Ali Afridi
@AliKAfridi
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Principal @EqualVentures | Built and maintain https://t.co/pE4DxXDOGP – a VC insight & thesis aggregator. 🇵🇰-🇺🇸
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Joined April 2013
RT @SophiaJDodd: 🚨 Announcing the 2025 Equal Ventures Insurance Capital Summit! 🚨 📅 May 8, 2025 | 📍 NYC An invite-only gathering of top ca…
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RT @SophiaJDodd: Come spend your summer with us! We're kicking off our search for interns at @EqualVentures If you're intellectually curi…
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A journalist should write a refresh on this story from 2005 looking at the brutal realities that many VC partnerships face in a downturn. So many firms going through this right now. It’s the unfortunate reality when the power law dictates the returns within a venture firm. On a side note, some of these stories of GPs publicly leaving their former partners out to dry in the press is absolutely savage.
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There were fewer Pre-Seed and Seed rounds in 2024 than at any point in the past decade. Every stage has been impacted by the pull back, but rounds at the earliest stages have seen an especially big drop. The numbers are likely worse for pre-seed because YC jumped up to writing $500k checks in ’22. Remove them and the drop is way worse. Feels like the clearest gap in market.
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RT @Rick_Zullo: 1) At @EqualVentures, we've obsessed over the complications that climate change pose to the insurance industry Last year,…
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Haven't used personally but did a quick dive a few weeks back and pulled some customer references from an expert network. 11x seemed to be the best for quick off the shelf use. Clay coupled with an email outreach tool seemed to be the best overall but more involved setup. Can send some of the references if helpful
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Pretty crazy the leverage that Gen AI tools can give across product, eng, and growth. Small teams that know how to leverage these can punch well above their weight class. The fact that a relative newbie can learn these tactics in quick Youtube videos makes this all the more powerful.
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Have been keeping a list of top Gen AI companies based on reported revenue. Anyone seen others that I might have missed?
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RT @Rick_Zullo: Had our team run the numbers on this Equal has invested in 15 companies that are 2 years or older - 14 of those have rais…
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Midas Listers. Grammy winner. F1 World Champion. LPs managing $100B+ of capital. Absolutely stacked speaker list and just as distinguished of an attendee group for the 3rd Annual EMC Summit next week.
Less than a week away from the 3rd Annual Emerging Manager Circle Summit! This year promises to be our best yet. Our speakers include many Midas Listers, the LPs behind many of the top venture firms, an F1 World Champion, and a Grammy winning Artist.
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RT @EqualVentures: We close out with the last, but definitely not least, Fireside Chat with Tim Cawley, CEO of @ConEdison, with @GracePende…
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RT @Rick_Zullo: 1) When I started in VC, a GP told me that ‘if you’re not a top 5 investor for at least some portion of founders, you won't…
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@JasonrShuman Wouldn't be surprised to see firms take more majority stakes either (like GC with Summa Health). There's definitely some historical precedent Wonder if its easier to make the case to do so if you have a large platform team.
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