Podcasts about equal ventures

Tony chats with Adam Chadroff, Principal Insurance at Equal Ventures about the upcoming Insurance Capital Summit coming up in NYC on May 8thAdam Chadroff: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-chadroff/Insurance Capital Summit: https://www.ics.equal.vc/Video Version: https://youtu.be/PDG0yolbdes

Highlights from their conversation include:The origin story of Equal Ventures (0:41The challenges of the new brokerage concept (5:16)Impacts of market dynamics on brokerage business models (8:16)The Entrepreneur's Agency (11:11)Rolling Over Equity (12:13)Platform Solution for Freight Forwarders (15:27)The freight cycle and the future of startups (22:18)Consolidation and partnerships in the industry (26:39)Enabling rather than disrupting the industry (28:07)The success of brokers based on relationships (31:20)Appreciation for the supply chain ecosystem (32:21)Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed-stage, enterprise startups.Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/

Rick Zullo is the Founder of Equal Ventures. Our conversation gets into Equal's unique approach to venture capital, thinking more like public market and private equity investors, and why they also think traction is overrated at Seed.We talk through Equal's thesis-driven model, employing a team of product owners, only investing in only 3 to 5 themes at once, and Rick's admiration of Charlie Munger.We also talk AI - who will benefit the most, what he does and doesn't like in terms of investing in the space, why venture capital is not really venture capital anymore, and why it sucks to be a Seed investor right now.Rick also runs the Emerging Manager Circle, a group for emerging fund managers. We get into the origin story of the group, his own struggles raising his first fund, and why talent is leaving the mega funds.Timestamps:(00:00) Intro(03:38) Why venture capital isn't venture capital anymore(11:33) How founders should approach raising a Seed round(14:13) The realities of downrounds(15:55) Rick's favorite founders that raised little capital(18:54) Biggest fundraising mistake founders make(21:21) Why we need to stop funding AI companies(28:34) How AI will benefit private equity the most(33:30) Three levels of opportunity in AI right now(38:36) Why traction is overrated at Seed(41:38) Investing in businesses with compounding returns on capital(52:07) VC lessons from PE firms(56:24) Why Seed investing sucks right now(1:04:15) The beauty of small exits(1:12:52) How failing to start a fund in college led to Equal Ventures(1:20:06) The struggle raising Equal's $55m Fund 1(1:23:23) Why the best talent is leaving mega VC firms(1:30:16) The Emerging Managers CircleReferenced* Equal Ventures: https://www.equal.vc/* EMC Summit: https://www.emcsummit.com/Follow RickTwitter: https://x.com/Rick_ZulloLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickzullo/Follow TurnerTwitter: https://twitter.com/TurnerNovakLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/turnernovakSubscribe to my newsletter to get every episode + the transcript in your inbox every week: https://www.thespl.it/

Highlights from their conversation include:The origin story of Equal Ventures (0:41)The challenges of the new brokerage concept (5:16)Impacts of market dynamics on brokerage business models (8:16)The Entrepreneur's Agency (11:11)Rolling Over Equity (12:13)Platform Solution for Freight Forwarders (15:27)The freight cycle and the future of startups (22:18)Consolidation and partnerships in the industry (26:39)Enabling rather than disrupting the industry (28:07)The success of brokers based on relationships (00:31:20)Appreciation for the supply chain ecosystem (32:21)Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed-stage, enterprise startups.Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/

Aram Verdiyan, Partner at Accolade Partners, offers a comprehensive exploration of the LP landscape and the strategies that drive success in the world of venture capital. Aram emphasizes the importance of building strong relationships with VCs and sheds light on how general partners (GPs) think. He also discusses his views on returns generation, comparing concentrated and diversified investments.In this episode, you'll learn:[4:07] Accolade's contrarian portfolio building: leading with concentrated investments[13:06] Why does it take so long to invest in a VC fund?[22:19] Most common questions from General Partners to LPs[24:32] Fund size should be the output, not an input[29:39] Blockchain investing versus traditional investing[34:05] Focusing on real valuations will make venture capital better.The non-profit organization that Aram is passionate about: AGBUAbout Aram VerdiyanAram Verdiyan is a partner at Accolade Partners. Previously, he worked on the investment team at Andreessen Horowitz and before that in BD, sales and marketing at Aviatrix, a cloud native enterprise software company.About Accolade PartnersAccolade Partners is a DC-based fund of funds organized primarily to invest in a diversified portfolio of top-tier venture capital and growth equity funds principally investing in technology and healthcare. Accolade's investment focus is the United States. The fund of funds has invested in many VC firms including Equal Ventures, Zeev Ventures, Wonder Ventures, Notation Capital, Mucker Capital among others. Subscribe to our podcast and stay tuned for our next episode.

