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🌟 Excited to share insights from the first session of the Venture Forward program for Women in VC! 🌟 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬: 👉 Leverage Your Background: Experience in operator roles or angel investing helps 👉 Build Networks: Seek mentors, learn from (wo)men in VC, and view challenges with humor 👉 Define Your Brand: Understand your strengths, get feedback, and articulate your unique value 👉 Cultivate Allies: Build relationships with senior supporters and gather references over time 👉 Focus on Track Record and Expertise: Be strategic and analytical in your investments, and understand that success takes time 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞: 💡 Be curious and relentless. ⏰ Patience is crucial. 💸 Fundraising is as important as investing. Thank you to the speakers and participants for the valuable insights! European Women in VC, Gülsah Wilke - DN Capital, Rainer Märkle - HV Capital, Evgenia Plotnikova - Dawn Capital 🙏. Look forward to the next session! #VentureForward #WomenInVC

Come join our LP Paulina from Bosch in this session on why corporate venture should invests in venture capital firms! If you are corporate looking to access frontier climate solutions that may advance your net zero goals and related business lines, reach out to me!

Did you know that women represent just 17% of management company owners in venture capital? Thanks to VentureForward for shining a light on the topic and for the shout out alongside this amazing group of women investors 👊. To Chris Thomas, Felix Scheuffelen, and the team at Assembly Ventures, here's to building great things together. (Psst... emerging managers hustle harder and diverse teams outperform.) #womenshistorymonth #womeninvestors

Watch our interview with Benjamin (BΞN) Narasin, Founder & General Parter at Tenacity Venture Capital. Recorded live during our Corporate Innovators Event during #TCDisrupt2023 ➡ https://lnkd.in/gMHyGvGV In this talk we discuss: ⚡️ Life in venture capital ⚡️ The biggest challenges in venture ⚡️ The “nice, non, no” answer from a VC ⚡️ Giving founders the respect they deserve (as a VC) ⚡️ The “tier 1’s” of VC and why they are the death of venture ⚡️ How to conduct diligence on your investors

Join us at Venture East Conference and take advantage of the BuiltWorlds DealMaker's Alley, an exclusive initiative to connect one-on-one with industry-leading investors in the built environment sector. At DealMaker's Alley, attendees of Venture East can engage in high-level investment and M&A conversations with prominent corporate strategic investors from BuiltWorlds Venture Forum and top-tier venture capitalists in the built ecosystem. Curious about the participating companies? Check out the current lineup in the thumbnail below and be on the look out for more additions! Learn more about Venture East here: https://lnkd.in/gjgqwTby #VentureEast #BuiltWorlds #DealMakersAlley #InvestmentOpportunities

Fun chat with Picus Capital’s Florian Reichert, Naman Jhawar and Abhijay Thacker yesterday👍🏼 Could have gone on for way longer! Some talking points: Compressing valuations in early-stage investing, exits, investing in a rising rate environnment and what it means for VC portfolios. A distilled version in DealStreetAsia’s story below:

Dive into the minds of potential investors with Katherine Marcham, Social Tech Trust, tomorrow at 10:30 am over on the GoodTech Ventures platform. From individual backers to seasoned venture capitalists. Understand their perspectives, preferences, and what factors weigh in when evaluating social tech ventures. Discover what factors they consider when evaluating social tech ventures and top tips around getting your venture investor ready. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/eThUwWqY #ImpactFounders #ImpactVentures #Tech4Good #GoodTechVentures

Great opportunity if you are interested in investing alongside intelligent and thoughtful investors. Let's connect and discuss how we can maximize returns together! #InvestmentOpportunity #Collaboration #investment #angelinvesting #angelinvestors #porfolio

Hope everyone enjoyed the holiday break. Now that we're officially in 2024, it's time to get back in the saddle and back to business. VisionTech Angels still has open rounds with current portfolio companies and new investments. Please reach out to Ben Pidgeon for details on these opportunities. VisionTech Partners | VisionTech Angels Angel Capital Association #IndianaAngelInvesting #MidwestAngelInvesting

Personal share - I got to go to Sonoma for the first time this week! Just got back from the inaugural Recast Capital Summit led by co-founders Sara Zulkosky and Courtney Russell McCrea. (Thank you Aurelia Flores VIPC | Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation for making this possible.) Met thoughtful #LPs looking for fresh strategies, and enjoyed time with the emerging generation of alpha-generators, like my Kauffman Fellows Class 23 friends Noramay Cadena, Jenny Fielding, Gale Wilkinson, and Jason Torres--and Recast cohort friends Shalanda Armstrong and Lister Delgado. While catching up with VC friends is inspiring, and having off-the-record conversations is helpful in the futurescape of #VC reality, the one thing I want to celebrate here is 🌹Sara. 🌹 Sara Zulkosky and I met in the Kauffman Fellows program. We were in the same class. I was learning to raise my first institutional fund--and she was with Greenspring just before they were snapped up by StepStone Group. She listened so deeply and advised so gently . . . I will never forget her passion for the alpha only available in emerging managers--and her empathy for the path of breaking into venture. When I cried, basically she cried too. Her wise words were ones I held on to tightly as I went through that first raise. It seems like yesterday. But just a few years later--today--I'm making investments out of my ✨ ⭐ 2nd⭐ ✨institutional fund at Valor VC. And Sara founded a platform with Courtney for top emerging managers and the LPs who seek them to change the game, not just the score. It's working. As a fundpreneur, each day can be a bit of a climb, but some days, you look back on the mountain range you've scaled and the view is breathtaking. That's the vibe I'm going into the weekend with. There's a whole continental divide of experience informing Recast Capital's approach to apha. Worth a follow if you invest in fund managers!