Angel Investing at Scale with Fabrice Grinda
Fabrice Grinda is the founder of Zingy, Aucland OLX and FJ Labs, a VC firm and venture studio based in NYC, focusing on marketplace businesses. FJ Labs has invested in hundreds of companies such as Alibaba, Bla Bla Car, Zolostays, Brightroll, ZoomCar and many many more. In 2018, Forbes named Fabrice the #1 Angel investor […]
How to Start Your First Early-Stage Venture Fund
Arjun Dev Arora, Founder of Valence Advisory, shares lots of pro tips about how to go about raising an early-stage venture capital fund for the first time. Why should one do it? What are some of the pitfalls? What do Limited Partners (LPs) want to see and what do they not like and a lot […]
Off the Beaten Path: Wall Street to Startup Investor – A Fireside Chat with Me!
Who is “Pankaj Jain” besides being the founder of Invest Stream and Founder Craft What came before? If you’ve followed my erratic writing over the years, you might have some idea. I’ve been a risk manager at the largest hedge fund in the world, Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), operator, product manager, entrepreneur, community builder at […]
A New Livestream Series – The Raise
As founders, a VC, angel and, now, through our advisory business at Founder Craft, we get asked for advice or “feedback” a lot. The questions range across a wide spectrum. However, they have one thing in common – they as for our opinions. My Partner at Founder Craft, Gregarious and I have been doing some […]
What is Carry or Carried Interest?
Venture Capital can be complex and in this episode of InvestStream, I explain “carried interest†or “carry†as it’s more commonly known and why it’s important for VCs. Carry is discussed often amongst Venture Capitalists and other Private Equity investors but rarely amongst founders of startups. Politicians have talked about how carried interest should be […]