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Episode 8 of Rally Cap VC's podcast is dropping next week, featuring Wael Nafee, General Partner at RAED Ventures. Raed Ventures is the leading Saudi early-stage VC firm, with ~$450m in AUM. Their portfolio includes Tabby [$1.5b val], Foodics [$170 Series C], Salla E-Commerce Platform [$130m pre-IPO], Unifonic [$125m Series B], Sary [$75m Series C], Lean Technologies [$67m Series B], Noon - The Social Learning Platform [$41m Series B], and so many more. While the kingdom 🇸🇦 is sometimes mistaken as an 'easy-to-fundraise' destination, this misconception cannot be further from the truth. This conversation with Wael [whom many founders refer to as their 'favorite investor'] offers a glimpse into the sophistication of institutional investors in the region.

Rich McDerby was featured on the Hsu Untied podcast where he discussed his background, how his practice evolved after the Great Recession, his experiences starting his own law firm before joining Manatt and more. Learn more and view the full interview here: 

🎧🍌 New podcast with Ed Sim, Founder of boldstart ventures, backing bold founders reinventing the enterprise stack at the inception stage. Our 100+ minute conversation goes inside key moments building boldstart from its first $1m fund in 2010 to over $850m in AUM today. Ed shares the grind of raising their first four funds, and being the first investor in companies like Snyk, Superhuman, Kustomer, BigID, Blockdaemon, and ProtectAI. Ed also gives us his playbook for building customer relationships, the 5 P’s of inception stage investing, the 3 Ch’s of a good board member, thinking through winners and losers in AI, and why he likes investing before there’s a market map. Search "The Peel" in your favorite podcast player, or link to listen / watch in the comments 👇

I really enjoyed recording this episode of The Digital Industrial Podcast with Ty Findley. We talked about common misconceptions for deep tech, the "Why Now" for the category, and differences between investor diligence for deep tech and traditional tech. https://lnkd.in/eKtwjauu

Loved this interview with Engine Ventures's Reed Sturtevant by Keith Cline on the VentureFizz podcast! Some highlights: - How TechStars got started in Boston - How MIT's Engine incubator works, what types of companies are part of it. Reed Sturtevant co-ran multiple Boston Area VC-based incubators, including TechStars, early on, and, now, The Engine. - What technologies come out of MIT. - How the recipe for starting a tech-based company out of MIT is different that the classic Sillicon Valley Lean Startup methodology - given that you often start with a revolutionary technology, and iterate to find a market for it - Lots about the history of successful startups in Boston! His book recommendations: - Venture Deals, by Brad Feld - to understand things like term sheets - The Founder's Dilemmas, by Noam Wasserman - check out Chap 6, which gets into how to split equity between founders - Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital, by Carlota Perez - what remains after a big tech revolution, and after the excitement/bubble that come with it - Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy - by William H. Janeway, in the same vein as the previous book, but going in more detail - ... and The Making of the Atomic Bomb - by Richard Rhodes

🆕 How do two legendary venture investors, one at seed and one at growth, pick a winner? In the latest episode of Origins, co-hosts Elizabeth "Beezer" Clarkson (LP at Sapphire Partners) and Nicholas Chirls (GP at Asylum Ventures) are joined by two of the best in the business 🥁🥁🥁 Mike Maples, Jr, founding partner and seed investor at Floodgate, and Jai Das, President and Partner at Sapphire Ventures, share what it takes to identify pattern-breaking founders and companies of consequence at their respective stages, plus: - How to spot a founder can shape the future - Recognizing inflection points in a computing and cognition sea change - Are there more opportunities in the market for VCs today? - The throughline that doesn’t change from seed to growth: team - The first mover advantage at seed - Do pivots happen at growth? - You don’t always have to create a new category to win enterprise software  - How are seed and growth investors thinking about exits in this market? Tune in to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts, linked in the comments! 👇 #OpenLP #Origins #VC #SeedInvesting #GrowthStage

🎈 🎈 At this year's Startup Safari, there was a huge interest in the unusual live OXO CoffeeBreak podcast recording, with Safari participants barely fitting into the studio set up in Create.26. 🎙In the third and last discussion of the day, Balázs Szabó, CEO of HOLD Fund Management and Peter Csillag, founder of Starschema and investor in HunBAN were the guests of Péter Oszkó. And the title of the episode speaks for itself: what trends can we expect in the financing of technological development? 💡 Listen to the conversation to get up to date with the latest industry developments! Link to this episode in the comment section 🔗

My latest podcast - From Start up to Exit. This episode covers the basics of the entire business life cycle all the way through and exit into Private Equity.

My venture journey began by accident in 2012—I became an LP in Point Nine before I knew the venture world. 12 years on, I've gained a 360° view as a startup operator, angel investor, and venture fund investor. Being an LP provides me a unique vantage point and network when evaluating and advising startups. Founders, it's crucial to understand the motivations of those funding your VCs. This insight helps you understand their return expectations and risk tolerance, directly influencing VC strategies. There are differences to SE Asia Venture LP scene, but the Origins podcast by Nicholas Chirls and Elizabeth "Beezer" Clarkson is a great start https://lnkd.in/g-Er7mDR.

Episode 26 of our Investor Insights series features Martin Davis, Chief Executive Officer of Molten Ventures. The Venture Capital investment company sector has suffered the full force of the shift in market sentiment as one of the steepest periods of rising interest rates in history significantly impacted the funding environment, the cost of capital and the workings of primary capital markets. However, despite this challenging period, there remains an important and persistent trend of businesses staying private for longer, meaning a greater share of wealth creation by successful, digitally-enabled business models is being generated by private investors before listing. Against this backdrop, this was a timely point to speak to the CEO of one of the largest listed VC investment companies in Europe. The full Investor Insights playlist can be found via the Killik & Co YouTube Channel https://lnkd.in/eYuwDbHa and on Spotify https://lnkd.in/epdwxYM8