Episode #66, ​Mark diTargiani, Venture Debt and Startup Banking, Pacific Western Bank on Fireside with a VC. Mark presented to Andrew Romans’ venture capital class at Chapman University as a guest speaker discussing: · Explaining how Venture Debt works, when it makes sense and when it does not make sense. · Startup banking and general advice on startups and raising capital. · The importance of relationships and understanding how to help people in your network to develop your relationships and achieve success. · Networking within the startup VC ecosystem. https://www.linkedin.com/in/markditargiani/ https://www.pacwest.com/ Registration is open for 7BC’s in-person VC insight panels, startup presentations & networking receptions New York City, March 7, 2023 – https://7BC-neonVest-NYC.eventbrite.com Seattle, April 4, 2023 – https://7BC-neonVest-Seattle.eventbrite.com Planning other cities in key tech corridors across the U.S. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewRomansVC/videos Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/57V2XYhekz5ETiOwtanWIn All podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/romans/

Episode #65, Fireside with a VC speaking with Alex Moore, 1st employee of Palantir ($14.5bn market cap), cofounder of Backplane (one of my investments), cofounder of Nodeprime (one of my investments), Partner at 8VC with $6bn+ of AUM discussing: • Early days of Palantir up to today where he is a board member • Focusing on defense related tech startups when most of Silicon Valley did not or does not want to support the U.S. defense industry • Creating startups with a dual defense + commercial revenue / customer model • Selling into government / intelligence / military • Culture of recruiting engineers and founders to focus on military / defense tech • Startups leveraging data in vertical models • Venture Studio / incubation models that work within the VC machine, ownership models, founder equity, engineering equity / ESOP pool, attracting follow on funding from classic VCs • Vesting schedules for founders and employees • How to retain high value engineers and employees • Valuations in today’s current market for funding and exits • How many months runway should startups raise for in today’s uncertain market • How real is the conflict between the West and Russia & China • Working with Joe Lonsdale & Peter Thiel • Opportunity to build software for most of the economy that is not leveraging technology yet, but must • How the demise of crypto is good for real tech startups • What makes a great entrepreneur and what makes a fundable founding team • Succeeding in the current economic environment and growing individual careers Video on Spotify and YouTube https://youtu.be/SScCtPD_awE. Audio on all podcast platforms - https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC. Special thanks to Mark diTargiani & the Venture Debt & Startup Banking team at Pacific Western Bank for sponsoring this episode. https://www.linkedin.com/in/markditargiani/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/romans/ [email protected]

Episode #64, Fireside with a VC speaking with Greg Coquillo, 2x Top Voice on Linkedin for AI, Data Science, Technology and Innovation with 160k followers on LinkedIn, senior exec reducing cognitive overload for users by delivering AI/ML solutions at large FAANG in Seattle. Discussing: · How he got 160k followers on LinkedIn. · Having the confidence to be right but also to be wrong and learn via engagement with LinkedIn community talking technology. · Latest trends in Generative AI, what it means, what works now, and what needs to happen for many breakthroughs for humanity and business. · Update on AI, ML and Cognitive AI. · How coming from the world of manufacturing taught him to think differently about the world of software. · Most fulfilling achievements as a Pricing Optimization Product Manager for one of the largest companies in the world. · His latest angel and advisory investment DAGsHub. · Quantum computing and technologies that will take the world by storm. · Personal journey of moving from Haiti to tech at a top FAANG in Seattle and the drive to give back. Video on Spotify and https://youtu.be/PIKGjlriFh4. Audio on all podcast platforms - https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC. Special thanks to Mark diTargiani & the Venture Debt & Startup Banking team at Pacific Western Bank for sponsoring this episode. https://www.linkedin.com/in/markditargiani/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-coquillo/ https://twitter.com/GaryCoquillo [email protected]

Episode #63, Fireside with a VC speaking with Dan Harvey, Vice Chairman of CBRE discussing WaaS Workplace as a Service and all the changes in a post-Covid world on how to maximize PIC (Productivity, Innovation & Collaboration). Discussing how startups and large companies can get the correct mix of in-office, work from home (#WFH) & offsite events mixing office space, technology and techniques for maximal results. What to measure and how to measure various outputs impacting how companies attract and retain talent in a talent war and how can startups or corporates get the best results from their teams? Money is not free any more. EBITDA matters. Productivity matters. Is it cheaper to build the best mix of technology and methods in-house or outsource any of this. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-harvey-ba7ba726/ Video on Spotify and https://youtu.be/un5Dpqup27E. Audio on all podcast platforms - https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC. Special thanks to the Venture Debt & Startup Banking team at Pacific Western Bank for sponsoring this episode. [email protected]

Episode #62, Fireside with a VC speaking with Brandon Metcalf, CEO of Place discussing challenges for creating and scaling SaaS companies. Brandon is an Austin-based 4x founder, podcast host, board director, advisor, software creator, Salesforce expert and investor. Discussing: · Fundraising from angels and VCs · How to track key SaaS metrics for success and tying that to growth, staffing and fundraising · The balance of investing in more product engineering or growth vs milking what you have for sales and profitability · Going from point solutions to adding modules, reaching end-to-end solutions and how that impacts customer win rates, changes whom you are selling to and closing business · “Must have” vs “nice to have” technology in today’s macro-economic environment · What has changed in fundraising, cash runways, how to deal with investors and employees · Hiring, firing and growth during an economic downturn · Lessons learned from fundraising and M&A exits from previous startups · Working with Salesforce and how to be successful in this massive ecosystem Podcast: Cash & Burn: https://www.placetechnology.com/cash-and-burn-podcast/ LinkedIn: Brandon Metcalf: https://www.linkedin.com/in/metcalf/ SaaS glossary: Little Black Book of SaaS: https://www.placetechnology.com/little-black-book-of-saas/ Company website: Place: https://www.placetechnology.com/ Video on YouTube https://youtu.be/uGOmN_WQmHk and Spotify. Audio on all podcast platforms - https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC [email protected]

