Adventure Capital by Wefunder

About Adventure Capital by Wefunder

Welcome to Adventure Capital, where we not only discuss the adventures with founders who have raised capital on Wefunder but also the different resource providers and mentors helping founders along the way.

Publisher

Wefunder

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Jun 2019

Latest episode

10 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 92 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Free Spirits — with Jill Kuehler, founder of Freeland Spirits

   Host Nick Chirls interviews Jill Kuehler, founder of Freeland Spirits, about her journey launching a distillery and raising community capital.

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   19 Nov 2025

   Zapped — with Haley Zapolski, Nashville startup ecosystem builder

   This episode of Adventure Capital is a little different — in it, we interview Haley "Zap" Zapolski — an angel investor and startup ecosystem builder in Nashville. Zap fell in love with startups after working for one out of college, and also fell in love with Nashville, the city she now calls home. Putting those two passions together, over the last few years, she has worked tirelessly (and incredibly effectively) to develop the Nashville startup scene. Both through her "day job" at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, and as an independent, rogue, maverick cowgirl. In this episode she talks about how she is doing that. If you're trying to build the local startup ecosystem in your city — this interview with Zap will give you some great ideas on how to do that. A true queen of LinkedIn, you can find Zap there to follow along with her journey, insights and musings. Or you can subscribe to her Beehiiv newsletter at zapswrap.beehiiv.com (http://zapswrap.beehiiv.com/).

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   17 Nov 2025

   Active Fundraising — with Lanny Smith, founder of Actively Black

   In this episode, we interview Lanny Smith, founder & CEO of Actively Black — a premium athleisure wear brand. Actively Black has been worn by President Obama, established brand partnerships with Marvel, Disney and the NBA, and outfitted Team Nigeria at the 2024 Paris Olympics. In late 2024, Actively Black ran a successful community round on Wefunder, raising over a million dollars from 1,267 investors. In this episode, Lanny talks about why and how he raised capital on Wefunder, as well as his personal journey of extreme grit and perseverance, from NBA player to startup founder. To check out the Actively Black Wefunder page, visit: wefunder.com/activelyblack (http://wefunder.com/activelyblack).

Inside a recent episode

Free Spirits — with Jill Kuehler, founder of Freeland Spirits

Published 10 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But yeah, it was shut down the tasting room. We immediately created the booze through so people could order. We started like, oh, and nobody knows how to make cocktails. So we started making our own fresh mixers in-house so you could order ahead of time, get your bottle. your mixer we'd load it up into your trunk for you and off you'd go um and it was great you know that was almost like its own community round in a way of like all of these people that were just like let's support our local businesses and uh yeah it it worked pretty well so we were fortunate to to make that quick switch and And keep things running. […]

Who has been a guest on Adventure Capital by Wefunder

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jill Kuehler
• Niles Lichtenstein
• Maria Springer
• Bartholomew Jones
• Liz Clayborne

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

28 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 48 / 100

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Quality

76

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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