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

Courtney is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Recast Capital. Prior to co-founding Recast, Courtney was a Managing Director of Weathergage Capital, a boutique fund of funds that provided its clients with access to premier venture capital, growth equity and micro-VC partnerships. Venture fund commitments included both brand name funds and emerging managers. During her 10 year tenure at Weathergage, Courtney made commitments to 100 funds and 7 direct co-investments. Now at Recast Capital, she's focused on investing in the best emerging managers across United States & Canada. In this episode we talk about - 1. Courtney story & why she co-founded Recast Capital? 2. Investing in Emerging Managers 3. How they evaluate VC pitches at Recast Capital? 4. How should VCs structure their decks & what all information to include? 5. How should VCs build their investment thesis? 6. Solo GPs V/s Multiple GPs, what's better? 7. What are the return expectations in the Fund of Funds (FoFs) model? 8. Their dedicated programs to nurture underrepresented emerging managers 9. How they think about portfolio construction at Recast Capital? & lots more Links - Recast Capital website - https://recastcapital.com/ Follow Courtney on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtneymccrea X - https://x.com/courtneyrmccrea Hosted by Prashant Choubey Linkedin - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab/⁠ X - ⁠https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab⁠ Subscribe to VC10X on Youtube - ⁠https://youtube.com/@vc10x⁠ VC10X is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts.

Amber Illig is the founding general partner at The Council Fund, an emerging venture firm that invests in technology companies that are transforming traditional industries in Logistics, FinTech, Digital Health, and the Future of Work. Amber has previously worked at companies like Apple, Snapchat, Cruise, & Atmos. In this episode, we talk about - - Amber's story and why she started "The Council"? - The journey of raising her 1st fund in a tough market of 2022 & 2023 - The system she followed to reach out to LPs - Getting VC firms to invest as LPs in the fund - The investment thesis at The Council - Angel community at The Council - How does she think about portfolio construction? Links: Follow Amber on X - https://x.com/AmberIllig Follow The Council on X - https://x.com/TheCouncilCap The Council website - https://thecouncil.co Hosted by Prashant Choubey Linkedin - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab/⁠ X - ⁠https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab⁠ Subscribe to VC10X on Youtube - ⁠https://youtube.com/@vc10x⁠ VC10X is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts.

Shrishti is the Managing Partner at SSV. She has led investments in 40+ companies. Before starting SSV, Shrishti built a fintech company, worked at a fund, and also headed Startup Programs for Facebook (now Meta).In this episode, we talk about -- Story of Shristi & Swadharma Source Ventures- Upcoming mother of all Bull Runs in India- Drawing parallels between private & public markets- How do they source & win deals?- Perspective on Bharat- Why family offices are a great source of patient capital for founders?- Why we need more men in the kitchen to bring more women into the workforce?& lots more Links: SSV website - https://www.ssv.fund/ Shristi on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shrishtii/ Shristi on X - https://twitter.com/shrishtie Hosted by Prashant Choubey Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab/ X - https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab Subscribe to VC10X on Youtube - https://youtube.com/@vc10x VC10X is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts.

Richard is a Founder and Managing Partner at Evolution Equity Partners and is responsible for all aspects of the firm’s global activities and strategic direction.  He leads investments in cybersecurity, enterprise software and data analytics and brings over three decades of investment, operational and entrepreneurial experience to his role. He is an investor and board member in category-defining software companies like AVG Technologies, OpenDNS, Cognitive Security, Carbon Black, Security Scorecard, Onapsis, LogPoint, DFLabs, Fortscale and Panaseer. In this episode we talk about: - How Richard started investing in cybersecurity? - How big is the cybersecurity market? - What are the sub categories within cyber security? - Importance of cybersecurity with AI becoming stronger - Possibility of Cyber wars - Common mistakes made by cybersecurity founders & lots more Links: Website - https://evolutionequity.com/ Follow Richard on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardseewald Follow Richard on X - https://x.com/Rseewald Hosted by Prashant Choubey LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab X - https://x.com/ChoubeySahab Subscribe to VC10X for more insightful episodes!

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!