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Mikhail Taver is the founder of Taver Capital. Mikhail was one of the first to invest in AI when it wasn't popular. The fund has backed 20 AI startups and achieved 4 successful exits. Today he narrows his focus to another niche - industrial AI. We talk about: - Mikhail's story and how you started investing - How can AI help enhance productivity, cut costs & reduce carbon footprint of heavy industries? - How big is the opportunity for industrial AI? - How long does it take for Industrial AI startups to get market ready? - Some portfolio companies doing exciting work & lots more Links: ⭐ Sponsored by Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.com Taver Capital website - https://www.taver.capital/ Follow Mikhail on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtaver 🎙️ Hosted by Prashant Choubey Follow Prashant on X - https://x.com/ChoubeySahab Follow Prashant on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab Email - prashantchoubey3@gmail.com Subscribe to VC10X on Youtube - ⁠https://youtube.com/@vc10x VC10X is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube.

Nicole Priel is a Partner at Inbex Investor and is focused on Israel VC investments. Ibex Investors is a US-based investment firm targeting outsized returns through niche, non-correlated, differentiated strategies. They've offices in Denver, New York, and Israel. In this episode, we talk about - - Nicole's story and how her mother introduced her to investing at the age of 11 - Investment thesis at Ibex Investors - How Israeli founders are showing resilience in times of war? - Increased focus on mental health of founders - Impact of war on business in Israel - Her advice for founders building during difficult times & lots more Links: ⭐Sponsored by Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for investors - https://podcast10x.com Ibex Investors - https://www.ibexinvestors.com/ Ibex Investors Portfolio - https://www.ibexinvestors.com/private-portfolio Follow Nicole on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolegp/ 🎙️ Hosted by Prashant Choubey Follow Prashant on X - https://x.com/ChoubeySahab Follow Prashant on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab Email - prashantchoubey3@gmail.com Subscribe to VC10X on Youtube - ⁠https://youtube.com/@vc10x VC10X is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube.

Justin Smith is a Managing Partner at Recharge Capital and leads venture investments. In this episode, we talk about - - What's the mission at Recharge Capital? - What is Thematic investing? - Key focus sectors at Recharge Capital - Some exciting portfolio companies - How Recharge Capital helps it's portfolio companies succeed? - Portfolio construction strategy & lots more Links: ⭐Sponsor - Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.com Recharge Capital website - https://www.rechargecapital.com/ Follow Justin on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-b-smith 🎙️ Hosted by Prashant Choubey Follow Prashant on X - https://x.com/ChoubeySahab Follow Prashant on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab Email - prashantchoubey3@gmail.com Subscribe to VC10X on Youtube - ⁠https://youtube.com/@vc10x VC10X is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube.

Sam Merchant is an Investment Associate at Hambro Perks Leaders Fund - an international investment firm investing in private technology companies leveraging different fund structures like venture capital, venture debt, secondaries, etc. In this episode, we talk about - - Sam's story and how he got into investing - How investing is done differently at different funds at Hambro Perks? - How different market conditions impact the activity levels of different funds types? - What are the traits of Product Market Fit? - Cap table blunders founders should avoid - How should founders figure out the right valuation for their early-stage startup? - What should founders include in investor updates? & lots more Links: ⭐Sponsor: Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.com Hambro Perks website - https://www.hambroperks.com/ Follow Sam on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-marchant 🎙️ Hosted by Prashant Choubey Follow Prashant on X - https://x.com/ChoubeySahab Follow Prashant on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab Email - prashantchoubey3@gmail.com Subscribe to VC10X on Youtube - ⁠https://youtube.com/@vc10x VC10X is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube.

Ashish Kumar is a Co-founder & General Partner at Fundamentum. Ashish began Institutional Investment as a Partner at Fundamentum Fund 1, a Series B/B+ focused VC Fund out of India. He later co-founded Fundamentum Investment Advisors alongside Nandan Nilekeni (Co-founder of Infosys) & Sanjeev Aggarwal (Founding CEO at IBM) which manages the latest Fundamentum Partnership Fund, where he is a General Partner. Fundamentum will lead investment rounds from $10 to $25 Million in companies that have attained the product market fit, have an initial momentum, and are looking to scale up. In this episode, we talk about: - Founding story of Fundamentum - Growth investing landscape in India - How to assess PMF in startups? - Portfolio success stories: PharmEasy & Spinny - Exit landscape in India & lots more Links: ⭐Sponsor: Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.com Fundamentum website - https://www.fundamentum.co.in/ Follow Ashish on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashishk/ 🎙️ Hosted by Prashant Choubey Follow Prashant on X - https://x.com/ChoubeySahab Follow Prashant on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab Email - prashantchoubey3@gmail.com Subscribe to VC10X on Youtube - ⁠https://youtube.com/@vc10x VC10X is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube

