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Cameron Newton is a Founding Member & Managing Partner at Relevance Ventures, based in Nashville, Tennessee, investing in the wellness sector.  In this episode, we talk about - - Story of why Relevance Ventures was started - Mental health crisis in the US - How big is the opportunity in the wellness sector? - How does Relevance help it's portfolio companies succeed? - Their portfolio construction strategy - Cameron's biggest learning investing in startups over the years & lots more Links: Relevance Ventures - https://www.relevanceventures.com/ Follow Relevance on X - https://x.com/RelevanceVC Follow Relevance on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/relevance-ventures/ Follow Cameron on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronnewton Follow Cameron on X - https://x.com/CameronNewton11 Hosted by Prashant Choubey LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab X - https://x.com/ChoubeySahab Subscribe to VC10X for more insightful episodes!

Alex Pattis is a General Partner at Riverside Ventures. A venture fund & angel syndicate with over 10,000+ LPs & $200 Million+ in assets under management. Alex has also been a founding team member at Hampton, a private & vetted community of founders & CEOs by Sam Parr & Joe Speiser. Alex also writes 'Last Money In' newsletter with his Partner Zachary Ginsburg where they share weekly data driven analysis of venture capital & syndicates.In this episode we talk about -- How they scaled Riverside syndicate to 10,000+ LPs?- How they source deals & engage LPs at Riverside?- Significance of co-investors- Early days of Hampton- Insight into what it's like to be a member of Hampton- How investing in bridge rounds helped them get 10x outcomes?- Tools & processes they use to run the Riverside syndicate& lots more Links - Riverside Ventures - https://www.riversideventures.com/ Subscribe to 'Last Money In' - https://lastmoneyin.beehiiv.com/ Follow Alex on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-pattis-1709011a/ Hosted by Prashant Choubey Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab Subscribe to VC10X for more insightful episodes!

We have Maximilian Winter, General Partner & Krish Ramadurai, Partner at Harmonix fund with us. Harmonix invests in technological breakthroughs that will help create a future for a healthy, operational, and peaceful civilization. The fund focuses on exceptional entrepreneurs and innovative healthcare, life sciences, and deep tech companies. In this episode, we talk about - - Backing scientific innovations - Secret behind the success of their fund with their portfolio crossing $7 billion - How do they source high-quality deals? - Role of scientific research - Some breakthrough innovations that they've backed - Portfolio construction strategy & lots more Links: Harmonix Fund - https://harmonixfund.com Follow Maximilian on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximilianwinter Follow Krish on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishramadurai Subscribe to VC10X for more insightful episodes!

Stephen Marks is the Managing Partner at Emmersion Capital. Emmersion Capital invests in lower middle market businesses and complementary early-stage companies with international growth prospects in the U.S., & Latin American region. Stephen has advised private equity, family offices, asset managers, and middle market companies on both domestic United States and cross-border opportunities in Latin America in a consulting and fractional capacity. In this episode, we talk about- - How LPs have changed their approach to VC deployment? - The need for VCs to show returns to LPs - Impact of how startups operate - The chain reaction in the VC ecosystem - The Latin American startup ecosystem - Outsourcing potential of Latin America - Buy & Sell side activity - Uptick in secondary transactions & a lot more Links : Emmersion Capital - https://www.emmersioncapital.com/ Apertura - https://apertura.co/ Follow Stephen on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sdmarks/ Follow Stephen on X - https://twitter.com/stephendmarks Hosted by Prashant Choubey - https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab/ Episode video available at YouTube.com/@VC10X Subscribe to VC10X for more insightful episodes!

Brett Calhoun is a General Partner at Redbud Ventures, an early-stage sector agnostic VC firm based in the United States. Brett was featured on the Forbes investor list of 30 under 30. In this episode, we talk about - - Brett's story and how he started investing - Investing thesis at Redbud Ventures - Why they made a pivot from being an accelerator to a VC firm? - Why accelerators are Plan B for founders? - Midwest startup ecosystem & lots more.. Links - Website - https://www.redbud.vc/ Follow Brett on X - https://x.com/brettcalhounn Follow Brett on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettcalhoun393 Hosted by Prashant Choubey - https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab Subscribe to VC10X for more episodes!

