In this Episode of Startup project, Nataraj talked to Luba Lesiva, Founder of palumni.vc

Prior to starting palumni.vc she was head of investor relations for Palantir and had a career in investing at Sovereign Wealth Funds and was an investment banker at various Wall Street firms.

We talked about:

Origin story of palumni.vc
Investing in Palantir Alumni
Challenges & growth tactics in creating and growing an Alumni Syndicate
Leveraging communities to create value

Follow Luba on Twitter at https://twitter.com/loobah_l and learn more about palumni.vc here .

Nataraj is an engineer at Azure, partner at planbcapital.co & hosts thestartupproject.io podcast. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/natarajsindam & stay up to date here.

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