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LA VentureRayfe Gaspar-Asaoka -- Canaan PartnersVenture capital is a team sport masquerading as an individual sport. Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka, partner at Canaan Partners, tells us why he thinks VC partnerships resemble a swim team. We also talk about space and defense tech, the evolution of venture capital, how generational transition can work well and why a thoughtful reserve strategy has outsized leverage, especially in early stage venture firms.
2024-05-1428 min
Heavy Hitters: The Digital Industrial Podcast32. Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka, Canaan - A Generalist VC or a Portfolio of Thematic SpecialistsCanaan is a storied, early-stage venture VC fund that has been around 34 years with ~6B AUM across 12 funds, and Rayfe discusses what the macro factors were that led Canaan into expanding a frontier and industrial tech thesis that would drive alpha for their fund. With a large and diverse partnership that is split 1/3 healthcare (digital, biopharma, medtech) and 2/3 tech (consumer, fintech, enterprise/cloud, frontier), he discusses both how to navigate a partnership into a new investment category/thesis and how the diversity of thinking within such a broad partnership leads to the beneficial cross-pollination of complimentary ideas and networks...
2021-09-0731 minBytemarks CafeEpisode 616: #BlueStartups & Fiber to East Maui – June 17, 2020First up, Blue Startups is hosting a discussion called Fundraising in the COVID era with Canaan Principal Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka at their upcoming Insights for Resiliency webinar. Rayfe will discuss what has changed in the current fundraising environment. What can entrepreneurs expect from venture capitalists today given the shifting social and economic landscape? This takes place … Continue reading "Episode 616: #BlueStartups & Fiber to East Maui – June 17, 2020"
2020-06-1800 min