Meet the VC series is back in San Francisco with a fresh, in-person edition!
Designed to bridge the gap between startups and the investment world, each month we bring together the industry's brightest minds, providing you with an opportunity to glean insights about fundraising, discern investment theses, and understand the prevailing investment climate.
About This Edition:
Amir Kabir, the leading force behind Fintech and Insurtech investments at AV8 Ventures, will be joining us on December 6th, in San Francisco for a fireside chat where we will be answering all your burning questions around fundraising, VCs and the current ecosystem.
AV8 Ventures is a $360mil early-stage Palo Alto based venture capital firm. With a world-class team and global reach our aim is to partner with visionary entrepreneurs who are changing the future in data-driven health, mobility, and intelligent enterprise.
We bring decades of experience with a hands-on approach to working closely with start-ups. Our investment and support team leverages deep technical, entrepreneurial and venture experience to help our companies succeed. Our network includes some of the brightest minds in health, machine learning, enterprise technology, mobility, robotics, hard sciences, and biology. While we are full lifecycle investors, we typically start our partnership with Seed or Series A investments.
We seek entrepreneurs transforming massive markets including:
· Healthcare
· Enterprise
· Financial Tech & Services
· Deep Tech
Amir leads Fintech and Insurtech investing at AV8 and has been one of the earliest investors in the Insurtech space. Amir has been an entrepreneur, operator, and investor with over 15 years of experience, working with early and mid-stage companies on financing, partnerships, and strategic growth initiatives.
Prior to AV8, Amir was an investment director and founding team member at Munich Re Ventures where he lead and managed investment efforts for two of the funds and made early bets in Insurtech, Mobility and Digital Health in companies like Next Insurance, Inshur, HDVI, Spruce, Ridecell, Babylon Health etc.. Earlier Amir worked for several venture funds, including Route 66 Ventures, focusing on Fintech and Insurtech, and investing in companies such as Simplesurance and DriveWealth.
