Left Lane's 20-person investment team speaks with 780 companies a month
Jason Fiedler · America's New Consumer: CPG, Sports, Four-Wall | Jason Fiedler, Left Lane Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Nov 8, 2024 · at 16:24
Jason Fiedler, Managing Partner at Left Lane Capital, shares internal sourcing statistics on the volume of outbound deal flow evaluated monthly.
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“I think I was checking before this, I think we've spoken with 780 companies this month so far. So we got another week to go and manage Everything in Salesforce. And so, but that's really a, it comprises of, you know, the investment team of 20, twenty-ish.”
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