Alan Jean-Baptiste
Co-Founder and General Partner, Ansa Capital · 1 appearance on the record.
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Allan Jean-Baptiste is a venture capitalist who co-founded Ansa Capital to invest in early-to-expansion-stage tech companies across software, AI, and fintech. He previously served as a Principal at KKR and as an investor at CapitalG.
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Jean-Baptiste: Separation of sourcers and investment committees weakens venture conviction
“When you think about the structuring of traditional firms, It tends to be that the most junior people are doing a lot of the sourcing, developing a lot of the theses, having those initial conversations and building a point of view. But the investment committee…”
Jean-Baptiste: Traditional VC advisor networks overpromise and lack accessibility
“What we realized was a lot of VC networks overpromised. They're people with large caches who sound great on a page, but don't really have time or aren't even accessible for your ten million dollar investment.”
Jean-Baptiste: Firm scaling creates silos that miss interdisciplinary business models
“For one thing, as you grow your firm, you just start to silo your people. So instead of being more of a generalist or covering multiple sectors, you start to cover very specific end markets, and within those end markets, even more specific subsectors. And give…”
Jean-Baptiste: Ansa Capital Targets About a Dozen Companies for Fund One
“We're building a concentrated portfolio. We want fund one to be about a dozen companies because for all that time and for all that effort and research and thesis building, we want to invest deeply behind where we have conviction.”
Jean-Baptiste: Ansa uses GP-led thesis work to invest faster with deeper conviction
“And that's why our approach is to do GP-led thesis work in very specific spaces, and to build deep theses. So we're not running around chasing every idea, but we're chasing the theses where we feel like we have deep conviction and knowledge. And that allows us…”
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Allan Jean-Baptiste and Marco DeMeireles – Under-covered Venture Markets and Teams at Ansa | Sep 1, 2022 | 15m |