PS27 Ventures

PS27 Ventures is a Jacksonville, Florida-based early-stage venture capital and startup leadership-training firm founded in 2013 by Jim Stallings, who serves as CEO and General Partner. The firm is veteran-owned and veteran-operated, and positions itself as both a capital provider and a hands-on accelerator of founder growth. PS27 Ventures invests into early-stage, high-growth technology companies across fintech, healthtech, e-commerce, climate tech, and B2B SaaS, with recent strategy concentrated heavily on artificial intelligence — roughly 80% of its Titan Fund deployments are into AI-native businesses, with particular concentration in AI-powered B2B SaaS and fintech. The PS27 Titan Fund is a $25 million vehicle investing at seed and Series A with typical check sizes of $250,000 to $1 million. The core team includes Hale Bullen (Investment Manager), Shannon Mayo (Operations Manager), and Ron Burgess (Finance, with over 40 years of fiscal and organizational experience) alongside Stallings. Across its history, PS27 has invested in 37 companies. Named recent investments include Quickcode AI (trade-compliance management systems, co-invested with DataTribe — subsequently raised a $1.4 million round led by Buckhorn Capital Group) and Neural Payments (an Ohio-based AI fintech into which PS27 committed $500,000-plus alongside FIS as both co-investor and strategic partner). PS27's Jacksonville base is a deliberate choice: Stallings believes the Southeast United States remains significantly undercapitalized relative to coastal innovation hubs, and that founders building there often combine strong product fundamentals with access to operating-cost advantages unavailable in San Francisco or New York. The affiliated PS27 Foundation extends this mission into community impact, reflecting Stallings' personal commitment to entrepreneurship as a vehicle for economic opportunity across underserved regions.