Episode #61 Fireside with a VC speaking with Kyle Kling, Head of MDI Ventures, the CVC of Telekom Indonesia at Chapman University in Southern California. Discussing: · The evolution of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) · Specifics around “on the balance sheet” vs “off the balance sheet” issues around CVC · Unique issues for Telekom Indonesia with a board of commissioners including government voting, Singtel and Singapore minority ownership of Telekom Indonesia ownership · Conglomerate culture, privately held family office culture in South East Asia · The conglomerate Telekom Indonesia, owns not only a mobile network operator more than twice the size of Verizon, but also pharmaceutical, healthcare clinics, IT services, data centers, financial services, music and entertainment, and 30 other major businesses · Investing in US companies and other companies outside of South East Asia · Methodologies for valuing startups in a VC portfolio · Working at a CVC vs an independent VC · Compensation and other issues for CVCs Video on YouTube https://youtu.be/2O343fJPA-w and Spotify. Audio on all podcast platforms - https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC [email protected]

Episode #60 Fireside with a VC speaking with Charles (Chuck) Newhall, III, a 3rd generation venture capitalist. Newhall cofounded New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in 1977 with Dick Kramlich and Frank Bonsal. NEA is the largest VC fund in the world. Newhall is a U.S. warrior who served in Vietnam commanding an independent platoon. His decorations include the Silver Star and Bronze Star. Newhall is also the author of a new book - Dare to Disturb the Universe, A Memoir of Venture Capital. Discussing: · Fighting on Hamburger Hill in Vietnam and revelations of a career in VC. · Founding a VC firm built to last 100+ years and specifics of how he built NEA. · Origins of venture capital dating back to Phoenicians and how Christopher Columbus was a VC-backed founder with an 80/20 split of the gains or what he “carried”. · Wisdom from Marcus Aurelius, the 2&20 model, and aligning interests. · Stories of VC investing and startups including persistent seed investing in Apple Computer. Buying 10% of Apple Computer for $400k by sleeping at the Apple office and refusing to go home. · Investing based on DD from experts versus investing from passion. “You’re only one person away from a great company at any point in time.” - Charles (Chuck) Newhall, III For more buy the books: 1) Dare to Disturb the Universe, A memoir of Venture Capital (https://rb.gy/g1izrc). 2) Brightside Gardens - A Dialogue Between The Head and The Heart (https://rb.gy/qcphsn) 3) The Chronicles of Stanley the Pug (https://youtu.be/uwjq7kInKlY) [email protected]

Episode #59 Fireside with a VC talking to Arthur Andrew Bavelas, Managing Partner, Family Office Insights, discussing why the recession is making the current vintage of VC perform better, talking about secondaries, VC strategies to return LP capital back faster via SPVs and secondaries and how to involve LPs in the VC process. Video on YouTube and Spotify - https://youtu.be/AHv4F7t2uWE. Audio on all podcast platforms - https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC [email protected]

Play this video back at 2x speed if you are proficient in English.  Fund performance is now up since recording this video. Our first fund has a MOIC of 4.11x and expects to return a minimum 7x cash on cash return. Fund II MOIC of 4.41x and expects a 12x to 15x cash on cash return. Fund III is already up 1.27x and newest investors still get in at cost.  Talking to some old friends in the Washington DC area about 7BC Venture Capital related to our 506c VC fund which allows for general solicitation.

Episode #58 of Fireside with a VC discussing early stage VC in sub-Saharan Africa with Marsha Wulff, cofounder of LoftyInc Capital Management as a guest speaker at Chapman University talking to Professor Andrew Romans and his students at his class on VC.    *Starting a VC fund to invest in sub-Saharan African early stage tech startups.   *Overcoming challenges in raising LP capital for a "Top 3" VC fund investing in African startups.  *Opportunities and challenges facing African entrepreneurs, VCs and LPs as well as the evolving high value angel scene in Africa.  *Advice for African founders on how to raise angel and VC funding.   Feel free to get in touch to learn more about investing in African or American VC funds.    Video on Spotify and YouTube: https://youtu.be/EPgmMjJDmG8. Subscribe to Fireside with a VC on YouTube, Spotify and all podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.  Join the 7BC Venture Capital Syndicate to co-invest with our VC fund (https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ) or invest in our 506c VC fund which co-invests with our main VC fund and join a powerful network of investors actively backing and supporting our portfolio companies. [email protected]

Episode #57, John Vitti, CEO of Versus Game on campus at Chapman University with Professor Andrew Romans Talking about lessons learned from 4 previous startups and how we raised nearly $40m from top Silicon Valley VCs including very hands on investment and support from Eric Schmidt, Kevin Hart, 7BC Venture Capital and other investors. Building a large business to over $100m in revenue and leveraging Hollywood TV models to drive a high growth, high margin, impact business to change the world. Advice to founders on getting started and getting connected. Video: https://youtu.be/KBgwdQo4NqQ. Subscribe to Fireside with a VC on YouTube, Spotify and all podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC. Join the 7BC Venture Capital Syndicate to co-invest with our VC fund (https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ) or invest in our 506c VC fund which co-invests with our main VC fund and join a powerful network of investors actively backing and supporting our portfolio companies. [email protected]

Episode #56, Update on the war in Ukraine from the front lines in Kiev with Eric Kadyrov, Founder at Private Tech Network. Talking about specific numbers and the state of the war with images, videos and how he has helped move weapons around the country and done direct outreach to thousands of companies to stop doing business with Russia from HP and Cisco to startups. In this episode Eric is a guest speaker to my class I teach at Chapman University on Venture Capital. Eric is also the founder of Private Tech Network, an AI driven VC as a Service platform where I am an advisor. Download Eric's slides here: https://docsend.com/view/x3ef7qrh8u2p5yjp. Video: https://youtu.be/UlWOfIfQzXQ. Subscribe to Fireside with a VC on YouTube, Spotify and all podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC. Join the 7BC Venture Capital Syndicate to co-invest with our VC fund (https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ) or invest in our 506c VC fund which co-invests with our main VC fund and join a powerful network of investors actively backing and supporting our portfolio companies. [email protected]

