You are listening to the 10 minute entrepreneur podcast with host Sean Castrina.

Okay, I think you're going to learn something today. It's a 10-minute

on a world podcast. I have Suzanne Fletcher with me here today. She's the

founder and general partner of Zelda Venture. She's raised a ton of money.

So we're gonna talk about venture capital today,

who needs it, what are the type of companies they invest in?

What do they think is a good investment?

What do they look for in the leaders that they invest in?

Suzanne, it's great to have you on the podcast.

Thanks so much, really excited to be here.

Okay, so you've raised quite a bit of money. So what got you into venture capital?

Yeah, and I just announced my kind of inaugural fund having hung my own shingle here of 33 million dollars, but I have been in the investing world for about 20 years. I spent the first 10 on the secondary side more fund style investing choosing

managers buying portfolios of assets and then the last 10 years in direct

venture which really culminated in me,

me starting my own fund.

What led me to this path?

Kind of just playing my role in this ecosystem really just love working with early stage companies the

earlier the better and kind of making my contribution to the mark here.

What is like the perfect invest?

If you, you know, what, you know, we all have what, you know, I have certain things that I would invest in,

you know, you can run it through my head, I have like certain things that, okay, dot that,

dot that, dot that, and then I have a few things like no I don't like that

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