
VC10X - Investing, Asset Management, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Family Office
On VC10X you will hear from world's top venture capitalists, investors, asset managers, and family offices talk about their investing thesis, asset allocation, due diligence, risk management, valuations, diversification, return expectations, exits, and more.
If you're interested in the investment world, you're in for a treat!
Hosted by Prashant Choubey (@ChoubeySahab on Twitter)
Latest episodes

Oct 16, 2024 • 41min
VC10X - What Are Celebrity-led Brands? - Scott Van den Berg, Founder & GP, Hotstart VC
Scott Van den Berg is the founder & General Partner of Hotstart VC, a venture capital fund that invests in celebrity-led brands.
In this episode, we talk about -
- What are celebrity-led brands?
- What edge do celebrity-led brands have over traditional startups?
- Why celebrities are starting their own brands?
- Some popular celebrity-led brand success & failure stories
- How they evaluate a celebrity led brand for investment?
- The impact celebrity-led brands have on the wealth of the celebrity
& lots more
Links:
⭐ Sponsored by Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.com
Hotstart VC website - https://hotstart.vc
Follow Scott on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-van-den-berg-22b534150
🎙️ Hosted by Prashant Choubey
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Oct 15, 2024 • 37min
FamilyOffice10x - $84 Trillion Wealth Transfer - Ryan Austin, CEO, Arondight Advisors
Ryan Austin is the CEO of Arondight Advisors, where he leverages his network of family offices to connect startup founders & fund managers with the right people to fund their business.
In this episode, we talk about -
- How Ryan built relationships with family offices?
- The $84 trillion wealth transfer
- How is the new generation different from the previous generation in managing family assets
- Why family offices are a great source of patient capital for startups?
- What do family offices look for in businesses?
& lots more
Links:
⭐ Sponsored by Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.com
Arondight Advisors website - https://arondightadvisors.com/
Follow Ryan on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-a-austin
🎙️ Hosted by Prashant Choubey
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Oct 10, 2024 • 42min
VC10X - Investing in FrontierTech - Jonathan Lacoste, Founder & General Partner, SpaceVC
Jonathan Lacoste is the founder & General Partner at SpaceVC investing in pre-seed frontier tech startups. SpaceVC has recently closed a 22.5 Million fund II.
In this episode, we talk about -
- The new fund with an expanded focus on frontier tech
- Fundraising learnings from raising fund 2
- Some breakout companies from fund 1
- Exciting opportunities in frontier tech
- SpaceX Vs Boeing in bringing back astronauts
- Biggest learning investing in startups
& lots more
Links:
⭐ Sponsored by Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.com
SpaceVC website - https://www.spacevc.com/
Follow Jonathan on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanlacoste
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Follow SpaceVC on X - https://x.com/TheSpaceVC
🎙️ Hosted by Prashant Choubey
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Oct 8, 2024 • 57min
FamilyOffice10x - What are Multi-family Offices? - Isaac Richard III, CEO, Mavros Capital
Isaac Richard III is an entrepreneur and CEO of Mavros Capital, a fully integrated multi-family office with the mission to shape the future of how significant wealth is managed, how capital is deployed and how legacies are extended across generations.
In this episode, we talk about -
- What are multi-family offices and how are they different from single family offices?
- What all services do multi-family offices offer?
- What all asset classes are multi-family offices interested in?
- What mistakes most families make in managing wealth?
- How do more families optimize for succession and build a multi-generation family office?
& lots more
⭐ Sponsored by Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.com
Mavros Group website - https://www.mavrosgroup.com/
Follow Isaac on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacrichard
🎙️ Hosted by Prashant Choubey
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Oct 1, 2024 • 43min
VC10X - Investing in Israeli founders - Gili Elkin, Co-founder & Managing Partner, ICI Fund
Gili is a co-founder and Managing Partner at ICI Fund. Gili’s vision is to transform critical industries with AI tech solutions led by Israeli founders.
In this episode, we talk about -
- Gili's story and how she started investing
- How has the ICI fund evolved overtime?
- What does she look for in a business while evaluating an investment opportunity?
- Perspective on the Israeli startup ecosystem currently
- How they help Isareli founders get access to the US markets?
& lots more
Links:
⭐Sponsored by Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.com
ICI fund website - https://ici.fund/
Follow Gili on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilielkin
🎙️ Hosted by Prashant Choubey
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VC10X is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube.

