This week, we host Pankaj Jain, currently Partner at 500 Startups, a venture accelerator based out of Silicon Valley. Pankaj currently manages 500 Kulfi, a fund started exclusively for investment in startups based in India. 

In a conversation full of passion about the Indian startup ecosystem, Pankaj shares his journey from starting on the Wall Street, bootstrapping a domestic help startup in India, starting a new accelerator in India, making 50+ angel investments, to eventually finding his way to a one of the most global venture capital accelerator firms.

FUN FACT: Pankaj is one of the few VCs in the world who can give you the best vegetarian restaurant recommendations in New York City, New Delhi, and Bangalore.

Pankaj likes spending his time on the following resources: 
- When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
- Headstart Network
- Startup Weekend India
- Medium
- AVC by Fred Wilson
- Feld Thoughts by Brad Feld 
- 500 Hats by Dave McClure (Founder of 500 Startups)
- 500 Kulfi - $25M fund for Indian Startups

If you are interested in connecting with Pankaj, please use Twitter and reach out to him at https://twitter.com/pjain for feedback on your startup or advice on making a career in venture, mentioning "[AT]venividiventure" in the tweet body. You can also connect with him at conferences / events and fill up the form on 500 Kulfi's website to apply - http://500kulfi.co/. 

PS: Thanks to our previous guest, Utsav Somani for an introduction to Pankaj for making this show happen.

Getting in touch:
In order to know more about the show, sponsoring, or nominating a guest, email us at venividiventures@gmail.com. 

Hosted by:
Nipun Gupta and Neal Bloom

Read more at http://venividivc.libsyn.com/veni-vidi-vc-ep07-pankaj-jain-from-500-startups#KKWX6eFKRP517ewc.99

Ep07: Pankaj Jain from 500 Startups

This week, we host Ryan Johnson, currently Associate at OurCrowd, an equity-based crowdfunding platform, built for accredited investors to provide venture capital funding for global start-ups. I had an amazing conversation with Ryan in the heart of Silicon Valley about the equity crowdfunding and Israeli startup&nbsp;ecosystem. Ryan shares his journey from studying finance in college, to making a small fortune by investing in Apple stocks, doing investment banking on the coasts of La Jolla, and eventually finding his way to a one of the most interesting firms in the exclusive crowdfunding investment world. 

FUN FACT: While OurCrowd has made many of its investments in startups based out of United States, its headquarters are based in Jerusalem, Israel. 

Ryan likes spending his time on the following resources:  
Academic and Research Papers - currently on Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) 
Twitter 
ProductHunt 
YCombinator Hacker News 
AVC by Fred Wilson  

If you are interested in connecting with Ryan, please use Twitter or LinkedIn and reach out to him at https://twitter.com/RyanCTJ or LinkedIn for feedback on your startup or advice on making a career in venture, mentioning "@venividivc" in the tweet / subject. 

Email us at venividiventures@gmail.com

Ep08: Ryan Johnson from OurCrowd

This week, we host Nima Elyassi-Rad, currently Investor at Indie.vc, a program set-up by O'Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures (OATV). Indie.VC is built for finding, organizing and working with founders who want to build large, scalable businesses on their own terms. 

FUN FACT: Nima loves drinking milk tea in traditional Persian style.

Nima likes spending his time learning from the following resources: 
Bryce.VC by OATV co-founder Bryce Robert 
Ben Narasin - GP at Canvas Ventures
Bijan Sabet's Medium - VC at Spark Capital
Both Sides of the Table by Mark Suster
AVC by Fred Wilson

If you are interested in connecting with Nima, please use Twitter or reach out to him over email for feedback on your startup or advice on making a career in venture, mentioning "@venividivc" in the tweet / subject.

Email us at venividiventures@gmail.com

Read more at http://venividivc.libsyn.com/veni-vidi-vc-ep09-nima-elyassi-rad-from-indievc#F3yJyI6yC6h0IeFS.99

Ep09: Nima Elyassi-Rad from Indie.vc

This week, we host Kevin Lee, currently Venture Associate at Funders Club, an early-stage Venture Capital firm powered by software which has crowdsourced Lead Partners (LPs). Kevin is a mentor at Techstars, StartEd, Alchemist Accelerator, and Free Ventures. Funders Club is providing a way to democratize the startup investment process from LPs all around the world who want access to deals in Silicon Valley. 

In their office in beautiful Dogpatch in San Francisco, Kevin shares the story of doing soul searching after spending years in Product Management. Starting from learning product strategies through a large Product Manager (PM) community at Product Manager HQ, Kevin went through PM roles at Kabam, AltSchool, eventually leading him to the world of Venture Capital to FundersClub.  

FUN FACT: Kevin runs world's largest Product Slack Community with 2700+ PMs from 500+ companies around the world.

Kevin likes spending his time learning from the following resources to learn more about VCs: 
 - Deep tech conferences
 - Industry experts
 - Professors and other academicians from colleges
 - Both Sides of the Table by Mark Suster
 - AVC by Fred Wilson

If you are interested in connecting with Kevin, please use Twitter or reach out to him over email (WARM INTROS PREFERRED) at kevin@fundersclub.com for feedback on your startup or advice on making a career in venture, mentioning "@venividiventure" in the tweet / subject.

Getting in touch:

In order to know more about the show, sponsoring, or nominating a guest, email us at venividiventures@gmail.com. 

Read more at http://venividivc.libsyn.com/#8Avzf2huQShPwWQQ.99

Ep10: Kevin Lee from Funders Club

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