Wed Oct 30 2024

This week on Swimming with Allocators, Earnest and Alexa have a fun and frank chat with LP turned Fund-of-Fund manager Grady Buchanan. Grady is Co-Founder and Managing Director of NVNG Investment Advisors. Grady speaks about the investment opportunity outside Silicon Valley, tailoring a fund of funds to local corporations needs, and tips on growing your LP network. He gives helpful color on the day-in-the-life for LPs and how GPs can better differentiate. Nick Talwar, Fractional CTO for VCs and portfolio companies joins this episode. His Agency Bottega8 trains custom AI models for financial institutions. Nick lays out three crucial elements VCs should look for in AI-based investments: technology moat, AI-first operations, and genuine AI expertise.