The Wall Street Skinny

27. Venture Capital 101

09.23.2023 - By Kristen and JenPlay

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In today's episode we sit down with Camilo Acosta, founder & general partner of Perceptive Ventures, an early stage venture firm, and walk through everything you want to know about Venture Capital (“VC”). We cover differences between Angel Investing vs. VC, what a company needs for different series rounds (pre-seed, seed, series A, series B and beyond), how venture capital differs from Growth Equity, what it takes to get into the Venture Capital world, and much much more.

Camilo Acosta is the founder & general partner of Perceptive Ventures, an early stage venture firm focused on AI-first investments across the U.S. and Latin America. Prior to founding Perceptive, he built generative AI products at Meta used by millions of people. Before Meta, he built a machine learning based payments company that partnered with businesses worldwide before it was acquired in 2020. He holds a BA from Princeton University, and is based in San Francisco, California.  You can follow him on Twitter @camilobacosta Follow us on Instagram and Tik Tok at @thewallstreetskinny

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