Wine: 2014 Chardonnay, Herencia del Valle Elisabeth Rosario is an outsourced communications strategist that works with startups of all sizes and venture capital firms. As an independent contractor since 2016, her clients have included venture firms such as: Lux Capital, Renegade Ventures, Spero Ventures (sole LP is Pierre Omidyar), Equal Ventures, RRE Ventures, and Innovation Endeavours (founding partner Eric Shmidt). Startup clients have included: Sonoro, Koinz, Pattern Brands, Pitch, ServiceTitan, Own It (a book) by Ellevest's Sallie Krawcheck, Emi Couple, Token, Flutterwave, Morty, Looking Glass Factory, Eight Sleep, Dipsea, Loft Orbital, and more. Previously, Elisabeth was the Director of Communications at Spark Capital, an early stage venture capital firm that has backed companies like Twitter, Oculus VR, Slack, Warby Parker and Cruise Automation (acquired by GM). As the firm's first in-house communications hire, she helped startup founders and the firm's investment team to develop and share their points of view with the world. She also helped to lead platform initiatives with the firm's community of entrepreneurs: building infrastructure, resources and programming to empower and connect over 100 portfolio companies. Before that, Elisabeth was a key part of the growth of various PR agencies where she led media relations campaigns for over 100 disruptive entrepreneurs and startups including Rakuten's Buy.com, Trello, ClassPass, HowAboutWe, HelloFresh, Squarespace, Zola and Academy award-winning sci-fi film Ex Machina. In 2015, Adweek named Elisabeth on its 30 Under 30 in the PR Industry list. In 2018, Bustle named her on their list of Must-Follow Latinx. She's a graduate of Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business. Instagram TikTok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason Lemkin is the Founder @ SaaStr one of the best-performing early-stage venture funds focused on SaaS. In the past, Jason has led investments in Algolia, Pipedrive, Salesloft, TalkDesk, and RevenueCat to name a few. Prior to SaaStr, Jason was an entrepreneur, selling EchoSign to Adobe for $100M where it is now a $250M ARR product. Rick Zullo is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Equal Ventures. Prior to co-founding Equal Ventures, Rick was an investor at Lightbank, Prior to Lightbank, Rick worked with investment firms Foundation Capital, Bowery Capital, and Lightview Capital. In Today's Episode We Discuss: 1. Why Venture Capital Needs It's Jerry Maguire Moment: Why does Rick believe that VC needs it's "Jerry Maguire" moment? What needs to change? What needs to stay the same? Why does Jason believe we will see even more mega funds in 2024 and 2025? 2. Unicorns are So 2019: Why does Jason believe that "unicorn investing is mostly dead for bigger funds and none of them are looking for a $1BN outcome anymore?" Why does Rick believe that multi-stage fund investing at seed simply does not make sense? What does Rick believe many founders need to know when they take multi-stage money at seed? Of the over 1,000 unicorns created over the last few years, how many of them do Rick and Jason feel are actually unicorns today? 3. Efficiency and Growth: We Need it All: Why does Jason believe, as a founder you should be embarrassed if you ever had a RIF (reduction in force)? Last year many founders got a pass on growth as they were more efficient. Is that pass over? Do they need to get back to growth? What is the single biggest reason that companies do not scale from seed to Series A? What happens to the many companies with years of runway but no product-market-fit? Are we entering a new age of efficient company building or will we go back to high burn environments and excessive spending? 4. Entering the World of LPs: If Jason and Rick were to advise LPs today on how much to discount the value of their venture books, what advice would they give? How have markups completely corrupted the venture ecosystem? How does LPs being incentivized by paper-marks make the industry even more screwed? What are the single biggest misalignments between GP and LP?

