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The Inquisitive VC
by Nawaz Ahmed
Speaking to leading Investors and Entrepreneurs around the world - Check out our Substack ( https://theinquisitivevc.substack.com/ ) for the previous conversations!
Episodes
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The Debrief: SPV Layering | Anthropic’s Secondary Market Crackdown | SpaceX Liquidity Time Bomb
In Episode 2 of The Debrief, Nawaz and Vignesh unpack some of the most fascinating developments in venture capital, private markets, and tech investing. The conversation begins with the surprising transformation of Allbirds from a direct-to-consumer footwear brand into an AI infrastructure…
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The Debrief | Allbirds: From $4BN to $68M | Halter's Raise at $3.4BN | The Truth About Startup Boards
Introduction In this first episode of The Debrief, Nawaz and Vignesh launch a new podcast focused on venture, technology, and startup conversations that are more relevant to the New Zealand ecosystem. They unpack the collapse of Allbirds from a heavily hyped public company to a distressed...
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S1, Bonus: The Infrastructure Behind $1 Trillion in Equity - Bhavik Vashi, Carta
In this episode of Inquisitive VC, host Nawaz Ahmed speaks with Bhavik Vashi serves as Managing Director for APAC at Carta, the platform powering over 9,000 fund managers worldwide. We talk about Bhavik's unique perspective on the venture ecosystem, overseeing Carta's expansion across the...
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S1, E6: Investing In Crypto With Learnings From Iran - Hootie Rashidifard, Hash3
In this episode of Inquisitive VC, host Nawaz Ahmed speaks with Hootie Rashidifard, Founder and General Partner of Hash3, a $30M crypto venture fund built on a mission to bring self-sovereignty to all end users. Hootie shares how his Iranian upbringing—watching his father’s bank accounts frozen...
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S1, E5: From Two Sigma to Twenty-Five Million Fund 1 - Andy Kangpan, Metalayer Ventures
In this episode of Inquisitive VC, host Nawaz Ahmed sits down with Andy Kangpan, Founder and General Partner of Metalayer Ventures, a $25M crypto venture fund focused on blockchain adoption in financial services. Andy shares his journey from investing at Two Sigma during the 2017 ICO boom to...
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S1, E4: From RuneScape Bots to Raising For Reforge - Alex Lin, Reforge VC
In this episode of Inquisitive VC, host Nawaz Ahmed sits down with Alex Lin, Founder and General Partner of Reforge, a crypto venture fund investing in coordination infrastructure across capital markets, AI, and compute systems. Alex shares his journey from running a gaming bot farm that led him…
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S1, E3: Building for the Crypto Infrastructure Mission - Travis Scher, North Island Ventures
In this episode of Inquisitive VC, host Nawaz Ahmed interviews Travis Scher, co-founder of North Island Ventures, to explore crypto investing and venture capital. Travis shares his journey from a disgruntled lawyer discovering Bitcoin in 2014 to becoming a seasoned crypto VC at Digital Currency...
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S1, E2: The Quest for Real Crypto Adoption - Lucas He, Tomorrow Ventures
In this episode of Inquisitive VC, host Nawaz Ahmed interviews Lucas He, founder of Tomorrow Ventures, to dive into crypto investing and venture capital. Lucas shares his journey from buying Bitcoin in 2013 to building a crypto fund focused on real-world adoption. With experience at State Street...
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S1, E1: Raising A $20M Fund 1 At 27 - Sal Gal, Escape Velocity
In the premiere episode of Inquisitive VC, host Nawaz Ahmed interviews Sal Gala, co-founder of EV3, to explore venture capital and crypto investing. Sal shares his journey from discovering Bitcoin during Venezuela’s hyperinflation to launching a venture fund focused on DePin (Decentralized…
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Boris Revsin - Tribe Capital
Welcome to The Inquisitive VC. Today I am speaking to Boris Revsin, the Managing Director of Tribe Capital. We speak about his journey to crypto, how Tribe invests, crypto cycles and narratives, airdrops and more! I hope you enjoy this episode. The podcast is also available on your favourite...
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Richard Chen - 1confirmation
Welcome to the Inquisitive VC, today I am speaking to Richard Chen a General Partner at 1confirmation, a seed-focused crypto venture fund. We talk about Richards's prediction of underrated product trends for 2024, the function of airdrop and points, difficult questions asked by LPs and much more.…
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Founders Funds Joey Krug on building crypto native vs building general products, his anti-portfolio and more!
Joey Krug is a Partner at Founders Fund (FF) and leads their crypto investments. Joey is also a co-founder of Augur, one of the first projects on Ethereum, and of Eco. Prior to FF, Joey was the Co-CIO of Pantera Capital. We speak about practical use cases of crypto, challenges crypto founders…
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Polygons Sachi Kamiya on Polygons zkEVM, learning early stage investing & what interests her in this market!
Sachi Kamiya does Investments at Polygon, one of the leading scaling solutions for Ethereum. Prior to Polygon, Sachi worked in the traditional finance world. We talk about her journey to crypto, Polygon zkEVM, the Polygon Ecosystem Fund, learning early-stage investing and a lot more! The podcast…
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Hasheds' Baek Kim on going from AWS to crypto, being a crypto native VC & how the Asian market differs to the US
Baek Kim is a General Partner at Hashed, a crypto-native VC focused on bridging the ecosystem in US and Asia. Prior to this Baek was a software engineer at AWS working on IoT and Robotics. He was also the founder of a last-mile logistics startup. We talk about his entry into crypto VC, Hasheds’...
