#65: High-Impact Entrepreneurship through Underserved Markets with Endeavor’s Adrian Garcia-Aranyos
Adrian Garcia-Aranyos is the President of Endeavor, a global community of high-impact entrepreneurs present in ~40 markets with a rules-based venture arm, Endeavor Catalyst, which is a leading VC investor in most emerging markets. he joined Endeavor in 2014 as Founding Managing Director of Endeavor Spain. Prior to that he held several executive roles at J.P.
#64: AI Enabled Technologies & Economic Equity with Fika Ventures’ Eva Ho
Eva is a General Partner at Fika Ventures, an early stage fund investing in companies that leverage the power of data as a core component of their business model. Prior to Fika, Eva was a founding GP at Susa Ventures.
#63: How to Start a Fund with Investment Fund Secrets’ Bridger Pennington
Bridger Pennington is the founder of 2 investment funds that have done over 217 deals in the last 4 years. He has started helping others launch their own funds through Investment Fund Secrets, an online program with over 4,000 students designed to help them start investment funds without working on Wall Street or having an Ivy League degree.
#62: The Future of Blockchain Convergence with Kenetic Capital’s Jehan Chu
Jehan Chu is co-Founder and Managing Partner at Kenetic, a blockchain Venture Capital and cryptocurrency trading firm based in Hong Kong. A former front-end developer, he started investing in cryptocurrency in 2013 and has invested and supported over 100 projects.
#61: Game Studio Venture Investing with Execution Labs’ Jason Della Rocca
Jason Della Rocca is a game industry entrepreneur, funding advisor, and cluster expert. He specializes in business/partnership development, pitching/funding, and ecosystem/cluster development. As the co-founder of Executions Labs, he was a hands-on early-stage investor to over 20 independent game studios from North America and Europe.
#60: Negotiating an Acquisition Deal & Acqui-hiring with Lyft Media’s Kenan Saleh & Faizan Bhatty
In this episode of Geeks of the Valley, we chat with Kenan Saleh and Faizan Bhatty, the dynamic co-founders of Halo Cars, a startup that reimagined outdoor advertising by integrating data and digital technology into rideshare vehicles. Their fresh take on out-of-home ads caught the attention of Lyft, leading to an acquisition and the birth […]
#59: Corporate Venturing & Open Innovation with Honda Innovations’ Dennis Clark
or of Strategic Venture Partnerships at Honda Innovations, Dennis leads Honda’s global open innovation initiatives and strategic partnerships with startups
#58: The Anti-Pitch Playbook & Successful Post-Investment Traits with 1517’s Danielle Strachman
Danielle is a cofounder and general partner of 1517. She has worked with young entrepreneurs for about a decade. In 2010, during the founding of the Thiel Fellowship, Danielle joined to lead the design and operations.
#57: Institutional Bitcoin Investing, SPAC’s, & Life Advice with SkyBridge Capital’s Anthony Scaramucci
Anthony Scaramucci is the Founder and Managing Partner of SkyBridge Capital. He is the author of four books: The Little Book of Hedge Funds, Goodbye Gordon Gekko, Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole (a 2016 Wall Street Journal best seller), and Trump: The Blue-Collar President. Prior to founding SkyBridge in 2005, Scaramucci co-founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to Neuberger […]
#56: Raising a Venture Capital Fund with Tenacity Venture Capital’s Ben Narasin
Ben Narasin is the Founder and General Partner of Tenacity Venture Capital, a pre-Series A venture fund. Immediately previously, Narasin wes a full time investor and Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), one of the worlds largest and oldest traditional venture firms. A prolific entrepreneur and highly regarded early-stage investor with three decades of company-building expertise, Narasin has focused on emerging technologies and new markets throughout his investment career.
