Long term goal (5-10 years): manage large fund to do early stage investing in Israeli and Arab founders, use that to connect (LPs, investors, entrepreneurs) across the Israeli-Arab divide. What in next 12 months gets us closer to that?
- Meet 100 early stage investors, categorized: geo, industry, personality, strength of connection.
- Meet 30 junior VCs, befriend 10-20 and set biweekly/monthly meetings or calls.
- Meet 100 Series A investors, categorized (easier when you have a portfolio)
- Meet 100 Israeli startups and 100 Arab startups (deal flow/network).
- Have 30 good Israeli entrepreneurs that you can connect as mentors etc. to GCC entrepreneurs.
- build an SPV list? Goal here would be to send highest quality deal, once a month, to fill in SPV. Pros: build deal history, long term upside, and LP relationships. Cons: no salary, misaligned incentives, and every individual deal has to “look good”
- Host founder dinners? Goal here is to start building proprietary deal flow, leverage your personalities, build archetypes of founders.
- Raise a mini fund? Goal here would be to start building strong track record, get into certain conversations.
What to do when meeting VCs?
- Tell them you’re deploying a fund
- Tell them you’re deploying SPVs, eventually will prob do a fund
- Tell them you’re hosting founder dinners
What to do when meeting potential LPs?
- Ask to put them on your SPV list?
- Bring them an active SPV deal?
- Tell them you’re raising a fund in a bit, ask for interest?
- Tell them you’re actively raising a fund?
- Tell them you’re specifically not raising now, but might be later?
What to do when meeting entrepreneurs?
- tell them you’re actively deploying $X?
- Most valuable to entrepreneurs in GCC: that you know/can connect them to entrepreneurs in Israel
- Most valuable to entrepreneurs in Israel: