Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Venture Unlocked is the playbook for starting, operating, & scaling a successful venture capital firm. Samir Kaji, Host of Venture Unlocked has +20-years of experience assisting & advising startups and venture firms. Listen for VC fund guidance. ventureunlocked.substack.com
Episodes (158)
Betting on Founders Who Build the Real World
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Unpacking "A Crisis Moment In Seed"
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Platform Shifts, AI, and the Future of Consumer Investing
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
The GP of 2030: AI, Automation, and the Future of Capital Formation
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Jack Altman on the transition going from building a Unicorn with Lattice to star...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
How to win in seed stage investing today
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
What is happening in VC today and the role of wealth management in growing the p...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Navigating growth stage investing in today's AI driven market with Logan Bartlet...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
The New World of VC and Building a Durable Firm with Category Ventures' Villi Il...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
The Benchmark Way: Running of an Iconic firm with Victor Lazarte
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Tomasz Tunguz on where we are in the AI S-Curve and the Evolving Investment Land...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
The Solo GP Playbook: Zal Bilimoria on Fundraising, Portfolio Strategy, and Foun...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
The Evolution of building a legacy firm at Venrock with Brian Ascher
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Evolving Venture Liquidity Solutions with Gaurav Mathur of Pinegrove Capital Par...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
The blueprint for starting a new firm with Chemistry Ventures, including the wor...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Meet the Expert: Venture Fund Banking with Sam Heshmati and Vincent Timoney of C...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Saga Ventures on key lessons on raising a Fund I, building healthy partnerships,...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Building a firm to last, lessons from nearly three decades of investing, and the...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Doing a successful GP led secondary in Venture Capital, Why seed funds can scale...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Investing in USV Fund I, lessons learned as a LP, and why Emerging Managers are...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
The great startup reckoning event of 2023 and 2024, but why startups should now...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Finding greatness in non-consensus startups, the story of Twitch from Justin.TV,...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
TX Zhuo’s of Fika Ventures on raising a Fund I, evolving decision making framewo...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Limited Partner Unlocked: Michael Kim Cendana Capital on the Emerging Manager la...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Amy Saper of Uncork Capital on how startups should embrace constraints to foster...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
LP Unlocked shorts: What We're Hearing about Venture Liquidity with Meghan Reyno...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
What's happening at the seed stage? Featuring Jenny Fielding, Kirby Winfield, an...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
The Craft of Venture Capital with David Sacks
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Adam Bain of 01 Advisors on scaling Twitter from 0 to $1B+, being coached by Bil...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Mitchell Green of Lead Edge Capital on the Moneyball approach to investing, the...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Limited Partner Unlocked shorts: What we're Hearing from LPs with Meghan Reynold...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Khosla Venture's Samir Kaul on building an iconic, durable firm, and the role of...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Venture Unlocked Shorts: Looking back the era of Unicorns and what's ahead?
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Venture Unlocked Shorts: Why VC has gone mainstream and the parallels to private...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
The opportunity outside of Silicon Valley and how to build a strategic LP base w...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Meet The Expert Series: Matt Trotter of Stifel Bank on the state of the venture...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Pejman Nozad of Pear on building a $800MM+ AUM firm as an immigrant who sold Per...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Paul Kwan of General Catalyst on the importance of innovation in creating global...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
The Chainsmokers' Alex Pall in crossing over from a grammy nominated group in th...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Brad Gerstner talks AI, Tech Super cycles vs. Market cycles, and the start of Al...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Going back to the foundation of Kleiner Perkins with Mamoon Hamid through clear...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Special LP roundtable: What are LPs thinking about in Venture with Beezer Clarks...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Building competitive moats in VC at Lerer Hippeau with Ben Lerer and Graham Brow...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Building a next-generation tech-enabled Venture Capital firm with Chris Farmer o...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
The art of raising from LPs in an economic downturn with Mark Suster, Upfront Ve...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Hernan Kazah of Kaszek Ventures on investing in Latin America, learnings from bu...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Tomasz Tunguz of Theory Ventures on strategically raising a fund in a downturn,...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Sunil Nagaraj of Ubiquity Ventures on the journey of a solo-GP, The Importance o...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Oren Zeev on scaling to $2B+ in AUM as a solo-GP, contrarian investing, and high...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Stephanie Palmeri and Melody Koh of NextView Ventures on incentives within ventu...
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers