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Venture with Grace

Ullas Naik: Streamlined Ventures Founder on AI and Data Science Investing

Jul 31, 2024
57:03

Ullas Naik is the Founder and General Partner at Streamlined Ventures. At Streamlined, Ullas has led seed investments in almost 20 companies valued at over $1Bn, including iconic companies such as Doordash (IPO), Applovin (IPO), Rappi, Forge (IPO), EasyPost, OpenGov (acquisition), FLYR Labs, Rescale, Flip, Speechify, Medable, Bolt, and TubiTV (acquisition). Over the last 25 years, Ullas has seed/angel invested in nearly 150 companies. He is also an investor in numerous venture capital funds. Additionally, Ullas helped co-found the full lifecycle investment firm, Cota Capital. Prior to his current role, Ullas was a senior member of the investment team and helped build venture capital firm Globespan Capital Partners. At Globespan, they invested in early stage rounds of numerous iconic companies including Palo Alto Networks (IPO), Roku (IPO), Redfin (IPO), UpWork (IPO), BladeLogic (IPO), Virident (acquisition), Q1 Labs (acquisition), and Virtusa (IPO). Topics: - Evolution of Seed Stage Investing - AI and Data Science Trends - Building a Successful VC Fund #VentureCapital #Investing #StartupFunding #FundManagement #Entrepreneurship

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