#14 - Steven Venino (Senior Associate @ Rosecliff Ventures) on overlooked sectors and opportunities, deciphering noise vs. signal, and assessing founder-market fit at the seed
12/30/20 • 37 min
This week we had on Steven Venino (@spvenino33) of Rosecliff Ventures.
Rosecliff has built up a reputation as one of the top early-stage funds, and their portfolio consists of companies like Allbirds, Casper, Roman, and others. The fund is sector agnostic, but Steven focuses most of his time within fintech, agriculture tech, and sustainability.
In this talk, we discuss:
- Steven’s path from banking —> hedge funds —> venture
- Overlooked sectors that Steven expects to outperform over the next decade
- Bottoms-up vs. top-down investing and deciphering what is noise vs. signal
- Assessing founder-market fit at the seed
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This week we had on Steven Venino (@spvenino33) of Rosecliff Ventures.
Rosecliff has built up a reputation as one of the top early-stage funds, and their portfolio consists of companies like Allbirds, Casper, Roman, and others. The fund is sector agnostic, but Steven focuses most of his time within fintech, agriculture tech, and sustainability.
In this talk, we discuss:
- Steven’s path from banking —> hedge funds —> venture
- Overlooked sectors that Steven expects to outperform over the next decade
- Bottoms-up vs. top-down investing and deciphering what is noise vs. signal
- Assessing founder-market fit at the seed
📫 For weekly insights from the next era of investors and operators, make sure to subscribe to Confluence.VC Weekly.
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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:
- Her winding path from Italy into venture
- Adopting a product-first mindset as an investor
- How business moats change and evolve along with markets
- What Greylock looks for in a pitch
📫 For weekly insights from the next era of investors and operators, make sure to subscribe to Confluence.VC Weekly.
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#15 - Gaby Goldberg (Investor @ Bessemer Venture Partners) on engineering attention as a startup, the playbook for building in public, the need for curators, and thoughts on the current state of audio
This week we had on Gaby Goldberg (@gaby_goldberg) of Bessemer Venture Partners.
Bessemer has built a brand as some of the best software investors in the world, and their portfolio consists of companies like Twilio, Shopify, LinkedIn, Twitch, and DocuSign just to name a few. Gaby is one of the newest members of the fund, and she’s already made quite a name for herself within the venture world.
In this talk, we discuss:
- How startups can engineer attention in the early days
- The playbook for building in public
- The need for curation in the age of abundance
- Why Gaby believes we are living in a golden era for audio
📫 For weekly insights from the next era of investors and operators, make sure to subscribe to Confluence.VC Weekly.
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