Sep 26, 2024 • 1h 8min
PE10X - How Does Private Equity Work? - Justin Pollack, Managing Director, PineBridge Investments
Justin Pollack is the Managing Director, Private Funds Group at PineBridge Investments. PineBridge Investments is a private equity firm managing over $150 billion in AUM. Justin is responsible for oversight of the global investment program of the Private Funds Group.
In this episode, we talk about -
- What is private equity?
- What are the different types of deals that private equity firms do?
- How different is private equity from venture capital?
- How do PE firms evaluate businesses?
- What are leveraged buyouts?
- How do private equity firms operate?
- Portfolio construction approach at PE firms
& lots more
Links -
⭐ Sponsored by Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.com
PineBridge Investments - https://www.pinebridge.com/
Follow Justin on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinpollack
🎙️ Hosted by Prashant Choubey
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VC10X is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube.

Sep 25, 2024 • 46min
VC10X - India Will Add $5 trillion in Market Cap in Next 10 Years - Aakash Kumar, MD, Z47 & DeVC
Aakash Kumar is a Managing Director at Z47 & DeVC. Aakash likes to partner with founders in that early stage to enable them to generate maximum momentum.
In the past, as an active angel investor, he has enabled 100+ founders to start and build compelling businesses.
In this episode, we talk about -
- Aakash's operator experience at companies like Housing(dot)com & Hotstar
- The investment thesis at Z47
- Why did they rebrand from Matrix Partners to Z47?
- The thinking behind investing in companies like Ola Electric, Razorpay, OfBusiness in the early stages?
- The massive India opportunity
- Common mistakes founders make in the early stages of the business
& lots more
Links:
⭐Sponsored by Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.com
Z47 - https://www.z47.com/
DeVC - https://www.devc.com/
Follow Aakash on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kumaraakash
Follow Aakash on X - https://x.com/RTinkslinger
🎙️ Hosted by Prashant Choubey
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VC10X is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube.

Sep 19, 2024 • 43min
VC10X - Investing in AI and Deep Tech - Mitchell Kominsky, Founder and General Partner, Futureland Ventures
Mitchell is an early-stage investor, technical startup founder, and former senior government official.
As the Founder and General Partner of Futureland Ventures, Mitchell invests in transformative AI and deep tech startups. Futureland has been investing in visionary founders building novel solutions for difficult problems such as compute, supply chain, climate change, transportation, IoT, and robotics.
In this episode, we talk about -
- Mitchell's story and how he started investing
- How Mitchell's past experience in government and policy gives him an edge in spotting opportunities early
- Their focus on AI & Deep tech startups
- How does the government think about technology policies that foster innovation
- How Futureland gets allocation in competitive deals
& lots more
Links:
⭐ Sponsored by Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.com
Futureland Ventures website - https://www.futurelandventures.com/
Follow Mitchell Kominsky on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchellkominsky
🎙️ Hosted by Prashant Choubey
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VC10X is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube.

Sep 17, 2024 • 41min
VC10X - Turning "employees" into "founders" - Rob Liu, Founder, Athena VC
Rob Liu is the founder of Athena VC, where he is aiming to help 500 founders from developing countries start their businesses by matching their salaries for 6 months.
Rob is also the founder of ContactOut, a bootstrapped email prospecting tool, which has made over $10 million in revenue.
In this episode, we talk about -
- What is Athena VC?
- How they are matching salaries to back high-potential folks to start companies
- What they look for in candidates while evaluating them for the program
- How they help founders find the right thing to work on
- How is the Athena VC program structured?
& lots more
Links:
⭐ Sponsored by Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.com
Follow Rob on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robliu
Follow Rob on X - https://x.com/RobLiuLiu
Athena VC website - athena.vc
🎙️ Hosted by Prashant Choubey
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Sep 12, 2024 • 38min
VC10X - Investing in Scientists Turned Founders - Elena Itskovich, Founding GP, Nest Catalyst
Elena Itskovich is a Founding GP at Nest Catalyst. She is a scientist turned investor and is investing in scientists turned founders who are building Life Sciences startups.
In this episode, we talk about -
- Elena's story and how she started investing
- Do scientists make good founders?
- The investment thesis at Nest Catalyst
- Are scientists naturally good at business or does that require some training?
- Some exciting portfolio companies
& lots more
Links:
⭐ Sponsored by Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.com
Follow Elena on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/elena-itskovich
Nest Catalyst website - https://nestcatalyst.com/
🎙️ Hosted by Prashant Choubey
Follow Prashant on X - https://x.com/ChoubeySahab
Follow Prashant on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab
For sponsorship or guest appearance requests, write to prashantchoubey3@gmail.com
Subscribe to VC10X on Youtube - https://youtube.com/@vc10x
VC10X is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube.
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