Smart Venture Podcast

Pablo Casilimas is the Managing Partner at OneSixOne Ventures. Christopher Kennamer is a Venture Partner at OneSixOne Ventures. A VC fund investing in US-based pre-seed startups with a focus on dual-use tech and infrastructure for cloud & AI. Topics: - Building a national VC network - Remote Deal Evaluation Best Practices - Early-stage investment trends outside Silicon Valley #VCNetwork #CrossCountryDeals #NationalVC #RegionalInvesting #vc

James Mumma is a Founding Partner Nomad Ventures. Nomad Ventures is an early stage venture fund focused on strong network effect businesses and marketplace solutions including Fintech, peer-to-peer economy, and the transformation of archaic industries. Investments include: Alt, Autopilot, Minoan, Cameo, Lunch Payments, Ink, Zoe Financial, Returnmates, Aquifer Motion, Packsmith, Bezel, Thermal, Beacon, Stonks, and others. Topics: - Lessons learned from marketplace investments - Evaluates potential network effects at the earliest stages - How AI is reshaping traditional service industries #VentureCapital #NetworkEffects #FintechInnovation #MarketplaceVC #IndustryDisruption

Dave Anderson is the founding partner of Beat Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in companies that use AI to enhance humans in overlooked legacy industries. Early checks into Ziva Dynamics (acq. by Unity), Bipi (acq. by RBI), AEYE (NASDAQ: LIDR), Common Sense Machines, Drishti, Operant AI, Volur, Stack AI, Oxen AI, Bitpart AI, Bolo AI, Middleware, Hireguide, Treehouse, Fishtail, Clockwork, Safe, Mentorcam, Dropverse, Truewind, Athenic AI, Universal Hydrogen, Carbice, Nauto, Metawave, Realtime Robotics, May Mobility, Skip, Clubhouse, Firefly, and SoftDrive. Featured in Crain’s Detroit Business 20 in their 20s, Huffington Post, Blac Magazine, and ABC’s 20/20. Harvard MBA, Michigan Engineer. Erasmus Elsner is the founder of Sand Hill Road, which is a maker studio that builds, advises and invests in Seed/Series A startups. Partnering with exceptional entrepreneurs in infrastructure, cloud, open-source, devops and ML/AI at the earliest stages of the climb. Topics: - Early-Stage Investing Trends - Overlooked Industries and Applied AI - Keys to Building and Scaling a Successful VC Firm #VentureCapital #AI #Fintech #InvestmentTrends #AugmentedIntelligence #CommunityBuilding

Susannah Shipton is a Partner at AlleyCorp, focused on investments in a range of tech categories, with an emphasis on B2B and consumer marketplaces. She has invested in and incubated marketplaces across a diverse range of industries from global logistics to the creator economy. In addition to investing, Susannah is deeply involved with AlleyCorp’s incubation process, dedicating substantial time to supporting portfolio companies at their earliest stages. Prior to AlleyCorp, Susannah was Director of Strategy & Operations at Artsy, where she was on the leadership team for 4 years. Susannah graduated from Princeton, where she was captain of the women’s varsity rowing team. Topics: - The Future of Digital Commerce & Creator Economy - Differences between traditional venture capital and the incubation model - The current state of auto lending innovation #VentureCapital #StartupStudio #CompanyBuilding #InvestorInsights #FutureOfVC

Aidan Madigan-Curtis is a Partner at Eclipse. As an investor, board member, public company executive and entrepreneur, Aidan’s career has centered around the innovation and transformation of critical industries. As a Partner at Eclipse, Aidan invests across core, disruptive themes in today's world including geopolitical disruption, supply chain dislocation, energy transition, manufacturing onshoring, and industrial autonomy. She sits on eight corporate boards spanning defense and industrial sectors and a broad array of technologies, including IoT, computer vision and AI, autonomy and robotics. Aidan leverages her previous experience as an executive at Samsara (NYSE “IOT”), as a manufacturing lead of the first AppleWatch, and as an investor at the world’s largest hedge fund, to underwrite, accelerate, and partner with entrepreneurs towards building scalable, high-growth, generational businesses in physical industries. Aidan is one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women of 2023, is a co-teacher of the Stanford Technology Venture Program, and has an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a Master’s Degree from Stanford University. Topics: - The intersection of technology and traditional industries - The future of industrial autonomy and robotics - Lessons learned from scaling hardware products #VentureCapital #TechInnovation #IndustrialAutomation #IoT #AI