Fireside with a VC

E117 How to develop business relationships on Fireside with a VC with Ablorde Ashigbi, CEO of 4Degrees and the host of the podcast The Relationship Edge. 

Links and Resources:

Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5WN6hGo17XI.

Find all episodes of Fireside with a VC on your favorite podcast platform: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/FiresideVC.

Learn more about 4Degrees: https://www.4degrees.ai/.

The Edge Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0gurTrpjX8bkwzK8gRPi4G?si=6fb1b59b0f0a4e3c.

The Edge Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@4degrees879/videos.

Contact Ablorde Ashigbi: [email protected].

Learn more about 7BC Venture Capital here: https://7bc.vc/.

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Get Andrew's new book here: Masters of Raising Venture Capital: https://www.amazon.com//dp/B0DHH5M4TM/. 

Get Andrew's book on Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) here: Masters of Corporate Venture Capital: http://rb.gy/u46e9r.

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E116 Nada CityFunds, a new way to own real estate, w/ CEO Tore Steen on Fireside with a VC. Tore is the CEO of Nada which operates CityFunds. Nada helps homeowners and individual investors solve the challenge of accessing and investing in home equity by providing a platform for home equity investment without additional debt or monthly payments. Homeowners sell a home share in exchange for cash and investors may invest in a CityFund that owns home shares in many homes in a specific high growth city or invest in the entire basket of home shares across multiple cities. Tore previously cofounded CrowdStreet, the largest online real estate investment platform in the U.S. having raised and invested over $4.4bn primarily from accredited and retail investors, where he raised over $50m of VC funding and additional venture debt funding. Tore joined Nada first as a board member and now as CEO.

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E115 Intel Capital, Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) putting the silicon back in Silicon Valley, Jennifer Ard, Managing Director, Head of Investment Operations at Intel Capital

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Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/kzB5m6ViVzE.

Find all episodes of Fireside with a VC on your favorite podcast platform: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/FiresideVC.

Learn more about Intel Capital: https://www.intelcapital.com/.

Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-ard-cfa-32a69b3/.

Follow Andrew Romans on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/romans/.

Join our Newsletter to get our insights and curated content from the VC-startup ecosystem - Fireside with a VC: https://subscribe.7bc.vc.

Learn more about 7BC Venture Capital here: https://7bc.vc/.

Get Andrew's new book here: Masters of Raising Venture Capital: https://www.amazon.com//dp/B0DHH5M4TM/. 

Get Andrew's book on Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) here: Masters of Corporate Venture Capital: http://rb.gy/u46e9r.

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E114 How Antler became the most active VC globally so quickly – Anthony Millet, Partner & Co-Head Antler Capital, on Fireside with a VC

Anthony Millet discusses how Antler quickly became the most active VC globally since founding in 2018 with a team of 300 investing in 500 startups per year out of offices in 30 cities on 6 continents. Pre-Seed to Series A and beyond. Meet Anthony Millet in person next week in Palo Alto at the 7BC Venture Capital event October 29, 2024 from 5 to 9 pm.

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Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Y92-7ZscN2Y.

Meet Anthony Millet in person and hear him on the VC panel: https://lu.ma/1o2zs7x8.

Find all episodes of Fireside with a VC on your favorite podcast platform: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/FiresideVC. Learn more about Antler: https://www.antler.co/.

Follow Anthony Millet on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-millet-9327713/

Follow Andrew Romans on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/romans/.

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E113 Zive AI CEO Rajesh Gopi on Fireside with a VC explaining how his firm has applied AI to revolutionize venture capital admin, compliance, LP reporting, interacting with portfolio companies, LPs, portfolio construction, and, how to hit your IRR, DPI, and TVPI targets and so much more. The days of running a VC without AI are over.

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Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wVYm7JKD2Io. Find all episodes of Fireside with a VC on your favorite podcast platform: https://pocasters.spotify.com/pod/show/FiresideVC.

Learn more about Zive AI: https://www.zive.ai/.

Follow Rajesh Gopi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeshgopi/ Follow Andrew Romans on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/romans/.

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E112 A walk through an NVCA VC Term Sheet for a Series A funding round with Jason Putnam Gordon, legendary Silicon Valley VC lawyer and Partner at K&L Gates, one of the premier VC-focused law firms. This episode literally walks through every term in a term sheet with a lawyer and VC discussing each term, explaining what they mean, and which ones are worth fighting for. Lawyers like Jason can be very expensive but worth every penny. Strap in for a free masterclass!

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Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/F2MnHqWFBHA.

Find all episodes of Fireside with a VC on your favorite podcast platform: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/FiresideVC.

Learn more about the K&L Gates: https://www.klgates.com/firm-overview.

Follow Jason Putnam Gordon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonputnamgordon/

Follow Andrew Romans on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/romans/.

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E111 Breaking up big tech monopolies on Fireside with a VC speaking with Manish Patel, founder of Nava Ventures, a $175m VC fund in San Francisco, Teaching Faculty at Stanford University, early Googler, and former General Partner at Highland Capital Partners. Talking about his history at Google pre-IPO and the current state of monopolies with Google, Apple and Microsoft and what should regulators do as well as regulatory capture with Open AI and other tech titans. Manish also talks about Nava VC and their Series A concentrated strategy backing 15 startups per fund from a roughly $175m fund.

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Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HSjpaXNrclE.

Find all episodes of Fireside with a VC on your favorite podcast platform: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/FiresideVC.

Learn more about the Nava Ventures: https://www.nava.vc/.

Follow Manish Patel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manishpatelli/.

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E110 Austin, Texas Venture Capital on Fireside with a VC speaking with Chris Shonk, cofounder and Managing Director of ATX Venture Partners. Discussing the evolution of Austin as a tech corridor from early semiconductors to IBM, Tivoli, and a string of startup hits early days of VC here and how Austin founders had term sheets from Silicon Valley requiring relocation to California in the old days and now the reverse is happening. How Austin has become the fastest growing VC town with the highest density of VCs per capita in the United States.

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Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HLO6VVARRM8.

Find all episodes of Fireside with a VC on your favorite podcast platform: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/FiresideVC.

Learn more about the ATX Ventures: https://www.atxventurepartners.com/.

Follow Chris Shonk on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisshonk/.

Follow Andrew Romans on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/romans/.

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E109 Pre-Seed venture capital on Fireside with a VC speaking with David Lambert, Cofounder, Right Side Capital Management (RSCM) one of the most active pre-seed or pre-VC investors in Silicon Valley and across the US and Canada.

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Learn more about the fund: https://rightsidecapital.com/.

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E108 Fireside with a VC speaking with Alice Vilma, Managing Director and Co-Head of The Next Level Fund at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Alice explains how the Next Level Fund looks to promote financial inclusion and provide founders of tech and tech-enabled startups with much-needed access to investors—along with the tools, resources and connections they need to grow and thrive. We discuss how the fund encourages underserved segments of the market to apply for funding and what that process entails. The economic case for funding diversity and making change happen.

Links and Resources:

Learn more about the fund: Morgan Stanley Next Level | Team Page

Contact Alice: [email protected]

Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/oojqABhTBZk.

Find all episodes of Fireside with a VC on your favorite podcast platform: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/FiresideVC.

Follow Andrew Romans on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/romans/.

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