S12 Bonus: Sushma Vadlamannati, zScale

About this episode

Sushma Vadlamannati shares her journey from a corporate background to becoming a startup advisor and founder of zScale.

Sushma Vadlamannati is originally from India, and moved to the states over 25 year ago to pursue her bachelors in at Texas Women's University. She comes from a nontraditional founder background, spending 15 years in the Fortune 100 companies, leading large programs with large budgets. About 5 years ago, she started advising startups and angel investing, which led her into the startup world. Outside of tech, she has 2 daughters and loves to do arts and crafts. In fact, she uses scrap material she finds at home to build miniature scenes and creations. Sushma is very familiar with the startup scene in Texas. As such, she has a keen understanding of the recurring problems for startups - the local talent pool. In addition to this, she noticed the disconnect between schools, workforce opportunities, and students/workers themselves. She decided to pivot into to building this intelligence layer. This is the creation story of zScale . Sponsors Unblocked TECH Domains Mezmo Braingrid.ai Links https://zscalecapital.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sushma-vad/ Our Sponsors: * Check out Cash App and use my code CASHAPP10 for a great deal: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/mt82fpxl #CashAppPod. Cash…

People in this episode

Host: Noah Labhart

Guest: Sushma Vadlamannati

Topics covered

• startup advice
• angel investing
• Texas startup scene
• education workforce disconnect
• founder journey

Keywords

• startup
• angel investing
• Texas
• education
• founder
• zScale
• workforce

Sponsors

Cash App, Unblocked TECH Domains, Mezmo, Braingrid.ai

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: zScale

Places: India, Texas Women's University, Texas

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