Venture with Grace

Amit Vasudev is the Managing Partner of Earl Grey Capital. Earl Grey Capital is an early-stage venture fund run by Amit Vasudev, Alex MacCaw, and Matt Sornson. They were part of the founding team at Clearbit. Clearbit helps companies create, capture, and convert demand from ideal customers — all from one powerful and flexible go-to-market platform. It was acquired in 2023 by HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS). Earl Grey Capital invests in companies that make it easier to build things on the internet. They believe the future of venture is founders backing founders and have had the privilege of backing over 100 companies to date.

Topics: 

- Venture Capital Trends

- Challenges and Opportunities in Early-Stage Investing

- Investing in API-first startups

#VCTrends #FounderVCs #EarlyStageInvesting #APIStartups #TechInfrastructure

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Matthew Weinberg is a Partner at Max Ventures Partner. Matt joined Max Ventures in 2018 after serving several years as an Obama Administration White House appointee where he helped drive $6 billion in federal funding to early-stage technology startups and investment groups. Matt has led several key investments at Max and is the Co-founder of Elion Health.

Topics:

- Investing trends in the digital health space

- New York City's startup ecosystem

- Startup incubation approaches to building companies from the ground up

#VCInsights #DigitalHealth #NYCTech #StartupIncubation #HealthTech #VentureCapital

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Rajeev Dham has been a Partner at Sapphire Ventures since 2013, splitting his time between applied AI companies across horizontal and vertical SaaS, as well as category-defining innovators in fintech and healthcare. For his work, he has been recognized as a Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investor by GrowthCap and most recently, the Silicon Valley Business Journal honored him in their annual 40 Under 40 list.

Prior to Sapphire Ventures, Rajeev worked for Silver Lake, a technology-focused private equity firm, where he evaluated middle-market and growth equity investments across the software and internet sectors. Early on in his career, he worked for the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs and while at business school, worked with Amazon’s corporate development group. Rajeev holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and received a bachelor’s in business administration from the University of Southern California where he graduated magna cum laude.

Topics:

- Investing in the AI and SaaS Space

- The Emerging Sales AI Landscape

- How AI is Transforming the Design Industry

#VentureCapital #AI #SaaS #SalesAI #DesignTech #SapphireVentures

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Jason Yeh is the Co-Founder & General Partner of Patron Fund. Patron, an early-stage VC firm investing in the next generation of consumer startups announced the raise of a $100 million USD Fund II. The company's second fund has attracted significant institutional and individual support, anchored again by Horsley Bridge Partners and joined by new institutional investors including university endowments, sovereign wealth funds and institutional family offices. Individual investors include Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Marc Andreessen and general partner Chris Dixon; Union Square Ventures co-founder Fred Wilson, Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, Benchmark general partner Mitch Lasky; FirstMark co-founders Rick Heitzmann and Amish Jani; SV Angel founder Ron Conway; and Altos Ventures co-founder Ho Nam. The robust, ongoing support for Fund II underscores investors' confidence in Patron's vision of a future where the mass consumer adoption of games shapes technology.

Jason was on the founding investment team at FirstMark Capital, where he led diligence in the Riot Games Series A raise. He then joined Riot as the company’s first business hire to help launch League of Legends and build out teams that drove publishing, international growth, and Esports over a 9 year period. After leaving Riot, Jason was an active angel investor in the consumer space backing companies such as Highsnobiety, 88 Rising, Italic, and Avant Arte.

Topics:

- The Future of Consumer Tech How Gaming Shapes Innovation

- How Consumer Behavior Drives Tech Innovation

- Key Factors in Successful Early-Stage Consumer Tech Investments

#VCInsights #GamingTech #ConsumerStartups #PatronFund #TechInvestment #EsportsVentures

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Giuseppe Stuto is the CO-Founder and Managing Partner of 186 Ventures. Giuseppe built his first software company, Fam, where he was the founder and CEO shortly after he graduated college. Fam built one of the largest group video communities ever by scaling to more than seven million users in about a year. Fam was acquired by DraftKings in 2018, and Giuseppe stayed on to serve in product & strategy roles leading up to the company’s successful IPO. After his tenure at DraftKings, Giuseppe joined one of his early angel investments in the neural interface space, Pison Technology, as COO to help triple the company’s staff and provide guidance on its rapid revenue expansion.

In 2021, after making over 30 angel investments into early stage technology companies alongside his good friend, Julian Fialkow, Giuseppe helped institutionalize 186 Ventures and raised its first $37M early stage venture capital fund. 186 Ventures brings full operational and strategic support and an unparalleled network to founders when they need it most—at the beginning of their startup journey.