In this episode Silas Mahner (@silasmahner) and Rick Zullo (@Rick_Zullo) discuss, Rick's career trajectory to VC, the thesis behind Equal Ventures, his thoughts on the CTVC's H1 Funding report, and his advice to founders and VCs. This episode is densely packed with value as Rick has clearly thought a lot about these problems. Perhaps my favorite takeaways are 1) that he views VC as more Consulting with Equity than banking and 2) was how they develop industry connections and understanding so that they can actually help their PortCos succeed. Enjoy the Episode!

Rick discusses the advantages of having a prepared mind in the 5 key sectors Equal Ventures focuses on, shares a review and look-ahead for the supply chain sector, defines what “Climate Tech” is and how it squarely aligns to the digital industrial ecosystem, and outlines what an Emerging Manager is and how critical it is for an Emerging Manager to have a real, unique competitive advantage in order to stand out in today's VC landscape.  

BIO Elisabeth Rosario is an outsourced communications strategist that works with startups of all sizes and venture capital firms. As an independent contractor since 2016, her clients have included venture firms such as: Lux Capital, Renegade Ventures, Spero Ventures (sole LP is Pierre Omidyar), Equal Ventures, RRE Ventures, and Innovation Endeavours (founding partner Eric Shmidt). Startup clients have included: Sonoro, Koinz, Pattern Brands, Pitch, ServiceTitan, Own It (a book) by Ellevest's Sallie Krawcheck, Emi Couple, Token, Flutterwave, Morty, Looking Glass Factory, Eight Sleep, Dipsea, Loft Orbital, and more. Previously, Elisabeth was the Director of Communications at Spark Capital, an early stage venture capital firm that has backed companies like Twitter, Oculus VR, Slack, Warby Parker and Cruise Automation (acquired by GM). As the firm's first in-house communications hire, she helped startup founders and the firm's investment team to develop and share their points of view with the world. She also helped to lead platform initiatives with the firm's community of entrepreneurs: building infrastructure, resources and programming to empower and connect over 100 portfolio companies. Before that, Elisabeth was a key part of the growth of various PR agencies where she led media relations campaigns for over 100 disruptive entrepreneurs and startups including Rakuten's Buy.com, Trello, ClassPass, HowAboutWe, HelloFresh, Squarespace, Zola and Academy award-winning sci-fi film Ex Machina. In 2015, Adweek named Elisabeth on its 30 Under 30 in the PR Industry list. In 2018, Bustle named her on their list of Must-Follow Latinx.  She's a graduate of Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business. Instagram TikTok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is part of our new Capital Series hosted by MCJ partner, Jason Jacobs. This series will explore a diverse range of capital sources and the individuals who drive them. From family offices and institutional LPs to private equity, government funding, and more, we'll take a deep dive into the world of capital and its critical role in driving innovation and progress. Rick Zullo is co-founder and general partner at Equal Ventures, a firm that is purpose-built to deploy technology across society and industry. And as they say on their website, they back the non-obvious founders before it's obvious. There are a few categories where they spend most of their time in: retail, insurance, supply chain, care, and climate. Rick and Jason have a great discussion in this episode about the origin story of the firm, what makes them different, their strategy, their approach, what it was like to raise Fund I, where they're at today, what criteria they use when they make their investments, what their process is, and how their firm fits into the broader investment landscape in climate and beyond. In this episode, we cover: [00:00]: Intro[02:46]: Overview of Equal Ventures[04:23]: What sectors and stages Equal invests in[06:09]: Origins of Equal Ventures[08:35]: Rick's thoughts on the "conviction gap"[11:02]: Three big questions he asks for every opportunity[17:40]: Overview of Equal's Fund I[18:13]: Rick's thoughts on reserves[24:16]: Equal Venture's differentiators[28:07]: Their views on disciplined pricing and founder alignment[32:33]: Domain expertise, portfolio balancing, and power law dynamics[39:52]: Bandwidth constraints and scaling[44:44]: How the climate playbook differs from other sectors[51:01]: What Rick's most excited about in climate[54:13]: Who Rick wants to hear fromGet connected: Jason JacobsRick ZulloMCJ Podcast / Collective*You can also reach us via email at info@mcjcollective.com, where we encourage you to share your feedback on episodes and suggestions for future topics or guests.Episode recorded on Apr 20, 2023

In this episode of Pit Stops To Podium, we have Rick Zullo, Co-Founder and General Partner at Equal Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on bridging the digital divide. Rick is currently on the board of multiple companies including Threeflow, Smarthop, Leap Retail, Ghost Retail, MVMNT, Starday Foods, David Energy, Odyssey Energy Solutions and vQuip Insurance. In this conversation, we dive into the topic of Vertical vs. Horizontal solutions, discussing why there is no one-size-fits-all approach to growth. We explore the need to combine industry networks with modern sales practices to scale vertical solutions, and we look at the differences between GTM strategies in vertical vs. horizontal markets. Additionally, we touch on the alternative monetization methods required for industries that have low digital adoption, budget, or willingness to pay. Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:44 - Who Is Equal Ventures? 04:06 - 3 Fun Facts About Rick 06:56 - Vertical Vs Horizontal Growth Strategies 08:57 - Recommendations For Vertical Marketing Approach 12:21 - Driving Adoption in High Friction Industries 16:40 - Finding Early Adopters and Evangelizing Customers in New Markets 19:16 - Rewarding Early Adopters for Network Effect with Scalable Value Creation 22:40 - Scalable Value Creation and Monopolistic Growth Opportunities 24:03 - Engage With Rick //ENGAGE WITH RICK Equal Ventures Website Equal Ventures Substack Rick's Email Rick's Twitter //BOOKS Crossing The Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore //SUBSCRIBE! Subscribe to RevPartners YouTube Channel New "pit stops" every week. Join our growing community!   //STAY AWESOME &  DO IT BIG!! Website: revpartners.ioListen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts

Richard Kerby is a General Partner at Equal Ventures, where they're investing in Retail, Care, Insurance, Supply Chain, Climate sectors at the seed stage. In this episode, we talk about: -How Equal Ventures got started? -How do they evaluate startups? -Investing in a concentrated set of companies -How they conduct due diligence? -Mistakes to avoid for emerging managers Portfolio companies mentioned: Ghost: https://www.ghst.io/ Wrapbook: https://www.wrapbook.com/ Threeflow: https://www.threeflow.com/ Links mentioned: Equal Ventures website: https://www.equal.vc/ Follow Richard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kerby Follow Richard on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardkerby/ Full episode video at https://vc10x.com/equal-ventures

Richard Kerby, co-founder and general partner at Equal Ventures, shares the journey of Equal Ventures and thought behind Emerging Managers Circle. He provides insights into the investment decision-making process at multi-partner venture capital firms and offers advice on how to position your business for success. Finally, he discusses the issue of diversity in the VC industry.In this episode, you'll learn:[2:55] New York's is becoming an increasingly attractive hub for startup ecosystem players.[6:56] Equal Ventures investment philosophy and process; and why consensus doesn't lead to great investment decision making.[17:09] The hype days are gone. You can't just tell a story and try to raise money without a real business.[18:26] Emerging Managers Circle benefits to emerging GPs as they pursue their dreams of starting their own firms.[21:03] How more diversity at the LP and GP levels can unlock the hidden potential of the startup ecosystemThe non-profit organization that Richard is passionate about: BLCK VC, BVCCAbout Guest SpeakerRichard Kerby is Co-founder and General Partner at Equal Ventures. Prior to co-founding Equal Ventures, Richard was an investor at Venrock, where he led seed-stage and Series A stage investments in 6Sense, Amino Apps, Beckon, Burner, Luxe Valet, and Salsify.Prior to joining Venrock, Richard was an investor at Institutional Venture Partners (IVP),where he focused on identifying and evaluating later-stage investments. While at IVP, Richard worked with IVP portfolio companies such as Dropbox, FleetMatics, PopSugar, Shazam, and Yext. Prior to joining IVP, Richard worked in the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse.About Equal VenturesEqual Ventures is a New York-based early stage venture capital firm that backs founders and businesses that are disrupting legacy markets. Its core focus areas are retail, care, insurance, supply chain and climate. Portfolio companies include wrapbook, gerry, ODYSSEY, MVMNT, WeeCare, SmartHop, ThreeFlow among others.Subscribe to our podcast and stay tuned for our next episode. Follow Us:  Twitter | Linkedin | Instagram | Facebook

Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks with Richard Kerby (@kerby), Co-Founder and General Partner at Equal Ventures, a seed stage focused fund backing the founders and businesses transforming society and industry. Prior to Equal Ventures, Richard was an investor at Venrock, where he led seed stage and Series A stage investments in 6Sense, Amino Apps, Beckon, Burner, Luxe Valet, and Salsify. Prior to joining Venrock, Richard was an investor at Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), where he focused on identifying and evaluating later-stage investments. While at IVP, Richard worked with IVP portfolio companies such as Dropbox, FleetMatics, PopSugar, Shazam, and Yext. Previously, Richard worked in the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse. Richard is a proud Georgetown alum and is a rabid Hoyas basketball fan. He is also the founder of Stealth Mode, a community of more than 1,500 African American founders, operators and investors.Website: Equal VenturesLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/richardkerby/Twitter: @kerbyEmail: kerby@equal.vcShow Notes: Equal Ventures' investment thesis and the strategy behind being generalists Deciding to start a fund instead of joining an existing one Richard's key learnings as an emerging manager What being hands-on with their founders means at Equal Ventures Their all “hands on deck” approach to building the Equal Ventures team Running the Emerging Managers Circle and deciding to host summits Trends Richard is excited about Richard's view on remote vs. in-person How Equal Ventures evaluates founders Richard's advice for emerging managers More about the show:The Vitalize Podcast, a show by Vitalize Venture Capital (a seed-stage venture capital firm and pre-seed 400+ member angel community open to everyone), dives deep into the world of startup investing and the future of work.Hosted by Justin Gordon, the Director of Marketing at Vitalize Venture Capital, The Vitalize Podcast includes two main series. The Angel Investing series features interviews with a variety of angel investors and VCs around the world. The goal? To help develop the next generation of amazing investors. The Future of Work series takes a look at the founders and investors shaping the new world of work, including insights from our team here at Vitalize Venture Capital. More about us:Vitalize Venture Capital was formed in 2017 as a $16M seed-stage venture fund and now includes both a fund as well as an angel investing community investing in the future of work. Vitalize has offices in Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.The Vitalize Team:Gale - https://twitter.com/galeforceVCCaroline - https://twitter.com/carolinecasson_Justin - https://twitter.com/justingordon212Vitalize Angels, our angel investing community open to everyone:https://vitalize.vc/vitalizeangels/

