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Disclosure
Five companies represent 93% of Original Capital's deployed capital
“Despite the fact that we've written over 50 checks a day and made investments in 42 different companies, Five of those companies account for 93% of our capital today.”
Sumit Gajri Jan 17, 2020 ▶ 10:40 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
Disclosure
Gajri deploys the majority of his capital into known founders
“The places where I place the majority of my capital are not founders I met last week. The place where my capital goes is founders where, you know, I've already been spending time with them solving business problems, and we've already been working together befo…”
Sumit Gajri Jan 17, 2020 ▶ 19:58 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
Disclosure
Carta grew its second product to $10M revenue in under 14 months
“But the product that we built, it went from zero to ten million dollars of revenue in under 14 months.”
Sumit Gajri Jan 17, 2020 ▶ 26:30 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
Disclosure
Carta is adding 1% of the US venture ecosystem monthly
“And we're adding, call it a percent of the ecosystem a month to Carta at this point in the US.”
Sumit Gajri Jan 17, 2020 ▶ 27:22 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
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