Venture Capital Thursdays: Discussing and understanding secondaries, VC performance metrics and evolving liquidity in the venture capital asset class across the stack from founders to angels, Seed VCs, Series A VCs, growth investors and LPs with my students in California. Recommend to play at 2x speed if English is your first language. · Direct Secondaries – primary vs secondary investing · How does it work with running a process, getting ROFR’d, how to not get ROFR’d · How to waste time and not make any money trying to buy secondaries and what happens in the real world? · Structured secondaries · How are secondaries impacting the timing of an exit? · How are secondaries impacting the actual value of the exit? · How are secondaries impacting the performance of a VC fund to its LP investors? · Understanding key VC performance terms work and the impact of Secondaries on performance · What is IRR? – impact of secondaries? · What is MOIC? – impact of secondaries? · What is TVPI? – impact of secondaries? · What is DPI? – impact of secondaries? · What is Cash-on-Cash? – impact of secondaries? · LP Secondaries · Discounts LP secondary buyers seek to get · What is a Fund of Funds (FOF) · Evolving liquidity in the venture capital asset class across the stack from founders to angels, Seed VCs, Series A VCs, growth investors and LPs Video: https://youtu.be/qorjT7OV9nU Subscribe to Fireside with a VC on YouTube, Spotify and all podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC. Join the 7BC Venture Capital Syndicate to co-invest with our VC fund (https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ) or invest in our 506c VC fund which co-invests with our main VC fund and join a powerful network of investors actively backing and supporting our portfolio companies. [email protected]

Episode #54 Brian Laung Aoaeh, GP @REFASHIOND Ventures on Fireside with a VC sharing his story of going from his home country of Ghana to becoming a VC at KEC Ventures and now cofounder of REFASHIOND Ventures focused on supply chain and sharing research on how family offices can best play in the early-stage venture capital space. · The Research Report on Family Offices: Towards A Partnership Model for Family Offices and Emerging Venture Firm Managers https://docsend.com/view/47y7zzu4rxwhtaxi · REFASHIOND Ventures: https://www.refashiond.com/ · REFASHIOND Ventures AngelList Fund: angel.co/v/back/refashiond-seed · The Worldwide Supply Chain Federation: https://theworldwidesupplychainfederation.com/our-vision Video: https://youtu.be/GLeEzutBOX0 Subscribe to Fireside with a VC on YouTube, Spotify and all podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC. Join the 7BC Venture Capital Syndicate to co-invest with our VC fund (https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ) or invest in our 506c VC fund which co-invests with our main VC fund and join a powerful network of investors actively backing and supporting our portfolio companies. [email protected]

Episode #53 Nathan Beckord, CEO @Foudersuite and podcast host of “How I raised it” on Fireside with a VC discussing all things fundraising from angels and VCs. · How to email VCs with a warm intro or cold email. · Researching investors and forming the most suitable target investor list. · Developing relationships with VCs before your funding round. · What docs founders should have prepared for a VC funding round. · Advice on decks and financial forecasts. · What’s the goldilocks of being too aggressive or too conservative with financial projections? · Winning financial models and how to present the numbers including unit economics. · Advice for recruiting and compensating advisors. · Pricing your financing round for success. · How to use Foundersuite to find prospective angels, VCs, family offices and CVCs. · How to digitize your fundraising process end-to-end. Foundersuite can be a substitute for expensive subscriptions to Pitchbook, DocSend, DocuSign, virtual data rooms, CRM, templates for legal docs, and a ton more. Get a 30% discount on your first month of using Foundersuite with the promo code “Romans”. If English is your first language, please play us at 1.5x or 2x faster speed. Video: https://youtu.be/R-Kk9prqZ74. Subscribe to Fireside with a VC on YouTube, Spotify and all podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC. Join the 7BC Venture Capital Syndicate to co-invest with our VC fund (https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ) or invest in our 506c VC fund which co-invests with our main VC fund and join a powerful network of investors actively backing and supporting our portfolio companies. [email protected]

Episode #52 Cindy Padnos, Founder & Managing Partner at Illuminate Ventures. Discussing: · What it was like being a woman founder and CEO raising VC funding in Silicon Valley decades ago. · What it has been like being a woman solo GP launching a VC fund in Silicon Valley compared to being a man doing the same. · Talking about the practical realities of how relationships are formed for women to men and women to women in MBA programs, the VC industry, and how Cindy has navigated and pioneered this reality in Silicon Valley over decades. · How Cindy has leveled the playing field while purely focusing on financial returns. · Building personal confidence and overcoming fears. · Talking about the reality of diversity investing and how this is changing at the VC and founder levels. · Valuations of SaaS startups now and portfolio construction. · How the market has been shifting up and down on valuations and what this means for founders and investors. · The enterprise investment focus of Illuminate Ventures. · Unique model of forming a 50-person advisory council for Illuminate Ventures with over 50% women. · How startups and VC funds will perform well even if the economy tanks. If English is your first language, please play us at 1.5x or 2x faster speed. Video: https://youtu.be/bdQpwhZRXHI. Subscribe to Fireside with a VC on YouTube, Spotify and all podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC. Join the 7BC Venture Capital Syndicate to co-invest with our VC fund (https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ) or invest in our 506c VC fund which co-invests with our main VC fund. [email protected]

Episode #51 Kelly Perdew, Cofounder & Managing Partner of Moonshots Capital, Entrepreneur, Military Veteran, Winner of Season 2 - The Apprentice, and father of twins! Discussing: · Advice to founders on how to raise angel and VC funding. · How Kelly went from being a VC-backed founder to making angel investments, pooling angel investors together into running a Syndicate on Angel List and then managing his own Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs), and then his own VC funds but still doing SPVs. · Strategies for investing in late stage seed and late stage pre-IPO growth. Video: https://youtu.be/jK5UUUsra-g. Subscribe to Fireside with a VC on YouTube, Spotify and all podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC. Join the 7BC Venture Capital Syndicate to co-invest with our VC fund (https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ) or invest in our 506c VC fund which co-invests with our main VC fund. [email protected]

Episode #50 Alan Patricof, godfather of the VC and PE industries, he’s 87 years old now, and founded legendary VC firm Greycroft and seminal PE firm Apax. Alan founded VC fund Patricof Company Ventures with a $2.5m fund in 1969. · Greycroft has over $2bn of AUM with a reputation trying to keep things from getting too big and follow the path of Apax which has AUM of over $60bn. Their last fund I believe closed in January of 2021 at it’s hard cap of $11bn. · Alan rather than just add more zeros to Apax, which I think stands for Alan’s initials Alan Patricof Associates Cross-Border, Alan moved on from Apax to found Greycroft. Proving his passion for investing early Greycroft raised its first fund (Greycroft I) with $75 million. Some of Alan’s investments include Steve Job’s Apple Computer, AOL, Xerox, New York Magazine, HuffPost, Audible, Axios, Venmo, Goop, Crafy which we invested in before Greycroft and alongside Greycroft a few weeks ago, Office Depot, and many others. · Now Alan has teamed up with Abby Miller Levy to launch a new VC fund Primetime Partners focused on funding early stage companies that can transform the quality of living for older adults. At 87 Alan may have some insight and opinions there. · Alan has also written a book I purchased on pre-order No Red Lights: Reflections on Life, 50 Years in Venture Capital, and Never Driving Alone. · Abby is a Princeton and Harvard graduate, began her career at McKinsey, more recently was the Founding President alongside CEO Arianna Huffington at Thrive Global, a behavior change technology company focused on employee productivity and wellness and worked in new ventures at SoulCycle. · Discussing how VC funds have become too large in size resulting in over funding companies and failing to make venture returns. · Discussing what’s changed in 50 years? More people want to start their own business now compared to far fewer 50 years ago. · Deep dive on Primetime Partners strategy with a focus on healthcare IT and fintech and the growing elderly market, which control two thirds of the world’s wealth. Primetime also backs founders that start companies over the age of 50. · Talking about current strategy at Greycroft seeking to invest in companies that can be valued at over $10bn. · Primetime in contrast is seeking to invest smaller checks, out of a smaller fund and more realistic exit valuations. · Exit return targets for Primetime compared to Greycroft and reaching 3x returns fund-wide. [email protected] Video: https://youtu.be/T7DA1__xQCs. https://www.amazon.com/No-Red-Lights-Reflections-Venture/dp/1637582935 Subscribe to Fireside with a VC on YouTube, Spotify and all podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC. Join the 7BC Venture Capital Syndicate to co-invest with our VC fund (https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ) or invest in our 506c VC fund which co-invests with our main VC fund. [email protected]

Episode #49 Nicolai Wadstrom, Founder, CEO and General Partner BootstrapLabs, AI focused VC on Fireside with a VC discussing: · What is real AI compared to AAI (artificial artificial intelligence). · Founding a VC fund from scratch that is not a spinout of a large existing VC fund. · Tips and tricks for raising initial LP capital. · Raising LP capital for a first VC fund and then a second and third VC fund. · Building a VC brand and finding differentiators. · Investment strategy for investing in early stage startups. · Valuations and returns pre-during and -post pandemic. · What makes a great AI startup. https://bootstraplabs.com/community/nicolai-wadstrom/ YouTube video: https://youtu.be/d6fElnQbNTs Subscribe to Fireside with a VC on YouTube and all podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC. Join the 7BC Venture Capital Syndicate to co-invest with our VC fund (https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ) or invest in our 506c VC fund which co-invests with our main VC fund. [email protected]

Episode #48 John Vitti, founder & CEO of VersusGame, a prediction game of culture discussing: · How he raised $25m in his Series A Funding round and built this company from scratch to transacting over $100m in 2021 with payouts to players, game creators and his startup. · Being transparent and authentic and developing relationships as a key driver of success. · The importance of listening to other people and developing empathy leading to spotting trends and being able to form vital partnerships. · How he and his team came up with a prediction game of culture where players can play for free, for sponsored prizes or cash. · His belief of how knowledge should be rewarded and how the game is designed to not be a vice or corrupted like Wall Street. · How to take valuable content and find ways for partners to monetize their content and content creators without advertising, which everyone hates. · Increasing engagement and developing new rewards for content creators. · Raising seed capital and venture capital, pivoting and learning from failure. · Talking about the launch of the VersusGame TV show this summer. Download Versus Game from the app store and play on mobile or play on www.versusgame.com or follow on Instagram. Subscribe to Fireside with a VC on YouTube and all podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC. Join the 7BC Venture Capital Syndicate to co-invest with our VC fund (https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ) or invest in our 506c VC fund which co-invests with our main VC fund. [email protected]

Episode #47 Niran Shrestha, founder & CEO of Kwant AI, NYC SaaS for the construction industry. Discussing: • How IoT smart badges collecting real-time data connected to an AI operating system of software can save lives, save huge amounts of money, increase productivity by 11% and speed the time to completion of projects. • How fatalities and accidents are prevented and reduced using smart technology. • How projects are completed more efficiently and faster. • Challenges of growing a SaaS AI company in the global construction industry. • Overcoming challenges of being an immigrant founder and raising VC funding from top VCs. Video: https://youtu.be/jL53Mf5_Moc Subscribe to Fireside with a VC on YouTube and all podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC. Join the 7BC Venture Capital Syndicate to co-invest with our VC fund (https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ) or invest in our 506c VC fund which co-invests with our main VC fund. [email protected]

Episode #45 Zach Coelius founder of Coelius Capital an active San Francisco early stage VC fund. Discussing: · Brutal war story of how Facebook exploded his startup in a good and bad way. · Working with Mark Zuckerberg as a partner. · Crashing and burning and rising from the ashes as a person and professional. · How Zach successfully pivoted from entrepreneur to VC. · How to launch a Syndicate on Angel List, rolling fund and VC fund without institutional LP investors. · Advantages of leveraging a diverse network on Angel List. · Advice to founders on finding product market fit and fundraising. · Advantages of being a hands-on VC with real founder experience of both success and failure. · How to raise LP capital from angels and family offices over Zoom. · Access to deal flow vs being shackled by strict portfolio construction adherence. · Valuations for startups sane or insane and how to make strong returns in today’s valuation landscape. Leave a comment to join the discussion. Subscribe to audio only podcast on all platforms, Apple, Google, Spotify, etc. Find Zach Coelius’ fund on Angel List. Join the 7BC Venture Capital Syndicate to co-invest with our VC fund (https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ) or invest in our 506c VC fund which co-invests with our main VC fund. [email protected] YouTube https://youtu.be/Ds29Yxg4_VU.

