Samir Kaji
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Venture Unlocked is the playbook for starting, operating, & scaling a successful venture capital firm. Samir Kaji, Host of Venture Unlocked has +20-years of experience assisting & advising startups and venture firms. Listen for VC fund guidance. ventureunlocked.substack.com
Samir Kaji gets a VC's worldview and fund size into the same conversation, so you can test the pitch.
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A practical look at how venture firms earn durability by rethinking talent, conviction, and founder selection.
This episode traces Lior Susan's path from building companies to launching his own venture capital firm nearly 10 years ago, and uses that shift to examine what changes when an operator becomes an investor.
Patient conversations on finance, climate, and purpose.
Lior Susan from Eclipse Ventures reflects on building a conviction-driven VC firm for physical industries.
Venture Unlocked host Samir Khaji interviews Rob Go, co-founder and partner at NextView, about his post “A Crisis Moment in Seed” and the changing economics of pre-seed and seed investing.
Mercedes Bent describes moving from an entrepreneurial Bay Area family and Harvard, the Federal Reserve, Goldman Sachs, startups, and Lightspeed to founding Premise with Vanessa.
Alex Robinson, CEO and co-founder of Juniper Square, describes receiving two inches of notarized paperwork by FedEx when he invested in private funds in 2013.
Jack Altman, founder and CEO of Lattice and Managing Partner at AltCapital, compares building a unicorn with running a venture firm.
Lyndall Eakman recounts investing in Union Square Ventures in 2004 while at UTIMCO, when Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham struggled to raise capital.
Venture Unlocked's LP roundtable examines a market described as "lit," "extraordinary," and "spicy," with roughly $300 billion invested in venture-backed startups in Q1 and Q2.