Ramtin Naimi
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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The more time I spent just focused on seed, I just get a lot more confident in my ability to pick seeds versus relying on other people as proxy.
Now we have a ton of data that actually shows quite clearly that the deals that we have led as a venture capital firm have actually dramatically outperformed the deals in which we're not the lead investor, but we'd co-invested in.
So nowadays we probably lead like 80 or 90% of the companies in our portfolio.
We pulled the data on every seed firm out there.
And we are the firm that has the highest likelihood of getting a follow-on Series A by Tier 1 VC firm.
So the highest graduation rate of any seed fund from seed to Series A to a Tier 1 fund is us by a pretty wide margin.
By the time we closed the first fund, it became pretty apparent that I accidentally built probably the most well-networked LP base in Silicon Valley.
And I wanted to find a way to leverage that for the benefit of our founders.
That's ultimately who our primary customer is.
And over time, we really started focusing on being the number one venture capital firm to get a founder from seed to series A. I'm curious how you got the capital in the AngelList days to first do those deals, the 25K to 500K deals.
And then I got so excited and so jacked up by this, I got so active that I ended up for a brief period of time, I think for a six-month window, I was one-third of all the volume on AngelList.
Ha ha!
And it was fantastic.
But the cool thing about it was when I had stopped doing deals on AngelList and decided to raise my fund, a bunch of the syndicate investors who were actively supporting my, like, what happened?
Your deals are under the platform.
I'm starting a fund.
And those guys all became LPs as well.
It even helped establish the platform for me to raise a fund with.
But then also not every single founder in the world wanted LPs.
SPVs.
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