#12 - Abha Nath (Investor @ Wonder Ventures)

12/17/20 • 33 min

This week we had on Abha Nath (@abhanath) of Wonder Ventures.

Wonder is an early-stage fund that aims to invest earlier than anyone else in Southern California’s best founders. Since its founding in 2015, the firm has invested in category-defining companies like Honey, Luxe, Joymode, and a number of others. Abha is the first and only hire at Wonder, and we wanted to have her on to dive into her unique path.

In this talk, we discuss:

Abha’s journey to venture and how her previous roles at the Disney Accelerator and Ring prepared her to be an investor
What makes Southern California unique as a startup ecosystem
What has changed when evaluating early-stage companies virtually
Some red flags that make businesses un-investible
We flip it around and let Abha ask us a few questions at the end

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This week we had on Abha Nath (@abhanath) of Wonder Ventures.

In this talk, we discuss:

Abha’s journey to venture and how her previous roles at the Disney Accelerator and Ring prepared her to be an investor
What makes Southern California unique as a startup ecosystem
What has changed when evaluating early-stage companies virtually
Some red flags that make businesses un-investible
We flip it around and let Abha ask us a few questions at the end

📫 For weekly insights from the next era of investors and operators, make sure to subscribe to Confluence.VC Weekly.

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#11 - Brandon Beck (Principal @ Kickstart)

This week we had on Brandon Beck with Kickstart.

Kickstart is an early-stage fund based in Salt Lake City that focuses on building and partnering with the best companies in the Utah region. Since launching in 2008, this targeted approach has established the fund as one of the most successful in all of the Mountain West with their portfolio consisting of companies like Galileo, NAV, Lucid Software, and countless others.

In this talk, we cover:

Brandon’s background and path into venture
The origin story and thesis of Kickstart
Investment trends that Brandon is monitoring
The startup ecosystem in Utah and the Mountain West and the Utah Startup Guide that Brandon helped author

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#13 - Corinne Riley (Investor @ Greylock)

This week we had on Corinne Riley (@CorinneMRiley) of Greylock.

Greylock is one of the oldest and most established venture capital funds in the world, and the success of their portfolio speaks for itself. Since its founding, the company has invested in companies like Figma, Okta, Airbnb, Nextdoor, and countless others. Within her role, Corinne focuses on teams at the earliest stages of company development in enterprise software.

In this talk, we discuss: