Lisa Calhoun is the founding and managing partner of Georgia's first women-owned VC firm and was the first woman to launch a venture fund in the state, making her a pioneer for women in Southern venture capital. She created the Startup Runway Foundation, a nonprofit that gives $10,000 non-dilutive grants to underrepresented founders who can't yet quit their day jobs, based on her own experience of living in her brother's basement while bootstrapping her first company. Lisa Calhoun is the founding and managing partner of Georgia's first women-owned VC firm and was the first woman to launch a venture fund in the state, making her a pioneer for women in Southern venture capital. She created the Startup Runway Foundation, a nonprofit that gives $10,000 non-dilutive grants to underrepresented founders who can't yet quit their day jobs, based on her own experience of living in her brother's basement while bootstrapping her first company.