Founders Roundtable Series, Featuring Kim Walpole - Presented by Chucktown Startups and Carolina Venture Studio

REGISTRATION

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The Founders Roundtable Series continues in October. This eight-session monthly gathering brings Charleston founders and entrepreneurial leaders together to connect, share ideas, learn from one another, and help shape the future of technology and entrepreneurship in our community.

​Hour 1 will be an interactive founder roundtable discussing how to find a problem worth solving. We’ll unpack the mindset shifts, questions, challenges, and opportunities that come with identifying a product or service that people will actually pay for, drawing on the experiences and perspectives of founders in the room.

​Hour 2 will feature Kim Walpole, a serial entrepreneur and product leader who has spent her career building mission-driven companies from the ground up. She previously founded Trials.ai, where she raised venture capital, built and scaled the company, and ultimately led it through an acquisition by ZS. She also mentors founders and emerging tech companies, helping them think through product, growth, raising capital - and most importantly, what it takes to build something people will actually use.

​Today, Kim is co-founder and CEO of FiveLoaves.ai, a Charleston-based startup using responsible AI to help churches and everyday leaders understand Scripture within its historical and cultural context, lead better conversations, and care for people well.

​Kim is a visionary founder who tends to see what could be before it exists, and she is most energized by building things that have the potential to leave the world better than she found it.