VC10X - Investing, Venture Capital, Asset Management, Private Equity, Family Office

Udit Akhouri is a co-founder & MD of Aim Capital (Aentor), a unique venture studio that partners with colleges & student entrepreneurs in India, and helps them build their startups. Udit has previously sold his past startup for $200,000. What makes his story even more exciting is that he's only 20 years old. In this episode, we talk about: What is Aentor? How Aentor partners with colleges? How Aentor helps student entrepreneurs build companies? Long term vision for Aentor Indian Startup Ecosystem Links mentioned in the episode: Aentor website: https://aentor.com/ Follow Udit on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AkhouriUdit Follow Udit on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/udit-akhouri-10160a168/ Hosted by Prashant Choubey (https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab) Full episode post at https://vc10x.com/fostering-entrepreurship-in-india

Today we've Raymond Brown with us. Angel investing since early 2018 Raymond has personally invested in over 60 startups. He was the lead investor for Zestbloom which is a web3 NFT marketplace built on the Algorand which also support NFTs search capabilities blockchain.  He has helped founders raise over $500K from investors. Scouted for DVC and Global millennial capital. He's been know to invest in startups before that masses.  He's also interviewed over 35 founders who have raised on platforms like Republic.com and Wefunder.com on the Money Clip Podcast. Some of his well known investments are Immersed, AltoIRA, Asaak, Stacksource and Beaconsai. In this episode we talk about: -Raymond's story & how he started investing? -What he looks for in companies while investing? -Investing on crowd funding platforms like wefunder and Republic -Helping founders raise capital .. and a lot more Links mentioned on the episode: Raymond's beacons page: https://beacons.ai/raymond_brown Follow Raymond on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Chandler_Invest Follow Raymond on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymond-c-brown Hosted by Prashant Choubey (https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab) Full episode blog at https://vc10x.com/investing-on-crowdfunding-platforms

Matt Wilson is the founder and Managing Director at Allied Venture Partners. He founded Allied VC after being a private angel investor since 2012. Allied has since grown to more than 1400 investors globally, and they've deployed over $3.5 million into early stage startups across Canada and United States. In this episode, we talk about- -How the Canadian starter ecosystem is shaping up? - What's their investment thesis at Allied Venture Partners? - Involving LPs in the value add and diligence process? - Some exciting portfolio companies - How they are tackling the recent slowdown? .. and a lot more. Links mentioned on the episode- Allied VP website: https://www.allied.vc/ Follow Matt on Twitter- https://twitter.com/MattWilsonYYC Follow Matt on Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattwilsonyyc/ Hosted by Prashant Choubey (https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab) Full episode blog at https://vc10x.com/the-canadian-startup-ecosystem

Jeff Wald is a serial entrepreneur, Angel investor in "Future of Work" and an LP in several Venture Capital firms. A couple of his past companies have been sold to ADP and Salesforce. He also serves as a board member to some of his portfolio come. In this episode, we talk about- -How Jeff started investing?  -What is the $10 Million "Future of Work" prize all about?  -What he looks for in founders and GPs while investing? -How he does not track his investments at all? -Making a call to his accountant asking him to write off his investment as soon as he makes it ..and a lot more Links mentioned in the episode- Jeff's website- https://www.jeffwald.com/ Follow Jeff on Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffwald/ Hosted by Prashant Choubey (https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab) Full episode blog at https://vc10x.com/the-dream-investor

Mat Sherman is the founder of Seedcout - A platform that helps founders build their investor networks. Seedscout has 800+ investors in its network that are regularly reviewing deals on Seedscout and also giving feedback to founders on how they can improve. In this episode, we talk about: - Mat's story and why he started Seedscout? - How Seedscout is a Social Capital bank for founders? - Who is wealthier: Venture Capitalists or Angel Investors? - What is Scouting? ..and lots more Links mentioned on the episode: Seedscout website: https://seedscout.com/ Follow Mat on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mat_Sherman Check out Seedscout blogs: https://words.seedscout.com/ Hosted by Prashant Choubey (https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab) Full episode blog at https://vc10x.com/social-capital-bank

Seth Levine is a Co-author of "The New Builders", a book that brings you Face to Face with the true future of business.  A long-time venture capitalist, Seth is a co-founder and Managing Director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, CO based venture firm. He's a passionate advocate for entrepreneurship, Seth also spends time as an advisor to venture funds and companies around the world. In this episode we talk about: -How Seth started Foundry? -Reverse Inflation in Venture Capital -All about his book The New Builders -Why e thinks entrepreneurship in the US is in a state of decline and a lot more.. Links mentioned: Get the book: https://thenewbuilders.com/ Seth's blog: https://sethlevine.com/ Foundry Website: https://foundry.vc/ Follow Seth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sether Follow Seth on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sethjlevine/ Full episode blog at https://vc10x.com/the-new-builders

