Ramtin Naimi
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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But once we've decided to invest in a company, price tends to be not something that dissuades us from investing in that company until it gets so egregious that you can no longer call it a seed deal.
That's basically our point of view.
Obviously, we try to get it to fit within the confines of our portfolio construction model.
But oftentimes, you have to deviate from that to get the company into your portfolio because ultimately, venture is an outlier's business.
You have no idea if the deal that you passed on due to price will be the outlier.
So you kind of just have to swallow the bullet sometimes.
Competing for deals is very challenging.
It is an incredibly time consuming process.
And for us, competing is a very labor intensive process because prior to doing this podcast, there's nothing publicly available about me on the internet, period.
Pretty much all of the selling I need to do is explaining to the founder.
who we are, what we do, having seven or eight of my other founders and calling them and explaining the benefits of working with us and saying that if they were to start a company again, they would absolutely come back to us for our seed round.
So when we do decide to win a deal, we really do go all in in terms of how much we're putting behind
to make the case for the founder that we are their best seed partner, period.
In addition to fundraising, obviously, we have a full platform team now, like anybody else would expect from a large seed fund that we have today.
We have an incredible head of GTM.
We have an incredible head of comms.
We have an incredible head of talent.
So we can help with all of those things.
But what we really wanted to do is be exceptional at one particular thing, or at least what I wanted to focus on.
And I think everybody on our team specializes in their own specific things.
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