Introducing Harmonic’s exclusive investor case studies!
We sat down with investors we admire and asked them about everything from investor workflows to predictions about the industry. Dive in and discover the strategies and perspectives that are shaping the future of venture capital:
🚀 Riley Rodgers of Valia Ventures covers how he evaluates location, identifies current “have” and “have-not” startup categories, admires who remain mission-focused, and wishes he had been more of an industry historian early in his career.
💪 Susannah Duke at Pelion argues that AI is underhyped, insists on the importance of “stocking a firm’s own pond,” warns that excess capital can hinder finding product-market fit, and believes a track record is crucial in an industry with ambiguous KPIs.
🔥 Salvatore Spina of Kyber Knight highlights the satisfaction of working for a first-time fund, emphasizes a firm’s network as its key differentiator, advocates for problem-first over company-first approaches, and shares time optimization strategies.
💥 Gopinath Sundaramurthy, Ph.D of Ensemble stresses data as the core of their strategy, notes the limitations of data, predicts automation and source-of-truth platforms becoming essential, explains why they don’t overly focus on founders, and reflects on learning from past mistakes.
Read the articles below!