Raj Kulasingam @rajkool03

Father, husband, lawyer, traveller, speaker, immigrant, enjoyer, investor/entrepreneur in training. 500 Startups Angel of the Year. Opinions are all mine! smriver.co/index.html London Joined September 2013

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Dylan Patel @dylan522p

3 months ago

AI bros when I tell them Boeing outperformed Nvidia, Meta, Google, Broadcom, AMD, Microsoft this year

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Viljar Lubi @ViljarLubi

4 months ago

Last week we hosted our 4th fundraiser for 🇺🇦 with over £50,000 for @BritUkrAid with our #Walk4Ukraine event. We will keep doing it, we will keep our support for Ukraine! We are very grateful to you all for your continued participation! 🇺🇦 Read more: vm.ee/en/news/estoni…

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The Flip @TheFlipHQ

5 months ago

OmniRetail just secured a $20 million Series A round. The B2B platform processed ~$810M last year and is betting big on embedded finance for profitable growth across Africa. Here’s how they’re building a serious moat in informal retail:

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Rajiv Mehta @rajivmehta19

6 months ago

*BIG BREAKING * the People's #Bank of #China suddenly announced that the digital RMB (Renminbi, Chinese Yuan) cross-border settlement system will be fully connected to the ten ASEAN countries and six Middle Eastern countries, which means that 38% of the world's #trade volume…

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Sri Lanka Tweet 🇱🇰 @SriLankaTweet

9 months ago

20 Years Ago, #OnThisDay Boxing Day Tsunami 🌊hit Sri Lanka 🇱🇰. Over 35,000 were lost. 2 Minutes Silence from 9.25- 9.27am for all victims🙏 Remembering 2004 Tsunami victims🙏 #LKA #SriLanka #Tsunami2004 #Tsunami #TwitterSilence

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Jenny Fielding @jefielding

a year ago

One lesson I learned the hard way as a founder is that most investors make-up their minds in the first couple of minutes of a pitch. You can spend endless follow up meetings trying to convince them but it’s often an uphill battle. Much easier to fill the top of the funnel with…

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Michael Kim @MKRocks

a year ago

LPs and GPs, it’s often said that fund size determines strategy and that’s very true for portfolio construction. But, another element on fund size is what the total value of exits need to be. A simple rule is what I’ll call the Rule of 30. This assumes that a fund owns 10%…

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Raj Kulasingam @rajkool03

a year ago

“The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.” — Bertrand Russell via the 5-Bullet Friday newsletter (tim.blog/fbf) from @tferriss

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Raj Kulasingam @rajkool03

a year ago

The #yc halo

Martin Tobias (Pre-Seed VC) @MartinGTobias

a year ago

The #yc halo

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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand

a year ago

This is an unreal discrepancy. This FT journalist 👇 claims only 1,202 "new startups were founded" in China in 2023. Yet Chinese statistics show that 32.73 million new businesses were created in China in 2023 (stats.gov.cn/english/PressR…), a small 30,000 times more than her number!…

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Raj Kulasingam @rajkool03

a year ago

The world can be magical and unexpected…. Yup

Jenny Fielding @jefielding

a year ago

The world can be magical and unexpected…. Yup

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Chris Harvey @ChrisHarveyEsq

a year ago

A litmus test for VC fund performance: • Have you marked up your valuations based on SAFEs? (And if so, which ones) • Have you ever marked down any of those positions? There's no bigger black box of valuation shenanigans in VC than SAFEs These charts highlight the problem—

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Paul Graham @paulg

a year ago

I was going to make this into a nicely phrased point about venture debt, but I decided to just give you a screenshot of the DM I sent to a YC founder yesterday.

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@levelsio @levelsio

a year ago

🏋️ I made a Deadlift ETF with only companies with CEOs that lift weights or do fight sports (not just cardio) It outperforms the S&P500 by 140% or 2.4x over the last 4 years! Lifting weights = $$$

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Olumide Adesina @olumidecapital

a year ago

The world's brightest minds in finance recently spoke on the worst investment advice they ever got, which included not buying Bitcoin, Facebook and non diversification

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Linas Beliūnas @linasbeliunas

a year ago

Revolut just posted 2023 financial results and they are insane 🤯 - $2.2B revenue (+95% YoY) - $428M net profit, up from $7M in 2022. - A record 12M new customers in 2023 - $22.7B in customer balances on the platform (+38% YoY) The crazy part? 70% of new retail customers…

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Bayomi @SemudaraAbayomi

a year ago

Nigerian crypto startup, raised $23 million dollars in 2022, lost $15.9m, spent $9.1m on salaries with no product and…

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Raj Kulasingam @rajkool03

a year ago

“Landing The Plane” may not be the glamorous IPO BUT It signifies the ability to internalize reality, adapt to market conditions, and secure some outcome for all stakeholders. Ultimately, a successful landing paves the way for another journey in the future. 👇🏾

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a year ago

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Raj Kulasingam @rajkool03

a year ago

LPs understand that more investments than normal will fail and they know that absorbing those losses will lead to lower fund performance. LPs realize that the VC asset class is cyclical and great vintages can be created.....👇🏾