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Arteen Arabshahi

General Partner, Fika Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Arteen Arabshahi is a founding partner and General Partner at Fika Ventures, a seed-stage fund focused on B2B enterprise software, fintech, and AI platforms. He previously invested at Karlin Ventures and WndrCo, and served as SVP of Strategy at Route.

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4.3 / 5 directness 4.7 · coherence 4.5 · precision 4.2 · compression 3.4

answered every one of 10 assessed questions directly

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301 words/min while actually speaking · 38.5 um and uh per 1k words

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setup questions received 40%

Everything Arteen Arabshahi said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Arabshahi: Most horizontal marketplace opportunities have already been captured
“Most horizontal infrastructure that is going to be disrupted by big marketplaces has probably already been done so, right? So like Uber Airbnb, like the, you know, I think taxis are pretty much taken care of at this point.”
Arteen Arabshahi Aug 3, 2015 ▶ 17:00 20 VC 059: How To Approach VCs with Arteen Arabshahi, VC @ Karlin Ventures
Insight
Arabshahi: VCs pass if founders must convince them the market is big
“If you have to convince an investor how, like, that the market is big enough, they're probably not going to do it is kind of my notion.”
Arteen Arabshahi Aug 3, 2015 ▶ 19:00 20 VC 059: How To Approach VCs with Arteen Arabshahi, VC @ Karlin Ventures
Insight
Arabshahi: Karlin Ventures passes if founders know less than the investors
“If I feel like I know more about the sector than the entrepreneur does, there's no way we'll invest, because I probably have a 60 to 70% understanding of a lot of things, but if you're starting a company in that space, you should know a 120% of it.”
Arteen Arabshahi Aug 3, 2015 ▶ 26:30 20 VC 059: How To Approach VCs with Arteen Arabshahi, VC @ Karlin Ventures
Insight
Arabshahi: Industry expertise and customer acquisition are insurance marketplaces' hardest challenges
“One of the founders has, like, incredibly relevant industry expertise, and the other one has amazing expertise in customer acquisition, and I think those are probably the Two hardest things that a marketplace for insurance will face.”
Arteen Arabshahi Aug 3, 2015 ▶ 28:14 20 VC 059: How To Approach VCs with Arteen Arabshahi, VC @ Karlin Ventures
Disclosure
Karlin Ventures has a $60 million allocation for a five-year fund
“We have sixty million an allocation and it's a five year fund.”
Arteen Arabshahi Aug 3, 2015 ▶ 8:55 20 VC 059: How To Approach VCs with Arteen Arabshahi, VC @ Karlin Ventures
Opinion
Arabshahi: Brad Feld has exceptional email response etiquette and speed
“Brad, Brad is like, I mean, the guy, his email response etiquette and ratio is just like tremendous.”
Arteen Arabshahi Aug 3, 2015 ▶ 12:29 20 VC 059: How To Approach VCs with Arteen Arabshahi, VC @ Karlin Ventures
Disclosure
Karlin Ventures invests $250K to $1.5M in enterprise software and marketplaces
“Our focus is mostly enterprise software and marketplaces. We, we've done a few other things, some ad tech, some commerce platforms and things like that. But really enterprise and marketplaces are the core focus and typically investing between two 50 K up to ab…”
Arteen Arabshahi Aug 3, 2015 ▶ 15:27 20 VC 059: How To Approach VCs with Arteen Arabshahi, VC @ Karlin Ventures
Disclosure
Karlin Ventures invested in the Series A for insurance marketplace Policygenius
“We did an investment out of New York called Policy Genius. We did a Series A, and it's a marketplace for life, rent, pet, and disability insurance.”
Arteen Arabshahi Aug 3, 2015 ▶ 27:56 20 VC 059: How To Approach VCs with Arteen Arabshahi, VC @ Karlin Ventures

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20 VC 059: How To Approach VCs with Arteen Arabshahi, VC @ Karlin Ventures Aug 3, 2015 22m
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