AngelList
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Sep 19, 2026
Dan MartellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So many times entrepreneurs go out there and they don't actually have a plan for which kind of investors or which specific investors they want to raise money for.
Dan MartellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So step one is to really go out there and do the work, spend the time, go on AngelList, go on Crunchbase, ask other entrepreneurs that have raised money who the investors have invested that are in the market or industry that you're in.
Dan MartellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So if you're raising money for a marketplace startup or an ad network or a game, You really want to talk to investors that understand those industries because they save you so much time from trying to explain something to an investor that doesn't really get it.
Dan MartellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So that's a huge lesson.
Adam SpectorGUEST
Yeah.
Adam SpectorGUEST
So, so essentially we were, we were, so what I created was before AngelList existed and SPV, special purpose vehicles, all those things was way before that time.
Adam SpectorGUEST
We essentially created like a syndicate though, kind of a legal structure that allowed us to pull together money in a smart way.
Adam SpectorGUEST
Everyone got different percentages.
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Adam SpectorGUEST
There's lots of special purpose vehicles.
Adam SpectorGUEST
There's a lot of different groups online.
Adam SpectorGUEST
AngelList is definitely the best resource for this.
Adam SpectorGUEST
I would go sign up.
Dan MartellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I mean, that's the way I invest.
Dan MartellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I go on AngelList and TechCrunch, anytime I have a problem, maybe it's I'm working on a marketing thing and I feel like there should be a tool that exists, I'll go Google it, I'll go search it, I'll go on AngelList and search and see if there's a company trying to solve this problem.
Dan MartellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And it's actually through that process that I discover a lot of opportunities.
Dan MartellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, recently I was talking to a friend and he was cold emailing investors, like reaching out directly, and I thought that's kind of the most ridiculous, it's not the way I raise money, you know, I did a webinar recently on fundraising like a pro, And in it I say that investors don't want to meet you, or they don't want to meet you, they want to be introduced to you.
Ankur NagpalGUEST
But the path to hitting 100 million in revenue was still like 10 years out, or some amount of time where I felt like the time it would take to build a massive business from this was too long for my amount of patience.
Ankur NagpalGUEST
As this was happening, I was being recruited by AngelList to run their new public venture fund, USVC, which to me sounded like the coolest opportunity in the world.
Ankur NagpalGUEST
It's a fully public venture fund where I could tap into all the content and marketing I had been doing while running a portfolio, opening up access to private markets for every person.
Ankur NagpalGUEST
It also had some form of regulatory arbitrage, or not arbitrage, regulatory work that has gone into it because Prior to this type of structure, only accredited investors could invest in startups.
Ankur NagpalGUEST
So this seemed like a very good opportunity.
Ankur NagpalGUEST
However, every time we had a conversation, I told the AngelList team that I had certain obligations to all the stakeholders I mentioned, to my team, to my cap table, to myself, to actually find a good outcome for the carry business.
Ankur NagpalGUEST
And after a lot of negotiation, this whole thing was structured as a acquisition that was at least in part to have me come on and run this venture fund moving forward.
Ankur NagpalGUEST
And as a result, the multiple is far more generous than someone buying it for revenue.
Patrick RyanGUEST
And then started noodling on this idea for Odin.
Patrick RyanGUEST
We'd looked at what AngelList were doing in the US.
Patrick RyanGUEST
And there was also a platform called Voban in the UK, which has since been acquired by Carter.
Patrick RyanGUEST
I don't know if you've ever had Remy or Ulrich on the podcast, but they're good guys.
Jordi HaysHOST
And this market has been so hard to crack.
Jordi HaysHOST
I mean, AngelList had a cap table product at some point.
John CooganHOST
Mm-hmm.
Jordi HaysHOST
Um, they were doing incorporation plus cap table.
Nico WittenbornGUEST
Nineteen.
John CooganHOST
Because there were some people that were using AngelList for certain SPVs, and, and they were rolling funds, and there was like, there were some tools that you could use, but d- what, w- did fractional back offices exist, or did you sort of have to roll your own solutions to certain things? Like, uh-
Nico WittenbornGUEST
Yeah
John CooganHOST
... what was actually required?
Nico WittenbornGUEST
So it, it just started that AngelList were offering services.
John CooganHOST
Okay.
Nico WittenbornGUEST
Carta-
LukasHOST
I'm not sure about
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Balaji, but a lot of the AngelList people basically had open-ended funds where people could invest at any time.
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And so it's basically retail investors giving you money to invest with a 2 and 20 on top of it.
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Hey, Camino, get
Ian RountreeGUEST
You know, in, in, in liquid asset classes, you'll typically see something like there's, you know, um, the, the consensus investments maybe are, like, less risky, but don't offer as much, uh, r- return and, and, and the inverse is true for the non-consensus investments.
Ian RountreeGUEST
Um, but in venture, we have a good friend who, who, um, runs data science at AngelList and puts out these really interesting studies.
Ian RountreeGUEST
His name's Abe Oufmann.
Ian RountreeGUEST
If you look up Abe Oufmann AngelList, you'll see some of these.
Ian RountreeGUEST
Um, and, and he asked this question looking at AngelList data.
Ian RountreeGUEST
Are, are...
Ian RountreeGUEST
I- is there any correlation between valuation perspective to the stage and performance? Um, and, and he found there, there is actually a positive correlation between price and performance, uh, which is-
Max RiveraGUEST
So a lot of the- It's
James BorowHOST
like AngelList or like whatever it is.
Max RiveraGUEST
Yeah, Sidecar, AngelList, Canva, like all of those, Carta.
Max RiveraGUEST
And so all of those you run, and basically those take off all the boring back office that you never have to think about, LLC formations, KYC compliance, like all that stuff.
Max RiveraGUEST
Then I've about coded like a bunch of just tools for like deal flow ingestion.
Max RiveraGUEST
We'll see where it
James BorowHOST
goes.
James BorowHOST
I did a couple investments through the Uber, now moving capital, but former Uber alumni, AngelList syndicates.
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