Adventures in fundland
by Seed to Harvest Ventures
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.Episodes air weekly and 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 [email protected]!
Episodes
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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!...
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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...
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Feedback: Giving and getting feedback as an emerging manager
As an emerging manger, it's tough to get critical feedback as you start out. People want to help but also want to be polite and often times that means they're not giving you the feedback you need to progress. So how do you go about getting helpful feedback? When do you take action on it? Feedback...
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Finding the "why" aka why we're doing what we're doing
This week we dive into the topic of "your why," a critical part of any GP's narrative (and LPs in our opinion). We chat through what a why is, why you need one, and share ours with you. We touch on a resource in the episode that was really helpful for us in crafting our story (and even pitch deck...
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Conference tips and how to navigate and maintain through conference season!
This week we are live from TechCrunch Disrupt and Culture Shift Miami! We are talking all things conferences: How to conference and not get overwhelmed The difference and strategies behind going to industry versus VC conferences The value of speaking at conferences Networking at larger…
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Finding our investment focus and trends we're seeing in the market
Inspired by some questions posed to her at New York Tech Week, Victoria leads our conversation today to talk about the themes we're seeing in the companies we are evaluating and the trends we are seeing in the market right now. Follow us on Linkedin or email us at [email protected]!
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For founders: Where does design fit into early stage companies?
Today's topic is on design's role in early stage companies. Victoria moderates and weighs in from a PM perspective and Isabelle shares her thoughts as a Designer. We'll focus on 3 main stages of a startup's life: fundraising, MVP, and scaling. We cover: The visual and non-visual aspects of design...
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Investor value adds
This week we discuss the changing needs and asks that founders have to investors, specifically, what we as investors can offer other than money. We also talk about how the 3 buckets we call startup problems: money, people and product. There is a great level of support for founders when it comes…
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Finding LPs when you are not connected or when you've tapped out your network
How do you build a pipeline of people who don’t want to be found, especially when not directly connected to wealth? In what we expect to be a multi-part series, today we chat about how we're approaching getting new LP leads and what that looks like as a team of 2 GPs. We share what we've learned…
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Fund formation and back office
To celebrate getting our LP portal and data room set up, we're going to talk about fund formation and back office admin! Dive into the unsexy but necessary side of getting your fund up and running: Evaluating back office tools Banking! Lawyers! Mistakes we've made and tools we like. Contracts -...
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All about founders
This week we deep dive into a central theme for us this month: Founders! We discuss: Getting an early start on pipeline What we’ve learned about ourselves as investors as we meet with more founders How our process with founders has evolved How meeting with founders early on has impacted our LP...
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Meet your hosts Victoria and Isabelle, The GPs of Seed to Harvest Ventures
Get to know your hosts, fellow emerging managers and GPs of Seed to Harvest! We share a bit about ourselves, our backgrounds in product and design, how we got into venture and why we are starting this podcast. Follow us on Linkedin or check us out at seedtoharvestvs.com.
About this show
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.Episodes air weekly and 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 [email protected]!
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