Today's guest is Emily McAteer, co-founder and CEO of Odyssey Energy Solutions, helping emerging market project developers to finance, build and operate distributed renewable energy at scale. How the Global South modernizes is the original climate justice debate that has been a key topic of global policy discussions for decades, going back to the Kyoto Protocol of the 1990s and even earlier. The crux of the conversation is that climate change has primarily been caused by the 20th century economic development of the United States, Western Europe, Japan, et cetera. And if the rest of the world were to follow the same fossil fuel enabled development path, we'd rapidly blow past emissions targets and into the worst possible climate change outcomes. So what's the rest of the world to do?The answer seems to be to leapfrog, to modernize via a network of distributed renewable energy technology as opposed to a monolithic fossil fuel-powered grid. And yet that also introduces a whole new host of questions. Emily's been working at the nexus of climate and emerging markets for just about her whole career and brings a wealth of experience into Odyssey while working on answering these questions. In this episode, Cody and Emily have a great conversation about energy access in emerging markets today, what new distributed grids will look like, how development finance institutions (DFIs) work and the role of nation states in securing financing for energy projects. We also cover how Odyssey is bringing financing, procurement, and operational solutions to market to solve the local problems inherent in this space. Emily and Odyssey just announced a seed round led by Equal Ventures that we at MCJ Collective were honored to participate in. So we're welcoming Emily today as an MCJ Collective portfolio CEO, as well as an MCJ podcast guest. Enjoy the show! In this episode, we cover: [3:16] Emily's dedicated career in climate [10:18] Grid challenges in emerging markets [14:51] Financing gaps for small projects [17:33] The Nigeria Electrification Project case study [21:38] Profile of project developers in emerging markets [23:56] An overview of Odyssey's solution [28:38] The company's FERN platform [31:44] How Odyssey is scaling and handling projects in multiple countries [35:09] The capital they've raised thus far and what they're using it forGet connected: Cody's TwitterOdyssey TwitterMCJ Podcast / Collective*You can also reach us via email at info@mcjcollective.com, where we encourage you to share your feedback on episodes and suggestions for future topics or guests.Episode recorded on  September 21, 2022.

It's time for another edition of The Pathfinders, brought to you by Ansarada, with our host former NFL Player, Investor and Entrepreneur Dhani Jones and this week he talks with Richard Kerby, a General Partner at Equal Ventures. In 2012, Richard joined Venrock where his investments included 6Sense, Amino Apps, Beckon, Burner Luxe Valet and Salsify. He is here today to share some of his dealmaking stories, the importance of diversity in venture capital enterprises, and maybe even give us a few tips for identifying good investments too. Not to mention you will get to hear about where Richard is utilizing his talent for identifying and evaluating early stage investments. We get to learn a bit about his background starting his career in investment at Credit Suisse and how being an analyst put him on the track for success. The duo take a dive into his time at Venrock and get an understanding of why it's important to have a diverse portfolio. They also talk about how one can go about diversifying knowledge to spot investment opportunities across multiple industries. Hear from Richard himself some advice for anyone who is scared or intimidated to get into the VC world and what some of the benefits are to challenging yourself. You will also get some insight into Equal Ventures, the ideals it was founded on and how they are going about approaching so many different investment sectors in new and unique ways. And some of the amazing work Richard is doing to encourage diversity in investing with his exciting networks like ‘Stealth Mode'. Through his work at Equal Ventures, Richard is coming at investing and dealmaking from a whole new perspective. This is some essential listening, so you do not want to miss it! Press play and start listening to The Pathfinders, presented by Ansarada.  Follow UsLinkedIn @AnsaradaTwitter @ansaradaFacebook @AnsaradaPlatformInstagram @ansarada_Presented by Ansaradawww.ansarada.com

Richard is Co-Founder and General Partner at Equal Ventures. Prior to co-founding Equal Ventures, Richard was an investor at Venrock, where he led seed-stage and Series A stage investments in 6Sense, Amino Apps, Beckon, Burner, Luxe Valet, and Salsify. On this episode, AfroTech's Will Lucas sits down with Richard Kerby to talk about the things that are at the core of Venture Capital: investing early stage entrepreneurs and startups, and how to know if a startup is a good fit for your investment profile. Follow Will Lucas on Instagram at @willlucas Learn more about other Black tech disruptors and innovators at AfroTech.com Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

On today’s episode, Dooner and The Dude are LIVE from FreightWaves’ Net-Zero Carbon Summit where they’re spending this Earth Day trying to solve some of freight’s sustainability issues. It’s time to trim the fat on trucking’s empty calories: the empty mile.Plus, what can we expect on Earth Day a year from now, FreightWaves Carbon Intelligence offsets freight companies’ carbon footprint, and how much carbon does the transportation industry emit annually?They’re joined by special guests Glenn Jones, GVP, Product Strategy, Blume Global; Daniela Perlmutter, SVP Marketing, Bringg; Rick Zullo, Co-Founder & General Partner, Equal Ventures; Stephan Sieber, CEO, Transporeon; Jennifer Wong, Head of Sustainability, Convoy.

