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Zane Tarence

Zane Tarence

Practice Head & Managing Director, Strategic Partnerships

Founders Advisors

Zane Tarence is Practice Head and Managing Director, Strategic Partnerships at Founders Advisors, an investment banking firm built on sector specialization. With more than 20 years guiding founders and companies through high-stakes transactions and complex capital markets, he began his career as a software engineer at IBM before moving into investment banking.

Sessions at VC.DAY 2026

Inside the Secretive World of the Southern Investment Bank

Zane Tarence, Founders Advisors, in conversation with Lisa Calhoun

December 7, 2026 • 10:55 AM

Every exit runs through a room most founders and investors never see. Zane Tarence, Practice Head and Managing Director at Founders Advisors, has spent more than 20 years on the banker's side of the table. He joins Lisa Calhoun to open that room: how to choose an investment bank, what good terms look like and what bad ones look like, and how Southern banks find buyers, set price, and run a process.