Podcasts about aspect ventures

Produced by Foundersuite (www.foundersuite.com), "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders and investors who have raised capital. This episode is with May Habib of Writer.com, a startup building a full-stack generative AI platform for enterprises. In this episode, we talk about enterprise AI and the trends happening in the space, selling solutions vs. selling technology, what it's like to raise capital in a white-hot market, the importance of being contrarian + right, how to choose investors and more. Writer most recently raised a $100 million Series B round led by ICONIQ Growth, with participation from Insight Partners, WndrCo, Balderton Capital, and Aspect Ventures, along with customers such as Accenture and Vanguard. How I Raised It is produced by Foundersuite, makers of software to raise capital and manage investor relations. Foundersuite's customers have raised over $17 Billion since 2016. Create a free account at www.foundersuite.com. If you are a VC or investment banker, check out our new platform, www.fundingstack.com

Lauren Kolodny and Theresia Gouw are the Founders of Acrew Capital. Acrew DCF is a new growth stage investment fund from Acrew Capital, that aims to diversify the ownership and leadership of leading growth-stage companies through value-added capital. Prior to co-founding Acrew, Lauren was a partner at Aspect Ventures. She joined at the founding of the firm and helped to build out the team. Previously, Lauren worked in product marketing at Google, where she led a number of launches for GSuite, including Google Drive. Lauren began her career building tech and finance partnerships for the Clinton Foundation in India. Previously, Theresia was a co-founder at Aspect Ventures and a Managing General Partner at Accel. Theresia has been fortunate to work with many successful companies through IPOs or acquisitions including Forescout (FSCT), Imperva (IMPV), Trulia (TRLA), Hotel Tonight (ABNB), Astro (Slack; WORK), LearnVest (Northwestern Mutual), Jasper Design (CDNS) and Kosmix (WMT). ————————————————————————— To learn more about this episode, including podcast transcripts and show notes, visit *salt.org/talks* ( http://salt.org/talks ) Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci.

In this episode we talk to Jennifer Fonstad about her experience as a venture capitalist for over two decades. Jennifer touches on her journey growing DFJ from a $150 million fund to $3.5 billion AUM and her experience working closely with entrepreneurs as an angel investor. Lastly, she dives into her experience with gender dynamics in the VC industry and actions she has taken to bridge the gap, including founding a network of female angel investors, Broadway Angels and her commitment to funding female entrepreneurs at Aspect Ventures. 

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Milana Lewis of Stem.is, a platform that helps musicians distribute their music, automate splits, and get paid. In this episode, Milana talks about how she informally socialized her deal with investors (but ran a process), what discovery questions to ask prospective investors, what her investor funnel metrics looked like, how to prioritize investor leads, and much more. The Company most recently raised $10 million of venture funding in a deal led by Slow Ventures. Upfront Ventures, Aspect Ventures, Mark Gillespie, Baron Davis and Kevin Lee (Coach K) also participated in the round. This is #2 of 3 this week in our "Music Tech" series. How I Raised It is produced by Foundersuite, makers of software to raise capital and manage investor relations. Foundersuite's customers have raised over $2.5 Billion since 2016. Create a free account at www.foundersuite.com

Our guest this week: Chris Mosunic, PhD, Chief Clinical Officer of Vida Health. "Vida is a virtual care company that combines a human-centric approach with technology to address chronic and co-occurring physical and behavioral health conditions. We provide personalized chronic condition management combined with health coaching and therapy through a mobile and online platform that supports individuals in managing and significantly improving conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity, depression, anxiety, etc. Our platform integrates deeply individual expert care with machine learning and remote monitoring to deliver lasting behavior change, health outcomes and cost savings. Vida is in the business of enabling self-insured employers, health plans and providers to take better care of their employees and members. They are trusted by Fortune 1000 companies, major national payers, and large providers to activate, engage, and empower their employees to live their healthiest lives. Based in San Francisco, CA, Vida is backed by investors including Khosla Ventures, StartX, Aspect Ventures, Canvas, Workday, and Nokia." On this episode, we discussed: - His background - How he got to where he is today? - What is Vida Health? - What's next? - ...and much more! WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR: Our sponsor for this episode is BlocHealth. BlocHealth is building the ecosystem of healthcare services and solutions to power the future of healthcare. Through the platform, healthcare professionals and organizations can use their credentialing data for more! They can store their credentialing and licensing-related documents, fill out a smart, common application and use the information within it to order multiple services such as provider enrollment, license registration, license renewals, and more! For more information, please go to www.blochealth.com and be sure to follow BlocHealth on social media - @blochealth *This podcast was recorded within the last 6 months To learn more about Vida Health, please use the links below: -Website - LinkedIn - Twitter - Facebook - YouTube Also, be sure to follow Slice of Healthcare on our social channels: - Website - Facebook - LinkedIn

Campbell Brown is the CEO & Co-Founder at PredictHQ, the demand intelligence company. The company has raised over $30 million from investors like Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, Aspect Ventures, AddVenture, Rampersand, and Tidal Ventures. Prior to this, he sold GrabOne for over $89 million.

Campbell Brown is the CEO & Co-Founder at PredictHQ, the demand intelligence company. The company has raised over $30 million from investors like Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, Aspect Ventures, AddVenture, Rampersand, and Tidal Ventures. Prior to this, he sold GrabOne for over $89 million.

May Habib is the Founder & CEO @ Qordoba, the platform that helps everyone at your company write with the same style, terminology and voice. To date, May has raised over $21M in funding with Qordoba from the likes of Upfront Ventures, Aspect Ventures, Bonfire Ventures and Michael Stoppelman to name a few. Before entering the world of SaaS, May was a vice president at one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, where she was the first employee on the technology investment team, building a portfolio now worth over $20B. Before that, May started her career in the New York Office of Lehman Brothers raising capital for software companies.   In Today’s Episode We Discuss: How May made her way into the world of startups and SaaS from being a VP at one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East? How does May think about and assess operational survival in times of such uncertainty? Why does this downturn feel so different to prior downturns? Operationally, what needs to fundamentally change about your processes? How does May think about when is the right time to engage with pre-emptive burn cuts? Where does one look first in the organisation when making these cuts? How does one structure those discussions? What is the right way to do it? What is the right way to communicate the cuts to the team, customers and investors?  How does one keep the existing teams spirits high when they have just seen many of their friends be released? What is the right way to manage those discussions? What can founders do to build unity in their team now everyone is WFH? What has worked well for the Qordoba team? Where do many go wrong here?        May’s 60 Second SaaStr: What is the most challenging element of May’s role with Qordoba today? What does May know now that she wishes she had known at the beginning? If May could change one thing about the world of SaaS, what would it be and why? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr May Habib

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This week Kate and Alex were back at TechCrunch's San Francisco headquarters to chat the news with Kleiner Perkin's Mamoon Hamid. Hamid is best known as a former member of the Social Capital team, and for driving generational change at Kleiner Perkins, a decades-old venture capital firm.While we were prepping our notes, Airbnb announced that it is indeed going public next year. The firm's terse statement launched 1,000 blog posts (here is one, here is another), while instigating a few jokes. After all, the IPO market is hot now. Saying that you are going to try your best to get out next year isn't incredibly impressive from a firm with as many billions as Airbnb is today. It's also not at all surprising.Still, it's a near-promise. And that means eventually we'll get to see what the popular home-sharing and accommodations company spends all its gross margin on. Moving along, we discussed the recent WeWork revelations. If you haven't read the Wall Street Journal's piece on the matter, you must. It is chock-full of colorful anecdotes with WeWork's co-founder and CEO Adam Neumann front and center.Next, we got into the news concerning a split at Aspect Ventures, which TechCrunch covered here. We had heard rumors about the split, first reported by The WSJ, for a few weeks now and were interested to discuss what drives these sort of shake-ups with our guest.Scooting ahead, we turned to the early-stage market where quite a few of you, our lovely friends, have asked us to spend more time. So, we talked at length about D2C startups, including the new, and we think cool Thingtesting business. You can check out their Instagram, the focal point of their business, here. Despite enjoying Thingtesting, Kate and Mamoon are bearish on the D2C movement.All that and we had a good time. Sorry about the lack of donut continuity in the video. We're back next week with more, and we'll see everyone at Disrupt in two weeks!

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This week Kate and Alex were back at TechCrunch's San Francisco headquarters to chat the news with Kleiner Perkin's Mamoon Hamid. Hamid is best known as a former member of the Social Capital team, and for driving generational change at Kleiner Perkins, a decades-old venture capital firm.While we were prepping our notes, Airbnb announced that it is indeed going public next year. The firm's terse statement launched 1,000 blog posts (here is one, here is another), while instigating a few jokes. After all, the IPO market is hot now. Saying that you are going to try your best to get out next year isn't incredibly impressive from a firm with as many billions as Airbnb is today. It's also not at all surprising.Still, it's a near-promise. And that means eventually we'll get to see what the popular home-sharing and accommodations company spends all its gross margin on. Moving along, we discussed the recent WeWork revelations. If you haven't read the Wall Street Journal's piece on the matter, you must. It is chock-full of colorful anecdotes with WeWork's co-founder and CEO Adam Neumann front and center.Next, we got into the news concerning a split at Aspect Ventures, which TechCrunch covered here. We had heard rumors about the split, first reported by The WSJ, for a few weeks now and were interested to discuss what drives these sort of shake-ups with our guest.Scooting ahead, we turned to the early-stage market where quite a few of you, our lovely friends, have asked us to spend more time. So, we talked at length about D2C startups, including the new, and we think cool Thingtesting business. You can check out their Instagram, the focal point of their business, here. Despite enjoying Thingtesting, Kate and Mamoon are bearish on the D2C movement.All that and we had a good time. Sorry about the lack of donut continuity in the video. We're back next week with more, and we'll see everyone at Disrupt in two weeks!

Scott Soshnick, Eben Novy-Williams and Michael Barr discuss a host of issues related to the business of sports, including the appreciation of professional sports teams in the NFL, NBA and MLB. According to Forbes, for the first time every team in those leagues is worth at least $1 billion. Also talked about is Zion Williamson’s decision to sign with Nike’s Jordan Brand. Williamson, the No. 1 draft pick and most heralded NBA rookie since LeBron James -- also a Nike face -- was courted by several shoe and apparel brands. Financial terms of the deal, which Williamson announced on his Instagram page, weren’t disclosed. Also talked about is an investment by Theresia Gouw, often referred to as the richest female venture capitalist, into a beach volleyball media platform started by five-time Olympian and three-time gold medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings. Gouw is the co-founder of Aspect Ventures, whose portfolio of companies includes 40% started by women. Jennings’s p1440 is the first digital media platform dedicated to the sport and culture surrounding beach volleyball. Hosts: Scott Soshnick, Eben Novy-Williams and Michael Barr Producer: Bob Bragg

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Gregory Robinson of The Mom Project (www.themomproject.com), a job marketplace and recruiting platform for accomplished women. The Company raised an $8 million Series A led by Grotech Ventures and Initialized Capital Management, with participation from BBG Ventures, OCA Ventures, Engage Ventures, Tech Square Venture Partners, Aspect Ventures, Atlanta Seed Company, IrishAngels and Wintrust Ventures. In this episode, Gregory talks about the growing need (and opportunity) for work/life balance, raising capital for a mission-focused business, what angel investors are really looking for, why he let two corporate VCs into his seed round, and much more. This series is produced by Foundersuite, makers of software to raise capital and manage investor relations. Learn more at www.foundersuite.com.

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Campbell Brown of PredictHQ.com, a San Francisco and New Zealand based startup that combines real-world events into one data source to help businesses better understand demand and plan for the future (for example, Uber could see how an upcoming Taylor Swift concert will increase demand for drivers). PredictHQ recently raised a $10 million Series A led by Aspect Ventures, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Rampersand VC, and AddVenture Fund. In this episode, Campbell talks about moving the company HQ (and his young family) from New Zealand to San Francisco, cracking into the Silicon Valley ecosystem, maintaining confidence during the fund raise, tips for your slide deck, and more.

