Elijah May

Elijah May is the CEO and Co-Founder of Funded House, where he helps startups earn the right kind of attention from investors and helps investors cut through the noise. With more than 20 years in PR and brand strategy, he’s built campaigns and experiences for brands like T-Mobile, Dell, Reddit, and Twitch. He founded The Experience Firm to turn word-of-mouth into a strategic weapon, and created the POG Model, TUD Index, and Growth Viability Assessment™ to help founders tell stories investors actually care about. Elijah teaches these frameworks as a guest lecturer at UT Austin and Texas State University. He’s now leading the Global Innovation Embassy and quietly prepping something serious for the athlete-investor world.