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Carey Lai, a Founding Team Member and Managing Director at Conductive Ventures, joins host Doug Collom to discuss the trails and tribulations of starting your own VC fund on Bay Area Ventures. Conductive Ventures is a $100M enterprise fund investing in “expansion stage” companies across enterprise software and hardware categories, meaning Series A, Series B and beyond. Carey leads the firm’s software investments where he specializes in software as a service (SaaS).

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