Kiva Dickinson - Breaking Down The Basics of Investing + What a VC Fund Does

Just the Good Stuff

Rachel Mansfield

Entrepreneurship, Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Business

4.8 • 841 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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#55: In this episode, Jordan and I are chatting with Kiva Dickinson, the founder and Managing Partner of Selva Ventures. Selva Ventures invests in brands making consumers' lives better, and they happen to be a handful of our favorites. A highlight of what we dive into: Taking the leap from his full-time job to start Selva Ventures Why he wanted to start his own VC fund How we are making investing space more approachable What it has been like fundraising money for Selva What a VC fund does and the basics of a venture capital fund The importance of open dialogue in the investing space Why a brand actually needs money from investors What an LP, GP and all these crazy abbreviations mean How to spot the trends in the industry How to know if a brand is worth investing in Where the space is going with food trends + SO much more! Subscribe to stay in the now on all the new episodes coming out. And please rate/review/share the episode and tag me so we can hear from you!! For more from me, I'm over on IG @rachLmansfield, tiktok @rachLmansfield and rachLmansfield.com For more on our VC fund, head on over to grtsht.com

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0:00.0	Hey, Jordan.
0:05.2	Hey, Rach.
0:06.3	Welcome back, everyone, to Just the Good Stuff, your new favorite podcast, hosted by Rachel Mansfield and...
0:13.8	Jordan Carpenter.
0:14.9	And in today's episode, we are chatting with someone who has become very good friend of ours,
0:20.7	especially since you since even talking on
0:21.9	the Zoom. Kiva Dickinson. On the Zoom. Kiva Dickinson, he is the founder and managing
0:28.8	partner of Selva Ventures. And I know what you guys are thinking, what is Rachel doing,
0:35.0	having a podcast interview all about venture capital and finance and a topic
0:41.3	that probably can sound a little intimidating and like as I like to always say like unapproachable
0:48.1	to a lot of people and it is my mission this year and beyond to make this a topic that many can talk about.
0:59.1	And I want to make this attainable and more conversational.
1:03.1	And we're breaking down the basics, at least in my opinion, in this episode.
1:08.3	Would you agree?
1:09.3	Yeah.
1:09.7	And I think Kiva is probably one of the best people to explain it, like, very eloquently,
1:15.5	but also like in layman's terms, because as you love to say now, the venture capital space
1:23.2	and just, I would say, investing in general has definitely been one of those places that it's like
1:29.7	a, you know, kind of like an exclusive club that kind of like built barriers to kind of make
1:35.3	it sound like way more intimidating than it really needs to be.
1:39.0	For sure. And Kiva and Jordan and I are there are on a similar mission where we're looking to invest and help
1:49.2	brands grow that are better for you.
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