On today’s episode, Dooner and The Dude are LIVE from FreightWaves’ Net-Zero Carbon Summit where they’re spending this Earth Day trying to solve some of freight’s sustainability issues. It’s time to trim the fat on trucking’s empty calories: the empty mile.Plus, what can we expect on Earth Day a year from now, FreightWaves Carbon Intelligence offsets freight companies’ carbon footprint, and how much carbon does the transportation industry emit annually?They’re joined by special guests Glenn Jones, GVP, Product Strategy, Blume Global; Daniela Perlmutter, SVP Marketing, Bringg; Rick Zullo, Co-Founder & General Partner, Equal Ventures; Stephan Sieber, CEO, Transporeon; Jennifer Wong, Head of Sustainability, Convoy.Visit our sponsorSubscribe to the WTT newsletterApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts

Richard is a Georgetown grad, a school perhaps best known for politics, and he jokes that he chose VC because startups are in some ways the opposite of government, which can be slow and resistant to change.    Equal Ventures prefers to lead Seed and Series A investments in a wide array of industries. Hear Richard share his view on how VCs can have a “prepared mind” and why this preparation can lead to better investing and less wasted time. Tune in for a great “how to” listen from this future star in VC.

In this episode, Ryan Leslie sat down with Richard Kerby, co-founder and general partner of Equal Ventures to talk about the difference between investment bankers and venture investors, how to pick the right company for early investment, and how to leverage your time and money to achieve your personal financial goals. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Richard Kerby of Equal Ventures joins Nick on a special Crisis Coverage installment to discuss the Tactical Advice for Raising VC Fund 1, Why Not to "Raise the Bar," and a Framework for Startups Adjusting to COVID-19. In this episode, we cover: Walk us through your background and path to Venrock Why'd you leave to launch Equal? You, Rick and the team just launched a $56 million Fund 1 at Equal Ventures in February...congrats on the final close! Tell us a bit about your thesis and how you differentiate? You invest in retail, insurance, supply chain and the care economy. From afar those seem unrelated - how'd you arrive at those four categories... is there a common thread? What is the best tactical advice you'd give to someone raising a fund? What's the biggest mistake you made during the raise process that prospective fund managers should do their best to avoid making? So you're early in the fund cycle w/ multiple years of initial check deployment in front of you... has the deployment strategy changed at all given the current environment? Many investors are talking about and tweeting about "raising the bar” for investments... due to the pandemic and recession. Are you "raising the bar" at Equal? Many famous investors opine on the importance of market size when making investments. What's your position on market size and how does one estimate an accurate market size in categories that have not yet been created? You recently published your framework for COVID-19 Scenario Planning on Medium. Walk us through this framework and how it's applied. What impacts has the virus had on your incubation arm at Equal? Do you see this being a permanent change in incubators once this passes? Diversity in venture is terrible... what is Stealth Mode and how are you trying to improve diversity? To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow us on twitter @TheFullRatchet for updates and more information.

It's no secret that diversity is an issue in the tech industry, but it is an even bigger issue when you look at the venture capital industry. Rich has conducted a lot of research on this topic and based on his last report, only 2% of African Americans were represented as investors in the venture capital industry. Rich is the type who takes action. By publishing his findings (which have been featured on TechCrunch, his personal blog, and in many other interviews), it helps to bring awareness to this key issue. In addition, Rich is also the founder of Stealth Mode, a community of more than 1,500 African American founders, operators, and investors. After spending time in the venture capital industry at IVP and Venrock, Rich is now a Co-Founder & General Partner at a new firm called Equal Ventures, which recently announced a $56M first fund. The firm is focused on bridging the digital divide by investing in founders who are transforming legacy markets in industries like insurance, retail, supply chain and the care economy. In this episode of our podcast, we cover: * Rich's early career in investment banking and how he landed in the venture capital industry, which involved a lot of cold emailing to partners at firms. * All the details on Equal Ventures in terms of the firm's thesis and the stage of investments they are focused on. * What an investor is looking to get out of a first meeting. And so much more. If you like the show, please remember to subscribe and review us on iTunes, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play.