Topics:

- From Operator to Exit Navigating the Path to Acquisition

- Investing in Boston's Tech Ecosystem Nurturing Local Innovation

- Building a Venture Fund Turning Angel Experience into VC Success

#TechFounder #VentureCapital #StartupLife #BostonTech #InvestorInsights #ExitStrategy

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Eric Zhu the co-founder of Aviato, which is the "Bloomberg Terminal" for private markets, and an Investor at Bachmanity Capital.

Topics:

- Content marketing strategies for a B2B startup

- Leveraging social media and digital platforms to reach potential clients and investors

- Leveraging unique Gen Z perspectives and skills in product development and company culture

#TeenFounder #VCDisruptor #GenZEntrepreneur #StartupHustle #DataDriven

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Shira Eting is a Partner at Vintage Investment Partners. Prior to joining Vintage, Shira managed ‘Mechinat Bnei Zion,’ an NGO for non-formal education. Before that, Shira worked as a Strategic Consultant for McKinsey & Company, focusing on a wide range of industries. Shira was also a ‘Milken’ fellow in the Ministry of Economy, focusing on the export of Israel’s water technologies. Shira holds a BSc in Math and Computer Science from Ben Gurion University and an MSc in Environmental Change and Management from Oxford University.

Topics:

- Recent trends in climatetech and healthtech

- Fund, Secondary, and Growth Investments

- Building a Successful VC Fund

#ClimateVC #HealthtechInnovation #VintageVC #DiversityInTech #VCStrategy

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Caroline Winnett is the Executive Director at Berkeley SkyDeck. Berkeley SkyDeck is UC Berkeley's startup accelerator and incubator. Through the Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, they invest $200,000 in each of their cohort startups, and provide the powerful resources and network of UC Berkeley to help cohort companies grow. The Berkeley SkyDeck Fund shares one-half of all fund profits with UC Berkeley.

Formed as a partnership between the Haas School of Business, the College of Engineering, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, SkyDeck combines top tier programming and support with the vast resources of the powerful UC Berkeley community and network. This robust platform is coupled with SkyDeck's intensive mentorship program to create a powerful environment for startups. Their SkyAdvisors, Partners, and large network of accredited investors connect their startups to the expertise and capital they need to launch and grow.

SkyDeck has over 700 mentors and access to the powerful UC Berkeley network, students and faculty, as well as laboratory access and startup support through their campus partners. Their six-month acceleration program is rated Gold Tier by the Seed Rankings Project, and they have over 140 startups in residence. SkyDeck is located on the Penthouse and the Third Floor of Berkeley's tallest building with 360-degree views from the campus to San Francisco. Their twice-yearly Demo Days are must-attend events for qualified investors.

Topics:

- Challenges and opportunities in running a university-based accelerator

- Insights on the current state of VC funding for early-stage startups

- The process of selecting startups for the accelerator program

#BerkeleySkyDeck #StartupAccelerator #VCFunding #UCBerkeley #TechInnovation

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Sokwoo Rhee is Corporate Executive Vice President for Innovation at LG Electronics and Head of LG NOVA, LG Electronics' Silicon Valley-based innovation center. He leads LG Electronics’ global innovation projects, new business creation, strategic partnerships, and ecosystem development. Prior to joining LG, Sokwoo served as Associate Director for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Innovation at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce, covering innovation programs for Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities. He managed the Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC), a U.S. federal government program to develop a global ecosystem of major business and technology stakeholders to create replicable and scalable IoT/smart city projects. Sokwoo previously served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow on CPS, a program by the White House. During his tenure, he co-led the SmartAmerica Challenge, which brought together IoT technologies and organizations across the nation to demonstrate how they can collaborate to create technology-based projects with a focus on socio-economic benefits. Prior to joining the U.S, government, Sokwoo was a co-founder and CTO of Millennial Net, Inc., one of the first organizations to successfully commercialize low-power wireless mesh/sensor networks and IoT technologies from academia. He also worked on wireless medical sensors as a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work and achievements have been widely recognized and he has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the MIT Technology Review’s “Top Innovators under 35.” Dr. Rhee received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Topics:

• Transforming Smart Life and Mobility

• Measuring innovation impact

• AI and the future of work

#InnoFest2024 #LGNova #AIFuture #SmartCities #FrontlineInnovation

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David Cohen is the Founder and CEO of Techstars, a pre-seed investor that provides access to capital, programming and connections to early-stage entrepreneurs. David is a lifelong entrepreneur, and has founded three companies, two of which had successful exits. Since founding Techstars in 2006, the company has invested in more than 4,400 startups through its 40+ accelerator programs worldwide. The company has invested in over 20 unicorns including Alloy, Chainalysis, Classpass, DataRobot, Digital Ocean, Outreach, Pillpack, Remitly, SalesLoft, SendGrid and Zipline.

Topics:

- Building a Unicorn Portfolio

- Evolution of Early-Stage VC Trends

- Key Learnings from Portfolio Companies

#VentureCapital #StartupSuccess #Techstars #EarlyStageInvesting #Entrepreneurship

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