Episode #45 Ryan Welsh, CEO & cofounder of Kyndi, Natural Language Processing (NLP) AI company, raised $43m in funding from 7BC Venture Capital, Dick Kramlich, Pivot North, Intel Capital & Darling Ventures on Fireside with a VC. Discussing: · How deep AI is good or bad for humanity and threats to the human race. · Impact AI will have on economies of different countries and impact on human happiness. · How NLP is a leap forward for humanity and business. · Ability to take search to entirely new level and reading and intelligently processing unstructured data in limitless documents beyond human capabilities. · Investment case for enterprise to adopt NLP and AI. · How fundraising is different for a B2B AI NLP company compared to a SaaS company. · Understanding details of AI at the technology level and Kyndi’s pioneering methods of mixing AI methodologies to fuse new methods and capabilities. · Understanding searching text in the old way, the new way, how Kyndi does it and others by breaking it down into different types of search. Subscribe to our Audio podcast and YouTube channel. Video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/n2WF8wCVGO0. Join our Syndicate to co-invest with our VC fund (https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ) or invest in our 506c VC fund which co-invests with our main VC fund. [email protected]

• Discussing strategies and advice for first moves when starting a business and then how to raise the first capital for a potentially high-growth high-tech business. • Characteristics of great founders, recruiting cofounders, advisors, angels and VCs that add value. • How to triage or think about startups that come into your inbox or orbit. • What are the key things you try to figure out when looking at a deal for the first time. • Discussing current 2021 valuations for raising venture rounds and valuations of exits. • How many boards should a VC be on. • What is the point of a board, how to run a board meeting and the role a board should play. • Dynamics of boards and how to communicate across a board and lobby for a specific outcome. • When should a startup form its first board of directors. • Understanding key terms to negotiate for and how to communicate and come through with an agreement. • Investing in startups and VC funds. • Investment themes changing over time. • Is the current vintage of VC a good vintage considering entry point valuations and exit point valuations. • Advice on self-actualization and building a culture or cultural norms that matters more than cash or stock option compensation at a startup? • How to maintain cultural norms at a high-growth company over time as things change. • What are you optimistic about? • Life after death, the universe, the meaning of life and how that focuses decisions we make now. Brad’s 8 books can be found here: https://rb.gy/l10yzb. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for video of this and all podcasts: https://youtu.be/Vn_hlzfsD1s Learn about investing in our 506c Angel Fund to co-invest with our primary VC fund contacting [email protected].

Episode #44 Brian Cohen, General Partner, New York Venture Partners (NYVP), Chairman Emeritus, New York Angels, legendary angel investor in Pinterest, Comixology, actively making 3 new investments per week, 100+ and NYVP. Talking about how to price pre-money valuations on seed rounds. How to create the partnership between founders and VCs. Talking about how to run a fundraising process for Seed, Late Stage Seed, Series A and beyond. Refining the pitch for your startup. PR advice for startups. How important is it to be in Silicon Valley or New York in the new post Covid world. Talking about M&A and how to position your startup for an exit. Subscribe and view video here: https://youtu.be/l-GYQgQ2eQA. [email protected]

Episode #42 Andrew Romans talking to Yuri Rabinovich, MD at Tribe V, at their VC Masterclass taking a deep dive on M&A for investors and venture backed startups. · Different types of M&A exits and considerations: all cash, cash and stock, all stock, milestone based earnouts, PE exit structures & secondaries. · Different types of M&A buys and specific dynamics: acquihire, team buy, geography buy, tech buy, revenue buy, customer buy, DCF buy, sector buy, PE buy and how this impacts founders vs early or late VCs. · Secondaries and the direct impact and dynamics around the next fundraising and M&A. · How a funding round and the post money valuation and cash-on-cash exit return will impact the options for exits and what will satisfy the newest investors. · Pricing of fundraising rounds considering the exit value and who can buy the company. · M&A as it fits into venture capital portfolio construction. · Having the network and speaking to your network to understand the dynamics and multiples for that specific industry. Know this before you found your company or before you invest in that company to understand the entry point valuation and exit expectations and track these multiples of the industry and performance of the startup. · Integrating M&A valuations and dynamics into your VC investment decisions. · Lessons learned from Instagram being wanted by Twitter, feared by Facebook and courted by VCs driving optimal perfect storm outcome for Instagram exit. Absolutely nothing to do with DCF at the time of exit. · Lessons learned from Yahoo! Buying Flickr and Google buying Picasa. · Q&A with Tribe V about M&A. Video: https://youtu.be/0oXIA9KgobA Audio of podcast can be found on all podcast platforms with links from here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC. Contact us to learn about investing in our 506c VC fund or joining our Syndicate on Angel List. [email protected] Video introducing the fund for small investors: https://youtu.be/U6wQ6An_r3E. Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Join our Angel List Syndicate link (no cost or commitment to join this): https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.

Episode #41 Fireside with a VC - Louis David Mangin CEO & Co-founder at Confiant, one of our successful Fund II portfolio companies based in NYC in the cybersecurity malvertising sector protecting users of publishers and advertisers against bad actors attacking their devices, data and stealing wealth via fraudulent investment scams. Confiant is the industry leader in Detecting, Preventing, and Resolving Ad Issues. Video: https://youtu.be/PFUFUF3-cCQ Audio: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC · Lessons learned scaling SaaS revenues from $1m ARR to $10M ARR in 4 years. · Selecting VCs and the value of the critical and confidential feedback loop from VC investors during the fundraising process. · Understanding the evolution of the cybersecurity industry and malware advertising industry. · The high rate of compound growth of the advertising industry over search, social, video and apps on the internet has left the industry with a dangerous load of technology debt which creates opportunities for bad actors to exploit. · Ads are still the best way to reach people. · The evolution of iterations of bad actors to forcefully redirect ads and attack the data to reach the target user demographic with specific fraudulent ads. · The latest innovation on attacks are fraudulent investment scams, these are cloaked and hidden from the user unless they match the right user, demographic and profile. · Bad actors have evolved from compromising banner adds to compromising search, social, video and apps. · If you search for crypto investments on Google, half the search results are most likely fraudulent and will take your money, report back to you that you are making money, encourage you to invest more and never let you withdraw. · Evolution of attacking the user’s device, presenting fraudulent ads, attacking the user’s data with phishing scams to stealing the user’s life savings. · The need for Google, YouTube, Microsoft, Facebook and others to secure their own supply chain of ads to stop enabling these bad actors. · Three pillars of cybersecurity: detecting, preventing, and resolving ad Issues and applying these to each emerging fraudulent vector. · How publishers and advertisers can gain control of the information flowing over their digital pipes. · The evolution of privacy and consent on what is legal and what that means for publishers, advertisers and users when the service is free and the user is the product. · Confiant is now enabling companies to offer their users privacy and control over the information flowing over their pipes and reducing the access bad actors have to attack their devices, data and present fraudulent investment scams. · Balancing making large parts of the web illegal vs compliant with consent driven privacy law. · Going from zero to $1m in 4 years and then $1m to $10m in 4 years. · How Confiant has grown its team with both cybersecurity engineers and now privacy engineers. · Technology challenges of GDPR compliance. · Importance of fostering a corporate culture to retain talent in a talent war. · Enabling self-actualization of each employee to get both hiring and employee retention right to achieve and protect the vector of growth within your startup. Contact us to learn about investing in our 506c VC fund, join our syndicate to co-invest with our fund or access late stage pre-IPO financings of our portfolio companies: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ [email protected] Subscribe to audio-only on all podcast platforms & YouTube.

