Ramtin Naimi
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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There is a million ways to bootstrap your way into the venture capital world.
I've learned over time that investing in founders for me works a lot better than investing in markets.
I'm better at identifying what a good founder is and what a good market is.
There is genetic makeup that I look for in a founding team of a company.
And whether it's spread amongst one founder or multiple founders, I'm looking for a combination of very strong commercial ability and very strong technical ability.
I'm not technical, but Alex on my team is technical.
Andre is technical.
Will is technical.
They're more suited to vet the technical capabilities of an individual than I would be.
But when I mentioned the commercial aspect, I'm really looking for salesmanship in three different verticals.
Vertical one is ability to fundraise.
Seems simple, but building a startup company is hard.
And anything you do to put the odds slightly in your favor makes your odds of success that much more likely.
There are certain founders who are good at fundraising, certain founders who are not good at fundraising.
The founders who are good at fundraising get to build their startup company that much more easy than someone who's bad at fundraising.
That's obviously somewhat sometimes solved for because you could help with that as an investor.
But it's very beneficial when a founder has that salesmanship rigor.
And the next one is hiring.
Hiring in early stage startup companies is sales.
85% of the companies we finance are based in the Bay Area.
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