VC10X - Investing, Venture Capital, Asset Management, Family Office, Wealth Management

Moshe is a managing principal of Maccabee Ventures. A Yeshiva University faculty member and attorney, he has more than 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, strategic investor, and trusted advisor to early-stage technology companies. Moshe’s expertise includes SilverTech®, Digital Health, PropTech, FinTech, and Cybersecurity. We talk about: - Moshe's story and how he gained his investing know...

William Stringer is a co-founder of Chisos. At Chisos they're re-imagining the traditional VC model by leveraging ISAs and SAFE notes. In this episode we talk about: - How Chisos is different from traditional venture capital model? - How is the ISA structured? - Who can get investment from Chisos? - Founder friendly flexible payback & clawback terms - How does the investment process work? and...

Samara Hernandez is the Founding Partner at Chingona Ventures , a Chicago-based venture firm that invests in pre-seed startups, primarily in the Midwest and primarily founded by overlooked individuals who are focused on massive markets. In this episode we talk about: - Samara's story & how she started investing? - Investing in Badass founders - Looking for the "Chingona factor" in founders - E...

Olivia Hipkins is a Managing Partner at Gaia Global, a VC firm focused on active investment in early-stage impact-oriented ventures that transform our economies, lives, and planet. They invest in CleanTech, FoodTech, AgTech, and Materials spaces. Olivia is an investor, operator, and advisor focused on the intersection of sustainability and financial services. She works with investors and companies...

Atin is the Founder & General Partner at Twenty Seven Ventures, a global VC Fund that invests in EdTech and Future of Work Startups. Investing at the earliest stages (Pre-Seed/Seed), Atin looks for outstanding Founders who are building big businesses - and are nice people leaving a net positive impact on our world. In this episode we talk about: - Atin's story & how he started investing -...

David Mandel is the founder and Managing Partner of Emerging Ventures where they invest in startups operating in emerging technologies like AI, ML, NLP, Robotics, etc. Previously David founded, operated, & exited 4 startups in the finance space. He has since invested in over 500 startups as an angel or fund manager. In this episode, we talk about: - David's story and how he started investing?...

Sanjay is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Blume Ventures. Blume typically invests in pre-seed to pre-Series A startups and has built a large portfolio over the past decade, holding positions in edtech firm Unacademy, quick-commerce platform Dunzo, micro-mobility startup Yulu among many others. Recently, Blume announced the close of a $250 Million India-focused fund. In this episode, we'll tal...

Reflect Ventures invests in core infrastructure areas where there are significant barriers to entry and where digitization can enable huge economic gains. Some of their focus sectors include logistics, supply chain, distribution, commerce, and fintech. They primarily co-invest with reputable institutional lead VCs in Series Seed and A/B rounds of B2B and B2B2C startups. In this episode, we talk ab...

Steve Walsh is the founder of Hands On Angel LLC.  He is an entrepreneur and angel investor with a 20+-year executive portfolio across the sales, marketing and operations divisions of some of the largest technology and media companies including Comcast & Cox Communications.   Steve has invested in over 60 early-stage companies, helping them raise millions of dollars in capital and co...

Muieen has been writing on the topic of LP/GP fundraising and is a top writer on Medium for his articles. He has worked with various emerging managers globally helping them in various respects. In this episode, we talk about: - The Mega LP list - How GPs should approach GPs? - How LPs evaluate the funds they want to invest in? - DEI on the allocator side .. and a lot more Links mentioned: Mega LP...

Srivats Sivanandan is an operator-investor with a track record of improving organizational velocity. He's skilled at determining where to lay the train tracks (direction) and works with xfn teams to ensure that the trains run on-time (speed). In this episode, we talk about: -Srivats story and how he started investing  -His common sense approach to investing -How to build credibility as a new...

Drew is the Managing Partner of Hawke Ventures Funds 1 & 2, where he operates the venture firm through fundraising, diligence, and operating investments. In this episode, we talk about: - How Drew switched from being a musician to now a venture capitalist? - Similarities between being a music producer & a venture capitalist - Emerging trends in Martech & Adtech - The Entrepreneur Minds...