Episode #40 Jonathan Fish, CEO & cofounder of QSBS Expert, explaining how to pay zero capital gains / no taxes on your gain up to $10m in tax savings or 10x the cost of your investment, whichever is bigger. Qualifications for Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) tax exemptions. The small business must have assets of less than $50m on the balance sheet (not valuation) at the time of the investment including the size of the round, must hold the stock for at least 5 years or roll or tack the exit gain into another QSBS qualifying investment within 60 days and hold for a total combined 5 years. Multiple rollover / tacks are permitted. Discussing which states adhere to federal QSBS and which states charge their own capital gains tax on QSBS stock disregarding the federal laws. How founders can best benefit from $10m or more in tax savings from their own gain of their QSBS startups and which documents to file as founders and when to start the 5 year clock ticking. How to gift some of your QSBS stock to trusts which can each get up to $10m+ from a single QSBS stock gain distributed to multiple trusts. Advice and recommendations on not being too overzealous with the QSBS programs and gifting strategies. How the federal Build, Back Better Infrastructure Plan may remove QSBS to free up more revenue to pay for the Infrastructure Plan and how that may stymie job growth, lost payroll tax and the multiplier effect of this program. How startups and investors can document and keep all records in good conduct to ensure benefiting from QSBS and other services offered by QSBS Expert and their other tax expertise. Note: 7BC Venture Capital and Andrew Romans are not offering any tax advice. This blog post and podcast are offered with the understanding that neither 7BC Venture Capital nor Andrew Romans is engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional service. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought. https://www.qsbsexpert.com/ Video: https://youtu.be/RXl1Cs5g7C8 Contact us to learn about investing in our 506c VC fund which passes some QSBS tax savings to our LPs or joining our Syndicate on Angel List https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ. [email protected]

Episode #39 Brian Cohen, General Partner, New York Venture Partners, Chairman Emeritus, New York Angels, legendary angel investor in Pinterest, Comixology, actively making 3 new investments per week, 100+ and NYVP. Advice to founders on how to raise angel and VC funding, make an emotional and personal connection with the angel, smile a lot, be funny, have breakfast, lunch and dinner with each company before investing, likes startups that understand the customer better than they understand themselves. All startups pivot, iteration is the new innovation, why taking too much capital too early is a huge mistake. I’m not in the investment business; I’m in the exit business. Must see a 20x return to buy into a current valuation and invest. A million reasons why to never invest in SAFEs. SAFEs do not get QSBS tax treatment. Love your investors that loved you and believed in you first. Check out part II of my chat with Brian in episode #41 as we continue our discussion. Check out Brian’s book What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know: An Insider Reveals How to Get Smart Funding for Your Billion Dollar Idea: https://rb.gy/jveizm. Contact [email protected] to learn about investing in our 506c parallel VC fund for accredited investors or join our syndicate to co-invest with us on a deal by deal basis. https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ Video: https://youtu.be/TrOvU6OLxWE Find on all podcast platforms searching Fireside with a VC or Andrew Romans.

Episode #38 Jeff Epstein, Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and Lecturer at Stanford University, ex-CFO at Oracle, $250bn market cap, ex-CFO at DoubleClick sold to Google for $3.2bn. Talking about key milestones and metrics for VC investors. What VCs want. How many financings rounds a startup should go through on a path to an IPO exit, how much funding a startup should raise at each financing round, what valuations should be, what kind of dilution, how frequently they should raise, how many months of cash runway is healthy, what metrics should the startup show to VCs with regards to revenue, how much of an increase year over year during the life of the startup, other key metrics such as CAC to payback rather than CAC to LTV, churn, # of paying referenceable customers, product market fit survey, % of sales team reaching quota, churn of sales team, annual revenue growth, annual growth of revenue per customer, net renewal rate, gross margin, efficiency score, cash conversion score, customer concentration, Net Promoter score, when to double revenue, when to triple revenue, what it takes to justify a $1bn valuation, comparing metrics for SaaS companies, marketplaces and consumer companies. The changing dynamic of 2021 compared to previous years. Bessemer Venture Partners was founded in 1911, has over $8 billion AUM,135 IPOs, 20 investing partners, 210+ active portfolio companies, offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London, Tel Aviv, Bangalore & Beijing. YouTube: https://youtu.be/8LhFSiUG64c [email protected] Please use this link to invest in our 7BC VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our 7BC Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.

