1947 Rise Shiva Singh Sangwan

Leo is a co-founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures and Humba Ventures. He writes $1m-$3m checks via Susa, mostly in B2B SaaS companies, and $250k-$500k checks via Humba, mostly in deep tech and in critical sectors (manufacturing, energy, defense, etc). Humba is a new early stage fund in the Susa fund family.

00:00 - Top moments
01:09 - Intro
02:30 - What led you into investing? What was the founding story of Susa Ventures?
04:43 - What was the portfolio construction and the thesis of Susa Ventures? And has it evolved over time?
07:30 - What’s the thesis around Humba and What’s the portfolio construction around it?
10:12 - What’s the most overrated advice that you’ve heard about fundraising for funds?
12:03 - How would you go about, sourcing LPs, building relationships, and closing LPs?
13:49 -What was the the hardest lesson or the biggest mistake, that you did as a group when you were fundraising and you realized later on?
15:40 - How have you, improved over in each segment, around sourcing?
19:37 - What’s the best way to build a great deal flow?
21:23 - How one can think about building a brand?
22:45 - What’s your take on picking?
25:26 - What do you think are the biggest lies out there?
27:50 - How much do you think, investing is random and luck?
29:47 - What’s the hardest thing, about building Susa Ventures and Humba Ventures?
31:40 - What’s making you smile lately?
32:49 - Is there a hack that you can’t live your life without?
34:18 - If you’re hosting a dinner, and could invite three folks, dead or alive, who would they be?
35:18 - What do your friends know you for?

Prashant is the co-founder of EaseMyTrip. Ease my trip is among very few consumer-startups in the world, that bootstrapped all the way till IPO & later even became a unicorn.

Raghu is the founder of Zolve. Zolve is world's first cross-border Neobank. Before Zolve, Raghu built and sold ride hailing startup Taxi for sure to Ola for $200M dollars

00:00 - Top Moments
01:25 - Intro
03:41 - How are you both sleeping these days?
08:40 - What were the scariest moments while building your company? How did you persist through it?
30:37 - What’s been your relationship with health?
49:34 - What’s been your relationship with desire? How do you set and manage your ambition?

🔗 CONNECT WITH Prashant Pitti
👥 Linkedin - www.linkedin.com/in/prashantpitti/
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/ppitti?lang=en

🔗 CONNECT WITH
👥 Linkedin -   / graghunandan  
🐦 Twitter -   / raghugnandan  

Vinny Pujji is the Managing Partner at Left Lane Capital. Left Lane Capital is a global venture capital firm that invests in high-growth internet and consumer technology companies. Notable investments include GoStudent, Jackpocket, Bilt Rewards and many more

Before Left Lane Vinny was at Insight Partners - where he led insights investments in India

00:00 - Top moments
01:32 - Intro
03:16 - How did you get into the world of investing and What is the founding story of Left Lane Capital?
07:56 - Founders were telling you, "hey, there's something that you're doing. Not many people are doing out there" What is that really specifically?"
10:31 - How did you arrive at that portfolio construction and thesis?
12:53 - Do you think being a global firm gives you an edge? If so how does it give you an edge?
15:53 - What's been the hardest thing for you in terms of building the fund?
19:26 - Do you remember, an inflection point in your investing career that just changed your trajectory as an investor?
22:54 - How has your relationship to investing in India started? How has it evolved over time?
26:41 - How did the investment oppourtunity of AstroTalk come about?
29:59 - What's been the biggest learnings for you through working with the founders in India?
32:52 - What needs to be true for founders in India to get funded by Vinnie and the team at Left Lane Capital?
34:28 - What's been making you smile lately?
35:07 - What's your relationship with health?
37:18 - How's tennis, going for you?
38:27 - What was like your most favorite thing about India?
39:26 - Who are you outside of work?



🔗 CONNECT WITH Vinny Pujji
👥 Linkedin -   / vpujji  
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/vpujji?lang=en

🔗 CONNECT WITH SHIVA
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🎥 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfiQ...
🐦 Twitter -   / shivassangwan  
🐦 Twitter -   / 1947rise  
👥 Linkedin -   / shiva-sin.  .

Aditya Agarwal is the Partner at South Park Commons.
SPC is a community of technologists and builders dedicated to helping each other explore, learn, and get from -1 to 0.
Prior to SPC Aditya was the CTO of Dropbox and he was one of Facebook’s first engineers.

