Samir Kaji
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 28 Jul
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You focus on too many vanity metrics versus the things that matter in fundraising at the end of the day.
or simply the ability for somebody to take on capital to build a business, it's not the plot, right?
That is not what you're trying to get to.
You're trying to get to building a great company with durable revenues, hopefully profitable, and having a great exit for your sort of employees and yourself.
Last question, just to kind of tie this up, is it's been 17, 16 years since you started investing.
Obviously, you were a founder before.
What is the one thing that you got the most wrong about venture investing coming into this industry?
obvious but harder to do yeah it's really hard it's an important lesson because i think especially at your stage it is who's the team and who's the person what drives them because all the other stuff like you can talk yourself out of deals but i've also looked at all my angel investments and the best performing ones were when i really believed in the person and i just said i'm gonna give you money but this has been a lot of fun man it's always great talking to you congrats on everything you guys have built you built a great reputation we're just excited to continue to work with you guys so thanks again thank you
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Welcome back to another episode of Venture Lock, the podcast that takes you behind the scenes of the business of venture capital.
In today's episode, I'm joined by three deep tech investors and friends of the show, Nate Williams from Union Labs, Sunil Nagaraj from Ubiquity VC, and Geet Parameter from Grids Capital for a roundtable on the state of deep tech and the changing venture landscape.
This podcast was inspired by a conversation that four of us had at the Allocate Beyond Summit.
And during that, we wanted to go deeper into what does deep tech mean today?
Why is it suddenly attracting so much capital?
And how economics, government tailwinds, and AI have pulled these once niche technologies into the mainstream.
We also explored the growing concentration of capital in a handful of hyperscale winners, the tension between consensus and non-consensus investing, and what all this means today for emerging managers, LPs, and founders.
We really hope you enjoy our episode.
guys it's great seeing you all and this episode actually was a follow-on to a conversation the four of us had back at the beyond summit and we were talking about post the summit all the things we were thinking about all the conversations and a lot of threads got pulled from there the deep tech where's deep tech today which all of you are deep tech investors
The second was around the concept of how concentrated capital is becoming, both at the fund level and then also with companies.
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