VC10X - Investing in the Growing Austin Startup Ecosystem w/ Morgan Flager, Managing Partner, Silverton Partners VC10X - Venture Capital Podcast

Morgan Flager is the Manging Partner at Silverton Partners. He has over 25 years of experience as a venture investor and technology executive. He joined Silverton in 2006 and has sponsored 24 investments and realized 11 acquisitions and two IPOs.

He currently sits on the boards of multiple portfolio companies. Prior to Silverton, Morgan worked with FTV Capital in San Francisco, where he focused on growth investments in software and financial technology. Morgan started his career at Ingrian Networks (acquired by SafeNet) and Kintana (acquired by Mercury Interactive Corp.).

In this episode, we talk about:

- Investing landscape 20 years back

- Growing startup ecosystem in Austin, Texas

- How to conduct diligence for pre-revenue startups?

- What it means to have a board seat in portfolio companies? 

- VCs fueling unsustainable growth

.. and a lot more..

Links mentioned in the episode:

Silverton website: https://www.silvertonpartners.com/

Follow Morgan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mflager/

Follow Morgan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mflager

Hosted by Prashant Choubey (https://twitter.com/ChoubeySahab)

Full episode blog at https://vc10x.com/silverton-partners