Episode #37 Robert Siegel, Lecturer at Stanford University Graduate School of Business & VC on Fireside with a VC talking about his new book The Brains and Brawn Company: How Leading Organizations Blend the Best of Digital and Physical https://rb.gy/ctfxbb. Rob is also a General Partner at X-Seed Capital and Venture Partner at Piva Capital. In THE BRAINS AND BRAWN COMPANY, Siegel demonstrates how companies that bridge the digital and physical domains will have an advantage in coming years – just as Amazon has proven. Siegel provides a framework for ten key attributes companies must master—five each for the digital and physical realms—arguing that digital and physical excellence reinforce each other, achieving more in coordination than either can on their own. 1. Brain/The Left Hemisphere: Using Analytics 2. Brain/The Right Hemisphere: Harnessing Creativity 3. Brain/The Amygdala: Tapping the Power of Empathy 4. Brain/The Prefrontal Cortex: Managing Risk 5. Brain/The Inner Ear: Balancing Ownership and Partnership 6. Brawn/The Spine: Logistics 7. Brawn/Hands: The Craft of Making Things 8. Brawn/Muscles: Leveraging Size and Scale 9. Brawn/Hand-Eye Coordination: Managing Ecosystems 10. Brawn/Stamina: Surviving for the Long Run Siegel illustrates each with case studies—many based on CEO visits to his “Industrialist’s Dilemma” class or in-depth research and case studies, providing readers the feel of an all-access pass to several of the most popular courses at the Stanford GSB. From 23andMe, Instacart and Google to Kaiser Permanente, Desktop Metal, and Michelin, the examples demonstrate how to combine the best of both digital and physical attributes to grow a company. And Siegel shows leaders how to put the framework into action by becoming Systems Leaders, skilled at blending the best of digital and physical, recognizing emerging patterns, and making key decisions in a rapidly changing landscape. video: https://youtu.be/f61n3-5MQrc Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.  [email protected] Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Episode #36 Nathan Rosenstock, Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Crafty on Fireside with a VC talking about corporate culture BC (Before Covid) and AC (After Covid) and how the kegerator became the new water jug and led Crafty to become the leader as “the platform for employee consumption” driving corporate culture by developing a technology stack and product service offering delivering and servicing the delivery of beer, wine, coffee, drinks, snacks, food, best of breed work from home gear and essential devices to foster the most effective corporate culture when working in the office, from home and hybrid models. Discussed the genesis of the company from working at McKinsey to a full time funded startup, to the challenges of Covid when their customers shut down most of their offices due to Covid to pivots to supporting employees at home with box service offerings and a solution for WFH employees to gear up their home offices for productivity and well-being, culture and connectivity, employees coming together over food and beverage, the ROI of food and beverage, how does collaborative innovation happen in a remote work from home environment, how to get people to come to the office on a Friday, now how to get them to come in at all, in-office and remote activities, connectivity, convenience, new models for small companies to offer new shared services to offer a café, childcare, gym and other amenities as scale with economies of scale. Specifics on how to survive Covid when most revenues disappeared, details and psychology of firing people even when they are great employees to survive a Covid crunch, the value of talking to customers to figure out how to pivot or what service offerings to change, finding your value to customers, work from home essentials, desk gear, yoga mats, home microphones, etc. Discussing various dependencies of how, when and where workforces will return to offices compared to work from home – executive team culture, geography, cost of living and size of homes, seasonal weather, sales vs accounting departments - are all factors for when to come into the office again. When will office truly reopen? Advantages and disadvantages of launching a company in Chicago and growing to Silicon Valley, New York and other key markets. Video on Fireside with a VC https://youtu.be/DiO2gS8Jr3Y. https://craftydelivers.com/ https://box.craftydelivers.com/  Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.  [email protected] Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC. #chicago #startups #workfromhome #wfh #corporateculture #officeevents #officefoodandbeverage #NathanRosenstock #crafty #FiresideWithaVC #andrewromans #7BCventurecapital #rubiconventurecapital 

