by Denver Frederick | Oct 5, 2026 | Guest Interview
Most tech founders don’t have to convince anyone that software is a good idea. My guest had to build hers for a sector she describes as twenty years behind everyone else. It did not always go smoothly.
Maya Kuppermann co-founded Temelio, the platform that now moves more than a billion dollars a year in grants between foundations and the nonprofits they fund. But in the early days, one of her very first clients had a very different verdict.
That client is still with Temelio today, one of a hundred and fifty. We talk about what it took to get there, why the matchmaking between funders and nonprofits is broken, what a bad grant application actually costs a nonprofit in wasted hours, and the “useless” feature she refuses to take out of her own software.
It’s Maya Kupperman on The Business of Giving
by Denver Frederick | Oct 2, 2026 | Blog
If you weren’t allowed to fix this where it appears, where would you actually have to go?
by Denver Frederick | Oct 1, 2026 | Blog
When participation is uneven, don’t just ask who is using the service. Ask what it is about how you built it that makes these particular people the most likely to get through. Your audience may not be everyone who needs what you offer—it may just be everyone who could find the door.
by Denver Frederick | Sep 30, 2026 | Blog
What did you replace recently that you never stopped to ask what else it was carrying?
by Denver Frederick | Sep 29, 2026 | Guest Interview
Many companies that survive their first year have something working quietly in the background: an early check from a parent or a well-off friend. My guest today leads an organization for founders who never had that check..
Shawna Young is the CEO of Camelback Ventures, a New Orleans accelerator that puts fifty thousand dollars, and a community, behind early-stage founders whom traditional capital routinely overlooks. A chemist by training and a former science teacher, she thinks hard about who gets seen, who gets funded, and why the gap between the two is so wide.
And sometimes, the best way to understand who gets overlooked is to look at who had the idea first.
It’s Shawna Young, CEO of Camelback Ventures, on The Business of Giving.
