Dakota Live! Podcast
The Dakota Live! Podcast is designed for your fundraising needs. The goal of this podcast is to help you better know the people behind the investment decisions. Dakota connects investment salespeople with leading investment decision makers, ensuring you always know who to call and how to approach the markets you are targeting. Dakota Live! presents investment sales people industry and marketing expertise to make their jobs easier.
Dakota Live! Podcast
Dakota Live! Podcast: Venture Capital Fund of Funds and the Emerging Manager Outlook with Slipstream Investors
In this episode of the Dakota Live! Podcast, host Robert Morier sits down with Alex Edelson, Founder & General Partner of Slipstream Investors, a venture capital fund of funds dedicated to backing emerging pre-seed and seed-stage managers.
Alex shares his unique journey from law to venture capital, his lessons as Chief Strategy Officer and COO at QED Investors, and why Slipstream focuses on smaller, harder-to-access funds with outsized return potential.
We cover:
- What makes emerging managers so compelling, and so difficult to evaluate
- The role of fund-of-funds in today’s venture landscape
- Key insights into portfolio construction, reserves, and risk-taking in early-stage VC
- How pattern recognition, sourcing advantages, and founder relationships shape success
- Alex’s outlook on venture capital today and what’s ahead for the ecosystem
Whether you’re an allocator, manager, or entrepreneur, Alex’s perspective offers a window into the next generation of venture capital investing.