Mahankali Srinivas Rao (MSR) is the Chief Executive Officer of T-Hub and leads its mission of driving results and collaboration for entrepreneurs’ success. An accomplished serial entrepreneur, MSR has built and scaled businesses across geographies over his 35-year stint in the IT industry. At T-hub he's leading the biggest innovation centre in the world spanning 585,000 sq. ft. In this episode, we talk about - - What is T-hub? - Different programs for startups at T-Hub - Intent of Telangana Government - How T-hub supports startups? - Perspective on the Indian startup ecosystem & lots more Links: Website - https://t-hub.co/ Follow MSR on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/srinivas-rao-mahankali-msr-767b77175 Follow T-Hub on X - https://x.com/THubHyd Hosted by Prashant Choubey - https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab Subscribe to VC10X for more episodes!

Jay Kolbe is a co-founder of Impact Partners, a PR firm working with top names in VC, Family Offices & High Networth Individuals. In this episode, we talk about-  - What is PR? - Importance of PR for VCs - Common misconceptions about PR - Crisis Management in PR - Focus on "impactful" coverage over maximizing for reach - Using exclusivity to get clients featured in top publications - Role of PR in fundraising announcements - Future of PR & lots more Links: Impact Partners website: https://impactpartners.llc/ Follow Jay on Twitter: https://x.com/JayKolbe Follow Jonathan (Co-founder) on Twitter: https://x.com/zabackj Follow Impact Partners of LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/impactpartnrs/ Hosted by Prashant Choubey - https://x.com/ChoubeySahab Subscribe to VC10X for more insightful episodes!

Alex Harris is a Founding Partner of Fiat Growth and General Partner at Fiat Ventures. Prior to Fiat, Alex led paid growth and partnerships at Chime, flexing his innovation skills and data-driven approach. His deep knowledge of the Fintech market provides superior marketing, business development, and growth strategies for Fiat’s clients.  In this episode we talk about: - How they've reverse engineered venture capital? - Their Platform-first approach to venture capital - How they help startups succeed at Fiat Growth - What's the most underhyped & overhyped sectors in fintech? - Why they've a heavy reserve strategy a Fiat VC, keeping aside 3x-4x initial investment for follow on rounds? - How can companies cut costs and grow sustainablly? & lots more Links- Website - https://fiat.vc Follow Alex on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexharrisjdmba/ Hosted by Prashant Choubey - https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab/ Subscribe to VC10X  for more episodes!

Michael Girdley spent the last 30 years building a $100M+ holding company which holds 12 businesses. He's also built a 195,000+ Twitter following and a newsletter with over 20k readers. In this episode, we talk about - - What is a holding company? - What does he look for while evaluating a business opportunity? - How do he decide between build, buy, or invest? - Why is the Holdco model gaining popularity? - His content creation system & importance of personal branding in finding great opportunities to invest, hire, and acquire - Biggest learnings founding and acquiring businesses over the past 30 years - His advice for founders trying to build in the current investment market & lots more Links (in order of being mentioned in the episode) Podcasting agency for investors - https://podcast10x.com Michael's website - https://girdley.com/ Follow Michael on X - https://twitter.com/girdley Subscribe to Michael on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@UC-mfn4ibOC5ewLcpmgl0C4g Subscribe to  VC10X  for more insightful episodes!

Justin Izzo is Research Lead and Data Expert at Dropbox DocSend, a popular deck sharing and analytics tool used by founders across the world.  In the episode we talk about: - What are the most important slides to include in your pitch deck?  - What slides do investors spend the most time on? - How many slides should your pitch deck contain?  - How to access and analyze pitch deck interaction insights? - Importance of communicating path to profitability to investors - Are investors experiencing any kind of FOMO or are they willing to wait and watch as they sit on dry powder? & lots more Links:  Docsend - https://www.docsend.com/ Docsend on X - https://x.com/DocSend Docsend on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/docsend Subscribe to VC10X for more insightful episodes!