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20VC: The 2 Core Roles Played By The Best Seed Investors Today, What To Look For In Potential Co-Investors & Why Seed Funds Can Grow Ownership in Their Best Companies Across Rounds with Ron Bouganim, Founder @ Govtech Fund Oct 29, 2018 · 21 mentions

• ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings But to the show stay, and I'm very, very excited to welcome a dear friend and wonderful player in the ecosystem, Ron Buganim, founder at GovTechFund, the first ever venture capital fund dedicated to government technology startups. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 2:48 Harry Stebbings Two zero VC, Build an award-winning culture with Lattice, the number one people management solution, but that's quite enough from me, so now I'm thrilled to hand over to Ron Buganim, founder at GovTechFund Three, two, one, zero..
• ▶ 3:17 Harry Stebbings Not at all, but I'd love to get the ball rolling today with a little bit on you, Ron, and tell me, how did you make your way into what I always call the wonderful world of venture with the founding of GovTech?
• ▶ 7:04 Ron Bouganim So, basically, the GovTech fund, honestly, in part, sort of came out of spite, 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 7:31 Harry Stebbings I mean, I love that founding story, but before we dive headlong into all things GovTech, I do want to just touch on two evolutions 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 9:11 Harry Stebbings The other evolution I do have to ask about before, as I said, we discussed GovTech, is the transition from angel to VC. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 10:58 Ron Bouganim Not, of course, against larger ownership stake in the first check, but I would say that if you looked at the 19 investments I've made to date through GovTech Fund, one and two, the overwhelming trend has been certainly taking a meaningful… 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 12:54 Ron Bouganim So the GovTech funds portfolio today is exclusively comprised of SaaS startups, software as a service startups that, for example, run a police department or manage foster care.
• ▶ 28:55 Ron Bouganim And then by joining the GovTech fund, they sort of get onto our, I guess, rocket ship of access and all the other portfolio peers that can help them grow their business. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 34:34 Ron Bouganim These are, in the GovTech Funds case, these are twenty-year-olds, and especially if they're hitting those growth rates I mentioned earlier as well. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 40:13 Ron Bouganim I sat down, I flew over to see them in the family office and so on, and literally I sat down, they said, okay, we're in for, I think it was two million or three million in fund one, which was, you know, 10% of the fund. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 43:13 Harry Stebbings I really do appreciate that, and I'm so excited for the upcoming years with GovTech.