Navigating Venture Capital, AI, and Innovation in Q4 2023 with Anupam Rastogi #216

Anupam Rastogi is a General Partner at Emergent Ventures, which focuses on seed and early-stage ventures, investing in transformative AI-powered SaaS and enterprise infrastructure companies. They invest at pre-seed, seed, seed+, and post-seed rounds across enterprise and B2B software, including Application SaaS, Cloud, Data, Infra, Security, Vertical SaaS and Dev Tools. Over the past decade, Anupam has led or played a substantive role in over 20 successful technology investments globally, ranging from early to expansion stage, and several large exits. Prior to his investing career, he spent several years in operating roles in the mobile, enterprise, and data analytics spaces, bringing to market four new products, setting up a big data analytics stack in a Fortune 100 environment, and authoring five international patents and publications. In this episode we cover:00:00 - Intro01:31 - Silicon Valley's Current Sentiment About AI05:36 - What's The Early-Stage VC Criteria10:47 - Getting To Know Founders In Person vs Remotely13:06 - The Future of the Venture Market15:38 - The AI's Impact on Employment20:17 - 100x Engineers + 100x Professionals + AI23:57 - Crafting a Winning Startup Fundraising Pitch28:42 - Anupam's Favorite Activity To Get Into a Flow State29:10 - Anupam's Piece Of Advice For His 25 Younger Self30:12 - Anupam's Biggest Challenges at Emergent Ventures30:48 - Instrumental Resources For Anupam's Success32:12 - What Does Success Mean for Anupam Today33:05 - Get In Touch With Anupam Get In Touch With Anupam: Anupam's LinkedIn Emergent Ventures Website Tag Us & Follow: Facebook LinkedIn Instagram More About Akeel: Twitter LinkedIn SaaS Podcasts SaaS Consultants How To Value Your SaaS Company