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Every Kudzu Ventures engagement is led by a Managing Partner or Founder — not handed off. You get our best, always.
Tyler F. Sutliff is the Founder of Kudzu Ventures and AI Impact Group, and an Investor and Operator with Blue Delta Jeans and Content Sports. He partners with founders, private equity firms, and executive teams to accelerate growth through AI, operational transformation, strategic transactions, and data-driven decision-making.
An entrepreneur at heart, Tyler has led start-ups, corporate turnarounds, venture funding, acquisitions, and sell-side advisory engagements across healthcare, consumer products, manufacturing, sports, and technology. In 2013, he acquired Whisenant & Lyle Water Services, turning a near-bankrupt company profitable within 30 days before selling it three years later. In 2008, he founded The Home Option, which grew into Central Texas's largest private-duty home care provider before its acquisition by Harden Healthcare in 2011. Tyler began his career at Merrill Lynch, where at age 27 he became the firm's youngest Sales Manager in the U.S., overseeing more than $200 million in assets.
Committed to staying at the forefront of emerging technology, Tyler has completed executive education in Harvard Business School's AI Essentials for Business and UT McCombs School of Business's Generative AI for Business Applications programs. He applies these disciplines to help organizations build practical AI strategies that create measurable advantages across operations, sales, finance, and sports..
Courtney H. Cocanougher serves as Managing Director of Kudzu Ventures. With a primary focus on client management and operational strategy, Courtney handles the critical behind-the-scenes work on all transactions and advisements — so our clients don't have to.
Prior to joining Kudzu Ventures, Courtney spent nearly a decade building a nationally recognized sales department within property management and commercial real estate. By 27, she oversaw the sales and marketing success of $4 billion in real estate assets across more than 50 markets.
Courtney is based in Memphis, TN and graduated cum laude from the University of Mississippi.
