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15 years ago today, I formed Cendana Capital, with the thesis that smaller funds outperform and that Seed VC would become de facto early stage venture capital. We are clearly standing on the shoulder of some great GPs that we have partnered with over the years, and some that

Michael Kim (Michael Kim) of Cendana Capital is on StrictlyVC Download to discuss raising $600M in just 5 months, their fastest fundraise ever! Hear why he still believes it’s a good time to be investing in early stage and how secondaries play into his strategy 🎧

Great discussion with Connie Loizos StrictlyVC on how we view the opportunities in AI, what we aren’t seeking — YASCO, Yet Another SaaS Company—and how chaos can be a ladder.

Service firms need to figure out how to get software margins. Example: I send an LPA to our law firm (which we really like!) They have an associate review for 5 hours and create an issues list. Tbh, I think AI can do this in 1 minute. But, the law firms’ business model is

Guess who the dead body in White Lotus is? The global equities markets 📉

@Neo just raised $320M after successful seed investments in Cursor, Kalshi, Bluesky, & more. Thank you to all the brilliant people helping Neo become tech's premier community for talent & startups. From Sheryl & Schrep to Sam & Satya, read more in this fab Forbes feature.

Accessing founders is critical for VC firms, and Neo is one of the absolute best at this, through their Neo Scholars program and their accelerator. We at Cendana Capital have been investors in Neo since the beginning and very excited to be part of their remarkable journey

Would like your advice. What’s the best way to do this: I’m going to conference and have the list of attendees. Identify the top 10 people from institutional LP firms that I should meet based on my existing contacts, and then draft an email to each one that mentions

We at Cendana Capital are very excited to be the anchor LP for Joshua Browder, who is a quiet force of nature. Being on the selection committee for the Thiel Fellowship, Josh has has a keen sense of identifying amazing founders 💥

We at Cendana Capital are very excited to partner with Sasha Kaletsky and Caspar Lee at Creator Ventures. It’s our first investment in a consumer-centric GP since we invested in Forerunner over 10 years ago. With companies like ElevenLabs, Sasha and Caspar are at the

Episode #93: Michael Kim @ Cendana Michael Kim is the Founder of Cendana Capital, making anchor investments in very early stage VC funds. We talk 204x DPI funds, characteristics of the top performing venture investors, how Cendana does diligence on fund managers, portfolio

Had a great time talking to Turner Novak 🍌🧢 about early and late stage venture, and about how we think about the ecosystem that we have created at Cendana Capital. It went on for almost 2 hours 💥

Michael Kim Links to stream the full conversation YouTube: youtu.be/_AqIrMSvya4 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3ik7bv… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

From Michael Kim on the best performing VC funds ever: "Chris Chris Sacca 🇺🇸's $8 million Fund 1 was 204x DPI. Chris had a great nose. He was in Instagram, Twitter, Uber, and Stripe. That's pretty good. The best performing fund in our portfolio is @Mucker Capital. Their $12 million Fund

Michael Kim Chris Sacca 🇺🇸 Mucker Capital Links to stream our full conversation YouTube: youtu.be/_AqIrMSvya4 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3ik7bv… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Thanks Alexis Ohanian 🗽 🥂🥂🥂

ICYMI! The latest OpenLP newsletter is here, bringing you key venture capital insights, including: ✅ Inside the 2024 Unicorn Landscape Ilya Strebulaev ✅ Why Secondaries Are Here to Stay w/ Ravi Viswanathan ✅ How a 24-Year-Old VC Landed Cendana as an LP paige finn doherty ✅ 20 Years of