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William Stringer is a co-founder of Chisos. At Chisos they're re-imagining the traditional VC model by leveraging ISAs and SAFE notes. In this episode we talk about: - How Chisos is different from traditional venture capital model? - How is the ISA structured? - Who can get investment from Chisos? - Founder friendly flexible payback & clawback terms - How does the investment process work? and lot more.. Links mentioned in the episode: Chisos website: https://chisos.io Follow William on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wdstringer Hosted by Prashant Choubey: https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab Full episode blog at https://vc10x.com/chisos

Samara Hernandez is the Founding Partner at Chingona Ventures, a Chicago-based venture firm that invests in pre-seed startups, primarily in the Midwest and primarily founded by overlooked individuals who are focused on massive markets. In this episode we talk about: - Samara's story & how she started investing? - Investing in Badass founders - Looking for the "Chingona factor" in founders - Exciting portfolio companies and more.. Links mentioned on the episode: Pitch Chingona Ventures: https://www.chingona.ventures/apply Follow Samara on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamaraMHernandz Follow Chingona Ventures on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chingonaventures/ Full episode blog at https://vc10x.com/chingona-ventures

Olivia Hipkins is a Managing Partner at Gaia Global, a VC firm focused on active investment in early-stage impact-oriented ventures that transform our economies, lives, and planet. They invest in CleanTech, FoodTech, AgTech, and Materials spaces. Olivia is an investor, operator, and advisor focused on the intersection of sustainability and financial services. She works with investors and companies across venture capital and private equity to integrate sustainability in capital allocation decisions, empowering investment professionals and executive teams to see sustainability as an opportunity for positive impact and returns. She has worked with numerous private companies and investors spanning the real asset markets (including metals & mining, oil & gas, renewable energy, supply chain, and blockchain for real assets), driving strategic initiatives, outlining sustainable growth plans, and developing funding and capital raising plans. Oliva has previously held executive positions at Qenta Inc. (fka Emergent Technology & Payments) and 17 Asset Management, as well as served as an investment professional at Castlelake LP, the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group), and PIMCO. In this episode we talk about: - Impact investing - Solutions for climate change - Return expectations - Some exciting portfolio companies and lots more.. Links mentioned in the episode: Follow Olivia on Twitter - https://twitter.com/odyssey_olivia Gaia Global website - https://gaiaglobal.io/ Hosted by Prashant Choubey - https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab Subscribe to VC10X for more insightful VC episodes!

Atin is the Founder & General Partner at Twenty Seven Ventures, a global VC Fund that invests in EdTech and Future of Work Startups. Investing at the earliest stages (Pre-Seed/Seed), Atin looks for outstanding Founders who are building big businesses - and are nice people leaving a net positive impact on our world. In this episode we talk about: - Atin's story & how he started investing - Founder fellowship program - Investment process at 27V - Value-add as a solo-GP and more.. Links mentioned in the episode: 27v website: https://www.27v.vc/ Atin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/batraatin Hosted by Prashant Choubey (https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab) Full episode post at https://vc10x.com/27v

David Mandel is the founder and Managing Partner of Emerging Ventures where they invest in startups operating in emerging technologies like AI, ML, NLP, Robotics, etc. Previously David founded, operated, & exited 4 startups in the finance space. He has since invested in over 500 startups as an angel or fund manager. In this episode, we talk about: - David's story and how he started investing? - Will AI take our jobs? - Will there be new types of jobs for humans? - Investing in founders who do more with less - Focus on execution and more.. Links mentioned in the episode: Emerging Ventures website - https://emerging.vc/ Follow David on Twitter - https://twitter.com/MandelAngel Follow David on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-mandel-/ Read David's blog - https://www.davidmandelblog.com/ Hosted by Parshant Choubey (https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab) Full episode blog at https://vc10x.com/emerging-ventures

Sanjay is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Blume Ventures. Blume typically invests in pre-seed to pre-Series A startups and has built a large portfolio over the past decade, holding positions in edtech firm Unacademy, quick-commerce platform Dunzo, micro-mobility startup Yulu among many others. Recently, Blume announced the close of a $250 Million India-focused fund. In this episode, we'll talk about: - Blume's origin story - Focus of the new $250 Mil fund IV - Secret behind Blume's success - Contrasting US & India Startup Ecosystems - Why the next decade belongs to India? - Common traits in founders that win over & over again - Is a co-founder necessary? - Perspective on exits - Learnings/mistakes made in the journey Links mentioned in the episode: Blume Ventures website - https://blume.vc/ Follow Sanjay on Twitter - https://twitter.com/sanjaynath Pitch Blume at info@blume.vc Hosted by Prashant Choubey (https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab) Full episode blog at https://vc10x.com/blume-ventures

Reflect Ventures invests in core infrastructure areas where there are significant barriers to entry and where digitization can enable huge economic gains. Some of their focus sectors include logistics, supply chain, distribution, commerce, and fintech. They primarily co-invest with reputable institutional lead VCs in Series Seed and A/B rounds of B2B and B2B2C startups. In this episode, we talk about: - Investment thesis at Reflect Ventures - Investing in emerging markets - How they generate Venture scale returns with the typical VC risk? - "Hair blown back" moment for syndicates and more.. Links mentioned in the episode: Reflect Ventures website- http://www.reflectventures.com/ Pitch here - invest@reflectventures.com Michel's LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelfriedman88/ Jor's LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorlaw88/ Hosted by Parshant Choubey - https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab Full episode blog at https://vc10x.com/vc-scale-returns

Steve Walsh is the founder of Hands On Angel LLC.  He is an entrepreneur and angel investor with a 20+-year executive portfolio across the sales, marketing and operations divisions of some of the largest technology and media companies including Comcast & Cox Communications.   Steve has invested in over 60 early-stage companies, helping them raise millions of dollars in capital and countless connections via Hands On Angel’s key strategic relationships and partnerships. In this episode we talk about: - What is Hands on Angel? - Public market investing V/s private market investing - What Steve looks for in founders while investing? - Investing in underrepresented founders - Value add for portfolio companies ..and lots more Links mentioned in the episode: Hands-on Angel website- https://www.handsonangel.com/ Follow Steve on Linkedin-https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-walsh-a791a44/ Follow Steve on Twitter- https://twitter.com/HandsOnAngel1 Full episode blog at https://vc10x.com/hands-on-angel

Muieen has been writing on the topic of LP/GP fundraising and is a top writer on Medium for his articles. He has worked with various emerging managers globally helping them in various respects. In this episode, we talk about: - The Mega LP list - How GPs should approach GPs? - How LPs evaluate the funds they want to invest in? - DEI on the allocator side .. and a lot more Links mentioned: Mega LP List- https://www.mega-lp-list.com/ Muieen's blog - https://muieen.medium.com/ Resources for DEI for GPs, Founders and aspiring VCs -https://muieen.medium.com/list/resources-for-gps-d5c220707799 Follow Muieen on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/muieen/ Follow Muieen on Twitter - https://twitter.com/MuieenCader Full episode blog at https://vc10x.com/mega-lp-list

Srivats Sivanandan is an operator-investor with a track record of improving organizational velocity. He's skilled at determining where to lay the train tracks (direction) and works with xfn teams to ensure that the trains run on-time (speed). In this episode, we talk about: -Srivats story and how he started investing  -His common sense approach to investing -How to build credibility as a new investor? -The Enthusiasm Interview .. and lots more Links mentioned in the episode: Follow Srivats on Twitter- https://twitter.com/srewats Follow Srivats on Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/in/srivatss/ Hosted by Prashant Choubey (https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab) Full episode blog at https://vc10x.com/the-commonsense-investor