Prime Venture Partners is very unlikely to raise a $300M fund
Sanjay Swamy · Episode 49 | Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner, Prime Ventures · Jan 27, 2020 · at 47:05
Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner at Prime Venture Partners, explains why the firm refuses to scale up fund size to $300 million.
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“Well, you know we have a philosophy that says in early stage and with the approach we have, right, there's only, we're limited by our bandwidth, right, so as it is, as you said, you know, 25 companies, and you said only, I was saying, wow, we're 25 companies that we're working with. So I think we have to be structured very differently from machinery for, you know, I don't think it's the shoe is not so much about being able to raise 300, It's being able to manage and deploy it. And that's not who we are. That's not how we've set out to be. Right. And you know so unless we fundamentally change something about what we stand for and how we go about it, I don't think we can, we will never need to get to that stage. I shouldn't, I should never say never, but you know, it's very unlikely unless we have fundamentally changed what we, how we work.”
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