36 min
Future of Allocations: Emerging Partners with Samir Kaji She-VC by Gayatri Sarkar
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- Entrepreneurship
More about Samir:
Podcast (Venture Unlocked)and Blog: Ventureunlocked.substack.com
Twitter: @samirkaji
Angellist: Samirkaji
Samir is currently CEO and founder of Allocate. Allocate is a platform that makes private fund investing more accessible by providing investors of all sizes curated discovery, analytics, and access to high quality institutional firms.
Previously, Samir was a Senior Managing Director at First Republic Bank, where is started and built a 40+ person group focused on private funds and venture backed startups. During this time he worked with over 700 private equity and venture capital firms, and provided strategic guidance to emerging managers.
Prior to joining First Republic, Samir spent 13 years at SVB working in various capacities, with his first 10 years being focused on providing early stage growth capital and working capital financing to venture and non-Venture backed software and Hardware companies of all stages. Companies he worked with at the early stages of their development included LinkedIn, Aruba Networks, Meraki, Yodlee, and Shutterfly.
As part of the senior leadership team on SVB's venture group, Samir worked with Venture Capital and Private Equity firms covering firms such as Sequoia Capital, Francisco Partners, Lightspeed Partners, IVP, Formation8 Partners, Venrock, and Founders Fund.
He has completed over $12.0B in debt transactions with 700+ companies/firms.
More about Samir:
Podcast (Venture Unlocked)and Blog: Ventureunlocked.substack.com
Twitter: @samirkaji
Angellist: Samirkaji
Samir is currently CEO and founder of Allocate. Allocate is a platform that makes private fund investing more accessible by providing investors of all sizes curated discovery, analytics, and access to high quality institutional firms.
Previously, Samir was a Senior Managing Director at First Republic Bank, where is started and built a 40+ person group focused on private funds and venture backed startups. During this time he worked with over 700 private equity and venture capital firms, and provided strategic guidance to emerging managers.
Prior to joining First Republic, Samir spent 13 years at SVB working in various capacities, with his first 10 years being focused on providing early stage growth capital and working capital financing to venture and non-Venture backed software and Hardware companies of all stages. Companies he worked with at the early stages of their development included LinkedIn, Aruba Networks, Meraki, Yodlee, and Shutterfly.
As part of the senior leadership team on SVB's venture group, Samir worked with Venture Capital and Private Equity firms covering firms such as Sequoia Capital, Francisco Partners, Lightspeed Partners, IVP, Formation8 Partners, Venrock, and Founders Fund.
He has completed over $12.0B in debt transactions with 700+ companies/firms.
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