Leah Glover Hayes

Hustle Fund is a venture capital firm investing in hilariously-early pre-seed founders. Learn more about Hustle Fund and pitch us here: hustlefund.vc If you are here to learn about ANGEL SQUAD, youve come to the right place. We help teach professionals how to invest in startups alongside Hustle Fund. Learn how we do this here: https://hustlefund.vc/squad

Claritas Capital is a Nashville-based alternative asset manager focused on partnering with entrepreneurs, business owners, and developers to analyze and invest in interesting & innovative investment opportunities for our investors. Founded in 2002, we have more than 20 years of investment experience working with strategic partners across private equity, private credit and real estate markets. Private Equity: Claritas Capital’s private equity platform is an alternative investment program for Family Offices, Strategic, and Institutional investors. The firm invests equity capital from general and dedicated investment funds into teams focused on expansion and growth. Claritas embraces an influential, non-controlling, lead-minority, and collaborative approach to investing. The firm’s investment history represents deep roots in healthcare investing and also includes tech-enabled services, communications, fintech and business services. Claritas is an ideal partner for lower middle market healthcare, technology, and services companies seeking to raise less than $10M from experienced lead investors to support continued growth. Private Credit: We partner with business owners as they navigate financing needs during transitions periods and/or growth initiatives. We specialize in providing alternative credit facility structures (debt and/or hybrid equity) to lower middle market companies. Our typical investment is in the $2 to $5 million range and is generally the most senior credit and/or equity outside capital invested in the company. Real Estate: We partner with Southeast developers across all asset classes of real estate including: commercial, industrial, residential, land development and multi-family through either a debt or equity structure. Two Key Strategies: (1) Deal-by-Deal opportunities in the Southeast where we know the market and have established key development relationships; (2) Financing for developers with national build-to-suit opportunities

Hustle Fund is a venture capital firm investing in hilariously-early pre-seed founders. Learn more about Hustle Fund and pitch us here: hustlefund.vc If you are here to learn about ANGEL SQUAD, youve come to the right place. We help teach professionals how to invest in startups alongside Hustle Fund. Learn how we do this here: https://hustlefund.vc/squad

Cars Commerce is an audience-driven technology company empowering automotive that simplifies everything about buying and selling cars. The Cars Commerce platform includes the flagship automotive marketplace and dealer reputation site Cars.com, innovative digital marketing technology and services from Dealer Inspire, industry-leading trade-in and appraisal technology from AccuTrade, an exclusive in-market media network, and powerful and predictive AI technologies that enable more efficient and profitable retail operations. Cars Commerce is the essential partner to stay one step ahead in automotive.