This Week in Startups

ANGEL: Canaan’s Maha Ibrahim on fund sizing, distribution strategies & early VC days | E1687

Feb 28, 2023

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Canaan Funds

02:06

Is There a Timing Bet on FinTech?

02:07

Coinbase IPO

02:04

Introduction

2min

Canan Partners

3min

What Is Your First Experience in Venture?

2min

Is It a Shock to the System?

3min

Do You Think We're in a Bad Period?

3min

What Was VC Like in 2000?

3min

Is It a Chicken and the Egg Problem?

2min

Cast AI Audits and Optimizes Your Cloud Cost and Performance

3min

Is There a Timing Bet on FinTech?

2min

10.

Coinbase IPO

2min

11.

How Do You Surfed the Real Real IPO?

2min

12.

How Much Stock Should You Distribute?

2min

13.

Is It a Function of the Chicken and Egg Problem?

2min

14.

What Isn't Learnt When Everything's So Easy?

2min

15.

VC Boards

3min

16.

Pre-New Vote

3min

17.

Climate Tech Investing

2min

18.

Is There an Opportunity in Being a Generalist?

2min

19.

Early Stage Investing Will Always Attract Money

2min

20.

Timing Is the Biggest Variable

3min

21.

Canaan Funds

2min

22.

VC Fund Structure - I Don't Know Enough to Ask That Question

3min

23.

Is There a Diversity in Your Investments?

2min

24.

Are There Enough Women in Venture Firms?

2min

25.

How Are You Looking at the Next Five Years?

2min

Maha Ibrahim of Canaan joins Molly to discuss her early days in VC (1:38), managing distributions and exiting at the right time (20:36), the clean tech bubble, being a generalist/specialist, diversity, and more (37:42).

(0:00) Molly kicks off the show

(1:38) Maha’s first years in venture

(11:18) LinkedIn Jobs - Go to https://linkedIn.com/angel and post your first job for free.

(12:43) Investing in the early 2000s and Canaan’s strategy

(19:12) Cast.ai - Get a free cloud cost audit with a personal consultation at https://cast.ai/twist

(20:36) Exiting at the right time and distributing earnings

(30:00) Learning from a downturn

(34:58) The mismatch between VCs to outlier startups

(36:11) Prenuvo - Get $300 off at http://prenuvo.com/twist

(37:42) The climate tech bubble

(40:14) Generalists vs. specialists

(42:16) Responding to cycles and signs of good timing

(48:53) Structuring a generational off-ramp

(51:39) All Raise

(55:30) What does the future hold?

FOLLOW Maha: https://twitter.com/mahaibrahim

FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

FOLLOW Molly: https://twitter.com/mollywood

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This Week in Startups

ANGEL: Canaan’s Maha Ibrahim on fund sizing, distribution strategies & early VC days | E1687

Canaan Funds

Is There a Timing Bet on FinTech?

Coinbase IPO

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