This week, we were a man down, with the excellent Alex Wilhelm of Crunchbase News on a vacation that someone seems to have sanctioned, though it was not us, as we don’t believe in vacations. (Wilhelm, get back here.) We did, happily, have the very knowledgeable Kirsten Korosec of TechCrunch join us on the line; we were also joined by this week’s personable in-studio guest: Lauren Kolodny, a partner at the San Francisco-based, early-stage venture firm Aspect Ventures. It was the perfect mix to talk about car makers and more car makers, including Tesla and CEO Elon Musk’s seemingly ill-planned plans to take the publicly traded company private, then vacillating a bit before changing his mind again, much to the chagrin of his board, the company’s shareholders, and poor Kirsten, who was trying to enjoy her evening last Friday when Musk decided (for now) to leave well enough alone and drop the whole cockamamie idea of switching out Tesla’s investor base. We also talked about Toyota’s announcement this week that it’s sinking $500 million into Uber and forming an intriguing if confusing driverless-car pact in the process. And we lingered on Nio, a four-year-old, Shanghai-based electric car vehicle that, if it has its way, will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange in roughly two weeks — even though it only made $7 million in the first half of this year and reported a net loss of $503 million. Who’s counting, though? Not U.S. investors, it hopes. Speaking of IPOs, we knew we’d be remiss not to talk about the IPO filing this week of SurveyMonkey, a now 19-year-old, San Mateo, Ca., company that’s beloved by both personal and business users of its analytical tools and surveys, but which is still not making money, owing in part to expensive debt that the company is currently servicing (and will pay down using its IPO proceeds). Will public shareholders embrace the company, which was last valued at $2 billion during its last private round in 2014 but whose value has subsequently been marked down by fully 25 percent since by fund manager Fidelity? Stay tuned! We did not get to our favorite topic of scooters, running out time to chat about this major development and also this one. Knowing how much we love to toot about les scoots, rest assured that they will back next week, as will we, so tune in again then!

This week, we were a man down, with the excellent Alex Wilhelm of Crunchbase News on a vacation that someone seems to have sanctioned, though it was not us, as we don’t believe in vacations. (Wilhelm, get back here.) We did, happily, have the very knowledgeable Kirsten Korosec of TechCrunch join us on the line; we were also joined by this week’s personable in-studio guest: Lauren Kolodny, a partner at the San Francisco-based, early-stage venture firm Aspect Ventures. It was the perfect mix to talk about car makers and more car makers, including Tesla and CEO Elon Musk’s seemingly ill-planned plans to take the publicly traded company private, then vacillating a bit before changing his mind again, much to the chagrin of his board, the company’s shareholders, and poor Kirsten, who was trying to enjoy her evening last Friday when Musk decided (for now) to leave well enough alone and drop the whole cockamamie idea of switching out Tesla’s investor base. We also talked about Toyota’s announcement this week that it’s sinking $500 million into Uber and forming an intriguing if confusing driverless-car pact in the process. And we lingered on Nio, a four-year-old, Shanghai-based electric car vehicle that, if it has its way, will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange in roughly two weeks — even though it only made $7 million in the first half of this year and reported a net loss of $503 million. Who’s counting, though? Not U.S. investors, it hopes. Speaking of IPOs, we knew we’d be remiss not to talk about the IPO filing this week of SurveyMonkey, a now 19-year-old, San Mateo, Ca., company that’s beloved by both personal and business users of its analytical tools and surveys, but which is still not making money, owing in part to expensive debt that the company is currently servicing (and will pay down using its IPO proceeds). Will public shareholders embrace the company, which was last valued at $2 billion during its last private round in 2014 but whose value has subsequently been marked down by fully 25 percent since by fund manager Fidelity? Stay tuned! We did not get to our favorite topic of scooters, running out time to chat about this major development and also this one. Knowing how much we love to toot about les scoots, rest assured that they will back next week, as will we, so tune in again then!

Aspect Ventures co-founder Jennifer Fonstad talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how venture capital works in 2018, when Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have access to more money from more sources than ever before. But that that money is not spread out evenly, Fonstad says: There’s a lot of very early “seed” dough, and a lot available to help succeeding companies grow bigger, but not enough to help them cross the “chasm” in which so many startups fail. She also talks about her 17 years as an investor at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, why Aspect is betting on the “picks and shovels” of the blockchain instead of currency, and why she’s excited about data-driven advances in health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do venture capitalists actually do all day? And what is the path that leads to a career investing in startups? Hummer Winblad's Ann Winblad, Cowboy Ventures' Aileen Lee, Aspect Ventures' Theresia Gouw, Intel Capital veteran and UPWARD founder Lisa Lambert, and Andreessen Horowitz's Margit Wennmachers discuss VC trends, the importance of technical chops, and how to build the next generation of entrepreneurs and investors. And finally, in front of an appreciative crowd attending the UPWARD event at a16z, Ann Winblad reveals the secret to truly kicking ass.