the Next Multiple | FV Podcast Ep. 53
Jun 29, 2026
Joerg Erlemeier — Reinventing Leadership in the AI Era | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 52
Jun 25, 2026
Esra Kaygin — Building the AI Infrastructure Behind Better Hiring | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 51
Jun 23, 2026
Alan McLaren — How CEOs Build Trust in High-Stakes Moments | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 50
Jun 22, 2026
Dennis Bruce — Building AI-Ready Enterprises in an Era of Uncertainty | FV Podcast Ep. 49
Jun 19, 2026
Damian Roller — Why Many European Startups Think Too Small | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 48
Jun 18, 2026
Robert Stanley — Why Home Is the Next Healthcare Infrastructure Layer | FV Podcast Ep. 47
Jun 17, 2026
Greg Miles — Why Women's Health Has Been Ignored for Too Long | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 46
Jun 16, 2026
Jan Poetsch — Turning Power Into Profitability | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 45
Jun 12, 2026
Jeremy Funk — The New Rules of Growth in the AI Era | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 44
Jun 11, 2026
Emilia De Stasio - The Democratization of Wealth Through Art | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 43
Jun 10, 2026
Dave Guttman — From Terminal Diagnosis to 9-Figure Exits | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 42
Jun 09, 2026
Samir Musayev — How Inmigrants Drive Canada's Entrepreneurial Future | FV Podcast Ep. 41
Jun 08, 2026
Nicola Redi — Why Europe’s Deep Tech Moment Is Just Beginning | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 40
May 22, 2026
Tom Milar — The Infrastructure Behind Startup Ownership | FV Podcast Ep. 39
May 21, 2026
Mathew Jackson — Building Circular Systems That Scale | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 12
May 20, 2026
Stanley Wei — AI That Actually Gets Things Done: The Future of Autonomous Agents | FV Podcast E. 37
May 20, 2026
Stan Christiaens — The Billion-Dollar Problem Behind AI | Future Ventures Podcast Episode 37
May 20, 2026
Neeraj Singh — Building Sustainable Software in the Age of AI | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 36
May 19, 2026
Hubertus Hofkirchner — The Future of Money and Trade Infraestructure | FV Podcast Ep. 35
May 19, 2026
Dave Hertig — High Tech, High Touch: The Future of CEO Performance | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 34
May 18, 2026
Omar Sahyoun — AI-Powered Commerce and the Reinvention of Main Street | FV Podcast Ep. 33
May 18, 2026
Andrew Ackerman — Where Venture Capital is actually Betting | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 32
May 18, 2026
John Cowan — Founder-Aligned Capital in the Era of Autonomy | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 031
May 15, 2026
Sam Hasty — Building Venture-Scale Returns While Solving Planet-Scale Problems | FV Podcast Ep. 030
May 15, 2026
Joyce Shin— Why AI Will Make Leadership More Human, Not Less | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 29
May 14, 2026
Shahin Nabavian — The Future of Mobility, Operations & Intelligent Infrastructure | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 028
May 14, 2026
Dr. Sylvain Charlebois — Inflation, Supply Chains, and the Reinvention of Grocery | FV Podcast Ep 27
May 08, 2026
Tim Fung — Why Human Skills Still Win in an AI World | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 025
May 08, 2026
Michael Allen Feinman — Selling the American Dream | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 026
May 08, 2026
Sarah Romanko — How Grit, Brand, and Deal Flow Win | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 024
May 07, 2026
Nikola Borisov — Why the Real AI Battle Isn’t Training—It’s Deployment | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 023
May 06, 2026
Grant Blaisdell — Turning Space into an Investable Asset Class | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 022
May 05, 2026
Kurt Winter and Kevin Salquist — Why Essential Businesses Win in a Volatile World | FV Podcast Ep. 021
May 01, 2026
Juho Risku— From Founder to VC: How to Win at the Seed Stage | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 020
Apr 30, 2026
Scott Finkelstein — Why Personalized Sales Will Kill the Sales Playbook | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 019
Apr 29, 2026
Stan Sirakov — From Underdog to Alpha | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 018
Apr 28, 2026
Ivar Skårset — The Rise of Renewable Fuels | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 017
Apr 27, 2026
Mike Solow — Rethinking How Beverage Brands Scale | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 016
Apr 24, 2026
Simon Zadek — Why Climate Risk Is the Next Trillion-Dollar Market | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 015
Apr 24, 2026
Ben Klepacki — The Business Case for Fixing Methane at Scale | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 014
Apr 22, 2026
Amit Jain — Building Startups That Survive the Global Market | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 013
Apr 21, 2026
Vincent Kuiper— Scaling Foodtech Beyond the Pilot | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 011
Apr 20, 2026
Ankit Anand — Investing Before the Market Understands It | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 010
Apr 16, 2026
Debneel Mukherjee — Inside a Global VC Playbook | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 009
Apr 15, 2026
Robin Smith — Moving from B2B SaaS to Tech Enabled Services | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 008
Apr 13, 2026
Kim Anders Odhner — Where the Smart Money in Food-Tech Is Going | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 007
Apr 10, 2026
Dr. Henry Erdley — Turning "Undruggable" Cancer Targets into Precision Therapies | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 006
Apr 07, 2026
Charles Cormier — Inside the New Founder Playbook | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 004
Apr 01, 2026
Oded Agam — The NextLeap Ventures Model for Deep Tech Investing | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 005
Apr 01, 2026
Paul Claxton — From Combat Tours to Term Sheets: Paul Claxton on Founders, Capital, and AI | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 003
Mar 30, 2026
David Kofoed Wind- From EdTech Exit to AI Agents: Scaling on Your Own Terms | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 001
Mar 30, 2026
Ray Fitzpatrick — Why Most Startups Don't Get Funded (And What to Do About It) | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 002
Mar 30, 2026