Episode #35 A brake from Fireside with a VC, Andrew Romans delivering a short keynote and doing Q&A with old friend John Ricci, MD of US Angels. Discussing new ways for angel investors to participate more actively in VC funds as Limited Partners, sourcing deal flow, conducting due diligence, taking boards seats, mentoring founders, advising portfolio companies, joining General Partners and Partners for meetings in Silicon Valley, Austin, New York, Miami, London, generating revenue as angels for participation and earning a share in a pool of carry for active LPs, and creating a path to become Venture Partners or Partners in the fund or open new 7BC funds in other countries. Video https://youtu.be/1v6aooshr-M  Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.  [email protected] Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Episode #34 Taking a deep dive on SPACs with Adam Birnbaum, Executive Director at GP Bullhound, understanding how SPACs work, what are the moving parts and processes, taking a look at the different players from sponsors, IPO investors PIPE investors, target companies overall process and how some of these are changing. SPACs vs IPOs. What characteristics must a target company have for a SPAC to be an option, enterprise value, multiples on revenues or EBITDA. Timelines, costs, lockups and other details about how this works. After-market performance of these IPOs and completed transactions. Who are the players on the side of sponsors, IPO investors and PIPE investors? Overall what this means to startups and VCs from early-stage to growth investors and what we expect to happen in the future. Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.  [email protected] Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Episode #33 Nitin Pachisia, Founding Partner of Unshackled Ventures, a pre-Seed, pre-revenue, pre-MVP venture fund in Silicon Valley that funds teams with at least one immigrant on the founding team. Discussing their model on how to support founders with capital and hands-on support as well as a specialty of helping companies deal with U.S. immigration issues. Also discussing the specifics of investing via convertible notes, SAFEs, side letter agreements, pro-rata equity rights and the emotional or earned pro-rata equity rights. Video podcast https://youtu.be/-rNsDozQJnc  Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.  [email protected] Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Episode #32 – Karen McCormick, Chief Investment Officer of Beringea, a US & UK venture capital firm with approximately $750m of Assets Under Management focused on Series A investing discussing the innovative structure of Beringea’s publicly traded, listed VC fund, the advantages of being a publicly traded VC fund compared to the evolving secondary market for LP interests and how to optimize a transition from 2&20 GP - LP structure to a permanent capital fund structure listed on the stock market. Discussing what it’s like to be a woman in the male-dominated VC – startup ecosystem and experiences of female VCs and VC-backed founders. Discussing investment strategy of investing in capital-efficient startups on a path to profitability, the lack of need for unicorns and lower loss rates. Karen has been a VC investing at Beringea for over 14 years. Discussing the changes and evolution of the entrepreneurial mindset in the UK and Europe compared to 14 years ago. Touching on the evolution of valuation expectations, how much capital entrepreneurs raise and exit valuations. Video: https://youtu.be/5MdD86h1wbM  Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.  [email protected] Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Episode #31 – Victoria Cheng is a Partner at PruVen Capital. PruVen was established in December 2020 with an anchor LP Prudential Financial with a $300m first multi-stage fund investing in the largest industries of the global economy across #FinTech, #InsureTech, #HealthTech, #PropTech, #EnterpriseIT. Discussing the current investment themes and strategy of the new fund, but also digging into the complexities of CVC aspects of managing a fund with a single LP and how to capture synergies for the corporate and the startup portfolio companies as well as best practices of CVC with a financial player as the single LP, investing during Covid and how this is evolving from the early days of the pandemic to now and how entrepreneurs and investors need Silicon Valley and New York networks, but do not necessarily need to live in those super-city centers. Video: https://youtu.be/lNdS3A7VJiM.  Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.  [email protected] Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Episode #30 – Patrick Sheehan is a founder and Managing Partner of The Environmental Technologies Fund - ETF Partners which he established nearly 15 years ago. Discussing the evolution of environmental / cleantech / green / sustainable technology companies and venture capital’s ability to support them. How this has changed from 2006 before the term cleantech was a buzzword to the dark days of Solyndra and now the current state of capital efficient AI, ML and software driven innovation as well as the Industrial Internet of Things, Limited Partner climate and attitude to the sector, the willingness of large corporations to believe climate change exists and their responsiveness, the willingness of consumers, large corporations and governments to adopt green premiums for sustainable solutions, the tipping point of green technologies being profitable compared to conventional solutions, applying IT and AI to large industries such as shipping, supply chain, digitations, travel and all human workflows. Patrick has worked in venture capital since 1985, when he joined 3i. He was instrumental in founding 3i's venture capital practice, and later became the founding Managing Director of its Silicon Valley operation. Patrick was a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Invest Europe from 2007 to 2010, during which time he also chaired the Venture Capital Committee. Video of this podcast https://youtu.be/njvuY-xhg9k.  Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.  [email protected] Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Episode #29 – Mohanjit Jolly, Cofounder & Partner of Iron Pillar, on Fireside with a VC talking about his strategy to invest in Indian-based growth companies and connecting them to Silicon Valley and around the globe for worldwide expansion. Brilliant VC fund strategy with a great track record and pedigree. Also talking about his time as a Managing Director at DFJ and Garage Technology Ventures working with Guy Kawasaki and Bill Reichert back in the day. Video of this podcast https://youtu.be/qEPPLMibOdg.  Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.  [email protected] Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Episode #28 – Matus Maar, Cofounder & Managing Director of Talis Capital, on Fireside with a VC, investing 33% US, 33% UK, 33% Europe, talking about how Covid is changing our industry, investment themes, the revenue growth of startups and scaleups in the VC market compared to the stock market, fintech and cybersecurity, emerging business models we are investing in, what generation Z is wants and how that is impacting greater society, improving liquidity in the privately held VC asset class, Talis’ model of LPs investing into a new fund each year as opposed to doing capital calls. https://youtu.be/qEPPLMibOdg. Audio only of this discussion on all podcast platforms.  Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.  [email protected] Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Episode #27 – Ernst Theodor Sack, Partner at Blue Bear Capital, an early-stage VC in Los Angeles on Fireside with a VC. Talking about investing in high-growth technology companies across the energy, infrastructure, and climate industries as well as the new 2.0 generation of capital-efficient startups tackling humanity's most compelling challenges. How AI and enterprise software are reinventing both renewable and conventional energy systems. Discussing the dynamics of raising a first-time fund and a Fund II for a new VC franchise and building a powerful LP base. Investing in early revenue companies through to Series A and B. Video of this podcast at https://youtu.be/YEB7C32TyNs.  Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.  [email protected] Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Talking about how to evaluate an investment opportunity and what drives a VC to invest or pass on a deal, the dynamic of operator turned VC, how to start a VC fund, how to raise LP capital, raising LP capital from small angels and larger LPs, evolving a strategy for portfolio construction to neutralize early stage risk and optimize the impact of the best exits, what percentage of a fund should go into follow ons and pro ratas, policies around pro-rata investing, getting into the details of financings at seed, late stage seed, A and into late stage large rounds and the behavior of larger VCs working with smaller earlier stage VCs. Video at https://youtu.be/sosRs_L07rQ.  Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.  [email protected] Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Talking about how Telstra Ventures migrated from an on-balance sheet / full-time employee business unit CVC to an independent 2&20 VC fund controlling its own IC (Investment Committee) and diversifying its LP base to include HarbourVest and other financial LPs. Discussing the evolution of a CVC with the Investment Committee (IC) changing and evolving. Video of this podcast at https://youtu.be/kj2BlCBnJM4.  Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.  [email protected] Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Ed leads technology investing at Albion, where they have backed over 200 companies over 22 years, delivering top quartile investment performance. Discussing the personality characteristics in a founder when deciding which entrepreneurs to invest in, leadership and culture eating strategy for breakfast, tech trends exciting Ed now including RegTech or regulatory technologies, and explaining the Venture Capital Trust (VCT) system. Albion is one of the largest 2 VCTs in the UK. Also discussing EIS tax scheme for investors, raising capital from VCs and investing during Covid. https://youtu.be/ID46cvZTzv4 Find audio only on all podcast platforms including Spotify.  Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.  [email protected] Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Per is a cofounder of GP.Bullhound, a $400m AUM VC and investment bank with 125 deal makers across 10 offices in Europe, the US and Asia. Discussing investment strategy, getting into category winners, primaries, secondaries, M&A market dynamics, the impact of CIFIUS on Chinese acquisitions of European and American startups, the future of global entrepreneurship, VC and investment banking. My favorite quote of the podcast “What kind of investment manager are you if you haven’t met the management team prior to March?” Full video: https://youtu.be/yaTmYZOeiYI  Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.  [email protected] Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Episode #22 – Fabrice Grinda, cofounder of FJ Labs, invested $284m into 571 startups, 193 exits, IRR of 62%, former cofounder of OLX, classified in emerging markets, Zingy, which reached $200m ARR and profitable in 4 years. We talk about startups and raising funding in the US, Europe and around the world. Full video https://youtu.be/eK_rzNhnplU  Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.  [email protected] Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Episode #21 – Garrett Goldberg, Partner, Bee Partners, active Seed VC in San Francisco talking about investing during Covid, portfolio construction to neutralize risk and maximize venture returns, timelines to complete exits, details of terms for pre-seed and seed rounds, side letter agreements to give preferred rights to investors when investing via convertible notes and SAFEs, how to form a board and be a great board member for early stage startups and how that should evolve over time, what technology sectors are most exciting to Bee Partners right now, seasoned advice for anyone making early stage investments or raising early stage venture capital. Full video file at https://youtu.be/Lh9i4Lch4p8. More videos at https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewRomansVC. Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.  [email protected] Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Episode #20 discussing how In-Q-Tel came into being and how it has evolved to be investing for strategic benefits on behalf of 8 U.S. intelligence agencies and how In-Q-Tel partnerships with startups can add enormous value and revenue opportunities to startups around the world in working with the U.S. government such as Palantir. Discussed other issues such as CIFIUS and FIRMMA. More information on that here: https://nvca.org/cfius-vc-3-takeaways-from-the-final-rules-and-what-investors-must-know/. George is an active board member of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Prior to joining In-Q-Tel 10 years ago, George was an executive at HP, Silicon Valley’s original startup and a career venture capitalist, former manager at Blueprint Ventures, Redleaf Group and El Dorado Ventures. Full video of this episode at https://www.youtube.com/AndrewRomansVC. Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite. Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ.  [email protected] Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.