Liza Curcio-Rudy is a Portfolio and Investments Associate for Accion Venture Lab. Liza supports and leads investments in early-stage fintech companies, guides our portfolio companies through strategic projects and engagement activities, and supports additional fund initiatives around gender lens investing and LP engagement.  She is also responsible for the assessment of new investment opportu...

Matthew (Matt) Weinberg is a Partner at Max Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City that primarily invests in digital commerce and digital healthcare startups across the United States and Europe.  Prior to his current role, he was a White House appointee in the U.S. Small Business Administration and served as Senior Advisor in the Office of Investment and Innovati...

Brett Martin is the Managing Partner of Charge Ventures. Charge is an NYC-based pre-seed/seed stage venture fund. They invest 200-500k at the earliest stages of company formation and then help founders take things from 0 to 1. When not working directly with startups, Brett spreads the startup gospel as an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School. His teaching focuses on product strategy and e...

Hani Azzam is the founder of Viaka, a digital road network that facilitates the flow of capital, talent, expertise, and more between developed and growth markets. He's also a Venture Partner at +Venture Capital. In this episode, we talk about: - What is Viaka? - Startup ecosystem in MENA region - How to become a Venture Scout? - What all you will need to succeed as a scout? and lots more.. Links m...

Jesse Sung is the Principal at Terra Legacy LLC (Previously 357 Investments) where he invests & manages a portfolio of Real Estate & Startups across the United States. In this episode, we talk about- - Contrasting Real Estate & Startup investing - How Jesse finds the right startup investments? - How to spot good real estate investment opportunities? - Hottest Real Estate markets in Uni...

Eunice is the Founding Partner at Ajim Capital. Ajim Capital is an early-stage fund that invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies that focus on using technology to fill significant economic and infrastructure gaps for consumers and enterprises across Sub-Saharan Africa. In this episode, we talk about: - The African startup ecosystem - Why Africa is a great place to invest? - Most exciting sect...

Morgan Flager is the Manging Partner at Silverton Partners. He has over 25 years of experience as a venture investor and technology executive. He joined Silverton in 2006 and has sponsored 24 investments and realized 11 acquisitions and two IPOs. He currently sits on the boards of multiple portfolio companies. Prior to Silverton, Morgan worked with FTV Capital in San Francisco, where he focused on...

Jason Kirby is the Founding Partner & Managing Director at Thunder. A platform that connects capital raisers to the right capital allocators using AI and human relationships. Thunder serves startups raising $1-$20M for their Seed/A/B+ rounds or GP raising $10M+ for their funds. In this episode, we talk about: -How investment banking is broken? -How Thunder is democratizing access to capital? -...

Udit Akhouri is a co-founder & MD of Aim Capital (Aentor), a unique venture studio that partners with colleges & student entrepreneurs in India, and helps them build their startups. Udit has previously sold his past startup for $200,000. What makes his story even more exciting is that he's only 20 years old. In this episode, we talk about: What is Aentor? How Aentor partners with colleges?...

Today we've Raymond Brown with us. Angel investing since early 2018 Raymond has personally invested in over 60 startups. He was the lead investor for Zestbloom which is a web3 NFT marketplace built on the Algorand which also support NFTs search capabilities blockchain.  He has helped founders raise over $500K from investors. Scouted for DVC and Global millennial capital. He's been know to inv...

Matt Wilson is the founder and Managing Director at Allied Venture Partners. He founded Allied VC after being a private angel investor since 2012. Allied has since grown to more than 1400 investors globally, and they've deployed over $3.5 million into early stage startups across Canada and United States. In this episode, we talk about- -How the Canadian starter ecosystem is shaping up? - What's th...

Jeff Wald is a serial entrepreneur, Angel investor in "Future of Work" and an LP in several Venture Capital firms. A couple of his past companies have been sold to ADP and Salesforce. He also serves as a board member to some of his portfolio come. In this episode, we talk about- -How Jeff started investing?  -What is the $10 Million "Future of Work" prize all about?  -What he looks for i...

Mat Sherman is the founder of Seedcout - A platform that helps founders build their investor networks. Seedscout has 800+ investors in its network that are regularly reviewing deals on Seedscout and also giving feedback to founders on how they can improve. In this episode, we talk about: - Mat's story and why he started Seedscout? - How Seedscout is a Social Capital bank for founders? - Who is wea...