EP29 The challenges of setting up your first venture capital fund - A conversation with McKeever Conwell II

02/05/2022 38 min
EP29 The challenges of setting up your first venture capital fund - A conversation with McKeever Conwell II

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In this episode, Saka invites McKeever Conwell II to speak about his experience starting his own venture capital fund ‘Rarebreed Ventures’, giving advice to startups, founders and investors whilst reflecting on his own journey.McKeever Conwell II is a Baltimore-based investor who left tech development agency TEDCO to start his own venture capital fund, Rarebreed Ventures. It is designed to be the first investor backing large companies like TEDCO. He has a wealth of knowledge of the early stages as he has been both an investor and a founder. McKeever knows what it’s like to be an entrepreneur trying to seek funding, so has lots of useful experience he has shared. His key piece of advice is to remember that the relationship between founders and investors is a partnership. Saka’s Is That So? is a podcast that focuses on challenging conventional norms across a range of industries including entrepreneurship, finance, tech, society and culture, to help us question things we assume as true.

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