20 VC 093: Where Is The Micro VC Market Going with Samir Kaji @ First Republic Bank

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🗓️ 2 December 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Samir Kaji is the Managing Director @ First Republic Bank, a leading private bank and wealth management company on Sand Hill Road. Samir, has 13 years of banking experience, working with venture capital and private equity clients in Silicon Valley. Prior to joining First Republic, Kaji worked for Silicon Valley Bank. Samir writes an awesome blog on the VC, investing and startup scene at (http://pevcbanker.com). All the data and research mentioned in today's show is provided by the kind team at Mattermark, check them out here!

In Today's Episode You Will Learn:

1.) How Samir made his way into the wonderful world of venture and technology?

2.) We often hear the term, Micro VC bandied around, are there any common characteristics and criteria that discern Micro VCs from traditional VCs?

3.) Why has there has been this massive growth of the seed stage funding environment? What is driving this end of the funding cycle? Is it being damaged with the rise of AngelList syndicates?

4.) What trends and emerging themes has Samir seen come out of this exponentially expanding sector? What effect has AngelList had on the MicroVC market?

5.) What are Samir's thoughts for the future of seed funding? What do you think the seed funding landscape will look like in 20 years time?

6.) Why do smaller funds tend to outperform larger VCs?

Items Mentioned In Today's Episode:

Samir's Fave Blog or Newsletter: Dan Primack: TermSheet, Ezra Galston: Breaking VC

Samir's Fave Book: Phil Jackson: A Team In Search Of It's Soul, Adam Grant: Give & Take

As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Samir on Twitter here!

If you would like to see a more colourful side to Harry with many a mojito session, you can follow him on Instagram here!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the 20-minute VC. I am your host, Harry Stebbings, and following on from our deep dive into the early stage SaaS funding environment with Ed Sim from Bold Start on Monday. Today we will have an overview of the micro VC industry, look at what's driving the immense growth of micro VC, the emerging trends and sectors, and then the future of seed funding.
0:24.0	And who better to join me than the industry expert on microvc, Samir Kaji, managing director at First Republic Bank in their Sandhill Road office.
0:34.0	And Samir has 13 years of a banking experience working with venture capital and private equity clients in Silicon Valley.
0:40.7	And prior to joining First Republic, Samir worked for Silicon Valley Bank.
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1:30.8	So ladies and gents, without further ado, I welcome Samir Khagi at First Republic Bank.
1:40.8	You have now arrived at your destination.
1:45.5	Samir, it's absolutely fantastic to have you on the 20 minute VC.
1:49.1	Thank you so much for joining us today.
1:51.0	Yeah, no, I'm Harry.
1:52.0	Thank you for having me.
1:52.9	I'm excited.
1:53.7	Now, I'd love to hear a little about your backstory and how you made the move into the VC and tech world.
1:59.9	Yeah, so it's a little bit of a funny story.
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