Venture Unlocked

I recently joined Turner Novak on The Peel for a conversation about the current state of private markets and the realities facing fund managers and investors today.

Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape.

Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape.

Follow me on Twitter @samirkaji or LinkedIn for my ongoing thoughts on the private markets.

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Episode 144

Join us on 1/23/25 as we host a webinar the a provides data driven view on the market

The venture capital landscape is poised for significant transformation in 2025.

Venture is not a monolith any longer, and nuance is required to assess fit

Listen now (43 mins) | Episode 143 Today I’m excited to speak with the founding team of Chemistry, a new venture firm led by Kristina Shen, Ethan Kurzweil, and Mark Goldberg, who recently spun-out of blue chip firms Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer, and Index Ventures, respectively. The firm just announced a significantly oversubscribed $350MM debut fund. As a new entrant to the market (in the toughest time to start a new firm in over a decade), I wanted to ask them about their blueprint for building a firm, including how they chose to partner up and the work they did beforehand, LP strategies and selection, and what they felt was their unique reason to exist in a highly competitive market.

Episode 142

When I co-founded Allocate in 2021, it was based on a 20 year observation that 1) Companies are staying private longer 2) Private markets started to become as important as the public market for investors (There are reportedly 108K software companies today but only 3% are public) and 3) Investors and GPs are still relying on outdated tools to deploy capital and to raise capital.