What do you get when you mix a fervid reader with an athlete's persistence, and an adventurous appetite for open dialogue? The answer: Dan Rubin of Alloy Ventures, of course! Check out yet another spectacular episode of DWAVC with this magnate of all things micron. Find out more about Burkland, GreenCow, and Alloy Ventures here: https://burklandassociates.com/ https://www.greencow.vc/ http://www.alloyventures.com/ Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/DrinksWithAVC https://twitter.com/BurklandAssoc https://twitter.com/greencowvc Read about Dan's expansive library and see the wonderful p ..read more

Another awesome episode of DWAVC is in the books and ready for you to enjoy this St. Patrick's Day weekend! This week's episode features Georgetown and Harvard Business School Alumnus, Army Ranger, Partner at Crosslink Capital, and proud father, Matt Bigge.  Join us in this special "Shots with a VC" episode as we find out how Matt got into investing, what tools from Matt's military career have benefitted him the most in Venture, and why The Honor Foundation is changing the landscape of business. Find out more about Burkland, GreenCow, and Garuda Ventures here: https://www.crosslinkcapit ..read more

Just in time for the weekend is another awesome episode of DWAVC, this time with Garuda Ventures' Rishi Tiparia!  Join Bree and Vik in a conversation with Vik's long time friend and fellow VC  as they discuss the state of Seed investing, what it takes to earn an investment from Garuda Ventures and the "meet-cute" story that earned Rishi the name "Sir Texts Alot" long ago. Find out more about Burkland, GreenCow, and Garuda Ventures here: https://www.garuda.vc/ https://burklandassociates.com/​​​​ https://www.greencow.vc/​​​​ Follow us on twitter and instagram: https://twitter.com/t ..read more

We are back with yet another great guest, Kobie Fuller of Upfront Ventures! Join Bree and producer, Reyn, as they pick this outstandingly successful VC's brain about his past as a record-breaking athlete and how athletics transfer over into the investment world. Find out what SaaS metric Kobie is focused on at the moment, and of course, with Upfront Summit happening this week in LA, who Kobie is looking forward to attending. This year's summit is at capacity but you can still stream from home! https://summit.upfront.com/livestream Join the Valence Community and help grow the black community ..read more

After a long holiday break and a couple of bouts of covid for the Production team, Drinks With A VC returns with a bang! Our guest this time is none other than the "OG of PLG", Anoushka Vaswani of Lightspeed Venture Partners.    Looking at her dual degrees in Economics and Philosophy from Columbia where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, her MBA from Harvard, her time at McKinsey where she led the firm’s first project with Facebook on the launch of internet.org, and then going on to working at Matrix Partners, as a PM at Masterclass only provides a portion of what make ..read more

Just in time for the Holidays, Drinks With A VC is back with another fantastic episode! Our guest this time is Ben Narasin, Founder and General Partner of Tenacity Venture Capital.    In 1993 he founded one of the first e-commerce companies and the first cost-per-click portal, Fashionmall.com, which he took public in 1999. He spent the 2000s founding and acquiring companies in the consumer Internet and e-commerce space before becoming a full-fledged investor where his streak of identifying great opportunities continued - as an early investor in companies like DropCam, LendingClub, Ka ..read more

Martha Stewart, Buzzfeed, and bartending...what do these things have in common? Kate Shillo Beardsley!  Check out the Season 4 opener of Drinks w/ a VC with our great guest and friend, Kate Shillo Beardsley. Unlike the serial entrepreneurs she interacts with daily, Kate is a serial fund-builder! She is a Managing Partner at Upslope Ventures, a Co-Founding Partner at Hannah Grey Ventures and serves as Senior Advisor at Silicon Hills Capital. Previously, she helped establish, build, and manage three funds and over 200+ investments at Lerer Hippeau Ventures in New York City. Join Bree and ..read more

The DWAVC crew has done it again! This time, Bree & Vik are joined by their first guest LP,  Eric Sippel. Philanthropist and Current Chair of Bay Area Goodwill, this former COO of Eastborn Capital Management joins us to talk about the other side of Venture: the life of a Limited Partner.  Listen in over the next hour as we discover the books and tools that shaped his early years,  hear his thoughts about what it takes to be a successful investor, AND even get his vote on which state in the U.S. makes the best pizza (the answer shocked us all). After listening to this episode ..read more

EMPATHY, PASSION, DETERMINATION, HUMANITY, & FRANK SINATRA. What do these things have in common? Find out that and more as Season 3 of DWAVC hits a hat trick with our 3rd great guest in a row...CEO & Managing Partner of OCA Ventures: Jim Dugan.  Jim's 23 Years in Venture have led to great adventures and great investments in Startups like: Alembic, Ocient ,The Mom Project, and Prisidio. Join us as we reveal the Secret Recipe to his World Famous Signature Carbonara, hear the tale of Jim's stand-off against Andre the Giant, and discover how this VC is proving that no city has a mono ..read more

Another great episode of DWAVC is in the books, this time with Dr. Lan Xuezhao, Founding Partner of the acclaimed, women-led, Basis Set Ventures. With her extensive experience in building the Corporate Development Strategy team over at Dropbox, earning a Ph.D. in human brain functions and psychology and her MA in statistics at University of Michigan, and advising Fortune 500 companies while managing teams at McKinsey in New York and Shanghai, Lan is living proof that the future of Business is female. Join us as we delve into the extraordinary backstory of Lan's parents, hear about Lan's wild a ..read more