Ramtin Naimi
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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So they have a much better sense of what exceptional looks like, more so than other people.
They know things that work and they know things that don't work.
And there's great board members at every venture capital firm, and they're all very public.
And there's a lot of those venture capital firms that don't have those experiences, that haven't sold a company and haven't yet been affiliated with a great company.
And those guys will do great, and some of them will join boards and become one of those people individually.
But when a founder is choosing, they're more likely to choose the person with that experience than the person without.
The most complimentary people would say that we've become one of the leading seed firms in Silicon Valley in a relatively short period of time, that we have a great reputation among our founders.
We're routinely referred to as the most trusted investor on the cap table of our portfolio companies.
I think a lot of the multi-stage firms would consider us their most trusted seed stage venture capital firm partner.
And I think some would say that we've achieved a lot more success than other people have that have started a venture capital firm in the same time duration that we have.
I'd say the people that would say critical things would probably say that we're like
heat seekers, signal chasers, which wouldn't have been inaccurate if you said that six or seven years ago, because a lot of the model was aligned, was around how do I get into deals alongside those firms, which candidly I had to because I wouldn't be able to raise SPBs otherwise.
That's why the SPBs raised the money they did, right?
That was my go-to-market strategy.
But over time, I think we became the signal.
But I think people still tend to hold on to old narratives.
So I could totally see that being a case.
On the earlier days, we were high volume.
We're not anymore as a firm.
I think we invest in 14 net new seed deals per year, which is a little over one deal per month.
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