Anupam Rastagi

Thank you for having me.

Doing great.

Yeah, Emergent Ventures.

We are a six-year-old firm, seed stage, first check.

We lead seed rounds, AI, led SaaS across both application and infrastructure layer.

And then we partner closely with founders on building out their go-to-market, getting to product market fit, and then future fundraising.

Yeah, we are investing out of a $76 million core seed fund.

And we would do about 22 to 25 investments per fund.

And we do a fairly concentrated approach to seed investing.

And there's two of us general partners.

And we invest the fund over three to five years.

So that means that we only invest in two to three deals per partner per year, which enables us to focus on the ones that we've invested in and get to the next milestones.

Two of us.

Two general partners and we have an operating partner.

So three of us overall.

That's right.

Yeah.

Yeah, sometimes the public reporting and the actual events are a bit out of sync because of when companies announce these rounds.

I'd say a vast majority of pre-seed investments we do don't get announced for a while.

But yeah, I'd say we've been at a pretty consistent