EVCA Newsletter | May Edition - Tons of New VC Jobs, Events, and Features
Last month the EVCA made history by holding the biggest gathering of pre-partner and junior partner VCs at our first-ever annual EVCA & SVB Summit. While the EVCA community had grown to over 1,200 members throughout the course of the pandemic, we here on the EVCA leadership team realize that there’s nothing quite like meeting each other in-person. Talking to each other via Slack is great. But nothing satisfies the soul more than live interaction.
We would also like to give a big thank you to the team at SVB, our major sponsor for the Summit. Without their contributions and partnership, running a non-profit like the EVCA would not be possible.
With that bit of introductory fanfare, welcome back to the May edition of the EVCA newsletter!
EVCA Spotlight: Meet Adam Dawkins, Venture Capitalist and Founder of the EVCA
We had the chance to interview Adam Dawkins, who is founder of the EVCA. Adam shares with us his origins story—from finding his way into venture capital, working most recently as an investor at Sierra Ventures, and founding the EVCA. Through his story, Adam also shares his thoughts about life and career.
Featured Investors
This month we highlight Tanvi Narain of Counterpart Ventures and Kendrick Geluz Kho of Global Founders Capital (GFC) as our featured investors of the EVCA community.
Tanvi Narain is an investor at Counterpart Ventures, where she invests in Seed and Series A B2B SaaS companies. Before joining Counterpart Ventures, Tanvi was at Plaid and has held product, sales, and marketing roles at Visa and Discover Financial. In her spare time, Tanvi enjoys trying new hiking trails, taking a variety of dance classes, and trying new restaurants in the city.
Kendrick Geluz Kho is a Principal at Global Founders Capital (GFC), where he focuses on early-stage investments into fintech, artificial intelligence / machine learning, enterprise software, and other B2B startups globally. Since joining GFC in 2019, he has partnered with over 60 startups, including Deel, Karat, Awning, Slope, and Pry. Before GFC, he was an investor at Hone Capital where he helped assemble an early-stage portfolio of over 20 eventual unicorns. While at Hone Capital, he was an industry pioneer in leveraging machine-learning models for seed-stage investing, with this work being featured in McKinsey Quarterly.
EVCA Leadership Spotlight: Austin Chapter Lead, Patrick Moody of S3 Ventures
This EVCA Leadership Spotlight Series is intended to help the broader community get to know what's going on behind the scenes at the EVCA, as well as highlight the valuable contributions of the roughly 50 individuals across the venture capital industry who make the EVCA possible.
Patrick Moody is an associate at S3 Ventures where he invests in Seed, Series A, and Series B companies across the Business Technology, Digital Experiences, and Healthcare Technology sectors. Prior to joining S3, Patrick worked in investment banking at Credit Suisse, spent time in engineering roles at General Electric and Wells Fargo, and briefly headed Business Development efforts at a consumer tech startup, LawnStarter. Patrick majored in Industrial & Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech and currently lives on Rainey Street down in Austin, TX.
What We’re Reading
Here we share our favorite content produced from EVCA members across the world:
VС’s View On Fintech And B2B Payments Infrastructure Startups - Gleb Onischenko of Runa Capital, shares VC perspectives on fintech infrastructure and the market landscape
2021 Review of Funding for Female Founders - Female Founders Fund, analyzes why 2021 was a barrier-breaking year for female founders across IPOs, growth rounds, and acquisitions
The AI $100M Revenue Club - Kenn So of Shasta Ventures and Ben Lorica of Gradient Flow, identify private AI companies that standout from the rest, dubbing them the AI100 flying unicorns (or pegacorns) - companies that have reached $100 million in revenue
Automotive’s future with NFTs: Car JPEGs or much more? - Allen Chen of BMW i Ventures, examines the ways in which automotive OEMs are exploring the use of NFTs
Proprietary Deal Flow is Dying - Connetic Ventures, shares a few reasons why proprietary deal flow is dying and how the future of VC will look without it
The current state of 2022 pre/seed investing - Trace Cohen of New York Venture Partners, provides his thoughts on where the market is and where it is heading for pre/seed investing
Events
Q1 2022 Venture Monitor Webinar | May 5 | Hosted by Pitchbook and NVCA
The Metaverse Is Here, Now—But The Future is Even Bigger | May 10 | Hosted by The Austin Forum on Technology & Society
#ProductCon San Francisco: The Product Management Conference | May 10 | Hosted by Product School
VRARA Education Forum 2022 | May 19 | Hosted by the VR/AR Association (VRARA)
SAIL 2022 - Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Learning Health Systems | May 22 - 24 | Hosted by SAIL
Data Reliability Engineering Conference 2022 | May 25 - 26 | Hosted by Bigeye
Emergent Tech and Innovation in Transportation | May 27 | Hosted by Aicorespot
Jobs
Associate Role in San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) at Spider Capital
Senior Associate Role in Boulder, CO at Caruso Ventures. If interested, send a cover letter and resume in a sing PDF to inquiries@carusoventures.com
Head of Events Role in Madison, WI (Remote) at American Family Ventures
Summer 2022 Associate Internship Role in San Francisco, CA at FTW Ventures. If interested, send your resume to info@ftw.vc. Please include “[2022 Internship]” as part of your subject line. Additionally, in 2-3 sentences, please describe an investment area or thesis that excites you
Senior Associate/VP Role in Menlo Park, CA at Unusual Ventures. If interested, reach out to Sandhya Hedge (who you will be working with her in an apprenticeship model) at sandhya@unusual.vc
Associate Director/Principal Role in San Francisco, CA at Emerson Collective
Summer Internship Role in San Francisco, CA (Remote) at Next Ventures
Product Officer Role in New Jersey at New Jersey Economic Development Authority
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