The Syndicate - Video Series: Angel Investors | VC | Venture Capital | Startup Investing | Private Equity | Crowdfunding | Fundraising

Weisman currently serves as an Executive Director at Singularity University where he oversees all the company's large programs including the Global Summit, Industry Summits (Exponential Medicine, Exponential Manufacturing, and Exponential Finance), and International Summits. Prior to Singularity University, Will spent time as an investor, advisor, and operator working with a range of companies in the consumer tech. and non-tech. world.

Will has experience raising over $100mm raised and as an investor has record of picking and influencing winners with over $6B in exits.

Listen and Learn:

- Why Singularity University is successfully changing the world

- What entrepreneurs can learn from angels - and vice versa

- How the early internet dotcom era affected non-tech startups

- Why early stage tech investing is all about the individual

- How to evaluate tech trends for investment opportunities

- Why Will missed out on blockchain

- The value of art in understanding society

- What people should consider about today's rocky political climate

- Why we are living in the best time in history

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Gabriele Jarrosson's business angel, cryptocurrency investor and accomplished entrepreneur. He co-founded French e-learning platform albert academie and is an angel investor in Storj, Shapr, BitStamp and Seedrs among many other others. He is also deeply involved in blockchain and advises a handful of companies.

Listen and Learn:

- The challenges of angel investing without being an accredited investor

- How to use equity crowdfunding platforms to invest in startups

- Why it's weird being the youngest angel in the room

- The problem with many conventional angel groups

- How Gabriel views crypto

- Why he hasn't sold his Ethereum or Bitcoin

- Why liquidity is a bad thing for blockchain

- How ICOs will transform startup funding

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Charlie O'Donnell has been an active member of the NYC startup community for over a decade. He is the sole Partner and Founder at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures that invested in the first rounds of Canary, Orchard Platform, Tinybop, Hungryroot, Clubhouse, Ringly, and goTenna among others.

Prior to Brooklyn Bridge, Charlie worked at Union Square Ventures and First Round Capital where he sourced GroupMe (acq. by Skype), SinglePlatform (acq. by Constant Contact), and Backupify (acq. by Datto), as well as Refinery29 and chloe+isabel investments.

Listen and Learn:

- Why Charlie doesn't do follow on funding

- How Brooklyn Bridge built a fund of mostly angel LPs

- Why Charlie focuses on pre-seed startups

- Ways to prioritize time to prevent burnout

- How to Charlie uses dinners to design interesting encounters and build his network

- Why Series A isn't that must safer than pre-seed

- How being a solo-VC affects a fund

- Ways to build awesome deal flow

- What Charlie learned from Fred Wilson and Union Square Ventures

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Charlie O'Donnell has been an active member of the NYC startup community for over a decade. He is the sole Partner and Founder at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures that invested in the first rounds of Canary, Orchard Platform, Tinybop, Hungryroot, Clubhouse, Ringly, and goTenna among others.

Prior to Brooklyn Bridge, Charlie worked at Union Square Ventures and First Round Capital where he sourced GroupMe (acq. by Skype), SinglePlatform (acq. by Constant Contact), and Backupify (acq. by Datto), as well as Refinery29 and chloe+isabel investments.

Listen and Learn:

- Why Charlie doesn't do follow on funding

- How Brooklyn Bridge built a fund of mostly angel LPs

- Why Charlie focuses on pre-seed startups

- Ways to prioritize time to prevent burnout

- How to Charlie uses dinners to design interesting encounters and build his network

- Why Series A isn't that must safer than pre-seed

- How being a solo-VC affects a fund

- Ways to build awesome deal flow

- What Charlie learned from Fred Wilson and Union Square Ventures

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Jeff Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of Uncork Capital (formerly SoftTech VC), one of the original seed VC firms in Silicon Valley, having closed 200+ investments since 2004. An early angel investor in Web 2.0, Jeff and his team have backed successful startups like Mint (Intuit), Kongregate (GameStop), Brightroll (Yahoo), LiveRamp (Acxiom), Milo (eBay), Wildfire (Google), Bleacher Report (Turner), Gnip (Twitter), Fitbit (NYSE:FIT), Eventbrite, Sendgrid, Poshmark, Hired, Postmates, Shippo, Front and Molekule. The portfolio has also seen acquisitions by Groupon, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo and AOL. The firm is currently investing out of its $100M Fund V, making on average 15 seed commitments of $1M per year in mobile/cloud saas, consumer services, connected devices, marketplaces and “frontier tech” (AI, AR/VR, autonomous vehicles, digital manufacturing and material science, space tech).

