Samir Kaji
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 28 Jul
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Welcome back to another episode of Venture Unlocked, the podcast that takes you behind the scenes of the business of venture capital.
I'm your host, Samir Khaji.
My guest today is Micah Rosenblum, managing partner at Foundry Collective, one of the longest standing and respected seed firms in the industry, with early investments in companies like Uber, The Trade Desk, and Coupang.
What makes Founder Collective atypical to most successful firms is their decision to keep fund sizes small.
In fact, despite their success, they've never raised a fund over $100 million in a market where nearly every one of their counterparts has scaled up dramatically.
In this conversation, Micah and I dig into why they've stayed so small, the data behind it, including the study his team ran on 25 years of venture capital exits that found that the median outcome of the top 500 exits over that timeframe is about $2.7 billion.
Micah is a two-time founder himself and someone that I find to be a very clear thinker when it comes to venture capital.
I think you'll really enjoy this one.
Now onto my conversation with Micah.
I think I'm going to pass on that, although I did get some of the New York heat and humidity just a few weeks ago when I was out there.
Definitely a far cry from the Bay Area where it's so temperament here.
But I always like to see you.
And, you know, you posted a couple of things that I found interesting, which inspired this conversation.
And I think they're very topical.
Before we go into those posts and dive deep into some of the observations you had in the insights, why don't we start with the early days of you joining Founder Collective in I think it was a year or two or three?
If we look back, I mean, obviously, that was 15 years ago, roughly, when you joined in 17 years since the firm was founded.
And at the time, you're right, there wasn't a lot of people investing at seed.
I mean, you mentioned a couple of people, whether it's Jeff Clavier, there's also guys like Mike Maples, like Steve Anderson, on the East Coast, Roger Ehrenberg.
There's a few people that were kind of doing it.
That's right.
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