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Canada's policy lag is his investment map, not a handicap.
Latin America does not need unicorns to win.
Revenue from strangers is the only proof that counts.
Fewer than 10 percent of VCs do healthcare. Genevieve LeMarchal built Suncoast Ventures to back digital health, health tech, and medical device founders before the science is de-risked.
Vineet Shah spent 18 years commercializing frontier industrial technology. He built 8 Clockwise to fund the energy transition companies that never make it out of the lab.
Nathan Maton built Basal Capital around repeat founders, the glass eaters, and a process for earning conviction and access before a round is even announced.
Vertical first, AI second. Vijay Rajendran and Amit Goel built gAI Ventures to act as an institutional co-founder, building companies from scratch alongside domain experts.
Ryan Else built Roadster Capital to back pre-seed and seed founders modernizing the American industrial base across defense, manufacturing, logistics, and applied AI.
Garrett Smith exited two medtech startups for a combined $600M, then built ReefHaven Ventures to write the first institutional check into founders at the convergence of biology, robotics, and AI.
ARTA Ventures backs US applied AI founders at the seed stage. Anca Burke and Andrey Mikhalchuk on why operators, not financiers, make the best early stage investors.
Quantum computing has been five years away for thirty years. Mike Keymer built Alphaket Fund I around the conviction that the wait is finally ending.
It takes a village, and Fehmida built the village.
This industry really is ripe for modernization.
Five years down the line, everything would be neurotech.
Mala Ramakrishnan closed Progressive Ventures Fund I at $12M from 94 LPs, almost entirely from within a three-mile radius of her house in Palo Alto.
Wes Schwalje and Walid Aradi built Red Tape Ventures on regulatory complexity.
Doug backs operator-led startups where AI meets the physical world.
Betting on domain experts as the next consumer founders.
A fraud fighter's approach to backing AI-native founders.
Backing the founders reinventing women’s health and longevity.