Adventures in fundland

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Welcome to Adventures in fun(d)land! We’re Victoria and Isabelle from Seed to Harvest Ventures, a pre-seed and seed stage fund that invests in women identified founders of color building software enabled companies. We are product and design operators turned emerging managers and we are sharing our experience with our first fund. We cover topics like building your deal flow pipeline, fund models, fundraising, focusing your offering, values, working with lawyers and back room admin. Say hi, share feedback, or request a topic at hello@seedtoharvestvs.com!

  1. 04/09/2023

    What it means to be a limited partner (LP)

    We're kicking off a series of material that aims to demystify what it means to be an LP. Todays episode covers the basics of what it means to be a limited partner (LP) in a venture capital (VC) fund. We cover the process of investing in a fund, including who can invest in a VC fund, what an accredited investor is, how investing in a fund works, how money is made from a fund, and the typical life cycle of VC funds. We also dive into the risks and benefits of investing in VC, how to evaluate a VC fund, and how investing in a fund can help diversify an individual's portfolio or align with other goals. If you're interested in learning more about being an LP, join us for a virtual panel April 19th where we'll be speaking with 3 women who are sharing their experiences in becoming LPs! Follow us on Linkedin, @sthventures on Instagram or drop us a note at hello@seedtoharvestvs.com!

    55 min

  2. 03/31/2023

    What we've learned a year into building our fund

    In today's episode, talk about where we began, where we're at now and what we've learned since we began the fund. We're going to cover the evolution of our fund model, approach finding founders, nailing the perfect pitch, creating a killer pitch deck, and how we deal with tight deadlines and keep our LPs motivated. Follow us on Linkedin, @sthventures on Instagram or drop us a note at hello@seedtoharvestvs.com!

    49 min

  3. 03/23/2023

    Researching Fund Data

    Today we're talking about where we're at as a fund with data and research. Basically, the industry wants more info on diverse founders, but unfortunately, it's not something that's often collected. There's a real lack of data on Black, Latina, and women founders, as well as diversity in the tech world overall. And a lot of the research out there just forces people to pull together bits and pieces from all over the place to try and back up their ideas. So, we're discussing what data we want to collect and how we can team up with others in the ecosystem to come up with shared metrics. We want to build coalitions that can share resources and data to tackle this issue. The data we're after covers things like race/ethnicity, gender, wealth-building strategies, diversity in the C-suite and LP participation, funding rounds, traction, valuation, amount raised, time between rounds, team size and diversity, roles, and ways to create wealth. Follow us on Linkedin or drop us a note at hello@seedtoharvestvs.com!

    30 min
  4. Growing your fund’s team

    02/16/2023

    Growing your fund’s team

    Our fund has recently grown to a team of 4 (!!) and we are chatting through how that process has gone for us.  We cover:  The challenges in knowing when to get help and being able to take action on it Knowing what type of help to get in an industry with wildly varying titles and roles How to approach onboarding new members and hiring while you're in the weeds  Follow us on Linkedin or drop us a note at hello@seedtoharvestvs.com!

    29 min
  5. Founder Focus: Setting up a Pilot and fundraising

    02/03/2023

    Founder Focus: Setting up a Pilot and fundraising

    We recently did a session with Bubble.io's Immerse Cohort of founders and spoke with them about how to run pilots and use early traction to tell a fundraising story. We're going to share the key points that came out of that talk for today's more founder focused episode.  We cover:  How to set up a pilot now that I have an MVP What factors do I need to consider? What should I measure? What are markers of a successful (or unsuccessful) pilots Forming relationships with your first usersVC Fundraising What kind of traction do VCs want to see? How should I start building relationships with investors when I'm not yet ready to raise? Follow us on Linkedin or drop us a note at hello@seedtoharvestvs.com!

    35 min
  6. Prioritizing as a lean fund and what we want to see from founder prioritization

    01/30/2023

    Prioritizing as a lean fund and what we want to see from founder prioritization

    We've recently had several conversations with investors and founders around how they prioritize their work (or not!). Today we dive into how we prioritize as a small team, process we borrow from our product development backgrounds and for founders, why it's important to be able to communicate prioritization to investors. Follow us on Linkedin or drop us a note at hello@seedtoharvestvs.com!

    26 min
  7. 2022 Wrap up: Where we've been and what we've learned

    12/22/2022

    2022 Wrap up: Where we've been and what we've learned

    From creating our first deck (lol) in January 2022 to fundraising, closing some early deals, events and developing our investment strategy, we cover the evolution of our fund this year and our biggest learnings!  Looking forward to hosting guests and continuing to share our experience in 2023!  Follow us on Linkedin or drop us a note at hello@seedtoharvestvs.com!

    53 min
  8. Cultivating community as an emerging manager

    12/12/2022

    Cultivating community as an emerging manager

    Community can be a buzzy term, but is something critical to building a fund. We dive into what community means to us, how we go about creating and cultivating community and chat through what that looks like with founders, other fund managers and LPs.  Follow us on Linkedin or drop us a note at hello@seedtoharvestvs.com!

    44 min
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Welcome to Adventures in fun(d)land! We’re Victoria and Isabelle from Seed to Harvest Ventures, a pre-seed and seed stage fund that invests in women identified founders of color building software enabled companies. We are product and design operators turned emerging managers and we are sharing our experience with our first fund. We cover topics like building your deal flow pipeline, fund models, fundraising, focusing your offering, values, working with lawyers and back room admin. Say hi, share feedback, or request a topic at hello@seedtoharvestvs.com!

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