EVCA Newsletter December Edition - the latest VC jobs, news, and content
Happy Holidays, EVCA community!
As we look toward the end of 2025, gratitude feels like the right place to begin. It has been a challenging year across venture, with slower deployment, tighter fundraising conditions, and higher bars for both founders and funds. Yet throughout it all, this community continued to show up with thoughtful co-investments, candid perspectives, and steady optimism about where the industry is heading.
Thank you, as individuals, for the time, energy, and generosity you have invested in one another, from sharing career inflection points to supporting quick diligence and references, and opening doors for emerging and aspiring investors across the EVCA network. We wish you a restorative break, meaningful time with friends and family, and the space to enter 2026 with renewed clarity and conviction about the kind of investor, colleague, and community member you want to be. We look forward to building an even more connected, collaborative, and resilient EVCA community in the year ahead!
Featured Investor
This month we highlight Brian Litvak of Ibex Investors as our featured investor of the EVCA community
Brian Litvak is a Vice President at Ibex Investors, an alternative investment manager with geographic and thematic venture capital and hedge fund strategies. He works on Ibex’s early-stage Mobility VC strategy, partnering with founders pursuing large opportunities in mobility, manufacturing, and logistics. Previously, he was at Aster Capital, a VC firm focused on energy, mobility, and industrial technologies. Brian got his start in venture through an internship while pursuing his master’s in energy markets at ESCP, where he studied across multiple countries and indulged in perhaps one too many French pastries.
EVCA Leaders: Atlanta Chapter Lead, Yasho Singh
This EVCA Leadership Series is intended to help the broader community get to know what’s going on behind the scenes at the EVCA and highlight the contributions of the over 50 leads across the venture capital industry who make the EVCA possible.
Yasho Singh is an Investor at Catalyst by Wellstar, the venture firm and innovation company of Wellstar, one of the largest health systems in the Southeastern U.S. He focuses on pre-seed to Series A investments in deep tech, AI, sustainability, healthcare, and supply chain, and is also involved in launching new startups through Catalyst’s venture studio initiatives. Previously, Yasho helped build autonomous vehicles at Nuro, a robotics startup valued at six billion dollars, and gained early-stage investing experience as a enterprise B2B-focused investor at Tech Square Ventures. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech. Outside of work, he is a lifelong student of history and world cultures and enjoys adventure sports and traveling to less explored parts of the world.
What We’re Reading
Here we share our favorite content produced from EVCA members across the world:
Five Lessons for Emerging VC Managers: Courtney McCrea of Recast Capital on Raising Fund I - Nathan Beckord of FounderSuite, distills Courtney McCrea’s experience raising a fund into five key lessons for new venture fund managers
Power Overwhelming - Kevin Zhang explores whether today’s massive AI infrastructure spending can deliver returns or risks repeating the dotcom/telecom bubble
Startup Capital vs. Scaleup Capital: The New Map of Venture Capital - Bilal Zuberi of Red Glass Ventures, argues that venture success now hinges less on early bets and more on financing growth at scale
On AI Infrastructure in Biology - Elliot Hershberg of Amplify Partners, delves into how AI infrastructure can create value for biotechnology, beyond finding new drug candidates
The 2026 Wellness Forecast You’ll Actually Need to Read - Rach Hirsch of Wellness Growth Ventures, shares 7 cultural shifts no one is talking about yet and that you need to know about
Events
➡️ For all EVCA events, which are private to EVCA members, please check the Slack community or your inbox for our monthly Member’s Digest.
Jobs
Connect with us: EVCA, Daisy, Adam, Isaac, and Dan
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