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RollingSouth is a Venture Fund that invests in early stage High Value/High Growth startups in the Southern United States. We mitigate risk with disciplined diligence and diversification. We invest our own capital and you can invest along with us.

RollingSouth is launching it’s ATDC Fund in 2025. A Fund focused exclusively on the ~140 startup companies enrolled in the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), a Georgia state funded economic development organization based at Georgia Tech, and the largest incubator in the Southern US. This is an annual fund that invests in 8-10 select ATDC companies, diversified across early stage and growth stage as well as across industry verticals. This is how it works:

  • Made possible by a unique public-private collaborative model between Georgia Tech and corporate sponsors, ATDC delivers expert coaching, curriculum, community, and connections to portfolio members. For 44 years, they've guided nascent startups into becoming fledgling, viable companies contributing to the Georgia, national, and global economy. This process enriches the pool of startup investments with companies more likely to succeed.

  • These are holding companies (LLCs) that accept Limited Partner (LPs) investment and that RollingSouth uses to hold LP assets for investment in 8-10 companies each year. These are typically named for the year of investment, like RollingSouth ATDC Fund 2025.

  • A new Fund (SPV) opens each calendar year to invest in 8-10 ATDC companies on which RollingSouth has performed due diligence and selected for $100-300k investment. LPs have a $20,000 minimum investment. There is no obligation to invest beyond any one year which provides LPs great flexibility, but we do advise investing in at least 2-3 funds to gain meaningful diversification.

    Larger investors have the option to co-invest in individual companies in the Fund up to their Fund investment amount.

  • Coming in 2025, this fund aims to raise >$2 over 12 months and deploy capital in approximately 8-10 ATDC startups selected by the GPs after completing comprehensive due diligence. These companies have completed a rigorous qualifiying process by ATDC.

  • Exemption from federal capital gains tax for QSBS eligible startups (IRS sec 1202). We expect about 90% of our investments to be QSBS stock.

    Diversification in the annual ATDC Fund is generally 8-10 Seed and Growth startups per year and in at least 4 different industry verticals.

    Non-correlation with other investment categories (real estate, public equities, bonds, private equity and commodities)

    Limited Parter investors (LPs) pay 15% Carry and a one time 2% fee refundable when the fund reaches liquidity. Carry is waived for Investment up to the total amount invested in the Fund.

Listen to the Venture In The South podcast available on all podcast platforms. This 30 minute pod is released each Monday. We focus on interviews with founders about their companies, educational content about startup investing and some commentary on the current state of the startup ecosystem.