Listen and Learn:

- Why brand is incredibly important in venture capital

- The importance of networking and diversity in investing

- Why Jeff's investment thesis had changed over the years

- The reason Uncork only invests in businesses that matter

- Why Jeff thinks blockchain is a just hype and manipulated markets

- How to think about investing in frontier tech

- What most people don't know about venture

- How Jeff efficiently manages his time

- Why the best investments break your rule book

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Jonathan Nelson is the founder of Hackers/Founders, the largest global network of tech founders with over 300k members across 45 countries. He build a $600M portfolio market cap in first 5 years and runs HACK Fund, a liquid venture fund on the blockchain.

Jonathan has also served on an SEC Advisory Committee on Capital Formation for Small and Emerging Business, on the Board of Wilson Center for Public Policy for Latin America and has worked with the White House and Mayor Bloomberg's administration to promote Startup Visa, and comprehensive immigration reform.

Listen and Learn:

- The liquidity problem with venture and what it means

- How a nurse built the largest global network of tech founders worldwide

- What immigration reform and Trump mean for Silicon Valley and US startups

- Why equity pooled SPVs create incredible venture capital opportunities

- How to leverage connections, network and hustle to build a robust business

- Why traditional venture capital isn't all that it is hyped up to be

- How blockchain affects VC

- Why crypto liquidity creates a win-win for founders and investors

- The question of stocks and short term thinking

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Jonathan Nelson is the founder of Hackers/Founders, the largest global network of tech founders with over 300k members across 45 countries. He build a $600M portfolio market cap in first 5 years and runs HACK Fund, a liquid venture fund on the blockchain.

Jonathan has also served on an SEC Advisory Committee on Capital Formation for Small and Emerging Business, on the Board of Wilson Center for Public Policy for Latin America and has worked with the White House and Mayor Bloomberg's administration to promote Startup Visa, and comprehensive immigration reform.

Listen and Learn:

- The liquidity problem with venture and what it means

- How a nurse built the largest global network of tech founders worldwide

- What immigration reform and Trump mean for Silicon Valley and US startups

- Why equity pooled SPVs create incredible venture capital opportunities

- How to leverage connections, network and hustle to build a robust business

- Why traditional venture capital isn't all that it is hyped up to be

- How blockchain affects VC

- Why crypto liquidity creates a win-win for founders and investors

- The question of stocks and short term thinking

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Michael Cardamone was one of the first 30 employees at Box and went on to lead partnerships at AcademixDirect. After 6 years in operating roles, he started and is now the Managing Director of Acceleprise in San Francisco (www.acceleprise.vc), an enterprise software focused accelerator backed by leading operators.

In addition to Acceleprise, he is a Venture Partner for the SaaStr fund, a $70M fund led by Jason Lemkin and also an angel investor in the seed rounds of Flexport, Naturebox and TalentIQ; among others.

Listen and Learn:

- The evolution of SaaS as a business model

- Typical targets for seed and Series A SaaS fundraising

- How to build and scale a successful accelerator

- What are most important KPIs for all SaaS founders to track

- How running an accelerator and making investments occassionally create problems

- The purpose and power of venture partners

- How to think about index investing

- Why SaaS is still a relevant industry

- The problem and promise of AI

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Matthew Le Merle is co-founder and Managing Partner of Fifth Era and of Keiretsu Capital - the most active early stage venture investors backing more than 175 companies a year.

Matthew is an expert on corporate growth, innovation and business transformations having advised leading companies including Amazon, Cisco, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, PayPal and many others on growth and innovation-related issues. He is also an adjunct professor at Singularity University, bestselling author and a sought after keynote speaker.

Listen and Learn:

- The evolution and expectations of blockchain tech

- What individual angels can learn from angel networks

- How investors leverage skill sets to succeed

- Why early stage tech investing is the highest performing asset class

- How to build a husband-wife investor team

- The reason Keiretsu Forum outgrew all other angel networks

- How to think about fund of funds

- Why multiple projects means more rewards in investing

- The one thing every investor and entrepreneur must understand about themselves

- How to spot upcoming tech trends

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