In the previous few weeks, we’ve heard Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace and Hippo’s Assaf Wand talk about the most important alternatives in prop tech, heard why Scale AI’s Alex Wang and Accel’s Dan Levine assume that unconventional VC offers will be the most suitable choice and brought a stroll by way of the Poshmark Series A deck with CEO Manish Chandra and Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha.
This is the actual taste of content material, wealthy in key insights and tactical recommendation for founders, that goes down on Extra Crunch Live.
In an upcoming episode on Wednesday, May 19, we’ll sit down with Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire and Vise CEO and co-founder Samir Vasavada.
Maguire focuses on enterprise, fintech and frontier expertise for Sequoia. His portfolio corporations embrace AMP Robotics, Knowde, Physna and Vise. He joined Sequoia in 2019, earlier than which he was a associate at GV, the place he led investments in Stripe, Opendoor, IonQ, SpinLaunch, Lambda School, Dandelion Energy, Clutter and Mode and sourced the agency’s funding in Segment.
Maguire has additionally been an entrepreneur in his personal proper, co-founding Expanse (a cybersecurity firm), which was in the end acquired by Palo Alto Networks for greater than $800 million.
If that weren’t sufficient, Maguire additionally spent two years working at DARPA, and was deployed to Afghanistan, collaborating on a group that earned a Joint Meritorious Unit Award from the U.S. Secretary of Defense.
Samir Vasavada co-founded Vise in 2016. Vise is an AI-powered funding administration platform that goals to provide impartial monetary advisors entry to expertise and instruments to construct and handle personalised portfolios for his or her purchasers, in the end giving these advisors extra time and vitality to spend on the relationships.
Vise has raised upwards of $60 million.
We’ll discuss to Maguire and Vasavada about what introduced them collectively, key ideas for fundraising and the way to achieve success within the fintech house, and ask concerning the subsequent nice alternative in fintech.
On the second half of the episode, Maguire and Vasavada will placed on their suggestions hats and hearken to stay elevator pitches from the viewers as a part of the ECL Pitch-off. Folks attending the occasion will be capable of increase their hand and pitch their startup to the VC/founder duo, after which reply their questions and get their suggestions.
But the one manner you possibly can pitch is to point out up. This episode of Extra Crunch Live goes down on Wednesday, May 19 at 3pm ET/12pm PT. Anyone can attend so long as they register right here, however on-demand entry to the content material is reserved strictly for Extra Crunch members, who even have entry to the whole library of Extra Crunch Live content material, amongst many, many different superior articles and perks.
