Seed-led Venture Capital Firm That Embraces Risk

Balancer, BisonTrails, CoDa, Coinlist, Falcon are the giants Ash has invested in and shares the story about it. He initially entered the market with an aim of starting companies therefore he kept learning a lot about scaling companies and a range of different industries.

This is when he found venture capital fun so he dived deep into that and more. That also led him to become a partner at Accomplice (FKA Atlas Venture) which is a tech VC firm with a crowdsourced approach to venture.

Accomplice harnesses the founder community to empower together and invests in industries, including cybersecurity, eSports, data analytics, SMB class software, emerging hardware platforms, and marketplaces.

If you want the interview in the podcast format, please visit the link below, Enjoy!

https://anchor.fm/constantinkogan/episodes/Seed-led-Venture-Capital-Firm-That-Embraces-Risk-w-Ash-Egan–Constantin-Kogan-eh0v3f

TIMESTAMPS

01:50 – What attracted Ash in the crypto industry
06:12 – Silly mistakes crypto players do in their pitch
11:01 – Some advice on communication skills for investors
14:55 – How to support after the first and more investments correctly
16:59 – How Ash positions himself in projects
24:09 – Ticket size: the typical checks and general info
27:36 – What a perfect stack looks like to the Accomplice Partner
33:39 – Are there any opportunities in layer one solutions