Ramtin Naimi
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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If you end up exiting your company for $2 billion and you can end up with an extra $200 million in your pocket, I can't personally think of a single value add that a venture capital brings to the table that translates to more than an extra $200 million in your pocket.
I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have very trusted parties.
They'll just tell you.
At every venture capital firm, they'll just tell me.
But how did that start?
In the early days, it was really just a lot of, who is this kid?
Why is he running these processes?
Why are these people trusting him to run this fundraise?
Why is he the gatekeeper for this round?
Over time, it just kind of became accepted that I was that person.
The definitive thing that made it proven that I'm the accepted party to do that, whether it's at the A or the B or the C,
is I think we've proven to do such a service for founders when we're running these processes for them, that even in deals where our co-lead is a multi-stage tier one, big name platform fund, when that next round is coming, they will tell the founder, we're more than happy to let Romton slash Abstract run this process because they'll do a better job at it than anybody else will.
So I think once we got the validation from our co-investors that they think we would do a better job running this than they would, then I think it just kind of became accepted that for our portfolio, it comes as the way it's going to be.
You're a side of the beast now for this process.
There's different types of ways rounds come together.
There is the typical process where the founder puts together a deck and a data room and lines up meetings with every single venture capital firm and they go out and they pitch.
And then there's deals that happen outside of that dynamic that we have less involvement in.
Oftentimes, we help our founders build relationships with certain VCs in advance of the Series A process because that's actually a good way that we get information on what should be this company's North Star metrics.
How should we know when this company will be ready to raise a Series A?
oftentimes one of those people will just come in and preemptively make the founder an offer and the founder likes this partner the terms are fair and they don't want to spend the next three to four weeks of their life fundraising and they call it a day and they move forward certain vcs are very very good at doing that but in like the bake-off process
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