00:00 - Top moments
01:22 - Intro
02:41 - What is the founding story of South Park Commons?
13:26 - What is the thesis and the portfolio construction of the fund?
15:12 - What type of check sizes are these and what is the portfolio construction like?
16:30 -What are some examples of companies that have gone from -1 to 0 under SPC?
19:09 - What are some examples of companies that got incubated or took a bigger route?
23:03 - What has been the hardest thing about building SPC?
25:17 - What are your learnings from backing these top founders? What are some similar patterns?
28:45 - What is your relationship with India? What are your learnings from working with Indian founders?
31:36 - How can Indian companies apply for SPC?
32:35 - Are you looking to spend more time in India and what is your view on India?
35:44 - What's been making you smile these days?
36:22 - What's your relationship with health?
39:27 - What is that one hack, that you cannot live your life without?
40:01 - What's on your techno playlist these days

🔗 CONNECT WITH Aditya Agarwal
👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityaagarwal3/
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/adityaag

🔗 CONNECT WITH SHIVA
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🎥 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfiQ...
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/shivassangwan
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/1947Rise
👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiva-sin...

Nitin is the co-founder of Ofbusiness, a $6 billion dollar company and Pratham is the founder of Masters Union - A leading technology-focused b-school led by veteran leaders, offering an industry immersive PGP.

00:00 - Top moments
01:28 - Introduction
02:27 - How are you both sleeping these days?
06:38 - How is Nitin able to persist through everything and do it?
10:00 - What's the secret behind Pratham's energy and persistence?
16:13 - What is Nitin's framework to make it big in life?
20:47- What is Pratham's framework to make it big in life?
23:01- How does Nitin manage the relationship with his support systems while building the company?
26:00 - How does Pratham manage the relationship with his support systems while building the company?
29:33 - What's been making you smile lately, Nitin?
31:35 - What's been making you smile lately, Pratham?
33:05 - Your thoughts on the importance of support systems in life?
34:34 -To what extent Money should define us?
36:14 - The Importance of Work-Life Balance: Should we trade of personal life for work life?
39:27-How do people who work with/under you find break from work?
44:07 - How to tackle overworking and burnout?
46:26 - What are your food habits?
50:38 - If your company were a superhero what superpowers would it have? And who would be your arch nemisis?
56:45 - do you battle not having a sense of belonging?
58:45 - How to take breaks and manage them?

🔗 CONNECT WITH Nitin Jain
👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitin-jain-17b82310/?originalSubdomain=in
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/njain351

🔗 CONNECT WITH Pratham Mittal
👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/prathammittal/?originalSubdomain=in
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/prathammittal?lang=en

🔗 CONNECT WITH SHIVA
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🎥 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfiQ...
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/shivassangwan
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/1947Rise
👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiva-sin...

Andreas Klinger is a former CTO of Product Hunt, CoinList, Head of Remote at AngelList, and CTO at On Deck
He is also an investor via Remote First Capital.
He has backed some amazing companies like Remote, Mainstreet, Clubhouse and more.

Here are the topic we covered during our conversation
00:00 - Top moments
00:49 - Introduction
02:07 - What was the founding story of Remote First Capital?
05:18 - Did you have any mentors who helped you go about it?
06:11 - What's the portfolio construction like?
And how did you arrive to that portfolio construction?
10:35 -What's your thesis around your global investing approach?
11:49 - What are 1-3 things that work well when raising capital from LPs?
What are 1 or 2 things you did wrong while fund raising?
14:04 -Who was your first believer in Remote First Capital?
15:04 - What was the story behind Remote.com?
18:46 -What is that one thing that you know now, you wish you knew earlier?
22:22 -What is the hardest thing about building a fund?
27:45 -What was your reason for doing a trip to India and what has the experience been like?
30:09 -What has been the top take aways from this? What did you find intresting?
33:37-What do people get wrong about India?
36:00 -How can someone building from India reach out to you?
38:58 -What's been making you smile lately?
40:26 -Is there a hack you can't live without?
41:17 -If money was not needed anymore, what would you work on?
44:28 -Who are you outside of work?

🔗 CONNECT WITH Andreas Klinger
👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasklinger
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/andreasklinger

🔗 CONNECT WITH SHIVA
💌 Sign up to my weekly email newsletter - https://1947tech.substack.com/
🎥 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfiQ...
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/shivassangwan
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/1947Rise
👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiva-sin...