Ed Suh, Founder @ Alpine Ventures, Discusses Data Driven Investing, Plus is Venture Still Cool?

Subscribe to the Sandhill Markets Newsletter: blog.sandhillmarkets.com/subscribe Ed Suh is the Founder and Managing Partner of Alpine Ventures, a San Francisco based technology venture capital firm. Ed previously led seed, early stage, and growth stage investments in Silicon Valley for nearly a decade across two prominent multi-stage venture firms: Goodwater Capital and Redpoint Ventures. Ed has backed multiple unicorn startups including Monzo, Everlywell, Jasper, Greenlight, and Stash. Previously, Ed was Head of Business Operations at Stitcher, the leading independent podcasting app, acquired by SiriusXM for $325 million and backed by Benchmark, NEA, and New Atlantic Ventures, as well as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch focused on technology M&A. Ed was also a member of the original growth team at Facebook, and a software engineer at Plaxo and Citadel Investment Group. Today on the podcast we discuss: 1. What is Revere? (1:13) 2. Ed’s Background (4:33) 3. More About Alpine Ventures (8:48) 4. Network Driven Fundraising vs. Data Driven Fundraising Approaches (13:53) 5. Which came first, a love for data or a love for consumer? (21:05) 6. What is Alpine's stack for their data-driven investing approach? (22:32) 7. How is Alpine setting benchmarks to compare and analyze companies? (27:53) 8. How does data allow Alpine to be ahead of the curve on what early stage startups are going to pop? (31:30) 9. What have the reactions been from founders as a result of Alpine’s outbound process? And more on the founder/VC relationship. (37:56) 10. Two Different Types of Conversations with Early Stage Founders — Bootstrap-y and Happy or Not Quite Ready Yet (41:57) 11. Is VC still cool? (43:46) 12. What does the future look like for Ed and Alpine? (45:43)