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FJ Lab's Jeff Weinstein on the marketplace thesis, investing in crypto & how they the invest in 100s of deals a year
Jeff Weinstein is a Partner at FJ Labs, a global marketplace investor also investing in crypto and Web3. Jeff was previously a Senior Associate at Lux Capital. We talk about his entry into VC, the FJ Labs thesis, why they are investing in crypto, problems marketplaces face and more! Check out the...
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Regan Bozman - Lattice Capital
Regan Bozman is a General Partner at Lattice Capital, an early-stage crypto fund that helps founders build defensible moats. He previously led growth initiatives at a number of crypto projects including C.R.E.A.M., Index Coop, and Maple. Prior to that, he was the first employee at CoinList and...
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Imran Khan - Alliance
Imran Khan is a Core Contributor and Pilot of AllianceDAO, previously known as DeFi Alliance, the leading accelerator program for crypto and web3 projects. Imran is also a Venture Partner at Volt Capital and was previously at Microsoft. We talk about his journey to crypto, how DeFi Alliance…
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Dylan Olivia Hunzeker - Advanced Blockchain AG
Dylan Olivia Hunzeker is the Head of Ventures at Advanced Blockchain AG, a publicly listed investor and incubator. Prior to this, she was an Investor at Struck Capital Crypto, also having worked at Iconic Holding and Eigen Capital. We talk about her journey in crypto, her time in China, investing...
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Nick Grossman - Union Square Ventures
Nick Grossman is a Partner at Union Square Ventures, a leading venture firm that has invested in companies like Twitter, Stripe, Coinbase and many more. Previously, he led an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data at OpenPlans. We talk about his journey to VC and crypto,...
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Noah Gaynor - Parcel (Zillow for the Metaverse)
Noah Gaynor is the Co-Founder of Parcel. Parcel is the “Zillow for the metaverse”, a metaverse-native platform building key infrastructure for the needs of virtual real estate users, builders, property managers, investors, developers, and service providers. We talk about his journey from tradfi…
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John Henderson - AirTree
John Henderson is a Partner at AirTree Ventures, an Australia and NZ focused venture firm. Prior to AirTree, John was the Founding Principal of White Star Capital. We talk about his journey to VC, investment biases, Olympus Finance, NFTs and more! Check out the Substack for a full transcript of…
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Julia Lipton - Awesome People Ventures
Julia Lipton is the founder and GP of Awesome People Ventures, an early-stage fund focused on world positive investments. Prior to investing Julia led product and growth teams in Silicon Valley startups. We talk about her journey to investing, investing in Web 3.0, investment DAOs, raising a fund...
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Brandon Kumar - Layer3
Brandon Kumar is a co-founder of Layer3, a platform that enables anyone to contribute to decentralized autonomous organisations (DAOs). Prior to this Brandon was a Vice President at Accolade Partners a fund of funds, where he focused on investments in crypto funds. We talk about Brandon’s journey...
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Chris McCann - Race Capital
Chris McCann is a General Partner at Race Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund that leads investments in pre-seed and seed-stage technology startups. Prior to Race, Chris was the Community Lead at Greylock Partners and co-founder of Startup Digest, which was acquired by Techstars. We talk...
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Hayden Hughes - Alpha Impact
Hayden Hughes is the co-founder and CEO of Alpha Impact, a crypto copy-trading platform. Previous to this he worked at Crypto.com and Techemy and is an experienced founder. We talk about how he got into crypto, starting Alpha Impact, how to balance token and equity investors, DeFi and more! Check...
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Drew Austin - Red Beard Ventures
Drew Austin is the Managing Partner of Red Beard Ventures, where he invests in Web 3.0 infrastructure and frontier technologies. He is also the former CEO & Founder of Wade & Wendy. We talk about how Drew got into crypto and NFTs, what he looks for when buying NFTs, the Loot Project, NFTs on…
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Paige Finn Doherty - Behind Genius Ventures
Paige Finn Doherty is the Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures, a fund investing in early-stage product-led growth companies in the future of work & the future of play. Paige is also the author of Seed to Harvest, a book demystifying VC for children and adults. Until recently she was also a...
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Jeff Morris Jr. - Chapter One
Jeff Morris Jr. is the founder and Managing Partner of Chapter One, an early-stage seed fund backed by Sequoia, Marc Andreessen, Kleiner Perkins and many other LPs. Jeff has invested in companies like Lyft, Dapper Labs, Pipe, Superhuman and many more. He was previously the VP of Product, Revenue…
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Kinjal Shah - Blockchain Capital
Kinjal is an early-stage investor at Blockchain Capital, working with founders building the future of crypto. She is also a founding member of Komorebi Collective, a DAO making investments exclusively in female and nonbinary crypto founders. Previously, she spent time at Fidelity Investments and...
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Madusha Adasooriya - Exponential Labs
Madusha is the founder and CEO of Expo Labs, an Auckland-based venture studio. Currently, Expo Labs is building and scaling in-house brands but will soon invest in and help grow other products and technologies. Previously Madusha was a founder of EMGN.com, an entertainment, media and gaming site...
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Speaking to leading Investors and Entrepreneurs around the world - Check out our Substack ( https://theinquisitivevc.substack.com/ ) for the previous conversations!
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