Eze is co-founder and Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures. Previously, he was a General Partner at Google Ventures (GV), Alphabet’s venture capital arm, the European head of Google for Entrepreneurs and the founding head of Campus London, Google’s first physical hub for startups, now available in 7 countries and 30 partner hubs.  While at Google, Eze spearheaded strategic commerce partnerships in EMEA, and helped launch Google Shopping, Local Shopping, and Google Wallet in various European markets. At Remagine, he's investing in seed/pre-seed startups in interactive entertainment, metaverse, and consumer tech with a focus on Israel. Full episode blog at https://vc10x.com/metaverse-gaming-web3 Remagine website ventures: https://remagineventures.com Read Eze's blog at https://vccafe.com Subscribe to Eze's Newsletter at https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/firgun-6954740769651871744/ Follow Eze on Linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ezevidra/ Follow Eze on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ediggs Hosted by Prashant Choubey (https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab)

David S. Rose is an Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur, real estate developer and financial technology investor who has founded or funded over 100 pioneering companies.  He has been described by Forbes as "New York's Archangel", by BusinessWeek as a "world conquering entrepreneur", by Crain's New York Business as "the father of angel investing in New York”, and by Red Herring magazine as "patriarch of Silicon Alley".  He is the New York Times best-selling author of both Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money & Having Fun Investing in Startups, and The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth Business. In this episode we talk about- -David's story -What is traction? -Angel investing Vs VC funds -How to track investments?  -Scaled mentoring  -His take on the current slowdown in the market and more.. Links mentioned in the episode- Follow David on Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidsrose/ Follow David on Twitter- https://twitter.com/davidsrose Follow David on Quora- https://www.quora.com/profile/David-S-Rose/answers/Startups Episode link - https://vc10x.com/father-of-new-york-angel-investing

Martin Tobias, the founder of Incisive Ventures. With over 25 years of investing, he has identified seven meta themes and developed a screening process that has produced superior returns. This process has grown out of the analysis of hundreds of investments and what has been common among the winners in their characteristics and his decision process. His direct investments have delivered 3x the returns versus his LP interests in other Venture funds, leading many to encourage him to start Incisive Ventures. Out of hundreds of deals across his desk, only a handful, the ones he is most confident of giving a > 10x return, make the cut as an investment. He is a serial entrepreneur who has also invested in over 250 companies as an angel, half a dozen as a venture partner at a major VC firm, and he is a limited partner in over a dozen VC funds. He is also the Founder of a leading Angel network, Element8. In this episode, we talk about: 1. Martin's story & how he started investing 2. 7 meta themes he uses to evaluate a potential investment 3. Why laziness wins? 4. His biggest learnings from 25 years of investing & much more. Links: Pitch Martin: https://incisive.vc/ Read Martin's blogs: https://incisive.vc/insight/ Follow Martin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartinGTobias Hosted by: https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab Listen/read full episode on https://vc10x.com/7-meta-themes

Jed started Angel investing 5 years ago. He got his first exit in year 2, and his first unicorn 2 years after that. He saw syndicates as a way to scale capital, diversify risk, and earn more upside through carried interest. He learned that it's really HARD to build a syndicate from 0 for three reasons: 01 No best practices: Building syndicates isn’t a structured discipline today. Google “how to start an angel syndicate” and you’ll get piecemeal answers about creating a syndicate on AngelList or how syndicates work. There’s simply no single end-to-end view of the process. 02 Broad skillsets required: Building a successful syndicate is like running startup. You’ll be convincing LPs to look at your dealflow (BizDev), performing due diligence (Being a VC), sharing deals with your LPs (marketing) and closing capital (Sales). It takes all these skillsets at the right amounts at the right time. 03 The chicken-and-egg problem: Functioning syndicates require both LPs and dealflow at the same time. There’s a ‘cold start’ problem in having to solve both sides of the equation at once. Angel School helps you overcome all these obstacles to start your own Angel Syndicate. In this episode, we talk about: 1. What is an Angel Syndicate? 2. How's it different from a Venture Fund? 3. Why starting an Angel Syndicate is a good idea? 4. How Angel School helps you overcome the obstacles? ..and more Angel School Website: https://angelschool.vc/ Follow Jed on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jedng/ Follow Jed on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jed_Ng1 Hosted by Prashant Choubey: https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab Find the entire episode blog post at https://vc10x.com/how-to-start-an-angel-syndicate