Santa Clara Ventures

This is our first corporate law episode on the podcast! For this episode, we had the pleasure of interviewing Chris Russell, corporate partner at Stoel Rives LLP.

In this interview, we dive into how Chris got into corporate law and started working with emerging companies, the different areas of corporate law that he has expertise in, and some venture capital specific questions about due diligence and fund formation.

As always, we end with 5 personal questions for us to get to know Chris a little better.

Through this insight into the corporate law world that plays a big part in the VC investing process but is rarely spoken about, we hope to give out listeners a holistic view of the VC investing process.

Let us know what you think and if you want to hear more about this side of VC that is rarely talked about.

For our sixth episode, we had the pleasure of interviewing Steve Erbst from SPJ GTM Accelerator.

We start with the path that Steve took to connect with the VC community, then we talk about SPJ GTM Accelerator and what differentiates them from other start-up accelerators and we finish with our signature personal questions.

For our fifth episode, we had the pleasure of interviewing Tanner Merrill, an Investor at e.ventures.

As always, we start with the path that Tanner took to enter the VC industry, then we talk about e.ventures and the proprietary tools they have that differentiates them from other VC firms, then we dive into emerging trends to look out for and we finish with our signature personal questions.

This is our first founder episode on the podcast! For this episode, we had the pleasure of interviewing the founder and CEO of OnePointOne, Samuel Bertram. 

In this interview, we dive into how Sam came up with the idea for OnePointOne, what he has learned through out the process of building his company, and how he handled the VC investing process.

As always, we end with 5 personal questions for us to get to know Sam a little better.

For our third episode, we had the pleasure of interviewing the individual who introduced me to the world of venture capital, Lokesh Sikaria from Moneta Ventures.

As always, we start with the path that Lokesh took to enter the VC industry, then we talk about Moneta Ventures and their investment focus, then we dive into what makes a startup successful and we finish with our signature personal questions.

For our second episode, we had the pleasure of interviewing Roger Akers from Akers Capital.

As always, we start with the path that Roger took to enter the VC industry, then we talk about Akers Capital and their investment focus, and we finish with our signature personal questions.

For our first episode, we had the pleasure of interviewing Andrew Chen from ShangBay Capital. 

In this podcast we delve into the path that Andrew took to reach the VC industry, the impact that COVID has had on the VC ecosystem, how ShangBay Capital makes decisions throughout the VC process, and some emerging trends to look out for.

You will also get a more holistic view of Andrew with our signature 5 personal questions.

This is an introduction for the Santa Clara Ventures Podcast. In this episode, we talk about the topics that will be discussed in the following podcasts and how we decided to start Santa Clara Ventures.