ANGEL: Canaan’s Maha Ibrahim on fund sizing, distribution strategies & early VC days | E1687

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

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4.2 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Maha Ibrahim of Canaan joins Molly to discuss her early days in VC (1:38), managing distributions and exiting at the right time (20:36), the clean tech bubble, being a generalist/specialist, diversity, and more (37:42).

(0:00) Molly kicks off the show

(1:38) Maha’s first years in venture

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(12:43) Investing in the early 2000s and Canaan’s strategy

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(20:36) Exiting at the right time and distributing earnings

(30:00) Learning from a downturn

(34:58) The mismatch between VCs to outlier startups

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(37:42) The climate tech bubble

(40:14) Generalists vs. specialists

(42:16) Responding to cycles and signs of good timing

(48:53) Structuring a generational off-ramp

(51:39) All Raise

(55:30) What does the future hold?

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, we are back with another episode of Angel season seven.
0:04.0	And you already know the theme because it's probably our best whenever how we're going to
0:07.1	top this three cycle investors, meaning people who have been investing since at least the year 2000.
0:14.6	And they've made it through the dot combust, the great recession, and whatever happened in 2022.
0:19.9	And we'll happen over the next couple of years. Today, we have an incredible guest.
0:23.9	Maha Ibrahim is a general partner at Canaan Partners, where she has been since 2000.
0:30.0	We have an amazing conversation on how venture has changed since 2000.
0:34.4	Distribution strategies for early stage investors, valuing startups.
0:38.7	The results from LPs being over allocated into venture and then her experience as the first
0:45.8	investor into the real real, the person who helped start all rays to try to get more women
0:50.4	into venture, we pretty much covered all. It's a great conversation. It's going to be a great show.
0:54.6	Stick with us. This week in startups is brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs. A business is only as
1:00.0	strong as its people and every higher matters. Go to LinkedIn dot com slash angel and post your first
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1:38.4	Maha thanks so much for coming on and talking about we've been doing this sort of three cycle
1:44.8	investor series and I'm super excited to talk to you because a I'm in all the brands that you
1:51.1	invested in like not as a consumer. And it seems like Canaan has been doing some form of climate
2:01.3	or sustainability or frontier tech investing. So I feel like we might actually have a chance to talk
2:05.8	about a double boom. I am more than happy to thank you for having me. Okay, so your GP at Canaan
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