Bakshi: Blu Ventures has over $170M AUM and 63 active investments
“In fact, at last count, I think we had about 63 or so active investments and about 15 or 20 exited over the last 12 years. About a hundred and seventy million, a little over hundred and seventy million in assets under management.”
Bakshi: Blu Ventures operates funding vehicles from $100k seed to $1M+
“So within Blue, to answer the second part of your question, I am part of a couple of investment committees. We have a number of different funding vehicles, depending on the stage of the companies. It could be a really early stage company, which is looking for …”
Bakshi: Multi-founder startups handle crises and operate more smoothly
“What I will say is that the boards that I sit on, if there are multiple founders, things tend to be a little less frantic in that when there's a moment of crisis or there is a situation which demands attention, having more than one founder As making the ultima…”
Bakshi: Founder equity dilution is less important than avoiding single points of failure
“From a, from an arithmetic standpoint, yes, it'll make an impact, but frankly, there is, there are just so many unknowns at this stage of life of a startup company that I think the weight that, that equity ownership across two or three founders carries is not …”
Bakshi: Early Indications Suggest VC Exits Will Improve in 2025
“And actually we're hoping, 25 is better. We're hoping we see more exits. And in our senses, it, at least early indications are that it will be better. We are certainly cautiously optimistic.”
MedStack closes $3.1M funding round led by Blu Ventures and Telus
“So we actually just completed a raise of 3.1 million. And so that was led by blue ventures and tell us one of our previous investors investors as well.”