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20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition
- ▶ 37:17 Ann Miura-Ko I think Manu Kumar at Canine Ventures also, like, we're all just being scrappy at the moment.
20VC: Multi-Stage Funds Investing At Seed Are Option Value Investing, Why The Biggest Enemy For Venture Firms Is Group Think and How Running Companies Changes Your Investment Mentality with Manu Kumar, Founder @ K9 Ventures
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings You are listening to the 20 Minute VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and with self-isolation, there is more to see on Instagram, and so you can see all things behind the scenes there, at hstebbings.com, and I always love to see you there, but… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:53 Harry Stebbings However, that's quite enough from me, so as I said earlier, delighted to welcome back one of the OGs of seed financing, Manu Kumar, founder at Canine Ventures. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:37 Harry Stebbings Setting a little bit of context, and for anyone that maybe didn't listen to our first episode when it was pretty much just my mother listening, tell me, how did you make your way into the world of venture and come to found K-Nine?
- ▶ 4:33 Harry Stebbings Totally, and I mean, you have done such an incredible job with that, with K-Nine, and as we said before, you are the OG for pre-seed, having coined it in your AGM deck in 2013.
- ▶ 11:19 Harry Stebbings How do you think about portfolio construction today with K-Nine and with the dollars raised that you have AUM? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:46 Manu Kumar Canine from kind of avoiding adverse selection here is the first thing is just the number of investments, right?
- ▶ 16:14 Manu Kumar And I think when I think about it, yes, the, the five-year investment period is probably adding some level of temporal diversification to the canine portfolio, but that was not the reason why I chose a five-year investment period. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:28 Manu Kumar So I describe it as that, like, when founders come in to pitch me and K-Nine, they're coming in and painting a vision of the future, and my job is basically to make a call on, do I believe in the vision of the future that they are painting?
- ▶ 20:17 Harry Stebbings And as I said, such an interesting structure with obviously K-Nine also creating a new founding companies alongside investing. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:41 Manu Kumar And we were just talking about this book on Monday at our canine founders dinner. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:41 Harry Stebbings Absolutely love Manu, and what he's built with Canine is just incredible.
20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings All things fundraising and M&A, among other things, and Carter has raised over four hundred and eighty-five million dollars from the likes of Andreessen, USV, Thrive, Spark, K-Nine, Lightspeed, and Meritech, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:24 Sumit Gajri Fund, you know, there's a lot of great funds out there, you know, you guys at Stride, Manu Kamara K-Nine, they get Tima Homebrew, but there's a lot of great early stage funds that you can partner with.
20VC: Carta Founder Henry Ward on Why The Best Companies Are Not Product Led But Distribution Led, 3 Requirements Needed For A New Market/Investment To Be Exciting and Why Small Markets Are So Attractive
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date, Henry's raised over a hundred and forty seven million in funding from some of the very best in the business, including USV, Spark, K-Nine Ventures, and Meritech, and then also leading founders, including Flexport's Ryan Peterson,…
20VC: Accel GP, Rich Wong on When Is The Right Time To Scale A Startup, Optimising Initial vs Follow-On Investment Decision-Making & The Globalisation of VC In Recent Years
- ▶ 1:05 Harry Stebbings I'd also want to say a huge thank you to Rich's colleague, Brian O'Malley, for the intro to Rich today, and to Manu Kumar at Canine Ventures for providing such fantastic questions.
- ▶ 15:26 Harry Stebbings It leads perfectly to my next question, which is actually from Manu Kumar at K-Nine, who says that, you know, you've seen many incredible companies go through the scaling process.
- ▶ 22:09 Rich Wong So, as I think I mentioned before we started the podcast, you know, Mark Suster from Upfront, Manu from K-Nine, and myself are the three of the board members at this company, Osmo in the educational gaming space.
20VC: eShares' Henry Ward on Why Portfolio Theory Is Wrong? Why Investors Will Never Take Market Risk & Why You have To Have A Line of Sight To A $Bn Outcome
- ▶ 0:50 Harry Stebbings I'd also like to say a huge thanks to past guests Nav Athwal at RealtyShares, and Manu Kumar at Canine Ventures for the intro to Henry's
- ▶ 2:29 Harry Stebbings Huge thanks to Nav at RealtyShares and Manu at K-Nine for the intro, and I really appreciate you taking the time out to join me today, Henry.
- ▶ 23:27 Harry Stebbings Some very exciting times ahead for eShares, and a huge hand to Manu at K-Nine, and Nav at RealtyShares for the intro, without which the show would not have been possible.
20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid
- ▶ 11:03 Harry Stebbings So why did you take this decision over other people like Manu at K-Nine or Michael Dearing who stayed with solo GP funds?