Zach Coelius is the founder and Managing Partner at Coelius Capital. Zach runs a VC fund, an angel syndicate & a rolling fund at the same time. Some of his popular investments include Cruise Automation, Branch, BounceX, Angellist, Booksy, HelloSign, Apprente, Mercury and 50-plus other startups. Timeline: 00:00 - Coming up.. 00:45 - Episode intro 01:51 - Sponsored by Podcast10x.com - End-to-end podcasting agency for VCs 03:32 - Zach's story & starting with a 100% success rate in startup investments 06:34 - Story of how Zach raised $33 Million fund from 60 LPs in 3 weeks over Zoom calls in 2021 09:04 - Coelius Capital 09:48 - How has Zach's investment thesis evolved over time? 14:51 - Fund positioning for LPs 17:16 - No explicit reserve strategy 18:39 - Do returns get muted in VC funds due to LP guardrails on investment thesis? 20:12 - Funding weird ideas 24:37 - What's a harder job, founder or VC? 26:49 - Syndicate vs VC fund vs Rolling fund - managing all 3 simultaneously 29:14 - Why syndicate is a superpower? 31:14 - Common thread in successful companies 33:00 - VC bull run vs now 39:03 - Biggest learning as a VC 39:52 - Rapid fire round Links- ⭐Sponsor: Podcast10x - podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.com Coelius Capital website - https://coelius.vc/ Follow Zach on X - https://x.com/zachcoelius Follow Zach on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachcoelius 🎙️ Hosted by Prashant Choubey Follow Prashant on X - https://x.com/ChoubeySahab Follow Prashant on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab Email - prashantchoubey3@gmail.com Subscribe to VC10X on Youtube - ⁠https://youtube.com/@vc10x VC10X is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube.

Adam Nash is the former CEO of Wealthfront and current Founder and CEO of Daffy. Prior to Wealthfront & Daffy, Adam has a strong operational experience holding executive positions at LinkedIn, Ebay, Dropbox and Apple. Adam is also an angel investor in Firebase (sold to Google), Opendoor (Ticker: OPEN), Figma, Gusto, and several other startups. To top it all off Adam is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University where he teaches a class on personal finance. This episode is divided into 2 halves, the 1st half focusing on Adam's insights on angel investing in some highly successful companies, while the 2nd half focuses on Adam's founder journey and insights on how to build a world-class product. We also talk about his investment into Figma, key metrics to track for early-stage startups, how to create customer delight, and lessons from his stint at top companies like eBay, Dropbox, LinkedIn, and Apple. This episode is a wealth of wisdom for all founders on how to build world-class products & companies. Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro clip 00:53 - Episode intro 02:02 - Sponsored by Podcast10x - podcasting agency for VCs & startups 03:43 - Background story of Adam Nash 05:46 - How Adam started angel investing in startups? 09:13 - Investing in Figma at the early stage 14:30 - Leveraging the network & operator experience to get access to quality deals 16:26 - How Adam evaluates a deal? 20:38 - Why he founded Daffy? 24:23 - How to build world-class products? 29:00 - Virality factor in products 37:24 - Customer delight factor in products 42:00 - How to get world-class people to work with you? 46:46 - Key metrics to track for early stage startups 51:44 - Lessons from working at Linkedin, eBay, Dropbox & Apple 55:27 - How to connect with Adam and learn more about Daffy? Links: ⭐ Sponsor: End-to-end podcasting agency for VCs & startups - https://podcast10x.com Check out Daffy.org ($25 free donation invite code) - https://www.daffy.org/adamnash/invite Follow Adam on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamnash Follow Adam on X - https://x.com/adamnash 🎙️Hosted by Prashant Choubey Follow Prashant on Linkedin - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/choubeysahab/⁠ Follow Prashant on X - ⁠https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab⁠ Subscribe to VC10X on Youtube - ⁠https://youtube.com/@vc10x⁠ VC10X is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts.

Vineet Rai is a co-founder & Chairman of Aavishkaar. The Aavishkaar Group is focused on developing the impact ecosystem in Asia and Africa, and manages assets in excess of USD 1 billion across equity and credit, with 6,000+ employees across India, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Kenya. We talk about - - The story how Vineet started Aavishkaar back in 2001 alongside his wife - How was "Impact Investing" founded and Aavishkaar's key role in it? - Aavishkaar being the only Indian fund that is a case study in Stanford Business School with not one, but 3 case studies done at Aavishkaar - How is "Impact investing" different from mainstream VC investing? - Relevance of impact investing in developed and developing countries - Helping the Bangladesh government seed the local investing ecosystem with a Fund of Funds model - How founders struggle with "Martyr syndrome"? & lots more Links: ⭐Sponsor: Podcast10x - End-to-end podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.com Aavishkaar website - https://aavishkaargroup.com/ Follow Vineet on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vineet-rai-536160 Follow Vineet on X - https://x.com/Raivineet 🎙️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.

Andrea Hippeau is a Partner at Lerer Hippeau - an early stage sector-agnostic venture capital firm based in New York City. In this episode we talk about - - Andrea's story of how she started working in venture capital - How has Lerer Hippeau evolved over the past 10 years she's been at the firm? - How has the New York startup ecosystem matured over the years? - Why sales is one of the most important skills for startup founders? - Breaking the stigma around bridge rounds - How to build (& back) successful consumer brands? - Why it is a good idea to have a board in place from the early stages of a startup? - Patterns she's seeing in the startup & vc landscape & lots more Links: Sponsor: https://podcast10x.com Lerer Hippeau website - https://www.lererhippeau.com/ Follow Andrea on X - https://x.com/AndreaHippeau 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.

Dan Bowyer is a Co-founder & Partner at Superseed - an early-stage venture capital for technical teams transforming how the world works. Dan has more than 20 years of entrepreneurial experience, having built and exited 2 startups and invested in many more. In this episode we talk about - - What's the focus at Superseed? - Why AI is a massively transformative technology? - What's happening with Nvidia? - The 5 layers of opportunities in AI - Will AI lead to the end of SaaS industry as companies could make their own tools using AI? - Is OpenAI a threat for small AI startups? - How will AI impact legacy industries like manufacturing, medicine, etc? & lots more.. Links: Sponsor: https://podcast10x.com SuperSeed website - https://www.superseed.com/ Follow Dan on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danbowyer 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.